Empty Gardens

Bring me your cold and tired (and tired)
I wanna bathe them in the fires of my love (fires of my love)
Tell me your one desire (desire)
I'll show you all the ways you're holding yourself back
Holding yourself back (holding yourself back)

The days turn into nights
Feeding all the doubt inside of me (and I can hardly sleep)
Am I just wasting my life waiting for someone to set me free?
Won't you set me free?

Set me upon a pyre (a pyre)
Watch it burn, extirpate all that's left of me
Tell me who you admire (admire)
I'll show you all the ways you'll never measure up (never measure up)

The days turn into nights
Feeding all the doubt inside of me (and I can hardly sleep)
Am I just wasting my life waiting for someone to set me free?
Won't you set me free?

Stare into the abyss, I could not exist
Substance fades away, such a slow decay
(Wasted all this time) into the abyss, I could not exist
(Wasted all this time) substance fades away

When I let go
Of all the shame thieving me
Of my solace for so long
I will know to redefine what it means
When I pray for you, I pray for you

Empty gardens, sew my name
Bury me in tantric sunlight
Empty gardens, sew my name
Bury me in tantric sunlight
I keep on running, I keep on running out
I keep on running, I keep on running away
I keep on running, I keep on running out
I keep on running, I keep on running away

It's a light inside of a hidden place
At an unknown time in an unkempt space
It's a mantra shifting out of phase
For a scar that time cannot erase
And all along we were told that we would have to wait
'Til we belong and find another way to medicate
And all along we were holding onto so much hate
When I was wrong, I paid for it with every step I took to seal my fate

Stare into the abyss, I could not exist
Substance fades away, such a slow decay
I cannot maintain the weight upon my name
My sickness grows within an empty garden