The Year 2023

Lyrics

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