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a collection of lyrics from the 2019 album ❛ phantoms ❜ by marianas trench all complied into a meme for you heathens
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❝ do you hear me now? ❞ ❝ stay near me ❞ ❝ it grows so quiet on widow’s peak ❞ ❝ the silence shares my madness ❞
ＯＮＬＹ ＴＨＥ ＬＯＮＥＬＹ ＳＵＲＶＩＶＥ
❝ i’d rather hurt here than be happy somewhere else ❞ ❝ no one will scar me like you do ❞ ❝ but no one will ever be compared to you ❞ ❝ the heart gets slow ❞ ❝ we all heal though ❞ ❝ you never know to stay or go ❞ ❝ but i know a love like this will end in tragedy ❞ ❝ every kiss suspending gravity ❞ ❝ burns us both to love this close ❞ ❝ we lose ourselves ❞ ❝ i know we won’t get out alive ❞ ❝ i’m sure you thought of someone else. somebody not as complicated as myself ❞ ❝ he’ll never scar you like i do ❞ ❝ he’ll never know you; not the way that i knew you ❞ ❝ so why don’t you let go ❞ ❝ it hurts like hell to love this well ❞ ❝ no one falls the way we fell ❞ ❝ we’ll burn alive ❞ ❝ only the lonely survive ❞
ＥＣＨＯＥＳ ＯＦ ＹＯＵ
❝ i’ve never given into madness ❞ ❝ i’m better now than before ❞ ❝ you inhale ‘till your lungs get sore ❞ ❝ but that’s not who i am anymore ❞ ❝ stirs of whispers trail and linger ❞ ❝ you still haunt the corner of my eye ❞ ❝ those remnant faces, fleeting traces of you ❞ ❝ echoes of you, repeating from the beating of your telltale heart ❞ ❝ i just want to make it vanish ❞ ❝ the notes of an old mistake ring louder every day ❞ ❝ i can’t stop myself from falling ❞ ❝ you said don’t look down ❞ ❝ i still insist i see the ghosts ❞
ＤＯＮ＇Ｔ ＭＩＳＳ ＭＥ？
❝ been forever since you’ve crossed my mind ❞ ❝ i guess it’s true how time can fly ❞ ❝ i know i said that i would call, but i never think of you at all ❞ ❝ you know, it’s not like i miss your laughter ❞ ❝ it’s not like i miss your face ❞ ❝ it’s not like i can’t get past it; it’s not like i miss your taste ❞ ❝ i tell myself that i can so with the space between me to you ❞ ❝ i’m just a drink away from honesty, so who knows what’s true? ❞ ❝ i’m wondering if maybe you don’t miss me too ❞ ❝ you know, i don’t remember why we stayed ❞ ❝ a foot out the door, a foot in the grave ❞ ❝ some people try to raise the dead; some people try to live instead ❞ ❝ too much time, or much too little. back and forth and in the middle ❞
ＷＩＳＨ ＹＯＵ ＷＥＲＥ ＨＥＲＥ
❝ mirror, mirror on the wall who’s fairer? ❞ ❝ can you save me from today’s night terror? ❞ ❝ you got to help, you got to help ❞ ❝ you know that you got to help me try ❞ ❝ i can’t shake this ache i carry ❞ ❝ i don’t recall now why we’re buried ❞ ❝ when the night comes crawling in ❞ ❝ try not to fall but there ain’t no stopping it ❞ ❝ here and now, i say it louder. just wish that you were here ❞ ❝ i’m trying to get up ❞ ❝ ‘cause enough is enough ❞ ❝ i sit wondering what do i do? ❞ ❝ what’s a little bit of hopeless holding? ❞ ❝ so maybe who we were then is shattered ❞ ❝ but who we are in the end’s what matters ❞ ❝ nobody goes without ❞
ＹＯＵＲ ＧＨＯＳＴ
❝ just can’t help but see your face ❞ ❝ it’s everywhere i turn ❞ ❝ a spectre i can’t embrace ❞ ❝ it’s like every time you vanish, somehow you’re still here ❞ ❝ you never seem to manage to just disappear ❞ ❝ and everything i see comes crashing down on me ❞ ❝ but the ghost of you is always near ❞ ❝ i can’t get myself together ❞ ❝ i’ve been running for forever from your ghost ❞ ❝ you are just enough out of reach ❞ ❝ i can leave this place forever, but i know i’ll never sever from your ghost ❞ ❝ it comes to me in my sleep, somewhere just before the dawn ❞ ❝ my haunted heart in uneasy ❞ ❝ i never need to wonder if i’ll ever be from underneath your ghost ❞
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❝ i saw you in black and white, bathed in the city light ❞ ❝ i couldn’t see you there ❞ ❝ got a torch i’ve been carrying ❞ ❝ something we’re afraid to try ❞ ❝ can we forgive and forget? ❞ ❝ and can we lay it to rest? ❞ ❝ can we catch our breath? ❞ ❝ straight through the chest like a thunderclap ❞ ❝ it’s funny what you find when you go without ❞ ❝ i see a glimmer of us ❞ ❝ thirst got the best of us ❞ ❝ hurt took the rest of us ❞ ❝ tell me: what does it mean if we can never leave it? ❞ ❝ you’ve changed, but it’s not enough. and doubt is insidious ❞ ❝ i can’t get it off me ❞
Ｉ ＫＮＥＷ ＹＯＵ ＷＨＥＮ
❝ if you’re saying this is the end... ❞ ❝ the first night in our first place, we ate on the floor while summer twilight ricocheted ❞ ❝ it was easier back then ❞ ❝ i’ve been loving you too long to just suddenly move on from this ❞ ❝ we shedded way too much to just let it make a mess of us ❞ ❝ you said ‘forever’s not enough’ while we were close ❞ ❝ i thought time was supposed to heal it; don’t do shit but keep you feelin’ ❞ ❝ is this a new beginning or the start of another end? ❞ ❝ if you want to try again, honey i’ll know you then ❞
ＴＨＥ ＤＥＡＴＨ ＯＦ ＭＥ
❝ how the light attaches to a change of heart ❞ ❝ what was simple, now there’s questions; the kind i don’t look my best in ❞ ❝ the ghost in me will keep us far apart ❞ ❝ you know you don’t deserve this ❞ ❝ i don’t know how to word this ❞ ❝ i just wanted you to know that i would love you if i could ❞ ❝ my unsteady heart’s not ready ❞ ❝ you’d only get what’s left of me ❞ ❝ only this is gonna’ be the death of me ❞ ❝ i would give you anything if i had anything to give left ❞ ❝ the phantoms here will never have their fill ❞ ❝ cries of love reduced to a whisper ❞ ❝ the truth is that her ghost...it haunts me still ❞ ❝ i’ve forgotten how it feels to have my head over my heels ❞ ❝ i don’t want to walk away ❞ ❝ but it’s not fair to let you stay ❞ ❝ i’ll fall apart beyond a kiss, a castaway upon your lips ❞
ＴＨＥ ＫＩＬＬＩＮＧ ＫＩＮＤ
❝ i roam these halls, search the night, in hopes that i may see a remnant trace, a glimpse of you ❞ ❝ the deep stares back, speaks to me... ❞ ❝ i know my love can be the killing kind ❞ ❝ what if i was wrong by never moving on? ❞ ❝ the ghost in me was true, but you were haunted too. just didn’t see it all along ❞ ❝ nevermore to leave here ❞ ❝ here and now, if this is it. can’t get out from under it ❞ ❝ there and then, i should have known ❞ ❝ it was me all along ❞ ❝ try and try to let you go, and i’ll just disappear ❞ ❝ go down below where children go, and we all float down here ❞ ❝ you still haunt the corners of my heart ❞ ❝ one for the memory, two for the pain, don’t love the bottle with the deeper disdain ❞ ❝ if madness overtakes us both, then nobody would be alone ❞ ❝ the ghost of us can linger here, forever not to disappear ❞ ❝ forever we’re together, bound in madness ❞ ❝ if this is it, why don’t we just savour it? ❞