Hollow Light, Hollow Lover

I would rather live in pain than live in vain and in this way I

Don't know if anything will change

But at least I know who I am in this game that we play

Even though sometimes I don't know

If it's even worth trying to get things to stay

But I've spent so long trying to let go

That I just want a change of pace

Because I used to chase after home

But now I'm afraid of that place

Because every time I stay

I become static and I become afraid

Because sometimes I feel like I'm standing alone

But sometimes I feel like only the low road will lead me home

But I will do whatever it takes to stay away from being another drone

Because the further away I chase my demons away

I feel like it's the chase that brings them so close

And today is today and that's all that will be remembered when life comes back

And breathes into my bones in this cycles of living where I feel like all I love is all I lack

And all I have is not my own, so I just continue to let go

And this mirror reminds of the worth

I kept hidden in alleyways on cold days and nights

Of trying to feel alive, trying to pretend that nothing happens

When no one turns on the light and I know that's not true

But I will believe it when I close my eyes

Because it's easier than trying to make things right

And I feel that the dark is inside of me shaking

My knees trying to release this weight that needs to be set free

So release me, break my back and let me bleed

I don't want to lose myself but it would be okay if I lost part of me

Because we all just want to be set free

Set me free and watch me bleed (I don't want to lose myself, but it would be okay if I lost part of me) watch me bleed, I've been holding in this breathe for far too long and it isn't freedom until it is released (so please release me) so set me free and watch me bleed because I don't want to lose myself, so set me free and watch me bleed because I don't want to lose myself

I know what I want; we all fight for what we want

Even though it's not always what we need

And we're all in this together; we all share the some blood

It's just that some of us are afraid to bleed

So the dark leaps out from us and into our streets

We get so isolated from it becomes a part of all that we can see

And even when we fall asleep

We can feel these nightmares infecting our dreams

But when life comes into the darkness

The darkness can't understand what it seems

And I would like to think that the more I grow with you

It's the more the darkness can't understand me

I'd like to think that as I grow the darkness can't even see me