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I Won't Hold This Against You

by Light Years

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I've been hearing things That make me feel like fucking dying There's no more honesty Just stolen words everyone's heard but you're not fooling me I wish that you could see How hard these past few years have been I've given everything To be criticized Pushed aside I won't go quietly There's a fire in my chest It's burning me But I don't want to put it out Impossible to stomach this Only lies and emptiness Impossible to stomach you And everything you do Can you see my battle scars Covering my heart
2.
Parking Lots 02:53
I remember it well All those nights where we didn't care If we even lived to tell Our stories for another year Do you recall the parking lot we hung out in the town that we grew up Not being held responsible for all of the shit we used to do And now there's nothing left to hide behind And I've got nothing to show And now there's nothing left for you and I So I'm just letting it go Before my past comes crawling back through my front door I'll spend the rest of my days and nights Just hoping for something more Do you ever miss the parking lots we hung out in the town that we grew up Not being held responsible for all of the shit we used to do We lost everything We said Would stay the same Everything I loved has slipped away
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I've been hiding out The four white walls of my basement Keep me safe from sounds That remind me of the times That aren't coming back I better write this down Before it gets lost in my memory That's so clouded now With the thoughts of all the things I used to be I'm sure you've heard it all Admit that you were wrong I'm sure you've heard it all Well I tried to save your soul But I lost it on the road Somewhere between your home And the West Coast So nice to know you It's been nice to know you I've been finding out There isn't much to see once I'm underground There's nothing in this world that could bring me back We had the highest hopes Watched them all go up in smoke And float away like ghosts Of all the people I'll never know There's nothing in this world that could bring me back
4.
These days All start to feel the same Another year has passed me by And nothing much has changed But over and again I tried to cut the weight off of my legs But ended up further down instead The truth cuts straight to the bone And it hurts worse than I've ever known I see all my dreams Just out of my reach Passed right through my fingers And fell down to my feet But I don't have the strength to pick them up It's becoming clear I've all but given up Let me stay for a while So I can put myself together
5.
I keep having these dreams Every night I sleep Don't know what they mean Trapped in the house where I lived When I was just a kid And I cant escape No sign of the end Just my greatest regrets And oldest friends Who all left me behind I never made up my mind Or any sense But if the writing's on the wall I just didn't see I was stood up on my date With destiny I'm sick of throwing my life away Sick of all of the things that I can't change Sick of having to live this way Watching my dreams go down the drain I've got these holes in my heart They match the ones in my head But I don't mind Cause every now and again I like to pretend That I'm alright They say the hardest part of life is growing up And from all that I did I've had enough But the world won't stop spinning And I'm just here wishing it would stop
6.
Deadlines 02:30
Well the chip on my shoulder Isn't getting any smaller I keep running round in circles To get it to fall off but it's here to stay I fucking hate whats overrated And feeling so fucking jaded I keep running out of patience With everyone around me I wish I was still 18 And life was like a movie Cause then I'd never have to leave But now I'm getting close to 30 And life keeps playing dirty It makes it hard to breathe These days keep getting shorter I'm not getting any younger My best years are behind me Lost and gone forever Your life is so boring Yeah I can relate
7.
They say All good things must end So why should I bother Letting them begin Yeah I'm a pessimist Apathetic, and arrogant But that's who I've always been I hear your voice Ringing in my ears Even though I try to block you out It's been way too long Living in the dark Hiding from everything I've done There's a time and place for everything And I would give up anything To have another chance And I know they're making room in hell for us
8.
Hindsight 03:20
And to be honest I never quite knew what to say As I look back on this There's so much I'd like to change I run my hand across my father's grave And I realize we all end the same So why am I so afraid To take a chance and risk Before it all gets swept away And to be honest Happiness is hard to find But you always told me That you wanted me to try
9.
Us Vs Them 03:01
I hope this road Is headed towards my home I lost all direction long ago And where I am nobody knows Back and forth Start again It's always us vs all the rest The way its always been It never ends I always though I had a plan Turns out I just had nothing but a bad excuse To lose myself again Everybody seems to know my story But no one in this world knows where I'm going So I drive and try to hide from all the things I left behind I feel them catching up to me I know it's catching up The way You look at me Like I'm something hard to see The way you say my name It's been killing me I'm waiting on my only saving grace
10.
Float 02:50
Well I found you Out past the setting sun All around you The mess that you've become So cut your ties and learn to float And let the current take you home Keep your eyes closed Until you reach the shore Well I found you In the places we used to love All around you Pictures of when you were young So cut your ties and learn to float And let the current take you home Keep your eyes closed Until you reach the shore But it's impossible to know How far down we must go Before we reach the end Of everything we know
11.
I can't count the times That I swore this was the last time Easier to lie Than to swallow all of my pride The war inside my head is almost won But the damage has been done To the person I was running fom All along No signs of getting better No signs of slowing down If this is how it ends Then count me out Tell myself I'm fine And that someday I'll get over it Read between the lines I'm worse than I've ever been In the back of my mind The only place I still see you It gets harder each time That I try to forget you
12.
Show me what it's like To not second guess Everything you've done And Everything you haven't yet This is the end And I just can;'t keep searching To find out who I really am So go run to the coast Cause you think you know Something that I don't know But it's all the same to me Where the hell did I go wrong And it's all a game to me But the past is the past And I can't seem to let it be So listen up It's not your fault That everything you say Is taken with a grain of salt Here's your curtain call Try and soak it in Cause one day this will all be gone I won't hold this against you

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released June 18, 2013

Produced by Will Yip

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