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Did you forget who’s a stranger?
They warned about it in fables
To be free, to be one
Drawn by anybody’s sound
But cut it out

You’re swept away when they burst
You caused the flood, you get submerged
This is why you’re called too much
Why you have to turn around
you let them down

You let them down
If you don’t turn around
You’ll let them down

Put out the flames regain control
Evaporating the black hole
Don’t let yourself go say much more
Never go get so absorbed
Stay right there outside arm's length
Find the time and find the strength
Put it out of your mind
If it’s not too late to try

No lines with people like us
It’s not love and it’s not trust
But the sirens crowd your thoughts
The flashing lights always glow
You have to go

If walls were there, then they broke
Hands to yourself, or you’ll choke
You overwrote an overwrought
apology, it’s overblown
Damage control
Give up control

You should have stayed gone when you left
When you learned that you’re a mess
Everything afraid of you
And you keep hiding yourself too

Don’t try to be all someone needs
What could you give them? you haven’t found it yourself
You’ll wish you could take it back say, “you can count on me”
All to lose your sanity, to strip away your boundaries

You’ll find no closure no clarity
In losing yourself completely
You get close and it goes cold
Or you’re already bound to blur
Save your words

Did you trick into trust
There are more ways to love
Than scouting out places to dump
Until everyone has heard
Save your words
I’ll save my words

It still floats around your head
Takes too much to lay to rest
You’ll love the way they cross a line
It takes too much so let it die

You know you can’t be all someone needs
Hoping they’ll give you what you can’t find in yourself
And you’ll wish you could take it back but you have to leave it be
You’ll want peace, you’ll come up empty

Ruminating keeps them with you
someone will always forgive you
Remember that you’re not in the right
Your selfish empathy will always come to light

You don’t want to be all someone needs
Didn’t you say that you’d be enough for yourself?

You’ll always want to talk again
Fuck common sense and be a friend
You should move on

They’re fading in and out of view
Revolving in your hotel room
But it’s you, you’ve stayed too long

You will never give them what they needed
They will never give you what you needed

It takes so much out of you just to leave it alone
And these things always take on a mind of their own
After what you’ll let happen
Do what you can so it doesn’t again

Talk it out lay it down find a way to stabilize
And accept it’s okay when they need to leave your life
After what I did
I’ll do what I can so it doesn’t again

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from Self​-​Talk EP, released April 8, 2022

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