You didn’t leave much   But nails in the wall   Where pictures of better days   Always used to fall   Nothing ever changes   And nothing ever will   It comes down to one more night   out on the windowsill         When your wars inside how do you win?   When the days go by like they always did   And nobody noticed that you’ve changed   And you keep showing up but it’s just not the same         When you’re living your life   Eight hours at a time   It isn’t very hard to leave   What you left behind   It started so young   And it ran so deep   And it all comes back   When you land on your feet      You stay up all night and it’s all you can do   When dreams just remind what they took from you   And you won’t change a thing by not letting go   At least that's what they say but you don’t want to know      And everyone told you you’d be all right   And everyone told you you would forget   But in the back of your mind it didn’t sound right   And it hasn’t happened yet      This is your war   But what are you fighting for?   And do you have the courage   To make soldiers of your words?      I’d shut my mouth for centuries   But time speaks volumes   And I’d give my whole life   Just to see you smile one last time   Your time was showing up in floods   And I’d drown to follow   But no one listens like an empty page   And that’s just fine   But why does it take a lifetime just to want to be a child?   To watch the petals of perception fall away like railroad miles   Out an open window   In an open mind   Like worlds we’ve lost to worlds we’ll never find      When we were young it all seemed forever   Now that we’re older the time just passes us by   Remember the days of those endless summers   Now that you’re gone it all means nothing   But nine weekends and five paychecks      Why keep speaking when no one’s listening   Why keep screaming when there’s no meaning   Why keep sleeping when no one’s dreaming   Why keep breathing when we’re all leaving?