"Vicious Circle" lyrics - JUDAS PRIEST

You tear my soul apart
By any means with wicked schemes cut deep
The way that you contrive
Makes me wonder how you ever sleep

[Pre-Chorus:]
Still I held out every chance
You'd come back to your senses
But that path was filled with smoke
To prove what you intended

[Chorus:]
I stand against you as you rage
My fate has struck your gilded cage
I knew you'd bite and hurt us
Vicious circle

A parody of truth
Is mirrored in the mask you chose to wear
With empathy so numb
You never felt the lives that you despair

[Pre-Chorus:]
Master of hypocrisy
Who dislocates my reason
Through constant lies that you implant
This manifest of treason

[Chorus:]
Provoked to go to any length
I'll use up every ounce of strength
And break the chain that binds this
Vicious circle

[Guitar solo]

[Pre-Chorus:]
Still I held out every chance
You'd come back to your senses
But that path was filled with smoke
To prove what you intended

[Chorus:]
I stand against you as you rage
My fate has struck your gilded cage
I knew you'd bite and hurt us
Vicious circle