Stranger - Counterparts

Your ghost holds me close

As I’m ravaged by the solitary that surrounds my former home

Use me until you’ve spent the rest of my remains

And then try to validate your actions

Cursing every empty vein

That used to be inhabited by your impression

Paralyze me

To ensure I have no chance of knowing the feeling of affection

It’s no secret that I’ve shed the common decency

That appoints the world with the burden of devotion to our kin

I gave you everything I had and the world has left me exhausted

(So make me feel)

So make me feel something

Anything that might change my mind

As worthless as I am, I know that I still serve a purpose

To leech off the light and absolve my insignificance

Lay me to rest

Lay me to rest inside of a glass casket

So you can remember me with a smile on my face

Adorning me in my own failures

So you can count them as you stand above my bones

I wish I were a better man

I am a coward masked in courage

And just admitting this will not save me this time

So free me from my tired mind

And let me learn the difference

Between a single tear and the runoff of an ocean

Weak and weary from my predatory nature

So bless me with abandonment in my greatest time of need

Let me carry on knowing that I could never truly face my reflection

It’s much easier to caress the broken glass (broken glass)

Though if I accidentally catch a glimpse of myself in the shards

I will put my faith in the shrapnel to correct my vision

I am a stranger when I stare into the eyes of those I love

Look away in disgust

Protect yourself from the sight of my deception

I am a stranger when I stare into the eyes of those I love

Look away in disgust

Protect yourself from the sight of my deception