AnnaAkana - Against The Darkness lyrics

This is a song for my brother I know sometimes you look ahead and all you see is dooming blackness You're lost in the madness, torn apart by the sadness You feel like you see the world through these rose-colored gla**es Bat your lashes and bow down to the will of the ma**es I want you to know that you can resurrect from these ashes Don't listen to those dumba**es, they're all f**ing fascists In five years they'll be begging for backstage pa**es We'll get there, I swear, it just takes a little practice I wish I was the one who found her hanging in the closet To spare you the nightmares you carry around in your pocket I'm concerned that she's burned herself in your eye sockets And as a result, they've turned into two broken faucets Sometimes I feel like it's all my fault that she's dead Try to untangle the web that's inside of my head Tell myself that there are better days lying ahead But I've failed you both as a sister instead (Chorus) It's you and me Against the dark things In the night Who knows what it brings I'm trying to pick up the pieces through this raging hangover I don't know if I can do it alone, much less sober Been trying way too long to keep my composure & if I can be honest with you, full non-disclosure Sometimes I scream and feel like no one hears the sound I've come to find that there's no God when I turn around And now I'm all alone, washed up and ready to drown But no! Get up, motherf**er, pick yourself up off the ground Even if you can't find a higher purpose life is worth it It hurts and it stings and we bleed and we curse it But promise me we'll keep on living, that we will never give in She put on a necklace of rope, but we gotta be forgiving Here we are, broken hearted survivors of suicide She's lost star dust, but we're still waking up alive And now we've come to a point, and it's time to decide Are we gonna lay down and die, or will we breathe and revive? (Chorus) So stand up, bro, take the mic and hit that stage Speak up, don't shake, don't be afraid You've only got one chance, today's your day Make the choice, kid, are you gonna k** it or fade? Now take a deep breath, one step forward Don't you fear d**h, cause we all move toward The end, so take this life by the moment Hold it in your hands and you motherf**ing own it! Chase every dream you've ever had, no regrets We're all that's left, don't you ever let yourself forget I know that at times it may be hard to accept I mean, who knows how many nights we wept instead of slept? When our monsters, nightmares and the blackness met And we're haunted by the blame of her last breath When you start to feel real low bro, don't fret Cause the only debt we got is d**h (Chorus) Just know, you'll hate life at times regardless Cursing the surrounding bitter and heartless At that moment when you start to feel the apartness Remember, it's you and me against the darkness Against the darkness... Against the darkness.... Against the darkness.... It's you and me... Kristina Marie Akana. 13 years old. Lost to suicide. The itsy bitsy spider walked up the water spout Out came the rain and washed the spider out But instead of the sun drying up the rain The spider decided that she couldn't take the pain So she drowned in the floods that came ahead And now the itsy bitsy spider's dead Dead.