Crooked Path

When we were young and indifferent, we could not have known
 This world will chew you up and spit you out on your own
 I know it hurts
 It hurts me too, just to watch you sinking
 I can't help thinking
 Was there something holding you back?
 Was the weight of the world on your back
 So long, you're sick of the gravity?
 Is there someone telling you no?
 Do you wander with nowhere to go?
 What are you waiting, oh, what are you waiting for?
 I'm reaching out, please take my hand
 The water's getting higher and I can't understand
 Why I can't pull you in
 Do you even care?
 Do you even want me there?
 We are the victims just like our parents taught us to be
 Roots planted firmly, but we fell so far from the tree
 And still we cling to the past with an iron grip
 As we all fall fast asleep
 Dreaming of security
 The chance to redefine
 The years we've wasted
 Living on borrowed time
 My will is spent
 I used the very last drop
 Trying to keep my head on straight enough
 I know it hurts
 It hurts to feel it all slip right past you
 I just want to ask you
 Was there something holding you back?
 Have you had to cover your tracks
 So long, you lost your identity?
 Is there something dragging you down?
 Crippled under the weight of the crown
 What are you waiting, oh, what are you waiting for?
 What are you waiting for?
 I'm reaching out please take my hand
 The water's getting higher and I can't understand
 Why I can't pull you in
 Do you even care?
 Do you even want me there?
 For all of our differences
 I always said I'd be there if you should come undone
 It took all I had in me
 Do you even care?
 Do you even want me there?
 Do you even want me there?
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 There are ghosts in every window
 And they'll follow you back home
 But if you stay a moment
 I can tell you all I know
 Of how these times have changed us
 How they bring us to our knees
 How they send us down the crooked path
 Divide us temporarily
 I'm reaching out, please take my hand
 The water's getting higher and I can't understand
 Why I can't pull you in
 Do you even care?
 Do you even want me there?
 I said I'm sorry, I swear I'll do better
 I never thought we'd have to carry this weight together
 This is contagion, a plague that I bear
 And it kills me to say that I really need you here