[Verse 1]
To remain objective
To a closer call
Secretly rejected
And to mediocrity fall
Caught on the down slopes of life

[Pre-Chorus]
The padded shoulder remembers
The elbowed side resists

[Chorus]
Encircled ad nauseum
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate

[Verse 2]
Encouraging on the negative scale
Bent out of shape is the measuring norm
In words and in writing
No one knows my enemy like I do

[Verse 3]
A social repellent
Merely an adversary
Lost to the failing words
Kept the last of all
Understood glances
To work against
[Pre-Chorus]
The padded shoulder remembers
The elbowed side resists

[Chorus]
Encircled ad nauseum
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate