the matthew show

Lyrics

Can you help me find
The ghost in my mind
That used to tell me
All my dues were worth paying
Can you help me sing
The songs that silence brings
In the stillness that
I no longer live in
Well, I know that it’s all right
That I really fought the good fight
But the weight of competition
Brought me down
And I know that’s the way it goes
You struggle hard and no one knows
And there are a million paths
Much harder than my own

CHORUS:
But I can’t just wait around
For the end to go down
The crush of history
All those glaciers come to bear
Seeing you in all that pain
And me drawing in again
I don’t want to, but I can’t help thinking
That I’m singing while the ship is sinking

I search all of the dials
To show me something wild
A glimpse of life outside
The mean art of living
And it eats my time
Robs my nights and leaves me blind
To the stories my own mind
Could be telling
But for years I stayed up late
Staring hard into my fate
Daring life to derail me
If it could
And now it does, ‘cause I get tired
So tired of fighting fires
That the one inside me
Turns into a nuisance

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Now I dream part-time
And the ghost that’s in my mind
Gets his mere allotted minutes
On the clock
Then I pack that world away
Chores to do, bills to pay
And I’m such a lucky man
To have this problem
But I can’t see the road ahead
Still, I hear the words I’ve said
And I know something’s gotta give in this equation
And I’ll be damned if it’ll be
Those who have given all for me
It’s not right to fail to rise
To the occasion

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