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Face to the Fire

from What Was After What Will Be by Dead Again

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I’m empty, I’m poured out, I’m
Laying myself bare
For these words, for the music, for this
Ambition, that’ll get me nowhere
Lay awake and grasp at straws
They hang low, close, but too far gone
When I finally get to sleep, I dream in
Breakthroughs that elude me
Say you care but you never meant it
All these words just to shut me up
If you didn’t want to hear me talk
Why’d you ask me to do it
Now I lay awake and hate myself
Wondering if there’s anything else
Left to do to get me there
You’ve left me high and dry and bare

Look up now into the empty rows
No one cares about your somnoprose
Strum your chords and forget what they said
You will never ever see the end
No more lights or looking forward to
The tunnel’s long and closing in on you
Tap the taps until your well runs dry
Lay awake in torment every night

I’ve put together the pieces of
A puzzle labeled “verse, chorus, verse”
Now I lack something I had
And that I missed in the first place
No one ever meant that much to me
I tell myself and still pretend to be
Let me go and feel the way I will
Just a touch and this hole will be filled

Look up now into the empty rows
No one cares about your somnoprose
Strum your chords and forget what they said
You will never ever see the end
Don’t you care about the pain you cause
Your lies are read and written on the walls
I stay awake and waiting out the night
I will never forget that you lied

Hold your face to the fire on a brand new day
Never burn out and don’t fade away
Hold your face to the fire on a brand new day
Never burn out and don’t fade away
Hold your face to the fire on a brand new day
Never burn out and don’t fade away
Hold your face to the fire on a brand new day
Never burn out and don’t fade away

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from What Was After What Will Be, released May 6, 2022

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