Lifeline

Without our ups and downs, we're all just living dead

I put my pulse on paper because

I wanted out from inside of my head

Don't write yourself off

Say what you think and mean what you say

Unless you're okay living life with

A pulse that's flatlining

I guess we only get a chance

To write our stories once

We need to look back and say

That one time was plenty enough

Are we confusing our heart with our mind?

Are they on the same page or did we

Write one off and push the other behind?

Take me anywhere but here

Away from these insecurities I fear

Take me anywhere but here

Just make sure if you are the one that will have me

You know just what you're taking

You know you had a darkness inside

Floor to sky, left to write

It was on the record we made last time

And any writer writes afraid of the next line

To put down on paper the things

He's tried to erase in his mind

And I am no longer afraid of mine

A writer that found a reason for the pain inside

A word is dead when it's said, some say

I say it just began to live that day

I said it once, I'll say it again

Maybe you weren't listening

I said it once, I'll say it again

To live backwards isn't evil, it's rewriting

Take me anywhere but here

Away from these insecurities I fear

Take me anywhere but here

Just make sure if you are the one that will have me

You know just what you're taking

I said it once, I'll say it again

I said it once, I'll say it again

Are you listening? Are you listening?

The best stories are written

When they're spent rewriting