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Gustavo
03:51
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I guess it's true, what they say, "You never forget those days you were betrayed."
Things can heal, yes times they are forever changing.
Time is in fact the greatest healer, well above the self-medicating.
But what would you have me do? Would you want me to move?
What would you want me to say to you?
The cold empty nights in your bed, or even worse yet the warmth of a false love.
Some poor body used in your flailing attempts, your grand plan for happiness.
I've done it, and so have all of you.
One fact remains, some scars may fade but they'll never truly recede from the skin, always leaving an outline.
A remembrance memorial.
And though most will never know what was completing that seemingly empty space, between the lines.
The key lies in your head, out of your control, unlocked at any time.
To fill the gaps of time you tried so desperately to erase.
I'm not implying that moving on is by any means an impossibility...
It's just that I think you deserve a fair warning:
Inevitably thoughts will come back to haunt you.
It's not at night, it's not when you're alone, it's in broad daylight on the most beautiful of days.
Yeah something like today... It's taken me 3 years to say.
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Feel Right
04:19
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become a parody of yourself. make good and goddamn sure it will sell for a good price. we all deserve to be more than just a bargain on a shelf, in a bin. a hollow tin misconception. a being spending time frequenting the drug of forgetting.
wasting sweat and skin on disposable things. i've got a fear of being motionless, but i am a stone. i'm too petrified to move. i've got a lack of confidence, even though i've got so much left to prove.
i found the meaning of life. my own sympathetic lie. a symphony that should've been written by my father. who i see in such a better light now.
caught in a mousetrap, a noose, a tangled tree that's begging me to keep climbing, but i'm terrified of heights. god don't you see?
i like so many things, but my brain tells me "well kid that don't mean shit when you've got love for no thing."
i felt my anger leave in mid-july. it was the mildest summer we've had in awhile. i had just started working and things were starting to align, with you by my side.
i've got a lack of confidence even though i've got so much left to prove, and it makes me think that i don't feel right...
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Change
04:48
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I'm so tired of waiting for myself to change.
It's like I need a fire, to scare me out of this place.
So scare me today.
Because I don't want to feel so cold, like I'm jaded and alone.
I need a reason to change my tone, 'cause the sun don't shine in places this low, oh no.
For the past four years or so I've romanticized my past.
I've got to stop doing that so I can move on at last.
So I can move on fast, I've got to move on...
Because I don't want to feel so cold, like I'm jaded and alone.
I need a reason to change my tone, 'cause the sun don't shine in places this low.
I swear I didn't mean for this to come off so depressing, I'm just addressing my status and where I'd like it to go.
Up from here, anywhere would be up from here...
I'm so tired of waiting for myself to change.
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Peel
03:17
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I fall to the floor
Bruised, broken, and sore.
It's just like before, but I've gotten a lot better at not going it alone.
Suddenly I see my life just flash in front of me.
Anxiety runs from my chest to my teeth.
I get so much anxiety from the changing of seasons.
I've watched my life repeat so many times and chosen to suppress and to forget and unintentionally depress myself to death.
But I'm choosing to recall now, bring out skeletons with my own breath.
Because I think we should remember more, even if we can't change the things we did before.
Suddenly I see my life just flash in front of me.
Anxiety runs from my chest to my teeth.
I feel it peel from my bones, some hope I won't end up a stone.
It pulls me down to the floor, where I can't feel the waves anymore.
Not anymore.
Of course there's always an ebb and a flow...
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Inadequacies
05:00
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Every time I try to explain, I get distracted so it's all in vain.
Every time I try to escape, everything collapses, it just stays the same.
I think we should remember more, even if we can't change the things that we did before.
I used to think that everything was happening exactly because of me
And my inadequacies.
My loyalties left me nowhere, except on my fucking knees.
I think we should remember more, even if we can't change the things that we did before.
It makes me think, it makes me think that I don't feel right.
The more I learn the less I know.
Vibrant colors fold to grey. It's taken me 23 years to say.
Anxiety says that nothing stays the same.
Well maybe that's okay...'cause something's got to change...
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