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Harrowing senses of guilt and despair fill my mind with bitter persistence / Helpless in the wars I wage against myself, I'm a casualty of my own existence / Death always seemed so far away, now I'm closing the distance / Lacking an explanation for my degradation, I lash out in frustration / Ready to step, off the edge, I fill my thoughts with memories of you / I pour out my sentiment and leave it hanging on the wall / The crowd gathers round, witness to the fall / I dive right in, my eyes wide open / What's left of me, distorted and broken / Red eyes and lonely hearts soon cascade over this tenement of clay, casting their flowers, then walking away/ Carry away the inanimate form / Hope for the shadow, to be reborn / The memory that I leave, is greater than the misery that I keep / And I won't lose, another night of sleep,to the nightmares inside my mind / No, I won't lose another night of sleep, regretting the mess, I've left behind / Tomorrow is just yesterday in disguise, and this vein in my wrist is begging for a knife / All the years of pain erased, when I take this life