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One Step Away

from Lost Souls by The Returners

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This place seems so familiar
it's like I've been a thousand times before
holding my head in my hands,
consumed by nightmares,
so far beyond control
as the sand pours from the hour glass
hoping that these thoughts will pass
that tear me from the inside out,
so hollow, weak, and numb

The pain behind my weary eyes I must conceal
but I'm stretched so thin, worn down so low
and I've walked down these streets
so many times I know where they lead
straight to the blackness
within my heart, within my soul

Like fingers tearing at my veins
to drag me down beneath the surface
just one step away
stripping my flesh and bone away
an endless fall, through vacant silence
nothing else remains

This sisyphean cycle has ground
all my convictions into dust
leaving a fetid scent of disarray
beneath a lifeless husk
I feel so powerless to stop it now,
I'm losing grip, there's no way out
with nothing left to save me now,
I'm falling down, I'm falling down!

I shut the door
eclipse the glare of morning
light that blinds my eyes
as I fall to the floor
ignore the hunger crawling
underneath my skin
I'll take it all away
and everything else fades

I'll bear this burden on my own
no one can see, no one can know
I fought so hard but what's left to show
I've lost everything, I've lost everyone

I can't let you see me this way
I've fallen down beneath the surface
just one step away
you wouldn't recognize my face
all hollowed out, so weak and worthless
and nothing else remains

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from Lost Souls, released September 13, 2011

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