Well, as a child I mostly spoke inside my head I had conversations with the clouds, the dogs, the dead And they thought my broken, that my tongue was coated lead But I just couldn't make my words make sense to them If you only listen with your ears I

I can see the lights in front of me Free yourself to be yourself Hey now, do you know my name Hey now, where I'm going If I can't get an answer In your eyes I see it The lights of home If only you could If only you could see yourself

I could be it all, I'll make a good life Let me lose my mind, it's the only way to love Only way to, only way to love Life is all about you and not at all about you Now, that's two opposing thoughts and yet both of them are true How can you experience

When your heart's not open Mm, if I could melt your heart Mm, we'd never be apart Mm, give yourself to me Mm, you hold the key You're frozen You only see what your eyes want to see How can life be what you want it to be You're so consumed with how much

He said have you ever cheated on me Oh on a park bench in the middle of July We sat and watched the children play If it was the heat or the noise He didn't have too much to say Then with a move of his eyes A move that could have made the wind stand still

Tomorrow could be too late Too young, too proud, too foolish You spend a lot of time in your head You should come away with me You should have some faith in me I wish I could change the date If only you had some faith Tomorrow could be so great I think

And I would give all this and heaven too I would give it all if only for a moment That I could just understand The meaning of the word you see 'Cause I've been scrawling it forever But it never makes sense to me at all But with all my education I can't

You could be doing anything you dream of If you believe in the things that make you strong Maybe, I know it's just maybe And we're only dreaming For how this will go, o-o-oh We could be doing anything that we love Just be carried by the way the wind

You'd see you shine, you shine But if only you could see yourself in my eyes I know you'd never leave me behind But I am lost this time I could have told you ‘bout the long nights How no one loves the birds that don't rise So you can tell the heroes go

A man I'll never be You look up at me And somewhere in your mind you see If only I could find a way I'd feel like I'm the man you believe I am And it gets harder every day for me To hide behind this dream you see If I said what's on my mind You'd turn