In my rear view
I watch you watching the twilight
Behind the telephone lines
With nothing to prove, or to assume
Just thinking that your thoughts are different than mine
In my rear view
I watch you
And I gave you your life, would you give me mine

I see you slowly swim away
'Cause the light is leaving town
To a place that I can't be
But there's no apologies

Just go on
Just go on
There's still so many things
I wanna say to you
Go on
Just go on
We're bound by blood that's moving
From the moment that we start
From the moment that we start

I see your perfect little lies
Watch the shadows of the clouds
And the surface of the ocean out the window of a plane
I get nervous when I fly
I'm used to walking with my feet

Turbulence is like a sigh that I can't help but over think

What is the purpose of my life
If it doesn't ever do
With learning to let it go
Live vicariously through
You could do the same
It's the least you could do
'Cause it's a lonely little chain
If you don't add to it

Go on
Just go on
There's still so many things
I wanna say to you
Go on
Just go on
We're bound by blood and love
From the moment that we start
Just go on
Just go on
There's still so many things
I wanna say to you
Just go on
Just go on
We're bound by blood that's moving
From the moment that we start
From the moment that we start


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    I do think that this song is about death. Plus he even dedicated to his deceased friend Danny Riley. "I see you slowly swim away As the light is leaving town To a place that I can't be But there's no apologize"

    When he said," to a place he cannot be", that should be a dead giveaway that this song is related to death.

    sarahfon February 10, 2008   Link

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