Tempest

I feel the tempest grow

Deep inside

I never let it let me go

Let me die

I felt the first September cold

In July

And now I feel the pressure grow

Every night inside

I hate the season I grieve behind

And monuments that I made

I pray for peace underneath the tides

And solace under the waves

I disregarded the reasons why

You left me here in your wake

If you had only told me I won't be the same

I won’t be the same

Riptides drag me to damnation

Shorelines lead me to my grave

Capsize the last place I kept faith in

Baptize me beneath the waves

Can’t take this feeling anymore

When expectations rise

Last night I felt the ocean floor

It left me paralyzed

I dragged my body through the storm

But left my head behind

I let the tempest define my life

I dread the colder days

Quiet nights

You fell the night I drove away

You might’ve died

The pills let you ignore the pain

But you were fine

It’s hard to keep your story straight

If you’re doing lines all night

I know

That I kept your ghost

Instead of moving on

I hope

That I’m left below

When the tempest overflows

I used to hate when nights would pass slowly

But now the days are moving too fast

The coast is disappearing below me

My life won’t last

Riptides drag me to damnation

Shorelines lead me to my grave

Capsize the last place I kept faith in

Baptize me beneath the waves

Can’t take this feeling anymore

When expectations rise

Last night I felt the ocean floor

It left me paralyzed

I dragged my body through the storm

But left my head behind

I let the tempest define my life

I always reminisce beneath the autumn sky

Clear all the spiderwebs that gathered over time

I bought the Ibanez in 2005

I practiced No it Isn't every single night

To escape my life

Ten years go by

Met up with Ry the night I wrote 345

I cut the vocal takes with Tom in late July

So much has changed but I can still remember why

I never slept that night

I won’t deny (I can't deny)

I feel like every explanation was a lie (I watched you bleed dry)

I feel like every confrontation was contrived (You laid your own grave)

I knew the drugs that you were taking took your mind

While I just stood by (You made me this way)

I drove away (I drove drunk through snow)

I took the Lynnway underneath the pouring rain

It turned to snow when I pulled off 128 (The night you let go)

Gloucester was beautiful if I could see it straight (And I kept your ghost)

That was rough that day (To find my own)

I swear you’re with me all the time

The resentment never dies

I hate the memory of you alone on that night

I wish I never looked inside

When the tempest took your eyes

I cried the night that I wrote UFOs in the Sky

I hate to say it out loud

But for seven years straight

I learned to hate October

So let me go down

And suffer my fate

Watch as the waves draw closer

I know

That I kept your ghost

Instead of moving on

I hope

That I’m left below

When the tempest overflows