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Will there be a better day tomorrow To misdirect this terror that I feel Until the echoes of your laughter Become too painful to conceal Will there be a blinding light Or does everything just cut out Into the dark where we begin Will we get the timing...

I don't feel like the days have gone quite in my favor And quietly you resign to take me as I am I don't feel like the morning sun has blessed me with a new gift And the only way into this is when I close my eyes I'm tired of writing letters that I never s...

It was only a dream I swear It did not happen as they tell you It was just a fantasy I was not living in that moment If what I feel is not what I feel How can I ever know what's real Was I stillborn years ago And is this absence all I'll know I had t...

The rain is starting to come down And soon the storm will start to rage But when the sky has cleared you won't find me here Just the tears upon this page And I will understand when you let me go And I won't blame you for your hate And I will understand...

All the people slip away Despite connections I have formed In my struggle to be human I feel more and more deformed And I wish I could believe that this will change Suddenly the sun might shine On all the meaningless actions we play out Oh let it fall...

I take myself to this place Every year on every year And they are always here They never leave There are three-hundred and sixty-four days That I can throw away Drown out my sorrow And forget all the things my head replays I've stolen it all It's not...

A new day has opened up Another sunrise you have missed We miss you But it's not the same On the road, the years move fast And every state of mind won't last We thought we'd live forever Or just long enough to say goodbye Say everything Say anything...

Breathe in It's what you're born to do Steal it all but don't exhale This world will bend for you Can we ever reach the air Or do we all fall down? Before the smoke gives way to sky Choking off our final sound Light a fire for me To guide me far awa...

I will play these notes with broken fingers If that's all that's left to me No matter what I sacrifice You'll question my sincerity The years went by when I lost track Of the life I tried to live All the time we won't get back; I don't ask you to forgi...

It's not enough to hide the misdeeds of our hearts behind the curtain Sweep the ashes of our future off the deck and out to sea The solution is the problem Without the end there is no meaning And we didn't come this far to create more self-destruction No...

So you think you found the meaning of life But you found it through a whore Three years ago I saw my path But I wanted so much more We swing on hooks like slabs of meat Freezing in the cold The temperature kills of the disease But this purity grows old...

Springtime and the storm had passed The search had long since ended A man would find her thawing in the leaves The ice of winter had preserved the scene But could not tell the reasons She said I know you want to leave But I can't do this on my own I kn...

His nervous heart has long stopped beating But the body still pretends that it is me And if all the queues are met The lowest expectation set You will suspend your disbelief And you and I can act like nothing ever happened We can be so unaffected by the...

Why do you want it? I think you're only in love with the idea But there's no glamour in the pain There's no glory in the fame There's no use trying not to feel She says, "I will be someone." Says, "There's a sky that is not grey." She says, "I know thi...

Do you feel your nerves go numb One by one And you say this is better somehow If I can't feel the pain There'll be no one left to know it hurts And you step closer to the grave Do you see your vision blur Lose track of who you were And does the person...

They wound you up like a child's toy And pointed you into the fire And even as your plastic self began to melt You didn't know the end was near They slit your throat like you were cattle Bled you out and left you dry And even as the warmth of red Rushe...

Are you drawn to where the waters deepest The veins of where my thoughts ran cold The frozen current that should have marked the end Was alive beneath the surface But that wasn't what you wanted afterall Afterall, oh afterall these years So I forgive you...

Is it in your eyes or in your heart In your voice or in your brain In the words you said to me Or am I drowning in the rain that is your wake The water curls around my neck Choking me so I can see This everything in it's totality I feel the sand beneat...

If you have come as far as this On broken legs and open wrists Bleeding out in search of bliss I am the exit I am control I am the exit I make you whole It's never going to fade with time The pain you built upon this rhyme If you want out give me a...

I still smell the flowers that reek of you It's not something I have a choice to do I have choice A chance that wouldn't die away I have no life, no laughter I would not stay Tell me why nothing works Tell me why nothing works Tell me why this all hur...

He drives down the highway from the city Hearing nothing as the radio plays on Headed to a room of strangers They'll shake hands And pretend to know why she's gone We all lie to ourselves We all make our own hell We all lie to ourselves Don't we feel...

I possess no mementos of the time we spent together Whether that's for the better We best not say So let's stare at the holes in the back of our heads Through the holes in our hands that we fold to pray And pretend there is something to mend And then we...

The light crawls across the land To signal a new day We have been awake all night Alive countless miles away But we decay inside The distance kills And if we survive Will we be human once again Are you there Are you listening to me And do you care...

God damn She says "A minute from now, I'll be dead, I'll be dead" He says "A minute from now, I won't mind" It takes a minute or ten for her to hear what he said But by then there's no meaning to find I will love you forever The wolf says to the sheep...

If I knew then what I know right now I'd have put you in the ground As they say, it's never too late And good revenge is worth the wait So sleep tight Sleep tight Good god damn goodnight, baby And if you wake maybe You will hear the pop through the pi...

I want to wrap my hands around your crazy throat And squeeze until I choke out every breath and every note That you could ever say or scream again It's not a matter of who wins Oh I would burn down every home that gave you shelter from the rain I'd provi...

Hospital One word So necessary When the lights went out The room disappeared And you didn't know where you were But I know where you should be The world has eaten away at you You let it You had no choice Hospital What's wrong with me? Is that a s...

I'd connect you to my veins If you'd live up to your name If you'd feed me your life Just to see if I came And I would claim you as a spoil of war And swear that there is nothing more Than you and I And the lie it took to make you hang so high And I'd...

In the end, like all of us You'll be drawn to where the water is deepest And with this weight in your heart You will drown... In the end, like every insect You'll be drawn closer to the fire It's guiding light Will turn you into ash... You'll burn li...

It was a different time And I still can't remember... If I was alive Or if I was just holding my breathe for years Over photographs of youth misspent Those documents of blood and skin We'll bring you back We'll bury you again But was it wasted? Was i...

You say you love me So much you would murder And you won't leave me You won't leave me here The world is ugly Uglier than everything I've done And you won't leave me You won't leave me here And when I suffer You will heal me Feed me from your veins...

There's a little line we draw And you have crossed it It's what makes us civilized But you have lost it And now I struggle with desire To be the bigger man I want let it drift away But I don't think I can You're testing all the patience But my nerves...

I can't say, I look better to you then I did to myself On that long road of running away All the things in the past you don't try to grasp You're just happy that it's a new day And we share this in twilight, the distance, the hindsight Quiet as if we were...

We saw our future lying in the road Red spreading through the pavement Steam rising in the cold We haven't been this dead in all our lives Sometimes I cannot tell if we survived Are we ghosts drifting in this ocean Of what we're sold as ordinary life I...

She has so many things that she wants to say But when it's time to talk they all fall away There's just so much that's wrong the words don't come to mind But she won't lie again, she says that every time All these days and all these nights They burn the...

I'm half way sane today Or was it yesterday Or is that you that I'm thinking of I only broke down four or five... Or as many years as I've been alive And you're not I caught myself thinking about you It could be I was looking at you And your face wasn'...

How can you feel pride or shame for things you can't control Identify with ignorance to fit your demographic role You used to be so fucking mad You used to reach beyond your hate Your apathy took all you had And now you blame it all on fate Ignore the vi...

Jennifer, I've missed you for a long time And now it seems I always will You understand now, we'll never meet again Not like this at least And I don't remember what excuse I gave But now it seems so lame, whatever it was And my mind will hold in these r...

Something so innocent So sweet Something I will never be Not anymore Because once I opened my eyes I still refuse to ignore what I see I can not remain so sheltered In a world of me You talk about the now And what is around you But you only see your...

Abandon everything Dissolve in to the silence Conceived here just for you Abandon everything The stillborn future only we will know And there'll be no one left to comfort you I have shattered all the bones I can In my head and in my hands Punishing m...

Like we were Strangers, we just twisted every word to have the meaning that our hearts had preconceived But behind the dialogues we shared were morals we just claimed to care for So now we never know who to believe I have seen a world that isn't gray But n...

I didn't come here to talk about the tragedy of you Placate your fragile ego and pretend that what you have to say is new Yes, we can see the way you love yourself, beneath the costume, lipstick, blood, warpaint And I can't pretend anymore that we are the s...

I had one last chance to live this life But I failed at that, and we all know why I'm not a part of this, it's not a part of me We burn both sides and call it symmetry And I know everything they say I'll believe them when they've stung All those things I...

Don't want to be a liar Don't want to tell the truth As is there were another way No one would see through you We're all acting on the same stage Reading from the same page Faking it just like you We're all living in the same cage Burning with the sam...

If we aren't saints in this life Don't act like you're surprised It's not that I have change So don't say you knew me when I was a better person I never was a different man I just let the mask slip more Than you could stand And now you recognize that a...

One day this will be all that's left The infinite sea, the drowning sand And there will be no me There will be no memory And the hole you've dug for yourself Will fill with water Until that too dries Why, why should it matter What I'm doing with my li...

It was January and you were melting While the rainfall turned to snow And you were thinking of the end All the reasons you couldn't let me in Sometimes it's easier to sever the connection Burn a bridge to help them believe It's not your fault She's cryi...

You only do this for the show So everyone will know Just how much you're affected You want everyone to see This means more to you than me So you won't be neglected No, you won't be neglected You god damn egomaniac This is not about you This is not yo...

You live your life like you're on TV But no-one really cares about you You write your own reality And cross your fingers they won't doubt you She said, it doesn't have to be like this Yes it does, yes it doesn't have to be It doesn't have to be like thi...

I open up but no truth comes out But silence never eases doubt So I sell a promise made of dust While we play a game called one way trust But I tried so hard, I swear do you believe me You believe me, it's so easy when you care But I tried so hard, I swe...

Understand I have no faith But I pray that you won’t find me For honesty, I’m drifting out Floating just above the ground And nothing that I reach for is tied down So off they go A blur, and in a memory As the landscape succumbs To the curvature of th...

It's hard to see why life was set to be this way Is this the reward I've worked for Is this the result of choices I have made Or does life chose itself for me Predestined to be nothing Predestined for so much of random hell We might as well not try For...

I didn't walk away I ran as fast as I could go From the shelter and the warmth Toward a truth that I might know So afraid of what I'd find So afraid of who I'd be Breathing air that passed through time 'Til the years caught up with me And now you kno...

I can see your face electric Burned in my eyes like the sun And now it's just a force of habit To see the light and run They can't leave if I am frozen These eyes won't shut if I am stone I'll breath in till the water fills me So you won't drown alone...

And you know what I know Why would you think to do this to me A reason so simple You could never dream the answer If we're so different from ourselves Could I have seen this inner you And touched its face for ever a brief moment And standing back, now...

Are we walking a line Between mind and flesh Is there anything deeper in your beautiful eyes A meaning to all this time together Or am I just what I am to you I'm happy where I'm standing But look right over there The grass looks much greener The sun s...