I've laid awake so many nights wondering why we've crossed this worn out line so many times.
I need a reason.
Give me a reason to put my faith in you.
If you need me you can find me wedged uncomfortably between your heavy heart and the walls of your bedroom.
I should hate you for everything but I don't have the heart to let you fall so far.
I'm too tired and impatient to spend more time waiting for you to find the answers you've been seeking the whole time.
I was never what you needed, just words on the back of a photograph I'm keeping.
A simple song, a picture on your wall.
You're breaking me, but I'm still here to break your fall.
I wouldn't have to write these songs about you if I had someone else to talk to, to get these thoughts out of my mind.
I'm doing fine, at least I'd like to think that way.
But every night I lie awake in bed just trying to forget your face.
I've become one with the walls of your bedroom.
I lost a piece of myself in the sheets you wrap yourself into.
I've told the same lies so many times, I've even got myself fooled.
I would give anything if I could just forget your name, but I still cling to every single fucking word you say.
I'm living in your shadow in the first place, so torch the fucking bridge and take me down with it
I can't run from my mistakes, but I've never had the strength to close the space between who I am and who I want to be.
It feels like spring never ended, but autumn's in the air.
I'm another year older with nothing to show for it.
Now I'm standing in the rain trying to hold back all the words I never got the chance to say.
Promise me you'll always be the same, and that things will never change.
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