Save the World, Lose the Girl

she's rising
and I'm sinking
I'm losing sleep
she's resting
sound in bed with such variety
I'm driving
and she's finding
that she'll survive
when I'm long gone
do I stay in your mind at least?
there's so much time
and nowhere left to go
she's overcompensating
for what she can never let go of
there's so much time
and nowhere left to go
am I just an escape
for time to pass through
she's lying
and I'm thinking
she's trying to forget it all
a memory of the past I'll be
I'm buying
that she's trying
the threat is clear
and growing strong
I dream to have such clarity
it's all I'm thinking about
I guess I'll figure it out
I'll think
I'll drink to each new lesson
ignore the passing of days
eventually I'll fade
and in the end
it's just a lesson

you can say I knew it all along
that you were all I wanted
to know the pain has made you grow strong
the scars inside have made you beautiful
stop breathing for me
you said it's your right to shun dependence
and you shun
and you're scared to accept
someone to share your regrets
when you're aching
you go it alone
when you want to
you take what you need to make you whole
I know it's not easy
I know I can't feel through what you have been and trust
don't come easy
'cause to trust is to depend
and who wants to give up that part of them
you know you can have it
if you want to
I'll find you unrelated, cultivated
when you wake up incubated in me
you're free to leave
if you knew it all along

you can never tell me I shouldn't walk away
its foolish to assume that I'll be coming back another day
you were never right and I was never wrong
does truth lie in sincerity of another sullen song
cause you were right then I should have been the one to release it
its coming back to tease me
but I was just born and you're pride was too strong
can you change it?
are you willing to face it?
you can tell your story and coat it any way
but you will never change who you trying to play
now your friends are falling out
they know you just don't care
they know you never did
because they say always
the first one is never as good as the next.
hey, it's just rock and roll
even though you might think you lost it all.
cause the times they are a changin
and who can predict what's next
hey, you lost control
even though you might have thought you had it all
and hey, it's just rock and roll
and I'll never change
I love it just the same
I'll never change
because I love it just the same
god I wish I could hate you the rest of my life
god I wish I could hate you for the rest of my
nothing would make me happier

I know you'll never lose
what's lost inside you
you're burning down the bridges
you've crossed
and you're still around
so nothing's certain
just let go
we deserve it
if I could chose to start it over
I'd exercise more discretion
the lies are abound
and nothing's certain
do you have good intentions?
come on
let go of those affectations
you don't fool anyone
come on
let go
if you want to take on
the years won't say what happened to you
what gains have you earned
what friends have you trampled over
when you're around
nothing's certain
just let go
we deserve it
come on and let go,
come on and let go

Run away when you are down.
Pick up the pace cause you fear the sound of mistakes
that are getting closer every time.
Time is catching up to you.
You keep on trying to escape your problems,
but problems keep on catching you.
You should try to turn the other way and escape your lies.
You run with no direction,
can you find direction now?
Say when you'll never change,
I'm hoping that you'll say.
But I doubt it will come,
and I doubt it will stay,
and I doubt if you want me anyway.
Can you find direction now?
You run with no direction.

have you found the person
that you want to spend your life with
or do you want?
do you want another . . .
you can't proscribe affection
because you're scared to live about it
do you want another boy?
can't erase the other one
so we waste each other
character lies in intent
do you want another boy.