(Through These) Heavy Graces

[Verse 1]
I'm not better than anyone
And you’re no better than me
So here we stand at the artifice
Face-to-face in symmetry

[Pre-Chorus 1]
I laugh when I'm afraid
And I cry when taken by peace
And I shake through new beginnings
And I scream when I release

[Chorus]
I want to breathe
But I can't catch breath
I want to live
But I can’t shake death

And bathe in light
In the darkest of places
Tread lightly
Through these heavy graces

[Verse 2]
Guilt crawls through my skin
And exits every pore
I exist a floating creature
Of heart and bones, so sore

[Pre-Chorus 2]
But you stand firm in faith
For your emptiness of soul
And I'm left here with the shaking
When laughter takes its toll

[Chorus]
I want to breathe
But I can't catch breath
I want to live
But I can't shake death

And bathe in light
In the darkest of places
Tread lightly
Through these heavy graces

[Verse 3]
And shadow takes his cover
It's piercing with his eyes
No moral lesson learned here
No clever compromise

[Pre-Chorus 3]
Just feign of retribution
And tears swallowed ill at ease
To wash the scars from inside
This guilt will not appease

[Chorus]
I want to breathe
But I can't catch breath
I want to live
But I can't shake death

And bathe in light
In the darkest of places
Tread lightly
Through these heavy graces

[Outro]
Tread lightly
Through these heavy graces
Tread lightly
Through these, these heavy graces