This Ends with Me
Some of what hurt me was handed down to me, the same way it was handed down before that. This is me deciding it stops here, so my kids don't inherit it.
There's a poison in the bloodline, there's a ghost in every room
A quiet, ancient sorrow, a familiar, welcome tomb
It's a lesson handed down from a father to a son
To build a cage around your heart before the day is done
It's the love that tastes like duty, it's the kindness that's a lie
The silent, sad inheritance you're meant to pass on when you die
But the fever's breaking, can't you see the dawn?
The ghost inside the mirror is a battle I have won
I am the one I've waited for, the one who's strong enough to see
This is not my story, and this curse will end with me.
I will not be a monument to a pain I didn't start
I am the one who's here to build a new and beating heart
They gave me a broken compass, they gave me a crooked map
They taught me that a father's love was just another trap
And I have been the warden of a prison in my head
And I have slept on a cold floor beside a warm and empty bed
And I have been the good ghoul, the one who eats his pain
So I will not be the reason for another drop of rain
But the fever's breaking, can't you see the dawn?
The ghost inside the mirror is a battle I have won
I am the one I've waited for, the one who's strong enough to see
This is not my story, and this curse will end with me.
I will not be a monument to a pain I didn't start
I am the one who's here to build a new and beating heart