Self-Induced Exile

from Friends in Low Places by Bobby Mahoney

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I’m giving up, you’re giving up on me
But there is part of my head that still believes
And its waiting, for you to come around
If the streets were a poem, if this life was a dream
And you stood like a lighthouse across the sea
I would struggle, tire, and drown

I hate when I find myself waiting
For something I don’t know is real
I’m a repeat offender of giving a damn
I hate when I find myself searching
For a truth that I don’t want to know
Looking for feeling in self-induced exile
Where all the blame is my own

I’m hanging on but I cant live in my skin
All of their shit and this world I’m living in
Has left me broken, my hope destroyed
Their knife to my heart, their gun to my head
Theres gotta be more than this empty bed
I’m not a saint, just a kill joy

I hate when I find myself waiting
For something I don’t know is real
I’m a repeat offender of giving a damn
I hate when I find myself searching
For a truth that I don’t want to know
Looking for feeling in self-induced exile
Where all the blame is my own

I’m the one, the only one that gets in my way
I’m the self-proclaimed king of the lonely and lame
Its my high expectations that are dragging me down
Give me a kingdom of nobodies and another thorny crown

I hate when I find myself waiting
For something I don’t know is real
I’m a repeat offender of giving a damn
I hate when I find myself searching
For a truth that I don’t want to know
Looking for feeling in self-induced exile
Where all the blame is my own

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from Friends in Low Places, released June 22, 2014

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Bobby Mahoney and the Seventh Son is a Alt/Hard Rock band from East Brunswick, New Jersey.

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