it's been an extremely long time. i'm sorry.

i would've given anything just to sit there,
with our hands clasped, forever.

the scariest thing in life is to
wake up when you're old
and realize you never really lived.

love is like standing on wet cement.
the longer you stay, the harder it is to leave.
and you can never let go without
leaving footprints behind.

he looked at me and my heart melted.
you can't tell me that wasn't love,
because i felt it.

people call is passion, or lust, or obsession.
i don't really care. when i'm with him,
it's the only time i feel completely alive.
if you've never felt the power of that,
then i feel sorry for you.

sometimes in life, you find a special friend; someone who changes your life just by being part of it. someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop. someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. & someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.

when i was 5 years old, my mom always told me that
happiness was the key to life.
when i went to school, they told me what i wanted to be
when i grew up. i wrote down "happy"
they told me i didn't understand the assignment,
& i told them they didn't understand life.

you can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dreams.

we got everything we need right here
and everything we need is enough
it's just so easy when the whole world
fits inside of your arms.

it hurts to be around you. when I see you,
even from across the room, it brings up a thousand
memories. not just of us, but of my entire life
before. it's like I'm frozen in this place that I can't
bear to be, I care about you so much. as long as
I can remember, everything's always come back
to you. I mean, even no matter what was happening
between us. even the thought of you is at least
a constant comfort, but.. I can't go back. it just hurts.

i think you underestimate me.
i think we underestimate eachother
what i'm trying to say is that
what you felt the other night,
that something was finally right between us...
if felt it too
and nothing will ever change that
not going to school on different coasts
not meeting people who we're meant to love forever
nothing.

and once you lose yourself
you have two choices
find the person you used to be
or lose that person completely

look in the mirror.
you're beautiful.
he may not think so,
but that's not what matters.
what matters is that you know you are.

break all the records,
burn all the cassettes.
i'd be lying if i told you
that i had no regrets
there were so many mistakes
and what a difference they make
but it shouldn't surprise you at all, you know.

and when i look at you,
i wonder what it is about you
that makes me love you like i do

and finally taht day came
the day that his name didn't put a smile on her face

This air is contagious, no one can save us.
Nothing this good could ever last,
Tonight is a drug that I won't give up.
This is my favorite addiction.

At one point I was so weak;
I missed you so much & I missed what we had.
One simple song made me break down & cry.
but now I can honestly say I'm over you.
Sure, I still think about you,
but I'm not crying anymore
I'm so strong now; even though
it bugs me when I see you with other girls,
I'm finally over you.
Have a great life, stranger.

People say i've changed so much.
Well here's the honest truth,
I grew up and stopped letting people
push me around.
I learned that
you can't always be happy.
I accepted reality.

We wonder why black & white photos capture our soul.
I think it's cause without color, we aren't drawn to the
makeup, & the color of our eyes, or our hair, or how tan our
skin is. Black & white captures the innocence on ones face &
the hurt they've gone through to feel vulnerability.
The glow we see comes from the inside.
Brightening our eyes, our skin, & our smile

and now you want somebody
to cure the lonely nights.
you wish you had somebody
that could come and make it right.
but boy, i ain't someone with a lot
of sympathy, you'll see.

Who do they think they are?
With their huge crowd of lost souls.
It's funny because everyone knows..
you're not lost, you just thrive to be different.

i'm singing this song as loud as i can,
as i drive too fast with my best friend.
i don't wonder if you're wondering where i am.
i don't care if i ever see you again.

hey, is she everything you wanted ?
you know i gave you the world.
you had me in the palm of your hand.
so why your love went away,
i just can't seem to understand.
thought it was me and you, babe.
me and you until the end.
but i guess i was wrong.

music was my refuge;
i could crawl into the space between the notes
and curl back to loneliness

In the day by day collision called the art of growing up, there's an innocence we look for in the stars. To be taken back to younger days, when there was no giving up on the people we held closest to our hearts.

such a young girl,
she would never do anything bad.
that's at least what her friends think.
but that boy knows a completely
different side of her.

see, when you're mad, you don't miss people.
so if you stay mad, it's like you never knew them at all.
that way you don't feel so badly about them leaving you.

i remember one time we were walking.
i don't remember where,
and i don't remember when.
i don't even remember the season
i just know that was the first time
i felt like i belonged someplace.

i'm about to do all the things
i've dreamed of and i don't
even miss you at all.

don't let anyone ever promise you that they won't ever hurt you,
because at one time or another, it will happen.
the real promise is if the time you spend together will be worth the pain.
be your own hero and stand up for yourself.

I think that sometimes
we love people so much that
we're numb to it
becuase if we actually felt how much we really do love them
it would kill us.
that doesn't make you a bad person;
it just means your heart is too big.

just fake a little bit, it's not so hard.
just pick it up,
you've already got this far.

it's breaking my heart to watch you run around
cause i know that you're living a lie.
that's okay baby cause in time you will find,
what goes around comes all the way back around.

that night we talked;
we talked about life,
aobut our lives together.
maybe we aren't the same two kids we once were,
but some things never change.
some things last, and even though i didn't know
what was going to happen to us or where we were going
i just knew i couldn't let you out of my life.

this you trying hard to make
sure that you're seen, with a girl
on your arm and your heart on your sleeve.
remind me not to ever think of you again.

if i'm gonna go down, i'm gonna do it with style
you won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess
because you left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.

rest assured i'm moving on.
i miss you less with each day you're gone.

i asked him one day,
"why all the drugs ?"
he told me then and there,
"i find that life is easier
when it's all a blur."

and the world's got me dizzy again
you'd think after twenty-two years i'd be used to the spin
but it only feels worse when i stay in one place
so i'm always pacing around or walking away
i'm drinking the ink from my pen
and i'm balancing history books up on my head
and it all boils down to one quotable phrase:
if you love something, give it away.

i won't begin to ask why you're leaving.
why you did those things you did.
why you said those things you said.

remember watching the storms
from the lifeguard stand ?
remember feeling the tingling in my
fingertips when i touched your lips.

one last hit for you,
two pills here for me.
one too many times
i've felt this way about you.

now i'm lying on the table,
with everything you said.
keep that in mind the way it felt
when the most i could do
was to just blame myself.

and sometimes it just hits me, out of nowhere
all of a sudden, this overwhelming sadness rushes over me
and i get discouraged and i get upset,
and i feel hopeless and sad and hurt, really hurt
and once again, i become numb to the world

we've gotten good at eye contact.
while regurgitating lies.
learn to swallow hard so we don't cry

it's a missing emotion, a missing person.
hey love, i'm missing you.
it's more than 11:11,
it's more than a hug goodbye.
hey love, the sky's still blue.
things are great but where are you ?

three cigarettes deeper and deeper.
i've been drinking more and eating less,
i'm a mess without you laying here.

that night we talked;
we talkeda bout life,
about our times together.
maybe we aren't the same two kids
we once were, but some things never change.
some things last, and even though i didn't
know what was going to happen to us
or where we were going
i just knew i couldn't let you out of my life.

you're the kind of guy who makes me
throw my head back and let out a real laugh,
because when i'm with you,
nothing else matters.