the burden
I have everything I’ve ever wanted
but I still can’t sleep the night
shadows watch me in my dreams
I wake up stuck, I wake up worried
can’t move my body
can’t run from me
are my ghosts the ones that haunt me?
are my nightmares memories
that i’ve forgotten?
buried deep
summer wild, last summer free
summer just shy of seventeen
hidden bottles, running feet
falling out from under me
are my ghosts the ones that haunt me?
are my nightmares memories
that i’ve forgotten?
buried deep
this fall is the warmest i’ve ever seen
shoulders coldest the'y’ve ever been
I think the burden of being me
weighs less when I do
weighs more when I do
I think the burden of being me
weighs less when I do
weighs more when I do