Unfamiliar Lyrics

I came into this world an unmarked page,
But I've stained the paper with lines that I cannot erase.
Discarded my identity,
A fragment of what I used to be.

An iron mind in paper walls
Is not a stable foundation in this ongoing storm,
And now these hands of stone have eroded, collapsed again.

I see a stranger's face
Staring in the mirror,
Who I was, was somewhere lost along the way.
Caught in an empty space,
I never thought I'd be here,
Each day I feel it take a part of me.

No retribution.
No compromise.
Selfishly self-immolating inside.
Burn me alive.
I've seen the other side.
Burn me, set me alight

I see a stranger's face
Staring in the mirror,
Who I was, was somewhere lost along the way.
Caught in an empty space,
I never thought I'd be here,
Each day I feel it take a part of me.

I can't deny this feeling
I can't ignore the pain
Of knowing I am human,
And we all feel the fucking same.
We're all born to feel this way.

And so I ask myself,
Is the measure of a man, his character, his worth,
Contained by what his heart holds or contained within his works?
My motivations have never strayed,
But somewhere I think they were buried along the way.

I see a stranger's face
Staring in the mirror,
Who I was, was somewhere lost along the way.
Caught in an empty space,
I never thought I'd be here,
Each day I feel it take a part of me.

I've seen the other side.