Maybe You Could Be the One

Somewhere in between hoping that you'd live forever And never believing that you'd ever last this long Desperation passed you by without an explanation Now you're just killing time Having outlived expiration But maybe you could be the one To show them how to stand And grab ahold of something When no one's offering a hand Maybe you could be the one Like the one I never had To point in some direction A bridge across the disconnection Out of a bitter disaffection To lean into the pain Maybe you could be the one to tell them it's alright Let them know that life goes on Let them know they can survive Were they all just dreams deferred? There was some idea of a plan But now there's just this sense of Waiting to do something with my hands Used to hold a pen to paper The blueprint for our days I've still got miles to write My tired heart still wants to say Maybe you could be the one To show them how to stand And grab ahold of something When no one's offering a hand Maybe you could be the one In solidarity And maybe who you are Is all you have to be To turn darkness to reflection With all you have discerned With fearless introspection Learn what to unlearn Maybe you could be the one to tell them it's alright Let them know that life goes on I can show them how to fight But if I die too soon Please remember me On a summer's day shredding blocks at EZ-7 And if I die too soon Please remember me On a stage with all my friends Everything cranked to eleven And if I die too soon Please remember me And my optimism In spite of everything And when I die someday Please remember me With my arms around you With my arms around you Please remember me With my arms around you With my arms around you Please remember me With my arms around you With my arms around you When I die someday Please remember me With my arms around you With my arms around you When I die someday Please remember me With my arms around you With my arms around you