He lead with his pain The king of I’m never doing that again As he repeats henceforth And then is full of remorse But the moment is still as it passes It’s about waking up from your lessons in classes As you jot a note down Then feel as if you’re gonna drown In the ocean surrounding us all And he seems weak though he never call And the evenings are long though they’re not straight And I leave it up to God or fate As I climb a tree at fifteen Take snapshots of who I could’ve been And time has passed in a caress And I wear jeans under my dress To go trudging through the muck And I gotta say I always gave a fuck About you, about them, about him, about us The windowpane is cracked but the trust Still rests in steady arms So turn off your alarms And rest back into the resident peace I watched the war in me cease I listened as the noise fell quiet Though the streets may be a riot With all the summer rain I’ll take the truth without a name As it’s hampered on But you know it’s not gone As long as my heart steady beats And long after the tide retreats To leave a shore to smile It’s forever in a long while To go on singing your own tune I feel them all in this room As I touch my hand to my chest It’s not only the dead who rest As I let peace reign supreme And get up from the couch as though from a dream