Pain's Invention, Madness Lyrics - Dark Angel

Chains shackle me 

With truth I'm face to face 

Backed up in between 

A damp cage I remain 

In the cell of numb despair 

The chill engulfs my veins 

There's only one notion that I revere 

The only truth in life is pain 

It levels and crushes at its free will 

My doomed fate will soon be sealed 

Pain's invention, madness 

Preys behind my eyes 

Pain's invention, madness 

Now I realize 

Pain's invention, madness 

Though I'll not break free 

Pain's invention, madness 

Truth eternally 

Beyond my grasp is a life 

That I will never attain 

Happiness, joy, not in sight 

Supplanted by truth's dark reign 

Physical, mental agony shows 

Along which my life revolves 

Either you feel it, or you don't 

There are never lies involved 

Clutching to my abnormality 

Hand in hand with destiny 

Pain's invention, madness 

Preys behind my eyes 

Pain's invention, madness 

Now I realize 

Pain's invention, madness 

Though I'll not break free 

Pain's invention, madness 

Truth eternally 

When you are pumping full of life 

The one sensation that you have 

Can penetrate through love or hate 

Existence on a higher plane 

In death and life, both the domains 

Surrender totally to pain 

I slip and claw and scream 

It calls 

Leave me alone with me 

It yearns 

I'm bleeding from my brain 

It needs me 

I'm helpless, trapped behind 

Its walls 

Tearing apart my mind 

It burns 

Upon my naked soul 

It feeds 

Streams of consciousness fill the page 

As my nerve endings scream in rage 

Deliver me to the darkest age 

As DeSade sits at center stage 

My flesh is but a portal now 

To wisdom and truth I am avowed 

Pain's invention, madness 

Pain's invention, madness 

Twisting through the door 

Am I nevermore? 

My breath I can feel 

Therefore I am real 

I've succumbed to there heinous sins 

And I'll never be forgiven 

Shackled and bound, my new life I've found 

And I've tasted the fruits forbidden 

I've craving more 

Of pain's overtures 

Liberation is near 

And I have nothing to fear 

In this journey of self-discovery 

I have found the keys to be set free 

In this wicked course, I've uncovered the force 

That will keep me vital eternally 

Pain's invention, madness 

The force that preys behind my eyes 

Pain's invention, madness upon me 

Pain's invention, madness 

It takes this long to realize 

Pain's invention, madness, has set me free 

Transcendency 

Of mere mortality 

Tortured infliction 

Is now my addiction 

Constant agony 

Has created me 

I am suffering 

Through this atrocity 

I'm not blind to what I might find 

Squirming way down deep inside my labyrinthine mind 

Inhibitions removed, replaced with scar tissue 

And I'm punished with blades of my lobotomizing suit 

I've sought this dream 

In its violent extreme 

Now my pleasure is clear 

Though the lesson's severee 

My will is strong, but I could be wrong 

This new doctrine for which I've been searching all along is 

The religion of truth through administration of pain 

The body only takes so much before it drives the mind insane 

As a matter of fact, my friend 

I've come to my bitter end 

It's not a torture rack I'm in 

Though I can still pretend 

It's a jacket of white with buckles and straps 

Not a pleasure device at all 

It keeps me safely under wraps 

While I'm chained to this padded wall 

hear my cries... 

you'll never know