Sentry On Alert

from In The Aftermath by OS

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Comfort is a concept out of reach for you
Once gripped by the moment
We should sit down and lay our truths
It’s ashaming our perspectives involve a clash
But I won’t hold back and meet your demands

Played the role, you played the role perfectly
Plundering my treasures, miraculous revenge
My life’s not yours to be used by you

So, if you flip the cards at your might
Do it at your own peril before me

And I just feel like I’m drowning
Making it up with silence
Blowing in your face when you put me to the test
Like I’m evicting your hunger
Hunger for applause
Too enthralled to see a sentry on alert needs sleep

Swim ahead through the flotsam
Through the pillars and balustrades
I guess I’m at my best
When bringing others’ wrongs out.
But I’m not the best, I am a beast
I’ll take everything I need

While you pity the girls
Those that stood you up
Dreading your luck while lacking the pluck

And I just feel like I’m drowning
Making it up with silence
Blowing in your face when you put me to the test
Like I’m evicting your hunger
Hunger for applause
Too enthralled to see a sentry on alert needs sleep

Like a Finnish tree
Paradoxically cut with fire
By your own cold sword
Now I know what to do

And I just feel like I’m drowning
Making it up with silence
And I just feel like I’m drowning
Feel like I’m drowning
Making it up with silence

I just feel like I’m drowning
Making it up with silence
Mine is a scar of permanent scratch
And forever you’ll scratch that scar of mine
Like I’m evicting your hunger
Hunger for applause

And I just feel like I’m drowning
I feel like I’m drowning
Mine is a scar of permanent scratch
And forever you’ll scratch that scar of mine

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from In The Aftermath, released May 30, 2017

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