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Still Swings

from Cedar Rapids, MN by Led by Monsters

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You, you walk down this road
You and I both know
We have been here before
The doors on the houses are all locked
And you're scared and you're afraid
Because you and I both know
Exactly where this goes

Fear is an old quiet house
Full of echos of your childhood shouts
Fear is a place overwhelming and loud, close like love
But sharp and cold and black
And here we are now...

I swore to God on the day I left
I'd never come back to this place
I'd rather die instead
A whole 'nother life
Buried but not dead
Are we just the pets of our fears
Led by the monsters in our head?

This house was always open for you
We don't need keys
It'll still open for me too
The stairs, like jaws, the glass, like eyes, I wanna run
We shouldn't be here again
Well isn't that the guilty truth?

It's hard, now, to imagine why
You'd ever come back here
After you tried so hard
The swings are still and the playground's empty
And God, we're not kids anymore
Or maybe that's just our favorite lie...

I swore to God on the day I left
I'd never come back to this place
I'd rather die instead
A whole 'nother life
Buried but not dead
Are we just the pets of our fears
Led by the monsters in our head?

[Instrumental Bridge]

We, we walk down this road
You and I both know
We have been here before
The doors on the house are all locked
And you're scared and I'm afraid
Because you and I both know
Exactly where this goes

I swore to God on the day I left
I'd never come back to this place
I'd rather die instead
A whole 'nother life
Buried but not dead
Are we just the pets of our fears
Led by the monsters in our head?

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from Cedar Rapids, MN, released May 11, 2014

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