We all begin with good intent
Love was raw and young
We believed that we could change ourselves
The past could be undone
But we carry on our backs the burden
Time always reveals
The lonely light of morning
The wound that would not heal
It's the bitter taste of losing everything
That I have held so dear.
It was just a paragraph. Like the dozen others he had written down. All in the same little book, hidden under his pillow at night, carried on him by day.
The book contained lines, paragraphs or entire pages full of text. The book was slowly filling with emotions, feelings, all the things he didn't want in his head. All the things he couldn't have there, in fear that they might betray him.
His feelings were something he couldn't acknowledge, something he had to hide. While everyone else around him held their hearts out so everyone could see, he hid his in a book, leaving nothing but a shell behind inside him. All his friends loved openly, as teenagers always do. He was different, for he didn't love at all.
Heaven bent to take my hand
Nowhere left to turn
I'm lost to those I thought were friends
To everyone I know
Oh they turned their heads embarrassed
Pretend that they don't see
But it's one missed step
You'll slip before you know it
And there doesn't seem a way to be redeemed
Lyrics: Fallen by Sarah McLachlan
Love was raw and young
We believed that we could change ourselves
The past could be undone
But we carry on our backs the burden
Time always reveals
The lonely light of morning
The wound that would not heal
It's the bitter taste of losing everything
That I have held so dear.
It was just a paragraph. Like the dozen others he had written down. All in the same little book, hidden under his pillow at night, carried on him by day.
The book contained lines, paragraphs or entire pages full of text. The book was slowly filling with emotions, feelings, all the things he didn't want in his head. All the things he couldn't have there, in fear that they might betray him.
His feelings were something he couldn't acknowledge, something he had to hide. While everyone else around him held their hearts out so everyone could see, he hid his in a book, leaving nothing but a shell behind inside him. All his friends loved openly, as teenagers always do. He was different, for he didn't love at all.
Heaven bent to take my hand
Nowhere left to turn
I'm lost to those I thought were friends
To everyone I know
Oh they turned their heads embarrassed
Pretend that they don't see
But it's one missed step
You'll slip before you know it
And there doesn't seem a way to be redeemed
Lyrics: Fallen by Sarah McLachlan