Migraine

Album: Vessel (2012)
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  • Am I the only one I know
    Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
    Shadows will scream that I'm alone-lone-lone

    I-I-I I've got a migraine
    And my pain will range from up, down, and sideways
    Thank God it's Friday 'cause Fridays will always be better than Sundays
    'Cause Sundays are my suicide days
    I don't know why they always seem so dismal
    Thunderstorms, clouds, snow, and a slight drizzle
    Whether it's the weather or the letters by my bed
    Sometimes death seems better than the migraine in my head
    Let it be said what the headache represents
    It's me defending in suspense
    It's me suspended in a defenseless test
    Being tested by a ruthless examiner
    That's represented best by my depressing thoughts
    I do not have writer's block, my writer just hates the clock
    It will not let me sleep, I guess I'll sleep when I'm dead
    And sometimes death seems better than the migraine in my head

    Am I the only one I know
    Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
    Shadows will scream that I'm alone
    But I know, we've made it this far, kid

    Yeah, yeah, yeah

    I am not as fine as I seem, pardon
    Me for yelling, I'm telling you green gardens
    Are not what's growing in my psyche, it's a different me
    A difficult beast feasting on burnt down trees
    Freeze frame, please let me paint a mental picture portrait
    Something you won't forget, it's all about my forehead
    And how it is a door that hold's back contents
    That makes Pandora's box contents look non-violent
    Behind my eyelids are islands of violence
    My mind ship-wrecked this is the only land my mind could find
    I did not know it was such a violent island
    Full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions
    They're trying to eat me, blood running down their chin
    And I know that I can fight, or I can let the lion win
    I begin to assemble what weapons I can find
    'Cause sometimes to stay alive, you gotta kill your mind

    Am I the only one I know
    Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
    Shadows will scream that I'm alone
    But I know, we've made it this far, kid

    (Ah, yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah
    (Oh, oh) Yeah, yeah, yeah

    And I will say that we should take a day to break away
    From all the pain our brain has made, the game is not played alone
    And I will say that we should take a moment and hold it
    And keep it frozen and know that life has a hopeful undertone
    And I will say that we should take a day to break away
    From all the pain our brain has made, the game is not played alone
    And I will say that we should take a moment and hold it
    And keep it frozen and know that life has a hopeful undertone

    Am I the only one I know, oh
    Waging my wars behind my face and above my throat?
    Shadows will scream that I'm alone
    But I know, we've made it this far, kid

    Made it this far
    Made it this f- Writer/s: Tyler Joseph
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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