In the same breath, they'll say I love you
Just wanting my flesh, they aren't true
I can ignore their words and messages
But can't close the door on the vestige
Of a ghost lingering, a haunted echo
A feeling saying ignore all I know
But just so you know
I'd rather die alone, painfully
Made to suffer for what I am
Than be rewarded for what I'm not
I'd rather be completely damned
Than forced to untie a knot
That I cling too, deeply
I'd rather die being too close to the sun
Crashing thereafter to the surface
Than to linger in, wallow in pestilence
Swimming in decay and the vapid embrace
Offered by the world in which I live
