Taker
Taker (4/2/2006)
I try to strike a conversation, but all I get is silence
Running round in circles in a lame attempt to try this
Hoping I could pry this and close the gap that’s grown there
I’m tired of the nothings and the fact I think you don’t care
Cause I didn’t want to go there, but you leave me with no choice
If I’m going down in flames, you best believe they’ll hear my voice
Screams right through the noise of the world you’re so consumed in
Retreating to the void from the world you made me swoon in
But now’s the time to tune in, get up and turn that dial
This guy’s got things to say and he’s dictating it in style
If this marks me as a child, let my words become my rattle
The hiss before the strike of the warrior in battle
Cause I’m angry, never rattled, on the river with a paddle
With this careful navigation to avoid the same old saddle
On the path that we both travel, the one you turned you away from
Except when I was needed, when there weren’t complications
So you tried to rock my patience when you needed some attention
Or when hot with the frustration from a dad with no disgression
All the fucking locked confessions, I was someone to confide in
Or was I just a loser used to sneak away and hide in?
Was I one more guy to tie in, another person worth convincing
That you’re worth the rhyme and purpose of the pain that leaves me wincing
Til everything goes missing and the world falls down around me
Thinking that you tricked me, left me worse than when you found me
God, the voices are resounding, and they echo like a headache
Pounding on my skull, was it love or had you said hate?
I thought “give” and you said “take”, you took everything about me
And now I’m losing grasp of the ruins left around me
Cause I hate the silent sounding, I can’t take the violent pounding
Fucked thoughts inside my head that always tie me up and bound me
The way you fucking found me is the road on which I’m heading
Twitching like a fuck up cause this shit is so upsetting
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