Drained

They'll make you or break you

They'll swallow you whole

They'll find you and bind you

To every word that they own

But you know that you need them

So you continue to feed them

So I hope that you're in this

For all the right reasons

Drained

They can't make you feel something you don't believe in

But they can threaten your future

And everything in it

When you fail to remember just where you've been

When you can't tell up from down

How do you write from within?

And all I know is that they're

They're trying to squeeze me dry

They told me

They own me

And all I know is that they're

They're trying to squeeze me dry

I look in the mirror and what do I see?

A man staring back at me who used to be me

He looks so familiar

He once had big dreams

But I can't see that he's been drained of his soul and integrity

Drained