Don't kid yourself And don't fool yourself This love's too good last And I'm too old to dream, yeah Don't grow up too fast And don't embrace the past This life's too good to last And I'm too young to care This life could be the last

For your lights to shine on me For your song inside of me This we bring to you Here I stand so patiently In the shadow of love Time goes by leaving me helpless Just to reach and try To live my life These are my reasons

In this place, filled with empty space Your love holds the key, baby sympathize with me Before I lost, your touch of life and grace I knew that your sweet face could always comfort me In this place, full of empty space Your soft and tender love will

Save me save me save me I can't face this life alone I'm naked and I'm far from home It started off so well They said we made a perfect pair I clothed myself in your glory and your love How I loved you How I cried The years of care and loyalty

They say into your early life romance came And in this heart of yours burned a flame A flame that flickered one day and died away Then, with disillusion deep in your eyes You learned that fools in love soon grow wise The years have changed you, somehow I

You cleared up my scars Your love has fixed all of our broken hearts It’s a lifelong lesson and I’m not pretending when I say I hope you’re proud, mother, of what you’ve done This is for my mother, from the older brother of your children made of three

Like an army of angels This world’s a war zone And I’ve got a shield And I won’t surrender 'Cause your love feels 'Cause the flames in the fire out with old 'Cause I know yeah I know that I’m not alone When love’s a battle And life’s a war

And somehow you left me neglected We've found our life's been changed We've lost it all The love is gone And we had magic And this is tragic You couldn't keep your hands to yourself I feel like our world's been infected, And though we tried

When I pray for you I hope you get down on your knees 'Cause that's what I do, that's what I do I talk to God about you I pray you love like your momma And you forgive just like she does 'Cause when this life knocks you down Oh, when I pray for you And I

Oh clap your hands, clap your hands Turn the lights on my nights this is life and we only get one chance Come on dance, take a chance on romance, we only get one shot at love Clap your hands, clap your hands Shake me out of my misery oh oh oh Well I've