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Too close to

Too many ends

Too much heartbreak

I watched it rend

Too many memories

Of dead friends

To mend

A child throwing sand

At the unforgiving tide

These folk, a plague

Upon sound mind

Geography

And the warmth of a woman’s eyes

No longer offer

A place to hide

Too much caught throat

And not enough tears

More and more knife play

With less and less fear

But I won’t bleed for the wound

That chose to disappear

Cause my heart’s still beating

So I won’t stop believing

I’m loud cause I’m here

I revere

They swoon and they woop

To dance and die young

Cause they don’t have the guts

To write their own song

They swallow security

Like the warmth of a kissed gun

They cheer for champions

Then they say it can’t be done

To the wild unknown to heal

With a burning fervour and zeal

Tomorrow’s too long

To stick around here

Cause my heart’s still beating

So I won’t stop believing

I’m loud cause I’m here

I revere

Grabbed that thunder

From under the clouds

And I caressed that lightning

And I drank its kiss down

Because

Tomorrow’s woe is a grave

But I ain’t in it yet

So I won’t go, I won’t bend

I ain’t givin’ in

All I’ve gotta do

Is just keep sticking it out.