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Your tongue, once silver

Now rusted over time

I've fallen from your line

Friend of mine

For years I fell in line behind the trail you blazed

Whip me up in your whirlwind and burn my life away

Gone are the days when I wish you had stayed

Bitter tastes stain my tongue when I speak your name

Should have read the trail of bodies in your wake

Bent at the waist from carrying your weight

Take the strongest souls, grind them away

Wrap round your fingers, squeeze 'til they break

All you seem to want from me is a clean slate

With no thought to why we're here in the first place

Followed you so far, I wandered astray

Blind to the pain you caused 'til it stood in my way

Your tongue, once silver

Now rusted over time

I've fallen from your line

Friend of mine

No life without danger, through every choice you make

No life without danger, you're always fucking safe

Violence in your silence, you coil up like a snake

I always seem to give in, and you just fucking take

I'm so fucking ashamed I didn't see

The venom in your veins 'til it stung me

Rather than feel the sun, you'd wallow in the shade

In absence of the light, body and mind decayed

And now you wonder why it doesn't feel the same

After so many years of pushing us away

A God in your own mind, a martyr in a cage

But outside of the walls you'd never live a day

The time you took from me could never be repaid

Old friends, new love, I'm sure it's you who feels betrayed

Your tongue, once silver

Now rusted over time

I've fallen from your line

Friend of mine