Don't Try ft. Stephen McDonough III Lyrics

Dwindling, rescinding, painted with rust

Poisoned wells and burnt towns and endless dusk

Feeding the feeling

Deteriorate

I've been so full of shit

Lie to me, just like I've always lied to myself, burning in self-made hell

Zero-sum guarantee

All that I oversee are kingdoms poised to collapse themselves

This is a fever dream and I'd end it all to wake up

Run now, while your legs still obey

Unbowed, unsung, still unstained

Short for this world. Concentrate

I need to know you hear me; need you safely afraid

Have I been talking to myself

If you won't listen, why would he

Why would you be this good to me

I came to the sewer to be with the rats and still showed up dead last

The caustic disparity of an artist starved into an early grave

Leaving a corpse so fat

All that I'll ever be is pseudo and spurious and false

Even in the best of dreams, I watch myself play the victim

Even in my wildest dreams, I'm still nothing

So here, by the grace of god, go I

And for my final trick, watch me purge this world of empathy

Don't cry for poor sick me

This time I'll make it stick

My wake is teeming with a thousand ghosts holier than me

I simply can't go on to any other worlds than these