Counterparts - Stranger lyrics

rate me

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

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

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 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 bless them

As you stand above my bones

I wish I were a better man

I am a coward masked in courage and just admitting

It will not save me this time

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

Bless me with abandonment in my greatest time of need

Let me carry on knowing I can never truly face my reflection

It’s much easier to caress the broken glass

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

I will put 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 sound of my deception

Look away in disgust

Protect yourself from the sound of my deception