All you need is a place to sleep off the shaking in your bones

When the nicotine stains leave you trembling

I left myself in the old pasture to be torn apart by wolves

But they left me on my own, not even the damned will have me

That's the risk I took to see if I could find the sunshine again

But all I found was a thousand miles and an open bay window

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I could have used the strength I wasted on gathering life

And tried to hold it shut in that small, ornamental box

It was the madness in love that drove me here to the shore

Where the ocean laughed at the folly of my resolve

If I hadn't vanished in the water that night, I'd still just be swimming

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Always and forever, infinite and never-ending, the lasting 

It always collects on top of itself, as if it were a wound that couldn't heal

Outside the boundaries that we thought we had to stay inside of

I realized that I have nowhere left to leave my remains

But if you'll keep me in that little box, I can stop treading water

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The last time I trusted the sea, I never saw land again

Someone said that no man is an island, but I had no choice

Whenever you think you can't wave your arms anymore, just remember me

And you'll find your way to the seawall where it's dry

I'll follow you to the shallows just to make sure you're alright

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Can anyone out there hear me, is there anything getting out?

Or am I alone in that old pasture, walking in worn circles?

The spotlight never stops following me on the stage

And I am blinded as the audience laughs and laughs

You are the absent, the never-was, the invisible, and the gone

I am the damned, the cursed, the forgotten, and the lost

And I could swear we were never more perfect than right now

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Keep your head up, my dear, and leave the porch lights on

I'll find my way home one day and the sun will rise again

To meet me at the threshold of rapture, near the collapse of the morning

When the birds have stopped singing, I will sing you a song

If the wind has stopped blowing, I'll carry you along

If the tide ever stops growing at night, I'll swim out to find the waves

I'll bring them back to you, everything you've been missing

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I may be a broken vessel, a shattered hull of a man

But I can hold onto your voice as if it were your hands

In my head, behind all the distance between our beds

I hope you smile, because the world will follow you always

And I'd be buried alive to keep you from believing different