Pieces of you

It's not A, do I love you

It's not B, do I love to hold you

It's not C, do I care for you

It's just D, all of the above.

All through the night I'll be standing over you

All through the night I'll be watching over you

And through the bad dreams I'll be right there, baby

Holding your hand, telling you everything is all right

And when you cry I'll be right there

Telling you you were never anything less than beautiful

So don't you worry

I was thinking that I might fly today

Just to disprove all the things that you say

It doesn't take a talent to be mean

You words can crush things that are unseen

So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive

And I'd like to stay that way

You always tell me that it's impossible

To be respected, and be a girl

Why's it gotta be so complicated

Why you gotta tell me if I'm hated

So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive

And I'd like to stay that way

I was thinking, that it might do some good

If we robbed the cynics and took all their food

That way what they believe will have taken place

And we can give it people who have some faith

So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive

And I'd like to stay that way

I have this theory, that if we're told we're bad

Then that's the only idea we'll ever have

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty

Someday we will become what we see

'Cause anyone can start a conflict

it's harder yet to disregard it

I'd rather see the world from another angle

We are everyday angels

Be careful with me 'cause I'd like to stay that way

I hear the clock, it's 6am

I feel so far away from where I've been

Got my eggs, and my pancakes too

Got my maple syrup, everything but you

I break the yolks and make a smiley face

I kinda like it in my brand new place

I wipe the spots off of the mirror

Don't leave the keys in the door

Never put wet towels on the floor anymore 'cause

CHROUS: Dreams last so long

Even after you're gone

I know, that you love me

And soon you will see

You were meant for me

And I was meant for you

Called my momma, she was out for a walk

Consoled a cup of coffee but it didn't wanna talk

Picked up a paper, it was more bad news

More hearts being broken or people being used

Put on my coat in the pouring rain

Saw a movie it just wasn't the same

'Cause it was happy and I was sad

It made me miss you oh so bad

CHROUS: Dreams last so long

Even after you're gone

I know, that you love me

And soon you will see

You were meant for me

And I was meant for you

BRIDGE: Go about my business, I'm doing fine

Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line

Same old story, not much to say

Hearts are broken every day

Brush my teeth and put the cap back on

I know you hate it when I leave the light on

I pick up a book, Turn the sheets down

Take a deep breath and a good look around

Put on my pj's and hop into bed

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead

I try and tell myself it'll be all right

I just shouldn't think anymore tonight

CHROUS: Dreams last so long

Even after you're gone

I know, that you love me

And soon you will see

You were meant for me

And I was meant for you

I don't know how to do anything

I am trying to move mountains with words

But I am an ant

I scribble

I drool

I move like a worm

whose world

(words)

encompassed a mile

How do I rise above?

Where will this worm

find wings?

I look in the mirror

and I see filth

Who is that?

Where did The Angel go?

Why is there dirt

staring back at me?

Why is the soil of

incompetence beneath my nails

Why does doubt paint

blue rings

beneath my eyes and

stain my skin

Why does my spine assume failure

Why do my lips

flirt with they sky

why do I try to lasso

Beauty with such a

pitiful rope?

Where is the hair of Rapunzel

or Samson?

Where is my sling

Where is my stone,

My gun?

Where is the weapon with which

I may fight this apathy

that feels like sleep

in my limbs

that loosens my brother's smile

That kills my neighbor's daughter

This pen is scrawny and hardly

seems able to ink out

or erase this plague that

infests my

Generation

This Giant, This Ogre

This Beast, This Death

that assumes a million faces,

that borrows my own.