Jars of Clay
Boy On A String | Flood | Sinking
Boy On A String
the marionette has your number
pulling your arms and legs till you can't stand on your own
dragging your consceince on the stage
and your heart gets rearranged
and you cannot tell your mentor from your maker
look at the crowds bleeding with laugher
over the way you entertain at beckon call
they don't see behind the lights
or the painted backgrounds
they just like to see you fall
and you don't really mind
and you're just wasting time
and you don't feel anything
you're a boy on a string
i feel the sadness like gapetto
watching the light that he created run away
seeing the puppeteers intrusion and holding the remains
of puppets that had rotted away
some day the curtains will not open
and all of the crowds will go away
sometimes those strings will choke you
but until that day
and you won't really mind
and you're just wasting time
you don't feel anything
you're a boy on a string
just a boy, just a boy, just a boy, just a boy
just a boy, just a boy, just a boy, just a boy
just a boy, just a boy, just a boy, just a boy
just a boy, just a boy, just a boy, just a boy
and you don't really mind
and you're just wasting time
and you don't feel anything
you're a boy on a string
and you don't really mind
and you're just wasting time
and you don't feel anything
you're a boy on a string
just a boy on a string
Flood
rain rain on my face
it hasn't stopped raining for days
my world is a flood
and slowly i'm becoming one with the mud
but if i can't swim after fourty days
and my mind is crushed by the crashing waves
lift me up so high that i cannot fall
lift me up
lift me up - when i'm falling
lift me up - i'm weak and i'm dying
lift me up - i need you to hold me
lift me up - keep me from drowning again
down pour on my soul
splashing in the ocean i'm losing control
dark sky all around
can't feel my feet touching the ground
but if i can't swim after 40 days
and my mind is crushed by the crashing waves
lift me up so high that i cannot fall
lift me up
lift me up - when i'm falling
lift me up - i'm weak and i'm dying
lift me up - i need you to hold me
lift me up - keep me from drowning again
calm the storms that drench my eyes
dry the streams still flowing
cast down all the waves of sin
and guilt that overthrow me
if i can't swim after 40 days
and my mind is crushed by the crashing waves
lift me up so high that i cannot fall
lift me up
lift me up - when i'm falling
lift me up - i'm weak and i'm dying
lift me up - i need you to hold me
lift me up - keep me from drowning again
lift me up - when i'm falling
lift me up - i'm weak and i'm dying
lift me up - i need you to hold me
lift me up - keep me from drowning again
Sinking
it's not my problem anymore
see it never really was
so you can stop caring as you call it
and i'll be fine right here
you see that i can play a pretty convincing role
so i don't need you
i don't think i need you
but you see through my forever lies
and you are not believeing
i see in your forever eyes
that you are forever healing
you can't hear what i'm not saying
and i can hold long enough
treading water i keep from sinking
cause i'm not one for reaching
you see that i can play a pretty convincing role
so i don't need you, i don't think i need you
but you see through my forever lies
and you are not believing
i see in your forever eyes
that you are forever healing
deny myself, deny my heart
deny your hand, deny your help
and you offer me eternity but why should i buy that
you see that i can play a pretty convincing role
so i don't need you
i don't think i need you
but you see through my forever lies
and you are not believing
i see in your forever eyes
that you are forever healing
you see through my forever lies
and you are not believing
and i see in your forever eyes
that you are forever healing |
