Empathy Hostage
cry?
sometimes I just want to say
your life is yours to keep or throw away
When you want me to make up the rules
to a game I don't know how to play
Don't know what I'm supposed to do
to keep you safe from that thing called you
If everything you say is true
You're gonna do it anyway
Am I the only one that's gonna cry
when you finally get the guts to die
Do you just need someone to say goodbye
Or someone to talk ya down
I know you're hurting desperately
I know you're ready for eternity'
Does it help to know that you're hurting me
since I'm the only one around
Oh tell me that you feel better now,
that we can talk and work it out some how
Won't you tell me that you found a way
take a deep breath and see another day
Did you pick me out so I could be
The one who stands staring helplessly
the lucky lucky man who gets to see
Just how serious you are
Well I hope you know you're being cruel
to choose a poor empathetic fool
to watch you do that thing you're gonna do
You finally get to be the star
oh tell me that you feel better now
that we can talk and work it out some how
won't you tell me that you found a way
take a deep breath and live another day
will it be a razor blade or gun
perhaps a nice high dive would be more fun
The pills are painless when the day is done
since I'm the one who gets to feel
Go ahead and make it quick and clean
if not for me it would be sight unseen
God how I wish I had a time machine
to take you back when you were real
Oh tell me that you feel better now
that we can talk and work it out somehow
Oh won't you tell me that you found a way
Take a deep breath and breathe another day
Copyright © Robbie Brusberg | Year Posted 2007
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