Patient Number 9

Album: Patient Number 9 (2022)
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  • "Is there a way out of here?"
    "Hey, how long you been here?"
    "I wanna go home"
    "Hey"
    "Excuse me, could you tell me how to get out of here?"

    "I want to go home"
    "Mommy, mommy"

    Every hallway's painted white as the light
    That will guide you to your help
    Making friends with strangers inside my mind
    'Cause they seem to know me well

    Hiding the pills inside your mouth
    Swallow 'em down, then spit them out
    I hear the laughter scream and shout
    No tomorrow

    When they call your name
    Better run and hide
    Tell you you're insane
    You believe their lies
    I'm not gettin' out, no (ooh)
    I'm not gettin' out alive (ooh)
    I'm not getting out (ooh)
    'Cause I'm patient number nine (ooh)

    When the sun goes down, the animals cry
    That's a sound you won't forget
    It's the mirror's face you don't recognize
    It'll get you in the end

    Hiding the pills inside your mouth
    Swallow 'em down then spit them out
    I hear the laughter scream and shout
    Someone help me

    When they call your name
    Better run and hide
    Tell you you're insane
    You believe their lies
    I'm not gettin' out, no (ooh)
    I'm not gettin' out alive (ooh)
    I'm not getting out (ooh)
    'Cause I'm patient number nine (ooh)

    When the walls of a padded cell become reality
    How many tears 'til I drown myself 'cause no one cries for me?
    If there's a God, why'd he let the devil do his work on me? Oh, yeah
    If there's a God, what am I doing here?

    When they call your name
    Better run and hide
    Tell you you're insane
    You believe their lies
    I'm not gettin' out, no (ooh)
    I'm not gettin' out alive (ooh)
    I'm not gettin' out (ooh)
    'Cause I'm patient number nine (ooh) Writer/s: Ali Tamposi, Andrew Wotman, Chad Smith, John Osbourne, Robert Trujillo
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Songtrust Ave, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Brian Vrooman from OhioThis man is such a genius!!! I'm so tired of people saying Oz never has anything to do with the writing from way back to the Blizzard album...
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