[Verse 1]
I can't help picking up these bones
I'm just a sucker for the pain
When I see them lying there alone
I just can"t leave them in the rain

We need a different way to speak
So I might never use my tongue
I know the comforts that you seek
And I see what you'll become
I'm going to cut you like a tree
So be ready for it

[Chorus]
If this is how it's going to be, then I will never be someone
But it doesn't matter to me
If this is how it's going to be, then I will never be someone
But it doesn't matter, no, it doesn't matter to me

[Verse 2]
I'm going to shoot you if you run
They'll find you in a shallow grave
And when the day and deed is done
The attention that you crave
Will not seem so very fun
So prepare for it

[Chorus]

[Interlude]
I'm going to shoot you if you run
And I'm going to cut you like a tree
And I'll be your savior with a gun
If this is how it's going to be

[Chorus]
				

[Verse]
All my life I've been chasing something
I feel fate breathing down my neck
If the road I'm on somehow lead me nowhere
No retreats men no regrets

[Pre-Chorus]
Cause I'm not going to break
And there ain't no mistakes
And there ain't no turning back

[Chorus]
Out of the darkness
And into the light of love
Though for now it seems this struggle has only begun
I'm still believing
Our day is going to come
When we step out of the shadows and into the sun
Into the sun

[Verse]
Say a prayer for a generation
Hope is frail in this modern times
In a cold world of complication
I refuse to be left behind

[Pre-Chorus]
And I'm not going to break
Nobody can take
This feeling from my soul

[Chorus]

[Chorus]
				

I heard a little secret
Hoping you can keep it
You're not just lying to yourself

I wrote it on the mirror
To see a little clearer
I think I'm going to keep it
Just a little secret

Fall back
Girl, you don't know how to act
Fall back
Girl, you don't know how to act

You're talking crazy
And your mind is a mess
So, fall back

I heard a little story 'bout the one before me
That kid is singing like a bird
Girl, your weakness is the tangled web you weave
But that's just not what I need
				

[Verse]
Tell me your secrets
And I'll know you well
Show me the weakness
You're eager to sell
While the light in the ocean
From the moon on the shore
Gives me the notion that I want you more

[Chorus]
If we're in love
That's what we'll say
Before it's forgotten or taken away
It's a rolling die, it's a gentle rain
It's a practice in patience, a partner in pain
We've got a lot to lose if we're in love

[Verse]
I dream in illusion
And all shades of blue
And I wake in confusion so scattered with you

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
I'm caught between holding on and pulling away
But at the end of the day
I've got this feeling I can't shake
I've seen the other side of giving up
But never gave enough to know

[Chorus]
				

The times are changing and there's nowhere to run
Now will answer to the things that were done
In the night, we'll know just who to send
The dogs are howling from the edge of the rain
Where someone said they had the right to complain
So they'll beg or they'll burn or they'll band

How that everything that glitters is gold
Down in the middle where we're bought or we're sold
Give me what I need not what I owe
The place I live is just a hole in the a wall
As for possession, I keep nothing at all
I woke up sick from my American dream

That's enough, not for us
Our hearts are racing, we don't know who to trust
That's enough, not for us
Our hearts are racing, we don't know who to trust
Not my American dream

The birds are flying and the kids are in jail
While I'm here waiting for my ship to sail
In the north, we'll be just as we were
The cars are screaming and the street lights explode
If I was you, I'd stay the hell of the road
If your time to you is not your course

Oh my goodness, oh my woman in white
My eyes are fixed beyond the ghost in the right
I don't need the stars, I know their name
I'm feeling nervous with no way to relax
I guess I find it hard to face the facts
I fell down drunk with my American dream
				

I wanna see you, the way you see yourself
I wanna see you, the way you see yourself
I wanna understand your pain
Know exactly where it rains inside your soul

I wanna know you, the way the flowers know the grave
I wanna know you, the way the flowers know the grave
I wanna tie around your head
Every silly word you said when you were still easy

I've been fighting just to keep you holding on
And it ain't gettin' any easier to give or get along

If we can't breathe in the sky, we are stars
We are free to swell by all our childhood dreams
In the fire, we are flames, we are broken

I wanna heal you when the fruits still in your hand
Wanna heal you when the fruits still in your hands
I wanna rearrange the trees
And make a shelter from the thieves
Where you can be pure again

I've been fighting just to keep you holding on
And it ain't gettin' any easier to give or get along

If we can't breathe in the sky, we are stars
We are free to swell by all our childhood dreams
In the fire, we are flames, we are broken

If we can't breathe in the sky, we are stars
We are free to swell by all our childhood dreams
In the fire, we are flames, we are broken
				

I've been down the river and I've paid the cost
I've known the gains and I've felt the loss
Of the things I hold so dear to me

I'm looking back through unfamiliar eyes
To understand the way a feeling dies
And it takes its toll, it takes its toll
Like a knife deep down in my soul

It's hard enough, it's hard enough
To walk this lonely road without you
It's hard enough, it's hard enough
To miss everything about you
It's hard enough to know I'm out here on my own

So far away from the ones I love
When home's the only thing I'm dreaming of
When I close my eyes, you're the face I see
And it takes its toll on me

Every moment reminds me of something
Something I've lost, somewhere I can't go back
But I just keep moving on, there's nothing else
I can do but wait for tomorrow

The road is wide and time is an ocean
And I'm afraid but trouble will come and go
I know the stars are leading me back to you
				

I can feel the rain over my head
Let it soak me to the bones
'Til I die and live again
In a troubled sky

I can feel fear rise in my blood
Thunder crashers in my veins
Feel the force behind the flood

We cross our hearts and into the storm
We carry the hope of the faithful and the young
We cross out hearts, the weight of the world may
Fall on our shoulders, still we carry on

I can feel forever in the sun
Like the faith that slipped away
When the path had just begun
Through my open eyes

I can feel the reasons in my hand
Feel them swell beyond my grasp
'Til I fail to understand

We cross our hearts and into the storm
We carry the hope of the faithful and the young
We cross out hearts, the weight of the world may
Fall on our shoulders, still we carry on

I can feel the rain fall, I can see the sun rise
				

Let us sing of Mother Nature
And of the fire on the hill
Another arrow through the ages
Let it bend beyond their will

And to the vultures who employ us
Let their evils be in vain
And let the wolves that would destroy us
Live forever in the rain

If we can't change something
We're not going to survive
There's the war in our hearts
And the war outside

And I'm not going to give up
I'm going to take what's mine
Feel a fire coming on
It's just a matter of time

When freedom's just a phrase
'Cause the ends don't ever meet
We got to break the ties that bind us
And these shackles on our feet

Through the seeds of our misfortune
And our characters of pain
Let the wolves that would destroy us live
Forever in the rain

If we can't change something
We're not going to survive
There's the war in our hearts
And the war outside

And I'm not going to give up
I'm going to take what's mine
Feel a fire coming on
It's just a matter of time

I feel a fire coming on
And it's beating like a drum

If we can't change something
We're not going to survive
There's the war in our hearts
And the war outside

And I'm not going to give up
I'm going to take what's mine
Feel a fire coming on
It's just a matter of time
				

Mother, Mother
I can't take another
Moment here the way that it is
Heartache, heartache
It's a fear I can't shake
It heals and then it's broken again

The things I love seem to slip through my hands
Like a big red balloon or a grain of sand
But I see the future through the eyes of the past
Still I somehow want to make this last

They say the darkest hour
Is just before a flower
Opens to the light of the sun
And you're my reason
My softly changing season
Tell me I'm the only one

The things I love seem to slip through my hands
Like a big red balloon or a grain of sand
But I see the future through the eyes of the past
Still I somehow want to make this last
Still I somehow want to make this last

All my life I've been fooling myself
Trying to make the wrong things right
Like a birds against the cold hard wind
Trying to find the end of the night

The things I love seems to slip through my hands
Like a big red balloon or a grain of sand
But I see the future through the eyes of the past
Still I somehow want to make this last
Still I somehow want to make this last
				

It's only cost me everything I had to give
It's only cost me everything I love
And though it's not the way I'd choose to live
I've come to far now to give up

And I walk through my days like this
And I take it as it comes
Through my days like this
But I'm holding on

I give my hope, I gave my heart
Until the two were torn apart
I pray tomorrow finds me back where I belong
I gave my heart, I gave my blood
And sill I stand against the flood
I'm holding on, holding on, I'm holding on

There's loneliness beyond the crowds and wandering
There's so much in between our heats and hands

And I walk through my days like this
And I take it as it comes
Through my days like this
And I'm holding on

I give my hope, I gave my heart
Until the two were torn apart
I pray tomorrow finds me back where I belong
I gave my heart, I gave my blood
And sill I stand against the flood
I'm holding on, holding on, I'm holding on

If I don't have the strength to make it through
If I'm swept away or torn in two
At least I'd die without regret
And know I lived my life with every breath
				

I started the day by the tree
Where the sea was of nothing
I was closer to God in my dreams
But still out of my head

When all of the leaves and the moments
Were in their way touching
A blanket of change and the listening
For what will be said

When all that I knew was the wind
And the faces before me
I spoke with the purpose and strength
Of a thousand young man

When the weight of the world
And their wolves were out there to destroy me
I stood in the grass on the hill
With my will to defend

This is the start of something
This is the end of who we were
The beginning of what we will be

This is the call to something
This is a chance at something pure
The only chance that we can see

When everything else disappears
We'll live out our live beyond years

Where's the forgiveness
We said would be written all over?
Where is the peace and the freedom
We said would be ours?

Have we been lost
In a dead winter whispering clover?
Can we get back to the truth
In the bees and the flowers?