TFOT

A Thousand Pages

"Thin Skinned World" - makes me angry

Verse 1:
Walking on a floor of cracked glass
Every single word's my last
a minefield made of pleasantries
Strangled by apologies
I see the venom, hear the lies
Behind the virtue-disguised eyes
a wrecking ball of "good intent"
Leaves common sense and meaning bent

Pre-Chorus:
I feel the pressure,  start to crack
There is no turning, turning back
This ain't the world I used to know...
This plastic world's got to go!

Chorus:
a thin-skinned world! a shattered age!
Crawling through this outrage cage
Where's the grit? where's the bone?
The toughness that we used to own?
a thin-skinned world! a weakened race!
With empty eyes and frozen face!
I'm sick of bending, won't break for you!
I'm sick of this whole sickening view!

Verse 2:
I remember calloused hands and stronger wills
Men who stood against the hills
Of hardship, struggle, pain, and doubt
They never tried to blot it out
They met the challenge, took the hit
They didn't whine and throw a fit
Now decency's a hollow shell
As we race ourselves to hell

Pre-Chorus:
I feel the pressure, start to crack
There is no turning, turning back
This ain't the world I used to know...
This plastic world's got to go!

Chorus:
a thin-skinned world! a shattered age!
Crawling through this outrage cage
Where's the grit? where's the bone?
The toughness that we used to own?
a thin-skinned world! a weakened race!
With empty eyes and frozen face!
I'm sick of bending, won't break for you!
I'm sick of this whole sickening view!

Bridge:
We build... then burn...
No lessons... ever...  learned!
This cycle... of decay...
Washes all the strength away!
You break the statues... and the men...
Just to build them... back again!
a civil war... of petty thought...
The hard-won battles... all for naught!

Chorus:
a thin-skinned world! a shattered age!
Crawling through this outrage cage
Where's the grit? where's the bone?
The toughness that we used to own!
a thin-skinned world! a weakened race!
With empty eyes and frozen face!
I'm sick of bending, won't break for you!
I'm sick of this whole sickening view!

Outro:
Back to the mud...
Back to the stone...
Find the spine...
We've... never... known...
...Find the spine...
...Never... known...

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