Blue And Gray

I don't want to fight about who's pulling the weightwait for me upstairs I'll be up to rub your neckI want to be let down and disenchantedto walk through a cloud of disappointment - help me outI thought I escaped but the snakes still camewrapped around my body tangled up in my ribcagewe just need to find songs we want to hearthe sounds been making my blue eyes go gray all these years I'm suffocating nowI overdosed somehow on my own medicineI know all to wellthe demons I can't handlecan hurt the ones I loveif I can hold them off, just long enoughI'll get my mind straightthat ought to hold them off, just long enoughI'll push this down inside I know if we'd never met I'd be dead by nowI've been fucked up - a nervous wreak as long as I can rememberbut you write the story so pick up the pendraw me pretty pictures of everything I hope to live we grew up way too fastforget about the pastnothing can change that nowyou'll learn to like the painand turn it into somethingthat everyone else can lovethat ought to hold them off, just long enoughI'll get my mind straightthat ought to hold them off, just long enoughI'll push this down inside