Hypnotized By every face I see And every part of me Hypnotized By what they think of me And who I want to be Take a piece of me for my peace of mind And show me myself as someone else Through someone else's eyes You sew the scars when the bleeding starts again Forever stitching skin You are my self defense You held me higher than I have ever been And when I sink again You are my self defense You are my self defense Hypnotized Inside a death machine Slowly killing me Hypnotized By my own disease It's never ending Set me free Set me free You sew the scars when the bleeding starts again Forever stitching skin You are my self defense You held me higher than I have ever been And when I sink again You are my self defense You are my self defense Buried alive by my design Memories are all thats left behind Buried alive in my own mind Am I alive or just surviving Am I Alive? You sew the scars when the bleeding starts again Forever stitching skin You are my self defense You held me higher than I have ever been And when I sink again You are my self defense You are my self defens