Hello!  One thing you will find out about me is that music is really important to me and I find myself relating to many songs, as if I had wrote them.  One of the bands that I really relate to is Linkin Park but they aren't the only ones. You won't see me posting much poetry (and if you do, you'll notice it will sound more like Dr. Seuss because I don't get poems that don't rhyme - apparently I'm not "deep" like that).  More often though you will find me posting lyrics to songs because that is what really reaches deep down for me.  With that said, today I'm going to post the lyrics to a Papa Roach song called Scars.  This is me to a "T."  I always like to think of myself as closed off and uncaring, but in reality I care way too much, often times to the detriment of me. As I look back on almost all of my past relationships I found someone who was "broken" and I would try and "fix" them, because if I could focus on their problems then I didn't have to look at mine. And believe me - I had lots of problems - most of them I hadn't even admitted to myself at that point. Let me just be the first to say that if you are going into relationships like I did - that you are setting yourself (and him/her) up for failure, heartbreak, and maybe even worse.  It doesn't work!!!!  Let me repeat - IT DOESN'T WORK!  It took a lot of time and work on myself to figure that one out.  I love this song because it is so true.  My scars remind me that my past is real, but I have moved on with my own life and I'm happy now. So without further ado . . .

Scars by Papa Roach

 

I tear my heart open
I sew myself shut
My weakness is
That I care too much
My scars remind us
That the past is real
I tear my heart open
Just to feel

 

Drunk and I'm feeling down
And I just want to be alone
I'm pissed cause you came around
Why don't you just go home
'Cause you channel all your pain
And I can't help you go fix yourself
Your making me insane
All I can say is

 

I tear my heart open
I sew myself shut
My weakness is
That I care too much
Our scars remind us
That the past is real
I tear my heart
Open just to feel

 

I tried to help you once
Against my own advice
I saw you going down
But you never realized
That your drowning in the water
So I offered you my hand
Compassion's in my nature
Tonight is our last stand

 

I tear my heart open

I sew myself shut
My weakness is
That I care too much
Our scars remind us
That the past is real

I tear my heart
Open just to feel

 

I'm drunk and I'm feeling down
And I just want to be alone
You shouldn't ever came around
Why don't you just go home?
'Cause your drowning in the water
And I tried to grab your hand
And I left my heart open
But you didn't understand
But you didn't understand
You fix yourself

 

I can't help you fix yourself
But at least I can say I tried
I'm sorry but I gotta move on with my own life
I can't help you fix yourself
But at least I can say I tried
I'm sorry but I gotta move on with my own life

 

I tear my heart open
I sew myself shut
My weakness is that
I care too much
Our scars remind us
That the past is real

I tear my heart
Open just to feel

I tear my heart open
I sew myself shut
My weakness is that
I care too much
Our scars remind us
That the past is real
I tear my heart open
Just to feel