The Innocent Ones

Album: Life In Dreaming (2005)
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  • Long goodbyes and second chances
    Forgiving all we fight for, forgetting all we lose
    Cause we're losing it on the way things happen
    Doing all we do to fill up the quiet
    Break the awkward silence consuming our lives
    We're spending our time keeping our distance
    And speaking trivial?

    And I'll find some way to cut myself open, over and over again
    And I'll find some way to bury it all

    And so let's be honest because I am through holding my breath as my lungs breathe for you
    The air is too thin inside this room

    I need this like the water in my lungs
    The drowning in silence, biting my restless tongue
    Because we're too consumed, too shallow
    Playing the victims, playing the innocent ones

    And I'll find some way to cut myself open
    And I'll find some way to bury it all

    And so let's be honest because I am through holding my breath as my lungs breathe for you
    The air is thin inside this room (I'm taking my last breathe for you, this life is leaving)
    And so let's be honest because I am through breaking my heart, this is life is leaving
    The air is thin inside this room

    (So go, breathe in the air, we've been gasping for air, so go breathe in everything I am)

    (And so let's be honest because I am through holding my breath as my lungs breathe for you) Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Mel from NjHate to break it to you, Joey but you are wrong. Lisa is correct …The lyrics uou mentioned are from their song “halcyon daze”
  • Joey from Nottingham, EnglandNope, I'm right it's about the innocent ones..

    V1
    Long goodbyes and second chances < Friends/fam?
    Forgiving all we fight for, forgetting all we lose < as above
    Cause we're losing it on the way things happen < making mistakes, falling out over silly reasons
    Doing all we do to fill up the quiet
    Break the awkward silence consuming our lives
    We're spending our time keeping our distance
    And speaking trivial and trite

  • Lisa from Palatine, IlI think you have the wrong song
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