Leana Leal Poet Lyric

Safe and Sound

I know I said I’d be better by now
But I wander through like a ghost in town
And I can’t live with the person that did that to you

It’s not unlike a wounded heart
It bleeds and aches like dripping art 
And yet it beats in rebellion to keep the pain in

I have hurt you
I have lost you
I have let you down 
And now you’re forced 
To keep me around,
Safe and sound

We both know I’ve been here before,
I’m a coward commanding a broken horse
Expecting him to move on like a machine

Ignorance is a travelled arch
But recklessness is the patriarch 
It takes the lead and decomposes all your progress

I have hurt you
I have lost you
I have let you down 
And now you’re forced 
To keep me around,
Safe and sound

I have no pride in what I did.
It makes me question my will to live
But then again, that was questioned before

I know that’s not what you want to hear
But then you ask me to draw you near
And I cannot shield the darkness as it’s around me

Hold me softly
Don’t forgive me 
Here I will sit down
I’m sorry you’re forced to keep me around
Safe and sound

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