is this the moment where i look you in the eye forgive my broken promise that you ll never see me cry and everything it will surely change even if i tell you i won t go away today will you think that you re all alone when no one s there to hold your hand and all you know seems so far away and everything is temporary rest your head i m permanent i know he s living in hell every single day and so i ask oh god is there some way for me to take his place and when they say it s all touch and go i wish i could make it go away but still you say will you think that you re all alone when no one s there to hold your hand when all you know seems so far away and everything is temporary rest your head i m permanent i m permanent is the moment where i look you in the eye forgive my promise that you ll never see me cry3

lipstick pretty face and maybe youll notice something different about me different about me yeah you talk talk all you want you pour your heart out but you never do see you never do see me i cant wait forever for you sooner or later youre gonna come around and youll be sorry when you figure out that i was always everything that you needed sooner or later youre gonna wish you had me yeah youre gonna wish you had me well she dont do nothing for you but mess you up yeah she messes you up im your shoulder im the quick drive over tryin to fix your stuff well i give up you you never see me standing right in front of you sooner or later youre gonna come around and youll be sorry when you figure out that i was always everything that you needed sooner or later youre gonna wish you had me oh youre gonna wish me back so bad so bad oh but its a little too late for that lipstick pretty face and maybe youll notice something different about me different about me sooner or later youre gonna come around and youll be sorry when you figure out that i was always everything that you needed sooner or later oh sooner or later youre gonna come around and youll be sorry when you figure out that i was always everything that you needed sooner or later youre gonna wish you had me oh youre gonna wish you had me oh youre gonna wish you had me oh youre gonna wish you had me oh youre gonna wish you had me

this is no escape this is no surrender my dear this is my parade my happy ever after but only if you re here when i m lost and broken take me as i am right here where i stand open up your arms and let me in out here on my own i know i m not alone let me in your heart right where you stand take me as i am we can take tonight and make it last forever if you dare ooh we can run away take the world together only if you care with these words unspoken take me as i am right here where i stand open up your arms and let me in out here on my own i know i m not alone let me in your heart right where you stand take me as i am give a second chance we can take tomorrow make it better you and me give me one more try before we say goodbye right here in this moment here forever everyday take me as i am right here where i stand open up your arms take me as i am right here where i stand open up your arms and let me in out here on my own i know i m not alone let me in your heart right where you stand take me as i am take me as i am take me as i am take me as i am take me as i am

help me i think i m falling in love again when i get that crazy feeling i know i m in trouble again i m in trouble cause you re a rambler and a gambler and a sweet talking ladies man and you love your loving but not like you love your freedom help me i think i m falling in love too fast it s got me hoping for the future and worrying about the past cause i ve seen some hot hot blazes come down to smoke and ash we love our loving but not like we love our freedom didn t it feel good we were sitting there talking or lying there not talking didn t it feel good you dance with the lady with the hole in her stocking didn t it feel good didn t it feel good help me i think i m falling in love with you are you going to let me go there by myself that s such a lonely thing to do both of us flirting around flirting and flirting hurting too we love our loving but not like we love our freedom

i can feel in the evening air all the words i want to say but i can tell as you turn to leave that they wouldn t make you stay overhead the lights come on and suddenly i see that glow is gonna guide you home wherever that may be what use is a paper heart when you re stuck in the rain stuck in the rain cause all the love that i hold inside feel it washin away washin away let it fall take it all cause i m so tired of feelin everything so damn me and my paper heart in this pouring rain i could watch as you fade away but i hold on to the pain in these arms that just let you go on these lips that said your name couldn t know it would hurt this hard to hear you close that door so punch a hole in my paper heart cause i don t need it anymore what use is a paper heart when you re stuck in the rain stuck in the rain cause all the love that i hold inside feel it washin away washin away let it fall take it all cause i m so tired of feelin everything so damn me and my paper heart in this pouring rain cause all the love that i hold inside feel it washin away what use is a paper heart when you re stuck in the rain stuck in the rain cause all the love that i hold inside feel it washin away washin away let it fall take it all cause i m so tired of feelin everything so damn me and my paper heart in this pouring rain

stay tell me the story again how it all fell apart in the end just when you thought you were too far gone you re too far gone wait maybe the reasons don t fit when did you lose innocence and when did you find that you can t hold on you can t hold on when the whole world brings you down when stars fall and ground breaks you re sinking cause it s too late don t tell me that it s over even though you re finding it hard to believe even though you re finding it hard to believe yeah faith it s easier said than done when it s so hard to trust anyone but maybe it s just a place inside that you can hide wait i can see us slipping away just stay with me when the whole world brings you down when stars fall and ground breaks you re sinking cause it s too late don t tell me that it s over even though you re finding it hard to believe even though you re finding it hard to believe yeah when the whole world brings you down when the whole world brings you down when the whole world brings you down when the whole world brings you down when stars fall and ground breaks you re sinking cause it s too late i m right here i m right here just stay with me when stars fall and ground breaks you re sinking cause it s too late don t tell me that it s over even though you re finding it hard to believe when stars fall and ground breaks you re sinking cause it s too late don t tell me that it s over even though you re finding it hard to believe even though you re finding it hard to believe even though you re finding it hard to believe yeah

hold your tongue hold it tight or we ll be destined to fall like the sun did tonight leave it out cause it might take the both of us down before we get it right oh i know just what you re thinking but if we ever let it go i see us slipping away starting to fade crumbling down till we both hit the ground you know if we never say we ll never crash and burn cause love is a four letter word looking back now i see seeing just how it feels to cause such misery all i want is to keep this moment alive featuring you and me and i know just what you re thinking but if we ever let it go i see us slipping away starting to fade crumbling down till we both hit the ground you know if we never say we ll never crash and burn cause love is a four letter word i m afraid of losing all that we had now a four letter word it could all get ruined if it s ever said out loud slipping away starting to fade crumbling down till we both hit the ground you know if we never say we ll never crash and burn cause love is a four letter word i see us slipping away starting to fade crumbling down till we both hit the ground you know if we never say we ll never crash and burn cause love is a four letter word cause love is a four letter word

paint another picture black and blue take another moment one or two just to get over you when did all the gold around us rust turning all the love we had to dust it took the best of you it took the best of you oh i ve got nowhere to hide i d say my goodbye to the girl i m leaning on the edge i m jumping off the ledge take another picture off the wall just another moment watch it fall into the ocean blue take a look at where we used to be now i m just a vessel lost at see i can t get over you i don t know what to do oh i ve got nowhere to hide i d say my goodbye to the girl i m leaning on the edge i m jumping off the ledge watching the night do what the light never could so tell me i m crazy it s not gonna save me from holding my breath til the lines burn cause i ve got nowhere to hide i d say my goodbye to the girl oh goodbye to the girl paint another picture black and blue take another moment one or two oh i ve got nowhere to hide i d say my goodbye to the girl i m leaning on the edge i m jumping off the ledge watching the night do what the light never could so tell me i m crazy it s not gonna save me from holding my breath til the lines burn cause i ve got nowhere to hide i d say my goodbye to the girl and goodbye to the world oh goodbye to the world

today s not the same as everyday it s far from ordinary the pain i endure you re my cure but my mistakes had led me far away from you you turn away from all those things that i ve been trying to say and all those promises i shouldn t have made i did it for you mile by mile feelings i just can t reconcile my heart s on a string these broken wings who knew i d be so fragile far away from you you turn away from all those things i ve been trying to say and all those promises i shouldn t have made i did it for you i ve searched my soul and all these feelings that i can t control and you re the one thing that can make me whole i did it for you try to let you know try to let you know try to let you know today s not the same as everyday it s far from ordinary you turn away from all those things i ve been trying to say and all those promises i shouldn t have made i did it for you oh i searched my soul and all these feelings that i can t control and you re the one thing that can make me whole i did it for you i did it for you i did it for you youre the one thing that can make me whole i did it for you

premeditation will kill the trust they ll never know if you fear me with every second collecting dust i feel so bloated and weary because she belongs to heaven she s coming over like a suicide and it s the same old trip the same old trip as before another complicating suicide and it s the same old trip the same old trip as before burn she ll cut you down with a single thrust she s taken over too quickly no medication can cure the lust so say a prayer for the sickly because she belongs to heaven she s coming over like a suicide and it s the same old trip the same old trip as before another complicating suicide and it s the same old trip the same old trip as before as before you set me up to fucking fail this time you set me up to fucking fail this time you set me up to fucking fail this time you set me up to fucking fail this time you set me up to fucking fail this time you set me up to fucking fail this time you set me up to fucking fail this time you set me up to fucking fail this time she s coming over like a suicide and it s the same old trip the same old trip as before another overbearing suicide and it s the same old trip the same old trip she s coming over wearing genocide and it s the same old trip the same old trip as before another complicating suicide and it s the same old trip the same old trip as before as before5

i wonder what you ll take from me today sanity or just my breath away it s hard to say impossible for me to tell we re always walking on eggshells who you re going to be from day to day to day i wish that we could go back to what we were before but i don t think that i love you anymore anymore wonder why it is that you don t see how much you ve changed since we first met and how much that it s killing me i know that i will always miss the butterflies of our first kiss and how you used to smile so easily i wish that we could go back to how we were before but i don t think that i love you anymore anymore it s too hard to be pretending it s too hard to ignore i don t think that i love you anymore anymore i m sorry i m sorry i never thought that it would come to this i know we ll never get back to how we were before cause i know that i don t love you anymore it s too hard to be pretending it s too hard to ignore i know that i don t love you anymore anymore i m sorry

it seems so obvious there s something up with us i swear i feel it from across the room so can i ask you this not to be forward miss but i think i ll kill myself if i never knew what do i have to do to get inside of you to get inside of you cause i love the way you move when i m inside of you when i m inside of you just ask and i will do anything you want me to there is no limit to how far i will go and i m sure i can t pretend to be a gentleman but before i began i just gotta know what do i have to do to get inside of you to get inside of you cause i love the way you move when i m inside of you when i m inside of you for now i ll play the game and i m waiting for your move but i ve got to say that i never lose what do i have to do to get inside of you to get inside of you what do i have to do to get inside of you to get inside of you cause i love the way you move when i m inside of you when i m inside of you when i m inside of you you you when i m inside of you

if you just walked away what could i really say and would it matter anyway would it change how you feel i am the mess you chose the closet you cannot close the devil in you i suppose because the wounds never heal but everything changes if i could turn back the years if you could learn to forgive me then i could learn to feel sometimes the things i say in moments of disarray succumbing to the games we play to make sure that it s real but everything changes if i could turn back the years if you could learn to forgive me then i could learn to feel when it s just me and you who knows what we could do if we can just make it through the toughest part of the day but everything changes if i could turn back the years if you could learn to forgive me then i could learn how to feel and we could stay here together and we could conquer the world and we could say that forever is more than just a word if you just walked away what could i really say and would it matter anyway it wouldn t change how you feel4

tell me everything you need all the secrets that you keep even if it takes all day even if it takes all night i can put the world on hold so you and i can be alone even if it takes all day even if it takes all night i would do anything for you i always will put you before me you before me and everything ill ask of you i always will put you before me you before me lay your head down next to mine by your side i feel alive tell me that youll stay all day tell me that youll stay all night i would do anything for you i always will put you before me you before me and everything ill ask of you i always will put you before me you before me say the word and ill be there say the word and ill be there tell me everything you need all the secrets we can keep even if it takes all day even if it takes all night i would do anything for you i always will put you before me you before me and everything ill ask of you i always will put you before me you before me say the word and ill be there

o mount kailas uncover me come my restoration wash my body clean i ve been walking along a crooked path where the walls have fallen and broken me in half i m telling you i will not rest till i lay down my head i m gonna go in the house of stone and light i shall not cry for the blind man i leave behind when i got in the house of stone and light in the house of stone and light holy lady show me my soul tell me of that place where i must surely go old man waiting at the gates for me give me the wisdom give me the key i m telling you i will not rest till i lay down my head in the house of stone and light i make my way o gonna be such a beautiful day in the house of stone and light in the house of stone and light let me in beneath my skin in the house of stone and light it s been too long my spirit s been at war havasupai shaman let me be reborn all i will embrace the sun upon my face come the day i awake the child inside in the house of stone and light and when i go i will op op open my eyes in the house of stone and light i will see you in the house of stone and light i m looking in beneath my skin in the house of stone and light

took a morning ride to the place where you and i were supposed to meet the city yawns they echo on my thoughts are spinning on and on my head it seems they lead me back to you i keep coming back to you took a morning ride found a place up in my mind no one else can see maybe it s fate that we lose control in circles around we go we become who we ought to know we just gotta let it go we just gotta let it go so i m coming home to you you you re all i need the very air i breathe you are home home took a morning ride gotta leave this all behind for with you is where i want to be maybe it s fate that we can t control oh round and around it goes and all that we seem to know we just gotta let it go we just gotta let it go so i m coming home to you you you re all i need the very air i breathe you are home so many questions i ve thrown to the skies all of the answers i ve found in your eyes when i m with you home is never too far my weary heart has come to rest in yours i found my way home so i m coming home to you you you re all i need the very air i breathe you are home coming home to you you you re all i need the very air i breathe you are home

ever trip on a pavement and wonder how you fell how you got distracted what went wrong how did that happen and you re fine but you re shaking and everybody stares but nobody close to help you cause nobody cares we all live such lonely lives material plastic ties commercially satisfied from birth till the day we die and i forget to pay attention you would think i learned my lesson but the years go by and i don t change i just complain and stay the same i stay the same do not ask me how my love life is my love life is my life and i m not concerned with definitions otherwise i m scared that i love me too much too much too much too much can you love yourself too much we all live such lonely lives though husbands and wives deny material plastic ties from birth till the day we die and i forget to pay attention you would think i learned my lesson but the years go by and i don t change i just complain and stay the same i wonder what it would be like if i was different wonder what it would be like if i couldn t sing what if i was born somewhere non american where there wasn t cellphones and high end medicine what do i do with all this greed how much i wanna see myself succeed how much i want you to see me on tv how much i love publicity i m scared that i love me too much too much too much too much can you love yourself too much we all live such lonely lives material plastic ties commercially satisfied from birth till the day we die and i forget to pay attention you would think i learned my lesson but the years go by and i don t change i just complain and stay the same i forget to pay attention you would think i learned my lesson but the years go by and i don t change i just complain and stay the same the same i stay the same i stay the same i stay the same i stay the same i stay i stay i stay i stay

verse 1 and love i know that i ve been away for a while but i swear it s gonna be alright as soon as i see that smile pre chorus oh and tell me what s it like to be loved by you cause everybody wants to be loved by you and oh i wanna feel it again i wanna feel it chorus it s the way she looks in the city lights with everything around her she s still shining bright take me to the place that we used to meet by that little oak tree down on cherry street verse 2 and don t baby don t think i m letting you go i can blame it on the winter cold you know it gets bad on the road pre chorus oh and tell me what s it like to be loved by you cause everybody wants to be loved by you chorus it s the way she looks in the city lights with everything around her she s still shining bright take me to the place that we used to meet by that little oak tree down on cherry street interlude pre chorus then oh i wanna feel it again i wanna feel it again again again again and tell me what s it like to be loved by you cause everybody wants to be loved by you chorus it s the way she looks in the city lights with everything around her she s still shining bright take me to the place that we used to meet by that little oak tree down on cherry street it s the way she looks in the city lights with everything around her she s still shining bright take me to the place that we used to meet by that little oak tree down on cherry street by that little oak tree down on cherry street

here i go i m not shaky but i m weak at the knees and i don t even know if anybody s even listening to me but i ll grow old either way so i might as well risk it i don t wanna die and never know i ve made a lot of stupid mistakes but hey at least i did it my way and i ve made friends with arms wide open i ve been broke and i ve been broken i ve found love and all that goes with it i don t know how but i did i ve been happy i ve been hurting i ll stay settled here i m certain find my stride before i m thirty this is where my bones get bones get dirty this is where my bones get bones get dirty dirt so cold but i can take it i m a leaf on the breeze this distance grows and the pressure of a seven day week cause life takes tolls there s a levy on distress and dejection i don t wanna die and never know i ve made a lot of stupid mistakes but hey at least i did it my way and i ve made friends with arms wide open i ve been broke and i ve been broken i ve found love and all that goes with it i don t know how but i did i ve been happy i ve been hurting i ll stay settled here i m certain find my stride before i m thirty this is where my bones get bones get dirty this is where my bones get bones get dirty it s getting colder but i already i already froze i m getting closer and closer so hold it steady steady as she goes i ve been happy i ve been hurting i ll stay settled here i m certain find my stride before i m thirty this is where my bones get bones get dirty and i ve made friends with arms wide open i ve been broke and i ve been broken i ve found love and all that goes with it i don t know how but i did i ve been happy i ve been hurtin i ll stay settled here i m certain find my stride before i m thirty this is where my bones get bones get dirty this is where my bones get bones get dirty

when it s sunny i just want to be your honey babe if it fits would you let me go along with it i used to have another lover she hurt me a little bit when i think about you i know you re the only truth i don t want control i don t want control i don t want control what does it take for a woman like you to have a little faith in what our love can do i don t want control i don t want control i don t want control we can spend a week inside your linen sheets it s like a good dream to wake up not knowing where i would look if that was all that it took maybe that s what i need to make the days move easy i don t want control i don t want control i don t want control