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Regret
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Regret was released on January 29, 2016 by InVogue Records as a part of the album Unopened Letter
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Release DateJanuary 29, 2016
LabelInVogue Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM82

Credits

Lyrics

I've played with the thought of running
Away from what haunts me the most
Or maybe just ending the story short
Either would be better than this place that I'm at now
I've played this thought over, passing
It back and forth between my fingers
Enough to make them roll through the skin
Cutting deep into my bones and hitting the one
Thing that I've held left through these long seasons
My hope
While everything's come and gone
That was the one thing that kept me from giving up on going on
Like the times when friends and family tell you
You're gonna do great things
But this actually held some sense of meaning in its phrase
Unlike the empty nonsense that's said to comfort
You with the fact that your youth has expired
Some would say it's wrong and that I'm the liar
But you got a feeling crawling deep
Under your skin that tells you right
Tells you that this plan that's been
Laid out for you isn't etched in stone
Isn't written to be declared to the generations below
It's a feeling that's nestled itself deep in my awkwardly long bones
Leeching off the hope that let me endure
This tragedy that we like to call home
It wasn't always a tragedy
And there weren't always holes in the wall where holes should never be
There was a time when pictures hung from every free inch of the walls
Sporting landscapes and memories that stretched down the entire hall
Showing the life that used to roam freely
And the love that came endlessly
But fear is the one thing that led to its destruction
This disillusion of fear led us to dismantle
What we had worked so hard to build
What we had given so much to find
And within the blink of an eye, or whatever you prefer to tell time
It was gone
This home that had birthed a tragedy
Had finally given way to its own
And yet I still search for ways of how to recreate that home
No matter how many pictures I tilt
Or how many days I cross off in the month of September
I can't recreate what we had
No matter how many walls you paint
Or pictures you hang
It'll never be the same as it once was
It's like I found myself stuck living in the past
Holding onto anything that brings some sort of comfort
Or at least won't bring any pain
And you've got that pain wrenched deep under your skin
Crawling into any crack and crevice, finding any way to get in
And that void that you've got that you feel in your limbs
It can't be cured with any pill or needle
The things that you use to numb the
Gnawing bite till it fades to a dull tick
No
Only something greater than yourself can fill that
Void that you've been trying to satisfy for years
That void is the same pain that's made
Itself home in my awkwardly long bones
And I wish I had the guts to confront what haunts me the most
And I wish I had the ability to take
A chance without the fear of falling
But I think I've finally discovered what
Keeps me up at night when I'm alone
It's the pain that's made its home in these godforsaken bones
Written by: Andrew Nicholas Baughman, Michael Joshua Neal
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