Epiphany [duo] | √

Fingerprints

You never knew your life could flash right before your eyes

Questions from your teachers as you attempt to feed them lies

Telling them, "It's okay, no, I'm okay" when you're not

Laying out all the strength for yourself that you've got

When you get home it's another war another throttle

Bashed in the face with the butt end of a bottle

Slashes on your face where the fragments cut it

Knowing you should tell someone but you know you wouldn't

So you shut yourself up and you cry yourself to sleep

Hoping one day you'll wake up and it will all just be a dream

You're trying to escape the from nightmares in your head

Relating to the monsters from underneath your bed

If only one would look at me not turn the other cheek

I just need someone to tell but they will not let me speak

I'm falling into darkness farther down the wicked hole

I'm so desperate to breakout I will even sell my soul

One day I woke up and the house held not a sound

I descended down the stairs and began to look around

I saw lying on the floor, 'round his head a pool of red

I touched his body before realizing he was dead

With a choke in my throat I dialed on the phone

"Hello, yes, 911 I need an ambulance to come

My father's on the floor and I think he might be dead

There appears to be a gash in the temple of his head"

"Police are on the way, now ma'am, just try to stay calm

Is there another in the house and do you have a mom?

If no one else is there go outside and wait out front

I just dispatched an ambulance and they should be on the run"

With a heavy heart I listened to the woman's gentle voice

And soon I heard the wailing of the siren making noise

They pulled up to the curb and they ran inside the house

They boarded up the ambulance and quickly headed south

I went back in the house and cleaned up all the blood

I scrubbed it off the wooden floors as quickly as I could

I knew police would be here to investigate the mess

I wanted it to be like I was in some great distress

I pulled out the crowbar from inside the fireplace

Wipe fingerprints off the side with no time to waste

Admiring my handiwork I threw it in the yard

And said to myself, "Whew, and I thought that it'd be hard

But it was exactly as simple as simple can be

After years of planning this I am finally free

Everyone will know it was an accident, no kidding

And they never will believe that the darling daughter did it"