I Don't Need Friends to Be Alone

Crawling through the static, silent screams encode

No one ever listens, I bear this heavy load

Empty chairs and echoes, ghosts that never speak

I learn to thrive in shadows, I don't need the weak

Don't burden me with your disconnected concern

I built this fire, now watch it burn

I don't need friends to be alone, I'm a kingdom carved in stone

No hand to hold, no voice to call, I rise myself, I take the fall

Don't need your plastic smile, keep your distance, stay in denial

I'm better off in my own zone, I don't need friends to be alone

Kind of ties, like veins, no blood left to spill

I'm numb, I'm calm, I'm over the thrill

Your circle's just a cage with golden locks

I'd rather pace the edge and talk to clocks

Don't tell me what connection means

I've seen love tear apart the seams

I don't need friends to be alone, I'm a kingdom carved in stone

No hand to hold, no voice to call, I rise myself, I take the fall

Don't need your plastic smile, keep your distance, stay in denial

I'm better off in my own zone, I don't need friends to be alone

Alone ain't broken, it's a state of mind

When the world's too fake, I choose to decline

Solitude is sacred, not a curse

Your chatter's poison, mine's the first

I don't need anyone

I don't plead for someone

Construct your circle, I am squander

No one's home, but I'm still there

I don't need friends to be alone, I'm a weapon overgrown

No sympathy, no shallow tone, this is my silence carved in bone

Don't need your plastic smile, keep your lies in crocodile

I'm better off in my own zone, I don't need friends to be alone