Trying to live this life with no regrets
Killing myself with all this medicine
I know I should have called it
Should have called it long ago
But I let feelings get involved
Until push came to shove
So poke your head out of this grave
'Cause there's nothing worth saving that can't be saved.
I found a pattern with easy decisions and hard regrets.
If it don't eat me up I still know what to expect.
We're frozen deer staring down the barrel of a gun
When the hammer hits the bullet
Then it will be known,
That nothing can save us
No, Nothing can save us
From the strangers of ourselves.
So poke your head out of this grave.
'Cause if you can't change this then you can't be saved.
I held your picture to the window
In a confessional booth I said,
"Lord I'm sorry.. but now what do I do?"
So lay your head down in that grave.
Nothing can save us
It just can't save us
From yourself
From myself
Not this time.
credits
from Nothing Can Save Us,
track released July 6, 2009
Music by Ryan Shafer. Lyrics by Greg Nearhood.
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