Bent Words

Bent Words

October 07, 2022

I can see it in your eyes
How you’re keeping score
All that I don’t have
And yet you want more

I would like to explain
I don’t fit in being caged
But I guess it doesn’t matter
How it makes me want to run away

If this is what you want
THIS is as good as it gets
I don’t know how to pretend
I’m not full of misguided regret

Is there anything beyond
This quicksand of obligation?
Withering away in a state
Of pure abomination

I can see the dead in their eyes
I know I can’t make them see
With every blink of indifference
What do they want with me?

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From walking home and talking loads
To seeing shows in evening clothes with you
From nervous touch and getting drunk
To staying up and waking up with you

Now we're slipping near the edge
Holding something we don't need
All this delusion in our heads
Is gonna bring us to our knees

So come on, let it go
Just let it be
Why don't you be you
And I'll be me?
Everything that's broke
Leave it to the breeze
Why don't you be you
And I'll be me?
And I'll be me

From throwing clothes across the floor
To teeth and claws and slamming doors at you
If this is all we're living for
Why are we doing it, doing it, doing it anymore?

I used to recognize myself
It's funny how reflections change
When we're becoming something else
I think it's time to walk away

So come on, let it go
Just let it be
Why don't you be you
And I'll be me?
Everything that's broke
Leave it to the breeze
Why don't you be you
And I'll be me
And I'll be me

Tryna fit your hand inside of mine
When we know it just don't belong
There's no force on earth
Could make me feel right, no

Tryna push this problem up the hill
When it's just too heavy to hold
Think now is the time to let it slide

So come on, let it go
Just let it be
Why don't you be you
And I'll be me?
Everything that's broke
Leave it to the breeze
Let the ashes fall
Forget about me
Come on, let it go
Just let it be
Why don't you be you
And I'll be me?
And I'll be me

Written at 7:34 a.m.