[Intro]
Heartbeat in my neck
Teeth on edge
I can taste your threat
On my tongue like lead
[Verse 1]
You paint that poison pretty
Call it "just business", call it "just jokes"
Smile like a saint for the cameras
Then go choke us with the fine print smoke
I seen the wolf in the wool
Every tooth got gold in the groove
Every word you twist like a tourniquet
Say it's love while you tighten that noose
[Pre-Chorus]
You wanna sell me peace in a giftwrap grave
Tell me "calm down, kid, know your place"
I got a pulse like a drum in a locked glass case
And it's cracking, it's cracking
[Chorus]
Don’t sugar coat it
Say you wanna own me, own it
Put your dagger on the table
Let it gleam in the open (hey!)
If you’re gonna break me
Break me with your whole chest
If you’re gonna hate me
Hate me with your last breath
Don’t sugar coat it
Sing it from your black-lunged throat then
If this is war, just show it
Don’t sugar coat it
[Verse 2]
You slap a filter on the fallout
Throw a parade by the mass graveyard
Plastic flags in a plastic fist
While you carve new scars on old wars
You call that mercy? That’s spin
You call that sermon? That’s sin
You feed us pretty little half-truths
Then ask us all to say "amen"
[Pre-Chorus]
Told me "boy, be grateful for your chains and cage"
Said "you’re safe as long as you stay afraid"
But my veins write verses on the bars you made
And they’re burning, they’re burning
[Chorus]
Don’t sugar coat it
Say you wanna own me, own it
Put your dagger on the table
Let it gleam in the open (woah)
If you’re gonna break me
Break me with your whole chest
If you’re gonna hate me
Hate me with your last breath
Don’t sugar coat it
Sing it from your black-lunged throat then
If this is war, just show it
Don’t sugar coat it
[Bridge]
I want your venom, straight, uncut
Say it with your name, stand up
No halo, just your naked rage
So I know exactly what to crush
One voice, ten voice, whole crowd, same word
Every "no" you buried gonna rise, get heard
You built this empire on our hurt
Now watch it shake, watch it turn to dirt (hey!)
[Chorus]
Don’t sugar coat it
Say you wanna own me, own it
Put your dagger on the table
Let it gleam in the open
If you’re gonna break me
Break me with your whole chest
If you’re gonna hate me
Hate me with your last breath
Don’t sugar coat it
Hands up if you’ve ever been broken
If this is war, we chose it
Don’t sugar coat it