Reality Bites

from Oh the Day Dreams, Oh the Nightmares by Izzy Nero

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Just wanna learn to be a human being
But survival is the hardest lesson to learn
Can't write it down on paper
Can't learn it in just one course

So wouldn't it be great
If every day had a sitcom ending?
A laugh track for your troubles and your woes
A happy ending to eternal eternal days

And I wouldn't say it to your face
But watching friends become wives
Become mothers
Feels like salt in the wounds
Of my cliche failures

Cause everybody's got a purpose
Got a focus that isn't them
To distract from the fact that they haven't found themselves
And they know they never will

But sometimes there's relief
Find love is morphine for the hits
Like a blindfolded kiss after you've been beat
Life becomes Neverland despite the bruises

But you can get hooked on unfeeling
Love can become the pain
And all you ever feel becomes love and its jaws
And you wished it'd all stay the same

But you can't excuse yourself with youth
Too old to make this many mistakes
And too young so unprepared
Twenty something you're unfair

So cut me in half with that double edged sword
Cause I finally figured it out....

Survival is taking the torture, the beating
The risk, the empire fall
And lifting your splattered soul off the pavement

Be ready to begin again
Be ready to begin again
Be ready to begin again

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from Oh the Day Dreams, Oh the Nightmares, released June 6, 2015
All music and lyrics by Izzy Nero

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