BURNED OUT (candle philosophy) Lyrics

Every wisp of smoke can recount another sin

I'm begging you to stay

Like ethereal ash as it's floating on the wind

I might smolder away

It's the constant tick-ticking at my head until I pop

It's the clock ticking off the walls with no sign that it'll stop

It's the thought that you never gave that counted the most

To me, to me

I've been trying to hold on to glass as it splinters

The cracks start to spread, I'm grasping sharps throughout my fingers

And I've been holding on to such a beautiful ideal

You seem so out of reach, you belong in a museum

Every waking moment, burned in my head, I'm losing count

And it's every little thing I notice, how it said without a doubt

How you lit a candle in my heart, what was that about?

But for now, I'll live in clouds, it's enough that I'm burned out

Every waking moment spent without you feels so worthless

And though I seem fine there's trouble underneath the surface

It's always something new that comes to leave me uncertain

I'm tired of these curses, I just want to feel a purpose

There it is again, it's that ticking from my head

It keeps crawling down my spine as it's filling me with dread

All these thoughts that you were mine are words that I have never said

But the clock keeps on ticking and the days are starting to blend

I'm grasping at the fire with no nerves left to burn

Just my charred and blackened hand in a world full of hurt

I've been clinging on to the emptiest of bottles

You're already gone, it's a pill so tough to swallow

Every waking moment trapped in my head I'm losing rhythm

The drum has gone irregular and my nerves are growing brittle

This one man band is exhausted from the sound

I know without a doubt

I'm a candle burning out

Every gust of wind has the potential to end me and

Everything I touch seems to burn and fill with envy there's

Never any chance for me to speak up in this crowd

As my wick is dying slowly, I'm a candle burning out

Every waking moment spent without you feels so worthless

Though I seem fine there's trouble underneath the surface