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I’m not afraid of rejection I’m afraid of the phoenix that will rise from my spine with the threat of treason Suppress the flame and walk away Use your once tempted fingers to point yourself in the direction of least resistance It’s not the road less traveled by, It’s the lifeless path, ignored and left to crumble And now it’s shapeshifting through a lifetime With internal scars and deep holes that desperately need filling And if you think I’m talking about a road, than you’re not the brightest bulb in the bunch And if you think I mean with asphalt than you’re head is not as sharp as I thought it was Waiting for secrets to be spilled But you are the secret You’re life is just chemicals and I’m not afraid of rejection I’m afraid of combining the wrong elements of friction To where I can’t come back from this reaction A perfect pairing like the sun and the snow Under every step, swam the quicksand But we were too blinded by my naivety to know Romeo and Juliet had nothing on us But we ended even more tragically And less enigmatically I'm in the hunger games for your attention And there's ever-changing rules I keep missing that you fail to mention And breaking them could lead to my undeserving disqualification But I’ve already demoted these thoughts into empty air Hoping they’d vanish if I just ignore them Sometimes you have to pretend your house isn’t haunted For the spirits to finally exit I’m not afraid of rejection I’m afraid of the burning passion I can see in my eyes without a reflection I’m terrified of the way I fall for corrupted introspection And with a burning passion comes a burning question What would've happened if I went through with it? I’m not afraid of rejection I’m afraid of the avalanche that will bury me if I reclimb this mountain And looking up from the bottom seems so intimidating But a butterfly never worries about what it looks like in the beginning I’m so tied down, like a rope around my neck, I’m suspended here by something So convoluted, is your mind a black hole or a galaxy? If you’re Juliet, than you know who I’d be There's lingering passion in my eyes I don't need a reflection to see Is it gunpowder or a lack of sugar and water? You can't be the lighter, I can't be the hairspray Just suppress the flame and walk away
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