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Ears, Ringing and Wringing

Help me, before I fall apart,

I need you to stay okay,

So I don't jump this moving train,

The clock ticks, and I lose myself,

Beats drop, and I sullenly fall,

If you hit the ground,

It feels that I'll hit beneath it,

Oh you've got me, painting the walls with blood,

It's like the crows keep leaving my head,

As if it's a simple corpse left to rot,

One, two, three four. Despair.

It's a little little melody, seeping through the cracks.

Do you leave the lost and dead behind,

Will you leave me here, screaming with desperate pleas,

I beg you, don't leave me behind, but if you do,

Take my breaths away, they are too much,

I am afraid, afraid that these lungs,

These lungs are filled with all the breath they want,

They sigh, and ask for no more, linger the last quick breaths,

Swallow this pride, and swallow these goodbyes,

Let go of these hands, grasping empty air,

Hello, did you have anything you wanted to say,

I am this nothing, swimming under the currents,

Or maybe I'm just drifting, without breath,

Turning this water into red,

Break these ribs, one by one, and see what's behind them,

This cage holds little, I am no delicacy,

A simple question, if you'll let me be,

A shovel and a box, and a stone left above me.

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Oct 20, 2012
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