No matter where I go

You always come along

Always talking

Like a broken string in a song

You can’t stay away

Won’t ever take a rest

Can’t be satisfied until

Everythings a mess

Want to call the shots

Gonna watch the shadows dance

Gonna drain the river dry

If given half a chance

Gather all the spoils

To bury in a pit

It’s not about the living

When you’re in the thick of it

The air is getting thin

No lungs to draw it in

Wide awake at 3 am

Me and my dark friend

No matter where I go

You always bring a crowd

Piling up like broken glass

Each cut it makes you proud

Celebrate the red

As it lays against the grey

Bleeding into seconds

As the minutes turn to days

Your entourage is squawking

Won’t stop to take a breath

Like a flock of birds

Can’t hear one from the rest

Cacophony of noise

Reaches up into the sky

Blotting out the sun and stars

Replace them with a lie

Want to call the shots

Gonna watch the shadows dance

Gonna drain the river dry

If given half a chance

Gather all the spoils

To bury in a pit

It’s not about the living

When you’re in the thick of it

Time to wake up

Time to wake up

You’re not welcome

You’re not my friend

The misery that’s growing

The rotting air, the sunken cold

The past that’s poison in my veins

A prison worse than any cage

The misery that’s growing

The rotting air, the sunken cold

The past that’s poison in my veins

A prison worse than any cage

The passing days forever gone

The past that can’t be undone

This moment will decide the pace

Learn the Lesson

Learn the Lesson goddamnit