there’s an awful sadness in my heart
it’s a sadness that speaks, only to me
it’s an evil sadness, it whispers to me
all the time
I can hear it, but I can’t make it go away
there’s an opaque hollowness
in my heart
it’s a hollowness
trapped inside my soul
it is slowly eating at me
make it go
so I can have
my life back
you said you could take the pain away
but you can’t
no one can
in this darkness I lie
in this darkness I hide
in this darkness I cry
in this darkness I confide
there’s an emptiness taking over my mind
it’s an emptiness draining me
it’s a blank emptiness shackling me
find the key
help me free me
from myself
you said you could take the pain away
but you can’t
no one can
in this darkness I lie
in this darkness I hide
in this darkness I cry
in this darkness I confide
oh to see the painted sky at sundown
with the same magnetic eyes
I used to
Oh to twirl carelessly
Under the sky
With the same capriciousness
I used to
is all I want
in this darkness I lie
in this darkness I hide
in this darkness I cry
in this darkness I confide
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