The Fullest Embrace - Shallow Alcove

Watching it crumble Might have eased the hurt Feeling it disappear Only made it worse Pulling it piece by piece Slicing up ribbons could dismiss To slowly disintegrate Could have been the perfect gift May you feel this, while you sleep Push the poisonous thorns in you May you feel this while you wake Bear your poisonous thorns Walk into traffic Running with open knives Searching for mercy here That I'm too weak to find To take my deepest breath I walk into the raging sea To drown down this emptiness It's all you have left for me May you feel this, while you sleep Push the poisonous thorns in you May you feel this while you wake Bear your poisonous thorns May you feel this while you wake Bear your poisonous thorns I hope you feel this I hope that you can feel this As it's fading, the darkness shifts (the darkness shifts) This may be the perfect gift May you feel this, while you sleep Push the poisonous thorns in you May you feel this while you wake Bear your poisonous thorns Oh May you feel this (may you feel this) May you feel this while you wake May you feel this (may you feel this) May you feel this while you wake

Oh, angel of my winter Grieveth for the pain of sadness A gothic embrace restores my love God took away Ye romance of forgotten times In eras without the sun An ocean of tears I see A nightfall of dreams caresses me Thou wert, thou art Thou shalt forever be Ye nightshade of thy sorrow Stretching out in twilight's beauty In love with ye thousands of nights But weeping in silence, in ebony For melancholy forever, forever Jesus Christ walks the earth A pitiful shade of God A cruel conspiracy For the sake of slavery And He drags us down To the plague of humanity Set us free I've killed my holiness Killed my emptiness I'm fallen from God Fallen from guilt I've abandoned the light The light that blinded so long Free from submission But still under His spell We're in pain, pain, pain Sorrow turns to anguish And I scream with hate at the tyrant above (Hosanna de Profundis) (Arcana Imperii) (Salva me, Libera me) Gothic moon ablazeth the eventide so sonorous Ye solemn of a lovelorn garden of crimson souls All true beauty is sad But lost within the clenched hands of God Lost within the clenched hands of God We're all like dying embers, we are fallen leaves As long as Thy power is seated on Heaven's throne The false righteousness in Thy glory's name Forever, forever shall I grieve I mourn that the night passes us by Let there be an eternal night, eternal night

You said "it's cold, but we need the seasons" Sing an old song, watch me drive by You said "stay gold" Well I'm gonna show you I can Sitting here alone going nowhere fast Looking through my phone Wondering why the good things feel sad Digging up old bones for what I had Oh oh Oh oh Old bones Old bones We come so close Having bad thoughts But I'm still believing By the first frost, I will know That you're a paradox And I'm just a whisper of way back when And I feel like a ghost in a party hat How am I to hold the days when they're fading so fast You get up just to go Now you can't come back Oh oh Oh oh Old bones Old bones We come so close It comes And goes We come so close Old bones Old bones We come so close It comes And goes We come so close

Pile of postcards across the front yard All of 'em worried you didn't need the same It's gettin cold We're gettin older If I sound hurried, I ain't running away I'm only chasing The paper on the pavement, playing country tunes Bracing, bracing for the pain I don't see coming soon Tell me about your day while I lay on top of you Or sit across from you I'm hard to watch I know I lost my touch Cut my hair and then it never grew Took a Greyhound, then I was southbound Georgia on my mind right next to you Round New Jersey I was getting wordy I'll send a bird to sing "I love you, too" Wait a week some You know I'll see you, hon But I better get there before these papers do It's always raining Like the song we love that's double both our ages Changing like the seasons and their reasons not for staying long Like the wind, and the tide Baby you and I can meet in Macon Get to shakin Our records playin

I'm alone for the week so I'll go for a walk Past community libraries and people with gardens Planting roots and pulling up their weeds Feeling tied the past, water towers on hills Sneaking up to the top when we had time to kill We always wondered if Carole still loves Bill Carry all my old friends In a heart-shaped locket Keep em tied around my neck Even though they hold me back and I'm blowing kisses Driving down dead ends Keep your photo on the fridge Knowing I won't talk to you again Counting minutes and hours, till I'm fully obsessed Never have enough time for my scarcity complex Every moment feels gone before it leaves me Purple houses, no one's home Fancy parties, empty hosts Walking home in the pouring rain Cowboy boots made me miss my train Carry all my old friends In a heart-shaped locket Keep em tied around my neck Even though they hold me back, and I'm blowing kisses Like I'm not haunted Every moment that I miss Even ones I wish I could forget Carry all my old friends In a heart-shaped locket Keep em tied around my neck Even though they hold me back, and Tying up my loose ends Into perfect ribbons Growing older is a gift Letting go is just a part of it The hard part is that time, it passes The best part is that time, it passes The hard part is it never lasts But the best part is just that you had it The hard part is it never lasts But the best part is just that you had it

Told me you wanted to change your hair Never see you really wanna be anywhere Driving down the neighborhood streets Never taking your eyes off me You hold my hand Told me you wanted to change your hair And disappear I don't need you to call And tell me how I probably should've felt Though I knew you'd fall The end of your world shouldn't be my fault Lowercase, never bracing for the fall My heart, wore it on my sleeves or on my wall Beaten down but I'm not broken Try to speak and nearly choke I'm breathing in and out Lowercase, you can stay up late, but don't fall in love That'll never be enough I don't need you to call And tell me how I probably should've felt Though I knew you'd fall The end of your world shouldn't be my fault I hope you find what you're looking for

No, I'm not angry with your friends for making you leave that night It just could've been different I've been thinking of ways that I could clean up And be a better person How've you been? They say Brooklyn's looking good on you I'll believe it when I see it Dotted line, hear you when I drive sometimes Do you know that you Ruined every song we sang along to Nothing stays the same And I feel like I am just caught up in thinking If all I know is change Then why'd I think something would come of this feeling Early birthdays Young for my age, you were older than me Always wanted to be Acting tough, dress it up so you'd like what you see Wish someone would've stopped me At the time I was scared to drive, fake ID at the show Cause I didn't want you to know Over my head Stayed in your bed Could you check the time? Your voice starts to sound just like mine And nothing stayed the same And I feel like I am just caught up in thinking If all I know is change Then why'd I think something would come of this feeling Ghost on your doorstep I can't help but see it You can find me when it all comes crashing down See it all so clearly when I pass your house now You can leave but I won't wait around for you So I'll be here when everything comes crashing down on you You can find me when it all comes crashing down