Learn to Breathe

I can hear the hearts you broke
Taste your lines of coke
Feel the burning in your throat
The blood that makes you choke

See your walls, they're closing in
When you stand you fall back again
You never seem to win
And it never seems to end

You feel like you're in a daze
When people leave, the drugs still stay
One thing that doesn't change
But the needle's worth the pain

You're stuck inside your room
As you melt what's in your spoon
Another stone in your homemade tomb
And the high is gone too soon

Do you ever feel like you're drowning?
The smoke, it fills your lungs
So you wanna keep on running?
The high is no longer fun

You've walked twelve steps before
At least half a dozen more
You said you'd stop, you swore
But your demons, they still roar

But there's always one more hit
That makes you wanna get your fix
And the blood that's in your spit's
Not enough to make you stay away from it

You just wanna keep on drowning
So you put your head beneath the waves
You better learn to start breathing
Because you don't want to be saved

A new drug's the only change
A new chapter, a new page
A broken system's cage
Another OD on the world's stage

A new number to be found
A statistic by the sound
A new body in the ground
Another victim drowned

A new body in the ground
Another victim drowned
A new body in the ground
Another victim drowned

A new body in the ground
Another victim drowned
A new body in the ground
Another victim drowned