Jesse Artley

You want me to give you my best,
But won't give me any better then your worst
I just don't see the point in trying anymore
Seems as if you've already slammed the door
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Why?
Why did you have to go?
I should have known
I shouldn't have expected it to turn out for the best
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I don't know what life has to offer me anymore
My joy has been taken from me
The things I want I cannot keep
The things I need are lifetimes away
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I can beg you to not go, plead for you to not leave;
But truth is I'd still be here if you did
Confused and heartbroken, but eventually I'd be able to breathe
I don't care what I deserve or how much better I could do,
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You said you where shocked when I left, you didn't know how to handle it,
But that's no reason to throw our love back at me, I could make it fit
You tell me maybe you were just in over your head, you thought it was real
What happened, this all came out of nowhere, what am I supposed to feel?
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I'm sorry for all of this,
Sorry for giving you my love and bliss
Sorry for wanting out of this darkness
Sorry for thinking you were different
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I wonder
When you step outside, and the cold hits your face
Do you think about me?
Yeah, do you think about me?
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It's a wonderful world right?
Oh, what a beautiful place.
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I know it has been a while since I wrote
You wouldn't have read them anyway
See, thing is I've been so out of it
I've put the Grinch to shame
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A wise man once said that the hardest part of holding on is letting it go
Now I've been holding on to everything for what seems like an eternity
All my thoughts, feelings, and actions cooped up inside; time to blow
Off all this steam in hopes of having enough time to snap back into reality
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Neither one of us asked to fall this far beyond our point of breaking down
And we never prayed for this piss pouring rain
We're here now, you can lean on me, I need you as much as you need me
If our fires grew together, we could be something this world could not contain
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It's funny now, how I see our pictures in the trash, where you said I always belonged
And it feels so good to know that your half of this is just as deserving
Good isn't good enough for me, I want everything I ever gave you back
My time, patience, effort, all the trust that you just wiped yourself with.
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I just can't believe this is what life's supposed to be, full of pain and misery
When being alone isn't even the worst of it, til the loneliness and stress come out at night
Making me relive every second of every mistake, every regret, time wasted
Makes me nauseous, maybe I'm being too cautious, can't stop myself
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She was the one that slipped away,
I just couldn't find the words to say
To make her want to stay.
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They say the worst prison is the one you make for yourself;
But I just want to find a way out of this hell
Why can't I just get up and move on from you
What did you expect me to do?
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Is it too much to ask for love without heartbreak,
Maybe if you didn't turn out to be just another fake.
Doesn't matter, I already gave up on this work of fiction
The thing about forever and always?
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I just want to start out saying that I love you
Always and forever, I promise to
Your voice just melts me away,
I don't know what I'd do without hearing it everyday
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Well it's finally over, I hope your happy now
Because you brought me down in the process
I wouldn't have ever done anything like this to you,
But honestly right now, I couldn't care less what happens
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You might not be able to see it in my eyes
But then again, you were never that wise

Look back at what all I've gotten through
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So cute, so beautiful,
Yet no word could even come close to
Explaining how perfect you are to me
Your laugh, your smile, the way
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