Burying Brightness

Life leaves only scars It always aims for the heart No matter how hard we try No one avoids the lashes of life The things that people will do to each other The fire forgets what the forest remembers (remembers) Out of malice or love (malice or love) It makes no difference (makes no difference) Once they're gone It's all the same Following your brightness Always falling short Nightmares repeating in my head Saying the things I wish I had Again and again and again It's too late (too late, too late, too late) For fantasies of starting over We laid you down last december I wish I could apologize I wish I could see you one last time I now know why I don't know how to say goodbye First when I was five Then again when I was ten Loss has a way of reminding you to not get too attached And what's harder even still Is swallowing the pill That being abandoned isn't a reason To miss your funeral Soon we will all be unremarkable I was too young to understand I didn't know what addiction meant I didn't know you were reaching out I didn't know that you needed help Our lives will melt away like skin to snow If the time that we spent was all that we had I hope you know (I8 hope you know) A part of you (a part of you) Will always live in me (will always live in me) I'll never forget you (I'll never forget you) Or the brightness we buried (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried) (Buried)