Pearly Gates

We just try to
Go through life
Bold and unafraid
We do our best
So we'll never regret
All the choices that we have made

We're not exactly
Where we want to be
We just try to take it
Day by day
Our family is small
But we're walking tall
Right through the mess
We made
We are one
I think of all the
Shit I've been through
And I thank God that
Our hearts held true
So as we go through

This rough ass ride
We'll sing anthem
For ourselves tonight
In this song we will
Not sing about some
Fight that happened long ago
We are celebrating a battle with
A far greater foe
The fact that we can
Write this song
Is a freedom that we
Won't let go

We don't know what's ahead
We're just playing out our hand
With this song we'll
Come together and
United we shall stand
I dream of a place
Where things are free
Where anyone can be
What they want to be
So as we go through
This rough ass ride
This song's for us tonight

What happens after all the lies are said
Broken promises
Fading after time
Apologies instead
Your ticket's been canceled out
Run to only fail
To catch the last train out
Just before it derails
Lived and learned a lot
Forgetting all detail
What happens when it's time to go to bed
Sigh and say goodnight
The dreams that you once had
Can only live in side your heart
Just another empty hand
To hold before you crash
Take me back to the start
Just another extension
No time for explanations
Just settling for exceptions
No time for explanations
What happens after all of you are gone
Find somebody else
Dangling your prize
Lay your trip upon
The party's been faded out
As true as it was
Bring the next one on

Now that you threw it in I understand
How fast you time runs out
Life has cheated you so what
Nothing ever goes as planned
Some people tell you everything that you want to hear
Fact is a day-job and a complex only kept them there
You can wait there standing in that line
It's easy to blame somebody else
You have your whole like to do something
And that's not a lot of time
In a perfect world
We wouldn't spend our time doing something that we should
I was sad to see you go
But if anything
It taught me something that I didn't know
You better get off you ass while you still have time