[Pre-Chorus, Cam Steady]
I don't know who I am
Fake a smile, shake a hand
Stay a while, take a chance
Pray denial until the end

I don't know who I am
Fake a smile, shake a hand
Stay a while, take a chance
Play pretend

[Chorus, McGwire]
I'mma lose a piece of my mind!
I ain't boutta die today, but I know I be losing my life
I can see it through the games that they trick me to play till I've fallen in line
When they put you on the stage you're a star until you break, got no piece of my mind
(Piece of my minnndd!)

[Verse 1, Cam Steady]
I stare inside likе, "Where am I?"
I'm feeling like a parasitе in paradise
I don't know if I'm scared to die or barren life
I dare to fight, there's no escape
Then what's my fate if I'm aware to try?

Runnin' circles into nothing as I follow their signs
Seconds feel like decades as I wallow in time
Everybody telling me to swallow my pride
Put me in a circus and they clowning my...cry!
And I'm being starved of my needs
Standing all alone until I fall to my knees
Brain is so fatigued that I don't recognize sleep
Beat me until I'm broken then they weaponize me

As they trap me, aiming me right at me
Treat it like a game they don't acknowledge what exactly's happening
Driving me insane, I'm in the backseat
Ground me in reality, until this hell abstracts me

[Pre-Chorus, Cam Steady]
I don't know who I am
Fake a smile, shake a hand
Stay a while, take a chance
Pray tonight it's at the end

I don't know who I am
Fake a smile, shake a hand
Stay a while, take a chance
Play pretend

[Chorus, McGwire]
I'mma lose a piece of my mind!
I ain't boutta die today, but I know I be losing my life
I can see it through the daze after tricking me to play until I'm falling in line
When they put you on the stage you're a star until you break, got no piece of my mind
(Piece of my minnndd!)
[Verse 2, Cam Steady]
They wanna turn the spotlight on, but my previous persona's not quite gone
Now I'm bombing on the stage like I forgot my song
Think I've got life wrong
Can't remember if this performance has brought bygones

And I'm runnin' out of luck
Gamble with my life to find the joke I'm flippin' up
It's a bluff, and I'm all in, foldin' once they call in
Infinite imagination draws a line to fall in

Fallin' off the tight rope edge
Hope the burns aren't better than where I might go next (where I might go)
Should've learned that whoever's holdin' the mic knows best (yuh!)
Now I'm eternally just a side-show pest

I fear! I'm the only sane kid here!
They beg me to stay enslaved when the exit's clear
Bothering to promise me, this makeshift cheer
Always saying, "There's no escape," but I taste it's near

[Breakdown, McGwire]
What if you said:
That you knew this was all my fault?
Would I know not to call you wrong?
Cuz your home locked away my soul...
And maybe I'm lost!
Will these strangers become my friends?
Is it better if I end up dead?
Cause I can't seem to shake this dread...

[Chorus, McGwire]
I'mma lose a piece of my mind!
I ain't boutta die today, but I know I be losing my life
I can see it through the daze after tricking me to play until I'm falling in line
When they put you on the stage you're a star until you break, got no piece of my mind
(Piece of my minnndd!)