Broken sticks and broken stones
Will turn to dust just like our bones
It's words that hurt the most now isn't it
Are you sad inside, are you home alone
If I could just pick up the phone
Maybe you could see a better day
And you won't waste away
Under my watchful eye
Because I'm your hero and you're my weakness
Who's gonna break my fall
When the spinning starts
The colors bleed together and fade
Was it ever there at all
Or have I lost my way
The path of least resistance
Is catching up with me again today
I'm broken down, not good enough
The broken promises add up
To twice their weight in tears which I have caused
I'm afraid to sink, I'm afraid to swim
I'm sad to say I miss my friends
I know that I'm supposed to step away
But they need me to stay and keep a watchful eye
On all my heroes and all their demons
But who's gonna break my fall
When the spinning starts
The colors bleed together and fade
Was it ever there at all
Or have I lost my way
The path of least resistance
Is catching up with me again
Not today
Not today
Was it ever there at all
And have I lost my way
The path of least resistance
Is catching up with me again today
Broken sticks and broken stones
Will turn to dust just like our bones again today
I'm broken down
Not good enough
The broken promises add up again today
Was it ever there at all
And have I lost my way
The path of least resistance
Is catching up with me again today
Again today
Will turn to dust just like our bones
It's words that hurt the most now isn't it
Are you sad inside, are you home alone
If I could just pick up the phone
Maybe you could see a better day
And you won't waste away
Under my watchful eye
Because I'm your hero and you're my weakness
Who's gonna break my fall
When the spinning starts
The colors bleed together and fade
Was it ever there at all
Or have I lost my way
The path of least resistance
Is catching up with me again today
I'm broken down, not good enough
The broken promises add up
To twice their weight in tears which I have caused
I'm afraid to sink, I'm afraid to swim
I'm sad to say I miss my friends
I know that I'm supposed to step away
But they need me to stay and keep a watchful eye
On all my heroes and all their demons
But who's gonna break my fall
When the spinning starts
The colors bleed together and fade
Was it ever there at all
Or have I lost my way
The path of least resistance
Is catching up with me again
Not today
Not today
Was it ever there at all
And have I lost my way
The path of least resistance
Is catching up with me again today
Broken sticks and broken stones
Will turn to dust just like our bones again today
I'm broken down
Not good enough
The broken promises add up again today
Was it ever there at all
And have I lost my way
The path of least resistance
Is catching up with me again today
Again today
Lyrics submitted by wheresthelove024
"Again Today" as written by Brandi M. Carlile
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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the ending part goes like this:
this is how the story went, i met someone by accident
it blew me away, it blew me away.
it was in the darkest of my days
when you took my sorrow and you took my pain.
and buried them away and buried them away.
chorus
i wish i could lay down beside you when the day is done
wake up to your face against the morning sun
but like everything i've ever known, it'll disappear one day.
so i spend my whole life crying (?) my heart away.
drop me off at the train station
put a kiss on top of my head
and watch me wave, and watch me wave
you went on home to your skyscrapers and neon lights and ______
you call it home, you call it home
chorus
i woke up feeling heavy hearted,
going back to where i started
morning rain, morning rain
although i wish that you were near
that same old road that brought me here
it brought me home, it brought me home
chorus
last line x 2.
The rest of the song is in the voice of the depressed person. They are stuck in their fear, their sadness, their sense of being abandoned (who's gonna break my fall). They never use the word "you."
The poetics of this are brilliant, and capture the essence of someone whose depression allows them to be done-in by the path of least resistance. The pain is evident in the words and in Brandi's incomparable voice.
If these two people are former lovers, it shows the lasting impacts of love lost as they try to navigate their grief.