Family Curses

Stabbed you again
Drunk at my concert
Accepting my offer

You smiled on the ground
Said this one will heal too
And we'll try again soon

You're all out of blood
It's running through my veins
Presents from lost days

Child of the storm
The bridges we don't burn
The lessons we won't learn

You say there's a place where this won't ache
Just don't turn back at the doorway
And these family curses they all break
With a poem and kiss on your birthday

But i don't believe
In witchcraft or starlight
In riddles and old rhymes

What about all my dreams?
The violence and raw pain
The unspeakable worst case

What about all those nights?
When you couldn't reach me
The same nightmare each week

Then you take my hand
Say why not forgiveness
When it's almost christmas

But how long will you take your chances?
The graveyards are full of romantics
And free will or fate are semantics
We all know a heart can go rancid

But sometimes in raindrops and warm hands
There's a ghost of the future i once planned
As a child when everything made sense
When we fought and we raged and remained friends

Help me break this
I'm scared i can't break this
Help me break this
I'm scared i can't break this