Forever Was a Long Time Ago

Lay my body down for everyone to see

Turn off the lights, pull back the sheet

This is my story, it's written on my skin

If you are here with me now, I let you in

If you still love me, let me know

For forever is a long time ago

Marks of beauty, marks of pain

Signs of hope, woods of faith

Every scar and every burn

The times I hurt myself to feel closer to her

If you still love me, now's the time

Let me go, say goodbye

A twisted arm in the back seat of a cop car

With a broken heart and a bloody nose

You know pain is a ghost of all the fights I've been in

The ones I have lost I remember the most

If you love me, let me go

If you love me, let me go

Let them judge me by the good that I have done

There will be dirt under my fingernails long after I'm gone

Let them judge me by the good that I have done

There will be dirt under my fingernails long after I'm gone

Let them judge us by the good we have done

There will be dirt under our fingernails long after we're gone

So let them judge us by the good we have done

There will be dirt under our fingernails long after we're gone