BURN (Wattys2015?)

hate me

"Hate me in ways

Yeah, ways hard to swallow

Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you"

maybe things are better off this way,

you say you haven't felt this way before

but i know you have, don't lie to me

you know i've never had what you're looking for

now i'm lying here, all alone

isn't this how we were?

and what happened last night

is hard to reach, it's all a blur

now i'm counting the seconds

that tick on by

it kills when you beg

me to try

can we verbalize

what's going on inside?

but all my feelings

i try to hide

staring into the open spaces

between photographs and memories

i want to tear them down

oh my darling, please

everything would be better if you didn't have me

if you can't forgive, then that's okay

just please try to forget

what i said today

i need you to move on

i don't want you to go

but i'm just going to hurt you

this, you already know

what will it take?

for you to be happy?

what can I do?

to make you see?

if you have to hate me

then god, i'll make you hate me

so you can walk away from this

so you can be free

you're shackled to me

i'll break your chains

i'll open your cage

so you can fly away

i'm doing this for you

breaking your heart now

if we had met ten years later

i'd have said my vows

but i'm such a mess

i'm a walking grenade

and i can't hurt you like that

it makes me so afraid

of myself

and of taking you down

with me

i love you

but sometimes

things aren't that simple

sometimes there's a little more

that's needed to make things work

and i just think if you step back

you'd see that you're better off without me

you'll be safe from me

away from me

it's killing me to let you go

but i'll let you go

and you'll hate me

and that's okay

because i'm doing this

for you