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- 0:06SPEAKER_00: Spent five years staring down a hole.
- 0:11SPEAKER_00: Kept thinking I could bring you back a hole.
- 0:17SPEAKER_00: Although sleepless borrow nights spend on my dime.
- 0:21SPEAKER_00: Soft talk, hard exits, every line, cut deeper each time.
- 0:25SPEAKER_00: One thin by a taker.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: I don't do takers and fakers, or cheap little promise makers, liars who build their whole house on the sea.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: Blame everybody else, then spit out the bile.
- 0:39SPEAKER_00: Looking polished on the surface, rotten underneath.
- 0:45SPEAKER_00: You probably think you got off clean.
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: But tell me how good is your sleep?
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: Truth has a way of finding you out.
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: When the room gets still and the memories get loud, I get up, turn my back and walk away.
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: Don't call my name.
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: I got nothing to say.
- 1:08SPEAKER_00: Turns out everything he said was true.
- 1:11SPEAKER_00: You keep trying to steer what other people do.
- 1:15SPEAKER_00: When we won't fall in line with you, you call it hurt.
- 1:20SPEAKER_00: You said you'd always tell the truth, but only when it worked for you.
- 1:25SPEAKER_00: And when I called you out, I watched you for that I can do better than that.
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: So I did.
- 1:37SPEAKER_00: I can do better than that.
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: So I did.
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: I can do better than that.
- 1:45SPEAKER_00: So I did.
- 1:46SPEAKER_00: I realized in time I'd lost who I was.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: Lived your life as well as mine.
- 1:53SPEAKER_00: Because I don't know why, but I know I can do better than that.
- 1:58SPEAKER_00: So I did, I deserve better than that.
- 2:03SPEAKER_00: And so I did.
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: I can do better than that.
- 2:09SPEAKER_00: And so I did.
- 2:24SPEAKER_00: You live between the cracks.
- 2:26SPEAKER_00: How do you live with that?
- 2:30SPEAKER_00: Again and again.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: How do you live with that?
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: You only realize how bad you fucked up when you look back.
- 2:42SPEAKER_00: You must be tired looking over your shoulder and seeing the cracks.
- 2:48SPEAKER_00: You made I get up, turn my back and walk away.
- 2:53SPEAKER_00: Don't call my name, I got nothing to say.
- 3:00SPEAKER_00: I can do better than that, and so I did.
- 3:12SPEAKER_00: I can do better than that, and so I did.
- 3:17SPEAKER_00: And now the pain is gone, and I can breathe again, living clean, and in a mute from users like you.
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: I don't do takers and fakers, the cheap little promise makers, liars who build their whole house on deceit.
- 3:36SPEAKER_00: Blame everybody else, then split out the by.
- 3:39SPEAKER_00: Looking polished on the surface, rotten underneath.
- 3:45SPEAKER_00: Think what you think, feel what you feel.
- 3:48SPEAKER_00: I couldn't care less.
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: I only give my time to people who are truly real.
- 3:58SPEAKER_00: I can do better than that.
- 4:01SPEAKER_00: And so I did.
- 4:04SPEAKER_00: I deserve better than that.
- 4:07SPEAKER_00: So I did.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: I can do better than that.
- 4:13SPEAKER_00: And so I did.