every time someone leaves
they take a piece of me with them
but what happens when I have nothing left
what happens when they take it all
leaving me with nothing
no more heart
No more soul
no more love
Is that the goal?
piece by piece
I fade away
and one day
I will cease to exist

It seems like my life decays
Wish dreams like life will fade
That I look back that one day
At my book stack grew to weigh
Read and write and play
Seed the tree and wait
Piece by piece I pray
Save it from decay
Aye

That one day I got a job
Act and say my God I flawed
Low class I flip burgers
My own life I ******
I better than that I say
I let her find another way
I went single on my own
I feel good but am I grown
Then the day I got a car
10 days later I'm a star
I feel rich I feel great
I pull fries and work and hate
Miserable, mad, I want out bad
I'm capable, but doubt, it's sad
I leave my shift so glad
I drive my ride proud but sad
I see my **** I have
I try my best but don't add
I stay put in place
Stuck and never win this race
Let me out I cry but stay aye

It seems like my life decays
Wish dreams like life will fade
That I look back that one day
At my book stack grew to weigh
Read and write and play
Seed the tree and wait
Piece by piece I pray
Save it from decay
Aye

Then the day I quit the day I change
Left that place and got a higher wage
Work with cars and work with class
Bust my *** and now I got it made
Did it for a class got a grade
I want it better I prayed
So God replied here is your way
I won't die I will strive I will climb
I will make it to the end just fine
Piece by piece
The odds will break
Life will decay
Decay will make
Something new
Build off it and I grew
Matter cannot be created nor destroyed
I will be amazing on Earth and then the void

It seems like my life decays
Wish dreams like life will fade
That I look back that one day
At my book stack grew to weigh
Read and write and play
Seed the tree and wait
Piece by piece I pray
Save it from decay
Aye

What are you doing here
Why are you in my head
You left long ago
Our connection should be dead
I was over it
All gone
I was better
Letter by letter
Recollecting my thoughts
Rebuilding my mind
What are you doing here
I eradicated your presence
Scrubbed my mind
Cleansed of you
A clearer view
Why are you back again
Why are you in my head

All is not lost if you lose
your way and become broken,
a longing to tear open the sky.

Piece back the shards, one by one,
until you are whole again.

Start over, love finds the darkest corners,
so you can smile at the times
you have tried, but cried,