Abandoned

from Not As Dead As We Used To Be by The Beautiful Exchange

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lyrics

Take me where we used to be
This apparition is haunting me
Remove the surface
Remove the surface
Remember we were intimate
Now this pitiful relationship
Is far from perfect
Far from perfect

Why do I run from you?
Why do you hide from me?

You've supplied the clothes on my back and sustenance when I was hungry
Everything that I ever had I know I have because you love me
Understand me when I say
I appreciate all that you’ve done for me
The burden of raising me on your own
Takes you away from this family

Why do I run from you?
Why do you hide from me?

Haunted by adolescence
I struggle to find and know myself
And I can't help but wonder if it's because of you

You've become an apparition
Like a ghost or a part of my imagination
Remove the surface
Remove the surface

Remember we were intimate
Now this pitiful relationship
Is far from perfect
Far from perfect

Father, help me be a better son
I don't expect more from your hands
All I want is your hands in mine

credits

from Not As Dead As We Used To Be, released December 22, 2017
Recorded, Engineered and Mixed by Sam Striker at Native Darkness Productions, McKinney, TX

Mastered by Troy Glessner at Spectre Mastering