Worn Grin
Memories flow like ink on bare skin
Slowly dripping dry and wearing thin
All these years that I have yearned,
Yet still I stand wearing a grin
All these years where I've been left to burn
Where it's no one's but my own concern
This is the way life has been,
Where sincerity won't return
Quietly oppressed and kept alone in thought
where days melt away,
In a broken mind that's left to rot
With sanity slowly slipping away
Memories will fade,
Until all's lost in a shadowy haze
But tell me why I'm left to perish here alone
WIth subtleties lost in a perplexed and damned soul
And though with tears in these eyes I still hold my grin
Because through these complexities I'm still human
But who's to come around and act as a savior
To save further dying embers or fading stars?
Years I've tried to act sincere and be kind
But shadows hold fast,
As loneliness seeps in this broken mind
Within the silence is safe and less grim
With sanity lost,
All that's left of me is a worn grin
Slowly dripping dry and wearing thin
All these years that I have yearned,
Yet still I stand wearing a grin
All these years where I've been left to burn
Where it's no one's but my own concern
This is the way life has been,
Where sincerity won't return
Quietly oppressed and kept alone in thought
where days melt away,
In a broken mind that's left to rot
With sanity slowly slipping away
Memories will fade,
Until all's lost in a shadowy haze
But tell me why I'm left to perish here alone
WIth subtleties lost in a perplexed and damned soul
And though with tears in these eyes I still hold my grin
Because through these complexities I'm still human
But who's to come around and act as a savior
To save further dying embers or fading stars?
Years I've tried to act sincere and be kind
But shadows hold fast,
As loneliness seeps in this broken mind
Within the silence is safe and less grim
With sanity lost,
All that's left of me is a worn grin