To Make My Peace with You: To Make My Peace with You

To Make My Peace with You

It’s true I hate being around you, I confess
That doesn’t mean I’m not glad that you’re here
This is your best ticket to a better life than you have lived
And I always wanted that, I swear

Feelings like beached whales… dying in the shallows
There are no more victims to enlist
The bridge is burnt down between our islands
To burn anymore would be malice
So don’t confuse this with surrender
It’s just something that’s overdue
But I won’t be your great pretender
Oh, to make my peace with you

To make my peace with you
To make my peace with you
You can’t fix all that’s broken
But ruins make for room to change

Don’t keep bringing it up because there’s still love
No, I just didn’t think I could be so cruel
You have seen the primal – seen the worst within me now
And I have seen the worst in you

Memories projecting… on the faces in the crowd
Every look-alike stained with your name
This war has made me into something I don’t want
Something so slowly I became
But I didn’t come here for forgiveness
And I can’t pretend to forgive you
But the truth’s a silent witness
Oh, to make my peace with you

To make my peace with you
To make my peace with you
You can’t fix all that’s broken
But ruins make for room to change

There’s a lesson to be gained
May we never do to any other like this again




September 10, 2007