Impossible Love

Red eyes and an empty heart

Full tank and a fresh start

Try to piece it back together again

Before it all falls apart

It’s never quite what you expected

Life finds a way to keep you guessing

Try your best, kid, make the same mistakes

Not sure I’ll ever learn my lesson

Just a nomad in a no man’s land

Wash the blood from my hands

Trust it’s all part of some greater plan

I’m too small to understand

Sometimes it takes losing what you’ve got just to give a damn

It’s just the shadow of some distant light

Some echoing emotion

You were always hiding in plain sight

Right in view but out of focus

Like the bluebird through my windowpane

Like the wave returns to that ocean grave

That old illusion of the good ol’ days

Always gone before you know it

No use playing for pretend

When I play doctor, I’m playing to win

How do you cure a heart on the mend?

Unmoved by modern medicine

Until we meet again, I love you

I want to thank you for being a friend

(Try to see the forest for the trees

It’s never quite what it seems

Not yet where you want to go

But you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be)

When you’re down on your luck

And going gets tough

Left out in the dark and cold alone

Well, it’s a long and it’s lonesome road

To burden that load on your own

When you’re stuck in a rut, just trying to pull yourself up

Working your fingers bare to the bone

But you’ve nothing left but bills to show

You said enough is enough

Our time is brief and borrowed

And there’s no promises or guarantees

That we’ll still be here tomorrow

Well, I’m taking back control

Forget everything you think you know

How will you see the coast if you can’t let go?

If you’re too afraid to leave your home?

So, keep your chin up, keep your eyes wide shut

Just keep dreaming of some impossible love

We’re all in this together, all in this together

We’ve been kicked and shoved, knocked down

But we’re not giving up

Clear eyes and a hopeful heart

Full tank and a fresh start