Traveling Light

When the world weighs down, I collapse into my mind
I can't form real connections because this world has been unkind
And no matter what I try it always comes back to this
So close I can almost taste it, a reality of bliss

But I fall into the water and drown in the ocean
And the moon can't pull me out of its motion
I fell in alone, and I'll die alone too
Just wishing that I could have made it up to you

Those nights you feel alone because I am so distant
Where you plea in your mind that I was more consistent
But the only thing that I have been taught in this life
Is that when you get attached you'll be stabbed with a knife

So when someone proves that they'll stay by my side
I can't help but wander to universes besides
The wounds cannot heal, and the scars cannot fade
Of true duet's bondage, I'm deathly afraid

My heart refuses to relive being broken
And who knows if my soul will ever reopen
So now I roam through the void without companion
And fall deeper and deeper into the bottomless canyon

And wherever I go, I'll travel light-
Alone and solitary, throughout the night-
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