What Is To Be Will Be

by Chekov

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The new single from our upcoming album, 'Clean Skin, Teeth, and White Bones'.
This is the final time the subject matter of It Always Comes Back To You will be written about. Consider it a farewell to the EP.

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I loved you more than life, you know?
I wanted to spend forever in your arms,
every Sunday by your side,
for the rest of our lives.

Once upon a time, you were my fairytale.
You made me believe in happy endings,
but we are growing up and growing old,
and there comes a time to stop pretending.

I wanted it to be you, forever.
You were a bandaid on a broken bone,
I was barely holding it together,
but you were my safe place, my home,
with a bond the Heavens could never sever,
you were my Annabell Lee,
and we were both children,
in a crumbling kingdom by the sea.

I never pictured a future without you in it,
every plan I made kept you in mind.
But when someone refuses to grow,
life demands you leave them behind.
Helping you find your way was the first thing
I ever asked God to do.
I would have broken my back just to get through to you.

But still, your vices ripped your hand from mine,
I watched you become someone I did not recognize.
You went from the love of my life, to a stranger,
right before my eyes.

I am learning to live in your wake.
Never again will I bend until I break.
I turned my heart to stone to keep it safe.
I don't cry at the moon anymore,
I've stopped blaming fate.

But I loved you more than life, you know?

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released September 7, 2020

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Chekov Knoxville, Tennessee

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