Overprotected and Underexposed

Welcome to the world

Welcome to the underhanded, the place that you’ve been, but you never knew it

You’ve been coddled and wrapped in your mother’s blanket, so tightly held that you have suffocated

You know what you know ‘cause it’s what you’ve been exposed to, you say what you say ‘cause it’s what you’ve been told to

Daydreams and secrets have been your only defiance, your friends have abandoned you have no more alliance

You cling to anyone who will support you, you no longer know the definition of virtue

The demons have exposed themselves

They’re pulling you

Deeper, can you not tell

There was always someone

To help you back up when you fell

There’s no way to describe

The dedication that brings you back from Hell!

Chorus:

Run, child, run away from there

From the thieves and the liars sneaking into your heart

From the hate with which you’ve been labeled for destruction

You don’t remember your birth child, but I was there

For that moment of peace before you knew what the world was

You discovered this place and now you wish that you hadn’t

Welcome to the world

Welcome to the precipice, the place you thought meant life but only means disease

Their motives are simple, their smiles are fake, they leave a trail of victims in their wake

Your only choices are join them or hide, but they’re already pulling you inside

Your only chance of escape seems foreign and strange, you can either rebuke it or completely change

You choose to rebuke ‘cause they’re already blinding you, so you cannot see that they’re gagging and binding you

(Pre-chorus; chorus)

You’re running, till you have no strength to stand

You’re crawling, till you cannot feel your hands

I remember being here before

Don’t remember it looking like this before

You wipe the dirt off of this place

But you cannot wipe the dirt off of your face

I remember this happening before

How exactly did this happen before?

Run, child, run away from there

(They’re pulling you deeper, can you not tell)

Run, child, run away from there

(They’re pulling you deeper, can you not tell)

Run, child, run away from there