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Self-Preservation Lyrics by Christopher Michaud

The Island

2020

Gillian sat out on the front porch of our rundown home
In a beaten-up wooden rocking chair that January morning
Stared at me, stared through me, half-smiling
Always that look these days
She was running empty
An impossibility
To fill the void within her heart
Lost our way from the start
She was running empty
An impossibility
All those times she caught me lying
All those nights she wasted crying
Impossibility
We'd made our lives in reckless younger days
Butted heads and broken promises, always a price to pay
But time bred sadness, in her heart grew madness
We couldn't find the right words to let it be saved
And she was running empty
An impossibility
To fill the void I’d left in her heart
Lost my way and broke her apart
She was running empty
An impossibility
All those times she caught me lying
All those nights she wasted crying
Impossibility
She spent too long awake
These nightmares she couldn't face down
All the demons gather 'round
To keep her from her sleep again
"pack your things tomorrow and go
And though it'll hurt me i know
That it's the best for both of us
It's the best way to save myself,"
'Cause she was running empty
Always an impossibility
To fill the space within her heart
That was broken from the start
From all I’d done
'Cause she was running empty
An impossibility
All those nights spent by the phone
All those nights waiting alone
She couldn't take no more of me
Impossibility
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Christopher Michaud

Christopher Michaud

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"Self-Preservation" appears on "The Island" in 2020.

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