Get me out of here
This isn't slowing down
We've hit black ice and lost control
We're spinning faster now
Tell me are we flying? Are we falling to the ground?
If tomorrow doesn't come, did we die for nothing?

Recounting past events has helped reveal that you don't give a damn
about the days when you would live the words you wrote
Not the person who you were; I hate the person you've become
You inspired. Now expired, it has died for nothing

Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable

Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable

You said you started up this home
because you didn't like the way these kinds of things were run
You've said you understand the work it takes to make us grow
If you had then where were you?
We've payed our dues without you

Am I the only one who sees all of the deceit and festering hypocrisy?
Don't ever talk to me like you think you know me or what I've been through
I am nothing like you!

Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable

Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable

This is The Fallen

This is the last time you will have us
You're lawless and purely dishonest
A scandal that we have funded for you
Make no mistake this all is about you

No, we never knew
(This is the last time you will have us)
Don't buy what they sell you
(You're lawless and purely dishonest)
No, we never knew
(A scandal that we have funded for you)
Don't buy what they sell you
(Make no mistake this all is about you)

But I can't stop feeling love for this place we both came from
I will never lose my youth
All of this is too unforgettable

Some stop feeling love

Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable

Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable


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The Fallen... Lyrics as written by Jordan Paul Brown Mike Ambrose

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    This is an amazing song and there are only 2 comments... What I'm getting from this song is kinda like don't forget where you came from, and what you have. Always be true to yourself and don't take yourself so seriously because life is too short for you to be sitting around doing nothing. Don't buy into the propaganda.

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