We Could Be Brave

Should we confine ourselves

To confidants' intervals?

So bent about our shelters

Blinds to open windows

Would it all be cut losses

And squandered farewells?

We could be brave and see how it ends

Oh, the ways I've forgotten how to stop

Flinching, inching

Distance me from earshot

Exhausted my options, so take what time I've got

Breakthrough at half past 5 in the morning

Don't feel much better, better than nothing

It's moving at a glacier's pace, I need a higher dosage

Each catalyst a cataclysm crashing in slow motion

Still not quite sure how I never seem to catch it comin'

Misusing all my languid strength for all this shit I'm hauling

I know these things by name, I often wish they'd just stop calling

Just to justify my Sisyphean crawling

I'm losing all my saving grace

But saving face I'd take

Or some way to savor my never-ending ache

It's moving with an anxious gait

I need a higher dosage

Don't say it's more than I can take

Some pressures never let

As much to overcome

As left to comprehend

Close enough to grab it

I don't wanna know

Scattershot habits

Ricochet in echoes

We deal in distance

In hypotheticals

The shoulds, coulds, and woulds

I know these depths so well

Carved in the image of their maker

Despite how it might feel

Like the presence of another

If you mirror me

Hate your reflection too

I'd hardly blame you

If you mirror me

Hate your reflection too

I could hardly blame you

Oh, the ways I've forgotten how to stop

We could be brave, we should be safe here

Lunging at my own tail, flesh for me to gnaw

We could be brave, and just wait to see how it ends

If this breaks, then it's a wound that I can gauze

We could be brave, we could wait out the end of days

Not numbered, but bullet-pointed

And some days that's all I think about

My ache is forever

My ink's running out

This ache is forever

At least tonight's just for now

This week's just for now

This month's just for now

Could this ache be much longer?

Where the fuck's my way out?

'Cause God knows I've tried

To go outside

At least once or twice this month

Looked down, in, and out

Still came up at loss for answers

We could be brave

Try to set our eyes back forward

So perhaps I hesitate

Because I'd rather stay

Fuck better than nothing

For 5 a.m., there's nothing better

Wash your face, brush your teeth

Make your bed, take your vitals

All you can do is finish that to see how it ends

Just like the rest of us

Potential was squandered, no energy wasted if you see to the end

Just like the rest of us

Should you feel beside yourself

You're still right by the rest of us

We could be brave, we should be safe here

Would it be so far off-course

To live because you will it?

Couldn't be a lesser force

Than the spirit that permits it

We could be brave, we should be safe here

We could be brave, if we just wait to see how it ends

We could be brave, we should be safe here

We could be brave, if we just wait to see how it ends

We could be brave, we should be safe here

We could be brave, we could be brave