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Artist: Matthew and the Atlas
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Pyres
Read Pyres lyrics by Matthew and the Atlas on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Pyres
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Look at my mind, I'm feeling like a drunkard
Don't hit me like it used to do
I'm burnin' like a coal thrown down in the ocean
Running out of time when I look at you
I'm hanging by a thread, just tryna remember
All the things you said that you needed to do
I'm breaking like a wave strung out on the water
Holding onto anything that I can use to pull me through
I never really wanted you to know
It's not like I was just another darkened door
Holding onto something that I never had
I never really wanted you to know
It's not like I was just another darkened door
Holding onto something that I never had
I'm tired of the same emotion
Just humming like a dead line on the wire
I'm drifting on a wave of cold illusion
It's all that I can do on the funeral pyre
You could've been a wraith or maybe a brother
The city light burns as you walk on by
It's burning like a cigarette out of the ashes
Hanging on a breeze, I see them break
Towards the sky
I never really wanted you to know
It's not like I was just another darkened door
Holding onto something that I never had
I never really wanted you to know
It's not like I was just another darkened door
Holding onto something that I never had
I'm hanging by a thread, just tryna remember
All the things you said that you needed to do
I'm breaking like the wave strung out on the water
Holding onto anything that I can use to pull me through
I never really wanted you to know
It's not like I was just another darkened door
Holding onto something that I never had
I never really wanted you to know
It's not like I was just another darkened door
Holding onto something that I never had
I never really wanted you to know
It's not like I was just another darkened door
Holding onto something that I never had
I never really wanted you to know
It's not like I was just another darkened door
Holding onto something that I never had
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