Drop C

So is it courage or strength

 and is that what I'm waiting for?

If I could just kill myself

 would it also kill the remorse?

I wanted so badly to catch a break

 but I'm only breaking down.

I'm still here and standing

 but if it's up to me

 I don't think I'll be hanging around

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 The drink slips down my throat

 and the burn cures nice and slow.

 All the worst parts I wouldn't want you to see

 The only parts left of me

Now, here I am

 Just a kid without a better plan.

 But it's the simple thoughts that haunt me the most.

 I never got to see the west coast

Spent my nights just asking why

 Would God let me become like this.

Was it a joke from the start?

 Was I suppose to laugh more at it?

And everyone's quoting their teachers and preachers

 but their words make me feel so alone.

No one ever says that they've had those thoughts

 in the middle of the night.

No one ever admits that they wanted to take their life.

Chrous

 But it's the life I dreamed I'd have

 The love I've found in my grasp

 The words I could share with someone.

 Those thoughts keep the breath in my lungs

 That tomorrow my hope will become

 to feel a love that can't be undone.

 And save a wretch like me.

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End on A