Now let me tell you about anxiety
This kind of anxiety isn't healthy
Anxiety feels like it's holding me back
It feels like chains round my neck
It holds me back from the people I love
It turns beauty to the ashes
The simplest thing is the enemy
Deciding nah it's impossible
This kind of anxiety just brings me down
The eighty pounds of pressure just beating me down
Not being good enough is daily struggle
My anxiety is on the double
Perfection is the only way out
My brain is stretched to the limits
A sentence takes hours to analyze
People's compliments
Are just a way of hiding the truth
The chains the weights
That 80 pounds of pressure
Pulls me down to the bottom
The ocean its a liar
Beauty, only on the surface
But underneath, a monster
Freedom it calls to me
It's the air that we breath
The light it's glorious
It's the hope that sustains us
The current, it's violent
Pulling me in every direction
That weight, is the anxiety
It's keeping me from oxygen
After so long at the bottom
Everything gets hazy
My body is pulling me up
Wants to get to the surface
My mind, it's stuck
It's glued to the weight
A burning building
I'm trapped inside
no escape route
The smoke clouds my judgement
Steals oxygen from my mind
The flames are judgment
don't touch them they're toxic
I just sit here, feel'n helpless
The walls they start caving in
I'm out of oxygen
I need to breathe
The flames they burn my skin
That feeling, I know it's coming
I know I'm slipping under
My last moments to anxiety attack
Feels pretty helpless
Feels like no one can help
I'm burned to the ashes.
Shhh
Be quite
The enemy he's lurking
I'm walking down a path blindly
The darkness it surrounds me
Don't know what's lurking in front of me
Every noise just sets me off
The unease, the tension
Sets my mind on overload
Every possible thing
going through my mind
My situation, it's dire
Am I walking in circles
I don't know
Is that fear
I'm certain
He's here I can feel it
He's ready to take me
And no one's here to save me
Anxiety it's like a race track
An endless loop with no goal in mind
I pass the same things every time
But they still overwhelm me
My heart races my body aches
There's nothing that can ease the pain
A race that can't be won
My lungs they strive for air
My throat it's dry inside
I'm fading fast
My faith it's running dry
My knees buckle
Fall'n down over my own weight
Fears calling
He's closing near
He's built on my defeat
and he's growing stronger
But how easy do we forget?
We have a god who loves us
He brings beauty from the ashes
The God that brings ashes to life
Pulls me out of the depths
Brings light into the darkness
Breaks the chains that hold me
He deeply treasures the sunken
Brings family around the broken
Calls the lost His children
Brings me power and strength
He's that rescue boat on the oceans
That overwhelming feeling
He turns it to overwhelming grace
He's the one that shatters fear
In the name of the almighty God
