An ugly little toy doll
Sits in the corner watching, waiting
for you to come play
Brush her hair, clean her pain

She's waiting for you to come and play
Show her the monsters deep inside her soul
And tell her they'll consume her whole
If she doesn't come and play
Come and play

A pretty little toy doll
Sits in the sun smiling with a song
waiting for you to come say
I'll never paint your smile black

She's waiting for you to come and play
Show her the monsters deep inside her soul
Tell her they'll consume her whole
She's afraid to die slow
Come and play

An ugly little toy doll
sits in the corner watching, waiting
For you to come play
Rip out her hair, tell her she is your pain
Come and play

Trapped inside my mind, I’ve been a prisoner all this time
Our faces are made of glass and none of the reflections are mine
And we’re still living our lives as I watch the echoes of our dreams
Shatter against the mountains of our will
Nothing is ever as it seems
We all hide from our dreams

What am I
Try as I might
I cannot find where they left the light

Faces painted black and white but all the colors bleed
We’re having a masquerade won’t you come and see
All the pretty masks they hide what we can’t understand
They hide the monsters inside from all we have planned
We are never as we seem
We will always hide from our dreams

What am I
Try as I might
I cannot find where they left the light
I will paint my face black and white
As I watch the colors bleed into me

You didn’t burn the bridge but you shut down all the roads
And I can’t pay the toll, it’s starting to get cold
I’m in way over my head here and the wheel keeps spinning my dear, the heat is growing stronger, can I hold on any longer
The days keep coming, the nights are long, gas and fire alone are safe yet I await the flames

Watching and waiting, there’s so much more than meets the eye
But no one is talking and no one wants to say why
We take our deepest cut and rip it open time after time

We’ve taken every path, been down every road
Somewhere along the way we lost our souls
You’re in way over your head here and the wheel keeps spinning my dear, the heat is growing stronger, can we hold on any longer
The days crawl by our tears, and the nights bring fear, gas and fire alone are safe yet we await the flames

Watching and waiting, there’s so much more than meets the eye
But no one is talking and no one wants to say why
We take our deepest cut and rip it open time after time
Curse the devil or praise your Gods, in our hearts we vilify all that makes us feel alive
Our downfall, blame the star and the skies
Take a match, toss it in the gas as we watch our world burn

I had a dream last night
you were lying next to me
the look on your face was so serene
as if the world weren't crashing down on us

and my world is falling apart
every time I open my eyes
I see the truth behind these lies
no more dreams
you're forever asleep

Like any dream I had to wake
all the colors start to fade away
I can no longer see your face
The nightmares come and bring decay

and my world is falling apart
every time I open my eyes
I see the truth behind these lies
no more dreams
you're forever asleep

my dreams are made of deceit
they tell me you're here with me
but when I open my eyes
you're not dreaming anymore
you're not laughing anymore
you're forever asleep

He walks with certainty
Knows exactly where he needs to be
His sharp eyes are lined down his sights
And he’s coming for you, he’s coming for you and you can’t fight
He’s known by countless names
Some lost, some found throughout the ages
He hides in the dark to take you while you sleep
And he’s coming for me, he’s coming for me and I can’t fight
We like to call him evil
We love to call him pain
But he’s after all of us just the same
And he’s coming for you, he’s coming for me and we can’t fight, we can’t hide, we can’t run
A ghost in shadows, he finds us every day
Creeps up and takes our breath away
Some leave a whisper in the wind
Others succumb to a miserable end
But he’s coming for us, he’s coming for us and we can’t fight
We like to call him evil
We love to call him pain
But he’s after all of us just the same
And he’s coming for you, he’s coming for me and we can’t fight, we can’t hide, we can’t run
He’s coming for you, he’s coming for me, he’s coming for us, we can’t fight, we can’t hide, we can’t run

Grief is a leaky pipe
One drip at a time
Eroding the surface my tears fall upon
Revealing the broken bones of my soul
Washed blood white
Tick, tock, drip, drop
The pipe bursts
Washing the salt from my eyes
Into the sea

Like a thief in the night, caught by surprise, you captivated me with your eyes and stole my breath away with your smile
Weaving your way into my dreams,
spinning my mind around and casting my heart to the stars
A radiant soul emanating a myriad of hues,
I could not resist even were I to choose
Speechless, simple words cannot express the passions I wish to confess Which leave me disoriented, my head floating in the clouds, unable to come down

Close enough to see, yet too far to reach
Like a reflection in still waters, serene
As I touch my fingertips to the surface, the ripples carry your face to the other side of the ocean
Delivering it to a place far across torrential seas and violent skies
Though these waters seem to be the embodiment of an unbreakable barrier
I feel comfort knowing you're there, existing in a place I can not yet see
I would willfully tread this treacherous expanse to feel your smile, to look once into your eyes
Before the tide carries away me into the sky

Though I've never held your hand, I miss feeling your fingers entwined in mine
I have never felt your embrace yet I miss the warmth of your heart against mine
I have yet to hear your laugh yet I miss its music in my ears
I've never had the chance bury my face into your neck but I miss the way you smell
I wish to run my hands through your hair because I miss how it feels coupled with the softness of your cheek when I hold your face in my hands
Though I have never been able to glimpse your eyes I miss the warmth emanating from your soul
I miss your voice, which echoes in my mind day by day
And I miss your smile as it lights up the night sky
I miss you though I've never seen you

My first impression was dazzled
you left me standing there baffled
I never thought this could go wrong
oh how I was wrong
you drug me down in your darkness
oh how my soul felt like glass
shattering against the sky
I never felt so high
I never felt so low
I'm a foolish fool you see
you fooled you and you fooled me
such a twisted smile on a lying face
these things cannot be erased
amidst all this confusion
this was all an illusion
If I pick you up then I will fall
and then where will we be
where will we be
where will we be
where are we
I've never felt so low

This is the time of day when I need you the most
But you’re never you’ve vanished like a ghost
And I can feel the distance grow
As your eyes become more cold
You won’t say it out loud
I know you want me to let go
I should tell you dear I don’t know how to stop loving you
You won’t listen though you just tell me to make do
And I can feel the distance grow
As your eyes become more cold
You won’t say it out loud
I know you want me to let go
I wait to see your face, I wish to hear your voice
But you have walked away and left me with no choice
And I felt the distance grow
Your eyes they were so cold
You wouldn’t say it out loud
But you made me let go

I saw a girl sitting by a grave
There were tears running down her face
This kind of thing, you see it every day
Laughing masks smiling through the pain
I met a boy who said he killed his dreams
Told me life is never what it seems
He missed a girl who left this world too soon
She took her life under the light of the moon
All these people seem alone
Empty hearts that have no home
One day, the child in you will die
And you will know it’s ok to cry
A little girl asked me what is pain
Give it time, you will see one day
She took my hand and looked me in the eyes
You’ll be alright, my dad said it’s ok to cry
All these people seem alone
Empty hearts that have no home
One day, the child in you will die
And you will know it’s ok to cry
We’re all the girl sitting by the grave
At some point, we all have lost our way
Don’t be the boy who killed his dreams away
Try not to remember yesterday
Put on your mask and smile through the pain
And know tomorrow brings another day
Not everyone we see is alone
Some hearts, they do have a home
Some people’s inner child never died
And they’ll tell you it’s ok to cry

I only wanted to love you
I just wanted to hold you
Watch your face as your smile reached your eyes
Etch the image in my mind before it dies
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I just wanted to teach you
Reach my hand out and touch your heart
Your eyes had so much to tell me
Like the fact that you and I will never be
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You never wanted to love me
You never wanted to hold me
As the tears ran down my face
You turned and walked away
You’d rather be any other place
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Maybe one day you will change your mind
And I will be waiting stuck in time
I still only want to love you
I still only wish to hold you
You’re the only one I’ll ever see
You’re the only one for me

You’re half a world away
And I miss you every day
And I’ve never seen your face
But I love you anyway

If I could look into your eyes
I would never say goodbye
Take my hand and you’ll see
How wonderful we’ll be
I know it’s rather strange
But I’d never want to change
Just know, I’d never let you go

My heart is torn asunder
I lie awake and wonder
If I could show you how I feel
See if this is real
If I could look into your eyes
I would never say goodbye
Take my hand and you’ll see
How wonderful we’ll be
I know it’s rather strange
But I’d never want to change
Just know, I’d never let you go

I’d never let you go
I love you anyway

I ripped my love for you from my heart
With a hoodoo doll
I couldn’t take no more of this
Waiting for a fall
And so I let you go
And so I bid you farewell

You see I can’t trust you
Cause I can’t trust me
Not to fall in love with you
Completely
And so I cut you out of my heart
And set you to the side to view from afar

Now you’re safe and sound inside my guitar
So I can hear your love echo through the stars
And now I will be free
Now your love doesn’t live in me

I ripped my love for you from my heart
With a hoodoo doll
I couldn’t take no more of this
Waiting for a fall

Pop your pills and run away
Hide your face inside your shame
Drink your whiskey all **** day
Anything to hide the pain

It doesn’t matter what it costs
Count your sins and cut your loss
You never saw another way
Another day, you’ll never change

You watched the sun fall to the west
Your empty tears held no regrets
Eyes alight you took your final breath
The sun has set and now you’re gone

You popped your pills and ran away
Hid your face within your shame
Drinking whiskey all **** day
Anything to hide the pain
Anything to run away

I can't deal with it
I've fallen from the abyss
I will wait for you
to watch me drown again

I am fading and I cannot scream
Push me down, make me your slave
I am dying inside my own dreams
Give me a shovel to dig my own grave

I can't deal with it
You pushed me too far down
I won't wait for you
To bury me in the ground

I'm a silhouette, a forgotten face
Let me go into the night
What will it take to keep me alive
I'm beneath you and I cannot fight

That's what you've always told me
I can't deal with it, watch me fade away
Push me down, make me your slave
Give me a shovel, I'll dig my own grave

While you watch
While you watch
While you watch
Me fade

Distracted by every syallable that was exhaled
unable to recall
the curve of your lips as they spoke
nor the hue of your eyes when they laughed
my only recollection is
the duo took my breath away
obliterating all lights but the stars
leaving me with amnesia

electrifying finger tips
of a ghost running down a shattered spine
an iris in a black hole
a smile that rips together a soul
the dilapidated frames of a broken home
scream for your sunlight
which stuns lightning bolts
and silences thunder claps

If I could go just one day without missing you I'd forget the pain
If I could go one moment not loving you then I might be free
If only I'd stop this dreaming I could break away from these chains
If I had a ******* bit of sense I would turn my back and flee

your soul is the thunder that lightning never heard
I know my behavior may seem somewhat absurd
but your eyes wont let me go no you wont let me go
I am tethered to this purgatory I cannot tell you no

If you would spend just one day trusting me we might not be afraid
Just take one moment to face me we might not be mislead
I want to walk into the light before I fade
I'm stuck inside some sick nightmare playing in my head

your soul is the thunder that lightning never heard
I know my behavior may seem somewhat absurd
but your eyes wont let me go no you wont let me go
I am tethered to this purgatory I cannot tell you no

I do I don't want to miss you...I cannot forget
I only wanted to love you..break these chains from me

I looked into your cold, cruel eyes
as you laughed in the certainty of my demise
you said that you're a broken man but you wanted to break me
as you walked away and left me with your misery

you built me up to knock me down
leaving nothing but a single memory
of your lips as you spoke
I cannot wait to watch you drown

taking pleasure in the carnage of the weak
the only love you've ever felt is for the havoc you wreak
you claim that love has ravaged your sun
you forgot the one who loved you is on the run

you built me up to knock me down
leaving nothing but a single memory
of your lips as you spoke
I cannot wait to watch you drown

I gave you my heart
it wasn't enough
I gave you my soul
you ripped it apart
you cry cause you're alone
you cry when you're alone
you reap what you will sow
you've reaped what you have sown

you built me up to knock me down
leaving nothing but a single memory
of your lips as you spoke
I cannot wait to watch you drown

all you wanted was to break me
all you wanted was to break me

My smile is the biggest lie i'll ever tell
I took the hint, I disappeared
if you'd believe in me I could leave this Hell
but it's much too hard to hold a corpse

my smile is my biggest lie of them all
here where dreams go to die
here where the devil won't let you cry
believe in me, let me leave this Hell

my smile is the biggest lie I've ever told
I try to breathe but the flames overcome me
they say Hell is hot but here it's been so cold
time has no meaning where dreams go to die

my smile is my biggest lie of them all
here where dreams go to die
here where the devil won't let you cry
believe in me, let me leave this Hell

Like poison this entered your veins
setting your soul to flames
fate has been so unkind
ripping apart this time

like darkness I'm black on black
You're never coming back
Like poison this entered your veins
setting your soul to flames
fate has been so unkind
ripping apart this time

Like poison this entered your veins
setting your soul to flames
like darkness I'm black on black
you're never coming back

Something you cannot yet trust
Let me crawl underneath your skin
Resurface all your scars
Begin to mend what you would call your flaws

If I could tell you what I wanted to say
But I am much too afraid
Unsure if you'd throw me to the wind and tell me don't come back again
If I could tell you what I wanted to say

Covered in your wounds I cry deep inside
You're too beautiful to hide behind your lies
You light up the room but cannot recall
That you have a heart behind all your walls

If I could tell you what I wanted to say
But I am much too afraid
Unsure if you'd throw me to the wind and tell me don't come back again
If I could tell you what I wanted to say

If I could tell you what I wanted to say
No matter how much you hate yourself and me
If I could tell you what I wanted to say

But I never will no
I never will no
And I never do no
No I never will no

If I could tell you what I wanted to say
But I am much too afraid
Unsure if you'd throw me to the wind and tell me don't come back again
If I could tell you what I wanted to say

In all the years gone by
Nothing ever seemed so clear
When no one saw me cry
Letting go of all my fear

Blinded by my own tears
I didn't see the headlights
Thinking to myself how peaceful it was
To watch me die

Don't throw my body in the ground
I'd rather have a look around
Toss my ashes to the wind
And let me fly free again

Don't look for me when I'm gone
Ill be singing a new song
One you've never heard before
Listen for my voice on the shore

Search for the light
Long after I am out of sight
Don't focus on your sorrows
Think of how I smiled before tomorrow

Blinded by my own tears
I didn't see the headlights
Thinking to myself how peaceful it was
To watch me die

Unless you mean it
Don't touch my skin
Unless you mean it
Don't draw me in

Don't reach your hand out
to push me down
Ignore me as I shout
And watch me drown

Stare as my fire burns
Laughing at the stars
For what my heart yearns
Escapes me from afar

Unless you love me
Don't touch my skin
Unless you mean it
Don't draw me in

Choking on dust
As I breath in the night
Do what you must
Push me in the light

I've felt the darkness
Creeping down my spine
Unable to express
How brightly you shine

But unless you want me
Don't touch my skin
Unless you mean it
I can't let you in

The first time that I saw you
I knew that it would hurt
I wanted you to love me
I knew you'd never give in
I watched and waited for ages
You kept your heart closed and caged

Every time I see your face
I feel the pain
The fire inside my chest
Engulfs me in flames

There's secrets that I've kept
So deep you'd never find me
You're so sure of yourself
I could never keep up
I'm a mess I'm a flame that's turned to dust
The truth is something I could never trust

Every time I see your face
I feel the pain
The fire inside my chest
Engulfs me in flames

I take a sip of my beer
While my dreams fade in liquor
I wanna taste the salt on your skin
Hold you close like my sins
Never will you back down
But I will drink up and drown

Remember all the times I've seen your face
While I embrace this pain
Feed the fire inside my chest
As I'm engulfed by the flames

You left me all alone
I only wish that I had known
That the last time I saw your face
Was the moment you would fall from grace

Nowhere to turn, to Jesus you cried
Begging God one last time for a guide
Never keeping me inside your mind
I never even got to say goodbye

Always had one last bit of hope
Taken away with a last hit of dope
Never again can you call to God
Nevermore will I hear your voice

The very last time I saw your eyes
You were begging me not to walk away
But I never did listen too well
And I never knew what to say

Wasted breath, forgotten time
I live in the dark I was never a bright light
I never knew how to love
And long ago I lost the will to fight

I lied to myself for so long
I forgot what's right and clung to what was wrong
Now here I am with my own heart
I knew it would end here from the start

I'll never tell you that I love you
It isn't something that I can do
I'll strum you a song in the dark
As I wish I hadn't fallen apart

You said we could do anything
you were right
so why am I doing it alone
Slowly I fall apart
As this fight erodes
my layers of steel, stone and bone

Weathering away grains of time
Slip, slipping across the sky line
Awaiting the day when it's finally safe to say
goodbye

Did you know about my lockbox
Hidden deep within my dark
Kept safe for a rainy day
A hole perpetuated when you left
The time will be right
When nothing more is left to say

Weathering away grains of time
Slip, slipping across the sky line
Awaiting the day when it's finally safe to say
goodbye

You said we could do anything
Then why did I do it alone
When you let me fade into the cold

I did not wish to return to the light
On this last night the time was right
The line went dead
Nothing more was said
Oh lockbox
My only sweet friend
In the end
In the end

The piece of me that isn't dead cares
that piece is what will always make you aware
as my ghost becomes numb in the shadowy corner chair

in the dark, sweet darkness
you left me there to wane
in the dark, sweet darkness
so darkness I became

I hear a passionate song
but I'm a ghost my passions long been gone
an apparition, I haunted you, you'd had it in for me all along

in the dark, sweet darkness
you left me there to wane
in the dark, sweet darkness
so darkness I became

you can't make amends with a ghost
all I had to offer was all you hated most
if you ever want a tall flask of cold, black coffee I'll be your host

In the dark, sweet darkness
you left me there to wane
in the dark, sweet darkness
so darkness I became

as it swallowed me whole
and lay out my shame

I know you don't wish to come
where the spirits fly and we all let go
I know you don't wish to come
but I will take you there
pull you from your cloud so high
where the wind whispers tragedies
I know you don't wish to come
but not to see is a travesty

won't you please come with me
take my hand
one day you'll see
it was worth it all in the end
when you finally let love descend

It's beautiful here where the sky meets the sea
even blades of grass muster a smile
I know you don't wish to come
but I will take you there
from this view you'll never wish to flee
let me take you down for a while
I know you don't wish to come
but you'll finally see the sun

won't you please come with me
take my hand
one day you'll see
it was worth it all in the end
when you finally let love descend