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Deadbeat

from Hopeless Days by As We Break

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Artificial light makes me sick and the sun makes me sweat,
So I'll sit here in the dark without a taste of regret.
Take your dreams they mean nothing to me.
You have to the option of leaving me breathing—
I am unseen—
Or kill in my sleep just to see me bleeding.

This is your time to get out,
If I'm the rat in the gutter then what do you call yourself?
I've been looked down upon for far too long
19 needles in a hollowed out bible on the bottom shelf.

Beside that old 44,
The only relic of what I had,
When my life meant more.
My only keepsake,
I could hold onto
Just incase you'd try and run to him.

I tried to warn you I am nothing but trouble,
but you had me and you left all your family.
Then you dropped out, and put that needle in your arm.
I was aware of this, but now you're too far gone.

So I'll bite the bottle and refuse to be another tooth,
In the mouth of this machine.
So I'll bite the bullet with a shot at my own faith,
I once believed we'd all be saved but god.
I was a fucking fool.

Reminience about the old days,
Making your mother proud just by moving your lips.
A shaky presence, a hazy adolesence,
Covered in blackouts, and faces I have never seen.

Oh god I hear them again calling my name,
Like it's fresh on their skin.
The memories that I repress pull apart my faith and family..
If only you knew the life of torment I once lived.
You'd spare a fucking quarter,
I could bury the past,
I could forget what's done and who's dead.

For just a single moment,
I crack a smile and look to the sky.
I will die where I sit in the gutter,
I will die with a glint in my eye.

The streets are cold, I feel the nights getting colder.
Bruised shoulders,
Another excuse to walk the streets at night all alone.

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from Hopeless Days, released April 20, 2013

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