There are some things that I know and some I would not choose
You come at me from the side where I couldn’t see you move

I cannot be saved in spite of my resilience
I can’t help but be your slave

Soon enough I know that I will not be sleeping well again
I’ll be wondering how I was so easily overtaken

I cannot be saved in spite of my resilience
I cannot be saved in spite of my persistence
I can’t help but feel ashamed

We’re all scared that we’ve finally missed the boat
It’s like an epidemic that’s hit the lives of everyone around me
I’ve felt the same as many have before
I’ve watched the drowning going on around here and I don’t like it at all

And you do all you can
When you can’t sleep at night
And there’s a shadow on your wall
and it will come swallow you whole
because your longing will become you

I am guilty of the facts
I have cried for hours just because these walls deceive me
The trouble is that we’re all after the same thing
There’s just not enough of the good stuff to go around and I wonder what they will leave me

And you do all you can
When you can’t sleep at night
And there’s a shadow on your wall
and it will come swallow you whole
because your longing will become you

It will become you.

You never knew a loneliness like this
You never felt the pull of things untold
You always had your space to be ignored
and know that next week it begins again

it begins again
without a place for anyone
to make a solid state
for change to stay without a fight
and we’ll make this place alright
yeah we’ll make this place alright

You’ll never need my love it’s not the thing you wish for most
when certain sentiments are never wholly shared by both
if we could be so bold we’d appreciate the way we know we are.

There is a warmth I’ve felt knowing such a confidence
could have built us up as tall as buildings over mountains
and from here you can see the difference in between the way we are.

I need to make a home for no one else just for myself
omit the times we’ve not shown equal value in return
so when I hold you close I’ll appreciate much greater how we are.

When you say that I don’t care about you I just turn the light inside me off and
No one can quite reach me until I can feel the pressure subside on the outside
You have gotten better at your job and I have gotten better at pretending
I don’t want other people destroying all that I haven’t seen yet

I’ll just keep on biting on my tongue and holding in the things I should be saying
Knowing things are not the way they should be. Lacking in the skills to make decisions.
I think you should go away and think about the life you have created so you’ll
Stop blaming us for the little things that no one here can explain.

I’ve spent far too many waking hours concerning myself with silly questions
Wanting to have easy answers but too scared to ask the simple questions of you
What happens when I remain uncertain, when I don’t know how to believe in the
Things that you keep promising but never seem to manage it made

You sound so surprised, but I’m quite sure that you just don’t try
To break your habits and make this a pleasant place to be
The most you could do is to actually make use of us
And be the person you keep telling us you are.