They'll Clap When You're Gone

I can feel the walls closing in

And I don’t want to talk anymore

Wish I could quietly slip away

And leave you here with no void

The only reason I stay is to care for you

Everything else in me has atrophied

And I am cold and painless now

I want to live but i feel nothing

When can I die, when can I go?

When will I be free, when will I know?

When can I run? My legs are bound

When can i go, when can i go?

Was born a blackened seed in the wild

And I never was a child

I was pulled right out of the sea

And the salt, it never left my body

Someone opened me up while I was sleeping

And filled my body right up with sand

I carry a heaviness like a mountain

It forces me to remain

Alive and ugly, alive and ugly

Alive and ugly, alive and ugly

When can I die, when can I go?

When will I be free, when will I know?

When can I run? My legs are bound

Can I leave here, knowing you’ll be strong without me?

They’ll clap when you die

They’ll love you when you’re dead

And they’ll understand

And you’ll be forgiven then