The Breaking Point

Track 11 from "The Machine"

[Verse 1]

Pressure building in my chest

Can't remember when I slept

All these years of playing games

Nothing left that I have kept

Mirror shows a hollow man

Going through the motions still

But the cracks are showing now

And I've lost the will to fill them

[Chorus]

This is the breaking point

Where sanity meets the wall

This is the breaking point

Where heroes learn to fall

Something's got to give

Something's got to change

At the breaking point

Nothing stays the same

[Verse 2]

Twenty years of compromise

Swallowing the bitter pills

Now the medicine tastes like poison

And it's time to test my will

Everything I thought was real

Crumbles in my shaking hands

All the lies they sold as truth

Now I finally understand

[Chorus]

This is the breaking point

Where sanity meets the wall

This is the breaking point

Where heroes learn to fall

Something's got to give

Something's got to change

At the breaking point

Nothing stays the same

[Bridge]

I can't take it anymore!

But maybe that's the point

Maybe breaking is the way

To heal what they destroyed

[Verse 3]

In the silence after screaming

In the calm after the storm

I can hear my heart still beating

I can feel myself transform

[Final Chorus]

This was the breaking point

Where I learned to find my way

This was the breaking point

Where night becomes the day

Something had to give

Everything had to change

At the breaking point

I found myself again

Themes

When everything snaps