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The Third Time

by Coveleski

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I couldn't write songs for the longest time, at least never completely finish a song. I felt I could always write songs in pieces, but never could put them together in any meaningful way. Recently there was a night when I thought everything that made me who I am was gone. I wrote this song the next day on the train home after deciding to change the way I lived my life and the way I interacted with people I loved. I don't think it's my best song, but it is important to me simply because it allowed me to say things I would never say to anyone otherwise.

I play everything on this recording and recorded it in my room. And yes the drums are fake, but I felt I needed to record it immediately and didn't want to deal with the hassle of drums.

Some form of this song will be on the upcoming release of "GUTS."

lyrics

I am holding onto to wire in my too steady hands.
I think I'm pushing hard, but I really don't want to break the skin.
I just want the surface cuts.
I want the type of pain that I can handle.
I want the scares to show that I "handled it"

If I believed and I went for the bone,
all the germs on my skin would seep inside and ruin me.
I've never been quite ready to cut that deep because I'm not sure what I would do,
if I get to the center of my arm and I found
Something...
Missing...

Now I know, that only through the gashes
can I know myself enough to know what I want.
Maybe one day
When I'm older
I'll see you
And we'll compare our scares
and the common abrasions will fill up my insides

(if I find something... missing...)

Then at last I'll have something worth cutting into.
Then at last I'll have something worth letting go of, and holding on to.

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released February 19, 2014

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