I feel ill with words of repentance & love.
i could never forget what i felt like to feel my heart drop and watch as lonely insects swarmed around it and fed off like a disease to a diagnosed patient.
you no longer see me.
what am i doing but holding back tears and thinking of you. within this tainted image of me.
with no longer love but disappointment.
i'm still here. i just forgot i was human for a second
and that i can't just be some image. i have error.
i long to hear your voice again untainted with openness.
i'm sorry for what i have done. i'm sorry. what have i done? and for what i have done i am truly sorry.
words for you are like my pot of gold.
let me not have spent my riches but without this friendship
i feel poor.
though i will still reflect on what we had and all of the potential...


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    "i just forgot i was human for a second" powerful song, amazing band...

    hopesfallenon June 02, 2002   Link
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    oh. my. god. this matches so perfectly something I'm going through right now. I just happened across these lyrics, and downloaded the song. It's FABULOUS!

    catherinekson June 07, 2002   Link
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    playing in my town in august...wicked.

    kwaikutlon July 26, 2002   Link
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    haha 7a7p are FABULOUS :)

    XXX HARDCORE XXX

    jamesxxxon August 16, 2002   Link
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    incredible, enough said...

    p0u1n9kon June 24, 2003   Link
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    this whole cd is fucking amazing, too bad they broke up, misery signals is alright..

    rottingtomon April 16, 2005   Link
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    this song is amazing.

    precipitateon August 29, 2005   Link
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    fuck misery signals, fuck dead to fall. I have the reunion show on dvd along with almost all of their live videos, they were amazing. probably one of the best metalcore-ish albums of all time, behind Prayer For Cleansing's Rain in Endless Fall.

    poisonfreewillon March 07, 2007   Link
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    i hardly understand any songs.. but this one is clear as say...

    sorry for what he has done...

    FuryofFiveon March 11, 2007   Link
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    love it! the lyric 'though i will still reflect on what we had and all of the potential... ' is also used in the misery signals song 'murder'.

    circa_survive_greenon May 28, 2007   Link

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