If I could only reach you If I could make you smile That would really be a breakthrough Somehow I have to make this final breakthrough When love breaks up When the dawn light wakes up A new life is born

Paralyzed by my envy of the night I am lost without you here And outside it looks like rain For the last time, I bleed myself dry tonight And nothing I could ever write would help you understand this life There's so much beauty when your eyes lay lost in

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

They keep me up all night Let me get this straight, do you want me here? As I struggle through each and every year And all these demons, they keep me up all night Everyone wants to call it all around our life with a better name Everyone falls and spins

As long as you're in it Wherever we go, whatever we do As good as it gets, gets better with you As long as you're in it, girl So baby let's ride There ain't nothing missing in this life I'm living It's just an old '88 four door, banged out floorboard A

Women, beautiful women (Y-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah) Women, God-given women The reason we're livin' And lovin' this life, hallelujah We're all better off with 'em Oh (oh), so (so) beautiful

Into me, you'll see You got me wide open, now I'm ready You broke me wide open, open sesame Is this intimacy? I built a wall so high, no one could reach A life of locks, I swallowed up the keys I was petrified, only knew how to hide They can't hurt me if

Fixation on the darkness that engulfs this world Drain the life force of our people, Change, change, fixation on the darkness that engulfs this world Drain the life force of our people Return to the womb (new life) lay your head to rest (mercy) To give

For once in my life I have someone who needs me For once I can say this is mine, you can't take it Someone I've needed so long For once, unafraid I can go where life leads me And somehow I know I'll be strong For once I can touch what my heart used to

In case you didn't know That I could live this life without you Even though I don't tell you all the time You had my heart a long, long time ago I can't count the times I almost said what's on my mind Just the other day I wrote down all the things I'd say