Can't Help The Way

from Degenerate EP 1 by Tom Ashman

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Can’t help the way:
Can’t help being angry, can’t help being lost, it’s the way I was made like the leaves of the trees in the frost. You told me to lie, you told me to kill, you told me you would not hold me responsible.
Can’t help the way that you’re calling me, and look at all my love raining down in sheets of ecstasy, and I’ll wait, I’ll wait for better days, and if you’re moving on, if you’re not real at all, you’ll still be the monster in my dreams.
Can’t help being clueless, can’t help play my part, can’t help that I can’t say how I’m afraid of the dark, can’t help being distant can’t help being cold, if I cave for one moment the ghosts would never let me go.
Can’t help the way that you’re haunting me, and im so awake in this raw and raging sobriety, nothing’s dulled, sharp senses feel it all, so breakable, so fragile, and my thoughts won’t ever leave me alone.
‘Cos im a claustrophobic vapour holding back the knives of pride and loathing, an ice and crystal hurricane, the shards dispersing in the rain, I’m humanity and bravery and all the lies you told to me and grasping, grasping out to reach the dreams all slipping out of reach and, I’m her just come and get me, I’m here just come and get me.
Can’t help the way that you’re haunting me and look at all my love raining down in sheets of ecstasy, and I’ll wait, I’ll wait for better days, and if you’re moving on, if you’re not real at all, you’ll still be the monster in my dreams.

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from Degenerate EP 1, released August 1, 2019

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