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Maiden Voyage

from The Golden Age of Gloom by polaroids

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lyrics

I always thought that I'd die young. Pack up my things and ride into the setting sun. Feel the cool evening breeze tug at my hands and feet, trying to keep me from resting peacefully.

I kept chasing down my nightmares instead of following my dreams. I was too stubborn to see it's not all about me, and narcissism leads to self-defeat.

A picture perfect house, a picture perfect wife, were never among the things I thought that I could find. Too fucked up in the head, too preoccupied with death, but never quite ready to leave that lonely ledge.

Crash through the shades and hues of bleak and bitter blues. Land safely in your arms ready to start a life with you. But these wings of stone still crumbled in the sun soaked afternoons and fell to pieces long before I could leave behind my youth.

I kept chasing down my nightmares instead of following my dreams. I was too stubborn to see it's not all about me, and narcissism leads to self-defeat.

Why am I so afraid of what's to come? Why can't I give those last few shreds of self-doubt up? I don't want it to be all about me anymore. I don't want it to be about me.

But there will come a time when the fixations subside and when you squint in the morning light, you'll see the receding tide dragging all the would-have could-have-beens that have plagued your entire life back down to the bottom of the sea. Anchored by the sullen looks and desperate pleas. A rewritten ending never meant to be seen.

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from The Golden Age of Gloom, released July 27, 2018

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