TBW: "Give Me A Reason"

My world is a broken place
Like shards of a shattered window
Disillusioned from my mistakes
But now I'm thinking for my own

My compass has been defective
My maps are torn in two
Lost at sea with no direction
I need a hand to hold on to

But I'm breathing, isn't that enough?
Yeah I'm breathing, but it's not enough

[chorus]
So give me a reason
For why I'm breathing
Give me a purpose
So I know I'm not worthless
Give me the answers
To free me from this curse
Cause I don't want to feel this way forever

It's easier to pretend you're happy
When you've got an aching heart
On the surface you're always laughing but
Underneath the water's dark

So where are you gonna go when
You realize that you're not dreaming
This is your life, start living like you're alive

[chorus]
Give me a reason
For why I'm breathing
Give me a purpose
So I know I'm not worthless
Give me the answers
To free me from this curse
Cause I don't want to feel this way forever

[bridge]
You've been alone
So where you gonna call your home
Been astray for far too long
There's a peace of mind
You gain when you truly find
Where you belong

[chorus] x2

Throwback Week

For the next week I'm going to post old songs of mine on here that have already been written for quite a while. All of them already have music to them and whatnot. Hope you guys enjoy!

"Beautiful Wasteland"

Looking 'round it's hard to think
That every single thing we see
Was born out of a tragedy
The fault of all humanity

Rolling hills and golden plains
The sunny skies and pouring rain
Inherited along with pain
But we've never known another way

[chorus]
This is our reality
Plan B of what was never meant to be
We live in a beautiful wasteland
Far from what was ever planned
Waiting for the day that we're free

Engulfed by the roar of the waves
We get lost in a sunset
All the beauty that we can't explain
We haven't seen a thing yet

And sometimes it's easy to forget

[chorus]
That this is our reality
Plan B of what was never meant to be
We live in a beautiful wasteland
Far from what was ever planned
Waiting for the day that we will finally see

The world as it was meant to be
With our eyes open wide
Captivated by a glimpse
Of the other side
This is a fallback
This is a snapshot
This is grace unleashed
On a fallen world

[chorus]
This is our reality
Plan B of what was never meant to be
We live in a beautiful wasteland
Far from what was ever planned
Waiting for the day that we're set free

"Glass Love"

There's fragments of the love you've recieved
All over the pavement
This time was real, or so you believed
And now you're wondering what it all meant

You've given everything you have
To try to grab ahold of it
To pick it up, but you can't get it back
From the start it wasn't made to fit

We take the fake
We take the bittersweet
But we won't ever take the remedy

[chorus]
This is a glass love
Watch it shatter
Leaves you broken
Questioning what's the matter
What happened
Why does it feel like
You're empty all over again
With shards left in your heart
From where you left it open

You let them in, you get let down
It feels like love is fiction
When the one you think you've finally found
Feels more like a division

But there's a love that doesn't fall
Won't leave your heart in fragments
And the greatest part about it all
It's free for you to have it

Don't be afraid to let it in
When all you've ever known is

[chorus]
A glass love
Watch it shatter
Leaves you broken
Questioning what's the matter
What happened
Why does it feel like
You're empty all over again
With shards left in your heart
From where you left it open

[bridge]
But let it fall apart
Let it fall down like the rain
This lie we build won't last
And all that will remain
Is a love as white as snow
That covers all our stains
Don't be afraid to let it in
And give your heart away

"Celebrities"

Celebrities
Are people I know that have never heard of me
I know who they're with and what they're doing
All because I saw them in a movie

Celebrities
Are people we hold to a high degree
Because they're beautiful and good at acting
We see them crying, we see them laughing

So I'll put them on a pedestal
Anticipating when they'll fall
Again and again
And again

[chorus]
Human
Human beings
Voyeuristic politics
Of the television screen
With souls
And hearts still beating
Not until we see the blood
Do we think that they're bleeding too

Celebrities
Are people I've seen that have never seen me
Yet I see their whole lives on a tv screen
Change the channel when I'm through with watching

Lives on display
So that I might be entertained
For only a moment
Until that moment fades away

[chorus]
Human
Human beings
Voyeuristic politics
Of the television screen
With souls
And hearts still beating
Not until we see the blood
Do we believe that they're bleeding too
Then is it too late to undo?

Our lives
Are not commodities
Not a show that you watch
Not a dumb romantic comedy
This is it, this is life
You're really here, you are alive
And there's nothing more beautiful
Than every second that you're breathing

Human
Human beings
We are human
We are human beings

"Love To Life"

When I close my eyes
Beneath my eyelids I see starry skies
The image burns in my mind
And I know inside the dead in me must die

I've been so lost
Built and burnt these bridges in attempts to get across
But my works are dead
And these action leave me empty, so I will follow You instead

[chorus]
I've found a home here
I'm not alone here
You've shown the way here, I'm going to stay here
Beneath Your loving arms

The wars begin
Finding that the battle starts at the place I let You in
But now I see
The struggle for my consciousness was there behind the scenes

[chorus]
But I'm not alone here
'Cause I've found a home here
You've shown the way here, I'm going to stay here
Take me up in arms

[bridge]
Swallowed up by mercy
Streams of tears as it consumes me
Here tonight
This fire burning through me
I've never felt this way
In my whole life

I am loved
I am loved
You've brought love to life

"Not Mine"

Taken by this beauty
I want to shout her name into the sky
She's honest, true and lovely
And not afraid to speak her mind
But my heart
Is tearing at the seams
Beating after broken dreams
Out of place and out of time

[chorus]
I want to throw my arms around her
Hold her tight
But she's Yours
And not mine
To tell her that she's lovely
In my eyes
But she is Yours
And not mine

She has a way about her
Exuding innocence and light
Every time that she's around me
I can't help smiling, cause she shines so bright
And all I know
Is that I want her in my life

[chorus]
I want to throw my arms around her
Hold her tight
But she's Yours
Not mine
I want to tell her that she's lovely
In my eyes
But she's much more beautiful in Yours
Than mine

[bridge]
And oh,
These duties are not mine
They belong to You alone
I want to hold her heart
But I don't even have my own

[chorus]
I want to give her all I have
My whole life
But she's Yours
And not mine
You love her more
Than I ever could, with all my might
She needs to know Your love
Not mine