Failing Composure Lyrics

Traversing my mind

I hate some of what I find

The faults i try to hide

Conflictions with what I am

And what society

Decided all should be

Lose ground

Don't recover til I'm routed by this

Sinking

Hit the bottom before I can surface

Retreat

Put up the walls

Defeat

Battle lost

The war unresolved

The burdens that I carry

Some caused by myself

None within control

I raise a blade to parry

Against the charging line

Still I go down wounded

Knowing the blame is mine

Failing composure strikes

The scars open again

From fights I could not win

Endless reminders of

A loveless way to love

And shame I'm not above

The shame I'm not above

The shame I'm not above

Lose ground

Don't recover til I'm routed by this

Sinking

Hit the bottom before I can surface

Retreat

Put up the walls

Defeat

Battle lost

The war unresolved

The burdens that I carry

Some caused by myself

None within control

I raise a blade to parry

Against the charging line

Still I go down wounded

Beyond my flawed design

I struggle til I break confines

The burdens that I carry

Some caused by myself

None within control

I raise a blade to parry

Against the charging line

Still I go down wounded