Proof of Life
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Proof of Life
[Verse 1]
Everybody wants a life
With no evidence of being

No mess on the counter
No dust in the light
No grief in the hallway
No silence too heavy
No strange afternoon
No reason to hide
[Pre-Chorus]
But the cracks in the wall
Know more than the frame
And the room remembers
What we tried to erase
[Chorus]
Don't take the mess
Don't take the meaning
Don't make a life
That leaves no breathing

Don't crop the room
Don't clean the scar
I need the cracks
To know where we are
[Verse 2]
Everybody wants to be seen
After the living is removed
A smile for the window
A face for the screen
No wrong turns showing
No hands still shaking
No proof we were here
No proof we had been
[Pre-Chorus]
But the mirror gets polished
Till no one is left
Just a perfect reflection

With no body beneath it
[Chorus]
Don't take the mess
Don't take the meaning
Don't make a life
That leaves no breathing
Don't crop the room
Don't clean the scar
I need the cracks
To know where we are
[Bridge]
If no one is allowed
To simply be
Then every life
Becomes apology
If no one is allowed

To fall apart
We build a world
With no beating heart
[Final Chorus]
Don't take the mess
Don't take the meaning
Don't make a life
That leaves no breathing
Leave the dust
Leave the scar
Leave the strange
Leave the hard
Don't crop the room
Don't clean the scar
I need the cracks
To know where we are

[Outro]
You can take out the mess
But the meaning goes with it
You can polish the mirror
Till no one is left
No one is left
No one is left