Euphoria

Euphoria doesn't last
The pain is coming back
Impossible to relax
The tides have changed.

Euphoria builds you up
Invincibility becomes your delusion
Think it's never going to end
But then it does.

Euphoria is a sugar rush
That ends in a crash
Recovery is slow, uncertain
And agonizing.

Euphoria lets you down
Making you wonder how you could've been high
Why you never saw it coming
It's a ghost haunting from all sides.

Euphoria is deceptive
It makes you believe in forever
Forever never comes
Tomorrow is not promised.

Euphoria is fleeting
You cannot grasp it
It flies just low enough for you to believe
You could touch it—then soars away.

Euphoria, euphoria—
The oldest trick in the books.
Fall for it every time
How tantalizing it looks.

Got me then, got me now, 
Dragged me into a hole.
I'll be alright, it will get better
But for now a strain's placed on my soul.

I'll let you go, euphoric phantom
You brought pleasure and you brought joy.
For whatever need you felt to slip away
I'll never know, and I can't ask you to stay.

Tied the ends I requested you leave open
And then you cut them—off you flew.
My kite, my euphoric high-flier 
Into the yonder cloudy blue.

A sweet goodbye, but no embrace—
Worst possible way to desert a place.
You got me high, you made me fly
Now I'm just tumbling from the sky.

I will get up and I will recover
And I will likely find another
Euphoric distraction may surface
And I can either accept or ignore it.

Take me, shake me, break me—
A mixed drink without the booze
Build me up, tear me down, hold me, burn me—
You were all I stood to lose.

Your departure was not my decision
Not my liking, not my choice
If I had it my way you'd be staying
For better or for worse, regardless what you liked.

A piece of my heart goes with you—
A fickle seed afloat on the breeze.
Our time was good, short-lived, and sweet
Now it's time we part ways...but I can't bear to.

So you made sure it could happen.
You tied the ends and cut them, didn't leave them open.
Blood will scab, scars will form
But stronger and wiser we will emerge.

Euphoria is deceptive
It makes you believe in forever
Forever never comes
Tomorrow is not promised.