When the Contagion Is You - Jasta, Matthew K. Heafy

I’m looking down at shaking hands

They belong to a different man

He’s changing fast and I’ve been thinking

About this place and all its demons

So much to gain, so much to lose

Different paths that we must choose

You weren’t there but I hope you know

Holding on hurts more than letting go

Sometimes holding on hurts more than letting go

I’ve been there before and now I know

Now after all we’ve seen

Through veils of apathy

We try to gain new ground

And watch our demons drown

Control slips through the cracks

I feel myself detach

Time can’t heal every wound

When the contagion is you

This rotted heart inside a cage

Beating hard and bound in chains

Hatred flows through arteries

Colder blood and hardened veins

Although alike, we’re not the same

No choices left but to change

I see in you what I can’t become

Holding on hurts more than letting go

Sometimes holding on hurts more than letting go

The only way to heal is to let go

Now after all we’ve seen

Through veils of apathy

We try to gain new ground

And watch our demons drown

Control slips through the cracks

I feel myself detach

Time can’t heal every wound

When the contagion is you

There’s no cure

When the contagion is you

Time, searching for the answers

Can’t cut away the cancer

Heal, wounds still open

I’m here, barely fucking coping

I need to just let go

Can’t look into the rearview

Hold you up any longer

If it doesn’t make me stronger

Sometimes holding on hurts more than letting go

Letting go

There’s no cure when the contagion is you

Now after all we’ve seen

Through veils of apathy

We try to gain new ground

And watch our demons drown

Control slips through the cracks

I feel myself detach

Time can’t heal every wound

When the contagion is you

Now after all we’ve seen

Through veils of apathy

We try to gain new ground

And watch our demons drown

Control slips through the cracks

I feel myself detach

Time can’t heal every wound

When the contagion is you