CHORUS:

I said I had to leave, that’s a quick cut,
You said let it bleed, that’s a quick cut,
We were scared to dream, that’s a quick cut,
Living by a blink, that’s a quick cut

Verse:

I just want to take a moment a say that I appreciate,
Those that held me down,
Whether it was an trivial mention or helping me keep my feet on solid ground,
I never wanted to be king if I was I’d melt the crown,
Break it up and give it to the people that stuck around,
I made a decision that is neither new or profound,
But it means more to me when I say it out loud,
It was in the daybreak that I found,
Who this song could be about,
The name came to mind but won’t come out of my mouth,
I rarely tell the story,
But this person made an impact and I abandoned them shortly, and I won’t forget it,

One morning, I chose love over purgatory,
The secrets told no longer formed a burden for me,
Instead I grew accustomed to the story,
Having something stolen that can never replaced,
The feeling of being safe,
Trying to find your way and having to look your assailant in the face,
The silence makes every hurtful word louder until they drown in hate,
You blamed your period for the pain,
I wish you would have told me right away,
But I don’t know what that would change,
I understand why you never wanted to sleep,
And why you stayed up late studying at a feverishly until day,
How we talked in Benson until we could barely stay awake,
You knew I wouldn’t let anything else come near you,
And when your pops died we stood in the rain and watched your heart wither slowly,
It wasn’t in the way that you spoke coldly,
But the way that your eyes said go away, but your body language said hold me,
Have you ever seen a ballet performed on blades,
And understood that the base was a brace and your screams were foreplay,
But the Other’s pain is just a phase,
Yet the cuts will still remain,
And a pro knows to move shards along a vertical plane,
Even if one day your castle of paper falls

At the end of the day it’s not my pain,
I can only observe it’s not something I can claim

My life has meaning, your’s does too,
Even if you refuse to believe it, these words are the proof,
If it wasn’t for my brother I wouldn’t be here, he stayed up too,
Even if you think these lines are deceiving, that knife was the truth,
That knife was the truth, in the night we found truth