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If I Don't Make It

It's Christmas Day 2016, 3 AM as I write this. My thoughts are keeping me awake. This is what they had to say.

By Kate LabellePublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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You got me every time

How could I ignore a voice like yours?

So deep in my brain like you need me

You hold me every time

How could I, walk away from your embrace

I feel your heat and it's cold as ice

The demons in my head drag me down

Take me to a place this horror isn't around

And if I open my eyes before I wake

Promise me it's the pain you will take

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If I don't make it out alive

Could you breathe for me?

If I pass by all the warning signs,

Could you turn for me?

'Cause I want what I can't have

Could you live it for me?

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My soul, feels so dead

And my body is just living in it

Who are you and who am I?

'Cause I don't recognize these eyes

This room, these clothes

I don't know them anymore

This voice, these words

I don't know them anymore

The demons in my head drag me down

Take me to a place this horror isn't around

And if I open my eyes before I wake

Promise me it's the pain you will take

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If I don't make it out alive

Could you breathe for me?

If I pass by all the warning signs,

Could you turn for me?

'Cause I want what I can't have

Could you live it for me?

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Tell me one more time

That this nightmare will break

And we can be set free

Tell me one more time

You remember what it was like before

If I don't make it out alive

Could you breathe for me?

If I pass by all the warning signs,

Could you turn for me?

'Cause I want what I can't have

Could you live it for me?

Could you live it for me?

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