Dear Self by Nine Lashes

Dear Self - Single by Nine Lashes

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Dear Self
by Nine Lashes

Album: Dear Self - Single

You and I
Need to call out for help
'Cause we've wandered to far out to sea
I'm alright
I keep telling myself but
I'm finding it hard to believe
I try to wait it out
Wait it out
But you're down in the lungs and
It's harder to breathe
I'll never make it out
Make it out
With all the terrible questions
You're throwing at me
Dear self
You are the heaviness in my chest (in my chest)
Dear self
You are the weariness in my breath (in my breath)
For all the times you took control
And all the years of mine you stole
The day has come to let you go
Dear self
It is I
That's been holding me down but
I'm finally able to see
I'm alright
There may be scars on the chest but
It's holding a heart with a beat
I try to wait it out
Wait it out
But you're down in the lungs and
It's harder to breathe
I'll never make it out
Make it out
With all the terrible questions
You're throwing at me
Dear self

(Romans 6:1-11: 1 : What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,a that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.)