People who sat on their hands
They never became much
Just sat in the stairwell
Or watched from a distance

They go through the motions
Of forced conversations
And losing their patience

So they work it out.  Work it in
Learn to fight.  Learn to swim
Hit the nail.  Hit the head
Make the grade.  Make the bed
Turn it loose.  Turn it on
Cut the cord.  Cut the lawn
Stand in line.  Stand up straight
Stay a while.  Stay awake

Golden hands are setting places
At a crooked table
They pull out the chairs to seat the
Willing young and able

Willing young, willing young, willing young and able

Grab your shoes and grab your phone
Grab your heart and take it home
Grab your words from left to right
Take this pen with which I write

There's a hole in the sun
I can see through
To all of you
To all that's true

I don't know how high it goes
How deep it knows
How far it flows
But you know

Leave me
Empty and happy
Leave me
Full and confused
Give me
All that I need
And take
What I’ll never use

Tearing at the seams.
Look at how my fingers
Wrap around the trees.

I’m begging at your feet.
You’re looking out the window.
You’re looking down at me.

Wander down the street.
I see a man with nothing
Staring up at me.

Am I supposed to dream?
Am I supposed to suffer?
Tell me what to be.

Come within reach.
Something escapes me.
Take on your being
And fix it all.

One day I woke up and realized I had nothing left to say.
People tried to talk to me but I just walked away.
So I went down to the forest and listened to the trees.
They told me that this life is not as serious as it seems.

They said:
If you only talk about what you know, you won't say anything at all.
Open your eyes, see the show.  Open your ears, hear the call
For love and mercy and compassion.  O, the order is tall.
You'll find yourself when you see that it's not about you after all.

Situated in between the past and the prospect of the future
I'd speculate but found that it's useless
Illustrator, all my straightest lines have started to bend
So you'll talk, talk to me like I was a friend

You know I'm not the one who caused it
You know it's not like that I promise
I wanted to be let down nice and easy
But you never were one to appease me

It's the same old record that you played for me
Running circles through the sound of your autonomy
And you'll crown me with some kind of broken honesty
I'll just accept I'm gonna get what comes easy

Collaborating with a glass of wine and people who know better
I hear their words but I will forget them
Falling into every trap that's set when I'm not paying attention
I'm hurting now but had good intentions

You know I'm not the one who caused it
You know it's not like that I promise
I wanted to be let down nice and easy
But you never were one to appease me

It's the same old record that you played for me
Running circles through the sound of your autonomy
And you'll crown me with some kind of broken honesty
I'll just accept I'm gonna get what comes easy

Don’t show your face
Just let them go
Don’t let them know
What’s in your soul

Keep to yourself
Keep it inside
Don’t let them know
Until you explode

The wheel, the wheel, the wheel got me running by the wheel

One foot hop and I run in a circle
Double dutch heart got me caught in the middle
The games I play
The games we play

Tag you're it 'cause I'm chasing you faster
Can't catch up but I'm comin' to getcha
The games I play
The games we play

So I go
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo
Doo doo doo

Down by the river
Where the water flows
Where the trees they grow

Down by the river
Where the wind it blows
Where the angels go

Down by the river
Where I met you first
Where nothing hurts

Down by the river
Where the sun hangs out
Where the fish come out and

They swim
They swim
They swim
They swim

If I should ever die,
The last words from my lips
Will be “Thank you to whomever,
Created all of this.”

And if I should live forever,
I’ll utter those same words.
But I’ll say them every day
To the trees and to the birds.

Where the wind blows,
You go.
When the grass grows,
You're in the air.
In the thunder,
You scream.
When the rain falls,
You flow down.