I'm not fishing for an answer

Just untie the knots you knead

Does it always take a stranger

To snatch you out from the deep?

So helpless in the half-light

When you're not a man of faith

Wish you'd wrote it all on water

Watch it all go to waste

So help me understand why

Why you wanna go back

Still running to your past life

When there's nothing left

And when you hear the silence ring through your bones

His shadow's waiting to give up the ghost

So help me understand why

Why you wanna go back

Oh, how many times did you let the devil through your door?

(Just no way around it)

Oh, don't wanna test the consequence of letting go

(Just no way around it)

So helpless in the half-light

When you're not a man of faith

Oh, wish you wrote it all on water

Watch it all go to waste

So help me understand why

Why you wanna go back

(Just no way around it)

Still running to your past life

When there's nothing left

(Just no way around it)

And when you hear the silence ring through your bones

His shadow's waiting to give up the ghost

So help me understand why

Why you wanna go back

Oh, don't you think it's for the best

That we don't always get what we want?

Oh, how easy we forget

That we could have had it all

So help me understand why

Why you wanna go back

Still running to your past life

When there's nothing left

So help me understand why

Why you wanna go back

(There's just no way around it, oh)

Still running to your past life (still running to your past)

When there's nothing left (still running to your past)

(Just no way around it)

And when you hear the silence ring through your bones (when you hear the silence)

His shadow's waiting to give up the ghost (give up the ghost)

So help me understand why

Why you wanna go back

(There's just no way around it)