I miss your bones buried beneath my sheets. My voice shakes when I try to speak. Your name is stitched into my teeth. And every time I talk I feel you there.
-Casey Band, Teeth

I know they say time heals all wounds but when will it heal mine? ‘Cause I’m sick of waiting for you to bring me back my peace of mind.
-Casey, Teeth

I still miss you like the moon misses the warm kiss of the sun when the earth dances between them and steals away its love.
-Casey, Teeth

I asked how long you’d be gone and you said “as long as it takes”. And I was always so impatient with our love but I swore I’d wait.
-Casey, Teeth

We were in love, at least that’s what I came to call it.I was never really quite sure if it was. Because in growing up the hardest lesson learned is just because you love someone it doesn’t mean they love you in return.
-Casey, Fade

I always thought you’d fade when I buried you and me. But on our grave a bed of flowers bloomed. And now each day you grow more beautiful as I’m left to decay. I guess it’s true that some things never change.
-Casey, Fade

I’ve been breaking my hands trying to carry the burden that I’ve placed on myself. I’m so afraid of the end. I’ve lead myself to believe I may never be happy again.
-Casey, Sleep

I sleep with discontent. Sorrow creeps around my neck. And I fear that I may choke to death.
-Casey, Bloom

No heaven without hell beneath. No misery before you and me. Too busy pulling out my teeth to bite the hand that made me weak.
-Casey, Bloom

It took hours of silent phone calls for me to finally realize that just because you act with the best of intentions it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t be wrong.
-Casey, Little Bird

I never asked to fall in love so young.
-Casey, Little Bird

I hope that someday you will ache the way I ache.
-Casey, Little Bird

And though I barely remember, it was you who soothed my ache. In the depth of my depression I thought my life was mine to take.
-Casey, Cavities

I am forever in your debt for things that you could never say. All the love that I have felt, you gave with no intentions to take.
-Casey, Cavities

It’s hard to be honest with myself but I should have been honest with you.
-Casey, Doubt

I promise, someday I will make up for all the mistakes I have made.
-Casey, Doubt

I was haunted by the emptiness that filled the hole you left, a grave I still can’t bring myself to visit yet. Though I won’t be losing sleep, I still refuse to forget. It took me so long to admit that we were dead. But we we’re dead…
-Casey, Haze

So tell me, is it serious between you and him? I hope to god he makes you happy.
-Casey, Haze

I hope I never hear your name again.
-Casey, Haze

Now the home we made is nothing more than a house where we fucked and we ate but never fell in love. Now you’re sleeping in the bed we made with somebody else. Are you happy? Are you fuckin’ happy?
-Casey, Haze

Tell me, are you ashamed? ‘Cause I felt alone and you watched as I decayed. I slipped through your hands as I faded. I’ve tried to forget but your love will make a museum of me yet.
-Casey (feat. Michael McGough), Ceremony

The emptiness you occupied is more than I can take.
-Casey (feat. Michael McGough), Ceremony

I know it’s hard to watch your light fade from my eyes. But, darling, for my sake you’ve got to let it die. My weathered hands have dug this grave enough. It’s time for us to bury our love.
-Casey (feat. Michael McGough), Ceremony

I’m not even sure why I’m calling you up when I know that your phone’s been disconnected for months. I guess it’s hard to break a habit that reminds you of love. I just needed you to know that I don’t miss you at all.
-Casey, Needlework

But in the end I hated all the metaphors we made, every sickly sentiment that I had sewn into my skin. I’m learning to remove your every suture; every wound is proof that even love is ruthless. I was used but I survived, no, thanks to you.
-Casey, Needlework

Truth be told it never felt like we were laid together sleeping only that my broken body had been crushed between your sheets like dead flowers between the pages of a journal you never read anymore. You just flick through when you’re bored.
-Casey, Mourning

Did you ever love me?
-Casey, Ghost

What if you woke up and you’d forgotten everything I have said, could we be happy again? If I can learn to live with myself, could you learn to love me like you said you did?
-Casey, Ghost

I know that I hate the man I am, but I’m the man that you made me.
-Casey, Ghost

I’ve let melancholy permeate my epidermis. It resonates with every word and I’m stirred awake at night because my mind is but a pendulum that oscillates, it swings from grief that suffocates to brevity my voice can’t shake. I stutter when I speak ’cause I’m still so weak.
-Casey, Wavering

Please don’t mistake my silence for ignorance. I’m trying to be better at this, but I’m sick and tired of self-abusing and making excuses for why I hesitate to lead a life that should elate me. I’m remind daily that my depression can’t be justified, but I can’t seem to quieten down my mind. I’ve always been ashamed to say that maybe I need help, but it’s either that or face the fact I may end up killing myself.
-Casey, Wavering

And I can’t seem to satiate the sadness that still resonates. Every bone in me will break beneath the weight of guilt that I can’t place.
-Casey, The Funeral

If my happiness isn’t permanent then I am no more than a surrogate father, lead to the altar to marry the mother despite all of my reservations.
-Casey, The Funeral

If the joy that I feel is so juvenile, how do I reconcile all the aggression that I seem to harbor, the selfish depression that makes it so hard to feel loved.?
-Casey, The Funeral

Despondency bleeds into everything, removing my hands from the wheel of the vehicle, and I couldn’t care at all; sing me to sleep with my mellifluous misery.
-Casey, The Funeral

I’ve little more to offer than advice on letting blood, my cynicism serves no purpose, and my love is not enough to eschew negative behaviors that I’ve tried to use to cope.
-Casey, Wound

Perhaps my pessimism prospers in the absence of progress. Is my cynicism premature or justified by my emptiness?
-Casey, Wound

I’ve thought of leaving more than I care to remember. But while the bad days still hold weight, they’re definitely getting better.
-Casey, Wound

Every day I dilute the nefarious self-deprecation and loathing a little more with the help of my loved ones whose constant support I certainly wouldn’t be here without. In all the ways that I am weak, I am also strong. Learning how to speak gave me the strength to carry on.
-Casey, Wound

How fast did we decay? ‘Cause I remember falling into love but never out again. It felt like one day I woke up and we weren’t there. We’d lay our bones in the same bed at night but our love had disappeared.
-Casey, Hell

I guess I just couldn’t bring myself to face the fact that maybe we were never what I wanted us to be. Maybe the love that we had made was not the beautiful home I always imagined that we had built.
-Casey, Hell

You never saw it as us, only ever you and me. You were the blood in my veins. You only came to watch me bleed. Our love set me on fire, and you stood and watched me burn. You told me once you couldn’t love me, but I guess I’ll never learn.
-Casey, Hell