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Well goddamn there are days

When it feels like time's sliding down a razor

Feels like a standoff with dismay

And there are times

When it feels like life's falling out of favor

Feels like I'm circumventing dread

Persist

Out of the darkest dream

Wake to find relief from suffering

Death's kiss

You know that final breath will come

So stay, remain the lesser dead

May that blade it break against our wrist

May that rope it shred against our neck

And we will milk this thing until nothing's left

Reject the message

And there are nights

When it seems like I'm slipping off the cliff's edge

Feels like a barter with my head

And there are months

When it seems like life's messing with the trigger

Feels like I'm running in the red

Persist

Out of the darkest dream

Wake to find relief from suffering

Death's kiss

You know that final breath will come

So stay, remain the lesser dead

May that blade it break against our wrist

May that rope it shred against our neck

And we will milk this thing until nothing's left

Reject the message

What's left to lose

When you no longer choose

What's left to gain

When you give into pain

Self strangulation

There's no joy without pain