"Where Bitterness Is Born"

You would trade anything for her
She would trade you for anything
You try to work it out, she shuts you down
And you're still standing, standing

By her side through thick and thin
It's another war you didn't start
And she'll push you outside, behind enemy lines
Where you're fighting for her heart

And it's a testament to who you are
You care so much you couldn't leave
But I can't help but think
Just how much more you are deserving

You treat her like a princess
She carries on just like a queen
Commanding that and this, but you're a pacifist
You would never say a single thing

Could it be that you've invested
So much of yourself in this
To break it off right now, would tear your own heart out
The fallout consequence

And it's a testament to who you are
You care so much you couldn't leave
But I can't help but think
It might be the very thing you need

Yeah, cause where you place your heart
Reflects just who you are
Tangled up in a patch of thorns
That's where the bitterness is born

It's where the bitterness is born
You built your haven in a storm
That only gives to take
Leaving only destruction in its wake
When you're worth so much more

"Inherited"

I'm still trying to find identity
I'm still searching just to find me
I look back to when the world made sense
Was it true or only ignorance

Cause all the lines are blurring now
And I can't seem to find a way somehow
I won't take the roads made by my fellow man
Brick by brick I'll build with my own hands

Cause everybody wants to fit
Seems like some were simply born into it
Never questioning, a life that's void of mental wrestling
But I can't look back, no I won't buy it

I'm still gripping with reality
Seeing everyone's mentality
I try to give and take to bridge the gap
Without falling in between the cracks

Cause love is king and I'm a student
Trying my best not to precede it
I'll let it shine so it can light my way
Not get pulled under by the world's dismay

Cause everybody wants to fit
Seems like some were simply born into it
Never questioning, a life that's void of mental wrestling
But I won't buy it
Cause love's a labor, I'll accept the chore
To push forward even though I'm still unsure
I'm still questioning, it's a life worth all the wrestling
To find my way to the bottom of it

I can't look, can't look like you
No I can't go on that naive
Can't pretend that the world's just fine
That there's nothing that I need
Cause I need, clarity
Yeah I need, clarity

Cause everybody wants to fit
But I've no time to concern myself with it

"Listless"

Reach deep inside of yourself
Do you see your heart?
Is it filled with restlessness,
Is it breaking apart?
Look deep inside of yourself
Is it what you want?
Is this really the place
You've always dreamed of all along

Cause I see it, bleeding
Through the cracks in your armor
You used to be so much stronger

[chorus]
Stay awake
You're still in this, you still exist
Don't fade away
Like all of the listless
Stay awake
Your broken heart, can still be fixed
But only
If you let it

Feeding all of the lies
Like you don't belong
Finding your place ain't easy
Sometimes it's lifelong
But I believe
With everything inside of me
That we were meant to rise above
All of the walls that we can't see

Cause I see it, bleeding
Through the cracks in your armor
Don't stay here any longer

[chorus]
Stay awake
You're still in this, you still exist
Don't fade away
Like all of the listless
Stay awake
Your broken heart, can still be fixed
Don't fade away
You'll make your way through this

"Never Know"

Fall to the ground
And feel for the first time
That maybe there was nothing underneath
Sound the alarms
Raising up arms, like falling from the sky
When you never even reached the peak

[chorus]
Calling your name
But still in the same rut
Riding the highs and lows
Yeah, and I can't quite explain
Why I'd ever doubt your name
I'm hiding but it shows
I guess I'll never know

Fight that foolish feeling
If it's getting easier
Then you're doing something wrong
Cause in trying to find my own way
Relying on my own strength
Find I'm really not that strong

[chorus]
Calling your name
But still in the same rut
Riding the highs and lows
Yeah, and I can't quite explain
Why I'd ever doubt your name
I'm hiding but it shows
I guess I'll never know

Calling your name
But still in the same rut
Riding the highs and lows
Yeah, and I can't quite explain
Why I'd ever doubt your name
I'm hiding all the same
In a maze I built of shame
Still wondering where it goes
I guess I'll never know

"Already"

Why don't hear me
Like you used to
Speaking so clearly
But never attentive to

I'll wait
Till you say
That you're alright
That you're okay
I'll wait
Till you say
That you will love me
Like I do already

Why don't you come down
To the water
We all need a cleansing
You know you've got to

I'll wait
Till you say
Say that you need me
That you're not okay
I'll wait
Till the end of the day
When you're running back home
I'm there already

"Time Traveler's Plight"

Wasted
To lose it all
When you're so close you can
Taste it
Almost in your reach

Face it
Can't go back and
Change the past
So embrace it
You'll only lose sleep

Is it really worth the joy ride
For a life of pain
Living for the moment

[chorus]
I can't feel like
Everything was meant to be
But I can't rewind
And make it out how it should be
So take these shackles
Wrapped around my mind
Moving forward
Is my only way out this time
Out this time

Every road
Ends somewhere
Though we only know the name
Not where it goes
Or when we need to turn

Aglow
Some signs will light
The way and maybe
Show
Just what needs to be learned

Not every obstacle
Is gonna leave you blinded by miracles

[chorus]
I can't feel like
Everything was meant to be
But I can't rewind
And make it out how it should be
So take these shackles
Wrapped around my mind
Moving forward
Is my only way out this time
Out this time

repeat

"Unstuck"

How do you repair
What was never a clean break
While fractures thin as hair
Spread behind the face

So where do we begin
With what we can't retrace
I can feel us wearing thin
From what we never say

And we run right through like there's nothing wrong
With a dark cloud hanging above us all along
Can we go back, can we go back
Everything deserves a second chance

I love you now
I've loved you all along
But the words somehow
Never come so strong

I know you feel the same
I can see it on your face
So who is it to blame
That we're so stuck in our ways

As we run right through like there's nothing wrong
With a dark cloud hanging above us all along
Can we go back, can we go back
Everything deserves a second chance

I need you now
I can't do this on my own
What built these walls
That leave us all alone

Where we run right through like there's nothing wrong
With these dark clouds above us all along
Can we go back, can we go back
Can we go back, can we go back

"Different"

For some, a burning flame
For others, steady and slow
I see right and wrong in both

But you, you stay the same
And you, designed the road
And we all travel to and fro

Why do you treat your kids so different?
Or is it me with clouded vision?
'Cause everybody seeks in their own way
But nobody's path quite looks the same
And in you, there is no division

For me, I started out real bright
And I came, to a bend in the road
That no one else was asked to go

I waited, in the dead of night
I traded, away my comfort zone
With fear of really letting go

I was weak, I asked for strength
And when I asked it didn't come
And from that day you've looked so different
A different person I've become
I only run, I

Why do you treat your kids so different?
Or is it me with clouded vision?
'Cause everybody seeks in their own way
But nobody's path quite looks the same
And in you, there is no division

So why, am I only chasing shadows
When I am looking for a light
That never comes, it never comes, no

"Planting Seeds, Pulling Weeds"

The grass is greener where you fertilize
Not waiting out the stormy weather for the blue skies
Cause rain or shine you're gonna feel the ties
To what's beneath the surface of your life

Planting seeds, pulling weeds
Planting seeds, pulling weeds

What's buried at the heart of it
The seed of which is either building or stunting
And keep an eye of what it's buried beside
Cause death finds its way inside to choke out life

Reaping and sowing
It's life that you're growing
Don't compromise

Planting seeds, pulling weeds
Planting deeds, pull out what I don't need
What I don't need
What I don't need

Cause out in the sun you could scorch away
Don't let the sky decide just who you're gonna be

Planting seeds, pulling weeds
Planting seeds, pulling up those weeds
Planting seeds, pulling weeds
Planting deeds, pull out what you don't need

"Fitting In Missing Out"

Love, think I know love
Think I know love from the push and shove
But what, if I don't know love
Is the way that I love maybe not enough

Cause it's tough
When love tells you what you don't want to hear
When you know you need to hear

Are we so busy fitting in we're missing out
Not what I heard eternity's about
Cause love is an action I'll bet
But I don't remember sticking out my neck
To love

Truth, think I know truth
Think I know how to bring it up to you
Uncouth, with limited proof
But I'll sidestep the issue if it discomforts you

Cause it's true
Not everything we know we can prove
And not all of it will ring true

Are we so busy fitting in we're missing out
Not what I heard eternity's about
Cause truth requires action I'll bet
But I don't remember sticking out my neck
For truth

Divided, divided
Are we comfortable in this skin
We're short-sighted
Enlightened, enlightened
What will we do with this light
Besides hide it

Are we so busy fitting we're missing out
Not what I heard eternity's about
Cause love is an action I'll bet
And truth still causes friction yet
But I don't remember sticking out my neck
For it

Is the message convoluted
Has the truth become polluted
By my safety

"Inside Your Head"

You've got a fantasy
A new reality
Inside your head
Inside your head

You know I wanna see
The kind of world you see
Inside your head
Inside your head

Are there overarching trees up to the sky
Are there towers to the stars, reaching so high
I wanna see it
I wanna see it
Inside your head

You've got a child's sense
Traces of innocence
Inside your head
Inside your head

An overflowing heart
That breaks monotony apart
Inside your head
Inside

Are there overarching trees up to the sky
Are there towers to the stars, reaching so high
Billowing into the night, dew soaked fields reflecting light
Crystal oceans break like glass, upon the gleaming cliffs they crash
Inside your head

I wanna be there
I want a glimpse beyond this world of dead
For just a moment
Just a moment

"Results"

Pressing in
Did I push too hard again?
Like overzealous men
In their own strength before me did

And oh, I don't understand it
I thought you said love didn't come back empty-handed
And oh, if I could see it
The ripple from the stone I threw, I'd believe it
Ooh

Wearing thin
Like I'm two steps away from caving in
This yoke isn't always light
Even with or without you by my side

And oh, I don't understand it
I thought you said love didn't come back empty handed
And oh, I just don't feel it
But my perception doesn't determine what real is
Ooh

Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh (ooh), ooh (ooh)
Ooh (ooh), ooh (ooh)

And oh, I don't understand it
But deep inside I trust and know I can't quit
And oh, I'm trying to see it
But I know that it is faith, just to believe it
Trying to believe it
What I can't see in

"Some Things You Can't Take Back"

I could be on cloud nine
I could be six feet under
Even while running blind, I see
That my heart is a monster

I watch it separate
My needs and desires
All that I love and hate, and then
Run straight to the fire

The selfish part of me
Yeah, it's the heart in me
Consuming anything and everything it can
When some things you can't take back

Once I let it loose
The words from off my tongue
All I've tried to mute, become
The new song I've sung

And every choice I make
Every triumph and every mistake
Bricks that build or stones that break
Set in place, and I feel the weight

Deep inside of me
Yeah, it's the heart in me
Consuming anything and everything it can
When some things you can't take back

Oh, and every thought
Watch it manifest
Not a single one
That will go unchecked
Cause the heart
Overflows like this
Watch it flood right out
A deluge from my lips

"Lovestruck"

I want to protect your heart
I don't even want to start
Down that road
I've seen just where it goes

It starts with a talk like this
Ignoring the consequence
We both know
Yet offer up our souls

For the moment
Oh, it feels like love
You feel wanted
For the moment
And it feels so close
And you want it

I don't know how to love you
I don't know how to love you
Like I should
I don't know
No, I'm no good

Once the emotion leaves
And you're left to question things
It all floods back
Like a heart attack

No hidden agendas here
Make our intentions clear
Off the bat
And just like that

In the moment
You're living so fast
That you miss it
In the moment
Not till it's the past
You regret it

I don't know how to love you
I don't know how to love you
Like I should
I don't know how
No, I'm no good
I don't know how to love you
But I'm trying so hard to figure
It all out
Without any doubt

Cause attraction's a distraction
Not what I need
When all the beauty in you,
I make it all about me
And all these blurring lines
Could be made clearly defined
You may feel you don't mind
But your heart's on the line

I don't know how
I don't know how it's come to this
Trading love for loneliness
And it's a bitter exchange
On the surface it'll flourish
But beneath it won't sustain

"So Far, So Close"

After midnight driving home and
Wondering where you are this moment
Where you've been and where you're going
While the city lights are glowing

I ache see you when you're sleeping
The steady rise and fall of breathing
A look of peace upon your face when
The world outside can't stop your dreaming

And oh, I'm so in love with love it shows
How it's always been, it always goes
And oh, it shows

Looking at the stars and thinking
Of all the things that we could be when
They align, the timing's perfect
A fading fairytale in my head

And when you wake I'll still be dreaming
Even when that light comes streaming
You'll go about your day like nothing
But I'll be holding onto something

And oh, I'm so in love with love it shows
It feels so far off, it feels so close
And oh, you feel

So far, so close
You feel so far, so close

And oh, I'm so in love with love it shows
You're so far off, but you feel so close
And all these thoughts aloft
In the headspace of the stars
Could fall down, to solid ground
And find us where we are