The Cost To Stay - As I Lay Dying

I bite my tongue until it bleeds
What you call love, I call deceit

I kept the peace so perfectly
There was nothing left of me
Self-erasure
Disguised as harmony
Sanding down the edges
Filing off what makes me
Ignoring truth for a truce
Until I'm buried

Every thought I never say
Is another part that I gave away

This is what it costs to stay
Turn your world into a cage
I'm building bars with every sorry I burn
The cost to stay

If calm means disappearing
Is it calm or just defeat?
If love means constant shrinking
Is that love or just deceit?
When self-erasure
Becomes the way to harmony
Then self-destruction
Becomes what you will see

Self-destruction

This is what it costs to stay
Turn your world into a cage
I'm building bars with every sorry I burn
The cost to stay
Hold your breath so we can breathe
Hear the suffocating peace
I'm building bars with every sorry I burn
The cruelest chains go unseen

Invisible chains
And a quiet cage
The cost to stay
Self-destruction

I don't need another war
But I can't survive this ceasefire
I'd rather face the fire
Than slowly disappear

Disappear

This is what it costs to stay
Turn your world into a cage
I'm building bars with every sorry I burn
The cost to stay
Hold your breath so we can't breathe
Is this suffocating peace?
I'm building bars with every sorry I burn
The cruelest chains go unseen

I bite my tongue until it bleeds
What you call love, I call deceit

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