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You tell me to breathe
When I look back and see
You tell me to be happy
When I look back at misery
You tell me to breathe
But everywhere I see,
I’m suffocating in the air that surrounds
The life within you and I
I can’t believe that whatever we’ve been through
You’ve led me down to this
Lower than you
Like a rope of a building that you’ve forgotten
The struggle that you’ve helped me through
Didn’t seem to set your life askew
Yet when I look back and see
Was I the one who was living right?
And you were the one with something to prove?
It all drifts off into the night.
I remember when I first exclaimed of the hate that I’d feel
For saying what I said and doing what I did.
Yet none of it seemed to come my way when I’d fall to kneel.
You were the one who changed it all, my perception, my view,
It’s not what you did: it’s who you are.
You’ve changed and grown.
Yet you’ve broken and mutilated.
You’ve destroyed and built up.
You’ve hurt.
You’ve treasured.
For too long we go silent,
You’ve made this into what it’s not meant to be
You’ve made us into something new, something older,
Yet the mess that’s left behind now seems that it wasn’t worth it.
That we aren’t worth it
That we weren’t worth it
My worth to my change, my life to my change
It’s the sweet taste of victory
Right after you’ve won the battle.
It’s the loss and tears
Right after you’ve won the war.
It’s the pain that you feel inside
That leads us to find
What we thought in our minds
I can tell my questions are only answered by time
I can tell that I’ll never really understand till I find
What I’ve been wanting all this time, but on a road so far from me
I’ll find something there that’ll make me free.
You tell me to breathe
When I look back and see
You tell me to be happy
When I look back at misery