It takes a lot to be somebody you don’t want to be

To give somebody back what you can’t keep

Hoping that a lover can be gracious in defeat

Knowing you could never be. It takes time

And time makes me so curious that I no longer sleep

Time makes me so fickle I can’t breathe

I owe so much to love that I left drifting on the breeze

More than I can bring myself to speak

It takes time. It takes time

To say a word and learn to believe it

Let go of what you need gone

Keep hope when you don’t see it

Keep on moving along

Speak out what you believe in

Make up for what you’ve done wrong

And let it go, and start to open up again

It takes a lot to watch somebody tear at every seam

Knowing you’re the cause of what they feel

And pain will make them furious until they find release

Until you know they’re ready to make peace

And that takes time. That takes time

To say a word and learn to believe it

Let go of what you need gone

Keep hope when you don’t see it

Keep on moving along

Speak out what you believe in

Make up for what you’ve done wrong

And let it go, and start to open up again

Takes a lot to see somebody cry when you care but it’s just not right

Takes a lot to see somebody cry out when you care but it’s just not right

Takes a lot to see somebody cry, takes a lot to make it right and

Say a word and learn to believe it

Let go of what you need gone

Keep hope when you don’t see it

Keep on moving along

Speak out what you believe in

Make up for what you’ve done wrong

And let it go, and start to open up again