Why can't we live the life we used to live
Before we followed them in the deepest valley
Out of the faith we keep
Now we're two wounded sharks
Sinking like bait in a mercury sea
Children and soldiers, rattling bones
Weak and ignorant, youth I suppose is a treasure spent

Whatever comes your way
All the promises that we've made
Rising until you can reach me my friend
And you'll sleep when you're dead
Swimming until you can see land
Swimming until you can touch me with your hand

Damned if we don't, damned if we do
Battered and sore, we'll follow you in every step you take

Whatever comes your way
All the promises that we've made
Rising until you can reach me my friend
And you'll sleep when you're dead
Swimming until you can see land
Swimming until you can touch me with your hand

Look in my eyes
Guess what I mean, sort it out through the fire
You and I'll be gone, oblivion

We used to wait
We used to wait but the light came too late
Now we're blinded by the sun, oblivion

And whatever comes our way
Rise until we fade away
And whatever comes your way
Swim until you can touch me with your hand
And whatever comes our way
Rise until we fade away
And whatever comes my way
I'm right here you can touch me with your hand

Did you hear these voices in the pendulum swing
Did you hear these footsteps from the corridor stream
You're wishing you were somewhere else

I'll stand tall and walk my way
Feels like I'm choking, I'm broken
But I breathe therefore I am
You stand for what you believe in
When they're wishing you were somebody else

If I knew back then what I know right now
Blue lips and chalk white spaces between their lies
When they say we all become someone in the end

I'll stand tall and walk my way
Feels like I'm choking, I'm broken
But I breathe therefore I am
You stand for what you believe in
When they're wishing you were somebody else instead

Senses are gone and you're falling to pieces
You're living your life as somebody else
Somebody else instead

It cuts through the bones and you're falling to pieces
Living your life as somebody else
Somebody else instead

You say it with confidence in your eyes
And we could be living a million lives
The sound of your voice is the sweetest of all
Catch me when I fall
Your fables figured out
We're splitting hairs and fading out of time
Your circles and your stars
The hours wear on suddenly sublime
Cracking your hairline

Action and consequence in rewind
Smile as you bathe in a million lies
The sound of your voice is the sweetest of all
Won't catch you when you fall

Your fables figured out
We're splitting hairs and fading out of time
Your circles and your stars
The hours wear on suddenly sublime
Cracking your hairline

Please ceiling fall and wake me up
It takes a man to blow it up
A dashboard under fingernails
Who's seen it all? Take your guess

Your fables figured out
We're splitting hairs and fading out of time
No circles and no stars
The hours wear on suddenly sublime

Keep waters away from your sight
For the shoreline's a light through the dark
Caressing your neck, the warmth fills your thoughts
Irresistible lies when the way is down

You're drifting away with the tide
You know it's all in the heart
Disappearing in water and a sigh

With your brothers asleep by your side
Save the shoreline, the light through the dark
Fairytales are made to be broken
Irresistible lies when the way is down

Keep rowing like you'd never stop
Ripples unfurl but they never come back
It's all in the heart when the way is down
Keep your eyes locked and hold me tight
Monsters uncurl but they never lose track
It's all in the heart

Sometimes I wonder what's going on in our minds
Our mysteries under water
Framed memories on the wall

Sometimes I'd rather stop messing up with my mind
Keep thoughts off troubled waters
And the writings off the wall
Don't bother, they don't mean anything at all

Tonight I wonder, should I move on with the tide
The trouble and the anger
All sinking with the flood

Say anything you could ever want
Say anything all the answers gone
Say anything but stare right into your blood

Mean everything you could ever want
Mean everything all the answers gone
Be everything or don't be anything at all
Be everything and stare right into your blood

Keep your head above the sea
There's nothing you can do for me
If someone could have saved you
It only could have been you

Let's cut this conversation short
Before the sunlight wraps your hair
All meaning lost in metaphors
That I'm done trying to understand

Know what you run from darling
You little invisible
Knock on my door, I'm not the keeper
But I will let you in

I'm running out of gasoline
You're running out of things to say
I'll carry you across the fields
Counting the steps along the way

Know what you run from darling
You little invisible
You can knock on my door, you know I'm not the keeper
But I will get you in

Talk to me and let me in
I'll be the keeper of your skin
I've heard the barks, they left to ruins
Every corner of your spleen
They chased you down but never thought
They'd have a chance to find you there
When I'm in luck, just pass the buck
Let's find the circles in the squares

Put the blame on anyone
We're but a spark before the sun
And in a sleight of hand
It's you, it's me, again

There is no hope, forget the glory
Of being the keeper of your skin
Up to the task, you've left to ruins
Every corner of your dreams
They'll track us down, but don't you think
That peace will find us anywhere
When I'm luck, the pieces fit
Let's beat the circles in the squares

Put the blame on anyone
We're but a spark before the sun
And in a sleight of hand
It's you and I again
Spare your castles in the sand
The waters send you round the bend
And in a sleight of hand
We're gone, we're here, again

Boy leaves town, all gone in a whimper
In the herd, on an island in the sun
Not a single word to say
Back away, birds of prey, you can hide or you can

Live your life and show us how desperate you are
Let the sunshine give it away
What's the use now? Show us how desperate you are
Ask the sunshine, radiate or move out of the way

A punch in the face, tearing away some heat on a cold day
All highways look the same when you're heading nowhere
Fair enough, you'd say, you can't hide anywhere

And it's fair enough, you'd say
Fair enough, you'd say
Radiate or move out of the way

Will anybody ever miss you?
If you could change anything, would you?

I'm the shiv in the cuts
The gun to your guts
I'm the wound between us
And the rope tying us
I'm the salt in the scars
The vulture on the wire
I'm your city on fire

Thin is the line
Between the man I'd want to be
And the man you made shine
Dance in the fire
There's nowhere else I'd rather be
And the grief is all mine

Come watch the dawn
Sing us a song
With no beginning nor end

Beam like a star
Step where angels fear to tread
When the moonlight surrounds
Alone in the fire
There's nothing else I'd better see
Whatever light may shine

Come watch the dawn
Sing us a song
With no beginning nor end
We were pearls on a strand

Come what may
How can you save the day when tomorrow looks brighter
All your ways and the things you could say
Won't tame the bitter sound of laughters

All alone
On your own
Wishing out loud

Come what may
You already sailed away when the future looked brighter
All those days and the games that you played
The time has come to surrender

All alone
On your own
Wishing out loud

Come what may
Save the day
Yeah the future looks bright ahead