You look at me
From across the water’s edge
With a head that’s full of dreams
Carried on unsteady legs
You’ll never be
Like the other ones below
Their laughter carried by the flow
And out of reach

These toys you make are not your friends
They’re just the ends and the means to make amends
For the years you’ve spent alone
These wasted days when you are weak
Never reaching what you seek
Bitten by the gears you set in motion

What I’ve done
I can’t undo
Was it for me
Was it for you
I’ve made a way
A place for us
Was it too late
Was it enough

If I say it’s for the best will you believe me
If I say it’s for the best do I believe myself

I look at you
From across the sands of time
Never looking in your eyes
Too afraid of what I’ll find
I’ll never see
The man I have become
Just the ruins of the one
I left behind

These games we play when we grow up
Turning places and things we used to love
Into instruments of war
These tortured years spent in the dark
Trying hard to leave a mark
Never knowing that the scars would be our own

What I’ve done
I can’t undo
Was it for me
Was it for you
I’ve made a way
A place for us
Was it too late
Was it enough

And who we are
They’ll never know
They’ve never seen
The world below
We cannot turn
From who we are
Never again
Never so far

If my waking days are short
I’d give every one for one of yours
You didn’t know
You didn’t know
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

What I’ve done
I can’t undo
Was it for me
Was it for you
I’ve made a way
A place for us
Was it too late
Was it enough

And who we are
They’ll never know
They’ve never seen
The world below
We cannot turn
From who we are
Never again
Never so far