I don't know when I'll be good enough
For you or for myself.
I wish I wasn't scared of light
To tell you we can die.
We can't fly today - you know that too
Wishing not for something new.
I still don't get how you can live
Knowing you can't die.

When loneliness creeps in
To take a hold of you,
It gnaws you from within.
There isn’t much to do.

Your heart by gnarly limbs
Confined, desires no more.
Your thoughts so dark and dim,
And closed is every door.

But – as all worldly things –
It, too, shall one day pass.
There’ll be new songs to sing
Beside your bonnie lass.

See the banner that touches the sky?
See the party, the song, the dance?
Look Close!
There is more to be seen,
It is the battlefield of many wars
It is the funeral procession for all the soldiers lost
Each person marches for a hundred more
For those who are hidden and
For those who have fallen
Smiling through tears, this is our celebration.
Together we march alone
For those you cannot see
Glory and Sorrow
Love and Loss
This is Pride.

They say the truth hurts, instead it left me confused
The hope of “us” shattering into pieces
Staring at your response, hoping for an explanation
Hope, the one thing I told myself not to have

All I could do was laugh
Tears threatened to fall, and all I did was laugh
How could I, for one second believe?
If only you made it easier for me
Imagining your face, how could I be mad at that face?
Hoping magically, you’d change your mind

Looking into the sky
Feeling empty inside
Thinking about the endless possibilities
You and I could’ve been “us”

Hope, something you can’t escape
No matter how many times you tell yourself not to hope
It finds a way to escape
You just end up getting hurt anyway