Fighting Myself

[Verse 1]
On the run since before ever after
Standard family disaster
Lovers, brothers, other bastards
Told me where to go

[Verse 2]
I shook my lumps, then took off running
Short on wisdom, wits, or cunning
One for all, but all for nothing
Into the unknown

[Pre-Chorus]
There’s no point to waste the blame
I've never been strictly speaking sane
I should have known fresh dirt won't wash old stains away

[Verse 3]
I tried to drown your memory
It learned to swim and clung to me
Kissed my cheek sadistically
And dragged me down below

[Pre-Chorus]
There’s no point to waste the blame
I've never been strictly speaking sane
I should have known fresh dirt won't wash old stains away

[Chorus 1]
I was so angry then
In psychic self-defense
Wasting energy fighting something I couldn't see
Just fighting myself

[Verse 3]
I know time unfolds and then it tangles
Strings attached and feelings mangled
Some threads are severed, some still dangle
Some just drift away

[Pre-Chorus]
There’s no point to waste the blame
I've never been strictly speaking sane
I should have known fresh dirt won't wash old stains away

[Chorus 2]
The last thing I tried to do was end up hurting you
I found my enemy staring back from the mirror at me
I've been fightin’ myself
Fightin’ myself

[Outro]
There's nobody in the ring but me
I broke some things I know just can't be fixed
While I fought for what I wanted more than anything
You stuck around for kicks