You hide from your past like a ship hides at sea

Burying it beneath the blackened sand

Anchoring it onto the rocky reef 

That is, until you are the only thing that stands

Excuse after excuse

Lie after lie

It gets exhausting, doesn’t it?

Coming up with a new life, restarting every time

Your brain bounces around like a ship trapped in a bottle

Hitting the sides again and again

The damage is small but irreversible 

Its never ending, day after day, enough to drive you insane 

As time goes on your glass cracks and splits

Sanity slips and slides through your fingers, nothing but fluid water

It pools around you, your body and mind

Salt burns your eyes and now you’ve gone blind

That’s when you lose sight and begin to capsize

It's the anger and the hate

Regret and rage, it suffocates you

You’re drowning, reaching for a hand

Oh, but you can’t hide from the truth

The bottle seems to shrink, you reach for a helping hand

But it's not there, is it?

The glass bursts and begins to flood

Water fills your lungs as you try to call for someone, anyone

But it's too late, you misunderstand

Your whole life you rejected that helping hand

The bow dips down as the foremast begins to break

You’re alone, your own captain and first mate

The cork popped

The pressure was too much

It’s too overwhelming and you slipped up

The bottle shattered and everything flooded, cold to the touch

As you begin to sink

As the world begins to disappear

As it fades to black, you start to think

“How did I get here?”

Oh, my dear captain

You know damn well how this happened