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Curing Apathy

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Forget the obligations to the outside world
Deep inside of your heart there is only one
In the mirror you say you love yourself
And in front of everybody else

It seems like they know
The lie that you tell yourself in the morning
But you don't know
That they smile in the reflection of your ears

You feel what they had said about you
But you don't hear them
At all

In front of your face
There is someone sinking into a black hole
And you can't rescue them
Not this time

I won't die for anybody else
Not again
I can't survive my own sorrow
My own sorrow is not theirs to own

I want to feel everything
Except for my sorrow
It haunts me in the back of my throat

I find a way to tell them everything
But it has to go slow

At night time I feel like I will lose her
But she's probably not mine to own
So what does it matter to try

Deep on her skin I see her scars are shallow
But they are as deep as mine

We both feel
We can't feel
So what should we say to someone
Who only lives in their apathy

We want to say to them
It will be okay

The moment outside of this pain
It terrifies our

Being alive
Not a chore
So much more than we want to realize

There is no way to predict
What will be said
What will be heard
What will be miscommunicated once we are our fears

Our fears
They never fast themselves

Pray to god to save them
To save us from ourselves

What do we fear
When there is no one else to guide our hands

What do I want
In a world that is infinite
For what we need to save
Is not what we want to have

We all misunderstand each other
And we want to find out why
The pain in our throats
Is trapped inside of our words

We have no words
To tell you what it means
To be lost inside of this
This darkness we call our home

It is our home
All I want is for to hear these words
To know that I feel just the same

The pain in my heart it aches for you
In every word you say to me
I have no way to communicate to your face
The sorrow deep in my heart
But there is always tomorrow

It's not what you need to hear
But I hope you hear it soon

I fear it
I fear the time left with you

All I want is to find myself lost inside of somebody else
I had to know
And I don't know what the fuck I am doing

The coward deep inside of me
Wants to find himself
To set free

I am the master of myself
I am the only one who controls me

I pray to god to send someone else
Before I collapse into
Collapse into my mind's words

My own words
I don't know what I fear
God help me
I love her

She is so perfect
I don't know what to do
But I know her heart is suffering

So is mine
Neither of us turn to anything at all

Maybe we sit down
Listen to each other
Hope again

Listen
Talk about what you want to be
What you want to find inside of yourself

I only want to find out
What you are going through in every moment
Take apart the things that you hold

Maybe we can instruct us
Maybe we can instruct every part of ourselves

Why are we addicted to the pain
Why can't we escape

Maybe we don't hear enough about each other
To know why we can't feel

I have to say these words to you
What the fuck is wrong with me

I fear every word out of my mouth
I fear it all that you might understand
You might know who I am

I don't know if can I let anyone else in
To share my sorrow

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I like the pensive guitar track and how the tempo gradually changes throughout the piece. The mickey mouse voice just doesn't fit the character of the piece at all, though. It's also rather undecorated - little reverb, chorus effects, delay, distortion, etc. The lyrics themselves are really good, but the cartoonish vocals just don't fit the forlorn feeling they give off. The result is that the piece is pretty jarring to listen to overall. Sorry. Good start with the organic guitar part and, in their un-pitch-shifted form, the vocals as well. The little structural break in the piece at around 4:25 was a nice detail - it helped refocus the song a bit towards the end. Keep at it, man.

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Jun 30, 2019
8:36 PM EDT
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5 min 35 sec

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