Digest - Ben Taylor

When it gets me depressed I find

That it’s best with my chest high

As I stretch my lungs & express my love

Hold my breath & forget my pride

To reflect that the rest of our lives are a measure of time

We may as well try to express some style

I exhale my prayer

(And) follow it with my eyes as it fills the air

In the back of my mind I imagine that you can hear

As if you could still be near me

But

Lately I’ve been breaking my mind

Trying my best but it’s taking its time

Cause I’ve been forced to digest this wasteful emptiness

I’m supposed to laugh as if there’s nothing going on

I know life goes on regardless

But nothing’s been the same

Since you’ve been gone

Another run around the sun

Look at the things we’ve seen

What have we both become?

What have we dreamed?

Who have we lost?

And what have we won?

I never could’ve believed that you wouldn’t have finished what we’d begun

I never cared to image you could’ve have taken away from us

Lately I’ve been breaking my mind

Trying my best but it’s taking its time

Cause

I’ve been forced to digest this wasteful emptiness

I’m supposed to laugh as if there’s nothing going on

I know life goes on regardless

But nothing’s been the same

Since you’ve been gone

Since you’ve been gone

Since you’ve been gone

Now times change & the game plays on

And the truth remains but the rules have all gone wrong

Life rises, now here we are

Still looking for the place where we belong

Stronger than habit & fantasy

Deeper than gravity

What will be has to be

God damn it, I understand it

I hadn’t imagined you’d leave me stranded

On this stage in these lights where I’m standing

No right to complain

Cause it’s already more than I’d ever had asked

But without you

The best has yet to pass & now this song is about you

And I’ve been forced to digest this wasteful emptiness

I’m supposed to laugh as if there’s nothing going on

I know life goes on regardless

But nothing’s been the same

Since you’ve been gone

Since you’ve been gone

Since you’ve been gone