I remember what my daddy taught me 'Bout how one risky is in a cold ditch And one more thing about good and evil You can't tell which is which Well, if the rest is lost and history Or maybe wasted on a fool like me And that these bare bones Would leave

We are chosen ones (we are chosen ones) We are chosen ones For the broken hearts For the reckless souls This is mercy, love

You open up and what you gain is another hole Reaching out for a hand and I know The fear of losing all the trust that it craves And feel that parts of you are never coming back I used to think that life was ugly and a mess Well I was right but what else

Cuz they are the ones that you fear most All this and you trade it in for nothing The time has finally come you get a mouth full You only act on greed and by your actions this is proof And can't you see the flowers dying all around you Got your hands in

I know what I was on, I had a Pilot Jones She took me high, then she took me home Pilot Jones, Pilot Jones We once had things in common Now the only thing we share is the refrigerator Ice cold, baby, I told you, I'm ice cold (ice cold!) You out here

Who cares if one more light goes out? In a sky of a million stars It flickers, flickers Who cares when someone's time runs out? If a moment is all we are We're quicker, quicker If they say Should've stayed, were there signs, I ignored?

Who'd believe with the way things are here We'd be going anywhere telling people how to live? Who's believe we'd spend more shippin' drugs and guns Than to educate our sons? Sorry but that's what they did I can't help but think, Someone's forsaken you

(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) I had a talk with my mom She said, "What if you're the one you've been waitin' for?" I treat my obstacles like stepping stones And keep climbing and climbing some more Doors are openin' that were previously locked Treat this

How do we get back to love? Baby, back to love Tired of all these wars, dwelling in the past Searching for the honesty in all that jazz What are we here for, what are we doing? Last time I checked, thought it was screwin' Girl, and when I think of me and

And we're dancing on our own, tonight Dancing on our own We are the lives beneath the setting sun We are the hearts that beat We are the fallen ones who've gotten up We are the light so bright We can paint the sky tonight While the whole world's stuck in