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nightmares


Go to sleep, and close your eyes, 

All you see are these dark skies,

And dream of broken butterflies, 

that tore their wings against a thorn, 

you know the pain that they have borne, 

silver metal shine so bright, 

scarlet blood dat feels so right, 

dream of dat blood trickling down, 

and wake up jus before you drown, 

the moonlights shining off your tears, 

as you bleed out your own worst fears, 

so tonight when you start to cry, 

whisper the cutter's lullaby, 

hushabye baby your almost dead, 

you dont have a pulse and your pillow is red, 

your family hates you, 

your friends let you bleed, 

sleep tight with a knife, cuz dats all you need,

rockabye baby broken and scarred, 

you didnt know that life would be dis hard, 

time to end da pain that you hid so well,

and down will come baby, 

straight back to hell....

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