Wait
Stiofán
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If I don't say more An open door won't come my way If my haunting past won't pass Then I won't be okay Hey kid you're five years old A young man with a mind of his own Pillow forts no pictures in phones You're a boy but you can't wait til' you're grown Mom and dad's teaching things about life Don't give up get back up on that bike Learning numbers you wonder at night You're hearing people tell your parents that your future is bright And it's great They'll tell you to wait Not once will you come home with no food on your plate You go to school packed a lunch that you'll eat on your break And on your worst day's or your birthday's they'll have bought you a cake What it takes to make you smile so you know that you're loved And for them they'll give it all and just hope it's enough Understand they'll sell the house if you say that you're stuck Money will never be a problem but you'll always be tough You grow up in your head now things start to change You're causing most the trouble but you're never to blame Guilty feeling in your stomach you can't stomach the pain Always say you're playing around emphasis on playing No sense of how you're feeling feeling lost in the dark Thinking try to make them laugh think you lost who you are Think you might become a danger spending days in the bar But they demand a certain man that can drink on par Until one lonely summer spent swallowing down You get a phone call from Conor you're just joking around You're hearing nothing but his breath and then you're begging for sound And what he utters from his mouth he says that William has drowned They say he did it himself Snuck out the house and then he jumped to his death Not a reason no goodbye when he left Just a lot of broken hearts if he only knew what he meant And as you come home you're looking down on your friend With his body lying cold whilst you're clutching his hand Trying to make him move do everything that you can And behind the tears that fill your eyes think that this is the end See how can this be This was your escape this was up your sleeve Now you're getting angry coz' it's him not me And there's a part of you that hates for the friend you weep And you're ashamed of how you're feeling Shame turns into panic and the panic turns into drinking The longer you go on the more you see yourself a villain See a person in the mirror who you hate and it's a prison Pity party on yourself coz' you despise what you've become Can't get up in the morning you can't venture in the sun And your chest begins to tighten like your heart becomes a ton Thinking time is finally over all this pain is almost done Always tired but when you sleep at night You're having dreams of apologies and making it right You make a real big effort to be living a life But all you are is just a kid who must live in this fight With your friends you'll be lying to the end Saying things are always good but they know you're a mess Last night they heard you crying stains of blood on your desk They'll always pressure you for answers but you'll never confess Slam the door you don't want to talk anymore Find your photos as a kid place them out on the floor Writing letters to yourself reaching down to the core But all these words are just a comfort until you open some more Still you can't so you continue to dance With the devil in your ear who says that death is a blast Knows how much you want it so he dares you to ask Saying that we can make it easy if we plan in advance Yet you promised this is painfully honest The day that William died you had pledged to live on with Any thought that you might have that your life isn't worth it Knew to feel alive you must get out and earn it So you wait like you were told as a kid Carry on regardless be it heartless or hid Become what's now the artist make up classes you missed To graduate from college with some knowledge in this That you survived all those years on the ledge To be what they expected not the person who bled To be the child of loving parents who once tuck you to bed To be the person you admire not the devil you fed You're seeing light coming home with a plane ticket Mom and dad I thank you for this life I'll go live it Once upon a time I was some trouble I admit it I wish I could take it back but now I've changed and how I did it Was the comfort in the feeling knowing that you knew me Knew that I could be some trouble knowing that you wouldn't leave Knew that I could have this problem knowing that you couldn't see Knew if I gave up on living knowing that you couldn't breathe You take their hand and you kiss them both goodbye I'll call you when I get there I love you and I'll try To make something of myself to find some peace up in my mind To chase a dream that I was destined to achieve until I die Heavy plate you're just a victim of fate Doesn't mean that you're a failure if your life's starting late You find yourself being happy with the more you create Well funny as it happens as they told you to wait
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