Gripp - For Tiffany or Stay Back lyrics

[Verse 1: Gripp] Just as my album dropped—As Knowledge k**s Beauty, that is— I found a job, moved out west to take it I hated it, but there I found you propped, safe but with no escape The last flower growing up out of Chernobyl's wake Never the silent type, not bulletproof But you knew how to move through a firefight with a lion's might You had combed out the drug abuse and all you had left Was your entire life You and I were tight, though barely twenty-one Two poetry nerds at the heads of our cla**es Against the coming sun, lost in a violent night We knew what we were running from, but never knew which way to travel Trying to find a life, a slightly different one Never been in love and never knew if our demons Were gone for good and so we didn't rush, just holding the line Shouting to the oblivion: [Hook: Gripp] Stay back! Stay back! (Stay back!) Stay back, mother-f**ers! Stay back! (Stay back!) Stay back! Stay back! (Stay back!) Stay back, mother-f**ers! Stay back! (Stay back!) Stay back! Stay back! (Stay back!) Stay back, mother-f**ers! Stay back! (Stay back!) Stay back! [Verse 2: Gripp] We traded stories of our personal wars All so depraved and gory, both of us laden, sorry Back in the day it was all we could do to say we'd never give up And this volley was all we had that was better than d** Such a cold hobby. We picked shivering, exposed Over being alone probably ingesting something to make Our perception appear more slow, choppy This is how we practiced being nobodies I'm selfish. Didn't bother your wake And now I have the nerve to speculate on what I could have done To help it. I know you're not listening in from Some other realm I just really needed someone to tell this to I wonder if we're dancing in rhythm If anything is more than chance, just a glancing collision I wonder if your monsters even heard me If I made even a gram of a difference yelling: [Hook: Gripp] [Verse 3: Gripp] It's no lesson lost. I know that my departure Was no wrecking ball. I know that after I left You were just as tall, just as able to stand Just as brave as before I landed there, tangled in strands But you were a face that I loved, face that I left So now I'm chasing angels, more deranged and depressed Trying to learn from my mistakes so I don't make them again But I confess that I'm so afraid of d**h. I spend every day waiting for it With baited breath and limp away from it angrily With a gaited step. He hasn't made it yet But I know the Reaper is coming and waiting for me to repay the debt I stay detached, drinking tequila from a table gla** Reading Sagan in paperback, hiding behind a Vader mask The specter's approaching and all I can do To stave his a** is say fast: [Hook: Gripp]