My truth will be my own You say it doesn't matter, get used to fear I tell you, that's the problem What it's done to you, the way you live your life This is where you pick yourself up, brush off the ashes Clear the smoke and soot from your eyes Their

They're the children on parade And nobody knows All the girls and boys have gone away They never really had much to say They took off all their clothes and their shoes Politely asked to be excused They have a secret they can share All the broken toys lie

We gon' burn the whole house down Way up, way up we go Been up and down that road Way up, way up, oh no You've got something to hide Used to keep it cool Should I keep it light? Watch me stand in the line You're only serving lies

Sweet surrender on the quayside You remember we used to run and hide In the shadow of the cargoes I take you one time And we're counting all the numbers down to the waterline Near misses on the dog leap stairways French kisses in the darkened doorways A

When they think of me, they think of you We used to be the ones that they wished they were But now it's like they don't know how to act Maybe they're like me and they want us back It's like there's always an empty space Those memories that nobody can

Somewhere in between, you and I will always be Come meet me in the middle (You and I will always be) You and I will always be somewhere between I can't get rid of you, all the places that I used to go and kick it All this weight that I'm liftin', trippy

And girl I miss the way it used to be The way it used to be And colors turn to grey I miss yesterday And the way it used to be And I can't turn back time Even if I tried I miss you tonight We were young

At the howling wind You know he got the cure You know he went astray He used to stay awake To drive the dreams he had away He wanted to believe In the hands of love His head it felt heavy As he cut across the land

I'm falling away Away from myself Away from who I used to be Arid skin cracked and torn, I peel it away A change for the better to harness the strength and rise more powerful Now more powerful than ever A decrepit self once animate, now abandoned and

Maybe one day along the way Maybe one day, you'll remember You'll remember me on this island Smiling at you how I used to And it won't be sad to think of all we had All unhappy ends will be behind us then You'll think of me, and you'll be smiling Maybe