When color starts to fade
Everything you see is tainted grey
As hope drains from your veins
Fear will slowly takes its place
Feel the charge rush down your spine
Every hair stands on end, in shock of your own mind
Lost in the sound of the pounding hearts
The wires have shorted, the circuits gone dark
All it takes is a spark

The masquerade
Is lit ablaze surrounding me
As fear consumes my soul
There's a maniac within taking hold of me again
No place left for me to hide behind the eyes of a maniac
I'm a fucking maniac

Scarlet drapes my eyes
The phantom calls from deep inside
Revealing my disguise the freak beneath has come alive
Suffering is all I'm wanting
You've been chosen for my haunting

The masquerade
Is lit ablaze surrounding me
As fear consumes my soul
There's a maniac within taking hold of me again
No place left for me to hide behind the eyes of a maniac
I'm a maniac

I am the bane of your existence
Feeble are all your attempts at resistance
Stealing your sanity, watching you rot
Jut lying in wait, ready or not
Here I come
You stare in the mirror and the evil you see
Is the menace within you that you have set free
Unleashing the beast brings the freedom you seek
But there's no escaping maniacal me