[chorus]
I heard you here
I felt you there
I see you everywhere
people move on
time won't stand still
but part of me will
part of me will...
part of me waits behind while the world goes 'round
I see your face every place in town
part of me stops while time keeps tickin
reminds me still that you're alive and kicking
part of me is frozen, the rest of me melts away
I should've seen this coming anyway
part of me holds tight as I crumble apart
I never realized how this could be so hard
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part of me can't hear a single sound
looking for answers in the midst of the crowd
part of me is convinced this isn't real
just can't decipher what it is I really feel
part of me has faith but most of me is without
still just as scared when the lights go out
part of me has opened up to you
not sure what it is you want me to do
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what do I have left if my dreams are gone
will anything else but my fears live on
if I could change my ways would I still be stuck
and if it's all too much would I have to give up
if my life seemed too perilous
would there be anything left that I'd really miss
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I could not look inside
I had to run and hide
the look within your eyes
it made it all subside
I've already got plenty of knives in my back
why should I give you an opportunity like that
where do I turn when I feel like I've had enough
which way do I go when the road's too tough
if I had to show you the door out of my life
would I have the guts to just say goodbye
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if I think it's over when it starts to subside
will it return, coming back like the tide
rather not play your game
I know I'll never win
rather not be strung along
my patience is wearing thin
rather not lay at your feet
let you walk all over me
I'd rather let you know
so stay away from my secrecy
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left to my own
lost and forgot
you'll ask me back but
I'd rather not
rather not be hidden
one you keep as a lie
I'd rather you have me
than something you deny
rather not face the pain
bottle it up inside
rather not live on
once part of me has died
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so I hear you've made some new friends
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous of them
seems as if all is well in your life
I wish I could say the same for mine
the winter passed and you left me there
and I'm hitchhiking on this road to nowhere
telling me how you want
to be part of who I am
you're there for me
but never really here
caught in your other life
I guess you'll stay there
you say you'll make time
it's just another promise lost
things are changing
you say for the better
I can't imagine how
watching from the sidline
as the game goes on, I see
I'm the one getting played
you say you're different
it's just another promise lost
cold and drained
my life slipping away
right through my fingers
you say you'll catch me
I know better by now
it's just another promise lost
if you could see past
your reflection in my eyes
maybe you would find
the fear I hold inside
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if we all showed our two faces
would you recognize who I am
or if we just bottled it up within
could you ever really understand
endless days of pain
locked up for no one to see
things you'd never expect
out of someone like me
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to have never been
ashamed of yourself
is something I've never
experienced myself
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would you recognize me
could you understand me
sentences can't say
how I feel when I wake
and you're not there
I'm not the same
swore to you I'd change
just too late for you to care
won't lie in the bed you made
my air of confidence
prideful independence
pushed you so far away
tired of the empty
I need you with me
but can't come back right away
don't wanna lie in the bed you made
the more you bend me
the more I can take
when you let me go
is when I break
another lesson learned...
another bridge burned...
your apathy is killing me
can't see through your complexities
feeling bound and gagged
feeling like I've been had
when I've bitten off more than I can chew
I'll spit it all right back at you
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cuz it's another lesson learned
and another bridge burned
and I'm moving on
I'm not looking back no more
wearing my heart on my sleeve
never brought anything to me
my concerns mean nothing to you
you'd rather I do what you tell me to
when I felt like giving in
you were my medicine
staying with you was for the worst
it was always you first
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another lesson learned...
I'm moving on
another bridge burned...
I'm moving on
not looking back...
I'm moving on
I thought I knew you
I was thinking so selfishly
how could I be so naive
to think you'd never abandon me
caught up in the moment
I was too naive
to think you'd never leave
I can never trust
someone like you so blindly
how could I be so naive
to think you'd never abandon me
caught up in the moment
I was too naive
to think you'd never leave
you left me
you left me
you abandoned me
is this what it meant to you
losing my strength
trying to stay alive
I'm standing tall
but inside everything's a lie
I'm so see-through
everyone can see my tears
raising my chin
I'll find a way to face my fears
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plucking the splinter from within
I expose myself again
stripped of my shell
now the facade is gone
bare and exposed
see if my core can live on
watching the clock
tick the moments of my life away
I can't come back
without something to light my way
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