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Wish You Weren't Here feat. Phantom Farmer

from Cut the Kite String by kidDEAD

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lyrics

Hello friend
It's been a little while
Seem like a minute since I've seen you smile
I saved you a seat
And you don't have to listen
But the shit I gotta say I'd hate myself if I didn't
Your face looks different
Aged and worn
Your hands feel cold when they touch my arm
Are we in space
Or inside the space between us
See your eyes glaze and your light seems to leave us
The art of losing ourselves in a drink
hardest of part dying inside is that you still have to think about what you're doing
And How you did it wrong
All the people you've hurt
I promise life is long
And I'm goin nowhere
I just wanna live and not pretend I don't care
I know what it's like tryin to moderate
But when you're smoking hard dope
Stopping you can't contemplate
It's like it gets in your head and takes over your soul
But this is not a family
It's a broken home
We've cracked the foundation
And we're trapped in a Groundhog Day situation
Insanity, doing the same thing
Expecting a difference
We're full of pain and we've found a way to hurt someone else
Cause we can't stand ourselves
It's the hand that was dealt
but the choice is still ours
No one ever said doing the right thing wasn't hard
And no one can make us stop
My god
It took everything in me
To get where I am and I cherish every minute
When I was livin that life
Only three places to end up
Dead, in rehab or the criminal system
So now I'm here livin
Yeah
And I'm hopin one day that you can get it

For every wave that crashes down
There's a current that brings us back
We will float to the higher ground
Letting go of the things we lack
I wander searching through all these towns
Waiting for them to set me free
There's a feeling that's on repeat
Move away from our history

Used to play connect the dots on my arms in my veins
Suicide games
Holding on to each breath like a lifeboat
We walk the tightrope
From thirty floors up man
Can't see the light shown
Please take me away
make a change
Carry me home to a better day
A cold December
I can't feel my center
I don't even know if you're here or just remembered
Memories of your last Mother's Day
I was on drugs and couldn't make myself stay
I wanted to be there for you
And it's still hard to forgive myself for what I put you thru
I know you tried hard to put yourself in my shoes
Cause you'd been there
The hopelessness of when we use
And though it makes me sad I wasn't there at the end
I wouldn't change a single thing bout where I've been
All these mistakes have made me
I'm the man that you wanted me to be when I was crazy
Your the woman that raised me
Can't believe that your death is what it took to save me
So here I am now
It's still hard for me to know that I'm makin you proud
So I'm breakin it down
Put my heart on my sleeve and bleed it for the crowd
We do what this warm spirit tells us
Cause to claim anything different to me would be selfish
I don't buy what they sell us
A couple snakes in the grass in the form of zealots
I'm kidDEAD dude
I got a job to do
I don't throw my life to the wolves just to be cool
I do it cause I have to
I do it to stay true
I do it for the people
Yeah I do it for you

For every wave that crashes down
There's a current that brings us back
We will float to the higher ground
Letting go of the things we lack
I wander searching through all these towns
Waiting for them to let me free
There's a feeling that's on repeat
Move away from our history

credits

from Cut the Kite String, released April 30, 2017
Written by kidDEAD. Produced by kidDEAD and Phantom Farmer. Mixed by Phantom Farmer. Mastered by Chris Dilday. Guitar by Weslely Blaylock. Backup vocals on the end of song by Tyler Bisson and Chelsea Maida.

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