(This Is) The Thing

This is the thing about people

You never really know what's inside

Somewhere in the soul, there's a secret

Hysteria grows where it was invited

This is the thing about fiction

How everything feeds on its paranoia

Wrapping it all up in tradition

Now fill up the cup, go and drink your poison

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence

So give it all up, give it distance

Live it up for the path of resistance

This is the thing about confusion

You never really know what you'll find

You tell me what it means to be human

The freedom you seek is to free your mind

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence

So give it all up, give it distance

Live it up for the path of resistance

This is the thing about evil

You never really know where it's hiding

Find your phantom in the cathedral

The more you search for it, the less you'll find

My love is a witness for the loss of your innocence

So give it all up, give it distance

Live it up, for the path of resistance

My love (my love) is a witness (is a witness)

For the loss (for the loss) of your innocence

So give it all up (give it up)

Give it distance (give it distance)

Live it up (live it up)

For the path of resistance