[00:04.69]There's a solution to every problem
[00:07.48]I want us together and I love you
[00:10.33]And I don't want you to leave because we're here together
[00:15.80]We're not gonna make it out alive without each other
[00:19.14]Please don't go
[00:21.09]Stay
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[00:26.80]I chased away a prophecy
[00:28.31]Cause there's a side of me that subscribes to thrive in apathy
[00:31.40]This blasphemy redeemed the seams inside of me
[00:33.79]Feeling better for the red letters
[00:35.30]And the sake of breaking from the fair weather to fulfill my capacity
[00:38.94]When my love for anything is a mirage of joy with petty jokes and laughing
[00:43.29]I wanted to be the next prophet
[00:44.74]But once I got sick I started chasing prophets
[00:47.13]Performing for an audience and plotting this artifice
[00:49.53]Of sacrifice and rolling dice to silence a mistress
[00:52.66]Kissing the lips of a nihilist
[00:54.50]Every secret I ever had is back on a discount rack
[00:57.35]For sale to a consumer that doesn't know any better
[00:59.83]Living in this fair weather
[01:01.83]Cause I can't love anything that doesn't look like me
[01:04.05]But doesn't love like you
[01:05.06]And I learned to love Jesus before I learned to love me
[01:07.17]And now I can see why I have this fast paced
[01:09.59]In-your-face approach grace, but no self esteem
[01:11.58]So I desperately sing
[01:13.49]One time for the sake of payment
[01:14.98]One time for the sake of rendering
[01:16.92]One time for the sake of self-proclamation
[01:18.59]But saying it's all for ministry
[01:20.43]Hindering the thinking of the petty weeks
[01:22.02]I spent writing and fighting the silence
[01:23.72]The past doesn't change because the future tells it to and
[01:27.37]I'm telling you I'm selling you the swelling youth in melting skin
[01:29.25]Within this dim-lit broken fist to finally balance salute
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[01:33.93]Cause I love you
[01:35.59]And I fed us all truth, made another excuse
[01:37.58]Cause it's easier to say I love you too than to point blank say I love you
[01:41.48]It's nothing but a broken melody and I'm sorry but I'm still listening
[01:45.82]Cause I was not smart enough to question this
[01:47.23]But I was foolish enough to try
[01:48.62]Once we get honest, it's so pretentious
[01:50.90]But watered down is so cowardice
[01:52.15]And I'm a little bit of both
[01:54.06]Just trying to push a boulder over a mountain just to watch it fall
[01:56.84]Praying to God it doesn't fall again
[01:58.50]Every thought that ate me alive was published for public consumption
[02:01.88]Is there anything more pathetic than packaging honesty as entertainment?
[02:06.02]Existing extremes feeding pain and big dreams
[02:08.60]Were the epitome of self hate or were the epitome of self praise
[02:11.89]And none of us know what love means
[02:13.54]So darling salt the wound so I won't forget
[02:16.02]That every moment I'm not with you is a moment I'm in regret
[02:18.86]And I love you now but I won't know you when I'm dead
[02:21.50]Cause the response to a generation that did too little
[02:23.99]Was to do too much now we're both sick
[02:25.78]Cause I saw when you were drowning I was wearing a grin
[02:28.42]So I'll leave you now before the thick of it
[02:30.52]Cause darling I can promise you this:
[02:32.51]I love you, but I'm also sick
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[02:36.74]And I hope you can see some day this will make sense
[02:38.79]Like back when I told you I was old
[02:40.98]I was told I would make some money
[02:42.13]We'll shove out another hit and call it 'Nicole'
[02:44.57]And every echo needs a voice and every echo has a choice
[02:49.77]But I didn't choose you