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The chapter's done, the pages torn

The book has turned to dust

A lifetime of dreams and best intentions

Hunched shoulders and sheltering waves

Of copper and ivory and dusk

Shielded the empty sky pouring down

Take away everything I love about this pain

So it won't haunt me anymore

Cut me off (cut me off), cut it out (cut it out)

So it won't haunt me anymore

Every heart craves closure

Each more difficult than the last

Else they grasp onto shreds of hope, the asphyxiated dead

The heavens split open, the day's undone

The earth wrenches apart

Every syllable gushing from a crumbling mind

Take away everything I love about this pain

So it won't haunt me anymore

Cut me off (cut me off), cut it out (cut it out)

So it won't haunt me anymore

And despite all the words of every tongue

In peace or in pandemonium

None could say

None could say

How it feels to be alive but so alone, yeah

Can you escape your destiny?

Do you control your own fate?

Temptation's suffocating

Do you know what you've become?

Take away everything I love about this pain

So it won't haunt me anymore

Cut me off (cut me off), cut it out (cut it out)

So it won't haunt me anymore, yeah

Anymore

So it won't haunt me anymore