The Secrets of a Salesman
these baby secrets have grown into children / through dirty
adolescence and now into manhood / I locked the basement door
and broke off the skeleton key / but it made no difference still
they travel with me even though I killed them they haunt me and
they help me / remember the lies in the shadows, the practiced
charades / my hands are an axe chopping at the roots / of the
only family tree that could ever bear fruit / to cripple you
to make sure that you never reproduce / another heart of lies
or house of haunted rooms
the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been / so
distant and weak / dreaded words whispered under her breath "your
just like your father" / your ocean is a drop of water
tightly woven wire mesh beneath the broken salesman as he's
rolling down the conveyer belt / the product is almost ready
to be shipped out the door / out into the world to make a living
selling plastic faces to everyone who needs em / to forget the
lies in the shadows, the practiced charades / the enemy will
make sure the ties on straight / it's always best to make an
impression of wealth / no matter how much hatred and debt is
boiling beneath the surface / "I love you" spills like
vomit from her lips
the arrow is thrown into your back / nothing has ever been so
distant and weak / the dreaded words whispered under her breath "you're
just like your father" / your ocean is a drop of water /
I locked the basement doors and broke of the skeleton key / forget
the lies in the shadows, don't forget me
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