Illenium - ASCEND Album Lyrics

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I Care (Intro)

It's unavoidable
Just happens
And you grow up
Your heart dies

Who cares?
They care

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Hold On

I can't listen to these stupid songs
'Cause they all remind me that you're gone
I'm still sleeping in your favorite tee
Pictures I just can't delete
Don't know how to be, how to be alone

If I can't live without you, I can't live at all
I'm sick of finding reasons
To feel the way I did before

I don't wanna waste another day
I don't wanna wish that you would stay
If I know I should let go
Why do I hold on to you?

I don't wanna waste another day
I don't wanna say I'm not okay
If I know I should let go
Why do I hold on to you?

Why do I hold on to you?
Why do I hold on to you?

I'm still listening to this stupid song
Like I don't know where it all went wrong
All my friends are asking where you been
Memories keep on creeping in
Don't know how to be, how to be alone, hey

I don't wanna waste another day
I don't wanna wish that you would stay
If I know I should let go
Why do I hold on to you?

I don't wanna waste another day
I don't wanna say I'm not okay
If I know I should let go
Why do I hold on to you?
Hold on to you

Why do I hold on to you?
Why do I hold on to you?

Why, oh why, do I lose my mind
When I hold on tight?
No, I don't wanna let go

Why, oh why, do I lose my mind
When I hold on tight?
No, I don't wanna let go

Why, oh why, do I lose my mind
When I hold on tight?
No, I don't wanna let go (don't wanna let go)

I don't wanna let go

I don't wanna waste another day
I don't wanna wish that you would stay
If I know I should let go
Why do I hold on to you?
I don't wanna waste another day

I don't wanna say I'm not okay
If I know I should let go
Why do I hold on to you?

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Good Things Fall Apart

Did I say something wrong? Did you hear what I was thinking?
Did I talk way too long when I told you all my feelings that night?
Is it you? Is it me? Did you find somebody better?
Someone who isn't me, 'cause I know that I was never your type
Never really your type

Overthinking's got me drinking
Messing with my head, whoa

Tell me what you hate about me
Whatever it is, I'm sorry
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I know I can be dramatic
But everybody said we had it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm coming to terms with a broken heart
I guess that sometimes good things fall apart

When you said it was real, guess I really did believe you
Did you fake how you feel when we parked down by the river that night?
That night?
That night when we fogged up the windows in your best friend's car
'Cause we couldn't leave the windows down in December
Whoa

Tell me what you hate about me
Whatever it is, I'm sorry
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I know I can be dramatic
But everybody said we had it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm coming to terms with a broken heart
I guess that sometimes good things fall apart

Overthinking's got me drinking
Messing with my head, oh

Tell me what you hate about me (about me)
Whatever it is, I'm sorry (oh, I'm sorry)
Yeah, yeah, yeah (oh, I'm sorry), yeah, yeah, yeah
I know I can be dramatic (I know I can be)
Everybody said we had it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm coming to terms with a broken heart
I guess that sometimes good things fall apart

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That's Why

Flame still burns, kerosene
Rise and fall
As I breathe

All these pictures on the screen
It's almost like they're real
And I think that I'd do anything
The minute, then it feel
What I feel

And I feel way too much
Truth is no one gives a f*ck

That's why, I don't try
That's why, I stay high
I know that you're never gonna hear me
I know that these words will go to waste
That's why, I don't try

That's why

Try my best, door's still closed
Love is dead, for all I know
Sometimes it gets so hard
I don't wanna fight
And every day that passes by
Feels like it might be my last

And I feel way too much
Truth is no one gives a f*ck

That's why, I don't try
That's why, I stay high
I know that you're never gonna hear me
I know that these words will go to waste
That's why, I don't try

That's why, I don't try
That's why, I stay high

That's why, I don't try
That's why, I stay high
I know that you're never gonna hear me
I know that these words will go to waste
That's why, I don't try

That's why, I don't try
That's why, I stay high

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Blood

We're blood
We're blood

'Cause when you find your mind in a dark place
Hold on, it won't be long
Before you see my face
I'm coming to the rescue
Take your hand, comfort you
It's the least that I can do

'Cause we're blood
Oh, we're blood
Oh, we're blood
Oh, we're blood

We're blood
We're blood
We're blood
Oh, we're blood

I heard you told your friends in the schoolyard
You were getting it tough, getting it hard
You know it nearly broke my heart
I'm coming to defend you
Live or die, see it through
It's the least that I can do

'Cause we're blood
Oh, we're blood
We're blood
We're blood

'Cause we're blood
Oh, we're blood
Oh, we're blood
Oh, we're blood

We're blood
Oh, we're blood
Oh, we're blood
Oh, we're blood

We're blood
(We're blood)

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Take You Down

I didn't mean to hurt you when I hurt myself
It's just an empty voice screaming out for help
No, I didn't mean to scare you
But I couldn't see
That when I went to hell I was taking you with me

When I close my eyes
I'm climbing in the dark
Trying not to fall apart
Sometimes I get so high
Falling is the only out I see
And I don't wanna take you down with me

You're the love in my heart
Only love in my heart
Take you down
Take you down with me
(Don't wanna take you down)
(Take you down)
Down with me

Down, you're down with me
Down, you're down with me
(You're the love in my heart)
(Only love in my heart)
(Take you down)

This life is like a razor
When it cuts, I bleed
But it's in my hand and I'm doing it to me
Sometimes it's like an ocean
And it gets too deep
And there's no way that now you could rescue me

When I close my eyes
I'm fighting in the dark
Trying not to break your heart
Sometimes I get so high
Falling is the only out I see
And I don't wanna take you down with me

You need to let it go now
Before you drown
I know that you won't understand
But you need to let go of this hand
'Cause I'm going down
And I don't wanna take you down with me

And I don't wanna take you down with me

Take you down, down with me

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All Together

You can go ahead and judge me
Just so you can say "all right"
You can try to rise above me
But what's underneath is your own lies

You can choose to understand me
Or refuse to see the other side
Go and call me the enemy
While I'm only trying to save your life

When a war with each other
Is a war against ourselves
We both lose when we start the fight
Oh no

No proof of God above me
I only know what I see
And we can only help ourselves
All together

All together
All together
All together
All together

You can try to separate us
Drop water with your mind
You can say that we are different
When we want the same, to survive
When religion it lead us, still remain in between us
We all lose if we can't align
Oh no

No proof of God above me
I only know what I see
And we can only help ourselves
All together

All together
All together
All together
All together
(We can only help ourselves)

When a war with each other
Is a war against ourselves
We both lose when we start the fight
Oh no

No proof of God above me
I only know what I see
And we can only help ourselves
All together

All together
All together
And we can only help ourselves
All together
All together
All together
All together
All together

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Crashing

Intoxicating your kiss
Intoxicating your lips
Nobody does it like this
I find it hard to resist
Oh oh, feeling out of control, beautifully souled
Whats coming over me?
It's a total eclipse of rationality

I don't usually say this
I don't usually play this game
Yeah I know I'm not faded
But it kind of feels that way
I don't usually say this
But I think I should let you know
The day but baby, I don't, I don't wanna go

How could I go home when I feel like I belong?
In your arms it's like champagne
Feel it pouring in my veins
Yeah I got myself too drunk on you to drive
So I'm crashing here tonight

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (tonight)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (tonight)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (uh uh)
So I'm crashing here tonight

Hey are you really this good
Damn are you really this good
Baby you're just like a drug I'd bottle you up if I could
Oh oh, feeling out of control with your kind of close
Whats coming over me?
Its a total eclipse of rationality

I don't usually say this
I don't usually play this game
Yeah I know I'm not faded
But it kind of feels that way
I don't usually say this
But I think I should let you know
That baby, baby I don't, I don't want to go

How could I go home when I feel like I belong?
In your arms it's like champagne
Feel it pouring in my veins
Yeah I got myself too drunk on you to drive
So I'm crashing here tonight

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh(tonight)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (tonight)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (uh uh)
So I'm crashing here tonight

How could I go home when you're all I want to know?
Come on let me see your face
Its to late for this to end
Yeah I got myself too drunk on you to drive
So I'm crashing here tonight

How could I go home when I feel like I belong?
In your arms it's like champagne
Feel it pouring in my veins
Yeah I got myself too drunk on you to drive
So I'm crashing here tonight

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (tonight)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh tonight (yeah I'm crashing here tonight)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (uh uh)
So I'm crashing here tonight

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Broken Ones

I know the way the story goes
The first part is the fun
We leave the room a little cold
To keep each other warm

Just for a minute
'Fore the bombs are hidden
And every night it turns to war
Thought we had a vision
Don't know what I see in us
No more

'Cause we're halfway broken
Try to make up
Damage already done
And it's only one way down
Guess now I'll join the club

'Cause everyone falls so hard
And everything falls apart
But we know we still got heart
Here's to the broken ones

Here's to the broken ones
Broken
Here's to the broken ones

I used to know your breathing sounds
You'd sound me off to sleep
Oh we're just lying quiet now
Both wide awake but

Dreaming of the minute
'Fore the bombs were hidden
And every night it turns to war
Thought we had a vision
Don't know what I see in us
No more

'Cause we're halfway broken
Try to make up
Damage already done
And it's only one way down
Guess now I'll join the club

'Cause everyone falls so hard
And everything falls apart
But we know we still got heart
Here's to the broken ones
Here's to the broken ones
Here's to the broken ones
Here's to the broken ones
Here's to the broken ones

Here's to the broken ones
(Broken)
Here's to the broken ones

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Every Piece of Me

Woah, oh, woah, oh
Woah, oh, woah, oh
Woah, oh, woah, oh
Woah, oh, woah, oh

Your energy holds on to me
Still wrapped up in your strings
Those words you speak
They cut so deep
I still feel everything

I am not your enemy
So why do we keep fighting
I am not your enemy
So why do you still try it

To take me down
But every piece of me is on the ground
To break me down
But every piece of me still needs you now

Woah, oh, woah, oh
Woah, oh, woah, oh

I see your pain, it's on your face
You're talking through your teeth
Can't rearrange my will to stay
And you're making it the worse 'cause you know me

I am not your enemy
So why do we keep fighting
I am not your enemy
So why do you still try it

To take me down
But every piece of me is on the ground
To break me down
But every piece of me still needs you now

Woah, oh, woah, oh
Woah, oh, woah, oh
Woah, oh, woah, oh
Woah, oh, woah, oh

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Takeaway

Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah

Hey, hey, hey
Where do you think you're going?
It's so late, late, late
What's wrong?
I said, "I can't stay, do I have to give a reason?
It's just me, me, me, it's what I want

So how did we get here?
Three weeks now, we've been so caught up
Better if we do this on our own

Before I love you (nah, nah, nah)
I'm gonna leave you (nah, nah, nah)
Before I'm someone you leave behind
I'll break your heart so you don't break mine
Before I love you (nah, nah, nah)
I'm gonna leave you (nah, nah, nah)
Even if I'm not here to stay
I still want your heart

Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway

(Your heart for takeaway, yeah yeah, yeah yeah)
Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah

Fate, fate, fate
Is that what came between us?
Or did we do this on our own?

So how did we get here?
I'm asking myself why I'm so caught up
Better if we do this on our own

Before I love you (nah, nah, nah)
I'm gonna leave you (nah, nah, nah)
Before I'm someone you leave behind
I'll break your heart so you don't break mine
Before I love you (nah, nah, nah)
I'm gonna leave you (nah, nah, nah)
Even if I'm not here to stay
I still want your heart

Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Your heart for takeaway

(Your heart for takeaway, yeah yeah, yeah yeah)
Your heart for takeaway, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah

Before I love you (nah, nah, nah)
I'm gonna leave you (nah, nah, nah)
Before I'm someone you leave behind
I'll break your heart so you don't break mine
Before I love you (nah, nah, nah)
I'm gonna leave you (nah, nah, nah)
Even if I'm not here to stay
I still want your heart

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Sad Songs

Told me action and words
Got in your car, then we were nothing
All the nights in your room, shit we got through
Left in your dust, ya
Don't know what you got but I thought we had it
Now I'm supposed to act like it doesn't matter

But I'm writing it down, getting it out
It's me hoping

Some day I'll come home
And feel like no one's even gone
Play the same issues
And know that I've been moving on
Some day I'll go to bed and I'll forget I'm lyin' in your spot
But until some day comes
I'll be writing sad songs

Wish that there was a way I could have saved one little moment, yeah
Pull it out when I can, handle the pain, and know when it's over
I was so intact on the day I met you
Now I'm making sad songs inside my bedroom

But I'm writing it down, getting it out
It's me hoping

Some day I'll come home
And feel like no one's even gone
Play the same issues
And know that I've been moving on
Some day I'll go to bed and I'll forget I'm lyin' in your spot
But until some day comes
I'll be writing sad songs

Ooh, ooh
I'll be writing sad songs
Ooh, ooh
I'll be writing sad songs
ooh, ooh
I'll be writing sad songs
ooh, ooh
I'll be writing sad songs

I'll be writing sad songs

Some day I'll come home
And feel like no one's even gone
Play the same issues
And know that I've been moving on
Some day I'll go to bed and I'll forget I'm lyin' in your spot
But until some day comes
I'll be writing sad songs

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Pray

Lay my soul out bare by the river, mmm
Let my bridges burn and deliver me, mmm
Bring my soul back from the rhythm
Of the chains that got me here
It ain't fair, no, it ain't, mmm

Mercy, mercy, mercy
I've no luck with the man upstairs
Help me, help me, help me

Won't you pray?
'Cause she don't hear me like she hears you pray
So just pray for me
Won't you pray?
'Cause I'm too far from Heaven when I pray
So just pray for me

Oh, won't you, won't you pray for me? Yeah
Oh, won't you, won't you pray for me? Yeah
Oh, won't you, won't you pray for me? Yeah
Oh, won't you, won't you pray for me? Yeah

(Mercy, mercy, mercy)
(Help me, help me, help me)
(Mercy, mercy, mercy)
(Help me, help me, help me)
(Mercy, mercy, mercy)
(Help me, help me, help me)
(Mercy, mercy, mercy)
(Help me, help me, help me)

(Help me, help me)
(Help me, help me)
(Help me, help me)

Won't you pray?
'Cause she don't hear me like she hears you pray
So just pray for me
Won't you pray?
'Cause I'm too far from Heaven when I pray
So just pray for me

Oh, won't you, won't you pray for me? Yeah
Oh, won't you, won't you pray for me? Yeah
Oh, won't you, won't you pray for me? Yeah
Oh, won't you, won't you pray for me? Yeah

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In Your Arms

Never seen Mona Lisa close
But I've seen perfection under your clothes
Yeah we fell in love and we built a home
Though we may never see the streets of Rome

And I hope it's okay
'Cause the unknown is on its way

If I die in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be
You know I'm not afraid
As long as you're next to me
So tell me, will you hold me
When the curtains close
If I died in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be

Yeah we may never sleep under Northern Lights
But I've seen the stars flicker in your eyes

And I hope it's okay (it's okay)
Cause the unknown is on its way

If I died in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be
You know I'm not afraid
As long as you're next to me
So tell me, will you hold me
When the curtains close
If I died in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be
(It's okay)
(It's okay)

If I died in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be
(It's okay)
(It's okay)

Lay me down in the ground by my hometown garden
We, we never leave
But it feels like we've seen the whole world
A thousand tears, when the tears on your parents' roof
Forget my fears every time that I'm under you
All along, all I needed was you
So I swear, I'm not scared when it's over

If I die in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be
You know I'm not afraid
As long as you're next to me (so tell me)
So tell me, will you hold me
When the curtains close
If I died in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be (If I died)

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Gorgeous

Jumping right off the edge
Freedom, it's freedom, oh whoa
Wouldn't do it for less
Than freedom, freedom

I was sleeping, diving, eyes closed, blinding
Now for the first time, I can see

Sometimes I gotta pinch myself, oh
Gorgeous
I love to dance
Well let me introduce myself, oh
Gorgeous

All those days that pass me by
I can't believe, I'm still alive
They said you'll need the dark to shine
It's like I can see for the first time

And it's gorgeous
It's gorgeous, gor
(ooh, ooh, ooh) it's gorgeous, gor
And it's gor

And it's gor

And it's gorgeous

I can see it for miles
Freedom, I can feel it, oh whoa
No more living in denial
See it, breathe it

Sometimes I gotta pinch myself, oh
Gorgeous
I love to dance
Well let me introduce myself, oh
Gorgeous

All those days that pass me by
I can't believe, I'm still alive
They said you'll need the dark to shine
It's like I can see for the first time

And it's gorgeous
It's gorgeous, gor
(ooh, ooh, ooh) it's gorgeous, gor

Gor, gorgeous
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)

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Angel (Lonely Prelude)

Ask about love
Pardon me, quote me or summon
You've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable
Known someone who could level you with their eyes
Feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you
Could rescue you from the depths of hell
And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel
You don't know what you lost
'Cause it only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself
Don't you ever dare to love anybody that much

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Lonely

Won't you let me love and lonely
I love you, I love you
Won't you let me love and lonely
I love you, I love you

If you only loved yourself
Don't take it out on someone else
Oh, oh, oh, oh
If you knew what love was worth
It'd bring your head back down to earth
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Won't you let me love and lonely
I love you, I love you
Won't you let me love and lonely
I love you, I love you

You used to touch me like you never felt a thing
I was talking to myself when I thought you were listening
You could've left before as a friend watching me bleed
Well you were taking your time when you left your scars on me

Won't you let me love and lonely
I love you, I love you
Won't you let me love and lonely
I love you, I love you

Won't you let me love and lonely
I love you, I love you
Won't you let me love and lonely
I love you, love you