As it is
I am nothing but a broken violin
Playing out of tune and out of my skin
There is nothing I can do
To fill the place you’re living in
All that emptiness
As it is
I have given all that I have left to give
Tell the poet this is how the heart breaks
There is nothing I can do
To fill the place you’re living in
All that loneliness
Into the fray
We’re lost and we’re broken
There’s nothing to say
Just reach out your hand to mine
Into the fray
We’re lost and we’re broken
There’s nothing to say
Just reach out your hand to mine
So it goes
We can live today and die tomorrow
Can’t lose the things we know we’ve never had
If there is one thing I can do
To fill the space you’re living in
All that brokenness
Into the fray
We’re lost and we’re broken
There’s nothing to say
Just reach out your hand to mine
Into the fray
We’re lost and we’re broken
There’s nothing to say
Just reach out your hand to mine
(To mine, oh)
Into the fray
We’re lost and we’re broken
There’s nothing to say
Just reach out your hand to mine
Into the fray
We’re lost and we’re broken
There’s nothing to say
Just reach out your hand to mine
Into the fray
We’re lost and we’re broken
There’s nothing to say
Just reach out your hand to mine
You spend your nights like you spend your days
Wasting away, wasting away
Hang up the phone because you never could
Figure out what I wanted you to say
And I know it’s hard to find
Something you were never given
To come alive
When you don’t feel a thing
Let it go into the empty space
You don’t have to disappear
All your running won’t keep you safe
You can stay here
Mamma didn’t know how to love you
Daddy wouldn’t stay true
You kept believing every line
That they were fine
And it was all because of you
And I know it’s hard to find
Something you were never given
To come alive
When you don’t feel a thing
Let it go into the empty space
You don’t have to disappear
All your running won’t keep you safe
You can stay here
And I know it’s hard to find
Something you were never given
To come alive
When you don’t feel a thing
I know it’s hard to find
Something you were never given
To come alive
When you don’t feel a thing
I know it’s hard to find
Something you were never given
To come alive
When you don’t feel a thing
Let it go into the empty space
You don’t have to disappear
All your running won’t keep you safe
You can stay here
I paid the operator
He said, “You’ve got a lotta guts
But I don’t think you’ll make it.”
With a heavy hand
His eyes went vacant
Trying to make sense
Of something I’m not
I signed the waiver
Put my heart in your hands
You took the parts of me you don’t understand
And I’ve been wracking my brain
Just to remember who I am
My friends don’t recognize me
There’s something so familiar
Can’t they see what I’ve been hiding
Trying to make sense
Of something I’m not
I signed the waiver
Put my heart in your hands
You took the parts of me you don’t understand
And I’ve been wracking my brain
Just to remember who I am
(mmm)
All this time I’ve known
The simple truth in front of me
All this time I’ve known
All this time I’ve known
The simple truth in front of me
All this time I’ve known (known)
I signed the waiver
Put my heart in your hands
You took the parts of me you don’t understand
And I’ve been wracking my brain
Just to remember who I am
I signed the waiver
Put my heart in your hands
You took the parts of me you don’t understand
And I’ve been wracking my brain
Just to remember who I am
(remember who I am)
I left on a Sunday
You never went looking for me
I was still standing next to you
When you were planning to leave
Are we ghosts of each other
Is it temporary
I chase you around and around and around
This cemetery
I gave up the bedroom
You let me choose
I said, “What’ve I got to lose,
If I’ve already lost you?”
Are we ghosts of each other
Is it temporary
I chase you around and around and around
This cemetery
Are we ghosts of each other
Is it temporary
I chase you around and around and around
This cemetery
Are we just a moment
Or is this a moment of grief
I’d chosen a lifetime
What the hell are you choosing
(ooh)
Are we ghosts of each other
Is it temporary
I chase you around and around and around
This cemetery
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