Rituals of Relief Lyrics

A deadly doubt starts to grow inside me

Did I lock the front door? I don't know

I'll be late at my job, 'Cause I keep turning the key

Over and over, a million times until I let it go

Washing my hands 'til they're raw and sore

But it's never enough, gotta do it once more

Rearranging the world, make it right

Or it all falls apart and I'll be dead at night

I'm stuck in this loop, can't break free

The chains of my mind, they're choking me

OCD! Rituals of Relief

It grows my obsession

OCD! Rituals of Relief

Chained to my compulsion

OCD! Feel the misery

Therapies try to break the chain

CBT rewires my brain

Facing my fears, but it feels like fire

Exposing to pain to calm the live wire

The struggle persists but I keep my pace

I find some relief with Fluoxetine

When the weight gets heavy and hard to face

I turn to the strength of Clomipramine

When therapy and meds fail, I have no salvation

Maybe what I really need is deep brain stimulation

OCD! Rituals of Relief

It grows my obsession

OCD! Rituals of Relief

Chained to my compulsion

OCD! Feel the misery

Obsessive and compulsive, that's my label now

One feeding the other, a cycle round and round

But somewhere deep, I still believe

That one day, maybe, I'll finally be free