Name: Staring at the Sun
Duration: P00H04M54S
Description: this song is about mothers.

Staring at the Sun

from The Moon and All Her Friends EP by a glass box

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this song is about mothers.

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You can’t sleep at night
Take a pill to turn off the light
But your heart can’t take the strain
Is this the way to erase all your pain?

And you spent your days
Trapped in your birdcage
Now you’re an empty book
Waiting to turn a new page
Ambien and Vicodin, Valium and quiet sins
Will make your thoughts decay
A glass of wine, killing time, kill my mind, nothing’s fine
Now that you’ve gone away

And you’re waiting to come undone
Like you’re staring at the sun

You can’t numb all your pain
Why do you keep your heart in all these chains?
So I’ll take a hit, lie again, cut my skin, try again
Nothing can help us now

You spent your days in your cage, you’re an empty book, turn the page
Klonopin and Wellbutrin, choking signs and empty breath
You left your life behind
And now you’re just waiting for me to become like you
And now you’re just waiting for me to hate you too
You’re just staring at the sun

I want to sleep all the time
But I’m so scared of dying
What the hell was going on
In your mind when you gave up
On trying to stay alive
Despite the fact that we will die
Yeah well things will always fall apart
What the hell was going through your mind
When the pills stopped your beating, aching heart, yeah

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from The Moon and All Her Friends EP, released August 17, 2015
Delilah Luna (lyrics, music)

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a glass box New York, New York

a glass box is delilah luna (she/her)

a glass box is an exploration of mental illness, trauma, queerness, the east coast, youth, and everything that life has given me and taken from me

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