Virtues - Substance Lyrics

Pick your shirt off the bedroom floor
Recollecting night after night
What it's like to shove
Your skin with needles to form a makeshift pain

Endless cycles from day to night
With your white lips and pale face
Your head in the clouds
A fragile state of mind

What you need is silence
A change in your stature
Walk a little straighter
And you'll see the transition
An epiphany you already knew
Is what separates me from you
And you can't wake yourself up
From a point of no return

When rage and fury emerges
Could you bear to watch
Your mother's tears drop onto her cheeks
Hindering the bond
You had with this family
Your hands came down empty

Constantly surrounded by inadequate influences (Your loss)
Dictated by substances, stuck in decay
But mom and dad were your saviours after all
You were provided with the brightest of life (Your luck)
Yet you set upon yourself in the darkest of places
Suffocating on your own empathy (Endless)
Had choices to resonate but the air grows paper-thin

What you need is silence
A change in your stature
Walk a little straighter
And you'll see the transition
An epiphany you already knew
Is what separates me from you
And you can't wake yourself up
From a point of no return