How to Live By John Carter

Would you see it
If I showed you
Would you believe
If you were told

That the greatest thing
You'd ever have
Could not be bought
Or sold?

What would you share with me
If I gave you a lifetime?
What could you take from me
If I had it all to give?

How could we make this last
If we give it a lifeline?
And who will I become
If you show me how to live?

Would you tell me
If I hurt you?
Would you hide it
When you cried?

Would you confess to me
All of your fears?
And how you feel
Inside?

What would you share with me
If I gave you a lifetime?
What could you take from me
If I had it all to give?

How could we make this last
If we give it a lifeline?
And who will I become
If you show me how to live?

Would you love me
If I meant it
When I say
I love you so?

Would you forgive me
If I told you
That I'd finally
Have to go?

What would you share with me
If I gave you a lifetime?
What could you take from me
If I had it all to give?

How could we make this last
If we give it a lifeline?
And who will I become
If you show me how to live?

Will you show me how to live?

posted by 123454321 at 6:50 PM

Wrong By John Carter

No use in making a scene
This break is gonna be clean
You know it's not right
It's just not right

I'm not going down in flames
And I'm not taking this blame
You know it's not right
It's not right
It's not right

You think you're strong
But you're wrong
You're wrong
You pull me along
But I'm gone
I'm gone

There is no making this right
But I've never failed to fight
You know it's not right
It's just not right

It don't make no sense at all
But I'm not catching your fall
You know it's not right
It's not right
It's not right

You think you're strong
But you're wrong
You're wrong
You pull me along
But I'm gone
I'm gone

It's not right
No, it's not right
This insight
Is pulling away reality
It's not right
No, it's not right
The inside
Is pulling its way outside of me

You think you're strong
But you're wrong
You're wrong
You pull me along
But I'm gone
I'm gone....

posted by 123454321 at 3:24 PM

Run Away By John Carter

I'm so afraid
I'm slipping away
I'm so scared to fail
But it gets easier each day

I'm tired inside
I know that I've tried
To be who I should be
It's who I am inside

Wasting away
Passing the days
Trying to run away
Failing to fight
This fading light
Trying to run away
Run away...

I'm pacing my cage
These bars are a stage
Performing my song
And feeling so strange

I'll sing and I'll dance
I've had my chance
And I've never come out
Of this damned trance

Wasting away
Passing the days
Trying to run away
Failing to fight
This fading light
Trying to run away
Run away...

posted by 123454321 at 10:09 PM

Bridge By John Carter

You can look at it all
In a positive light
But the positive light
Burned out last night

You don't know it all
But you know it ain't right
Why someone like you
Should have to fight

Trying to live
Flying too high
Finding the edge
And learning to cry

Fighting gravity
Standing over the ledge
And turning away
Walking off of the bridge

You see it so clear
It's not meant for you
But clear enough, you
Can see right through

Hoping for the best
Taking on the worst
If you settled for the rest,
That'd be a first

Trying to live
Flying too high
Finding the edge
And learning to cry

Fighting gravity
Standing over the ledge
And turning away
Walking off of the bridge...

(For a Friend...)

posted by 123454321 at 11:55 AM

Free By John Carter

I slammed the door shut
On part of my life
I severed contact
With a slice of the knife

I locked that door
And threw away the key
But you've awoken
That lost part of me

I'm breaking down the walls
Staring into destiny
Running down these halls
Racing for the chance to be
Free

I once escaped
From this tragic desire
I made my way
Through the lake of fire

When I arrived
At the gates I'd made
I realized
That I cannot be saved

I'm breaking down the walls
Staring into destiny
Running down these halls
Racing for the chance to be
Free...

posted by 123454321 at 7:30 PM

I Won't Forget By John Carter

Spent my life as
A foregone conclusion
And I treasure
These little illusions
I don't think
I can take this confusion
These desperate delusions
Are pouring over my head

I've been down
But it's looking up
I can walk
I just can't stand up
I've been waiting for you
I just didn't know it yet
But I won't forget

All this time giving in
To temptation
Always searching for
Celebration
When your life
Has become a vacation
So full of elation
You'll see it

I've been down
But it's looking up
I can walk
I just can't get up
I've been waiting for you
I just didn't know it yet
But I won't forget...

posted by 123454321 at 5:55 PM

Smiling In The Dark By John Carter

Don't mind me
I'm only smiling in the dark
I'm only thinking
Of the time we spent apart
And how it made me love you more

Don't you worry
It's only tearing me apart
I'm only wondering
If this was love from the start
When you were still the girl next door

If you're wondering
Why I never smile at anyone
You'll be happy to know
It's all because of you

I've only dreamt of this
And now it's really happening
You just ought to know
I smile
When I dream
Of you...

posted by 123454321 at 10:19 PM

Rather By John Carter

I'm all tapped out
Hollowed out inside
Bleeding out my purpose
Drowning in my pride

I'm crying out
Begging you to stay
Feeling out my lifeline
Fading into grey

Chorus:
I'd rather die in my world
Than live in yours another day
I can't keep it up this way

I'd rather lie to this girl
Than sit in silence all along
I can't write another song


If I were a better man
I'd sing to you today
But better men than I
Have often fought away dismay

Leading up to never
And boiling down to nothing
I thought that I was right
I always thought that you were bluffing

(Chorus)

I'd rather die
Than live alone
I'd rather cry
These tears of stone

I'd rather lie
Than quiet down
I don't want to swim without you
I like to think I'd rather drown

(Chorus)




posted by 123454321 at 11:45 PM