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Key to a House
do you feel the same? / that without faith, grace had no name / that before salvation the war looked like a game
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Feb 22, 2018
WORSE THAN DEATH BY FAR
unbelievable the breadth / of what I have to regret with every breath / you could fill a lifetime with it
38
Mar 11, 2016
TOO MUCH THE PRICE
if you don't believe in demons / look deep into me, past all the spoken reasons / past the medication, into a man with only two seasons
32
Sep 29, 2015
JOYLESS
I held on through your jealousy and fear / your deep insecurities and I held you near / I survived the conversations about the terrible what if’s
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Sep 29, 2015
THE IMMACULATE SUICIDE
dressed for my own funeral again / black suit and tie, I've died so many times without amends / I can't count the ways I've started over and then
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Sep 29, 2015
SLEEPLESSNESS
you wont stop haunting me in my dreams so listen now as I talk / you said I ran away from home but I’m more ashamed that I walked / I understand I failed you in drastic, uncountable ways
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Sep 29, 2015
VOWS IN HER CHURCH
my Love She’s got bottomless holes inside, dividing us that I didn’t dig / so I’ve been choking down her past days from amber bottles in burning swigs / most people see only a darkness and call the task of healing Her too big
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Feb 16, 2015
PATTERNS
it's from the dreams that wake me up in cringes / nauseous from the sickening memory’s twinges / that poison the hours of the day with painful fire that singes
28
Dec 6, 2014
THE IMMACULATE SUICIDE
dressed for my own funeral again / black suit and tie, I've died so many times without amends / I can't count the ways I've started over and then
30
Jun 13, 2014
MIRRORS and RAZOR BLADES
with my feet on the ground / and my head in the clouds / I try to survive this trip stepping around
32
May 21, 2014
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