Open Wounds

After a lifetime of waiting
After the mistakes I've paid for in blood
You made me feel safe
But what once was your love
Has now become my rage

Hidden inside the portrait of my life
Lives a man who gave up
Who was never enough
With swollen hands I tried to carry you
But now I know the truth
You came to me open wounds

You came to me open wounds

My fucking heart has been spent
It's time to admit
That what once was lost will never be again
I tried to hide my shame
When you drove away
But the man I built finally died that day

How do I live for tomorrow
And begin again, begin again
When every path that I follow
Reminds me of your open wounds

Love is a fleeting fucking joke
Best told with a ring and a broken home
I saw your absence through my child's eyes
I felt your ghost in what you left behind

Pain begets pain
Until every day is the same
A constant waking nightmare
Pain begets pain
Under your thumb keeping me waiting
Until I waste away

If I'm a shadow in the dark
How did you leave me with these scars?

My fucking heart has been spent
It's time to admit
That what once was lost will never be again
I tried to hide my shame
When you drove away
But the man I built finally died that day

How do I live for tomorrow
And begin again, begin again
When every path that I follow
Reminds me of your open wounds

What you asked of me wasn't love
It was control stacked on a pile bones
Of all the men you broke
Sacrificed to your ego
After a lifetime of wanting
After a lifetime of waiting for you
I finally found something
But that something was my doom

My fucking heart has been spent
It's time to admit
That what once was lost will never be again
I tried to hide my shame
When you drove away
But the man I built finally died that day

How do I live for tomorrow
And begin again, begin again
When every path that I follow
Reminds me of your open wounds
How do I live for tomorrow
And begin again, begin again
When every path that I follow
Reminds me of your open wounds