The World as Broken - Evans Blue

You are the venomous

Empty brilliance

I am upset with what I’ve become

I am defenseless, hardly broken

I am irrelevant with what I have done

What have I done

Etched in skin like scars I’m left with

Swept beneath my sin

(Just to keep the surface from caving in)

Chased by the end of a book not written

Yet somehow I’m condemned

(Defeat the fire or be the fire within)

Take

Or be the one who gave in

Break

Or be the one who lives

Wait

And leave the world as broken

To justify the end

You’re free to give in but

Damned if you dare to

Taught to forgive while the hate lies within you

Feel trapped in your skin

You can’t comprehend

He who preaches through silence

Denies us our privilege

Caged in glass, my chaos trapped

And wrapped inside my skin

Paint my past with cold dead hands

Convince me who I am

Take

Or be the one who gave in

Break

Or be the one who lives

Wait

And leave the world as broken

To justify the end

You’re free to give in but

Damned if you dare to

Taught to forgive as the hate lies within you

Feel trapped in your skin

You can’t comprehend

He who preaches through silence

Denies us our privilege

Right to defend

Our doubts in regard to

Who we should be

When the answers involves you

The beat in my chest is

The absence I’ve turned to

Losing is closure if I’m who designed you