Building Better Bridges

Our heart burns broken at the ends, they fail us, keep building

my lungs are wax inside my ribs, you're burning, well I'm breathing

this back breaks walked on from carrying friends, can't stop now, still working

your life's like rain drops on my tongue, I believe you, keep raining

and it's alright, it's alright, we are not right now complete

and I'm alright, you're gonna be alright, we might never be complete

but the water keeps rising, it's rising, everybody get into the water

and hold each others hands and lives, let's all push our hearts together....

we're gonna leave these shores right now, be everything we've never been

but you gotta swear to promise that we'll never go back again, ever again

and we're not just islands lying beside each others shorelines

we're all bound with veins and hopes, we are not each others ghosts

our hearts are abridged, let's build bridges to each other

so this river won't take us under

filled with monsters and goblins, they keep dragging the bottom

our life is a bridge, let's build bridges to each other

and pray we don't go under, oh these careless waters

I'm trying not to confuse: being used, with giving all I am

by: being used, and giving everything I have, all I am

so I'll build a bridge with hollow bones filled with hollow teeth

inside a hollow heart, with the insides carved

and let the blood in these veins freeze

let the water in these veins freeze and break and flood the dam

we are all we have, this is all we need, hold on it may never end

and I might have to drink my teeth again if I wash up on the coast

so I'll build a bridge with all that's left, & not make any more new ghosts

show me your life, wide and bright, I hope that patience fills the seams

keep what's inside, dry and right, you arch the frame I'll span the beams

our lives are a bridge for us to give, I want to build a better bridge

from every wrong we've done to each other, if I forgive will you forgive?

cause one day we're gonna close our eyes for death or rest

and abandon ourself, this weak mind and breath

and the columns we made, and roots we grew down deep

will be pulled and gathered in to firewood, and burnt for heat

but when the tension shifts, and these braces turn

I'll try and build a better bridge

and when all our piers burn, and the hinges miss

I'm gonna build a better bridge

our hearts are abridged, let's build bridges to each other

so we don't take ourselves under

Our heart burns broken at the ends, they fail us, keep building

my lungs are wax inside my ribs, you're burning, I'm still breathing

this back breaks walked on carry friends, can't stop now, still working

your life's like rain drops on my tongue, I believe you, keep raining

our lives are a bridge for us to give, I want to build a better bridge

from every wrong we've done to each other, if I forgive will you forgive?

our hearts are abridged, let's build bridges to each other

so this river won't take us under, so we don't take ourselves under

our lives are a bridge, let's build bridges to each other

and pray we don't go under, oh these careless waters

our lives are a bridge for us to give, I want to build a better bridge

from every wrong we've done to each other, if I forgive will you forgive?

our lives are a bridge for us to give, I want to build a better bridge

from every wrong we've done to each other, if I forgive will you forgive?

our hearts are abridged, let's build bridges to each other

so this river won't take us under, so we don't take ourselves under