Somehow I chose you before we met Like fate was drawing our silhouette I've loved you longer than time can prove Before these years started to move You were that language no one can speak A feral soul no one can reach All locked inside, no open door A world untouched, unknown before But every time I looked at you I read the things you never do Between your lines, beneath your skin I knew the quiet you were in We both know it all too well You only know yourself in the shells Of battles lost to ghosts inside Where all your loud demons hide And I'm drawn into the deep Where your shadows softly creep I'm a lover of the abyss you keep Of the echoes in your comma eyes that weep I've been fighting who I am, I've been fighting the world I knew 'Cause every version of me ends the same, with you I'm Sisyphus, I'm Prometheus sentenced by what I choose The greatest act of rebellion, loving you You closed yourself where none could see A distant shore, an unsolved sea But something in me recognized The shape of all you kept disguised Maybe the part of me left alone That built its own unspoken home Heard your silence call its name And answered back just the same So when you felt beyond all sense Beyond all reach, beyond defense I didn't break you to get through I understood because I knew We both know it all too well You only know yourself in the shells Of battles lost to ghosts inside Where all your loud demons hide And I'm drawn into the deep Where your shadows softly creep I'm a lover of the abyss you keep Of the echoes in your comma eyes that weep I've been fighting who I am, I've been fighting the world I knew 'Cause every version of me ends the same, with you I'm Sisyphus, I'm Prometheus sentenced by what I choose The greatest act of rebellion, loving you And our lives will go on, we'll laugh in a crowded bar Take something just to blur how broken things we are And you'll be out there smiling wide For somebody else's eyes Letting strangers learn your body Like it ain't no sacrifice What am I supposed to do? Pretend you never stay? Fill your space with empty hearts And throw them all away? Drink until I can't feel my hands Smoke until I can't see Or scream your name from thirty floors Until it stops hurting me? I've been fighting who I am, I've been fighting the world I knew 'Cause every version of me ends the same, with you I'm Sisyphus, I'm Prometheus sentenced by what I choose The greatest act of rebellion, loving you