Vestiges-Family and Friends

[00:08.51]I’ve been losing patience with myself [00:11.31]And the lies the mirror fails to hide and tell [00:14.33]My beating heart, my splitting cells are betraying me [00:19.04]Been turning my virtues into vices [00:21.12]Like water into wine [00:24.10]I’d rather be genuine and a cynic [00:26.37]Than a hypocrite living a lie [00:28.94]What is time in the eyes of a dying man? [00:32.91]When I leave, I plead not heed a second chance [01:03.05]Heard your voice through the payphone line [01:04.00]And I am drunk with lust, my whiskey tongue-tied [01:07.98]Words, slurred, I apologize [01:10.09]But yours is the first name that came to mind [01:14.64]My wounded breath and bloodshot eyes [01:19.06]Wanting only to love and to be loved by you [01:26.34]Wow Wow Wow Wow [01:34.07]I’ve been swearing at the stars, I’ve been cursing at my luck [01:38.05]Like the wolves curse at the moon for the lack of a sun [01:42.40]And fate cursed my father with a daughter for a son [01:49.53]Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow [02:03.40]If it happened to me it can happen to anyone [02:15.20]Oh how I miss my brother [02:17.26]Most of all come time summer [02:19.47]Leaves will fall and change their color [02:21.93]I may never know another one like you [02:29.95]Oh how I miss my sister [02:32.21]Most of all, come time winter [02:34.47]Knew her best when times were simpler [02:37.27]Still the same, now but different [02:44.86]In life and love, she spared no mercy [02:49.81]Deserving not was I nor worthy [03:02.01]Father please forgive me I have forsaken your family’s name [03:07.47]I will burden blame and hang my head for shame [03:19.52]Raise your glass high, I propose a toast, [03:23.95]To the lives and love we let go [03:28.52]Wiser now in years than I am old [03:32.08]My love, my life, I let them go [03:34.05]We will all die alone [03:37.96]Sit on my hands to free them from fetter [03:40.49]Pillow to chest, and let feelings fester [03:42.13]You were the one always, forever [03:44.69](Wanting only to love and to be loved by you) [03:47.27]You were the one always, forever [03:49.06](Wanting only to love and to be loved by you) [03:52.38]You were the one always, forever [03:54.58](I may never know another one like you) [03:57.12]Sit on my hands to free them from fetter [03:58.81]Pillow to chest, and let feelings fester [04:03.97]You were the one always forever