Good News First

Dear survivors and future survivors: I think we make our own kind of hell.

If we’re gonna love someone, anyone, why not start with ourselves and see where that takes us?

Losing makes you grow

Do you want to lose with me?

Growing helps you win

Do want to lose with me?

Oh the things your eyes have seen that I haven't seen, but I believe you

Do you believe me?

I mean you no harm, but may the best disasters come to you

We need each other a lot more than we don’t

My friends my family I can not keep you, you are your own

But I’ll fill my heart with you and weigh it down so I never go

Or maybe take you with me so I’ll never really be alone

Out here on these stages of life in these temporary homes

Good news first. Good news first to numb the pain

Dear believers and future believers: We can't keep each other in prisons

If that's what we're serving, that's what we're deserving

Yes sometimes god never talks, but then sometimes we try not to listen

Losing makes you grow. Do you want to lose with me?

Growing helps you win. Do want to lose with me?

All the trees in the forest grow tall together, why can't we?

We are moments passing by each other holding on, letting go, opening and closing again

Like you are the air I breathe, but weeks and worlds apart

Living in the future that we used to talk about

Good news first. Good news first to numb the pain

Dear achievers and future achievers: We will get all we can take

So take it and use it and through the abuses we’ll make our own kind of strength

Losing makes you grow. Do you want to lose with me?

Growing helps you win. Do want to lose with me?

And I’m open to being wrong, it’s all a guess

I’m more than anything I’ve lost (and yes!)

I'm the farthest away from home (I think) but I'm closer to where I'm supposed to be

Closer to peace than I may ever be again ever

Well I’ve survived again most of this year, but it's hard to hold on with your fingers crossed

Good news first

Good news first to numb the pain

Dear survivors and future survivors: You are all amazing

You are important

Flawed and scarred on purpose

I love you all because you’re perfect, and with all the rest of me

Losing makes you grow

Do you want to lose with me?

Growing helps you win

Who wants to lose with me?

Good news first, good news first to numb the pain (and on my best days so I can take it)