Dreams (Foreign Metabolic Circumstance)

Boy Hits Car

so tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do
come tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do
so tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do
come tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do
so tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do
is there nobody that i can relate to?

stand here beneath the trees
as a contemplative breeze
but it goes right through my soul
well it fills me up and takes a hold and i've
walked this path many years
blood soaked and filled with tears
a moment of unparallelled change
shows me of what i am made
and so get down to it that our feelings flow
have you ever felt burned by the world?
all these things you never know
a torn motherfucker who is gonna explode!

all i have in this life
are these dreams
are these dreams

float here upon the sea
feeling that life's unjust
but my life's up to me
because with you i'm afraid to trust
and now the music of our waves
is like the oceans lust
but are we making love, girl,
or is this just a fuck?
so let's get down to it that our feelings flow
open our hearts up to a world
of foreign metabolic circumstance
of things that i've thought but never said!

all i have in this life
are these dreams
are these dreams
all i have in this life
are these dreams
are these dreams!

so get down to it that our feelings flow
have you ever felt burned by the world?
all these things you never known
a torn motherfucker who's gonna explode!

so tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do
is there nobody that i can relate to?
all i have in this life
are these dreams
are these dreams
all i have in this life
are these dreams
are these dreams!

come on!
so tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do?
come tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do!
so tell me if it is you
who feels just like i do
is there nobody that i can relate to?


Lyrics submitted by Mason, edited by Rge987

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    From Boy Hits Car's newest c.d. Stealing Fire

    Masonon March 09, 2011   Link

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