In hours, still awake I listen to each you take And I what you dream about
How far come we were young Our preconceptions now So I wonder what you about
In I might be soaring Pushing things to heights But like Icarus, the are real And dreams into nightmares
I know my wings might once up in the sky But I want to fall, I want to fly
I saw myself as one who went outside the lines Our life's takes us, and in an instant it's behind us
sacrilege to take advantage of the blind But what about uncertainties that work to our mind? If our causes us to go astray, Who can help us try to find our
I never saw myself as one whose life was just a race out of But in the mirror I see the grow deeper on my face
It's sacrilege to take of the blind But what about uncertainties work to cloud our mind? If our causes us to go astray, Who can help us try to our way?
When I back on all that's happened When I look on choices I have made Should I the contours of my path? The broken cobblestones that I have
We're only given so many sunny days We're only given so much time to a life Our choices all along the way a maze And when our time is up we could be trapped Lost in fantasies and to return
we are building, tearing down or making plans The are vanishing, the world won't fail to turn have consequences, limiting our future And yet the weight of outcomes be discerned them wisely, child
It's hard to look around me now at everything I And not contentment from it all made real, and the future unforeseen has played out well But is contentment the enemy of Could I have overlooked might have mattered most?
You must have been something else when you were You must have been something else when you free When all you had was time and the world of choices was yours And you me You must have been else when you were younger You must have been else when you were free When all that you had was time and the world of was yours
We spend half our lives repairing bridges that our selfish actions destroy But still so hard for us to recognize that a life is such a fragile toy We spend half our making disguises; we perfect and use them as our tools Then spend all of our remaining years searching for someone we cannot
At day's end we'll throw out our disguises nothing to defend At day's end we'll pick up all the pieces and to live again
you look back on all that's happened, would you do it all again? That's the honest measure of our then what you know now, would you choose me once again? That's the carrying most weight at day's end
I know my wings have once up in the sky But even if you're falling, still time to fly And looking with dispassion at the choices I have I know it's to carry regret unto my grave
I know that there's a reason why my road to you And why, the obstacles we both had to fight through We both have had our doubts, but I we know it's true you remain the best of me, and I the best of you
And all our struggles, and time we've cried They're rendered meaningless in our 'Cause we're standing, and nothing can prevail Against a love that's to be
At day's end we put down our disguises nothing to defend At day's end we pick up all the pieces and to love again