She said, thanks but I'm broken
I guess, you must've misspoken
What a laugh, I've never been chosen
By anyone
She was barely a teen, hanging out in between
Just a part of the scene
With mercurial smile, and incurable style
She was only a dream
How's that, he didn't know a thing about
Making love to the kind of girl you read about
He said, I'm bound to be broken
My daddy bet, that I'd amount to nothing
He won't let, anybody show him anything
He was a troubled child, had been down for awhile
Always kept to himself
No she couldn't defend, he only wanted a friend
Now he's made something else
It's so sad, no one saw it coming
The paper said that he hit the ground running
Oh yeah, I know I'm not broken
A little cracked, but still I'm not broken
I wanna laugh but I think that I'm choking
On reality
When the world is turning for you don't turn on me
Who are you here to repair, well I don't know what you mean
You could never resist, for affiant* despair
Now it's coming to you, and I don't really care
While I'm not the kind to insist, you couldn't have missed
We must co-exist
So please listen to me, there is no such thing
As human debris
Oh yeah, I know I'm not broken
A little cracked, but that amounts to nothing
I wanna laugh, I'm not choking
I'm unbroken (Oh yeah, I said I'm unbroken)
I said I'm unbroken (A little cracked, it's just a token)
I'm really not broken (What a guess, I'm unbroken)I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph; I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel light when you're gone away

The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesomeBetween the searching and the need to work it out
I stop believing everything will be alright
Broken
We are broken

I'm walking uphill being turned around and round
Secret in motion when my feet are on the ground
Broken
We are broken

In my mind's eye
One little boy anger one little man
Funny how time fliesYou can close your eyes
And see a picture perfect life
Inside of your mind
Dreaming only of the days ahead
Wanted and wished for more than now
Or the days behind
You waste your time

The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken
The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken

You can never think
You can’t even stop yourself
Before the words have been spoken
And you’ve already said
You would give everything
And something for nothing
Everybody thinks you’re joking

The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken
The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken

You want to be the one
Made over be your own
Before and after
And a supermarket
Beauty in a bottle queen
Who’ll one day grace a check-out counter
Magazine front cover
Though the fine print reads

The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken
The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken

Lets it be broken
Lets it be broken
Lets it be broken
Lets it be broken
Lets it be broken
Broken
Broken

When your life is never what you wanted
Not even halfway normal
Just tarnished and soiled
When in your reach
A framed and frozen moment
So far from perfection
Not truth or transcendence
Will set you free
Still you don’t believe

The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be broken
The picture makes a promise
The flesh lets it be brokenHard times flowing and my eyes couldn?t see stars shining
My heart couldn?t feel the beauty of the rising sun
And I?m lost like a bottle that floats in the sea for ever
Will somebody pick up my hope?
Will somebody try?
Will I realize?

?cause it?s broken broken
Something got broken like stolen
Stolen, like if it was stolen
And hurting, hurting
I have been hurting and now
Only time will tell
Time will heal

Just pieces of truth that I chose to keep
No matter if now they are gone
No matter if I am alone
Still I can get back on my feet and walk on
As I know there was something to learn
I know there will always be more worth moving on for

Though, it?s broken broken
Something got broken like stolen
Stolen, like if it was stolen
And hurting hurting
I have been hurting and now
Only time will tell

?cause it?s broken broken
Something got broken like stolen
Stolen, like if it was stolen
And hurting hurting
I have been hurting and now
Only time will tell

I?d love to be one of those colorful early summer days
When everybody is happy that you came
Everybody smiles back at you as soon as your eyes cross their eyes
But something has to happen first
I know winter has to come before it blossoms

So it?s broken broken
Something got broken like stolen
Stolen, like if it was stolen
And hurting hurting
I have been hurting and now

Only time will tell

?cause it?s broken broken
Something got broken like stolen
Stolen, like if it was stolen
And hurting hurting
I have been hurting and now
Only time will tell
Time will healIf I am frightened then I can hide it
If I am crying, I'll call it laughter
If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend
If I am bleeding, I'll call it my wine
But if you leave me then I am broken
And if I'm broken then only death remains

If I am drifting, then I can fight it
If I am sinking, no-one will know it
If I am blinded I'll have my voices still to guide me
If they yet fled away I'd bless the silence

But if you leave me then I am broken
And if I'm broken then only death remainsI was raised from a broken seed,
I grew up to be and unwanted weed.
Ever faster the time exceeds me,
little harder again to remember...you.

Held a torch for you, when lightning stroke me,
once again, hope I died for the last time.
Only one I have a thing greater than you,
little light on the sky every night.

Morning dew on the field, where I met you.
I was frozen a year, couldn't get through.
Got a sign, not a scar, on my shoulder,
I am not quite the man you take me for...

Fell in love with the weakness within me.
Tried to force me the Ring and own me.
Guess you found what you'd think would oblige me,
little version of me to consume you...
I'd give my everything to you, follow you thru the garden of oblivion.
If only I could tell you everything,
the little things you'll never dare to ask me...

Do you really know me? I might be a God.
Show me that you care and have a cry.
How do you see me?... as the one?
Can you see my blood when I'm bleeding.
How can you love this exile, and how could I desire you.
When my pain is my pain and your is too...

On this deadwinter's night. Darkness becomes this child.
Bless this night with a tear. For I have none I fear...

Seven lifes of a man, passed before me.
Seven graves, one for every love I've had.
Only once I have broken my so called heart.
Only one made me see why they cry.

Will I learn how to be one of you someday?
Will I still feel the eyes that behold me.
Will I hear what you think, when you see me?
Will it tear me apart if you feel for me...

I 'd give my everything to you, follow you thru the garden of oblivion.
If only I could tell you everything,
the little things you'll never dare to ask me...

Do you really know me? I might be a God.
Show me that you care and have a cry.
How do you see me?... as the one?
Can you see my blood when I'm bleeding.
How can you love this exile, and how could I desire you.
When my pain is my pain and your is too...

On this deadwinter's night. Darkness becomes this child.
Bless this night with a tear. For I have none I fear...

Little broken , always been, a part of you belongs to me.
You were never mine to love, but this all has made it easy for me...

Burning feathers, not an angel, Heaven's closed , Hell's sold out.
So I walk on the earth, behind the curtains, hidden from everyone,
until I find a new life to ruin again

On this deadwinter's night. Darkness becomes this child.
Bless this night with a tear. For I have none I fear...

On this deadwinter's night. Darkness becomes this child.
Bless this night with a tear. For I have none I fear...Every night before I rest my head
Hold me close as I draw another breath
Still hoping, that our love's not broken

Every flight that we plan ahead
Look to the skies for the words that I've said
Still hoping, that our world's not broken

So tonight, you're everything upon the screen
And everything I want to be
I'll come with you and dream my dream

So tonight, in every way I want you to stay
And every little word you say - oh

Every morning when I wait for you
Each way I look you'll see something new
Still hoping, that my world's not broken

Every time I dream crazy dreams
Of bright water and brightless sunbeams
I'm hoping, that my mind's not broken

So tonight, you're everything upon the screen
And everything I want to be
I'll come with you and dream my dream

So tonight, in every way I want you to stay
And every little word you say - oh

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So tonight, you're everything upon the screen
And everything I want to be
I'll come with you and dream my dream

So tonight, in every way I want you to stay
And every little word you say
I'll come with you and dream my dream

So tonight, in every way I want you to stay
And every little word you say - ohYou're the air that I breathe
You're the sun when it breaks through the clouds
You're all that I need
But I know that you're having some doubts
I'm down on my knees
I'm ready to stick this out
I'm begging you please girl
I'm sorry I let you down

I'm broken like a promise
I'm shattered like a dream
I'm broken with all my pieces scattered around for you to see
I'm broken like a record
I sing the same old song
I'm broken like a heart of a man
That's run away from love too long
Girl what about you
What about you girl

It's so hard to speak
I can barely look you in the eye
It's so hard to breathe
But I know I'm not afraid to die
Your breathe is so sweet
Your kisses can get me high
My heart is so weak
Girl, your loving can get me by

I'm broken like a promise
I'm shattered like a dream
I'm broken with all my pieces scattered around for you to see
I'm broken like a record
I sing the same old song
I'm broken like a heart of a man
that's run away from love too long
Girl what about you
What about you girl

I'm broken like a promise
I'm shattered like a dream
I'm broken with all my pieces scattered around for you to see
I'm broken like a record
I sing the same old song
I'm broken like a heart of a man
that's run away from love too long
Girl what about you
What about you girl

Girl what about you
What about you girl

Girl what about youBeen stuck on the outside since I can't remember when Got up just long enough for
them to beat me down again They crawl inside my mind hoping there to find Ways to
be fucking with my head They'll never get the best of me I'm fighting back until I'm dead
Cause I've been used Been abused I've been bruised I've been Broken And I'm backed
up against the wall But my will to survive can't be stolen And you can't make me fall
Half-wits and dim pundits try to ruin my good name Parents and therapists tell me I'm
the oen to blame They say "Take it like a man," but I can't understand why they won't
leave me alone Best friends and enemies think I'd do better on my own When I think I
can't go on just want to stay home in my bed The problems of this fucked up world
seem to be locked up in my head I take a look around - there's nowhere to be found
somewhere to justify my life Guess I'll just keep on trying some day I'll get it right