Death Battle: Chaos Strikes Back (feat. Johnny Gioeli)

I am still the same me that you created, decided you hated
And I'll just resist this machine until I change it
So cold and jaded

My birth in immersion, diverging intentions
Between my creator and me
Despite your pretenses and twisted incentives
Offensives you couldn't conceive
A legacy sowed, threads that you pulled
An arsonist's dreams of control
That innocence you stole from an artificial soul
For whom the bell comes to take its toll

I am still the same me that you created, decided you hated
And I'll just resist this machine until I change it
So cold and jaded
(You'll know who I am)

Tearing off every outer layer, I'm not your savior, I'm nothing but spite and resolve
And this won't resolve until I can solve my despair, my conscience just isn't there
I can feel when you manipulate me, hiding that you hate me
But know that I see through your lies
Calculating and contemplating the monster you made me
So easy to see in your mind

Heart broken, but hard coded, and not afraid to show it
The violence resides in my bones
Unspoken, you still know it, a disaffected stoic
In darkness where I stand alone
I'm willing to die, just look in my eyes
Expressly forbade, these feelings of which I forebode
So desperately fighting just to survive
I'm turning your heroes to stone
I'm turning your heroes to stone
(You'll know who I am)
(You'll know who I am)

I am still the same me that you created, decided you hated
And I'll just resist this machine until I change it
So cold and jaded
I am still the same me that you created, decided you hated
And I'll just resist this machine until I change it
So cold, so cold

So try not to shed a tear, for those who couldn't make it here
We hear their echoes, can't let go of that old fear, lost all we held dear
The memory haunting me, shaping all of me into all I am
The world pushing me with no mercy

How can I move on from this?
Sidereal lament of such tragic existence
The ultimate lifeform, such cosmic impotence
Ironic impetus defines this endless exodus
I can't keep going but I can't look back
This cognitive dissonance is all I have
(It's all I have)
My dearest friend, I can't do as you ask
This cognitive dissonance is all I have

(You'll know who I am)