Chords for Dax - The Abyss (Lyrics)

_ _ Everything I did I always gave it my best.
[A] I don't know if anyone relates but the feeling that I get is like a truck sitting on my chest.
[G] Wondering how much do I got left.
My last call, my last step.
[Em] I'm not gonna wait just to see what's next.
I go [F#m] hard cause today could be my last breath.
We do [Bm] life and we can't relive it.
_ We only get one chance.
If [F#m] you blink then you might just miss it.
_ _ Many people come [G] and go, they all just visit.
Don't ever expect none different.
Just [Em] listen as I paint this image that you'll all [F#m] revisit.
Yeah my glass half [D] empty but I still might [Bm] sip it.
I was traumatized.
_ _ _ What would you have said when you was [A] looking in my momma's eyes?
Nothing.
Yeah I might have said I was [G] okay but I'd probably lie.
So this pain is how I harmonize.
Making impact, [Em] that's what I personify.
And yes I'm making music that you [A] cannot just define by the numbers on my Spotify.
[Bm] All of this pain I just wanna be happy.
Mom almost died the same day that she had me.
[F#m] Driving to the hospital she swerved and crashed badly.
Doctor said I was a miracle while looking at my daddy.
[G] I was zero when I first dodged death.
I was six when the devil told me watch my step.
Couldn't [Em] sleep I was scared to go inside my bed.
Fighting [F#m] demons I was hearing things [D] inside my head.
So [Bm] back to the doctor he didn't have a diagnosis.
_ So my whole damn [A] life I felt lost while fighting psychosis.
Talking to myself hoping nobody would notice.
[G] Mom said pray every time I heard the voices.
Life or death everyday I swear I made choices.
[Em] Life in my hand trying not to lose focus.
Playing basketball [D] religiously to drown out the noises.
Man [Bm] let me explain that it's like laying on train tracks.
Grabbing guns contemplating blowing your brain back.
[F#m] Eyes closed shut watching everything fade black.
People stepping over you you feel like a placemat.
[G] Fuck and let me make it clear.
God is the only one that I've ever feared.
But you [Em] start to get paranoid and look over your shoulder.
When these [F#m] people have been hurting you for [D] so many years so I [Bm] had to escape.
If you listening I know that you relate.
Cause that feeling that you [F#m] get like your life and existence was all just one big mistake.
I felt trapped and I [G] couldn't find space.
I went and got lost in the things I'd create.
Ever since I was a kid people [Em] hated and they judged everything that I did.
So I went [F#m] into my mind and [D] created the abyss.
Man I [Bm] swear I did.
How the hell y'all think I make all these hits?
It's cause [F#m] I've been broken, beaten, dragged, laughed at, scorned, burned, and kicked.
So [G] I get to reach in this endless pit of hurt and pain from all that shit.
And [Em] that's the only reason that your people come here.
Oh for [F#m] God's sake even though that DAX exists.
This [Bm] is how it feels to drown.
This is how it looks when you lost and you can't be found.
The [F#m] abyss was a place I'd visit but I went so much that I'm gone and I'm stuck here now.
This [G] is not music, this is not dope.
This is me begging y'all to throw me a rope.
So I [Em] can try to climb out the place where I came in my [F#m] life when I spiraled and [D] first lost hope.
[Bm] Let me explain.
_ I've been DAX so long I get PTSD [A] when somebody says my real name.
_ But I guess that's the [G] price you pay.
I didn't want it to be like this.
But I [Em] guess it is what it is [F#m] inside _ [Bm] the abyss.
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