versusnurture | ➵ soundtrack. ➵

The Archer

Time kicked me off of her island
Motion's been keeping me streamlined
Which direction will you point your arrow?
Mercy is bad for the vision, Ruthless will clear it away

Have mercy Archer
Hunger, it's just you and I alone
I'm guessing targets
Take aim and show me what you know
Have mercy Archer
Hunger, it's just you and I

Loss confiscated my blinders
Too far ahead got behind me
Go for better, just forget the people
They're not the eyes looking back at you from the mirror you've made

Edited 2015-05-09 01:50 (UTC)

Control

They send me away to find them a fortune
A chest filled with diamonds and gold
The house was awake
With shadows and monsters
The hallways they echoed and groaned

I sat alone, in bed 'til the morning
I'm crying, "They're coming for me"
And I tried to hold these secrets inside me
My mind's like a deadly disease

I paced around for hours, on empty
I jumped at the slightest of sounds
And I couldn't stand the person inside me
I turned all the mirrors around

I'm well acquainted
With villains that live in my bed
They beg me to write them
So they'll never die when I'm dead

And I've grown familiar
With villains that live in my head
They beg me to write them
So I'll never die when I'm dead

I'm bigger than my body
I'm colder than this home
I'm meaner than my demons
I'm bigger than these bones

And all the kids cried out,
"Please stop, you're scaring me"
I can't help this awful energy
Goddamn right, you should be scared of me
Who is in control?

In My Stomach

I've been followed by a face marked with pain.
It came close once and he just learned my name.
Every day he grows taller, he looks down at my heart,
and through my throat, he could reach in and pull me apart.

It gets worse when he contacts my eyes.
He can see right through to everything that blackened my veins
and his sounds resonate up and down,
like a march through me, this battlefield,
there's just not much left, so silence the rest.

Nature Boy

There was a boy
A very strange, enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far
Very far, over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day,
One magic day he passed my way
While we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return".

The Woods

I thought it was understood
I’m going out into the woods
To see what is left of me

And all these wolves
Shoot hungry looks
Like crowded streets of vampire teeth
In the city

The garden grows as if she knows
When air gets thin
to let no one in
She knows that nothing grows

And I foresee some changing
With battered hearts recovering
The woods have never been so full

Wolf

Wolf mother, where you been?
You look so worn, so thin
You're a taker, devil's maker
Let me hear you sing, hey ya hey ya

Wolf father, at the door
You don't smile anymore
You're a drifter, shapeshifter
Let me see you run, hey ya hey ya

Holy light, oh, guard the night, oh keep the spirits strong
Watch it grow, child of wolf
Keep holdin' on

When I run through the deep dark forest long after this begun
Where the sun would set, trees were dead and the rivers were none
And I hope for a trace to lead me back home from this place
But there was no sound, there was only me and my disgrace

➵ soundtrack. ➵

the archer ➵ splashdown

control ➵ halsey

in my stomach ➵ alkaline trio

nature boy ➵ aurora

the woods ➵ ohbijou

wolf ➵ first aid kit