Why can I not help you?
Because.
The words are all to familiar to me. I cannot help you, if I could help you with your problem, with the familiar words, I would easily be able to fix myself.

Have you ever come across one of those pencil erasers that just doesn't erase instead it leaves marks?
Well. The past is like one of those erasers.
You wish it would erase but it never seems to, it only leaves more marks.

"Don't take life so seriously, you'll never make it out alive"