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Amputated

How much would it be for a brain transplant? 

How about a lobotomy? 

Anything to help get me out of my head

I believe you could be my saving grace

I just can't bring myself to pull you into my world.  

I feel myself sinking, struggling to stay afloat

Just reach out for me, I can’t ask for your hand

The thought of drowning you in my pain

Its too much for me to bare

I don’...

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Exuberance

Blunt after blunt

Beer after beer

My attempts to drown the pain do nothing as

The joy in my life slips from my grasp

Shot after shot

Numb to my emotions and logic

I’ll double down on my agony

Burn bridges half built and cut poorly tied ties

All in the name of self-improvement

Something that never comes and never will

Why would I let myself grow

When I could continu...

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Those Nights

It’s one of those nights again

Can it really be one of those nights

If I feel like this most nights

Those nights become every night becomes how I'm forced to live my life

Temporary solutions are my saving grace

Smothering my emotions to save face

Two beers in, smile wide, i’m feeling fine

A few hits in, you’d never know I’m dead inside

The pilot light is out and things are ...

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