And you
Can bring me to my knees
Again

All the times
That I could beg you please
In vain

All the times
That I felt insecure
For you

And I leave
My burdens at the door

But I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
'Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All the times
That I felt like this won't end
It's for you

And I taste
What I could never have
It was from you

All those times
That I cry my intentions
Full of pride
But I waste
More time than anyone

But I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
'Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you

All the times
That I've cried
All that's wasted
It's all inside

And I feel all this pain
Stuffed it down
It's back again

And I lie
Here in bed
All alone
I can't mend

But I feel
Tomorrow will be okay

But I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you
See your true colors
'Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you


Lyrics submitted by kevin

Outside Lyrics as written by Aaron Lewis

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    To me it is loving someone with trauma and unhealed damage that can't fully love you back though they try. I feel this song in my soul. I love her, she loves me but on many levels isn't fully capable of it so there are highs and lows.

    The being on knees, the feelings of insecurity, all the stuffed feeling I have is from my own trauma. It comes out in these times, even when I have done the work. The pain just comes back again like I am living it, if I let it.

    The taste of something I can never have, is the taste of her in her best states, which are rare because of her unworked trauma and stress.

    So I am on the outside looking in. I get glimpses of it and every wall she puts ups that I overcome, she puts a new one right up. I love her so I keep trying but in the end its exhausting and I know she is ugly like me having my own battles I have worked on.

    The imagery of the dude trying to get over all of these walls and just losing it and being exhausted at the end in is in the video hits me hard.

    pest947on December 20, 2023   Link

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