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Artist: Slipknot
Canonical path: /slipknot/despise
Related lyric paths: 6
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Despise
Read Despise lyrics by Slipknot on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Despise
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Despise!
Maze, psychopathic daze, I create this waste
Back away from tangents, on the verge of drastic
Ways, can't escape this place, I deny your face
Sweat gets in my eyes, lash out at all I despise
Hands on my face over bearing I can't get out
Lost, ran at my own cost, hearing laughter, scoffed
Learning from the rush, detached from such and such
Bleak, standing on my feet, listening incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one you dog
Hands on my face over bearing I can't get out
Never ever surrender
I want it all!
Never ever surrender
I want it all!
Never ever surrender
I want it all!
Never ever surrender
Despise
My state of mind gets so one-sided
Despise!
Despise!
Despise!
Despise!
Cut me, show me, enter, I am
Willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge in my pain, knowledge in my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase?
Empathy, out of my way
I can't die
I can't die
I can't die
I can't die
Never ever surrender
I want it all!
Never ever surrender
I want it all!
Never ever surrender
I want it all!
Never ever surrender
Despise
My state of mind gets so one-sided
Despise!
Despise!
Despise!
Despise!
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