Person I Should Have Been

Album: The Awakening (2011)
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  • I’m gonna start again
    This world I painted black
    Just needs some colour
    I’m gonna live my life like the other
    Person I should have been

    I ain’t tapping out, no no no no
    To this dark and twisted dream
    That’s kept me living
    I pray to my soul
    To keep its fire burning
    And when it does
    I’m gonna let it shine

    I’ll make the best of this life I’ve got left
    Got no time for no regrets
    Gonna show you just what I can be
    The person I should have been

    And it might take time, take time
    'Cause this life has taken it right out of me
    I wanna change my perspective of reality
    Be a much better version of me
    The person I should have been

    I make the best of this life I’ve got left
    Put my sincerity to the test
    Wake up my senses finally
    The water washes me clean

    What shouldn’t have been has all been done
    If I don’t get a grip
    Then the world has won
    Making me think that I’ll never be
    The person I should have been

    Who am I now?
    A lonely man that’s fallen down
    No I can’t change
    The past that time has all burned out
    But I know somewhere inside of me
    Is the person I could have been

    Make the best of this life I’ve got left
    Got no time for no regrets
    Gonna show you just what I can be
    The person I should have been

    What shouldn’t have been has all been done
    If I don’t get a grip
    Then the world has won
    Making me think that I’ll never be
    The person I should have been

    I said the person, person I should have been
    The person, person I should have been
    The person I should have been
    I said the person, person I should have been Writer/s: JAMES MORRISON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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