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VERSE #1

Darkness

Took you away from us

Sometimes it took you away from yourself.

More times,

walked toward it willingly.

Often blind,

sometimes you'd see

PRE-CHORUS #1

See the respite it gave to you,

while behind, the pain

you'd leave us with,

to you it didn't exist.

Was it the world?

Was it circumstance or something damaged inside your mind?

An answer we'll never find

CHORUS

Tried to hard to hold you, help you, keep you safe.

Haven punctured, pentrating death.

Peace and comfort, shelter once inside that place.

Upturned, toxic poison, darkness crept.

BRIDGE

Fire

Light

Venom

Blight

Freed

Lost

Caustic

Cost

VERSE #2

Darkness

Left us a vacancy

You don't just vanish when you leave

The space you occupied

becomes

a pitch black vacuum left to grieve.

I couldn't take it, I can't take it still.

So I walked away.

PRE-CHORUS #2

And saw the repsite it gave

while behind the pain, I'd left you with,

I pretended it didn't exist.

Was it the world?

Was it circumstance or something fucked up in side my head?

I don't want to know.

CHORUS

Tried to hard to hold you, help you, keep you safe.

Haven punctured, pentrating death.

Peace and comfort, shelter once inside that place.

Upturned, toxic poison, darkness crept.