Xpression.v2

Hollow Anguish (9/18/2005)

With this hole in my chest, from this life I digress
Leaving behind my cold silhouette
I’m not that upset, but I feel so damn empty
Hollowed inside and your hope can not tempt me
Or keep me alive with a smile for your taking
A mask to assure you that the lie isn’t breaking
I’m so tired of faking and pretending for others
Holding them up while my own life is smothered
And drained of the color of my past aspirations
Fading to black taking your aggravations
I’m lacking the patience to deal any longer
I’m tired of fighting and not getting stronger
Too backed in the corner to bother with trying
The tears show I’m weak, a blank stare shows I’m dying
The fascade for the hiding is crumbling down
Exposing the pain that was then and is now

Cause all that I’ve found in all of these lessons
Is that I’m alone and so prone to the message
The words of the darkness and hopeless convictions
That I try to convey through these verbal depictions
Are all that I know and the knowledge is hollow
It’s as though every breathe gives me nothing to swallow
And the road that I follow has nothing to show for
But the tales of mistakes that give me nothing to hope for
So I’ll settle my own score and digress from the picture
I’ll fall so far away that I’ll just be a mixture
Of photos and stories and things so forgotten
The face of a soul that the anguish had rotten

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