Parasites - Family and Friends

Oh persistence prolonged

I’ve been writing these songs about righting my wrongs

Temptation to test my resolve

The craving had left but never had gone

These thoughts, they keep me awake

Try to move on, just keep running in place

Like a sickness that I could not shake

Swallowing lies like medicine and wait for them to take

Never gonna change, never gonna change, never gonna change, we’re never gonna

change, never gonna change, never gonna change

(I can change, my wanting ways, breaths left to take, make sure they don’t go

to waste)

Close your eyes, listen close

Hear the distant echoes of a life unknown

In lies yet there’s truth to be told

I guess faking blind is just one way to cope

Oh how the wanting endures

Clear the smoke from my lungs, still the cough cant be cured

You play with fire, you’re gonna get burned

You’re gonna get what you deserve

They say we’re never gonna change, never gonna change, never gonna change,

we’re never gonna change, never gonna change, never gonna change

Yes it’s true I’ve been seeing ghosts

Of the you I used to know

Speaking through the dial tone

Reflections in my windows

My whole life

Spent passive

Just passing time

Stoic and stagnant

Idle for a sign

Like a child believes in magic

Or some naive rationale

To keep these feelings captive

All my friends say that I have changed, tell me how do you explain,

Their lives take forward course and shape, while I’ve remained in the same damn

place

Just keep speaking what you’re told to say, fit the mold and play it safe,

mark these words upon my grave, «he is not what he became»

We are the choices we make I’ve heard,

The chances we take I’ve learned

The fears that we face, the lessons learn from our mistakes

There was something in her eyes, I could not place

A feeling from inside, she could not fake

No matter best I try, I am never as good as the way she says my name

I will be good with just being ok

All my life

Cynicism

Made its way from my lips into my Bloodstream

Like parasites

Suffering symptoms

So long now it seems this sickness is a part of me

I will be good,

But I can be better,

And I will rid of you like a matchstick to the gasoline

The flames will rise

And burn my eyes

I put my faith in a fallacy

I will be good, but I could be better

(I can change, my wanting ways, breaths left to take, make sure they don’t go

to waste)

I will be good but I could be better if I tried

If I was anyone else this would not be a crime