The Year 2023

The year 2023, it started dark but so pretty The fireworks in the winter cold It felt so right, it felt so bold Blowing smoke on the porch

January 2023, it's a new life, in a new part of the city Tucked under your duvet Life is good, we had many breads

Then the red leaves started to fall Down your hacked cats and love cons Looking back to it all It was setting up to go wrong

The year 2023, my heart died and broke with me In the year of your memory You've caged me and I can't break free The year 2023, picked up the phone, you're not with me In the year of my memory 6 feet under, wish I'd break free

Did you ever really love someone Whose dying soul you can't see undone? Did you ever know all their desires All their prayers under the wishing stars?

The year 2023, my heart died and broke with me In the year of your memory You've caged me and I can't break free The year 2023, picked up the phone, you're not with me In the year of my memory 6 feet under, wish I'd break free

And I swear I'd never cry again These tears I hold can't water your hopes anyway So I promise I'd break free Went too wild, now I don't know me

The year that you left me, scarred my heart, I am sorry All the words now that I have in me You're in the shadows of my stories The year that you told me all your wishes, your whispered pleas "Please don't leave me." No, so now you live in the wounds of my personality

The year I broke me, it ricocheted to my vicinity Months and years passed, still I carry The hopes and burdens you had with me No, no, I'm not cutting the rope, even if it becomes my final chapter Hey, are you waiting there for me? I don't know if I still have hope and faith in me?

The year 2023, my heart died and broke with me In the year of your memory You've caged me and I can't break free The year 2023, now I don't pick up the phone 'cause you're not with me In the year of my memory 6 feet under, I can never break free

The year 2023, my heart died, it died and broke with me In the year of your memory You've caged me, I can't break free The year 2023, now I don't pick up the phone 'cause you're not with me In the year of my memory 6 feet under, I can never break free

The year your soul was fading away, never saw it, never mind me You go on and on, screaming songs, people around you didn't get your distress calls It's unfair, I know, to make it all about me, but that year, the year 2023 Wish it had been me? What could you have been now, the year you're finally free