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fade away
01:57
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I don’t know if it was right
I don’t know if it was wrong
To spend all of my time wishing I was gone
There's not much to say
I wish it was easier to wither away
Take the bastard son and all his pain
And let him decay in vain
His days fall into mine and mine into his
The cruel hand of fate
A twisted mould forced to create
Another lonely soul
Desperate to feel whole
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interlude
01:39
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I wish we could sleep
And that every time we closed our eyes
We weren’t haunted by what could of been
And what stands before us
Endings never came so easy
I never had it in me to say goodbye
Despite every chance we had
I’m exhausted of mourning a life that never even existed
Collapsing under the foundations they tricked us into building
This fortress is not our home
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an empty lighthouse
01:02
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Unworthy in the company of others
Far removed, divorced from flesh
Far from a home not yet discovered
Lost at sea without a light
A shoreline left uncovered
Held onto every every word
Like braille to the blind
Another life unworthy to find
Shape us into nothing
Shape us into the vast emptiness
And call it home
This is the house they built
Brick by brick
Brick by brick
They call it home
Shape us into the vast emptiness
And call it home
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Disarm, dismantle
Contorted by humiliation
Petty tactics to manipulate the weight
Told how to feel, told how to think
A tug of the hair, a divorce from truth
Acts of admiration
Driven by hate
Violence shaped language and thrived in the detriment of others
Our love displayed with pain and normalised
Again and again
All this time wasted wishing we were someone else
That’s what we were taught
Learnt to abandon our beauty for your comfort
A constant cycle of survival and collective mourning
Their disappointment will no longer serve as the noose around our neck
We are reclaiming our existence
Even if our looks serve as a trigger for their violence
We will die unapologetically us
We will die unapologetically us
I hope the celebration of our existence
Will come before our deaths someday
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