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My Roots Will Remain

by Dividing the Masses

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1.
Teddie Odd 01:08
i've buried these days under midwest soil and i've felt the weight of a year spent cold it's never been about trying to stay alive, it's about the struggle to feel alive as discontent makes its place in my mind i am nothing more than swallowed pride
2.
Ideation 03:01
all i wanted was to be your escape, but my presence was never enough to match the burden you created, or all the times you'd been mistreated abuse made its way down the family tree, and you were the youngest of three who am i to talk of hardship when i don't know the half of what you've felt? who am i to console your suffering when my own worst enemy is me? all i wanted was to be your escape, but some wounds will never heal there is no easy way out when the walls around your mind reveal an empty shell i refuse to just sit back and let your name fade away, as if you were successful in taking your life that day with every word withheld, and every uncherished moment filled, i have become the worst enemy of myself abuse made its way down the family tree, and you were the youngest of three
3.
after digging every last bit of myself into this town i know that the community i built will live on no matter the distance it was always us against the world we swore we'd never change, we swore we'd always feel the same but each year it gets harder to keep from going our separate ways as we are carried away by the dreams we aspire embracing change can be difficult when my attachable heart can never let things go the hardest part of leaving is knowing my roots will remain dug deep into everything i once took for granted, the place i used to call home i never really knew what it was i was leaving behind, until i found myself lost in another life i believe there is something to be said about where i've been i will continue to give everything i have to those who stand by me with every season's end true friends share scars until they die
4.
Wither Away 03:33
there is a message that rings in my ear from voices built by fear condemning hell while refuting the existence of a God preaching acceptance while spewing hypocrisy where is the hope that once rang so prevalently? kids these days are saying that they'd rather be dead existing under a cloud of regret darkness is a comfortable shelter but it is no place to call home we all are broken, eager to just wither away but there is more to life, there is more to life than death twelve months ago i lost myself buried somewhere beneath this midewest soil but it takes more than one to raise the dead apathy has no place in the heart of a man
5.
i'd like to say that you were everything that i needed this winter it's just i've grown so weary of the time lost, we dissolve as i found comfort in nothing sleepless december left me to wonder how i had fallen down to the rhythm of losing you yet i could still seek comfort in finding you i don't think you realize the way your absent face plagued me this past year it took me all this time to realize that i had everything that i needed right here no longer will i drown myself in the cold, attempting to feel less alone by filling my nights with empty pursuits and empty apologies if you had never left, i would have never known where to call my home i would have never seen all that this place means to me i know you know what it feels like to be broken, because i put you through hell to cope with you leaving i know you know what it feels like to be broken, because sometimes love isn't enough.
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Discontent 03:07
what good is this voice if my words are never enough? have my actions done their part to bury all the guilt? i chose to live the good life, and i'll wear it across my chest because a life struggling for passion is a misguided ship i still am no godsend, but i know i'm better than this i may never be fixed, but i know i'm better than this are my words empty? or can you feel my pulse?
7.
On Leaving 04:38
just like whole hearted pursuits leading to severed ends, some things when broken will never mend there is a solemn feeling of acceptance, it rolls in with the changing of seasons and the passing of time erodes away my mind until i can't see with my own two eyes but it's not a vision we strive for more so a level of contentness in realizing that we aren't where we wanted to be and never were in the first place i was blinded by the thought that a lust built love meant something more than the passing of time reminiscence shows only occasional true colors, we see what our hearts choose to feel was real all the while your face has been forever haunting, in every snowbank, as our leaves turn over but this world was never meant for you and i, so after a year spent cold, i left it all behind.

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released April 12, 2014

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