World Behind Your Back

When your voice breaks, it breaks my heart
But that is just the start
When your soul aches, I don't know what to do
Then I still want to be with you
But because I love you
(I'll) gently let you down
I'll be better I promise the next time around
But I have to leave you
When you first ask, I can't explain
The silence starts to ring
And when I say, it will be better for you
Your cautious smile says you don't believe
But every word is true
I'll gently let you down
If I'm lucky there'll be a next time around
If there's not I'll understand
Time could take its toll
But it could heal and let you go
If it were easy for me to say
Goodbye would be a word away
When we first met, I knew I'd never regret
Falling in love with you
But where I have to go, I need to go alone
I don't know what else to do
But know I love you

When love dies
I want nine lives
The end seems so one sided
These slow walks
These long talks
Why do you try to hide it
It seems that you've already decided
To send me walking in the darkness
Oh I'm waiting for the sun to shine on me
When tomorrow comes where will I be
What will it take, what will it take
To turn this world my way
Right now (i need it to shine on me)
These strong ties
I never realized
The feelings I'd confided
These dark skies
These long cries
We've got to get back where we started
Still the clouds cannot be parted
I'm walking in the darkness
After the rain will there be rainbows or rust
After the pain will there be faith or mustrust
What did we do to turn this treasure to dust
I'm walking in the darkness
Walking in the darkness
I'm walking in the darkness

If I could have in my fingertips
What;s on the tip of my tongue
I'd just speak your name and sweep you away
I'd want to take you today
(but) there's a social religion
That stands as our division
So I sit and I pray
That before I get the nerve no one will take you away
Oh I wish you were shy just like me
But I can't even look you in the eye
I wish you were shy
But if you were
We might never be together
I strain for your attention
Can't we forget about convention
I've read all the books
Please can't you read my mind
You might like what you'll find
I know I
Shouldn't talk just to myself
If I
Could only get past the first word
Oh I don't know

I get dizzy with fear
When I need her here
I know I'll drown in her wake when she appears
It's hard, it's hard, it's hard
To keep my mind clear
When all my body wants to do is shake
Before I can keep her away
She's here to ease my pain
Miss sympathy
Stay away from my door
Miss sympathy
I know what you came here for
Don't cry for me
Miss sympathy
I can hear all the others
Calling out to her
And she goes to them just the same
Once they breathe her name
She presses her lips to mine
To apologize
But I'm the one who is sorry now
Miss sympathy
Stay away form my door
Miss sympathy
I know what you came here for
Don't cry for me
Miss sympathy
Say away from my door
Her flowers are fresh
But I'm deep in debt
I've taken too much
And now I regret
That I ever let her in
How can I ever get her out
Miss sympathy
Stay away from my door
Miss sympathy
I know what you came here for
Miss sympathy
Stay away from my door
'cause I don't need anymore
SOND: never been away
How far can we go
And still come back the same
How long is the trail
That will not fade away
Well I don't know if I could ever go back to that place
What we think that we don't need
Is easy to forget
Out of sight and out of mind
And we have no regrets
Well I don't know if I could ever go back to that place
The longings that grew
Disappeared when I saw you
It's like I've never been away
Everything was clear
Like I've never been away
Just like yesterday
I thought you were a drop
In a deep black ocean
Until everything we did
Came flooding back to me
Well I don't know if I could ever go back to that place
Like I've never been away
Some things never change
Like I've never been away
Always stay the same
How far can we got and still return
Over the ask of the bridges we've burned
How far can we got and not forget
How far can we go
Well I don't know if I could ever go back to that place

Does it follow me
Or follow you
Does it push you down
Or pull you through
Can you feel
Can you see
The world behind your back
Can you feel
Can you see
The world behind your back
Does it build you up
Or burn you down
Do you feel lost
Do you feel found
Does it touch your face
Or slap it hard
Does it stop too soon
Or go too far
Where will you go
When the gravity stops pulling
And what should you know
As you're floating skyward, endlessly

I wake up with some sunshine, wake upp with the dogs
With this plastic covered tongue, how can I see through this fog
Looking for an answer, reaching for a sign
Caught between science and superstition and fruit on the vine
I don't know, I don't know
How could I pick the flowers of love
And then expect them to grow
L-o-v-o-l-o-g-why
Hello to love's history
L-o-v-o-l-o-g-why
Goodbye to love's mystery
I was waiting for an answer, waiting for your news
You were supposed to be the doctor, cure my summertime blues
Popping pills of emotion, on ms. toad's wild ride
I'm hitting all the potholes on the love you've prescribed
Living in the ocean
Visiting the sea
I'm looking at the bigger fish
Looking at me
I called you in the morning, but you were not home
I let my fingers do the walking, and picked up the phone
Hush hush on the one end, hush hush to the right
I crawled down to the other end and walked into the night
L-o-v-o-l-o-g-why
L-o-v-o-l-o-g-why