Once There Lived Lyrics

my life so new,

your eyes so red

you said to me then, i was more than a friend

and your life i now held in my hand



well time passed by

we've grown apart

and though i adored you, i couldn't afford to

let anyone into my heart

i preferred to be left in the dark,



as she shouted "I just can't take any more of this!"

i lifted my hand and i covered my face,

and i thought to myself "i agree"

i steadied my lip and i ordered her out

and her eyes told me what i had feared so long.

she cried cause she'd been promised

something i couldn't accomplish.

then my mind went back

to that night on the path



i know i've failed

more than once

you thought i was something

well something meant nothing

when you smiled with the gun in your mouth

yeah you smiled with the gun in your mouth



they all gave it, their best attempts

killed themselves just to figure out why

my heart set up walls that their words couldn't break

no matter how hard they might try

and i'm being seduced by the deepest abyss

now that i hate myself more than you do



my head's just above water

shed myself to keep from going under

cause i'm still back,

at that night on the path



my head's just above water

shed myself to keep from going under

cause i'm still back,

at that night on the path