Trephination Lyrics by Machine Head

Trephination Lyrics

    I used to want to take a drill to my head
    Let the pain out of the hole
    I used to want to cut the
    veins in my neck
    Cool the blood boiling my soul
    When I wondered, why my
    daily headaches thundered
    Tried to buffer, pushing
    down the pain I suffered
    Mutilated, feeling so humiliated
    Cannot wash the dirt off
    underneath my skin

    There was a part of me left far behind
    When at the age of five years old
    I had my innocence taken from me
    Emptiness would fill the hole
    Now a second grader,
    thinking why I don't feel better
    Why I'm filthy, why the hell
    I feel so guilty
    When drawing stick men
    of pornographic men and women
    Thinking all the time
    there's something wrong with me

    Everyday for three years
    from dawn 'til dusk a migraine
    would take me and break me
    And it'd cripple me so
    much that
    In dreams, it'd seem, with
    a hole in my temple
    that I could probably make
    my headaches finally go away

    Trephination
    trephination
    The enemy inside of me
    won't let me free
    wants me to bleed

    And after three years now
    my headaches wear off
    For reasons not quite to me known
    The acupuncture needles
    sticking my skin
    Pushed them down as far
    as they'd go
    But now I'm older and now
    inside my anger smolders
    from depression, to fighting
    Taking out my vengeance
    Consequences, now I'd
    question during sex if ...
    Is this how it fucking feels
    or am I faking it ?

    No longer the child that
    you left there at the bart tracks
    I'm now at 17, left in an
    empty blackness
    On drugs, with thugs, and thinking "Goddamn ?"
    I'm ending up in a failure,
    in the gutter passed out

    Trephination
    trephination
    This enemy inside of me
    won't let me free
    wants me to bleed

    Now I'm older and in this
    man an anger smolders
    Now I'm thinking a hole in
    you is what I'm seeing
    Your depression, is the
    dent I kick in you in vengeance
    Consequences are the pain
    I'd give to you

    I know that I'm dreaming,
    but in this dream I go in
    go through it, and end it
    And though I'd never do it
    I'm killing you, hand on
    the trigger - pull it
    Your final thought'll be a
    bullet in your fuckin' head

    Trephination
    trephination
    This enemy inside of me
    I'm now killing
    to make me free.

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