Keep What You Kill

You can't see the moon behind a coffin door.
I'm lying beneath an arrangement of black roses and faded Polaroids.
Smiling at every thought of escape.
But failing to find a way out of the hole you're keeping me in.
It's dark in here; but it feels like home.
Other than the spiders crawling on my soul, I'm fine inside this hole.
[Keep what you kill]
On my back, dead as a fly.
Bury me without wings, so I'll never run away again.
[Keep what you kill]
My artificial dreams are insubstantial.
I'm filling the hole in your heart with the remains of my dead hopes.
With a sacrificial send off, I release my guardian angels.
And cut the chains and ropes.
I make bold moves in your shadow.
I fill myself with your sorrow.
But it's better than being hollow.
[Keep what you kill]
On my knees like a fallen angel.
Begging for forgiveness but never returning to heaven.
[Keep what you kill]
I'm beneath you, beneath it all for you.
I'm trapped under the life I gave to you.
Looking up underneath the moon, dying to be a part of you.
Dust and cobwebs over my ambition.
I'm lost behind pine and dirt.
My neighbors are the souls of the damned.
My memory is black.
But I remember the pain.
My blood is all over your hands.
I'm a lifeless tomb in formal wear.
Secrets hidden beneath dead air and my guilt is leaking everywhere.
[Keep what you kill]
I'm beneath you, beneath it all for you.
I'm trapped under the life I stole from you.
Looking up, underneath the moon.
Dying to be a part of you.
[Keep what you kill]
I blame it all on you.