Transition

Low hopes from the start, yet still disappointed,

I can't wait to just go home.

I don't understand, there was nothing I wanted,

Yet broken, rejected, alone.

Hoping the world would swallow me up,

Feeling so empty right here.

I try to know why, how I fell, so abrupt.

I wait for hope to appear.

Whenever I'm low, I know what will help;

To talk to the friends I need.

Deeply I think, and I ponder myself,

"I'm not who I'm trying to be."

That realisation is far from minute,

How can I be who I'm not?

I'll kill off this problem, right at its root,

And release all the fears that I've got.

How high can I jump? How far can I run?

How long will this energy last?

Until I'm all spent, I will not be done,

And the pain in my heart, it dies fast.

My legs are on fire, my heard beating madly,

My body is aching throughout.

Fighting the pain that I needed so badly,

I've had too much to think about.

I stop to recharge, and think for some time,

Nobody at all knows where I am.

I see my mistakes and I know how I might

Do more for myself when I can.

I know what I want, no reason to deny,

Each time that I do, I see,

I don't know why I live in this lie,

I want to be me, to be free.

On top of the world, inside so strong,

Only challenge is time and space.

All I could want, was mine all along,

In patience it'll fall into place.

I'm so damn in Love, I'm in such good health,

I have no reason at all to cry.

I've only to wait, I have spiritual wealth,

Why want any more than what's mine?

Shinedown

I've created the sound of madness, wrote the book on pain,

Somehow I'm still here to explain.

Staring down the barrel of a .45,

Swimming through the ashes of another life.

There is no real reason to accept the way that things have changed,

Someone save me if you will,

And take away all these pills,

And please just save me if you can,

From my blasphemy, and my wasteland.

What ever happened to the young man's heart.

Swallowed in pain as he fell apart.

If you only knew

I'd sacrifice my beating heart before I lose you.

The only thing that I still believe in is you.

If you only knew.

I never thought you'd slip away,

I guess I was just a little too late.

I've done the best I can.

To make you realise, this is my life,

I hope you understand.

I'm not angry, I'm just saying,

Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.

I don't wanna live, to waste another day,

Underneath the shadow of mistakes I made.

I don't wanna fall, and say I lost it all,

Maybe there's a part of me that hit the wall.

Oh, take your time, don't move too fast,

Trouble will come, and it will pass.

Oh, don't you worry, you'll find yourself,

Follow your heart, and nothing else.

Be a simple kind of man,

Be something you love and understand.

Coping

My Love, I want you here by my side, the distance makes it hard to cope.

I long for a day I can call you my own, some day I wish we'd elope.

I'd do any thing and take any risk, to have you right here at my side,

To wait any time, to meet any task, for you I would do it with pride.

This emotional void becomes harder to hide, no intimate touch for the time.

Above what I feel I must know where I stand, I wonder when you could be mine.