One More Light

Sharp Edges

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Mama always told me don’t you run
Don’t you run with scissors, son
You’re gonna hurt someone
Mama told me look before you leap
Always think before you speak
And watch the friends you keep
Stay along the beaten path
Never listened when she said…

Sharp edges have consequences, I
Guess that I had to find out for myself
Sharp edges have consequences, now
Every scar is a story I can tell

Should’ve played it safer from the start
Loved you like a house of cards
I let it fall apart
But all the things I couldn’t understand
And never could’ve planned
They made me who I am

Put your nose in paperbacks
Instead of smoking cigarettes
These are years you’re never getting back
Stay along the beaten path
I never listened when she said…

Sharp edges have consequences, I
Guess that I had to find out for myself
Sharp edges have consequences, now
Every scar is a story I can tell

We all fall down, we live somehow
We learn what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger
We all fall down, we live somehow
We learn what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger

One More Light

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Should’ve stayed. Were there signs I ignored?
Can I help you not to hurt anymore?
We saw brilliance when the world was asleep
There are things that we can have but can’t keep

If they say…

Who cares if one more light goes out
In the sky of a million stars?
It flickers, flickers
Who cares when someone’s time runs out
If a moment is all we are?
Or quicker, quicker
Who cares if one more light goes out?
Well, I do

P.S. For twelve years now, your soothing voice was a consolation to my pain, and your screaming calmed my raging soul. You’ve left behind so many reasons to be missed, and you’re always in our memory. Rest in peace, and leave out all the rest.

Battle Symphony

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I got a long way to go and a long memory
I’ve been searching for an answer, always just out of reach
Blood on the floor, sirens repeat
I’ve been searching for the courage to face my enemies

When they turn down the lights
I hear my battle symphony
All the world in front of me
If my armor breaks
I’ll fuse it back together
Battle symphony
Please just don’t give up on me
And my eyes are wide awake

They say that I don’t belong, say that I should retreat
That I’m marching to the rhythm of a lonesome defeat
But the sound of your voice puts the pain in reverse
No surrender, no illusions, and for better or worse

When they turn down the lights
I hear my battle symphony
All the world in front of me
If my armor breaks
I’ll fuse it back together
Battle symphony
Please just don’t give up on me
And my eyes are wide awake

Show Me How to Live

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In with the early dawn
Moving right along
I couldn’t buy an eye full of sleep
And in the aching night
Under sattelittes
I was not recieved
Built with the stolen parts
A telephone in my heart
Someone get me a priest
To put my mind to bed
This ringing in my head
Is this a cure or is this a disease

Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life now
Show me how to live
Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life now
Show me how to live

In the afterbirth
On the quiet earth
Let this things remind you
You thought you made a man
You better think again
Before my role defines you

Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me a life
Now show me how to live
Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life now
Show me how to live

Good Goodbye

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Live from the rhythm, it’s
Something wild, venomous
Enemies trying to read me
You’re all looking highly illiterate
Blindly forgetting if I’m in the mix
You won’t find an equivalent
I’ve been here killing it
Longer than you’ve been alive, you idiot
And it makes you so mad
Somebody else could be stepping in front of you
And it makes you so mad that you’re not the only one
There’s more than one of you
And you can’t understand the fact
That it’s over and done, hope you had fun
You’ve got a lot to discuss on the bus
Headed back where you’re from

So say goodbye and hit the road
Pack it up and disappear
You better have some place to go
‘Cause you can’t come back around here
Good goodbye

Nobody Can Save Me

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I’m dancing with my demons, I’m hanging off the edge
Storm clouds gather beneath me, waves break above my head
Headfirst hallucination, I wanna fall wide awake now

You tell me it’s alright, tell me I’m forgiven, tonight
But nobody can save me now
I’m holding up a light, chasing out the darkness inside
‘Cause nobody can save me

Stared into this illusion, for answers yet to come
I chose a false solution, but nobody proved me wrong, no
Headfirst hallucination, I wanna fall wide awake
Watch the ground giving way now

You tell me it’s alright, tell me I’m forgiven, tonight
But nobody can save me now
I’m holding up a light, I’m chasing out the darkness inside
‘Cause nobody can save me

Been searching somewhere out there, for what’s been missing right here
I wanna fall wide awake now
I’ve been searching somewhere out there, for what’s been missing right here
I wanna fall wide awake now

So tell me it’s alright, tell me I’m forgiven, tonight
And only I can save me now
I’m holding up a light, I’m chasing out the darkness inside
And I don’t wanna let you down, but only I can save me

Been searching somewhere out there
For what’s been missing right here

Heavy

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I don’t like my mind right now
Stacking up problems that are so unnecessary
Wish that I could slow things down
I wanna let go but there’s comfort in the panic
And I drive myself crazy
Thinking everything’s about me
Yeah I drive myself crazy
‘Cause I can’t escape the gravity…

I’m holding on. Why is everything so heavy?
Holding on to much more than I can carry
I keep dragging around what’s bringing me down
If I just let go, I’d be set free
Holding on. Why is everything so heavy?