you'll never walk again
after all the ways that they hurt you.
(hot eyes burn blue, fall thirteen flights)
rid of every last breath of discretion.
choke on distractions.
silence, please, boy.
everything you've ever wanted is right here
face temptations.
embrace them with open arms.
(play to lose, complain you can't find the one who balances it all)
braced in ways that fail the One that never fails us.
give up. stay. can't lie. give up.
close. give up. we'll never break this.
give up. say. can't lie. give up.
we're gonna make it. stay close.
we're gonna make it. say we're gonna make it.
everything you've ever wanted is right here.
stay close, we're gonna make it.
(i'm not talking, no... silence)
everything you've ever wanted is right here.
say, we're gonna make it.
learning not to choke
(this time there's misdirection)
it seems so impossible,
but the stench is unstoppable
(a body unpreserved, has this salvation taught you nothing?)
don't cry for help
don't fix yourself
just live forever this way
our ears ring of disappointment
feel it when you shut that door
again and again and against the other side
she drowns in your...
i give up face down the stairs and grip the banister fight to convince yourself that he still cares
(why don't you care?)
take a breath and choke on the smell of the dying (neglect these souls that sink)
get sick quick and lungs are closed forever
(bolt this coffin shut and grip your shovel hard) living downwind of something foul,
learning not to choke
(dig and don't force change)
it seems so impossible,
but the stench, it's unstoppable
(please save me, i'm burning, i'm falling, goodbye) i cannot kid myself anymore
i'm dying this way
"that's impossible," you say
but it was you who taught me to live this way, and i'm dying