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You feel like an oil spill on my skin

Toxic waste degrades me from within

Should I feel sorrow when they fall into your trap?

Adoring faces blinded by a dazzling act

Or are they too foolish to see what’s real

And do they deserve to look up to you and kneel?

I could cleanse myself if I left

But I’m bound to stand by and leave the rest

Because when you love you make a promise

And my heart still cries for you

There was a little girl I loved

And back then she loved me too

And I thought we would live with integrity

And I thought we would grow up pure

Then I walked a lonely path

I thought you were by my side

But the second I turned to look

You had gone to the other side

I don’t know when it happened

And I don’t know why you left

I don’t know if we can fix this

If we can’t I won’t last long

I miss you everyday

And I hold our memories safe

In a little box I cherish

That I open when I need faith

When I watch you pull their puppet strings

I cringe and swallow bile

It kills me to see you being this way

It has twisted and broken my smile

But no matter where life has taken us

Even if your face has changed

I made myself a promise

And I won’t abandon you

Regardless of this poison’s burn

Of the tar stuck in my lungs

I will swallow this bitter oil

And stand by and leave the rest