Is This the Feeling You Crave? Lyrics

Projecting a shadow on the wall

A charlatan beguiling the crowd

The stage is set for trickery

A delivery so slippery

And the slope is growing steeper

A worn out mask, a mere facade

Flaying the prey, and then onto the next

Manipulative infiltration

Cascading down the hierarchy

As he looks out to the silhouettes

He knows the performance was flawless

The stage is left in a cloud of smoke

The clockwork scraping itself to the bone

Disruption's growing deeper and deeper

A worn out mask, a mere facade

Flaying the prey, and then onto the next

Manipulative infiltration

Cascading down the hierarchy

I've battened the hatches

Built a barricade of introversion

Completed deletions of the elements that pull me under

In retrospect, I'm not so sure this was the right direction

But I'm starting from scratch

Releasing the tension tearing me asunder

Now, is this what you wanted to see?

Did you come all this way just to watch us leave?

And how is the view from the top of the throne?

Is this the feeling you crave?

I've battened the hatches

Built a barricade of introversion

Completed deletions of the elements that pull me under

In retrospect, I'm not so sure this was the right direction

But I'm starting from scratch

Releasing the tension tearing me asunder

Is this what you wanted to see?

Did you come all this way just to watch us leave?

And how is the view from the top of the throne?

Is this the feeling you crave?

I thought that I had been in this town for too long

I thought I needed a change or I'd get stuck in the ground

I know I said that I would never return

But behind every turn there is another charlatan