Born in the later September heat, the years started catching up to me. You never thought I’d make it through 2016. Sleepless nights and endless days, placing in my own death race. You know I’m craving failure’s taste. I drove past my old high school tonight and thought about all the times that we would risk our lives, didn’t care if we survived. Now the changing seasons pass me by, I can feel the bags under my eyes but they won’t drag me down, unless I’m six feet underground. I’m not afraid anymore of the demons lingering inside my closet door. Out of all that I’ve done, and all that I’ve seen, I finally know what’s important to me. So if I die tonight, bury me at sea. Engulf me in flames, let me burn eternally. Wearing my mistakes embedded on my sleeves. You’re gonna have to fucking behead me to fucking make me leave. I won’t give up easily, douse my house in kerosene. Reaper take my hand and lead me to your guillotine. As the mob cheers and screams, don’t cry and don’t fucking pray for me. When the light burns out that led me home, I’ll still have somewhere left to go. When the weight of the world’s too much to hold, I’ll grab the reaper by throat and make sure that son of a bitch will choke. If it wasn’t for you, I’d be asleep by now. If it wasn’t for you, I’d throw in the towel. I won’t kick the chair and hang right from my throat. Without a call for a help or a suicide note, coroners report would read “Death Unknown”. You’ll find an empty house cause nobody is home.
The verse "Can't even buy a coffee without exploiting someone" got me. It really hits hard. For the entire length of the album it felt like the end of the world.
But to be perfectly honest, it's just how life is these days. And it's fucked up. szczur
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