My Life in a Restraint

from Defense Mechanisms by Anthem Grief

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Who’s in line in all of this?
believe me when I tell you that my knees
are about to give out
they’ve mastered the art of buckling
but regardless of that fact
I’m still two steps ahead towards
the edge of hell and... (back)

Oh oh oh
Don’t you know
things won’t fix themselves at all?
So, I’ll leave them broke!

Woah woah
With results to produce,
there’s a lack of follow through
It’s the worst of the truths
but the best of us are doomed

As I sit and I wait
on a rescue team
I begin to believe
that I might be saved
But, we both know I’ll sit here and decay

Oh oh oh
Don’t you know
things won’t fix themselves at all?
So, I’ll leave them broke!

When I grow old, will they wheel me down the halls
of a nursing home as I’m pissing nurses off
while I bitch about what I could have become…?

If so, pull the plug...

Woah woah
It’s the worst of the truths
but the best of us are doomed
with results to produce
there’s a lack of follow through
there’s a lack of follow through
there’s a lack of follow through...

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from Defense Mechanisms, track released December 21, 2018

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