cut away my great despair

  took a long while to get somewhere

  your song is in my blood

  will I ever drown you out

  everything I have ever learned

  as I lie by the fire and the flood

  of great despair

  it covers me with a shroud

  bone white like pillars of light

  the trees are dying and living

  again

  cut away my great despair

  took a long time to get somewhere

  your song is in my blood

  will I ever drown you out

  I am a monster and I burn

  in hatred and in fear

  of myself

  do not come near, I'll lash out

  again

  I love myself and I hate too

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  it takes everything of me I am to do

  to not lash out

  at you

  cut away my great despair

  took a long time to get somewhere

  I love you

  will you love me too

  there are three things I must learn

  to learn to begin to love

  to reach out

  to hold you close

  to crush you in my chest

  to drink you deep into my lungs

  until you're in my eyes and in my throat

  until you're in my heart and in my soul

  until I am you

  and you are me too

  cut away my great despair

  took a long while to learn again

  your song, my words

  will I ever learn

  to let you go

  to let you go

  to let you go

  to let you go

  to let you

  go

  again

  will I ever learn

  to write you out

  to write you out

  to drown you out

  of me

  of me

  of me

  cut away my great despair

  I took you into my lungs again

  I should have let you go

  a long time ago

  it's too hard

  to try again

  to start again

  of me

  cut away my great despair

  I had to try to start again

  love me, hate me

  I am a monster

  cut away my great despair

  I'm starting to love again

  look myself in the mirror

  lock myself in the fear

  again

  cut away my

  great despair

  will I ever learn

  to let you go

  of me.