I’m going to do different this time
I’m not going to do waiting
I’m not going to do afraid
But who am I kidding
I’m the one whose heart already paid

The screen behind me is full of sound
But you can’t hear anything
The images are all about life
What’s it about, seeing, believing
I’m sad that you can feel so much doubt

Did you notice something?
Everybody was together
Laughing and crying
What is it about, color?
I know we’re the same
We all want a lover

I don’t want to be at war with anybody
Say it loud, how are you anyway?
We all wasted days, so many
Stop thinking that way
It’s still your life
Nobody has taken it away

How did we meet
So many leaves, floating aimlessly
We both fell from the sky
Our eyes met, wet from the rain
Our bodies felt, the cold of the rake
Will the wind scatter us once again?

No matter how long the table
Or the age of the wine, born today
We can’t take it home unless we dream
We kissed with our eyes open
We both wanted to know
Can you love a heart already broken?

It's not just how we were together
It was the way it started
I didn't have to convince you
It was something you already knew

You left the door open
With white candles burning inside
It was as if you were expecting someone
The romance was that I was the one

I didn't have so far to climb
It was what you wanted all along
You were so unafraid
The look in my eyes was easy to tame

Now the candle has burned out
A closed door, I'm everybody's stranger
Who would be so fearless again
Now I wait for something I cannot explain

You were so unafraid
Unafraid to say what you mean
If only I knew how to to make someone
Unafraid to light a candle again

I want to give you something
that you cannot give back
A walk in the park wondering
if you love me enough to try
You will remember and that is why
Something to compare is what I am

You can’t give back you and I
A moment that only we know
Things we said and felt
You cannot take off and return
Chains and rings are golden
But a man cannot forge love that way

Where you saw me standing alone
Do you remember where it was
Yes you do because you were there too
It was not a church or a celebration
It was on a street where people wonder
if you see them or your reflection in a window

The door to this prayer is out of reach
I spoke to you many times as I thought about it
To every possible thing you could say I listened
But what I thought of wouldn’t be you
I tried to build a sand castle made of fantasy
Instead you were a wave answering to the moon

To be proud of survival drowning in regret
It’s the way a loner thinks of the night
Watching others who seem to be happy
But the stars are so different to me
Neither is my heart when it thinks of you
Something for you to always keep of mine

I want to be able
to know a cool summer breeze
without feeling it
I want to be able
to be satiated by a mountain spring
without drinking it
I want to be able
to reflect a sunset for lovers
without seeing it
I want to be able
to be swept away by the ocean
without swimming in it
I want to be able
to live where dark becomes light
without having to fly in it
I want to be able
to care about pain and suffering
without waiting to live it
I want to be able
to accept truth no matter what
without denying it
I want to be able
to love someone faithfully
without resenting it
I want to be able
to be a free man in my lifetime
without killing for it
I want to be able
to worship the God of my soul
without be told to do it

I've awakened alone
on Christmas morning
I've had troubles
that may never end
I've felt despair
that made me question life
I've been rejected
by someone I thought I loved
But I am still alive
as are my scars
The spirit within me
remains pure and knowing
I love my children
and the strength of my being
For despair is temporal
and hope forever mine

What are we asking of ourselves now
Only equality if death must decide for us
We don't know what discomfort will produce
Street fighting or words without seeing eyes
Demands for peace only start another war
At the moment we become politicized
Our minds close and truth is abandoned
What we believe is what comforts us most
Even if hatred is our elixir and love our lie
But as our children discover the morning light
They will know that even darkness must sleep
And the changing of the guard will become love

If I could hold your hand once
It would always be on your mind
The soft touch before love is born
But I won’t try to drag you along

Our minds silently racing about
Trying not to hold on too hard
Our smiles say take me now
We both know now we belong

Take my hand
Become my lover too soon
As we walk through a crowd
It will never end
It’s time to believe again

The light that became a shadow
Was the hint we needed for more
When we begin to close our eyes
We both know what we will find

Are you uncomfortable now?
It's the only way a moment becomes a life
Somebody has to try

I never thought I could forget myself
Remembering how to let you win
Wondering if you are feeling it too
But a fool must give his life to you

Take my hand
Kiss me before you meant to
In the middle of a crowd
It will never end
It’s time to believe again