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It's a secret thing so you'll lock it away, but won't forget it
a broken promise that will haunt til the end of your days, and you'll let it
you wanna feel the shame, you wanna feel like you're defeated
so you can make the change, know this mistake so you won't repeat it

You know you're better than this you know you say it all the time
to yourself and everyone around
there must be something you missed there's something buried in the ground
or in the air you can't get your fingers around
you're gonna drown in this the captain's going down with the ship you built
you're choking on the guilt
You're gonna burn for this, unless you really learn from it.

You let the weakness reign you let it set fire to all you created
and you watched
you got caught up in the waves, you came off course while you were sleeping, and you lost it.
now you just can't be saved, the current's too strong
and the wind is raging
And as it fans the flames you wonder if this mistake's the last
you'll be making

You know you're better than this you know you say it all the time
to yourself and everyone around
there must be something you missed there's something buried in the ground
or in the air you can't get your fingers around
you're gonna drown in this the captain's going down with the ship you built
you're choking on the guilt
You're gonna burn for this, unless you really learn from it.

And as you learn how to float, you'll find there's a better you
that you'd never known
because he wasn't real, no he wasn't so until you unburried him
from deep beneath what's broke
So you'll give it your all, you'll dig and you'll claw,
you'll fight and you'll crawl to come back from this fall

and though your ship is in ashes at bottom of the sea
it went up like a book full of matches, it stranded you
but it may have set you free
cuz it's the things that you lost, that you wanted to lose
whatever the cost, because somehow you knew
That Soon the Spring will wash everything
and they'll shine and they'll sing
and reveal the man you thought you'd be.

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from Soon The Spring, released May 26, 2019

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