"Swear Jar"

Those songs of affirmation don’t pump you up anymore.
They can’t revive your once perfect, mythical form.
You feel so hollowed out.
But it’s not you, it’s them.
But that’s what you have to say
to avoid sleeping off that bitterness
and taking first aid to your deeply busted faith.

Where’s your sash and crown?
Didn’t you earn an endzone dance? 
A place to lounge?
The reality of it all has been swift and sharp.
The teachers you learned nothing from 
are now the bosses that march you around with ease.
Like being crushed by every ocean and sea…
You’re deep, deep down. 

You tried to make it less about you.
You tried to swallow all your words,
but it was like swallowing gravel;
it was too hard and so unfair.
And everyone’s all business now, they’re on their own trip.
You’re alone watching some TV judge, and you’re stewing.
There’s no justice in this world.

With all your boasts and taunts, you earned those rounds of high-fives.
You’d either win big or put up one hell of a fight.
Every second you were alive.
And everything you did you would top the next day.
But now your lights are burned out, and the seasons have changed.
The smallest victories elude you now.

But you were like a tornado. 
Now you’re rootless.
But you were the tornado
they weren’t supposed to forget.

But you were like a tornado. 
Now you’re rootless.
But you were the tornado
they weren’t supposed to forget.

But you were like a tornado. 
Now you’re rootless.
But you were the tornado
they weren’t supposed to forget.
And it’s so strange 
because they did, and they couldn’t wait to.

They weren’t supposed to forget.

Swear Jar

Smashing Machine

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