This is who I am I got my own life to live Girl this is how it is And I'm not trying give up myself to make your life better You can either accept me or baby let me go Cause it's not really me This is my world You can either accept me or Baby this is my

You, oh, oh, you, oh, oh Baby, this is what you came for Lightning strikes every time she moves And everybody's watching her But she's looking at you, oh, oh You, oh, oh We go fast till they can't replay Who knows why it's gotta be this way

This is a gift it comes with a price Who is the lamb and who is the knife Midas is king and he holds me so tight And turns me to gold in the sunlight (Raise it up) (Raise it up raise it up) We raise it up, this offering We raise it up Raise it up raise

Will you look at me? Take a good look at me and tell me who It is that I am. Will you savor this in your mind, This old feeling when you're left behind? Will you hold to this as true Or will you dance to another tune? This old mirror it is broken,

Who wants to live forever? Who wants to live forever, who? There's no time for us There's no place for us What is this thing that builds our dreams Yet slips away from us? There's no chance for us It's all decided for us This world has only one sweet

There goes my life There goes my future, my everything All he could think about was I'm to young for this Got my whole life ahead Hell I'm just a kid myself How'm I gonna raise one All he could see were his dreams going up in smoke So much for ditching

Who am I, who am I Without you, without you? What are you running from? You're back for a minute and you're gone And I wanna know where it's coming from Where this is coming from And I wanna know what you're running from Hold me up to the light Tell me

We are strangers, who share a photograph Like that submarine, that never made it back Forever wasn't meant to come as fast In this moment all we have is an empty photograph We used to have it all Like Chicago Bulls in '93, hmm Then came that civil war

And all the kids cried out, "Please stop, you're scaring me" I can't help this awful energy God damn right, you should be scared of me Who is in control? I'm bigger than my body I'm colder than this home I'm meaner than my demons I'm bigger than these

I did my time I am the one who chose my path I am the one who couldn't last I feel the life pulled from me I feel the anger changing me Tell me why am I to blame on me Are we supposed to be the same, that's why I will never change this thing that's