00:09I'm wearing a smile that doesn't quite fit
00:15Like a candle that's burned to the very last bit
00:21The walls are closed and they're whispering names
00:27Of all of my failures and all of my shames
00:34I'm walking on glass in a house made of pride
00:40With nowhere to run and nowhere to hide
00:46It's a long cold winter in the middle of June
00:50Singing a sad and a broken old tune
00:53The world keeps on turning but I'm standing still
00:56Chasing a ghost at the top of the hill
00:59The hunger is deep and the mercy is thin
01:05How do you lose when you never could win?
01:24My hands are gallus from holding the rope
01:27In a tug of war between maybe and hope
01:31The dead is a mountain, the ocean is dry
01:34And I've forgotten the reason we even should try
01:37I'm a king of a kingdom of dust and of rust
01:41Turning my dreams into handfuls of dust
01:44Don't ask me how, don't ask me why
01:47I've used up the stars in my piece of the sky
01:51I'm tired of being the one who is strong
01:54When everything right has been turned into wrong
02:00It's a long cold winter in the middle of June
02:03Singing a sad and a broken old tune
02:07The world keeps on turning but I'm standing still
02:10Chasing a ghost at the top of the hill
02:13The hunger is deep and the mercy is thin
02:18How do you lose when you never could win?
02:24The silence is heavy
02:27The stars are all gone
02:29But I'll keep on dragging
02:32The shadow till dawn
02:50The art of breaking
02:56The art of breaking
03:04I'm writing my story with ink made of sweat
03:07On pages of paper that are soaking in wet
03:11The engine is screaming but the wheels never turn
03:14I'm the bridge in the fire
03:15I'm the one left to burn
03:17I got silver in my hair and lead in my soul
03:21Trying to fill up the bottomless hole
03:24And it's a long dark walk on a wire so thin
03:28Losing the battle before we begin
03:31The sky is a ceiling starting to fall
03:34We're shouting for help to a brick covered wall
03:38It's the art of breaking
03:39Without making a sound
03:43In a beautiful world
03:46Where the heavy are down
03:59I wake up at midnight just to check if I'm real
04:03To see if there's anything left I can feel
04:06The shadows are hungry, they're eating the light
04:10While I'm trading my peace for a piece of the fire
04:13The map that they gave me is missing the way
04:16And tomorrow is just a repeat of today
04:20Is there a God for the broken and poor
04:23For the ones who can knock on the luxury door
04:26I'm tired of brave and I'm tired of strong
04:29I just want a place where I finally belong
04:33And it's a long dark walk on a wire so thin
04:37Losing the battle before we begin
04:40And the sky is a ceiling starting to fall
04:44We're shouting for help to a brick covered wall
04:47It's the art of breaking
04:49Without making a sound
04:52In a beautiful world
04:56Where the heavy are down
04:59In the art of breaking
05:02When the silence is loud
05:05Just another rose
05:09In a faceless crowd
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