Both Sides of the Gun lyrics

I'm a living sunset
Lightning in my bones
Push me to the edge
But my will is stone

I believe in a better way

Fools will be fools
And wise will be wise
But I will look this world
Straight in the eyes

I believe in a better way
I believe in a better way

What good is a man
Who won't take a stand
What good is a cynic
With no better plan

I believe in a better way

You left them swimming for their lives down in New Orleans
Can't afford a gallon of gasoline
With your useless degrees and your contrary statistics
This government business is straight up sadistic

Its a black rain
Said a black rain is gonna fall

You don't fight for us but expect us to die for you
You have no sympathy for us but still I cry for you
Now you may kill the revolutionary

Living these days is making me nervous
Archaic doctrine no longer serve us
Now we're left as silent witnesses
We don't know quite what this is
Other than a war that can't be won

I feel like I'm crowded, i can't get out
World keeps on filling me up with doubt
When you're trapped you got no voice
Where you're born you got no choice
Other than to go and take you some

You sit there and call me a liar and a cheat
I just wish youd pin a rose on me
Now you wont even come out and take a bow
Crying wont help you now

Crying won't help you now

So now your poets have all put down their pens
The only songs to sing are those sung again
Lonely just doesnt look good on you somehow
Crying wont help you now

Crying won't help you now

Now I just keep on staring

I wish I was a thought: I'd run all through your mind
And come out being everything you ever tried to find.
Life's the longest picture you're ever going to take.
Love's the longest promise that you're ever going to break.

It's an engraved invitation
To leave all this time we've been wasting.

I wish I could yell sorry louder than I screamed

Hey, hey, hey gather round the stone
Hey, hey, hey gather 'round the stone

Youre too young to know
That youre too young to go
Theres no freedom to be found
Lying face up on the ground

Hey, hey, hey gather round the stone
Hey, hey, hey gather 'round the stone

Ashes from an unfinished life
Are all thats left
In a teardrop shaped locket
Hanging from his mothers chest

Throw your hands up to the sky
And scream out loud 'I'm free!'
'Cause wrong is the new right
So we can cut loose tonight
It costs a lot to look this cheap

So get it like you like it
Get it like you like it
Get it like you like it
Get it like you like it...

Fire makes it burn and water makes it turn
We must still be here living on earth
They keep telling me Jesus walked on water

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
You held the sea in your hands
And happy ever after in your eyes
Happy ever after is in your eyes

Couldnt leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection I see
Happy ever after in your eyes
Happy ever after is in your eyes

Every star in the night
Promises the dawn

Goodbye
Hasn't been so good to me
Stepped out into the night
Back against the moon
I saw ten thousand hands with candlelight
We all think that we're right
It's hard to tell
If the night is full of hope or doom

My eyes
Burn with unshed tears
My body is weak
From so many silent years
Too many people say goodbye
Before they say hello
Step into the morning
And disappear

My fingers touch upon my lips
Its a morning yearning
Its a morning yearning
Pull the curtains shut try to keep it dark
But the sun is burning
The sun is burning

The world awakens on the run
And well soon be earning
Well soon be earning
With hopes of better days to come
Thats a morning yearning
Just a morning yearning

Morning yearning

Another day another chance to get it right

Like and old man sitting alone at a lunch counter
Never leave lonely alone
Like a small town girl a big city devours
Never leave lonely alone
Some of us laugh even in our darkest hour
Never leave lonely alone

Unspoken rules of solitude
Warmth without a trace
A lifetime of dreams roll down your face.
All that we cant say is all we need to hear.

Now you can sell your soul
But you cant buy it back
Ive spent my whole life
Working to give you everything you lack

Now I wish you were here
So we could walk and talk in the soft rain
Now all thats left of us
Is a picture sitting in a frame

I would gladly trade all of my sympathy for sorrow
If I could have you here with me tomorrow

I wish you were here

You're the first one to get there
And always the last one to leave
You're the first one to chuckle
But the last one to grieve

I know all too well the world takes a daily beating
But please don't talk about murder while I'm eating

You walk into the temple
You call it a church
I tried to keep things simple
But you always need the works

Your life is marked by numbers and symbols

I cant know the hell you love
But I know youve had enough
Some baptize in water some in flames
All in flames
All in flames

Dont you give me a reason to mourn
Don't you give me a reason to mourn
Look into my eyes when all your hate is gone
But dont you give me a reason to mourn

What has life done to you?
All you ever wanted was someone to run to you

Battles over which direction to kneel
People reaching out to touch
But forgetting to feel
Daily breath shouldn't be a daily penance
Is that what you believe
Or just a life sentence

I look into the mirror
And I see someone there that I used to know
They all want you to serve them
But the only one you got to serve
Is your soul

So much time
And at such a cost

The more I smoke the more I drink
The more talk the less I think
The less I think the more I feel
Folks dont change they just reveal

So take me as I am
Or leave me where you found me

My mind is broke my last nerve shot
What you want from me I aint got
Two plus two will never be twenty-two
So please dont tell me twice when I need to do

You got to take me as I am

Ive been waiting for you
I've been waiting for you
Never found anything else to do
But waiting for you

Ive been calling your name
I've been calling your name
Never found anything else the same
Nothings the same

You can kill a lot of time
If you really want to put your mind to it
Leave it all behind
If you never want to go through it

I keep hearing your name