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| Wide Open When I first saw you there was a light in your eyes But it was starting to go out I thought well, he's just like me Spirit cracked but not broken I wondered if we could help each other heal Return to our places before the fall When we were wide open So we started to talk for hours and hours About everything that had come before We didn't know where we were going We just learned to trust our feelings more and more There were times when we were scared There were times of great pain But we pushed through to wide open We pushed through to stay wide open Do you remember the first time you cried in my arms You said you felt completely seen Do you remember my darkest time You held me close and said I love you I look at you now with such strong light in your eyes It radiates We've gone through so much to reach this place Part of me wants to stay here forever But you have everything you need, my love To live as you have always dreamed You hid it safely long ago in your heart Waiting for our time of rediscovery So look inside now through these lenses we've made With your feelings as guides return to that old room Go inside and face whatever you find Then let it go as it dissolves And you'll be wide open Finally wide open Weight I've tried for so long now to make things right That I'm not sure I'll ever make it through But now all I can see is your face in front of me And all I can do is say I'm sorry I hope in time you will forgive me I did the best I could We weren't dealt a fair hand from the beginning I brought too much weight which I couldn't shed Now it's time to leave It's time now to go I thought we might find home together But now all I can see is the road Do you remember all of that hope Just hanging there ready to be picked I thought we could reach it if we held on a little longer But all this weight won't let that come to pass Do not remember me as a best friend or as a true love Do not remember these tears we cried Just remember how hard we tried Now it's time to leave It's time now to go I thought we might find home together But now all I can see is the road It Just Is I'm sitting here tonight Trying to explain these feelings Hoping I missed some piece along the way But we've been through this A million times before And what happened to us just is It just is The longing is just longing The feelings are just feelings That stand on their own You always told me You didn't believe in rules That you wanted a life that was free But underneath those words You are bound by another world With judgement supreme Come home now Listen to your heart instead Trust your feelings Can't you see it just is It just is The longing is just longing The feelings are just feelings That stand on their own It just is The longing is just longing The feelings are just feelings From some ancient place That showed us how to breathe again Unrequited Guess I should admit that I like you When I think about you every day And I see you smile my way We started out as friends That's the best way to be No cares in the world None that I could see But not for long As we both found Guess I should admit that I like you When I think about you every day And I see you smile my way Guess I should admit that I like you When I think about you And I've seen you in my dreams Horrible crush, endless nights It's been weird - we agreed Now what should I do Cause I don't know what I need Can't let you go Can't stay here, though Guess I should admit that I like you When I think about you every day And I see you smile my way Guess I should admit that I like you When I think about you And I've seen you in my dreams I wiped the tears from your eyes As they rolled down your cheek But I couldn't bear to cry Though you made me feel weak And so I stared Back into your eyes Guess I should admit that I like you When I think about you every day And I see you smile my way Say the word and I'm yours That's what you last said Stomp my feet on the floor Climb in my empty bed And as for me Well, we'll both see Guess I should admit that I like you When I think about you every day And I see you smile my way Guess I should admit that I like you When I think about you And I've seen you in my dreams In Dreams When I wake up in the morning Just before I open my eyes I see your face before me It lights up my dream sky The real thing is so hard to find I guess I've just been close before For years I believed it would come to me But now I'm just not sure Except in dreams There we walk through each moment Touch each possibility Everything we say is honest Every movement is free Trust guides us deeper and deeper Mapping new and old We let each other come through As each path unfolds In my dreams I've spent years disappearing Running with ghosts, digging deep But now I think it's time to surface Finally hold you when I'm not asleep Then I'll wake up in the morning Open my eyes wide to your smile I'll show you everything, you'll do the same I guess that could take us a while The real thing will keep us close Through touch and words through feeling seen And when we go to sleep at night We'll find each other in our dreams Blessing You are thirteen And just starting You have your whole life in front of you You are thirteen I hope all I have seen Will somehow help guide you through I see a boy turning into a man Full of possibilities He is smart and honest, strong, vulnerable He can still shed a tear I see a boy who loves his life He can do whatever he wants to do A scientist, a poet, a sportsman, a father All of these choices are in front of you Oh all I want you to know Is how much I love you Oh all I want you to hold Is this proud father's blessing I see a world full of wonder That sometimes seems hard and confused Remember to listen to your heart each day What you truly love will guide you through Oh all I want you to know Is how much I love you Oh all I want you to hold Is this proud father's blessing You are thirteen And just starting Hold You I know you so well There are times when I just can tell What you're thinking How you feel What you need Oh come to me now Bring all your problems And we'll knock them down Oh come to me now Show me everything I will hold you Listen now to the undercurrent We're riding it each day The words we say are its messengers Our bodies are vessels Oh come to me now Give me your hands Teach me to dance again Oh come to me now There is such sweetness When I hold you Slow down Let's go quietly towards home Can't you see I believe you are part of me I know you so well There are times when I just can tell What you're thinking How you feel What you need Sweat and Honey I come to you now parched and hungry Running only on an intuition that you can help I wonder why the undercurrent is so strong So constant here That's why every time we push pull a little closer I whisper who is this man who has reduced me To sweat and honey I etch my image whole sweet dense wet inside you Hoping that will somehow let you see I've been waiting, waiting for you For such a long, long time I thought, deep I thought Who is this man who has reduced me To sweat and honey Sometimes just before you arrive You make believe that you don't need to do it alone Sometimes you want so much That you love before you know I loved you too soon I now know what I didn't know then You will always be alone Light does not escape you Your intensity will never replace feeling That's why every time we push pull a little closer I move further and further away From sweat and honey Lean I have so much to tell you I think I could talk for hours I wanted to run away, but I came toward you instead That's why I know we can make it through anything There's nothing I can't tell you There's nothing here unseen When we lean You are so accepting When I open up you never judge I feel connected here to something larger than both of us That's why I know we can make it through anything There's nothing I can't tell you There's nothing here unseen When we lean Sometimes I wonder how we found this place Was it the safety or the honesty or just some wave of grace You know this is the life I've wanted to live When everything shown is unexpected It is such a gift I feel so strong with you I know I can do almost anything This year I'm going to reach out and touch all of my dreams That's why I know we can make it through anything There's nothing we can't do here When so much is seen When we lean Beverly I see it's late but we're working hard And here I am with the boys again It's past our bedtime but we don't care Cause this is what we're used to But do you recall our explorations on the dome Jumping off that wall And the fights to walk me home We ran around in the underground Didn't you chase after me You hid my hat which I never found And carried me off into the sea We took the road less traveled by And it has made a difference We hide away - we're in disguise And we haven't lost our innocence I played the role of Beverly I read the letters too And then you swore you'd marry me But the others kind of asked me too I walked barefoot in the snow Cause you took my shoes And you wouldn't let go We vowed to go together across the sea To London, Paris and Vienna country We took the road less traveled by And it has made a difference We hide away - we're in disguise And we haven't lost our innocence We had good times, wouldn't you agree We stuck together, carved our names on that tree So if you must close the book right now Remember to read from it every once in a while Come To Us I know we've been struggling to make sense of all this I know there are times when you want to give up All I know is we'll stand side by side And wait until it feels right Then it will come to us It will shine through Just when you think there's no road from here We'll know exactly what to do Above all else I believe in you I trust you with everything So don't give up, let the answers emerge The quiet in between will be our guide Then it will come to us It will shine through Just when you think there's no road from here We'll know exactly what to do Because there's a well deep inside each of us That holds all we need There's music and dance in waiting there They'll answer our prayers to be free Let's live as honestly as we know how Let's find comfort in each moment Let's hold the unknown closely Expect nothing, embrace everything Then it will be with us It will shine through Then we'll know the road from here We'll know exactly what to do Growing Down This year I grow down After years of growing up Below the surface Toward the core Plunging inward quietly I do this alone Though you are my trigger Before I go We acquiesce We ebb and flow Between separate and together And generate strength From this slow dance I unearth dark places Turn them into pieces of light No longer lost or unfettered I am finally home I do this alone Though you are my trigger Just before I go We acquiesce We ebb and flow Between separate and together And generate strength From this slow dance Everything I feel finds its way here You're always there to help me through I didn't know love could be this strong This year I grew down Finally found solid ground No longer fear Love's coming Just because I lost it long ago I did this alone Though you were my trigger Now as I go We acquiesce Though we'll be apart We will always be together In my thoughts And in my heart A Different Voice When I was young I learned those girl rules Stayed in relation Rarely argued I smiled when angry Took care in need Said yes when I meant no Looked pretty but never seen Now I've found a different voice Full of strength, full of choice You better watch out Cause I'm coming back your way And when I get there what I say Will be in a different voice A woman's voice For those who speak but are not heard For those who play it safe For those waiting to be saved It will never occur until we do it ourselves Now I've found a different voice Full of strength, full of choice You better watch out Cause I'm coming back your way And when I get there what I say Will be in a different voice A woman's voice There will be some who don't believe in change There will be some who try to strike us down There will be times when you will wonder If what you lost is better than what you found I stood under for so long That I understand those rules Let's write new ones for all of us Where we'll live honestly Then we'll speak in a different voice Full of strength, full of choice You better watch out Cause we're coming back your way And when we get there what we'll say Will be in a different voice Our own voice Shades of Gray I want to leave here but I can't move on Silence holds our truth down I need to leave here but I don't know how We have always been together My little girl I can't look into your eyes We've been your family for so long Something is tearing at me And I don't know what to do We will always love you There was a time when I thought We could work through anything Through our words and tears and sweat But it's hard to know when the changes are so small They're our shades of gray I should feel something for you You were my lover But now the words just seem to fade I took a vow that this would never happen God, I don't know There was a time when I thought We could work through anything Through our words and tears and sweat But it's hard to know when the changes are so small They're our shades of gray If You Could See Me Completely I entered through your chestnut eyes They let me in completely There were times when we were so close I thought you could really see me Your skin held my sorrow and hope Your fingertips were sweetness Sometimes I wonder if you were real Or just my longing for completeness If you could see through to the other side Would it calm your fear If you could leave your perfect world Would you see me completely I showed you all that I am I was your amulet I guess sometimes no matter what you do You can't make someone know you If you could see through to the other side Would it calm your fear If you could hold all that we lost Would you see me completely Sometimes when it's dark and still I can feel, I can taste you For a moment I regain that smile The one I had before I really knew If you could see through to the other side Would it calm your fear If you could leave your perfect world Would you see me completely In The Beginning Look in my eyes Hold me while the trembling leaves We both know it's time now to let go Time to finish our story Long and bold and true Time to say just one last time That I love you I remember the fire in your brown eyes I remember holding you through the night We went way below the surface As we wed our bodies with light I knew then our dream was the same We would grow up, down and old Together I remember raising our children We taught them what true love brings Do you remember when they first knew The power of simple things I knew then our dream was the same We were growing up, down and old Together There were dark places that we pushed through Each time we reached the clear I knew a deeper love with you I remember when the house was ours again We made love as we roamed Time made you even more handsome Sometimes your eyes alone could bring me home I knew then our dream had come true We had grown up, down and old Together Now I see our lifetime in your eyes We had a full long run didn't we Time to finish our story Long and bold and true Time to say just one last time That I love you |