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Take your time just getting back to me as I slowly rise and fall
I'm better off, seems like we've been here before
Never thought you'd get the best of me
Guess I misjudged you all along
I don't want this anymore

Counteract my self-control
You left me on the floor
Left burning close to the embers
Take me back to December
Where I felt more alive
A different place and time
Still burning close to the embers
Take me back to December

And all these thoughts that cloud my mind are so polluted
Or am I jaded to the waves of the delusion
I finally found myself overspent
You'll never see this face again

Counteract my self-control
You left me on the floor
Left burning close to the embers
Take me back to December
Where I felt more alive
A different place and time
Still burning close to the embers
Take me back to December

This empty bedroom's haunting me
It hollows out my sympathy
I'll strike a match and light a fire with gasoline

This empty bedroom's haunting me
It hollows out my sympathy
You struck a match and lit a fire with gasoline

To burn away my broken dreams
The best years are still in front of me
We'll light a match and watch it burn down in history
Burn down in history

Counteract my self-control
You left me on the floor
Left burning close to the embers
Take me back to December
Where I felt more alive
A different place and time
Still burning close to the embers
Take me, take me back

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Submitted on: July 10, 2023