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Wasted

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Wasted

I lie to myself
As I lie awake
Trying to breath
But each breath that I take
Is just one more second ticking away
And the lie is translucent
I won't be okay
If each night and each day
That I find you away
Is nothing more than time
Wasted

I look around
At all the memories I've lost and found
It breaks my heart to run across them now
While I'm lonesome bound
But pain is nothing more than time
Wasted

What is life after all
If each time we stand up
We're just destined to fall
For the girl with the pretty blue eyes
Only to find that the days by her side
Were nothing but lies
And nothing more than time
Wasted

And suddenly
It's in a different light I see
This world in bitter clarity
All these years here between you and me
Undoubtedly
Are nothing more than time
Wasted

So I'll pour gasoline on this shoebox and strike the match
Watch the pictures and the trinkets catch
And hope
That just as grass
Can flourish amidst the embers and the ash
So can happiness
Rise up from the ruins of the past
And prove
That it wasn't simply time
Wasted
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