Cope or Don't

I can still hear the rain here
It always sounds the same
You'd hardly recognise me here
I think I've been replaced
Understood but underrated
But never unaware

There's a story we can tell
It goes a little like a back handed compliment
On the worst day you've had for months
And I said that I would die for a chance to see those eyes
But now that I am wise enough
I won't be fooled by your lies

And i swear it was us
That brought the peace and love
And we have learned to hope
That as time goes by we all learn to cope
And they will stand on our shoulders
Until they learn to find their own

There's a story we can tell
It goes a little like a back handed compliment
On the worst day you've had for months
And I said that I would die for a chance to see those eyes
But now that I am wise enough
I won't be fooled by your lies

I've always been the middle man
In every situation
There's time to change it
But the middle's where I feel safe

There's a story we can tell
It goes a little like a back handed compliment
On the worst day you've had for months
And I said that I would die for a chance to see those eyes
But darling I would die
If I fell for your lies