It’s been a while for you
You’re sitting thinking of then
But you’re still young and beautiful
It wasn’t what you expected
Is it pride or did you really love him?

I’ve been on my own two feet
That’s the way I walk these days
I needed to find my balance
But I want to be uneasy underfoot
Like when someone new changes my ways

I could dig up some old pictures
Read that letter
But I know who I  am
Whatever she said was true
It’s the reason I can’t think about forever

We both know our memories
What good are they now?
Not very if you won’t love me
Even if the sea is filled with pieces of the past
Hurry, let me kiss you before your forget how

I’ve already given you my heart
It’s been yours for so long
You felt it in the rain and pain
That is how you have survived
I cried too while life did you wrong

Some things can't ever be replaced
A broken glass once held the water
But the water is still inside me
I’m just waiting for the spear to remind me

It’s not a bluff to get mad at somebody
They know how you felt
They may feel lucky to be alive still
As you showed them the strength of your will

What’s all this about hating a stranger
I need more than the gossip
If you loved me once I felt it
That’s the only way true anger will fit

But don’t get me wrong my friend
A bully doesn’t have to notice me
I can’t say God bless him
Even if God says ignore the victim

How can you ever feel lonely inside me
I know how to love you
But you have to let me hurt you too
The two sides of love is nothing new

I’m not walking the streets crying about it
But I did just one night
The glass broke while the water could only swear
That's when I noticed the cupboard was bare

She fell in love with the wrong guy
He said she was all he had
Two rights made a wrong this time
Now the right guy doesn’t seem so bad

They just wanted to have fun
The world was something to ignore
She thought he was so different
Now he’s got more problems than before

It’s up to her
It’s up to her
She asked for help
Then she said she loved him
That’s a personal problem
She picked a boy
Now she needs a man

He said a lot of things that sounded smart
He made her laugh and was a dreamer
She finally noticed it was just talking in his sleep
Now she knows why some promises can’t remember

Sometimes it takes a woman to grow a boy up
She thought he was exactly what she dreamed
He built her a safe place against the world
Now the wall isn't exactly what it seemed

It’s up to her
It’s up to her
She’s too young
He’s too lost
That’s a personal problem
She picked a boy
He’s not yet a man

I was always felt I was real
But life made me a dreamer
I had to find a place to be happy
My pillow needs to get a little tougher

I’m not crying my friend
I’m the soil in the sun and the rain
I’m not a rock that can’t feel anything
And what will be is that I will grow again

I’m making it because I want to
I wake up and the day is mine, it’s true
The bullets and arrows only make me bleed
But I’m not dying, I know what I need to do

A beautiful woman is always on my mind
But I’m not living just to find something
At least not another way to say goodbye
It’s my imagination that knows my hearts being

I’m making it because I need to
I’m not leaving this life, I’m not through
I’ll let God decide when I’ve had enough
That’s when I will know how much he loved you

I can’t say how long I’ve been searching
Sometimes I thought I finally found myself
I had a vision of where I might be someday
But to be that person I have to stop looking

I need to know who I am before I go
Every time I relax something happens
The story is never over before it ends
I can’t assume I’m right even if I think so

We spent one night together
Only one night,
like lovers, watching
The heart that melts
And the river that’s made
But it was so long ago
So you tried to fall in love with someone else

I don’t think about being a butterfly
I don’t think about love like a child
So many things happen in the middle of a performance
The curtain came down early but I kept singing anyway

The way you said goodbye sounded like forever
But it’s not an echo that makes a memory
It’s the sound you thought you’d never hear again
Until I whispered the love you thought would never be

It's not how you said it
It's you made me feel
Was it that I believed you
It was how you looked at me
And you lingered
As if you would stay forever
If that was what I needed
On the long way down
If you take your time
The bottom will wait for you
It is how we land on our feet
The way to take another chance
Is when nothing left to lose
Is the moment you were waiting for
But a last look around the room
Was how I knew you cared

I want to get away from it all
I can’t go back and make it up to you
And tomorrow won’t wake up early
The sun said setting is all that’s true

I don’t need a big house
The refuge is only in my mind
I left town to see another one
Maybe a stranger is what I need to find

The nights aren’t that long anymore
I'm used to sleeping on both pillows
Maybe we talked too much
Now love is on the other side of the windows

How could I have known it wasn’t the right
Our whispers were so loud in our hearts
Something gave it all away
The secret is not how the fire starts