Late summer, early in the fall August nine three, changed forever the things I see Your failing crutch was my saving grace I'll never get to see your face Early march, seven one Can't prepare you for things we'd go through Changes that follow us from birth to death, can't take you away from me Like our first cigarette lifted and red hot Burned so fast, like the time we've lost, Lonely staring stares facing present scars Can you hear me? Feel the love I have for you? Changes that follow us from birth to death, can't take you away from me
Sorrow in your passing, take it till I fall down Wear it on my sleeve Rise, and take the pain
You took a risk by leaving yourself open for the punch Hold on tight The feelings have been guarded all your life, sometimes I feel the same way Hold on tight Watch your castles made from sand wash away, washed out for generations The feelings have been guarded all your life, sometimes I feel the same way Washed out for generations, but no one can take your light away Take me back to where you stood at your window, before you had fallen It shows what's sublime still remains, Sometimes our mirrors get clouded, so your vision in time will remain Sometimes trust slips right on through your hands Listen send the message I'm fine Still dreaming, still yearning We don't need a key, we'll bust them down Sometimes trust slips right on through your hands Listen, no one's buying I'm fine
Calling from the rooftop I'm singing your name All that's been blown apart Has been washed away When you were out there fighting Going up against the tide
Want you to know That it still matters to me You made your vibrations Without a gun in your hand To a world that's adding darkness A night devoid of stars Descending spiral begets the very thing that It seeks to destroy
You can kill a liar but you can never kill the lie I reject your solutions I reject your violence And through our resolve You will see your injustice And through our persistence You will be called to conscious
I reject your solutions I reject your violence And we're not afraid
If you make us bleed Every drop of our blood Will say "I love you I forgive you I love you I defy you"
Your ticket has been bought, welcome to the human race Thought you'd escape, I never tried to own it These are the cards you're dealt, no different than anyone else No one's gonna' take it away, you gotta' walk right through it
Stand strong, until your heart stops It's breaking will tearing apart, but no one's gonna' take it away You gotta' walk right through it
Never more than you can bear, Embrace with every cell, walk right through it If you feel like you're gonna' fall apart, Let me hold you together, never let yourself forget Inside is the deepest ocean, I'll walk this path until my dying day I'll walk right through until they put me in my grave
Now's the time, you see the water, you're there I see the tide come in, breaking the lesser man
Pretty baby has to be alone, when you're lost your heart is all alone Why do we suffer? Why do we live like you? So much hatred on your inside, a crutch, a needle, suicide
Hey, I'd like to see you. I'd like to see you on your best day From zero you can go away, just like a ghost from an unmarked grave Why do we suffer? Why do we live like you? Why should we be sorry? Over again, the harder to swim, the harder to breathe. Why do we suffer? Over again, wherever you went, you knew you weren't safe How long can you hide, separate your heart from your mind? Who will you turn to, when your very heart abandons you? Listen up to the rhetoric you speak You can't believe it's just another way that you get high Swimming for the shore, you're already there, can't you see?
There was never anything that was made defective or out of place When I drew upon the well to drink compassion, I drew lies
No hell will burn your flesh this time, no lie will be unturned Love started it all, and what you are is beautiful
Everything you've been taught, it had to be taught Because it wouldn't come naturally Always trying to improve, perfect, and rearrange What is perfect, this revolution was made in pain Wake up, defection is what they had in mind Wake up, it starts right here This revolution was forever filled with pain And we exploded from a thousand points of light
