What have I become: a menace or a freak?
Or have I discovered the potential you always saw inside of me?
In a single moment - by chance, by fate, by some divine design -
an irradiated spider's bite transformed my entire life.

Keep changing. Yeah, keep changing.
Keep changing. Yeah, keep changing.

I could have anything. I can just take what I deserve.
I'll give them all a show, a spectacle they won't soon forget.

But then in lonely hallways, applause of adoration
is replaced by hastened footfalls and shouts of,
“Stop! Thief!”

A petty criminal,
an over-sized bully that I can hardly distinguish from the
cop who's chasing after him
and trying to tell me what to do.
It's not my job to stop him.
After years of being pushed around,
I’m finally looking out for number one.
Just me, my uncle, and my aunt.
I'm in control and spin the web
that secures our future.

I’m sick of disappointment,
tired of being beaten down,
but even the best of us
circumstance can turn upside down.

Police lights and tear drops: they litter the sidewalk.
I can’t help but realize the heartbreak in her eyes.
A murder…. The suspect: police say he just fled
into the shadows where only dark things go.
Determined, I follow into the shadows
where only dark things go.

Our lives are forged in tears that measure out the years.

I couldn't love you any more even if you were my own father.
All this guilt and all this pain I brought upon myself;
I practically held the gun to your head and pulled the trigger,
watched you fall, lifeless, to the floor.
Our lives are forged in tears that measure out the years.
Our lives are forged in tears that measure out the years.
Money and fame mean nothing; power is all I have to give.
You taught me that a real man lives a life that's fit to live.