I want to fill your heart up again
Tell you I would give anything for you
How you are more than I deserve
I want to tell you because its true

Don’t be impressed by anything
Except by how much I love you
You don’t have to ask me about it
It’s just something you know is true

If you can just let it happen now
No swearing or pledges to you
Just wake up knowing I’m there
The feeling between us is true

Put your hair down now my love
The only thing in life I want is you
There is nothing left but your skin
And what you are is why I am true

As we prepared for our last goodbye
I cleared my mind of the past
I memorized her face
For that was what was cast before me
I had to remember that moment
Without a memory of our mistakes
I wanted something good
To see an unknown beauty
To believe in love
A new beginning
And when you spoke
Your farewell was as sad as your hello
For I had rescued you once
And now as you again set yourself adrift
I watched a human heart that I once loved
Sink under the weight of an unsolved mystery

She doesn’t really like the cold
I saw the tears in her frosty eyes
She says she’s ready to melt
But not for a man who makes her cry

I know she’s ready to settle down
She had her time to be free
She met a man or two along the way
But they weren’t better than feeling lonely

You want something to show
For winter winds that blow
I watched it happen to you
Because I made it start
I was on the wrong side of your winter
I want to be on the right side of your heart

Her kids have some of their own now
The flowers have all fallen at her feet
Now she’s planting somewhere new
I’m on the other side hoping our hearts will meet

You want something to show
For winter winds that blow
I watched it happen to you
Because I made it start
I was on the wrong side of your winter
I want to be on the right side of your heart

I’m not going to conjure up
Rabbits blinded by stage light
Or with nothing up my sleeve
Prove my love will make things right

Even with the many hands of my sins
That I have extended like casting demons away
I was not the sorcerer that made love to you
Instead I was begging your heart stay

I don’t make magic
I only discover it
I’m not full of tricks
Only a shot of wit
Drink if you must
But first you better sit
It may not feel well
So drink only a bit

I am hardened by our world
The mystical nights we shared
Did not obey a man of tricks
Instead I found someone who cared

How perfect it was
We knew by our eyes
It was as true as a trick that lies
A soul mate from stormy skies

I don’t make magic
I only discover it
I carry no bag
That I will admit
Let it happen now
But first we must sit
This time is different
The magic is our spirit

my love for you is ocean deep
the life we lived together filled my heart
and now that you're gone
i float upon the memory of you
as the swells remind of dusk and dawn
living as we did
brother and sister
father and son
lover and lover
and while the sand rushes back to you
from the shores i walk upon
i say a prayer that what is being filled
is your soul
and my heart
while i watch sand castles moving on
into the deep

I know I’m not broken
I think you can even recognize me still
I’m underneath the things thrown at me
I’m the wall that wears somebody’s hatred

You wanted me to tell your story
A white wall that can’t complain about being poor
I don’t live on the side of town where people die young
I'm just streaks of paint from how I made you bleed

I’m living outside of love now
A fireplace and the dogs watching me are yours instead
You think you feel better because you stained me
I wonder though if you think I’m unable to stand on my own

I’m paying the price for loving you
I chose to walk around inside of you with a candle in my hand
But I was too close and set your heart on fire
I thought it was passion but instead it was only pain

I’m not what you remembered
What I wear upon my face is what I did to you
That is what I have become now
A painting nobody can save that dried up a long time ago

Every story has a broken heart
It's not what you said that happened
Because you'll only remember a few words
Probably the last two
Goodbye Forever Don't Go
The rest stays waiting for your next failure

Every story has an ending
The lucky ones don't know theirs yet
They keep failure next to a bible
Or maybe just a knowledge of life
They're strong enough to know a good thing
And they knew it when they met

Every story has already been told
But that's not really true
Nobody saw it like you because it's real to you
It's important enough to tell somebody
If you can get them to listen
If you can then it all really happened to you

Ever story is about loving somebody
Sometimes it takes a woman to make a man
She has to decide if he's worth the time
Loyalty won't let her ask that question
But your mistakes will one day
Then you'll have your own story to tell

Ever story tells itself to a friend
But a stranger is a chance for a new life
It's better though to talk after thirty years
To be able to look back and think about before
The things we said really did matter
It's true because we love each other as friends