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Artist: Hotel Books
Album:  Run Wild, Young Beauty
Song:   813 Maryland St.
Typed by: AZ Lyrics

She put bullet through a Bible and thought it would empower her
but she felt nothing and that's all she needed
to finally feel nothing. She stopped by my house the next morning and said 
"I'm sorry but I still don't feel like this life is worth living
you did all you can you do." 
I looked at her with tears in my eyes and said "Darling, I'm sorry
but I'm glad I'm not you." She said "At least I know 
this is all temporary but the carpet grains will still hold stains
even when you die." You won't have to face them but they will remain. 
She said she had enough baggage to rattle the cage of rage
worthless page after page to rearrange the strange game of pain
seeping further into a strain of remains. Tags with names
she felt like the lone survivor of a civil war 
of inner peace versus inner desire
hoping somehow to change. The casualties were her hope and her sanity
a damaging calamity of fragile ideals being washed away 
when waging war against a staging of poor ideologies that lead to death
but at least she felt something and at least it all meant something.
There's no way to see beauty when its just 
the blind leading the blind. 
There's no way to see beauty when its just 
losing love to justify your stupid lies.
She said, "I watched my house catch fire and I didn't feel a thing." 
Well darling, congratulations
I wish I had that sort of inner peace. 
I'm digging into catacombs built beneath this frame 
I call a body and expectations diminish 
as I uncovered there's nothing underneath hiding.
She had taken what I once needed to feel like I could be something 
and I spent so long being bitter but now I'm finally celebrating
thanking God for those brief moments where my eyes met hers. 
And she was caught in a life that felt like one rapid blur 
the spur of the moment cure for her boredom and my lack of adventure.
We were caught somewhere between a pack of menthols 
she kept on the nightstand where she would sleep 
and a broken down truck that used to drive her to her dreams 
but now sat as an eye sore metaphor for the home we created to nourish our weaknesses; the brittle middle ground sounding this rebound argument 
with God that we call living. It was nothing not even trying to win 
any sort of race, I just wanted to finish
or at least sort of place but as I kept running I diminished 
the existence I created out of love so I can breath easier. 
When I tried to fall asleep in this ocean pushing me 
side to side on her broken dreams.
She said, "It's easier to fall asleep just knowing 
that when I have something to say somebody's listening to me." She said
"I don't care if I have a plan. I don't care if I understand 
all I need to know is that I have some sort of calling. 
I just need to know that somebody is listening."