A Little Life

歌詞

I've seen the flame to a spoon I was twelve years old on the dark side of the moon Five grown men inside a toilet booth One man, looking through the eyes of his youth I've seen the garden of love From the thorns in the bush to the roses above It was three years later in the bending of trust That my flower withdrew from the thickening mud And so I hopped on a plane To a faraway land, where my family was made So long to the friends who had beg me to stay This was the path I had to take And then there was love When she'd rest her head when the days got tough Twenty-three years old, but I felt enough We were soon becoming us, oh And what I'd never seen As the days got old, and the nights grew weak She was just enough in the winter heat There she was in front of me, was in front of me And then it came, the day we wed A time of joy and a time of regret The tears were counting up their debt To my other side, she'd never met And we moved forward, but I still know The guilt and shame, from the night I stole Forever haunts this child in tow Will follow me down the long brick road A life, a smile, a man's best friend I felt like I'd been saved again Twenty-eight long years, now on the mend To a past I thought I'd seen the end So we set sail on something new To counter all the darker truths So I tried to give my best to you If it's all I'd ever do, all I'd ever do At times I think about the child Who held so close to me, when all went running wild He'd hide himself away, and refuse to smile This was a life in denial And so I found an avenue, oh Thirty years too long to rid the darkest blues She stayed on side, to untie any seeming clues And so it came our greatest gift He shows me how life truly is The darkness fell right off the cliff What kind of garden of love is this? And here we stand, all well and true He's on the brightest side of the moon The circle rolls right into view And I've come to peace I've come to peace With you