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If I Close My Eyes, I Can Forget Suffocating

February 14, 2023
By mailebee SILVER, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
mailebee SILVER, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
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[verse]

When I stop breathing, I’ll let go of you

If I’m just subpar, then I'll have to make do

Survive the evening, paint my cold lips blue

Tie knots ‘round my heart, rip my throat in two


[chorus]

I stay awake, all night, all night

Feed the pain, but I can’t cry, can’t cry

Brave the rain, it’s all right, all right

Make mistakes, make mistakes

Remember your face, breathe easy, easy

Gather empty space, set me free, me free

Keep my place, don’t leave me, leave me

Don’t disagree, don’t disagree


[verse]

I can’t earn your love, but I can’t go without

I'm only fourteen and I’ve already drowned

If there’s no sky above, how do I live now?

You don’t hear my screams, but they echo around


[chorus]

I stay awake, all night, all night

Feed the pain, but I can’t cry, can’t cry

Brave the rain, it’s all right, all right

Make mistakes, make mistakes

Remember your face, breathe easy, easy

Gather empty space, set me free, me free

Keep my place, don’t leave me, leave me

Don’t disagree, don’t disagree



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on Mar. 10 2023 at 2:25 pm
mailebee SILVER, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
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@K4D0W kinda? it's very much a work in progress, but i might get somewhere with the melody eventually

K4D0W BRONZE said...
on Feb. 21 2023 at 1:13 pm
K4D0W BRONZE, Ontario, New York
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Favorite Quote:
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”<br /> -Mark Twain<br /> <br /> "It hurts to think you can love someone so hard, so deeply, only to have them suddenly pulled from you. It makes me wonder if love, in the end, is even worth it at all."<br /> -page 139, Gaslight by Rachael Rose

I feel this 🖤
do you have a tune for it?