Persist - Ebonivory

Every step of the way

Can you forget what they say

That every moment is a debt left to pay

We need them to be wrong

We’ve suffered far too long

Your weary eyes

Tell me you long for life

One day you’ll find

What’s keeping you under

Darling

You’ve been asleep

For far too long

It breaks my heart

To watch you learn

This life has been the calm before the storm

And suffering is all that makes us whole

Every step of the way

Knowing I won’t be a part of your breakdown

I’v been reduced to a name on a screen in th life of someone that I once knew

So say goodbye

If you think I’m not long for life

One day I’ll find

What’s keeping me under

Darling

I’ve been awake

For far too long

It makes me sick

To watch this fucking world turn

This life has been the calm before the storm

And suffering is all that makes us whole again

It’s never ends

As punishment

For keeping it inside us

Holding it close;

it defines us

But what if we’re wrong?

The urgency and misery

Are faithfully what’s keeping me alive