August 27, 2002

Back together again

i'm running from the noise that i hear
it's the sound that i faced when you left me, but we've been over all of that
cause your sick of all the things that i say, now that i hate you
but then again you never really cared to hear

i've been here to be your everything for just a little to long
i just don't remember when i was something,
but i'm sure i'll have some luck, cause i'm over it
and your not something i can stand to drag along

cause you rescued me from the ocean
just to throw me to the wolves
i was saved to be sacrificed
and it made sense to me in the midst of it all

loving you was always about rebuilding
after we were broken, and not sure we could find our way
not about protecting it when it was just right
and our direction was so sure

somehow our love became about you
and how you needed me to give you more, or be there less
but it isn't about one person
it's about so many other things

somewhere i forgot the other things
and it became my need for you
my ability to breathe without you
missing out on all the things around the two of us

away from you i've found those things
learned about the things we did have
and sometimes i think of the good
wishing the bad could have simply gone away

the goods were the tears i left upon your shirt
from the pride in us both so much stronger then it ever needed to be
and the longing for the feeling to need someone so much
that's now the catch in my chest every time i think of you

it was the way that i became you
twirled and danced inside of your heart
knowing i had the strength of two behind me through it all
i still remember how beautiful i became

maybe we were way to much
all at once, at the wrong time
and were never meant to make it out all right

and it's always that one we all had
that felt so good, moved so right
burned out so much sooner then we needed it to
then again maybe it was just right

maybe we aren't meant to burn like fire
dream like angels with the wind in our hair
maybe we only taste sweetness long enough
to make us truly feel alive.

before - after