Don't give up, it takes awhile I have seen this look before And it's alright, you're not alone If you don't love this anymore I hear that you slipped
She speaks to me in Persian Tells me that she loves me, the girl with golden eyes And though I hardly know her I let her in my veins and trust her with
When I think back on this life I guess we were doing the best we could And to look at us from the outside Sure it seemed somewhat romantic When you've
Well, you found me but I don't know Why you wanna save me Well, God is great and God is good But God didn't help me when he could And love dances so lonely
When I first placed my hands On these diaries, scraps of paper There were notes and scribbles And all kinds of shit A lot of feelings came bubbling up
Laughing like we're crazy Nothing mattered Nothing fazed me We were younger then So much younger then Everything seems rotten through The eyes of the
The sun is shining And everything's dying Your star has burned out for good Somewhere in Hollywood What the hell This ain't no way to treat the living
Well, this ain't no side show This is the great unknown This is the poison we take, yeah Outside the velvet rope Standing there all alone Are the grotesque
You can't quit until you try You can't live until you die You can't learn to tell the truth Until you learn to lie You can't breathe until you choke
Well, you were right We never really gave a damn We spent our lives Roaming through the wasteland And through this all We should have had a better plan
So here we are at the end And at the same time we're at the beginning of this misadventure Why I had to go down a dead end street at 200 miles an hour
Well, I apologize That your memory serves you more than I can now You'll have to make sense of my life somehow Yeah, well, somehow Well, I close my eyes
She lights a candle but she doesn't know why She wants to save me but I'm barely alive My soul is thirsty, I just wanna get high Make her go away Well
Paint yourself a picture Of what you wish you looked like Maybe then they just might Feel an ounce of your pain Come into focus Step out of the shadows
The traffic's backed up on the 405 And the smog's so thick, you can cut it with a knife But it gives me time to think about my life I take the 10 to
As the light washes over the morning rise You're still asleep and that's all right I can be still 'cause you look so sweet And beautiful next to me And
Feels like your life is over Feels like all hope is gone You kiss it all the way, maybe, maybe This is a second coming This is a call to arms Your finest
Where you gonna be tomorrow? How you gonna face the sorrow? Where you gonna be when you die? 'Cause nothing's gonna last forever And things'll change
