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my parents my cats my friends the chance to fall in love freshly baked cookies sunsets/sunrises books the chance to define my success laughter/smiles music dandelions blooming in spring raspberry chip cheesecake ice cream relaxing walks my future pitbull mama's homemade mac n cheese rainy days baking warm blankets on cold nights tv shows prove you deserve to live thrive in spite of former family
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May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM UTC
reasons to live
I think I want to live for the first time in my life I want to be alive I'm finally living instead of surviving
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May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM UTC
alive
So much I’ve gained, truly.. Both the blessings and the bruises I’ve received them amid the clamor Yet never let them wholly settle in. The cosmos has taught me to rise The cosmos has taught me to dare The cosmos forbids me, from ever doubting this self I bear.
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May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM UTC
Just life
The word is ending. Every person is too. I'm not ready yet, And nor are you.
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Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021 at 2:47 PM UTC
Thoughts On Ending
Reader, stay alive                                    stay alive stay a                                 live stay alive stay a                                  live stay alive stay                                     alive stay alive                                         stay alive                                         stay alive                                    stay alive stay a                                 live stay alive stay a                                   live stay alive stay                                       alive stay alive                                               stay alive                                                 stay ali                                                 ve sta                                                y al                                               ive                                              |-/
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May 25, 2021
May 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM UTC
Semicolon
Reader, stay alive                                    stay alive stay a                                 live stay alive stay a                                  live stay alive stay                                     alive stay alive                                         stay alive                                         stay alive                                    stay alive stay a                                 live stay alive stay a                                   live stay alive stay                                       alive stay alive                                               stay alive                                                 stay ali                                                 ve sta                                                y al                                               ive                                              |-/
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i feel as though i am walking through oblivion and i cannot decide what's worse the feeling of the earth beneath my feet my heart floating somewhere in space or the knowing that to feel myself whole again i'll have to shoot it down
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May 5, 2020
May 5, 2020 at 8:07 PM UTC
a walk
She sits and writes For hours Made of pills and scotch tape Her father halfway across the country The snow fell in Wisconsin first time in weeks On the night of her birth Three feet Of ice Always emotionally cold Broken and tired Made of sleeplessness and self-deprecation Full of snow and shaking nerves Anxious and sick of life Opening her eyes is a ten thousand mile run She needs sleep and hunger But the sleep she gets is tortured The sleep she gets is mournful The world she made is lonely Her head is loud and her mind is cluttered Filled with useless feelings She is too cowardly to talk to People She is too broken She is too annoying She is too clingy She is too selfish SHE IS A BAD PERSON She should be avoided like the illness she is A parasite The demon she chokes Is the demon she is The way she will speak Is through the eyes of her fears The way she will eat… are her thoughts Her brain is folding in And her bones are giving out Her breath is failing, oxygen running low Her medication is taking over Her body is going through and eating itself it is giving up on her and on everything else take this as a sign that these thoughts are real they are happening but they don't leave
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Mar 6, 2020
Mar 6, 2020 at 11:33 AM UTC
TV Static
The Moon is another reminder that you made it through the rough. You can't hate her, can you? Time is fake, man-made to control the seconds but it keeps us tracked to when to pray and when to party. The Moon is another symbol that we made it and it was not our last. Presences of relief, reinsurance that you will be okay for the sun to tell you to get up. To get up and survive again.
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Mar 2, 2020
Mar 2, 2020 at 12:43 AM UTC
Untitled
How do people stay alive? How do people get by each day? How to people get by under pressure? How do people get by without love? How do people get by all?
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Oct 24, 2019
Oct 24, 2019 at 8:56 AM UTC
Staying Alive
my succulent bent its entire lovely self towards the only window. what is the will to live besides minuscule maneuvers, sensing what can’t be touched, staying comfortable enough, not thinking about it?
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Apr 18, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 at 9:30 PM UTC
No Mind No Problem
And I'll try to delay what you make of my life But I don't want your way, I want mine I’m lying, I’m so very far from fine I don’t believe, in talking just to breathe I’m here to give you words as tools that can destroy my heart He thinks that faith might be dead Nothing kills a man faster than his own head *** nobody knows he’s alive I want to crack the door so I can just fall out I begin to understand why god died And I want everyone to know that I am half a soul divided Don’t be afraid. We’re going home. We had to steal him from his fate so he could see another day Am I alive and well or am I dreaming dead? Where all your blood is washed away and all you did will be undone We pick songs to sing remind us of things that nobody cares about and honestly we’re probably more suicidal than ever now If we wake up every morning and decide what we believe we can take apart our very heart and the light will set us free Please don’t be afraid of what your soul is really thinking It’s time you pick your battle, and I promise you this is mine. I know what you think in the morning when the sun shines on the ground But there’s hope out the window, so that’s where we’ll go, let’s go outside and all join hands but until then you’ll never understand Simply suggest my chest in this confused music it’s obviously best for them to turn their guns to a fist. I’m taking over my body back in control no more shorty I fought it a lot and it seems a lot like flesh is all I got not anymore You should take my life, you should take my soul You are surrounding all my surroundings Fight it. Take the pain ignite it tie a noose around your mind loose enough to breathe fine and tie it to a tree tell it “you belong to me this ain’t a noose this is a leash and I have news for you, you must obey me” It ain’t the speakers that bump hearts, it’s our hearts that make the beat. I’m pleading please oh please, on my knees repeatedly asking why it’s got to be like this, is this living free? Some see a pen I see a harpoon. I’ll stay awake, *** the dark’s not taking prisoners tonight I don’t hear those voices calling, I must’ve kicked them out Why won’t you let me go? Do I threaten all your plans I’m insignificant I’m afraid to tell you who I adore, won’t tell you who I’m singing towards I know it’s dire my time today Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence Sometimes quiet is violent I find it hard to hide it my pride is no longer inside it’s on my sleeve my skin will scream There’s no hiding for me I’m forced to deal with what I feel there is no distraction to mask what is real This time there’s no sound to hide behind I find over the course of our human existence one thing consists of consistence and it’s that we’re all battling fear oh dear I don’t know if we know why we’re here oh my too deep please stop thinking Peace will win and fear will lose There’s faith and there’s sleep we need to pick one please because faith is to be awake and to be awake is for us to think and for us to think is to be alive and I will try with every rhyme to come across like I am dying to let you know you need to try to think. I don’t wanna be heard, I wanna be listened to. I scream you scream we all scream *** we’re terrified of what’s around the corner. My brain has given up, white flags are hoisted The stomach in my brain throws up onto the page I don’t understand why everything I adore takes a different form when I squint my eyes have you ever done that when you squint your eyes and your eyelashes make it look a little bit right and then when just enough light comes from just the right side and you find you’re not who you’re supposed to be? This is not what you’re supposed to see, please, remember me I am supposed to be king of kingdom, swinging on a swing, something happened in my imagination the situations becoming dire, my treehouse is on fire, and for some reason I smell gas on my hands. This is not what I had planned. We’ll be on fire We have romantic fantasies about what dying truly is We all know somebody who knows somebody who’s doing great, I know some people who know people who are flying straight, but I’ll kindly enter into rooms of depression, while ceiling fans and idle hands will take my life again. But I would rather sing a song, for the eyes to sing along I’m holding onto what I know and what I know I must let go Redemption’s not that far and darkness is going down. Nobody thinks what I think, nobody dreams when they blink, think things on the brink of blasphemy I’m my own shrink think things are after me, my catastrophe. Are you searching for purpose? Then write something and it might be worthless, paint something yeah it might be wordless pointless curses nonsense verses you’ll see purpose start to surface, no one else is dealing with your demons meaning maybe defeating them could be the beginning of your meaning friend. They will play a game and say they know what you’re doing through and I tried to come up with an artistic way to say they don’t know you and neither do I I hear a second voice behind your tongue somehow They will not take you down they will not cast you out Dear friends here we are again pretending to understand how you think your world is ending sendin signals and red flags in waves it’s hard to tell the difference between blood and water these days I pray that one day you see The only difference between life and dying Is one is trying that’s all we’re gonna do so try to love me and I’ll try to save you Won’t you stay alive I’ll take you on a ride, I will make you believe you are lovely Your redemption won’t grow stale, we are now just setting sail, on the seas of what we fear, treason now is growing near to me, I’m coming clean, god hit me straight on. I know, where you stand, silent in the trees And that’s where I am Why won’t you speak, where I happen to Be? Silent in the trees standing cowardly I can feel your breath, I can feel my death. I want to know you, I want to see, I want to say, hello I don’t believe my ears and I’m scared of my own head. Clearly I am dying, dearly I am writing I’m lying cause I say I am fine I’m so sorry but I do believe that all my bridges I have burned and I’ve earned a policy of no return Today, day, I want to go away, way I put my sock on my feet, just so that my soul would fall through my toes, And I walk through my door, just so I don’t fall through the floor. So bold and fearless in the risks we take, laugh in the face of gravity as it’s laws we’d break, on trampolines so high, we reach for the sky, but I do not look up anymore and I don’t know why. I take my face off at the door because I don’t know who they will take me for I’m the son of all I’ve done When we’re done we’ll all have made something new under the sun “Where’s your home? Where are you going and why are you here?” I will tell you what I can, but your mind will take a stand, I sing of a greater love, let me know when you’ve had enough. When your father turns to stone will you take care of me? I will make you queen of everything you see, I’ll put you on the map, I’ll cure you of disease. Let’s say we up and left this town and turned our future upside down, we’ll make pretend that you and me, lived ever after happily. Since we know that dreams are dead, and life turns plans up on their head, I will plan to be a *** so I just might become someone. Taking my only, friend I know. He leaves a lot. His name is Hope. I’m never what I like, I’m double sided *** I’m twisted up, I’m twisted up, inside my mind When the sun is climbing window sills, and the silver lining rides the hills, I will be safe, for one whole day, until the sun makes the hills it’s grave. By the time the nights wears off, the dust is down, and shadows burn, I will rise and stand my ground, waiting for, the nights return. I do not know why I would go in front of you na shied my soul, *** you’re the only one who knows it I don’t know why I think I could lie, *** there’s a screen on my chest I’m standing in front of you I’m trying to be so cool, everything together trying to be so cool. I can’t see past my own nose I’m seeing everything in slow-mo look out below crashing down to the ground A train from the sky locomotive my motives are insane My flows not great okay, I conversation with people who know if I flow on a song I’ll get no radio play. While you’re doing fine, there’s some people and I, who have a really tough time getting through this life so excuse us while we sing to the sky. We’re broken people I can’t take them on my own, my own, pa, I’m not the one you know, you know Don’t wanna give you all my demons, you’ll have to watch me struggle, from several rooms away. But tonight, I need you to stay. I am up against the wall, the wall, pa, I hear them coming down, the hall. I want to drive away in the night, headlights call my name. I’ll never be, be what you see inside, you say I’m not alone but I am petrified. Is close the closest star? You just feel twice as far. I’m so afraid, of what you have to say, cause I am quiet now, and silence gives you space And the wrists of my mind had the bleeding lines that remind me of all the times I have committed What kids are doing they’re killing themselves, they feel they have no control of their prisoner cells, and if you’re one of them then you’re one of me Now the night is coming to an end The sun will rise and we will try again Stay alive, stay alive, for me. You will die, but now your life is free take pride in what is sure to die. I will fear the night again. I hope I’m not my only friend. There’s an infestation in my minds imagination This not rap this is not hip hop, just another attempt to make the voices stop This doesn’t mean I lost my dream it’s just right now I got a really crazy mind to clean. Can you save my heavydirtysoul, for me? If I didn’t know better I’d guess you’re all already dead You’ve got one time to figure it out, one time to twist and one time to shout, one time to think and I say we start now Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit I wish I found some better sounds no ones ever heard, I wish I had a better voice to sing some better words, I wish I found some chords in an order that is new, I wish I didn’t have to rhyme every time I sang Now I’m insecure, and I care what people think. Sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young, how come I’m never able to identify where it’s coming from? It would remind us of when nothing really mattered out of student loans and treehouse homes we all would take the ladder. We used to play pretend give eachother different names Used to dream of outer space but now they’re laughing at our face saying wake up you need to make money I wanna stay in the sun where I find, I know it’s hard sometimes I think about the end just way too much, but it’s fun to fantasize I won’t fall in love with falling I’d die for you that’s easy to say we have a list of people that we would take a bullet for them a bullet for you Metaphorically I’m the man but literally I don’t know what I’d do, that’s harder to do even harder to say when you know it’s not true and it’s harder to write when you know that tonight there were people back home that tried talking to you All these questions they’re for real like who would you live for who would you die for and would you ever **** I’ve been thinking too much, help me I’m fairly local, ive been around, ive seen the streets you’re walking down I’m evil to the core, what I shouldn’t do I will, they say I’m emotional, what I wanna save I’ll **** Is that who I truly am? I truly don’t have a chance. Tomorrow I keep a beat. And repeat yesterday’s dance I’m not evil to the core, what I shouldn’t do I will fight. I know I’m emotional, what I wanna save I will try. I know who I truly am. I truly do have a chance. Tomorrow I’ll switch the beat, to avoid yesterday’s dance It’s the few the proud and the emotional The world around us is burning but we’re so cold Our minds change on what we think is good, I wasn’t raised in the hood, but I know a thing or two about pain, and darkness, if wasn’t for the music I don’t know how I would’ve fought this. I’m in constant confrontation with what I want and what is poppin in the industry it seems to me that singles on the radio are currency my creativities only free when I’m playing shows. Who would you live and die for on that list but the problem is there’s another list that exists and none really wants to think about this forget sanity, forget salary, forget vanity my morality, if you get in between someone I love and me, you’re gonna feel the heat of my calvary He cranked out those dismal chords, and his four walls declared him insane. I found my way right time wrong place I know my souls freezing hells hot for good reason But I’m not good with directions and I hide behind my mouth, I’m a pro at imperfections and I’m best friends with my doubt. Now that minds out and now I hear clear and loud I’m thinking wow I probably should’ve stayed inside my house I don’t know if this song is a surrender or a revel. I don’t know if this one is about me or the devil. Help me out, my friends and I we got a lotta problems Wanted to be a better brother better son wanted to be a better advisory to the evil I have done I have none to show to the one I love Polarize is taking your disguises sepersting then splitting them up from wrong and right, is deciding when to die and deciding when to fight I don’t know where you are, you’ll have to come and find me We have all learned to **** our dreams I need to know that when I fail you’ll still be here. *** if you stick around I’ll sing you pretty sounds and well make money selling your hair I don’t care what’s in your hair I just wanna know what’s on your mind. I used to say I wanna die before I’m old but because if you I might think twice. What if my dream does not happen. Would I just change what I’ve told my friend. Don’t want to know who I would be. When I wake from a dreamers sleep Scared of my own image. Scared of my own immaturity Fear might be the death of me. Fear leads to anxiety. Don’t know what’s inside of me. Even when I doubt you, I’m no good without you. Temperature is dropping, I’m not sure if I can see this ever stopping. Shaking hands with the dark parts of my thought no, you ar wall that I’ve got no. I want the markings made on my skin, to mean something to me again. Hope you haven’t left without me, please Who I am today is worse than other times. You don’t know what I’ve done. Why I’m in denial that they tried the suicidal session. Please use discretion when you’re messing with the message man, these lyrics aren’t for everyone only few understand. Hope you’re dead *** how could you sleep at a time like this I’m the kinda guy who takes every moment he knows he confided in Music to use for others to use it Life is up here but you comment below And the comments below will become Common motivation to promote Your shows next episode So your brain know to keep going Even though hope Is far from this moment but you and I know it gets better when mornin finally reads it’s head, together we’re losers remember the future remember the mornin is when night is dead. My people singing Be the one to take my soul and make it undone Be the one to take me home and show me the sun Where we’re from, there’s no sun, our hometowns in the dark Where we’re from, we’re no one, our hometowns in the dark. We don’t know, how to put back the power in our soul We don’t know, where to find, what once was in our bones. I look outside and see a whole world better off without me in it trying to transform it. Listen I know, this ones a contradiction because of how happy it sounds. But the lyrics are so down. It’s ok though, because it represents Wait better yet it is, who I feel I am right now. I’m a goner, somebody catch my breath I wanna be known, by you. Though I’m weak, and beaten down. I’ll slip away, into this sound. The ghost of you is close to me. I’m inside out, you’re underneath. I’ve got two faces, blurry’s the one I’m not I need your help to take him out Don’t let me be gone. I can’t believe how much I hate. Pressures of a new place roll my way. Spirits in my room, friend or foe? Felt it in my youth feel it when I’m old I’ll be right there, but you’ll have to grab my throat and life me in the air. If you need anyone I’ll stop my plans, but you’ll have to tie me down and then break both my hands. You can learn to levitate with just a little help Cowards only come through when the hours late and everyone’s asleep mind you My heart is with you hiding but my minds not made No we are not just graffiti on a passing train I got back what I once bought back in that slot I won’t need to replace Sever all I thought I could depend on my weekends on the freezing ground that I’m sleeping on please keep me from please keep me down from the ledges At least they all know all they hear comes from a place. When everyone, you thought you know, deserts your fight, I’ll go with you You’re facing down, a dark hall, I’ll grab my light and go with you Surrounded and  up against a wall, I’ll shred em all. And go with you When choices end, you must defend, I’ll grab a bat, and go with you Stay with me, no you don’t need to run, stay with me, my blood. They’re callin for your head and they’re callin for your name, I’ll bomb down on em I’m comin through Just keep it outside If you find yourself, in a lions den, I’ll jump right in, and pull my pin. East is up, I’m fearless when I hear this on the low Easy is up, I’m careless when I wear my rebel clothes They will know that, Dema don’t control us They wanna make you forget Save your razor blades now, not yet I’m flying from a fire, from Nico and the Niners. What I say when I wanna be enough what a beautiful day for making a break for it, we’ll find a way to pay for it, maybe from all the money we made razor blade stores, rent a race horse, and force a sponsor, and start a concert a complete diversion, start a mob and you can be quite certain we’ll win but not everyone will get out. Can’t stop thinking about if and when I die for now I see that if and when are trike different cries for If is purely panic and when is solemn sorrow and one invade today while the other spies tomorrow If I keep moving they won’t know I’ll morph to someone else I’m just a ghost Defence mechanism mode What are we here for if not to run straight through all our tormentors Anybody listening? This beat is a chemical Lovin what I’m tasting Venom on my tongue Dependant at times Poisonous vibrations I’m running for my life Hide you in my coat pocket Felt I was invincible you wrapped around my head now different lives I lead my body lives on lead the last two lines may read incorrect until said I despise you sometimes I love to hate the fight and you in much life is like sippin on straight chlorine Grows while I decay Can you build my house with pieces I’m just a chemical My interior world needs to sanitize I’ve got to step through or I’ll dissipate I’ll record my step through for my basement tapes Nice to my kind will be on my side And you know you’re a terrible sight but you’ll Be just fine Your exterior world can step off instead It might take some friends and a warmer shirt but you don’t get thick skin without getting burnt No I don’t know which way I’m going But I can hear my way around I never look for conflict for the thrill For you I would get beat to smithereens And my problem? We glorify those even more when they My opinion our culture could treat a loss like it’s a win and right before we turn on them we give them the highest of praise and hang their banner from the ceiling communicating further ingravjng and earlier grace is an optional way. No. What’s my problem don’t get it twisted it’s with the people we praise who may have assisted I could go out with a band they would know my name they would host and post a celebration . My opinion will not be lenient We don’t get enough love well they get a fraction they say how could he go if he’s got everything I’ll mourn for a kid but won’t cry for a king. Neon gravestones try to call for my bones Promise me this. If I lose to myself you won’t mourn a day and you’ll move on to someone else But they won’t get them Don’t get me wrong the rise in awareness is beating a stigma that no longer scares us but for sake of discussion in spirit of fairness could we give this some room for a new point of view and could it be true that some could be tempted to use this mistake as a form of aggression a form of succession a form of a weapon thinking I’ll teach them well in refusing the lesson it won’t resonate in our minds I’m not disrespecting what was left behind just pleading that it does not get glorified maybe we swap out what’s it is that we hold so high. Find your grandparents or someone of age. Pay some respects for the other that they paved to life they were dedicated now that should be celebrated. I could take the high road but I know that I’m going low I’m a bandito This is the sound we make when in between two places where we used to bleed and where our blood needs to be In city I feel my spirit is contained like neon inside the glass they form my brain but I recently discovered it’s a heartless fire like nicknames they give themselves to uninspire begin with bullet now add fire to the proof but I’m still not sure if fears a rival or close relative to truth either way it helps to hear these words bounce off of you the softest school could be enough for me to make it through I created this world to feel some control destroy it if I want so I sing Sahlo Folina I can feel pressure start to posses my mind so I’ll take this beat I should delete to exercise No I move slow I wanna stop time I’ll sit here til I find the problem This clique means so much to this dude it could make him afraid of his music and be scared to death he could lose it You were one of those classic ones Traveling around this sun I wish she knew you You were here when I write this but the masters and mixes will take to long to finish to show you I’m sorry I did not visit did not know how to take it when your eyes did not know me like I know you Then the day that it happened I recorded this last bit I look forward to having a lunch with you again I’m tired of tending to this fire Embers barely showing proof of life in the shadows dancing on my plans They know that it’s almost over The burning is so low it’s concerning *** they know that when it goes out it’s a glorious gone It’s only time before they show me why no one ever comes back with details from beyond In time I will leave the city for now I will stay alive Last year I needed change of pace Couldn’t take the pace of change Moving hastily But this year Though I’m far from home In trench inches not alone These faces facing me They know what I mean.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 12:27 AM UTC
TØP Quotes That Kept Me Alive
And I'll try to delay what you make of my life But I don't want your way, I want mine I’m lying, I’m so very far from fine I don’t believe, in talking just to breathe I’m here to give you words as tools that can destroy my heart He thinks that faith might be dead Nothing kills a man faster than his own head *** nobody knows he’s alive I want to crack the door so I can just fall out I begin to understand why god died And I want everyone to know that I am half a soul divided Don’t be afraid. We’re going home. We had to steal him from his fate so he could see another day Am I alive and well or am I dreaming dead? Where all your blood is washed away and all you did will be undone We pick songs to sing remind us of things that nobody cares about and honestly we’re probably more suicidal than ever now If we wake up every morning and decide what we believe we can take apart our very heart and the light will set us free Please don’t be afraid of what your soul is really thinking It’s time you pick your battle, and I promise you this is mine. I know what you think in the morning when the sun shines on the ground But there’s hope out the window, so that’s where we’ll go, let’s go outside and all join hands but until then you’ll never understand Simply suggest my chest in this confused music it’s obviously best for them to turn their guns to a fist. I’m taking over my body back in control no more shorty I fought it a lot and it seems a lot like flesh is all I got not anymore You should take my life, you should take my soul You are surrounding all my surroundings Fight it. Take the pain ignite it tie a noose around your mind loose enough to breathe fine and tie it to a tree tell it “you belong to me this ain’t a noose this is a leash and I have news for you, you must obey me” It ain’t the speakers that bump hearts, it’s our hearts that make the beat. I’m pleading please oh please, on my knees repeatedly asking why it’s got to be like this, is this living free? Some see a pen I see a harpoon. I’ll stay awake, *** the dark’s not taking prisoners tonight I don’t hear those voices calling, I must’ve kicked them out Why won’t you let me go? Do I threaten all your plans I’m insignificant I’m afraid to tell you who I adore, won’t tell you who I’m singing towards I know it’s dire my time today Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence Sometimes quiet is violent I find it hard to hide it my pride is no longer inside it’s on my sleeve my skin will scream There’s no hiding for me I’m forced to deal with what I feel there is no distraction to mask what is real This time there’s no sound to hide behind I find over the course of our human existence one thing consists of consistence and it’s that we’re all battling fear oh dear I don’t know if we know why we’re here oh my too deep please stop thinking Peace will win and fear will lose There’s faith and there’s sleep we need to pick one please because faith is to be awake and to be awake is for us to think and for us to think is to be alive and I will try with every rhyme to come across like I am dying to let you know you need to try to think. I don’t wanna be heard, I wanna be listened to. I scream you scream we all scream *** we’re terrified of what’s around the corner. My brain has given up, white flags are hoisted The stomach in my brain throws up onto the page I don’t understand why everything I adore takes a different form when I squint my eyes have you ever done that when you squint your eyes and your eyelashes make it look a little bit right and then when just enough light comes from just the right side and you find you’re not who you’re supposed to be? This is not what you’re supposed to see, please, remember me I am supposed to be king of kingdom, swinging on a swing, something happened in my imagination the situations becoming dire, my treehouse is on fire, and for some reason I smell gas on my hands. This is not what I had planned. We’ll be on fire We have romantic fantasies about what dying truly is We all know somebody who knows somebody who’s doing great, I know some people who know people who are flying straight, but I’ll kindly enter into rooms of depression, while ceiling fans and idle hands will take my life again. But I would rather sing a song, for the eyes to sing along I’m holding onto what I know and what I know I must let go Redemption’s not that far and darkness is going down. Nobody thinks what I think, nobody dreams when they blink, think things on the brink of blasphemy I’m my own shrink think things are after me, my catastrophe. Are you searching for purpose? Then write something and it might be worthless, paint something yeah it might be wordless pointless curses nonsense verses you’ll see purpose start to surface, no one else is dealing with your demons meaning maybe defeating them could be the beginning of your meaning friend. They will play a game and say they know what you’re doing through and I tried to come up with an artistic way to say they don’t know you and neither do I I hear a second voice behind your tongue somehow They will not take you down they will not cast you out Dear friends here we are again pretending to understand how you think your world is ending sendin signals and red flags in waves it’s hard to tell the difference between blood and water these days I pray that one day you see The only difference between life and dying Is one is trying that’s all we’re gonna do so try to love me and I’ll try to save you Won’t you stay alive I’ll take you on a ride, I will make you believe you are lovely Your redemption won’t grow stale, we are now just setting sail, on the seas of what we fear, treason now is growing near to me, I’m coming clean, god hit me straight on. I know, where you stand, silent in the trees And that’s where I am Why won’t you speak, where I happen to Be? Silent in the trees standing cowardly I can feel your breath, I can feel my death. I want to know you, I want to see, I want to say, hello I don’t believe my ears and I’m scared of my own head. Clearly I am dying, dearly I am writing I’m lying cause I say I am fine I’m so sorry but I do believe that all my bridges I have burned and I’ve earned a policy of no return Today, day, I want to go away, way I put my sock on my feet, just so that my soul would fall through my toes, And I walk through my door, just so I don’t fall through the floor. So bold and fearless in the risks we take, laugh in the face of gravity as it’s laws we’d break, on trampolines so high, we reach for the sky, but I do not look up anymore and I don’t know why. I take my face off at the door because I don’t know who they will take me for I’m the son of all I’ve done When we’re done we’ll all have made something new under the sun “Where’s your home? Where are you going and why are you here?” I will tell you what I can, but your mind will take a stand, I sing of a greater love, let me know when you’ve had enough. When your father turns to stone will you take care of me? I will make you queen of everything you see, I’ll put you on the map, I’ll cure you of disease. Let’s say we up and left this town and turned our future upside down, we’ll make pretend that you and me, lived ever after happily. Since we know that dreams are dead, and life turns plans up on their head, I will plan to be a *** so I just might become someone. Taking my only, friend I know. He leaves a lot. His name is Hope. I’m never what I like, I’m double sided *** I’m twisted up, I’m twisted up, inside my mind When the sun is climbing window sills, and the silver lining rides the hills, I will be safe, for one whole day, until the sun makes the hills it’s grave. By the time the nights wears off, the dust is down, and shadows burn, I will rise and stand my ground, waiting for, the nights return. I do not know why I would go in front of you na shied my soul, *** you’re the only one who knows it I don’t know why I think I could lie, *** there’s a screen on my chest I’m standing in front of you I’m trying to be so cool, everything together trying to be so cool. I can’t see past my own nose I’m seeing everything in slow-mo look out below crashing down to the ground A train from the sky locomotive my motives are insane My flows not great okay, I conversation with people who know if I flow on a song I’ll get no radio play. While you’re doing fine, there’s some people and I, who have a really tough time getting through this life so excuse us while we sing to the sky. We’re broken people I can’t take them on my own, my own, pa, I’m not the one you know, you know Don’t wanna give you all my demons, you’ll have to watch me struggle, from several rooms away. But tonight, I need you to stay. I am up against the wall, the wall, pa, I hear them coming down, the hall. I want to drive away in the night, headlights call my name. I’ll never be, be what you see inside, you say I’m not alone but I am petrified. Is close the closest star? You just feel twice as far. I’m so afraid, of what you have to say, cause I am quiet now, and silence gives you space And the wrists of my mind had the bleeding lines that remind me of all the times I have committed What kids are doing they’re killing themselves, they feel they have no control of their prisoner cells, and if you’re one of them then you’re one of me Now the night is coming to an end The sun will rise and we will try again Stay alive, stay alive, for me. You will die, but now your life is free take pride in what is sure to die. I will fear the night again. I hope I’m not my only friend. There’s an infestation in my minds imagination This not rap this is not hip hop, just another attempt to make the voices stop This doesn’t mean I lost my dream it’s just right now I got a really crazy mind to clean. Can you save my heavydirtysoul, for me? If I didn’t know better I’d guess you’re all already dead You’ve got one time to figure it out, one time to twist and one time to shout, one time to think and I say we start now Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit I wish I found some better sounds no ones ever heard, I wish I had a better voice to sing some better words, I wish I found some chords in an order that is new, I wish I didn’t have to rhyme every time I sang Now I’m insecure, and I care what people think. Sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young, how come I’m never able to identify where it’s coming from? It would remind us of when nothing really mattered out of student loans and treehouse homes we all would take the ladder. We used to play pretend give eachother different names Used to dream of outer space but now they’re laughing at our face saying wake up you need to make money I wanna stay in the sun where I find, I know it’s hard sometimes I think about the end just way too much, but it’s fun to fantasize I won’t fall in love with falling I’d die for you that’s easy to say we have a list of people that we would take a bullet for them a bullet for you Metaphorically I’m the man but literally I don’t know what I’d do, that’s harder to do even harder to say when you know it’s not true and it’s harder to write when you know that tonight there were people back home that tried talking to you All these questions they’re for real like who would you live for who would you die for and would you ever **** I’ve been thinking too much, help me I’m fairly local, ive been around, ive seen the streets you’re walking down I’m evil to the core, what I shouldn’t do I will, they say I’m emotional, what I wanna save I’ll **** Is that who I truly am? I truly don’t have a chance. Tomorrow I keep a beat. And repeat yesterday’s dance I’m not evil to the core, what I shouldn’t do I will fight. I know I’m emotional, what I wanna save I will try. I know who I truly am. I truly do have a chance. Tomorrow I’ll switch the beat, to avoid yesterday’s dance It’s the few the proud and the emotional The world around us is burning but we’re so cold Our minds change on what we think is good, I wasn’t raised in the hood, but I know a thing or two about pain, and darkness, if wasn’t for the music I don’t know how I would’ve fought this. I’m in constant confrontation with what I want and what is poppin in the industry it seems to me that singles on the radio are currency my creativities only free when I’m playing shows. Who would you live and die for on that list but the problem is there’s another list that exists and none really wants to think about this forget sanity, forget salary, forget vanity my morality, if you get in between someone I love and me, you’re gonna feel the heat of my calvary He cranked out those dismal chords, and his four walls declared him insane. I found my way right time wrong place I know my souls freezing hells hot for good reason But I’m not good with directions and I hide behind my mouth, I’m a pro at imperfections and I’m best friends with my doubt. Now that minds out and now I hear clear and loud I’m thinking wow I probably should’ve stayed inside my house I don’t know if this song is a surrender or a revel. I don’t know if this one is about me or the devil. Help me out, my friends and I we got a lotta problems Wanted to be a better brother better son wanted to be a better advisory to the evil I have done I have none to show to the one I love Polarize is taking your disguises sepersting then splitting them up from wrong and right, is deciding when to die and deciding when to fight I don’t know where you are, you’ll have to come and find me We have all learned to **** our dreams I need to know that when I fail you’ll still be here. *** if you stick around I’ll sing you pretty sounds and well make money selling your hair I don’t care what’s in your hair I just wanna know what’s on your mind. I used to say I wanna die before I’m old but because if you I might think twice. What if my dream does not happen. Would I just change what I’ve told my friend. Don’t want to know who I would be. When I wake from a dreamers sleep Scared of my own image. Scared of my own immaturity Fear might be the death of me. Fear leads to anxiety. Don’t know what’s inside of me. Even when I doubt you, I’m no good without you. Temperature is dropping, I’m not sure if I can see this ever stopping. Shaking hands with the dark parts of my thought no, you ar wall that I’ve got no. I want the markings made on my skin, to mean something to me again. Hope you haven’t left without me, please Who I am today is worse than other times. You don’t know what I’ve done. Why I’m in denial that they tried the suicidal session. Please use discretion when you’re messing with the message man, these lyrics aren’t for everyone only few understand. Hope you’re dead *** how could you sleep at a time like this I’m the kinda guy who takes every moment he knows he confided in Music to use for others to use it Life is up here but you comment below And the comments below will become Common motivation to promote Your shows next episode So your brain know to keep going Even though hope Is far from this moment but you and I know it gets better when mornin finally reads it’s head, together we’re losers remember the future remember the mornin is when night is dead. My people singing Be the one to take my soul and make it undone Be the one to take me home and show me the sun Where we’re from, there’s no sun, our hometowns in the dark Where we’re from, we’re no one, our hometowns in the dark. We don’t know, how to put back the power in our soul We don’t know, where to find, what once was in our bones. I look outside and see a whole world better off without me in it trying to transform it. Listen I know, this ones a contradiction because of how happy it sounds. But the lyrics are so down. It’s ok though, because it represents Wait better yet it is, who I feel I am right now. I’m a goner, somebody catch my breath I wanna be known, by you. Though I’m weak, and beaten down. I’ll slip away, into this sound. The ghost of you is close to me. I’m inside out, you’re underneath. I’ve got two faces, blurry’s the one I’m not I need your help to take him out Don’t let me be gone. I can’t believe how much I hate. Pressures of a new place roll my way. Spirits in my room, friend or foe? Felt it in my youth feel it when I’m old I’ll be right there, but you’ll have to grab my throat and life me in the air. If you need anyone I’ll stop my plans, but you’ll have to tie me down and then break both my hands. You can learn to levitate with just a little help Cowards only come through when the hours late and everyone’s asleep mind you My heart is with you hiding but my minds not made No we are not just graffiti on a passing train I got back what I once bought back in that slot I won’t need to replace Sever all I thought I could depend on my weekends on the freezing ground that I’m sleeping on please keep me from please keep me down from the ledges At least they all know all they hear comes from a place. When everyone, you thought you know, deserts your fight, I’ll go with you You’re facing down, a dark hall, I’ll grab my light and go with you Surrounded and  up against a wall, I’ll shred em all. And go with you When choices end, you must defend, I’ll grab a bat, and go with you Stay with me, no you don’t need to run, stay with me, my blood. They’re callin for your head and they’re callin for your name, I’ll bomb down on em I’m comin through Just keep it outside If you find yourself, in a lions den, I’ll jump right in, and pull my pin. East is up, I’m fearless when I hear this on the low Easy is up, I’m careless when I wear my rebel clothes They will know that, Dema don’t control us They wanna make you forget Save your razor blades now, not yet I’m flying from a fire, from Nico and the Niners. What I say when I wanna be enough what a beautiful day for making a break for it, we’ll find a way to pay for it, maybe from all the money we made razor blade stores, rent a race horse, and force a sponsor, and start a concert a complete diversion, start a mob and you can be quite certain we’ll win but not everyone will get out. Can’t stop thinking about if and when I die for now I see that if and when are trike different cries for If is purely panic and when is solemn sorrow and one invade today while the other spies tomorrow If I keep moving they won’t know I’ll morph to someone else I’m just a ghost Defence mechanism mode What are we here for if not to run straight through all our tormentors Anybody listening? This beat is a chemical Lovin what I’m tasting Venom on my tongue Dependant at times Poisonous vibrations I’m running for my life Hide you in my coat pocket Felt I was invincible you wrapped around my head now different lives I lead my body lives on lead the last two lines may read incorrect until said I despise you sometimes I love to hate the fight and you in much life is like sippin on straight chlorine Grows while I decay Can you build my house with pieces I’m just a chemical My interior world needs to sanitize I’ve got to step through or I’ll dissipate I’ll record my step through for my basement tapes Nice to my kind will be on my side And you know you’re a terrible sight but you’ll Be just fine Your exterior world can step off instead It might take some friends and a warmer shirt but you don’t get thick skin without getting burnt No I don’t know which way I’m going But I can hear my way around I never look for conflict for the thrill For you I would get beat to smithereens And my problem? We glorify those even more when they My opinion our culture could treat a loss like it’s a win and right before we turn on them we give them the highest of praise and hang their banner from the ceiling communicating further ingravjng and earlier grace is an optional way. No. What’s my problem don’t get it twisted it’s with the people we praise who may have assisted I could go out with a band they would know my name they would host and post a celebration . My opinion will not be lenient We don’t get enough love well they get a fraction they say how could he go if he’s got everything I’ll mourn for a kid but won’t cry for a king. Neon gravestones try to call for my bones Promise me this. If I lose to myself you won’t mourn a day and you’ll move on to someone else But they won’t get them Don’t get me wrong the rise in awareness is beating a stigma that no longer scares us but for sake of discussion in spirit of fairness could we give this some room for a new point of view and could it be true that some could be tempted to use this mistake as a form of aggression a form of succession a form of a weapon thinking I’ll teach them well in refusing the lesson it won’t resonate in our minds I’m not disrespecting what was left behind just pleading that it does not get glorified maybe we swap out what’s it is that we hold so high. Find your grandparents or someone of age. Pay some respects for the other that they paved to life they were dedicated now that should be celebrated. I could take the high road but I know that I’m going low I’m a bandito This is the sound we make when in between two places where we used to bleed and where our blood needs to be In city I feel my spirit is contained like neon inside the glass they form my brain but I recently discovered it’s a heartless fire like nicknames they give themselves to uninspire begin with bullet now add fire to the proof but I’m still not sure if fears a rival or close relative to truth either way it helps to hear these words bounce off of you the softest school could be enough for me to make it through I created this world to feel some control destroy it if I want so I sing Sahlo Folina I can feel pressure start to posses my mind so I’ll take this beat I should delete to exercise No I move slow I wanna stop time I’ll sit here til I find the problem This clique means so much to this dude it could make him afraid of his music and be scared to death he could lose it You were one of those classic ones Traveling around this sun I wish she knew you You were here when I write this but the masters and mixes will take to long to finish to show you I’m sorry I did not visit did not know how to take it when your eyes did not know me like I know you Then the day that it happened I recorded this last bit I look forward to having a lunch with you again I’m tired of tending to this fire Embers barely showing proof of life in the shadows dancing on my plans They know that it’s almost over The burning is so low it’s concerning *** they know that when it goes out it’s a glorious gone It’s only time before they show me why no one ever comes back with details from beyond In time I will leave the city for now I will stay alive Last year I needed change of pace Couldn’t take the pace of change Moving hastily But this year Though I’m far from home In trench inches not alone These faces facing me They know what I mean.
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I want this be heard It’s so much more than just a word Or punctuation, It’s a clarification. For people who lost hope, Were searching for rope. People whose best friends Were blades that could have been the end. Searching for purpose starts With a beating heart, And for every heartbeat through the pain, That’s a heartbeat that you gain. Stay alive, it’s worth it, I promise. Stay alive for me. Stay alive for yourself. Just stay alive. ;
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 12:51 PM UTC
Semicolon
you have to find the stupid reasons not to **** yourself. for example: i can’t **** myself because i’m in marching band and we just got our drill. it would be selfish if i left a hole in our formations. i can’t **** myself because my dad bought me a new package of that bread i like. it would be a waste to not eat it. i can’t **** myself because my french teacher moved a girl next to me. it would be rude if i were to leave her without a seating partner again. i can’t **** myself because my friends and i are in a gift exchange. it would be annoying if the person i got didn’t get a gift. i can’t **** myself because my room is messy. it would be hard on my family if i left a mess. i can’t **** myself because i have a group project coming up. it would be unfair if i left my partners to do all the work. i can’t **** myself because it would inconvenience others. i can’t **** my self because leaving a hole would hurt their productivity. i can’t **** myself because me dying would mean that i never got to see the end of my favorite books, i never got to see my favorite tv shows, i never got to finish my favorite poems. i can’t **** myself because i’m in marching band. if i do, i’ll leave a hole.
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Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 4:13 PM UTC
marching band
A white sheet of paper; But not for long Four old red stripes Enter quickly; followed By seven blue ones above And below the horizon -in no order yet Pastel green and greyblue Paint summer sky; Emerald And cobalt present themselves As ocean; last daylight Shines in sangria and ruby; reflecting In the blue spreading cosmos Turning the page ocean gets Darkest night and the sun Sails away on a red boat with A shining black sail, just like life
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May 6, 2018
May 6, 2018 at 11:24 AM UTC
Sunset
She was sad, She needed someone who cared. She went into her room Just like every night And held onto him She cried her heart out Though she never spoke He could understand everything He knew her better than anyone else People would think she's crazy But she knew better She knew he knew He'd been watching her from a child Yet he never judged her Teddy was always there for her.
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Apr 13, 2018
Apr 13, 2018 at 5:14 AM UTC
He never judged her
She looked so happy that you can't tell Under that smile was a hurricane; She wore a mask that looked real to the eye; But underneath it was the scars she hides; Every pain she felt was hidden in her smile, The more pain she felt the more she smiled ; She laughed so loudly , That no one knew she was lonely; She showed herself as whole, Skillfully hiding the hole; She never cried she never tried, All she did was hide it and smile; Her hurt was stronger than her smile , Her emptiness was deeper than her laugh, She never moaned she never swore, Cause she was strong and had hope So all she did was smile.
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Apr 13, 2018
Apr 13, 2018 at 5:09 AM UTC
Hidden behind the smile
If you don't talk you write if you don't write you think and if you think too much you die. Please find a way to write or talk.
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Jan 4, 2018
Jan 4, 2018 at 10:20 PM UTC
decisions
I knew someone one day and the next they were gone no one knew where they went they vanished like snow snow melts on a warm day and melts into the earth my someone's personality did just so so now I sit here wondering where you went knowing that one day it'll snow again hopefully, you'll come back when the snow falls again because if snows around then you're around and there are no more fears you make my day much better distract me from my life but just now I realized that my someone is me that someone is my happy side so now that I know that I can be alive no more depression for me my suicide will subside I'll be happy once more able to see with new eyes the world in which I live in will finally come alive.
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Dec 8, 2017
Dec 8, 2017 at 4:51 PM UTC
Someone I used to know
I scream into the cosmos I wonder how a sky full of jewels could exist in a world so bent on Taking the sparkle out of my eyes I cry out for reason I find the subtle silence is all around me It catches my attention I stare into the cosmos The stars tell me to live
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Nov 29, 2017
Nov 29, 2017 at 2:02 PM UTC
I Scream Into The Cosmos
Thank you Twenty One Pilots for all you've done for the broken people. You've cured some of the ones who have tried their suicidal session. You've shown us that you know what it feels like to suffer. You've told us that the hardest nights will get brighter when the sun comes up, and we can try again. You've been a friend when we've needed one the most. You've described the destructive thoughts as metaphors that we can find hope from. You've combined ukulele music with screamo and made it art. You've given us lyrics to find the motivation to keep going. You've told us to stay alive, so that's what we do. Stay alive |-/
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Nov 23, 2016
Nov 23, 2016 at 2:08 PM UTC
TØP