I can't give up on myself

There's more to life than this

There's more to this disgusting path that keeps me far from home

This time I'll do things right

Now I'm holding the knife

That once sat comfortably under my skin

This world cannot take what is left of me

I struggle to live but hope soon will set me free

Falling along the way only to serve as lessons learned

It's hard to rid yourself from pain that has had the chance to become part of you

The poisonous strands of this disease attach themselves to every strand inside of your body and consume every living piece until you're barely alive

Memories of the past haunt you and infiltrate the wiring of your brain until all that is left is the ability to relive, regret, and repeat them constantly

You walk the earth searching for the antidote, an escape, like a wraith, awaiting faith, impatiently scratching at the doors of silence

Then it leaves you hanging from a thread and laughs as your attempts to breathe in life mimics a sucking chest wound

Ending in nothing but desolation, suffocation, aspiration on the dark matter that you can't escape from

Bury me under the weight of the dreams you couldn't reach

Take it out on me

Stay with me, there's more to this than we can see

Take it out on me

Like holding fire to skin

Blistering heat begins to show who I've become

Melting away my mistakes

Only to drown in all that still remains

I have been tested beyond what I could ever take

I thought I'd never make

Make it out alive

But I'm still standing

Until I find the peace that I've been longing for

This world cannot take what is left of me

I struggle to live but hope soon will set me free

Falling along the way only to serve as lessons learned

Bury me under the weight of the dreams you couldn't reach

Take it out on me

Stay with me, there's more to this than we can see

Take it out on me