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*co-written with Veronica May
she was born with big eyes, she was born with wild dreams she was born with big love, bursting at the seams she was born with hope, she was born with light she was born to lose, she learned how to fight but when you fall down 200 pairs of hands will tell you don’t give up tonight so in the next round, you’ll be back in the ring and we’ll be screamin fight baby fight she’s a constellation, vast just like orion grace just like a sparrow, courage like a lion it’s not a fight to the end, it’s a fight to the start it’s not a fight to the death, it’s a fight to the heart and we’ll be screamin fight baby fight
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*co-written with Veronica May
Verse: root G F#m F Em Chorus: C D Em // (even if forever... F pass through E to G) Bridge: same as verse i daydream of the day when you say dear, i'm sorry cause i remember more than you could know nightmares turn to tangible truths and i remember that no one feels safe around you i never wanted to say the word never (never) but sometimes something's got to change somehow (ooh) it hurts me but i have to say forever (it's better) even if forever is for now i daydream of the day when i can say mom, i'm pregnant cause i remember fondly you're fond of children but dreams turn into nightmares when i remember no child will you love more than (your child is a piece of) God forgiveness, come find me soon protection do the same traveling through the brain and heart but it arrives in the same vein if this will ever get better it will surely get worse who says what, when, where, who calls who first is hope even worth holding or do i wipe it off my hands the situation paces restless in the places that it stands i watch with aching despair from my own bird's eye how can i bring you air without losing my sky you threw up your borders i just drew a line will it trace back to you or erase over time i fly like a phoenix, i hover over your mule as it thrashes its hooves in a sorrow-full pool i know only to rise now so i can't dive back down and besides, if i tried we both surely would drown i didn't dig a grave or burn a bridge, i broke a cycle the life you gave i yearned to live, the alternative was suicidal it was never what i wanted - to be a self-inflicted orphan now i lay awake haunted by a cursed, reversed abortion
i picture the scene between me and you
sitting motionless in this living room it’s a terrible thing to test the strength of blood-glue but i don’t wanna lie, guess it’s best to tell the truth i ain’t sorry for being what i am i am sorry if it’s not what you had planned we learn to hate the things that we don’t understand i am what i am i picture the pain in your eyes as i confess but the fact remains i gotta get this off my chest hope it won’t stain when we start to clean the mess i fear the worst but i am hoping for the best when my grandpa died, i think he might have taken happiness with him everything turned gray, colors washed away god refused to listen when my mom and dad finally got so sad they had to end their union it opened up my eyes, made me realize they are only human people say that love is the only answer but i know they’ve got to be wrong because this love’s my only question where is my love, why is it gone? when i left my home, i felt so alone fair weather friends turned their backs such a scary thought to go from having a lot to living out of plastic bags now i feel so strange and i know it will change who i am forever knocks the wind from me, brings me to my knees turns me into a beggar Capo 1, chord shapes: Verse: Em Am B7 Em Chorus: Am Em Am B7 you say your house fell down, you say your foundation cracked you say you stumbled to the ground, can't get your footing back you say you're all alone and nothing's set in stone you say you lost your head, you say you lost your way you say your moral compass has led you astray you say you miss the days when you were set in your ways even roots change, even roots grow even skyscrapers sway when the wind blows if nothing ever changed how would we ever know which way to go? even the earth moves even the river flows the story's going to end but we don't know how it goes the greatest part of life is it keeps you on your toes i say i'm not so sure certainty is everything it's cracked up to be you say it hurts to change i say, well, certainly one day we all will fall like leaves don't hide behind walls falsely called beliefs it's not your destiny to drown in flux, achilles Verse: root C F E C Chorus: root Am B C (end on G) my mom, my dad made sure i had the things they never did they worked so hard, they just ignored everything but their kid years went by, i never noticed years went by, i couldn’t see the only thing holding them together was me in the house of leaves in the house of leaves my dad, my mom they tried so long to make it seem okay when something hurts, it just won’t work, it’s hard to live that way years went by, they finally noticed years went by, they finally caught on the only thing holding them together was gone in the house of leaves in the house of someone always leaves i’ve had enough, enough your daddy used to drink he used push you around chase your little sisters, knock your mama down he would stay out late driving out to the bar you were just a little boy, oh, he made you wait in the car it’s in your system now, it’s in your blood it’s an addiction you can’t get enough need intervention cause i’m starting to see you’re starting to love that bottle way more than you love me and i’ve had enough, enough my mama couldn’t sleep, she worked hard to pay the bills and one day she just gave up and give in to the sleeping pills yeah, they closed her eyes – yes, they kept her eyes shut i was just a little girl the day my mama never woke up it’s in my system now, it’s in my blood it’s an addiction i can’t get enough need intervention cause i’m starting to see these tiny little pills, oh, they’ve got a big hold on me and i’ve had enough, enough we started out wrong, we started out behind but i will not pass this on to no child of mine we will do it together, babe, or i will do it alone there will be no addiction welcome in my home it’s in our systems, i know, it’s in our blood it’s an addiction but i’ve had enough need intervention cause i’m starting to see it’s time to break the cycle, oh, before it breaks me break it with love, with love |
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