New Anthemic

We can't have nice things if we throw them away

You stay broken when you're running in place

Loathe the loneliness that you create

You bend to break, you push away

We can't have nice things if we throw them away

You stay broken when you're running in place

Loathe the perception that you've created

You bend to break until you're broken and jaded

I can't hold you

I can't love you

I can't look you in the eyes

I can't love you anymore

Take something you love and run it into the ground a thousand times

Damaged eyes are unfocused to fit and disguised to project

Let the guilt build

And heed no one's advice

So you can fixate on a new shiny device

Or fill up a garbage can, inanimate life

Grasp at straws stolen from others

Disappear them to ash to give yourself cover

To give yourself cover

We can't have nice things if we throw them away

You stay broken when you're running in place

Loathe the loneliness that you create

You bend to break, you push away

We can't have nice things if we throw them away

You stay broken when you're running in place

Loathe the perception that you've created

You bend to break until you're broken and jaded

I am learning to throw myself away

I'll cover myself with guilt and a few new cuts to bleed through

Live to relive the shame I was meant to

I can't regift my wounds to you

I bend to break until you're broken and jaded

I can't hold you

I can't love you

I can't look you in the eyes

I won't love you anymore