Overweight

playlist position: 54 - Eclipse (3) #3
artist: Blue October
album: Foiled
track number: 8/15
year: 2006
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Eclipse – Chapter 1 - Jacob's perspective
“Please just listen for a minute. This is so much more important than some whim to drop in on an old
friend. Jacob is in pain.” My voice distorted around the word. “I can’t not try to help him—I can’t give up on him now, when he needs me. Just because he’s not human all the time... Well, he was there for me when I was... not so human myself. You don’t know what it was like...” I hesitated. Edward’s arms were rigid around me; his hands were in fists now, the tendons standing out. “If Jacob hadn’t helped me... I’m not sure what you would have come home to. I owe him better than this, Edward.”

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Ever carried the weight of another?
For how long?
I walk as far as they need to recover
For how long? (Ha)
(Excuse me)

I want to carry a piece of who I was before
So when I hit the wall, I really hit the wall
I want to tear away the death again (Death again)
A whiter shade of fucking meth again (Meth again)
I want to stick to clues
I want to come unglued
I want to shape the world to fit the way you move
Oh, should I listen for a dress size?

I owned up, I've grown up
Do you remember me?
I showed up and so what if I'm the used-to-be
I'm here to tell you that I'm sorry I was sorry
But I'm happy that you're happy
This is no longer about me

Trade rules, switch sides for your beautiful eyes
Let him be you through your beautiful cries
Let him hold you up so you can touch affordable skies
Live your life just like a dream
Without the pain of goodbyes (Goodbye)

Ever carried the weight of another?
For how long?
I walk as far as they need to recover
For how long?

I been a drunk, disrespectful little street punk
Unlock the back of my trunk
You see, you take this bat
And bash my head into the street again (Street again)
No one's around, so I keep beating it (Yeah)

Pull my hair back, look me in the eye
There's a self-destructive meaning in the bleeding of a guy
It's the guilt of what reality has given me (Reality) (Given me)
Making sense of all mistakes and my stupidity

And when you're sick, you seem to think you've failed eternally
And that the people you let in are only crumbling (Crumbling)
When you're sick of faking life in this recovery
When my decision paved the road that lies in front of me

So to my friends that even call but I don't call back (Call back)
I want you deep inside my heart upon a hill (In my heart, yeah)
It seems to hide sometimes and run away and wonder
I'm really sick of saying sorry but I will

Ever carried the weight of another? (When I needed you)
For how long? (Where were you? Where were you?)
I walk as far as they need to recover
For how long? (Where were you?)

But are we scared to take the ride?
Or dare to look inside?
I'm floating far away (Far away)
I'm floating far away (Whoa)
I'm floating far away (So far away)
(Leaving home)
I'm floating far away

I want to learn to walk with others as an equal
I want to treat the ones who love me with respect (Floating far away)
I want to tell the world I'll give them all a piggyback
And try to take away my negative effect (Floating far away)
I want to kiss a girl and know I'll never lie again
I want to call my dad and tell him that I care
I want to let my brother know he saved my life a thousand times
Throughout the years he's been my friend who's always there

Floating far away
Floating far away
Floating far away

Ever carried the weight of another?
For how long?