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NEVER

Had a dream where she crawled to my bed
Saying, “Leave, for my feelings are dying.”
And it seemed like I’d rather be dead,
When I asked her if she’d go on trying.
Now I know what she felt when she threw me away.
I’m reborn again, and I don’t want to stay.
And I guess that I’ll never go home again.
Yes, I know that I’ll never go home.

Had a fear that I’d find her again;
In another disguise I have found you.
And I learned that it’s hard to begin
When your dream is a nightmare that blinds you.
And I cried when I saw that I’d fallen once more.
I had died again as I crawled out the door.
And I guess that I’ll never go there again.
Yes, I know that I’ll never go there.

Why not run from the world to a place where I feel free?
Why not run from my dreams where I’ll live my life for me?
And it won’t make me wonder, and it won’t make me sad.
And I’ll smile while I wander, but it won’t make me glad.
But I won’t be a whole lot of anything at all.

If the years try to pass me away,
I can stop looking forward and linger.
But I can’t seem to cling to today
As it slips every hour through my fingers.
Now I’m wasting my time writing innocent songs,
But I can’t decide where these feelings belong.
And I know that I’ll try to escape again.
Yes, I guess…

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from Afterglow, released April 1, 2010
Lyrics by Mark Andrews
Music by Nicholas Tesluk

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