i will say this:
9 out of 10 times when you trust yourself the inevitable finds you back in the places you've been begging to avoid
and when it all comes back to the identical conversations as
insignificant as yesterday's
you hope to realize that your first instinct
is always the right one:
it's always better to run from a death knell
than to fight one.
this is always true.
this is always true.
this is always true.
this is always true.
fear no pain
don't know what will spill
feel no shame
mr.i-don't-cry
ironic
that the first to argue
is always the one you're on about
ironic
that you're always the last one
to trust your own plans
and even worse
that you're unavoidably
the object
of your own guilt.
it's even worse that you're unavoidably
the object
of your own guilt.


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    and even worse that you're unavoidably the object of your own guilt.

    I LOVE this part of this song.

    bigbadburton May 05, 2004   Link
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    fuck liars, backstabbers, the unappreciative, turncoats, people who think they're always fucking right and always trying to find someone who agrees with them.. i have a friend like that..and i think that kind of attitude's shit..im not one for this sort of thing but i think it just got to that fucking point..he even blames me for ignoring him when he does that and all the 'shit' that i've fucking 'done' to him even though i didn't fucking mean all of the 'shit' that he says that i've done...fuck that..he can't even appreciate me just being there with him..

    oh, by the way..i think this song fits PERFECTLY for him.

    kensingtonon July 25, 2005   Link
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    whenever this song starts, i get fucking pumped full of energy.

    I WILL SAY THIS.

    fucking epic.

    Maycombon November 18, 2007   Link
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    and even worse that you're unavoidably the object of your own guilt.

    fvck, this part spits.

    hate00on April 29, 2008   Link

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