Collective Soul lyrics

Change will come
Change is here
Love fades out
Then love appears

Now my water's turned to wine
And these thoughts I have
I now claim as mine
I'm coming home

Change has been
Change will be
Time will tell
Then time will ease

Now my curtain has been drawn
And my heart can go
Where my heart does belong
I'm going home

I think her gun's
unloaded now.
I guess tomorrow
will be after all
Who made me judge
and jury here
It seems I'm bearing
witness to her fall.

I don't know why
she cries to me.
(she keeps her pain
as company)
'Cause it's only time
before we all must
bleed.

Mirrors of her
memory
Reflect nothing with
each word she says.
Her views have got
me spinning 'round.
I think she's burning

Resonate tones of saving grace
Separate from the gods of hate
Alleviate all our doubting ways
Congregate to more loving days

A collection of peace where we could live
A collection of hope for us to give
A collection of words that mean we care
A collection of love for us to share

Recognize all equality
Vocalize solidarity
Exercise your tranquility
Glamourize all of love's needs

She's a picture perfect child
Of innocence.
Searching out in childlike ways
For knowledge.
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the problem that confronts her.

Do you know where the sun goes
When the water falls
Do you know where the rain goes
When the water falls

Though I think her subjects could
Run far and wide.

Today she dresses
For the change she faces now
And the storm that's raging
A safe haven she has found
She doesn't care
What the prophets say, anymore
For the love she had
She has no more
So she gathers rain
Yeah, She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
So She gathers rain
Yeah, She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make
her whole again

Her imagination
Has started stretching wide

Color me any color.
Speak to me in tongues and share.
Tell me how you'd love to hate me.
Tell me how you'd love to care.
Well I just want to shake us up.

Let's mingle
And make it well.
Come together now.
Yeah let's gel.

Clothe me in any fashion.
Glitter to so mundane.
Tell me how you'd love to change me.
Tell me I can stay the same.
I just want to shake us up.

Let's mingle

Give me a moment
Got to get this weight up off of my chest
Don't feed me sorrow
Pain is a poison I digest

Find yourself another soul to hold
You think, you thought, I know
Off upon my journey I must go
To where the river flows
To where the river flows

I'll give you answers
To the questions you have yet to ask
Silence is beauty
Words they only complicate the task

Make no more wishes

Why drink the water
from my hand
Contagious as you think I am
Just tilt my sun towards
your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.

Don't scream about
Don't think aloud
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out
Don't worry about
Don't speak of doubt
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out

Why follow me to higher ground
Lost as you swear I am.
Don't throw away your basic needs,

Beggar's description
Of what I've been missing
Exploit your position
Don't think I didn't listen
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little better now

Success is so tragic
Pain is your gadget
Your tongue's just lashing
Just bitching by habit
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little purer now
Hey I hope you're feeling
Securer now

Help me I plea
I(or is it Oh?) don't understand
Your ways and your means

Has our conscience shown
Has the sweet breeze blown
Has all the kindness gone
Hope still lingers on.
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why.

Are we listening
hymns of offering
Have we eyes to see
Love is gathering
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one. Into one.

So I walk upon high
And I step to the edge

Who have I left to please
Take what you've yet to seize.
No more questioning
'Cause love is what love should be.
Unveil to me all that you want me to do.
But why should I stop bearing allegiance to you
See, I don't believe in
The sorcerers or the preachers.
I just believe in you.
And I don't believe in
the scholars or the wise men.
I just believe in you.

What have I left to prove

Tangle up your twisted tongue. It's simple.
Mesmerize your everyday. It's simple.
Hey hey can't you see
Love is all that you should need.
Can't you see

Ease your troubled mind.
Let love seek & let love find. It's simple.
Ease your weary soul.
Let love lead & let love flow. It's simple.

Pry into combative times. It's simple.
Forfeit all lush concerns. It's simple.
Hey hey don't you care

Good morning, sunshine
Bring on your pain
Oh sweet Jesus I swear I'll ...I'll never taste it again

Not tonight...
Not tonight...

Oh no OK so let's go
I can live my life in slow mo
I think I was your boyfriend once though
(But I was fuzzy then)
Yeah, fuzzy, oh!

Twinkling starlight
Yeah it's time to write
Why - here - it's now or never
Cuz its my time to shine

Not tonight...

Every Single Word
Every Single sign
every single moment captures her
her motions well defined

Who could light the sky
with no sun no moon no stars above
who could give me cause
to speak to wish or believe in love
my baby she does

Way beyond the heart
way beyond the mind
way beyond the measures
one could ask for
for her love tonight

Loosened from my pride
Oh that monster kept me so tight
Threw my aces down
just to face the here and the now

So here I'll go again
I want to please
Here I'll go again
Sweet I'll sleep
Sleep till I dream

I've been looking
I've been staring down
I've been searching
I've been staring down
And your love is what I found

As cautious as a thief
Oh but restless in all of my needs