the vastness of life - Black Tape For A Blue Girl

Should I change who I am, should I tell a different story?

Change my name, change my age will that draw you back to me?

There’s a ghost in my empty house memories, the memories

A myth of ourselves that we told ourselves forever

Forever, never

I told you the story of myself that i thought you wanted to hear, wanted to hear

That way you never had the chance to reject me for who i really am

Reject me as I am

(Who would I be)

Who would I be if you loved me when you really knew me?

After all these years

Can I face myself?

(who I am, who I am)

Don’t reject me for who I am, don’t reject me for who I am

(Who I am, who I am, who I am, who I am)

So tired of knowing every answer

Another day just like the one before (one before, one before)

Nothing left to chance, no circumstance for the unknown, a fear of uncertainty

Fists up, frightened, fighting in vain

Now that my house has burned to the ground

I can more easily see the moon

The most beautiful moments remain mysterious

Spontaneous, dangerous, forever unclear to us

Show me your life, show me how you’ve loved

Tell me your secrets, tell me how you’ve lived

Now that my house has burned to the ground

I can more easily see the moon

Drifting somewhere lost at sea

Baking under a radiant sun

What we once argued about seems so trivial

Politics, religion, love, our problems all inconsequential

Drifting half a billion miles from the sun (billion miles from the sun)

It’s cold and empty, everything I should have done (I should have done)

The vastness of life, so little of it touched

Time, always time, rushing by

Death waits, we’re not immortal

Death waits, we’re not immortal

If only

If only I could live a little more

If only you would whisper into my ear

Life will pass us in an instant

And what have I done with mine?