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Put out your hand and try to pick up what’s left
Ignore the memories of emotional theft
What roaring flames can even leave in their wake
I know that I’d just make another mistake
Returning forms to drawers I’ll no longer see
What room is left here for someone like me
The ashes of a better place dust my face
This is a casualty of proper malaise
I didn’t trust you to begin with but I made a choice
I interrupted my suspicion with a louder voice
You always wanted more of life’s mending credit
But waste your breath suggesting how we should end it
Motioning upward towards the night sky
I drift my gaze and rest my tired eyes
What you’ve presented isn’t at all what’s expected
Beginning of a breakthrough always feels over extended
It’s just not worth it to try
I’m fucked as much as the next guy
We haven’t broken through to anything new and we probably won’t while were still alive
It’s still important to grieve what we destroy and what we leave so watch out for all of these ardent detractors
It isn’t what you should believe
I’m folding it away and no longer peeking
These pages paved the ways to constant critiquing
These empty words do nothing to hold it back
Misspoken prose for a new panic attack
In the morning I’ll be fine
I’ll leave it all behind
Keep my thoughts in my mind
So I don’t find myself reminding
Please
Don’t do this without me
I’ve never been so lucky
I wish you wish you were me
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Hot enough to sizzle and spit
Slow sink into the sand pit
It’s still too hard from letting anybody see
The notion that I need to feel free
It’s always still a surprise
We’ll have nothing like the other times
I’ve made an act of being loud but unobtrusive
Bored in the corner almost every time I’ve used it
Point me where being cold won’t sound reclusive
Won’t be too upset when I finally lose it
Anyone who can still question what it’s worth has never seen it
Louder than most but giving in to everything that preconceived it
He doesn’t think that anything will ever change unless he sees it
But I still never get to wear my face because I don’t believe it
I’m still just falling behind
It won’t be just like the other times
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Inside
02:25
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I guess it’s up to you where we go from here
Content to stay locked up in the wrong year
Not really sure what exactly you want from me
But I’m already too much part of the history
I can’t live anywhere else but inside myself
Legs locked up under your harsh refrain
I try but nothing of my meaning remains
I know you’re too far in for what’s left to come
Brace myself for feeling too hard to fall undone
I can’t live anywhere else but inside myself
I can’t live anywhere else
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His Class Ring
06:00
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Remember that I tried to warn you
I know from experience what you go through
He’s eased off the warm belly under his bed
It’s so much clearer to see when you know he’s dead
Say you miss me
Know you’re lying
Call stays waiting
Know what you’re saying
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Better
01:10
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This is the better me
The one who can’t argue
The one you can talk to
The one you take comfort in when you fall asleep
And I’m here to say
It’s better this way
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All You Want
05:26
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Why am I so filled with guilt
If I love what world I have built
Getting myself used to suffering
Doing my best to do the right thing
Life moves on
Like it or not
Sit there all you want
If I am still me
what will I not be
Unleadened and happy
Still wracked with worry
No luck will save me
Hoping means nothing
Tell me I’m bluffing
Life moves on
Like it or not
Sit there all you want
Hold on hard to the fantasy
That the world has some left for me
Can I walk outside head held high
And find myself within the mystery
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Process
04:30
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Every document is warm and complete
Preparing sympathy for sudden retreat
Is it right
To feel this nice
Saving receipts for further critique
Face on the heat and you’re finally unique
Is it right
To feel this nice
You’ve never been next to me
I’m tired of all this hiding
You’ve never been next to me
So many times I put off the dream
More than ready to leave it be
This light is not for the cowardly
You’ve never been next to me
You don’t deserve what is left to see
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Always
06:40
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I’m still submerged beneath the surface holding my breath
Hiding inside the house to avoid anything direct
Never thought to ask myself what exactly the problem was
But I’ll be here a while so I guess there’s time to figure it out
Cuz I’m operating on a smaller scale
breaking down my every day salvaging what’s left of me
Already throwing out the furniture
selling off the silverware calling disability
Begin again somewhere that I can be
almost unperceived myself within my insecurity
I’ll see you soon but in another way
i don’t need to stay we won’t discuss what happened here today
It takes a long time to admit that i'm no good at words
It's even harder for me to imagine returns
The worlds always there and I am always trying
To keep from being to unaware
But it's too late for hiding
Cuz i’ve always been dying
A slippery spill that i should have contained
Such a stubborn stain within the memories my mind retains
I’ll see you soon but in another way
I don’t need to stay we won’t discuss what happened here today
Always opened up
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