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//Introduction//
02:21
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*inaudible*
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An Open Letter
04:02
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if i were to die
would you show up to my funeral?
stand over my body
to look down on me one last time.
mutter under your breath
about missing me to death.
or maybe what you said
is that you're glad i'm dead.
i guess i'm unaware
if ghosts can hardly hear,
but i heard you loud and clear
when you said goodbye
when you told me you cant be with me
anymore
so if i were to die,
would it change your mind?
cuz how could i
go on with this life,
knowing how much i try
it wont change your mind.
how could i
live this life,
knowing how hard i try
you still don't mind.
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Someday
05:30
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you told me that you would always love me,
and that we could be happy, but it was all a lie.
so you showed me that it was never meant to be,
tried changing all the things about me that make me who i am.
one day, you'll realize the mistakes you made,
and by then it'll be too late to rectify with me or yourself.
and SOMEDAY, i'll forget all the things you said
that made me feel so bad about the way i am.
remember when you said you'd stay? I still think about it every day.
if you can't even love yourself, how do you expect to love anyone else?
i spend my days alone in bed, replaying every word you said.
it's hard to want to wake up when your life feels so misled,
through a shade tinted red, and you're trapped inside of your head.
today i woke up feeling okay,
thought maybe today would be the day i'd keep you off of my mind.
okay, maybe today isn't the day.
i'm feeling like running away from everything in my life.
remember when you said you'd stay? i think i'm better off anyway.
if you can't even promise me, i think it's better off that you leave.
i'll spend my days loving myself since no one else ever will.
it's hard to love my self through all the pain that you've instilled,
and my guts that you spilled. well, i hope you got your fill
so i hope you got your fill, we both know you never will.
you got me with my guard down, then you came in for the kill.
so i hope you got your fix, bad intentions: 666.
they say the devil herself manipulates the way you think
so i hope you got your taste past thrill seeker's second base
you said that you loved me, but you lied right to my face.
yeah, you lied right to my face,
so i hope you got your taste.
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Wolves
05:21
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hello, it's been a while. i hate to see you suffocating with a broken smile. pardon me, do i believe what i see? it's been smiling its ugly grin right in front of me.
goodbye, after all this time, where everything you said to me was nothing more than a silly lie. so long, i'm trying to move on. but it's been so hard knowing all that you did me wrong
i'll never know what it's like to be known, feed me to the WOLVES and suffocate my soul; drag me down that hole, so i'll never know...
hello, it's me again. i keep running back, it's like an addiction. goodbye, it's hard to stay satisfied, but i'll be back again just like the last time.
i'll never know what it's like to be known, feed me to the WOLVES and suffocate my soul; drag me down that hole, so i'll never know what it's like to feel whole. free my soul. take it slow. help me get this right. lead me through the night, show me to the light; tell me everything's alright,
everything's alright.
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5. |
//Acceptance//
01:30
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*inaudible*
*inaudible*
*inaudible*
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Detachment Theory
06:41
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lately i've felt like a cheap cigarrette;
half smoked and stomped out on the ground,
watching as the people pass
taking their drags from all the better cigarrettes.
no one wants me, why would anyone?
no one wants what's already been discarded
so i'll take my broken heart, get it fixed up, good as new,
so you'll want me.
so you'll want me like i want you to.
so you'll want me.
so you'll want me like i oh so need you to.
i find myself awake at night figuring out how to fight
this feeling that i'm not good enough.
but the pain gets so much worse when nothing's getting better.
tell me, how am i supposed to even wake up?
i don't wanna do this anymore
i don't even wanna try
nothing makes sense in my mind
the voice inside my head is using 'we' instead of 'i'.
separate me from myself, open up my eyes,
show me what i can't see, show me how i could be.
watch as my energy disperses completely.
save me from myself, help me get away.
i just wanna be myself again but i don't even know who that is anymore
is this really what it's like?
why does my mind work against me?
is this really what it's like
to be me?
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when i look into your eyes, i see the next three years of my life
staring right back into mine. i lost track of the time.
i'd love to stare for just a bit longer, cuz they make me wanna be
a better version of me, but i can't do a goddamn thing
right.
i'd love it if you'd stay, even just for a while,
because in your absence, I FEEL SO NUMB.
but even so i find myself wandering back
to where i think you should be; where i need you to be
with me
and wouldn't you mind it if i stayed for a while?
yeah, i was thinking forever so that we could pass the time.
and wouldn't i mind it if i could hold your hand?
tell me all your plans, so i can spend my time
WITH YOU.
now when i look in your eyes, all i see is blue.
where did my life go? probably off with 'i don't love you anymore'.
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//Disassociation//
01:15
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Something
06:29
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it's all in my head, it's left me here dead.
it's a terrible way to go out.
and i hate to admit it, but you're all to blame,
like you're cautiously leaving, and it's left me here grieving.
why can't i just stop thinking, shut off my dark dreaming.
i just wanna get over you.
i just want to forget...
that you used to make me feel like i was SOMETHING,
but i guess now i'm nothing.
cuz what i used to feel was SOMETHING,
but now i'm just hurting.
so why am i still so caught up on you?
why do i think so much about you?
and why am i still so lost on what to do to get over you?
i've been a mess since you left me,
and now i'm all alone.
cuz you used to make me feel like i was SOMETHING,
but now i am nothing.
cuz what i used to feel was SOMETHING,
but now i'm just hurting
so why am i still so fucked up over you?
why do i think so much about you?
and why am i still so lost on what to do to get over you?
I've been a mess since you left me,
and now i'm all alone.
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10. |
December 5th, 2016
03:07
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you used to make me feel like i was something.
now i am nothing.
i'm not worth it anymore
rip my heart out of my chest
i've been a mess since you left me
now i'm all alone
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May 18th, 2017
06:25
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we used to talk about the weather and how things would get better,
but things just got worse and this weather's not better.
this storm in my head's growing darker and darker,
but this place in my head's been a mess for a while now.
it was never bad enough that you just left and gave up,
but it's better that you did instead of dragging this out.
you showed me how to love, then you told me what you hated
through an image of me that i'll never get back.
i act like i'm fine but i'm dying inside.
would you give me your hand if i reached out to you,
or would you shrug it off just like you used to?
would you return a response if i called out to you.
or pretend that i'm nothing just like you always used to?
open up your mind, inspect yourself,
or are you too afraid of what you might find?
i know you've got problems but you've gotta try to solve them
or they'll just stack up every time you relax and unwind.
i act like i'm fine but i'm dying inside.
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//Awareness//
01:17
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13. |
Strange Vices
03:52
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you see, love is a drug, it goes straight to my head.
it takes my perceptions and buries them instead.
it makes me do things, it makes me see things
for people like you who throw it away.
it feels like a curse that i just can't shake.
it makes me feel like i just won't wake
or escape from these thoughts i can't push out of my head,
all centered on you and the high that we shared.
now we've come down,
and it's not coming back.
you're not coming back,
no.
i made it home safe another night
with you on my mind and me wishing i didn't.
but here i am, lying awake at 2 am on a sunday night.
trying to make sense of everything
like how the last time i saw you was awful for me.
it feels like my life is just one long bad dream.
i need some help, somebody please wake me up.
wake me up.
somebody please wake me up.
your love was a drug
that fucked up my brain;
that drove me insane.
your love was a disease
that made it's way into my heart;
that tore me apart.
but the worst of it all is
that your love was a lie,
it was a lie.
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Drown
05:36
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my lungs filled with water makes it easier to DROWN,
and i can't find the words to speak out of my mouth.
your heart full of gold, to help keep you around,
and the greedy little fingers pulling it to the ground.
yeah, i had my reasons,
still doesn't make it right.
i should've cared for your heart
and all of its light.
so bury me in silence.
no, don't say a word.
i'll pray for my complexions;
i don't want to be heard.
just bury me in silence.
illuminate the room with your smile so bright,
i'd still throw it in the dark, cuz i can't keep it right.
i'll sink through the floor, get lost inside my head.
i just don't feel like myself anymore.
loving was never easy,
especially for me.
but the hardest part
has always been letting go.
just bury me in silence.
just bury me.
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15. |
An Open Letter Pt. 2
08:13
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keep telling me it's time to go save someone;
keep coming to me for help.
let's switch the roles, the push and the pull,
cuz i'm not meant to play the shrink.
perhaps it's just me, but maybe, just maybe
i'm the one who needs to be saved.
you caught me at a record low,
the memories flooding back from before.
the mistakes that made us what we used to be,
i'll regret them for the rest of my life.
*it's not you i'm in love with anymore, it's the thought of what we could've been, the thought of what we used to be.*
so quit telling me that i've gotta go save someone
if i can't even save myself.
my heart's worn thin and i can't even look at myself
in the mirror anymore.
i hope my words haunt you like the thoughts of us in my dreams
do to me on repeat.
i hope they resonate off the walls of your mind,
singing,
'i will keep breathing, but i won't feel alive."
*we never wanted you around anyway*
i will keep breathing, but i won't feel alive.
feel my heart beating? it's still empty inside.
i will keep breathing, but i won't feel alive.
live my life thinking of what it'd be like to die.
i will keep breathing, but i won't feel alive.
feel my heart beating? it's still empty inside.
i will keep breathing, but i won't feel alive.
live my life dreaming of where we go when we die.
*inaudible*
*inaudible*
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*INAUDIBLE*
*InaUDIblE*
*INaudiBLe*
cut the tapes.
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