Take the devil out of my path
Put my skeletons to rest
On a bed of roses where I
Lay me down, definitely

Mighty is this bitter blade,
Crimson beaded water falling out of my grave
Another dusty record plays
Dancing by myself in the blue shade

I've dug a lot of holes to uncover the bones
And to be released from the dark
Because the moment that I saw you coming
I was both, feet, running to those open arms

But the rusty metal gate will fall
Plowing through the field in which I silently lay
Lovely, little paper doll
Scared of what the ghost of you might say
Because the moment that I seen you running
For that last train coming, it done broke my heart

You want to talk about stress?
Like I know nothing of it
heart left hanging like a necklace
The farthest thing away from an emotional investment
You don't want this.
Might look good in your head
But I'm a monster.
I've caused more pain than I can even count
'Cause I wanna die like a rock star
All alone in my lost thoughts
Can't live how I want to so
I spoke no lies when I told you I'm a lost cause

I'll eat your soul...
This is what I do
so go on and hide because I'm just like you

You wanna talk about luck?
How no body loves you and your whole life's f'd
Because I was born to be crushed
And enjoy what it's like to be thrown down in the mud.

You should just stay where the sun shines
I don't wait for the fun times
but I savor the laughs
I drop dead at good bye and lay straight in my casket.
I wanna live where the blood dries
A lot quicker than some like.
Without a bit of guilt
Sit right here until the next one comes by

But still your gonna go and try
And show me a different life
And get eaten alive

Can't move
Try to fight but it's no use
The more I do, the lower I sink
Into this black tar pit

Your whole life's been spent staring out the cracks
Slipping words to the people that ever get close enough to grasp
And you're looking at me like another broken glass
Getting closer to the edge without any emotional attachment.
And maybe you don't see that all of this around you is a simple web of lies that was designed to make you soundproof
That's exactly why you scream like all the proud do
And I slam against the gates with my poems until I plow through.
I see the smiles and your frowns, how you feel like everything in your life is nailed to the ground
And I see you speak with so much distaste in your mouth
While letting everything break you down to the bottle, trying to drown yourself
I guess there's no hope left, all the ships are leaving the port and the wine is smelling like death and
You can smoke holes in your chest, until you're left breathing out your last cold breath
I've tried to tell you
All your demons are waiting to get you
And the room's full of them, from the bar to the booth
Leave the music in the corner and stray far from your roots
You never thanked your mother for infecting your youth
With a healthy taste for violence and a hundred fifty proof
And all you ever learned from life, is an icepack
It's good to stop the swelling and for chilling down your pint glass
Now every evening as you open your nightcap
You drink yourself away like it's the only way to fight back
And I can show you how I feel and what it does to me
And how when I look you in the face I only see what has become of me
The product of your liquid courage company
That drowned away your sorrows before you knew that they were running free
So breathe in, and breathe out
Blur the space between us and constrict me everytime I reach out
Break the mirror so you never have to see out
And know that you are left talking to yourself now
I wish I could of saved you but
At the bottom of the bottle
You won't find me waiting now

Here again trying to feel
Anything other than numb
Waiting to know when
I get to go back to normal again
Lonesome, broken, misunderstood
Not strong enough to stand
Reeling thoughts, tired mind
On my own just trying to be fine
Scared, dieing, crying
For a relief I never seem to find
Someday this pain will fade
And I will be whole again
Until then I need a friend, need to feel, need to feel relief
Defeated, ashamed, sick
Trying to find a reason to hold on
Because I don't want to be here
Alone, cold, unwell
Incomplete in the here and now

I drink the rainwater, but it can never cleanse my soul.
Painted glass on the window, it don't break for no one.
Blood runs like a river, and hope won't float when it's choking on it's last words.

Fighting everyone around me, sick of trying to get inside blinded vision of what we all think life should be.
Stop, and let all the chips fall where they may and take the earth from underneath your fragile pride, feel it shake
And when it all clears and the rain clouds fade you can stay with the skeletons hidden in your grave.

Sin, it's really got a hold on you.
You don't need to exile me, I'm well on my way.
Leaving these four walls made of matchsticks in the back of my brain.
I've learned that you don't have a single word left that you can say To make me quiver when you wave them like a knife in my face. Your king is dead.

You can rearrange these bricks all day but not a single one will ever get you outta here, or take you away.
You want a throne that can never be claimed
But don't want to take the broken crown off the power in your kingdom full of fools gold, searching for a diamond in a pile full of buried hopes.

I'm ready to be released, and how do your palms like the burgundy breeze?
How poetic, everyone wants change but won't let it, get a breath until they decide that it's ready to breath.
Believe me, that's the nature of the beast.
Break it's legs and watch it try to flee, watch it hobble out of your awful reach.
Pour it's heart out in the streets and when all of this is over, sharpen your teeth so you can smile in the mirror while the rest of you depletes.

Take a look at my life
Take a look at my love
Take a look at my soul
You can't save me
And you don't even know

I got too many problems
And not enough solutions
A brain that makes people think I'm lost and gone delusional
Another sunken ship
Another stranded photo book with past's pictures plastered in it.
Holding on to heaven
While questioning why I feel so ******
And...
I've tragically adapted to this mindset.

God won't tell me if he wants me to live
Doesn't speak to me in the way portrayed in hymns
Don't breathe through me in the way that you say that you live
And don't treat me differently when satan insists.
And this is it.
Got to breathe life into this desert I roam in shame
Should leave frights window sill and leap from it's pain

And I can taste it.
As it all gets lost
But I can't register it's meaning until I figure out it's cause
So don't look at me like just another feather
Falling from the wings of the angels sent to protect you
I'm tragic,
And it shows
Blacking out before the rain comes and waking up soaked
I try to pretend that I'm far from painfully close
And face the displacement of hating what I faithfully chose
But this is obvious.
And that's exactly why you freeze
When you crawl behind my eyelids and see what I've been seeing
When you fall into my silence you find out what it means
When they say that it's the quiet ones that always want to scream
Hush,
It's not about words
Force fed holiness will only make it worse
The law drenched loneliness is scorching the burns
Of what God really feels like compared to words