Two Steps Back - Wade Waters

Look at your watch with a perilous gaze A troubled stare And when I ask where do we go Say you don't care Call on me When the day is dark Never too late, you're underrated Whatever your sins, whatever your loss Your cup is filled There is no way to turn back the clock No one will Call on me There's fire in your heart Lying in wait just like a lion Maybe we should go back to the earth And live off the sun Maybe we should crawl in the dirt Before we run A thousand years of art and song Love and war Tell me why you joined the club What are you fighting for All hands on deck A suicide race Prop up the good and smother the hate The wall is high the sun is low The four winds roar Wide-eyed children fill the streets To take back the score There is no truth That lies can make No willing soldiers in the wake Maybe we should go back to the earth And live off the sun Maybe we should crawl in the dirt Before we run Life is fragile The flight of a sparrow Will end And the same goes for us Born from the same rain and dust Maybe we should go back to the earth And life will grow And the river soon to return And a plan unfold Look at your watch with a perilous gaze A troubled stare And when I ask where do we go Say you don't care Call on me When the day is dark Never too late, you're underrated

Everything we've known by now Is that life has to go on The tragic moments kept us fighting For the feeling we call love Even though our hope was fading We took the chance To work on unspoken thoughts To work off appalling dreams Do you remember? We started over as a compromise The same old story of failure and lies Could you kill me a little bit softer Than before all the blood the sweat and all these tears Made this time seem to last for years Two steps forward and no step back Two steps forward I won't fear the the outcome any more There's only one life to live as you might know It's two steps forward no step back Better be quick if you wanna be part of it Is it possible to just sit alone with you And curse the thought of trashing all the dreams we've condoned Over these years We've been a part of each other and a part of this floor So enough of stripping the screws it's time to act out in force Use your will to break us free from this rotting home Let's run together We were never meant to be alone Memories aren't fading fast Bury me with your broken past As you know my dear I'm with you No matter how hard things become I'd prefer to be dead with you Instead of being alive alone We started over as a compromise The same old story of failure and lies Could you kill me a little bit softer Than before all the blood the sweat and all these tears Made this time seem to last for years Two steps forward and no step back Two steps forward

Sitting here No answers near All I know Before the curtain dropped You left the show Shallow water Rippled by tears Shallow water Mirrored my fears Silent raindrops Soothin my skin Still the answers Still locked down within Lying here Future unclear All I know Before the curtain dropped You left the show Shallow water Rippled by tears Shallow water Mirrored my fears Silent raindrops Soothin my skin Still the answers Still locked down within Shallow water Mmmm... Shallow water Rippled by tears Shallow water Mirrored my fears Silent raindrops Soothin my skin Still the answers Still locked down within Shallow water Rippled by tears Shallow water Mirrored my fears Silent raindrops Soothin my skin Still the answers Still locked down within Shallow water

I saw red and yellow flowers outside over the moors yeah The brightest sunrise ever to have touched my eyes Oh, and through it all I stood and stumbled, waded through my thoughts and heart Yeah through it all I fooled and fumbled, lost to the poet's frown I fought the wolves of patience just to let it lie down See these waters they'll pull you up Oh now if you're bolder than the darkness My my, let these songs be an instrument to cut Oh, spaces 'tween the happiness and the hardness Yeah my my, spaces 'tween the happiness and the hardness Oh, and out the door The touch of morning, the burning of the frost Out the door My strong hands to hold Good friends that I never lost And what we found Down these coves of limestone and cockle shells What we found Down these roads that wander as lost as the heart Is a chance to breathe again, a chance for a fresh start to you My my, a chance to breathe again, a chance for a fresh start to you Oh my, a chance to breathe again, a chance for a fresh start, no Oh, see these waters they'll pull you up Oh now if you're bolder than the darkness My my, let these songs be an instrument to cut you darling These spaces 'tween the happiness and the hardness Oh my my, spaces 'tween the happiness and the hardness Oh my my, spaces 'tween the happiness and the hardness Oh my my, spaces 'tween the happiness and the hardness Oh, yeah