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Lighthouse

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Lighthouse

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Intro: dice raw

If you can't swizzim then ya bound to drizzown

Passing out life jackets bout to go didown

Get down with the captain or go down with the ship

Before the dark abyss i'm gon' hit you wit' dis

Repeat

Hook: dice raw

And no one's in the lighthouse

You're face down in the ocean

And no one's in the lighthouse

And it seems like you just screamed

It's no one there to hear the sound

And it may feel like there's no one there

That cares if you drown

Face down in the ocean

Verse 1: dice raw

Smoking cheap weed sipping on cheap vodka

You pick your poison down davey jones' locker

It's rum we be wanting

By the tons my consumption

Take a look at my lungs and my liver

It's disgusting

Take a look at the man in the mirror

We start fussing

Only one person gets hurt when throwing the punches - me

And the man behind the glass just laughs

The waves come over my head and just crash

My hand start bleeding water starts receding

A feeling comes into my heart i start believing that

I actually might survive through the evening

Survive on my own thoughts of suicide that's competing

With thoughts of tryna stay alive which been weakened

By the feeling of putting on a smile while being beaten

The fear of drowning still diving in the deep end

The waters carried me so far you can't reach 'em

And it feels like there's no one

Hook: dice raw

No one's in the lighthouse

You're face down in the ocean

And no one's in the lighthouse

And it seems like you just screamed

It's no one there to hear the sound

And it may feel like there's no one there

That cares if you drown

Face down in the ocean

Verse 2: black thought

After the love is lost

Friendship dissolves

And even blood is lost

Where did it begin

The way we did each other wrong

Troubled water neither one of us could swim across

I stopped holding my breath

Now i am better off

There without a trace

And you in my head

All the halted motion of a rebel without a pause

What it do is done till you dead and gone

The grim reaper telling me to swim deeper

Where the people go to lo and behold the soul keeper

I'm not even breaking out in a sweat

Or cold fever but

I'm never paying up on my debt or tolls either

I'll leave the memories here i won't need them

If i stop thinking and lie, now that's freedom

Your body's part of the maritime museum

Face down in the past is where i'm being

Hook: dice raw

And no one's in the lighthouse

You're face down in the ocean

And no one's in the lighthouse

And it seems like you just screamed

It's no one there to hear the sound

And it may feel like there's no one there

That cares if you drown

Face down in the ocean

Outro: dice raw

If you can't swizzim then ya bound to drizzown

Passing out life jackets bout to go didown

Get down with the captain or go down with the ship

Before the dark abyss i'm gon' hit you wit' dis

Repeat

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