every year gets better

you're terrified

fighting and flailing at the future

just back down

all you defy

you can't escape so make the best of it

the rest of all you have is running out fast

but maybe all it is you need is someone who has been there first and knows their way around

'cause you've got a cage in the back of your mind

and i've got the key that'll let the birds fly

in this darkened room

with this darkened view

we'll let the light peer through

i woke up with tired and jaded in the same bed

that i slept in since i was seventeen

i zipped my hoodie up and i

looking through two tired eyes

showed them out the door that i barricaded shut the week before

when every year gets better

why am i scared?

'cause i'm prepared for this and always have been