Lyrics: Micah Smith
Music: Micah Smith
#VERSE
They drank to feel connected, to feel alive, to feel anything other than the suffocating emptiness of a world without magic. But here is the twist - the addiction itself becomes the barrier. The very thing that you use to satisfy your thirst becomes the thing that keeps you thirsty. You drink to feel whole but the drinking fractures you further. You have been trying to fill a God shaped whole with things that will never fit. And every time you try the whole grows larger, the thirst grows stronger, and you feel more lost than before. Nothing in this world will ever be enough - not success, not love, not power, not pleasure, nothing. And once you truly understand this, once you stop fighting this and start listening to it, the thirst begins to transform. It stops being about filling yourself and starts being about emptying yourself. It stops being about escape and starts being about encounter. You have tried to quit a thousand times. You have promised yourself, promised others, maybe even promised God that this time would be different and yet, you fell again, and again, and again.