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TIME DOES NOT HEAL
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(Music: Eriksen/Hoglan, Lyrics: Hoglan, Additional lyrics: Rinehart)
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It's always darkest before it goes
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Completely black
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I'm older now so I should know
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You never can look back
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But the scars of childhood memories
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Dominate my head
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The inner pain I've vowed to keep
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Until the day I'm dead
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You can't see, the life I was forced to lead
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What it's like to die daily
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You can't feel, the thoughts I've learned to steal
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Survival is my reality
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When I was young I lived in fear
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The hands of doom forever drawing near
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I wonder how I learned to persevere
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As time advanced deceit was my life's truth
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Spurred on by the peace I never knew
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(chorus)
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Time does not heal
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The scars that burned me in my youth
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Time does not heal
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The pain that carved in me the truth
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Time does not heal
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The torture struck upon my past
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Time does not heal
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The scars that were left and meant to last
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Over the many years I've tried
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To bury deep my past
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Attempting to cope with what's inside
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My wastelands of regret
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But defeated before I began
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To join the human race
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Indelibly I've felt the brand
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Of scars I can't erase
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I was the fool, subversive and overrulled
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Into my abyss I was pulled
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The ways of hate, constantly agitate
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The scars as they'd eviscerate
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Inside my head desolation forms
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Shadows grasping my mind through its storm
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I couldn't see that I was being forewarned
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That anguish was to take my life's controls
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And rake it's wounds forever into my soul
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(chorus)
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Time does not heal
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The scars that burned me in my youth
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Time does not heal
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The pain that carved in me the truth
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Time does not heal
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The torture struck upon my past
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Time does not heal
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The scars that were left and meant to last
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(bridge)
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I have learned to live alone, it's meant to be
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Endless lies and emptiness fulfilling me
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Life's there to decieve the truth you'll never see
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Understand that I am dying to be free
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Images have haunted me since I was young
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Chilling were the arms of fear I was among
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What were once just nightmares now have since become
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Real atrocities which I can't escape from...
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(lead-Eric)
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(lead-Brett)
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It's always darkest before it goes
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Completely black
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I've realized now that it's impossible
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Surviving their attack
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Through duress I'm borne, a past that's brought me scorn
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And when I'm dead, will I be mourned?
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The scars I've worn, the mental flesh I've shredded and torn
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(chorus)
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Time does not heal
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The scars that burned me in my youth
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Time does not heal
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The pain that carved in me the truth
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Time does not heal
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The torture struck upon my past
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Time does not heal
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The scars that were left and meant to last
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TIME DOES NOT HEAL
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dark angel |