Bulletproof Tiger - A Wilhelm Scream

Staring down demons, down at Taunton Middle High

Step-dad was a drunk and every weeknight was a battle

Rubbing elbows with the morning cattle.

Sacrifices

Getting even with the demons and all their surprises

I couldn’t ask them to leave

I just invited them in

I can’t believe what I just did

Shoved my face inside my pillow

Said Hail Mary’s 'til I turned purple

It won’t break me down

Won’t leave me paralyzed

I will spit fire on the pious of the guilty

That relate but see right through me

I will spit fire

I guess you didn’t get the note on the nightstand

(Forgot to read it)

About setting the house on fire

Somehow a witness to my offense

Just pissed on the evidence

Now everybody wants to know where the dog’s hiding

One day I’ll cash your death check

Buy the greatest and the respectable

That thought had crossed my mind

Oh yes, that thought had crossed my mind

I’ll take my chances, walking on the wire

Not smart enough to keep my feet out of the fire

Where the fear and the pain kept buried alive

This beast inside metastasizes

Crawling deeper.

Cut wide open.

Viciously and without warning

It won’t break me down

Won’t leave me paralyzed

I will spit fire on the pious of the guilty

That relate but see right through me

I will spit fire

When I’ve given up all I’ve got

When my guts are tired in knots

It won’t break me down

Won’t leave me paralyzed

I will spit fire

One day I will cash your death check

Make believers of the impossible

And I might drop my excesses

The meanest and the unlikeable

But you won’t break me down

You won’t put out the fires that I spit out