We both knew It would always end this way I know I'd hurt you, deserted you And now I see it clear I pulled you closer, tighter 'Cause I knew you'd disappear I just can't compromise, apologize There's nothing you can say It could have been much worse

La da da da da da I can see it now clear Well we all change in our own ways In our own pretty ways Let's not spill the truth It's easier being alone You're a shadow of the old And I want something new You've quit dreaming again

When I'm looking up at you I'll colour me blue Only seeing myself Anything it takes to make you stay I know you're seeing black and white So I'll paint you a clear blue sky Without you I am colour-blind It's raining every time I open my eyes

And now you're just a ghost When I look back never would have known that You could be so cold Like a stranger vanish like a vapor There's just an echo where your heart used to be Now I see it clearly And there's just a pillow where your head used to

I hate myself for losing you I'm seeing it all so clear What do you do when you look in the mirror And staring at you is why he's not here? And oh, I don't know what to say And I don't know anyway I wish you knew I woke up today

I am realizing That everybody's lost their simple ways And now that it's here, I see it oh-so clearly I've come face to face with the enemy Oh, the enemy Oh, Mr. Back-Stabbin'-Son-of-a-Bitch You're livin' in a world that'll soon be dyin'

It's just a thought But I've noticed somethin' strange, Gettin' harder to explain; All the years are passin' bye and bye, Still I don't know what makes it go; Who said to wait and you'll see? But I wondered if you knew That the song up there is you. They

(Riff it down, riff it down, riff it make a fuss) We the generation and we have had enough We the generation and we have had enough, oh I can see more clearly now (yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah) I need you to trust me now (oh oh oh, oh oh oh) All I'll

I got it under control, oh, oh I got it under control I feel like I'm winnin' again I feel like I'm seein' again I feel like I'm breathin' again Now the smoke has cleared and the end is near It was my illusion Like a broken dream, I was incomplete But