"Break, Break"

You gave me just a little taste
Enough to get me talking
I sounded off on all the rooftops
Without a second thought
I searched the stars for something more
Received a dull transmission
In return and let it sink
A whisper in the calm

Break, break
You were breaking me down
Like a huge wave
Carry me to the shore
I was stopped dead
In my tracks for a moment
And left there
Forevermore

You set the bar, you raised the stakes
I couldn't get my footing
I stumbled there, then ceased to care
Why would you take it all?
You've never been the same to me
I look before I leap
I second guess my every step
When you might just let me fall

Break, break
You were breaking me down
Like a huge wave
Carry me to the shore
I was stopped dead
In my tracks for a moment
And left there
Forevermore

Stranded, and I don't understand it
You couldn't have planned it
For me to fall to the floor
Seeing, isn't believing
So what was the reason
I could have been so much more

Surely this is not the faith
That you've required of me
To speak so clear, then disappear
With all this doubt resounding