173: "If I Lay Here"

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

Ever wonder if you are truly alive?
In times of reflection, I find I've let life pass me by.
Too often. With a shrug. Saying, one day it'll be different.

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

Living vicariously through movies and TV dramas*,
through books and blogs, always through someone else's life...
I need it to stop. I must stop.

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Do I stay here?
Do I remain the same?
Where's the flash of electricity up my spine?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Have you ever given up everything?
Pushing on, forward ho! To forget the consequences;
To not look back; to never say sorry.

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

Afraid and alone; complacent and stagnant;
What is there to lose?
What is there to lose?

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Do I stay here?
Do I remain the same?
Where's the sudden hold, the quick gasp of breath?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Have you ever felt free,
Like the common cliché we've all heard before?
Are you flying, soaring, lifted up, up, up and above?

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

Why is it that a junction with many paths
Feels more enslaving
Than a lone, single path?

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

I'm ready to burst out,
To make things happen,
To stake out a place of my own.

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Do I stay here?
Do I remain the same?
Where's the rush, the fast beating of the heart?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Have you ever lost yourself,
Forgetting the power that's within you,
Killing the divine within?

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I stand, stand tall and proud,
Ready to fight, ready to fly,
'Cause I need to sacrifice all!

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

I may not know where and I may not know how,
But if losing myself is to find myself,
I shall let myself get lost.

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I won't stay here.
I won't remain the same.
I shall travel far and wide

...for LOVE

* Please note the irony: this post has been inspired by the song and the season finale of Grey's Anatomy.

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