Music and Lyrics © Matt W. Ebel

The depths to which I’ve fallen-
shallow in your light-
seem to pull more quickly
the more I try to fight.
Within a great decision
to follow and believe,
but I have grown complacent and
politely asked you to leave.

Ignorance is blistering,
love is paid in full & painful.
Hope is just a thing with feathers,
coy and playful.

Lift me.
Lift me.
Lift me,
let me breathe.

It’s up to my discretion
to follow or to drown-
to grab the rope or grab my heart
that’s weighing me down.
You promised that you’d save me,
they said that you were wise.
So why can I not see you
when I look into my eyes?

Hope is like a riverbed,
grief is like a stone inside me.
Wash me ’till the jagged edges
smooth beside me.

…and in the mirror I can see
someone scared that looks like me.
I want to hold him as he cries,
but the glass breaks
when I try.

Lift me.