The first thing that you ever felt, inside and under your belt
To a place that smothers children
Cuts the space between two lives
I've seen you working, wasted and gray
You've got a delicate heart, and listen, you would be smart
To keep yourself in a world of mothers, sisters, daughters and wives
To a land of angry soil, that swallows boys and coughs up men
I've seen you taste the salt of your tears
You always stop when you start, and listen, you would be smart
To keep yourself in a world of mothers, sisters, daughters and wives
Take the things you don't know, spread them out in the sun
Two futures melt into one
Fire and brimstone fell upon my ears
As their throats of open graves recited fear
Like the bullets of a gun they drove my tears
And my feet to run the hell out of here
See, I was born a restless, wayward child
I could hear the whole world calling me outside
Of the masses I routinely sat behind
And Lord, I had to see with my own eyes
Lord, I know
It's a heavy load
But we'll carry our brothers
Oh, we'll carry them home
And oh, there is no power on Earth or below
That could ever break our hearts or shake our souls
And when you lay me down, you'll only bury bones
'Cause oh, my heart and soul are going home
Working my miracles
Holding my world together with a boot string
Living the dream
Benzos and gasoline
Coffee and blue light screens till the morning
If I tell you this is drowning
You tell me I'm walking on water
And I don't wanna
Choose between being a salesman or a soldier
Just let me look a little older
Let me step a little bolder
Choose between being a butcher or a pauper
Honey, I'm taking no orders
I'm gonna be nobody’s soldier
Sick to my skin
Watching thе news again
Whatever you choosе you lose out in the long run
Standing on the wrong side of the wall
Trying, trying to make sense of it all
My arms are open, but from the way you look at me
It's gonna take some time before you see
That I'm not your enemy, just an unfamiliar friend
You might not recognize me from before the war began
And how could you know after everything they told you
That I'm not your enemy, I'm not your enemy
I'm not your enemy, only love can save us now
Staring down the wrong end of a gun
My heart's sinking, is this what we've become?
Desperate and divided with no one backing down
Don't turn away from me now
Oh, I'm not your enemy, just an unfamiliar friend
I'm not your enemy, only love can save us now
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring love
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord
And where there is doubt, true faith in You
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there's despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness, only light
And where there's sadness ever joy
Oh, Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul
Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
It is in giving to all man that we receive
And in dying that we're born to eternal life
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God
When they've lost all they've got
And they don't know what for
No one laughs at God on the day they realize
That the last sight they'll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God when they're saying their goodbyes
Take my eyes, take them aside
Take my face, and desecrate
My arms and legs, they get in the way
And take my hands, they'll understand
Take my heart, pull it apart
And take my brain, or what remains
'Cause I've grown tired of this body
A cumbersome and heavy body
Tell me what it's for
If everytime it hurts
There's always one more burn
How can I keep going
When I've given all of me
But you're always out of reach
Takes the heart right out of me
Tell me what it's for
If you're always out of reach
What's left to say?
These prayers ain't working anymore
Every word shot down in flames
What's left to do with these broken pieces on the floor?
I'm losing my voice calling on you
'Cause I've been shaking
I've been bending backwards 'til I'm broke
Watching all these dreams go up in smoke
Let beauty come out of ashes
Let beauty come out of ashes
And when I pray to God, all I ask is (All I ask is)
Can beauty come out of ashes?
It takes a lot to know a man
A lot to know, to understand
The father and the son
The hunter and the gun
It takes a lot to know a woman
A lot to comprehend what's coming
The mother and the child
It takes a lot to give
To ask for help
To be yourself
To know and love what you live with
It takes a lot to breathe
To touch, to feel
The slow reveal
(You wrote me to tell me
You're nervous and you're sorry)
What is it you're thinking that will happen if you do?
(Crying like a baby
Saying, "this thing is killing me")
It takes a lot to know a man...
What are you so afraid to lose?
There is no more shame in me, in me
I just feel the same
Immune to all this pain and the scars don't write a song for me at all
I am a stone, unaffected
Rain hell down onto me
Flesh and bone, unaffected
Your fool I will not be
Get ready for the bang and flash
Alright, just one last dance
Make it fast
I know how the tide pulls deep
Eyes open but the mind’s asleep
Flash frozen in the driver’s seat
Lights and motion but they’re lost on me
There’s a dozen selves inside you
Tryna be the one to run thе dials
And some aren’t evеn on your side
When the hunger comes and finds you
Only code it knows is rote survival
You’ll do the rest in your spare time
Tryna get that universal feeling
In an invite-only private room
(Guess the ring came off in the glove)
Looks like you pawned the silver lining
Around the cloud that follows you
(Guess that good old push came to shove)
Out in the water
You can’t touch bottom
It pulls you farther
Life on land forgotten
(The world turns over, I’m pulled under
Stone cold sober but I feel nothing)
The world turns over, I’m pulled under
Stone cold sober but I feel nothing
I’m just a girl
In the body of a boy
In the belly of a whale
You can’t be sure
This far from shore
Which winds prevail
So you blamed it all on my love
The moving heart I got
But I don't need a cure for me
When I am on a pedestal, you did not raise me there
You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes me kind
Your pain is no credential here
It's just the shadow, shadow of my wound
I have begun to long for you, I who have no greed
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The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
Has passed away
Or what is yet to be
Yeah, the wars
They will be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
Bought and sold
And bought again
The dove is never free
The widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see
I can't run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud
But they've summoned
They've summoned up a thundercloud
They're gonna hear from me
Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
Lost in the moment again
Stuck where the road has no end
Keeping the thought in our minds
One day life will be kind
Wrapped inside a cocoon made of flesh and bones
Doesn't really matter where you come from
We are home
All the people want to know your name
Soon there will be lines outside your door
You have lost your innocence somehow
But everybody loves you now
See how all the people gather around
Hey, isn't it a thrill to see them crawl
Keep your eyes ahead and don't look down
Yeah, and lock yourself inside your sacred wall
This is what you wanted, ain't you proud
Because everybody loves you now
And the crown, it weighs heavy
'Til it's banging on my eyelids
Retreating in covers and closing the curtains
One thing's for certain, oh
A year like this passes so strangely
Somewhere between sorrow and bliss
Oh, who decides from where up high?
I couldn't say "I need more time"
Oh, grant that I can stay the night
Or one more day inside this life
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh, I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small
But I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors
Are beautiful like a rainbow