Anthem of the Brokenhearted

from The B-Room Diaries, Vol. II: Secondhand Smoke by Melodime

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There's a fine line between
The coward and the dreamer
You were my nicotine
But now I've grown meaner
'Cause I'm cuttin' you out
You smoked every ounce of me

Hey pretty girl, yeah you
The one I've been singing to
All those tunes, I want 'em back
They don't belong to you anymore
They did once, but now they're wasting away

Oh, oh why'd you keep me around so long?
Oh, oh I knew you'd leave me here all along

Are you blind or just selfish
For love and attention
You gave me those open doors
And I got trapped in them
'Cause I'll never be
The prince that you wished me to be
I wouldn't change a damn thing
I did once, but that's lost on my
All my failures and tortures are apart of me
I hate to tell you, but scars are the face of this soul

I could yell this to Brooklyn
Or the deserts of Texas
But when you're in front of me
I'm everything but reckless
I just wanna please
The master who's pulling my strings
But that doesn't change
The things that you did to me
Consider this real 'cause reality's dead to me
Quiet I seem
But I'm louder than the songs that I sing

I can't tell if you're from
My God or from Satan
You're so close to perfect
But girl I'm aching
Under your spell
I'm shaking like hell in this trance
Oh, I tried to ween
myself from the fairytales
But outside the movie screen
There's nothing but painful yells
Screaming for something
That I could give you easily

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from The B-Room Diaries, Vol. II: Secondhand Smoke, released December 31, 2012

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