I drop a stone into the ocean Every choice another turn of the screw Another wheel set in motion With every single thing I do It's there in the air that
I look around me and I see what I wanted and what I settled for Yeah, I've got the heart of a Joan of Arc but the soul of a gigolo. I've been good at
I drop a stone into the ocean, every choice, another turn of the screw, Another wheel set in motion, with every single thing I do It's there in the air
The father giveth, and the father taketh away, Johanna prays in her bed, He drinks his beer to the TV chatter, thinks dark thoughts in his head. When
(Springfield, Pierce, Marlette) So there I stood, square on my side of the great divide, A message came across the void and for the first time in my
(Springfield/Marlette) So this is the cage that I built, why I built it I don't know It's bars made of anger and guilt, no lock, but somehow it just
(Springfield/Vallance) I can see her at her windows watching, locked away inside her skin, I can see her but I can't get to her, she won't come out,
He lifted her face up off the pillow and said, "Baby such is life" And then he pushed his suitcase out through the door. "It'll give 'em something to
I see her there in her plain print dress and her fading youth. Something about her opens up my soul, something about her speaks the truth, when the sky
Another day passes like a ghost Wishing you were any place but here From your prison cell of flesh and bone you send a prayer on it's suicide last flight
(Springfield/Silverman) His hair was bible black, face like a priest, his fingers clutched the precious box and silent as a dream, He hid behind his
(Springfield, Marlette, Pierce) I tell you honestly, don't you go and throw your heart away I know it's so hard to do, you've got to let go when you
My father was too weak to parry the blade as death's scythe swept through the house one night as we were busy doing other things, dust filled his mouth
In my perfect world there's no need to right the wronged, laid down my burden, I know I did not carry the weight, Not sure to who responsibility belonged
