[00:28.63]There can be so much tragedy in a smile
[00:35.24]Such desperation in embrace
[00:39.77]We all ache for a taste of humanity
[00:46.21]As the widow, for one last glimpse of her beloved's face
[00:52.51]We all ache
[00:56.39]We all long for security
[01:00.16]Sanctuary, belonging
[01:03.16]What then prompts the heart of stone
[01:06.09]Often the object of overlooked affections
[01:10.26]To slash and burn
[01:12.17]Before the harvest reaps what was sewn
[01:15.18]To look half-themselves in the eyes
[01:17.83]See the scars on their skin
[01:19.62]And continue to not pay ****ing attention
[01:23.74]Like street lamps, we glow so dim
[01:37.36]Like four walls, you've shut me in
[01:44.88]("This is a dream, and in dreams
[01:46.89]you can do anything you darn please!")
[01:51.11](I can't stop paying attention!)
[01:56.92]Like street lamps, we glow so dim
[01:59.19]Shattered people, shatter hopes
[02:05.37]Like four walls, you've shut me in
[02:13.87]Don't be misery's company
[02:18.23]ni em tuhs ev'uoy ,sllaw ruof ekiL
[02:29.69]If only more of us would choose to look back
[02:32.92]Contemplate those springs of youth
[02:36.81]Recollections of laughter
[02:38.76]Recall that sense of wonder
[02:41.38]when nothing else seemed to matter
[02:43.95]Time has a funny way of coercion
[02:48.20]Tricks us into thinking that our past dreams
[02:51.50]We're only passing lunacies
[02:54.32]better scattered to the wind
[02:57.56]Lamenting "I'll never love like my first
[03:01.58]though I've forgotten their kiss
[03:03.37]I'll never truly be happy
[03:04.96]though I can't remember the joys of heaven"
[03:08.17]I can't stop paying attention
[03:15.28]I swear I'll keep remembering!
[03:25.29]Like street lamps, we glow so dim
[03:33.13]Due to the shade in which we're placed
[03:39.34]Like four walls, you've shut me in
[03:47.00]Homes were never meant to be prisons!
[03:51.91]So every time I pick up a mic
[03:54.81]I pray my words only serve to remind
[03:58.34]This life is what we make of it
[04:01.79]Though we can feel so trapped in our own minds
[04:05.53]From every morning's breath, we can choose
[04:09.27]End the cycles of self abuse
[04:12.78]I'll embrace the vulnerable
[04:16.12]I'll embrace the broken
[04:19.48]We can only know what we're shown
[04:22.81]And I know that Love is worth the risk
[04:26.31]Blood is thicker than the water of the womb
[04:30.12]Let me kiss the scars on your wrists
[04:33.53]And no matter who has told you differently…
[04:37.41]You are worth everything
[04:44.31]You are worth everything