Sadness takes over, day after day
And all that’s happy seems to fade away
All the laugher is an echo of pain
As we hide inside waiting the night.

Reasons escape,
The blue is here to stay.
We’re taking a chance
There’s no other way.

My heart is shredded,
Yet I find I cannot cry.
Afraid of the dark,
I’m broken inside.

Smiles are so easily given,
But they tell other lies.
But look into my eyes and you’ll see
All my heart’s desire.

I’m living my dream
Yet I’m empty inside.
If not for the sadness
that surrounds my heart.

I’m surrounded by friends,
Yet none worthwhile
And I can’t find in the books,
What I’ve left behind.

Who are we?
I ask myself as I look into the mirror,
The face that stares back is so familiar
And still nothing is the same.

What have we done?
Have we lost ourselves while chasing shadows?
Have we drowned in our own sorrow?
Have we suffered so much we stopped trying?

The eyes that look back at me are so much older than I remember.
I watch as memories from the past run through my fingers like sand
There's no holding back anymore
They're all gone, and so are we.

We learned from our mistakes, but some can't suffer amends,
And the people we loved, we lost forever.
I was once young and brave
A little girl with the world in her hands.

But her wings were chained by those
Who would stop her from flying
And her dreams were burned
Right before her eyes.
Her creativity suppressed,
By those who could so easily lie.
And her tears would carry, an empty desire.

We were born to be broken,
But does that means we can't be fixed?
We were shapped for loneliness,
But can't others hear our hearts screaming?
We were taught to be hopeless, yet faith took over
On those who foreced themselves to believe.

We have done that, haven't we?
So easily abandoned, by those who claimed to care
And so easily fooled, by anyone who would stop to stare.
So desperate for love, we forgot to love ourselves.

We were shaped into humans, who never learned to care
And we were taught to continue, even though we were bleeding.
We were raised in fear, of the pains from within
Yet as we went to sleep, unwatched, we dreamed of freedom