How is it that sometimes things can fall apart so easily?
All of the beautiful and pure intentions are right there, so close
And everyone is reaching out, everyone is trying
There's hungry children spread out across the globe
I can't think of one person who doesn't want to help
We all long for happiness for each other
Want to see love bloom
Freedom relished
We all want the playful exuberance of youth
To hold hands and sing songs without feeling shy
We're tired of murder and theft and broken hearts
Every person you lay eyes on secretly just wants to be comforted
For someone to cook them dinner and bring them flowers
Or even just to sit side by side with someone
On a balmy evening
And watch nothing and everything happening before their eyes
No one wants to hurt another person
Deep inside everyone in their truest, most innocent places
We all just want to take care of
And be cared for
We want gardens and time for ourselves to steal away and think
We want to create things
Like art, or truck engines or laughter
Everybody loves music, one kind or another
We all have our secrets, dark wounded places that still ache on rainy evenings
But each of us is so much more, so much more than those
How is it that the life we love can seem to thwart our best efforts?
Why does change have to take us so powerfully by surprise
And leave us gasping for air, hurt and startled?
Somedays I look around
And watch people yell at each other in traffic
People fighting in stores
Children screaming for attention and no one answers with affection
With patience
The whole world wants more and more and more
And each of us has less and less that we are able to give
Until the demand breaks us
Twists those vulnerable places inside of us that were trying so hard
And all that's left is an apathy, an emptiness
When we've learned so quickly that what you love can be lost
What you trust can be shattered
You can give yourself away and make no one happy,
Not even yourself
So people say they live for their children, so they can go to college
And try for a happiness that their parents couldn't find
And I just wish that they would live for life
I wish that we'd all stop asking each other
"Save me!"
I wish I could turn a little key
To the door holding your heart inside your chest
I could open it up for you
Smile into your eyes and say
"There! There it is. Everything you've been looking for, you had it all along."
I wish I could do the same for myself
Most days I'm like an infant
Overwhelmed, consumed in tears, crying
Because the tower of blocks I so painstakingly built
Fell at my feet, ruined
And part of me wants to blame the blocks
And part of me wants to blame me for even trying
But most of me
Wants to make a castle
Out of everything that seemed destroyed
So I will
All of the beautiful and pure intentions are right there, so close
And everyone is reaching out, everyone is trying
There's hungry children spread out across the globe
I can't think of one person who doesn't want to help
We all long for happiness for each other
Want to see love bloom
Freedom relished
We all want the playful exuberance of youth
To hold hands and sing songs without feeling shy
We're tired of murder and theft and broken hearts
Every person you lay eyes on secretly just wants to be comforted
For someone to cook them dinner and bring them flowers
Or even just to sit side by side with someone
On a balmy evening
And watch nothing and everything happening before their eyes
No one wants to hurt another person
Deep inside everyone in their truest, most innocent places
We all just want to take care of
And be cared for
We want gardens and time for ourselves to steal away and think
We want to create things
Like art, or truck engines or laughter
Everybody loves music, one kind or another
We all have our secrets, dark wounded places that still ache on rainy evenings
But each of us is so much more, so much more than those
How is it that the life we love can seem to thwart our best efforts?
Why does change have to take us so powerfully by surprise
And leave us gasping for air, hurt and startled?
Somedays I look around
And watch people yell at each other in traffic
People fighting in stores
Children screaming for attention and no one answers with affection
With patience
The whole world wants more and more and more
And each of us has less and less that we are able to give
Until the demand breaks us
Twists those vulnerable places inside of us that were trying so hard
And all that's left is an apathy, an emptiness
When we've learned so quickly that what you love can be lost
What you trust can be shattered
You can give yourself away and make no one happy,
Not even yourself
So people say they live for their children, so they can go to college
And try for a happiness that their parents couldn't find
And I just wish that they would live for life
I wish that we'd all stop asking each other
"Save me!"
I wish I could turn a little key
To the door holding your heart inside your chest
I could open it up for you
Smile into your eyes and say
"There! There it is. Everything you've been looking for, you had it all along."
I wish I could do the same for myself
Most days I'm like an infant
Overwhelmed, consumed in tears, crying
Because the tower of blocks I so painstakingly built
Fell at my feet, ruined
And part of me wants to blame the blocks
And part of me wants to blame me for even trying
But most of me
Wants to make a castle
Out of everything that seemed destroyed
So I will
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