Shattered Reflections

In the mind of a child Lost in it's own private hell Watches through eyes of a prisoner His mind is his prison cell Tortured is the unfortunate young man His mind the battlefield A war within That he did not begin He knows the truth But they all say it ain't real (Bridge) Tears within the boy That he has to hide He knows if he's caught crying He'll get something to cry about Across his backside No weeping No showing any sadness at all He knows better than to let one single tear fall (Chorus) Over time Years gone by The boy, a now grown man Still refuses to cry Tortured by the memories of his past Bits and pieces of memories of abuse Like shards of broken glass Shattered reflections Shattered reflections Delving into madness Fast Shattered reflections His mind got twisted many years ago It happened over time It happened really slow Building up day after day Till the chaos in him took his sanity away (Repeat Chorus) He tried to reach out once before But after he got told on He realized that wouldn't work no more So he kept it bottled up for all those years within Along with those tears He knows he will never win Cause that monster is a real cold bastard And he won't let him go That bastard in his head The man doesn't even know That this monster is within him It will be until he's dead (Repeat Bridge) (Repeat Chorus) Shattered reflections equals a shattered life (Guitar Solo) The reflections are the memories of long ago The ones he hid in the back region of his brain The subconscious of the tormented child Where the monster would live and grow The child lives in pain The child within the mind of (Repeat Bridge) (Repeat Chorus) (Coda).