It’s a slow death by a thousand words

That echo in her ear

It’s not yet a scar, she bleeds from her heart

It’s a nosedive right into nothing

Nothing to appease anyone at all

It’s dark and it’s cold, she’s scared and alone

Hold on dear life to me

What’s frayed is not a tear

Hold on dear life I see

A young girl running scared and

What kind of a man would haunt you

And leave you with ghosts to taunt you

And what would you have me do

Who’s to say that I ever would have found her

Who’s to say she could have been found at all

The ifs and the hows, it’s all over now

But tell me how you sat so stoic

Tell me how was it that you sat so still

Did a young girl’s cries fall so hard onto deaf ears

That your eyes couldn’t see what was clear

Hold on dear life to me

What’s frayed is not a tear

Hold on dear life I see

A young girl running scared and

What kind of a man would haunt you

And leave you with ghosts to taunt you

And what would you have me do

I hope that the angels save ya

Cause all the king’s men have failed ya

And what would you have me do

Rehtaeh

Now the echoes turn to a chorus

Of the Devil’s favorite song

And it opens her scars

It rips her apart

Hold on dear life to me

What’s frayed is not a tear

Hold on dear life I see

A young girl running scared

What kind of a man would haunt you

And leave you with ghosts to taunt you

And what would you have me do

Whatever you lost I’ll find it

Before another young voice goes quiet

What would you have me do

Rehtaeh

What would you have me do

Rehtaeh

What would you have me do

Rehtaeh

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Appears on ‘No Telling When‘ available in the store.

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