Abyss

The words still sour on my teeth, when I've already tried to sleep
Still in the makeup, that I couldn't bear to wash off
And you know I meant it when I said I'm a bad friend
And yet you kept me around, and I bit

But words can expand, just like the universe did
And the next thing I know, you can read all the lines
In-between, what I hid
Just like a song on repeat, you know most people
They grow tired of this

And there's an emptiness, that I've tried to fill or replace
And it goes unchanged, so of course you could help
But even when you're next to me
There's still something greater that's missing
And you were just like anyone else

So just as you thought, when you thought you were special
I had let you go off of a cliff at the end of it all
Akin to a bottomless pit, you were too lost to look at the fall

So what happens, when we escape the minds of our hometowns
Would they have forgotten, cause we were never around
Might we have grown up, and I would have moved overseas
Terrified of seeing you realize, that you were much wiser than me

And before you would know it, the years go by and what did I miss
The last time we spoke, you had said that you had wanted me
Away from your wife and your kids
Often I wondered and I tried to find a place where I couldn't exist

And in I welcomed the abyss