i forgot how to be myself for a while.
but i've returned, and it caused a smile.
i've emerged from the depths of whatever buried me alive.
i've crawled out from the underworld where i pretended to survive.
and i never understood why i couldnt shine under this light,
but when i move the lamp around, i glow ever so bright.

i never knew it to be possible until now, that you could lose yourself if you let it go too long.
and how could i forget what made me so evervescent from the start, trying to play another part when i was
casted in the perfect role myself.

i dont think i know how to love, i just pretend.
but love is silly, love is meaningless, but i guess it all depends.
cause i have fought the rainstorms without shelter for so long
but somehow im still here, and i never gave myself the credit for being so strong.

and they all talk, i hear the whispers bouncing off the walls.
i can pretend to be ignorant, but i see behind the smog.
and all ive wanted was to hold a place in a heart that had no empty seats
so ill find another show.

i feel like an unfinished painting.
like an outline, waiting to be colored.
i have so much more to do here,
so many footsteps to leave before i'm gone.
all i want is to carve my name on your heart,
let it stay there, so you dont forget me once ive gone.
take this picture, staple it to everything you touch,
maybe if i know you miss me i wont miss you all that much.

i know this is going to be the hardest thing ive ever had to do. to turn away from you.
i can still feel the words dancing on my lips, your hands resting in my fingertips, oh it's to sweet to let go now.

i love the way the color of your eyes changes,
and every time, i know i love you simply because i have noticed.
i can;t just sit here in my skin, and pretend this isn't what it really is.

i don't want to see you again.
i just feel a pain in my chest
when i think of your smile, your laugh,
all it does is leave me restless again

so this is goodbye
a long time coming, oh
i shouldnt cry,
but i cant mask these emotioms, oh
where do imgo?
only the road knows
is it wrong to be afraid
i can't get out of my head the thought of your face when im gone...

and so i go, i know ive got to, but inside i just dont want to
and i know, and i know im lucky to go, but i just see you in my head when i should see the bright lights

when will i return
yiur guess is as good as mine
but i know only because ive learned
that things are never going to be the same once you leave them behind
so i can kiss this frame of my life goodbye

am7 cadd9 --g,cadd9 am no capo

i didnt know i was this strong
i underestimated myself all along
i didnt think id ever get used to the change
but all i did was blink my eyes and watch my life re arrange

and i have watched myself evolve into this
i thought id become a monster, someone meaningless.
maybe i crossed some bridges id never seen before
and maybe i didnt know it til id turned around and watched them fall.

theres no going back now
theres no turning back around
ive learned how to fight, when i want to cower and cry.
and ive learned wrong from right, in a foggy disarray

i cant say being confused is an excuse anymore.
because youve got to turn all the knobs till you find the unlocked door.
and i was so tired of searching around.
and i flew for miles in tears until my feet felt comfort on the ground




G, C, Em, D. No Capo

watch me fall apart,
breaking one by one.
i become undone,
but the minutes on the clock.
try to decipher my words,
because i cant understand my thoughts.
i'm throwing verbal clusters
that i can't understand myself.

and i have never loved
under this sun
the way that i love right here, right now.
but i have never wished,
to forget something like this,
as quickly as i can, somehow,
i gotta let this go.

watch me hope for this.
i'll dream of it perfect.
i want this to be
perfect
perfect.
but then i realize,
when the tears fall from my eyes,
i'm imagining something,
perfect.
perfect.

why can't i take the wheel?
i need to steer the ship before it sinks into the ground.
why can't i control what i feel.
i tell myself what i need to do, but then you come around,
and i just wanna believe in the dreams i dreamt for us,
this whole galaxy i built for us.
i just want to move it from my creative mind, to the outside.

the colors are always changing, and i cant keep up with the mix and matching shades.
today i feel like i can love you, but i cant promise tomorrow will be the same.
so what is this continuation of events when i know i'll still be stuck tripping over make believe footsteps.


you cant shake what you feel.
i've learned that the hardest way possible.
and you can't predict that glances are real,
because when youre heart is set, it's unstoppable.
i just want to open my eyes and see what i saw when they were closed,
so how come when i open them, i feel alone and so exposed,
i just want to feel like i'm still in reality today.

my heart hurts for you.
my heart hurts for me.
i want to love you.
i want to let you be,
i want you to see the sceneries you want to see,
and i want you to visit sceneries with me.
i want to let you fly across the skies with your eyes,
buried in the things youve been chasing your whole life.
and i want to be waiting at the other end when you come down and are ready to express your experiences with someone you love.
someone you love.
i want to know you inside and out.
from head to toe.
i want to know.
i want to teach you all that i;ve known.

my heart beats for you.
my heart stops from you.
i want to tell you the secrets i cant keep.
i want to see you, everything of you.
perfections and flaws, under and above you.
im sure that id love you.
if i got the chance to be
someone you love.
someone you love.
ask me what i want to know, all of the above.
i'll be the witness, that backs up your story,
even when your wrong.

and i'd be a statue, if you asked me to stay still.
if you asked me to break my neck for you, without a doubt, oh i will.
and i'd travel the world ocean to ocean, just to float to a shore, where i could be someone you loved.