Warning: Going deeper and darker than I should.. But it’s almost Halloween, so in that spirit.. 😅 (also in my head this is a metal song, and you’re allowed to go deep and dark in this genre, no..?)
A lifetime worth of hurt
and no one to turn to
Just me and my cursed words
When have they ever saved me
And yet they are all that remains
Oh, I used them
Back when they were all I had
and I could still believe they held some power
Threw them in their faces
Ricocheting right back into mine
I wish they’d murdered me then
After all
Allowing me to survive was the ultimate form of torture
No one understands the madness
When they had the privilege to forget
And those who do know
Forever keeps their mouth wired shut
Stay quiet to your grave now
I will never be the victim of this story
If you think of me
Think of that raging beast of a maniac
You forced me to become
I hope you build a castle on the cemetery
I hope you build your empire
A new world
So I can burn it all to the ground
There is a form of freedom found in hate
I will never succumb to love again
My heart was never broken
I disposed of it
and buried it next to my father
And you will never be
a man like him
Will never understand
love like him
and never have to sacrifice
Your mind like him
Never had to jeopardize your sanity
Like we did.. Like I still do
And you never had to be so strong
That it broke you
And I can’t forgive you now
I can’t forgive you now
Because I was there to hold you
and I held you while they hanged you
and I carried you when they broke your feet
And in return
You stood there silent
and watched me bleed
Until I had bled dry
I forgot it all
Now I remember why
I can’t forgive you now
I won’t forgive you now
Stay quiet all the way to your grave now
If you think of me
Think of that raging lunatic, that crazy demon
With eyes pitch black from the hate
(oh there’s such a form of freedom in that rage!)
I refuse to be the victim of this story
and it’s far too late for me to be saved!
And you build that castle on the cemetery
You build your empire, your new world
Take over the whole damn universe
So there’s more for me to burn
I sheltered you from the pain once
But now it’s time you learn