When Will My Life Begin

He says:
"Goddamn, it's happening again,
the mercury is in my veins.
Poor replacement for the lies
that keep reflecting in my eyes.
Poor me, I'm hurting you so bad.
Your pain is making me so sad.
Who's gonna comfort me?
Get up off the floor and comfort me."

It's all so pitiful, he picks her up and cries.
It's like some miracle refracted by these binds.
Another shard of glass is pulled out of his skin...
He screams into the night, into the light:
"When will my life begin?"

He says:
"Goddamn, I've heard it all before,
the repetition robs me blind.
I was never good for much,
you make me shatter with your touch.
Poor me, my cruelty runs deep.
You minimize me to a creep.
Who's gonna set me straight?
Stop telling me to, telling me to wait."

Somebody touched him without permission.
It wasn't all it was cracked up to be, no.
Somebody stole his soul, an empty shell,
he refuses to be whole... he won't be whole.

Another shard of glass...another shard of glass
Is pulled out of his skin, he screams into the night,
the morning light, it strikes him blind,
stupid, deaf, and blind he cries...
"When will my life begin?"