Mason McLendon - Final Hope

This feeling I can't shake
This weight I can't break
This darkness I can't escape
The happiness I can't fake
From this nightmare I can't wake

This thing is pulling at me, tearing at me, yelling at me
Trying to get me to give in
This thing has me and it's winning
I knew it would ever since the beginning

I don't know how much longer I can hold out
before the pain closes in and forces me to shout
'You win! I'm giving in! '
The darkness is cold, so cold, it envelopes me

It makes me turn to things that aren't right
That aren't moral
It makes me think things that aren't sane
It creeps down my spine like a million fingers
And takes a hold of me and drags me down
Deeper and deeper

Can I escape?
Is there any hope of getting out?
I'm looking for rays of light seeping through the night
Like a hole in the walls of this monster

I need a sign of hope
A faint hope
A hope that I'll get out
Get out alive
I know what it wants

It doesn't want me
It wants my fear
It wants my sadness
My blood
My existence

It wants me to die because of it!
It thinks that I'll give in
But it can throw everything it's got at me
I won't let it win

Mason McLendon

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