My city she sleeps
and I try not to disturb her
because it’s in her slumber that her beauty keeps
my city barely make a sound
and so I hold my breath
with no one else around
my city rolls away
I see her familiar curves
who else has seen her this way?
My city is at peace
everyone is fast asleep
and my city shares her secrets with me
my city is at rest
beneath bright stars in the sky
and as my city sleeps, I love her best
I wrote you right into my fairytale
you were the leading man
and I fought tooth and nail
to get to our happy end
You were no prince charming
this much was easy to see
still your smile was disarming
completely taking over me
I’d tell myself maybe it was okay
If we were perfect from the start
As long as I could hear you say
that I was always in your heart
I’d heard that real love is nothing more
than two imperfect strangers
who refuse to walk out that door
both completely unaware of the danger
And in my head that picture painted was us
Although I couldn’t see it at the time
That wasn’t the story of our love
Looking back, I wish I could rewind
The problem with Hollywood
Is that movies end at the beginning
Just when things are getting good
The end credits start spinning
The same is true for us, now I see
at the time what I didn’t know
is what seemed like the last chapter for me
was just another turn on this road
There’s no use in reading story books
And expecting our lives to follow
Even today I can’t look
into the future and see my tomorrow
So I close the gilded page
to step back into my life
and enjoy the beautiful day
having never been your wife
You must be like gravity
pulling me to my knees
and I can’t breathe
without you next to me
And I don’t wanna
let go of it
And I don’t dare to
walk away from it
Because I can’t stand to
live without it
My heart and soul
at your beck and call
You have it all
and I just fall
And I don’t wanna
let go of it
And I don’t dare to
walk away from it
Because I can’t stand to
live without it
I could scream and shout
to get it all out
how I love you now
there is no doubt
And I don’t wanna
let go of it
And I don’t dare to
walk away from it
Because I can’t stand to
live without it
And can’t even
get enough
And I don’t dare to
walk away from love
Because I can’t stand to
give this up
And I don’t wanna
let go of it
And I don’t dare to
walk away from it
Because I can’t stand to
live without it
Walking tall with confidence
laughter ending every sentence
never stuck on the fence
I’ve never been that girl
Never been the girl who owned the world
Never been that girl before
Never been all that and more
Popular with all the guys
Catching every passing eye
Too cool to be shy
I’ve never been that girl
Never been the girl who owned the world
Never been that girl before
Never been all that and more
Smiling in every photograph
and taking every single chance
knowing that I’m good enough for that
I’ve never been that girl
Never been the girl who owned the world
Never been that girl before
Never been all that and more
Because she’s got it all down
From her perfect hair to her Cinderella gown
The boys they chase her everywhere
The girls want to be her they swear
She makes it look like everything comes easily
She’s nothing like a girl like me
I’ve never been that girl
Never been the girl who owned the world
Never been that girl before
Never been all that and more
I’ve never been that girl, that girl
No, I’ve never been that girl before
It’s not fair
That I am right here
and you are over there
It breaks my heart
When I need you
but you’re so far
and I feel weak
reaching out for you
in my sleep
but you’re not with me
no, you can’t be
you’re not near me
you’re not close enough
to wrap inside my love
how i wish you could stay
but then you go ahead
It’s not right
being alone
without you at night
I feel alone
without my safe place
what I call home
It won’t do
to keep crying out
and wanting you
but you’re not with me
no, you can’t be
you’re not near me
you’re not close enough
to wrap inside my love
how i wish you could stay
but then you go ahead
Is it love
this feeling like
I can’t get enough?
Should I wait
for the day to come
when you can stay?
Do you care
when I’m right here
and you’re over there?
you’re not with me
no, you can’t be
close enough to touch
you’re not near me
no, you’t can be
close enough to love
no, you can’t be
no, you can’t be
with me
and you
you make me
you make me feel
like it’s okay to be so complicated
and suddenly it’s a simple thing
but you
you make me
you make me wonder
if there’s nothing we can do
to make this thing so simple
yet you
you make me
you make me want
you every minute of every day
and never have to let you go
so you
you’ve got me
you’ve got me
waiting and wanting, in love
and waiting just for you
I’m going to curl up and dream of you
and all the things we’ve yet to do
in my dreams I’ll touch your face
and melt into your safe place
I’ll let myself come flooding out
so you can see what I’m about
And when you hold me near
I’ll forget about my fear
I sleep so I can finally go
to a place that doesn’t exist I know
but where my love can finally show
It’s a simple thing in my heart
we’re better together than we are apart
we laugh and we love and we kiss and we smile
and fall deeper in love all the while
In dreams there’s nothing in the way
to drag us apart, day after day
and everything is easy to understand
nothing undermines my sweetest plan
I sleep so I can have your kiss
in a land where I don’t have to miss
your voice, your laugh your gentleness
I’m going to wake up alone in my bed
with thoughts of you running through my head
our love story quickly fades away
and I am forced to go through my day
without knowing your body next to mine
or your laughter to pass the time
and when the day’s end has come and gone
I return to my dreams — always alone
I sleep so I can forget the pain
and to silence the yelling in my brain
So I sleep and sleep and sleep again
Autumn is the whisper
as leaves change color and fall to the ground
as time seems to slow down; we all do
but winter is the shriek, burning our ears and our skin
it chases us inside, covering the world in gloom
we sit inside, helpless and staring outward as the darkness closes in,
only to emerge into the world after the birds have returned,
singing their song
because spring is a serenade that warms our hearts and our homes
it invites us back outside, caressing where winter was bitter and tormenting
spring is color and life renewed
but summer, summer is the sound of laughter and love
children in the field and lovers at the beach and teenagers in the park
— long after the sun has set and curfew has passed
summer is the spray of water and the smell of the sun,
the last remnants of youth before autumn whispers it all away
You’re my three thirty in the morning
Comes on without warning
There’s no pill that I can take
To fix my broken heart ache
I’m the girl you’re able to forget
The one who never should have let
Herself lose control of her heart
Who fell for you and fell apart
We’re the promise impossible to keep
Only existing when I sleep
The potential that we’ll never meet
Makes those dreams painfully sweet
It’s the story never told
Without the chance to get old
Won’t go down in history
Or have the chance to see
Our love was far-too-brief story
You spin me ’round, pull me down
make me feel like my feet don’t touch the ground
you give me love, lift me up
like the answer to my prayer’s in your touch
I pretend it’s fine, one day at a time
but I want to make you all mine
Should move to the door, stuck on the floor
can’t you tell that I want more, more, more?
and I don’t know, does it show
that I fall apart every time you go?
You don’t see how, you’ve got me now
If I could only say the words out loud
Easy to see, how we could be
the best part of you and the best of me
Want to show you, how it’s true
every little thing that I’d do for you
You know my heart, from the start
Nothing could ever tear us apart
We can go home, all our own
a place where we’ll never be alone
I don’t know why, I can’t lie
We both know it doesn’t pay to say “good bye”
Guess I’ll keep on, writing this song
Pretending that it will never go wrong