Broken Flowers

There are battles to be won and they rage within our hearts.
They crash in like waves as we try to keep our heads high.
They form us and break us and they surely leave their mark
and its the decisions that we make that sometimes break a heart.

Thats when people you know turn into someone you knew
as we all strive for a better life. Promises made by big city lights
and thats when we all have to recognize the obvious powers of honesty
and how disillusioning a normal life can be but it makes us come to terms
with who we really are and where we wanna be.
We all need words to live by and someone who can make us feel alive.

The stories our mothers told and the few things that we cannot hold.
We cannot hold our breath long enough to die.

I ran away from a city that died and ran away
from a love run dry. And nothing has kept me there---
my fate had been chosen. I wish i couldn't tell a lie, a heart so pure like a babies cry,
just one more look at my fathers eyes. I fill my empty heart with you.

We don't choose death it chooses us. We don't look back, we take the ride.
I don't need so much to stay alive. Just a bed, a room, and someone to kiss goodnight
These empty nights i cannot sleep i fill my heart with you.

Erase these chapters from your past. Sweet dreams die hard.
Wipe away these bitter tears from my face.
All our hopes die last.

So take these splinters of my broken past
from my trembling hands. Cus we cannot hold
our breath long enough to die.