Path To Isolation

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It starts
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With the unexpected loss of something dear
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The warmth
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That comforted and cradled just disappears
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And in its place, there's nothing
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Just an endless empty hole
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The light that showed the way is gone
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And darkness takes control
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Bitterness and anger are quick to fill the void
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The path to isolation is littered with the dreams that lay destroyed

[Verse 1]
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The cold
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Seems to grow in my soul, it's consuming me
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Confused
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And I'm losing myself in a storm
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Growing jaded
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Being pushed, being pulled, I'm unraveling
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Can't find myself when I'm constantly forced to conform

[Pre-Chorus 1]
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Enemies surround me
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But the worst appear as friends
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Liars and pretenders
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Only seek to reach their ends
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Everything is breaking
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Right before my eyes
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Looking in the mirror
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I see someone that I don't recognize

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Cm    Gm   Eb    Dm

[Verse 2]
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The joy
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That my heart used to know is eluding me
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Removed
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And the one thing I feel is alone
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Smiles faded
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And I'm spinning and sinking and weakening
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Frozen and stuck
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Too lonely, it chills to the bone

[Pre-Chorus 2]
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Memories escaping as my heart begins to drain
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Scars that cover wounds can't hide the self-inflicted pain
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Everything my mind wants in conflict with my heart
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Fighting back surrender, but every day I'm falling more apart

Bb7alt(#9b13) (soloing over Ebm harmonic/5th mode of minor harmonic)

[Chorus 1]
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Mirror, what's this thing I see?
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Who is staring back at me?
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This stranger to my heart that's filled my life
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Mirror help me, who am I?