This Song Gets Dark Lyrics

Please give me permission

Cause some things I've been wanting to say are

Just a little bit off limits

(I'll pretend that I am optimistic

Of where my heart has gone)

But truth is I haven't felt Your love

In so long, I've been wanting it from someone

But honestly it's not Your fault

(I'll pretend that I am optimistic

Of where my heart has gone)

We look around

We just see a couple billion people

Hurting other people

We're just trying to be happy

But we try chasing money, chasing power, chasing people

We're pretty positive we still don't know how to be happy, ah

This song was written when I got a text on my cell phone

Somebody was talking bout the next show

Turns out, when I read the text message

My career wasn't affected

But I questioned where my heart goes

There's a certain sinking feeling you get

Finding out about a little kid

From a text alert from Amber

Where exactly did we go so wrong?

How did somebody feel so far gone

That this evil could honestly seem like the answer?

We look around

We just see a couple billion people

Hurting other people

We're just trying to be happy

But we try chasing money, chasing power, chasing people

We're pretty positive we still don't know how to be happy, ah

We look around

We just see a couple billion people

Hurting other people

We're just trying to be happy

But we try chasing money, chasing power, chasing people

We're pretty positive we still don't know how to be happy, ah

I've been wondering if

Optimism

Often is an

Optical illusion

Of a desperate mind

Maybe I'll have to

Ask the actors

If the happy-ever-after's

Just a waste of time

I've been wondering if

Optimism

Often is an

Optical illusion

Of a desperate mind

Maybe I'll have to

Ask the actors

If the happy-ever-after's

Just a waste of time

We look around

We just see a couple billion people

Hurting other people

We're just trying to be happy

But we try chasing money, chasing power, chasing people

We're pretty positive we still don't know how to be happy, ah

We look around

We just see a couple billion people

Hurting other people

We're just trying to be happy

But we try chasing money, chasing power, chasing people

We're pretty positive we still don't know how to be happy, ah

I barely believed in You today

I'm not trying to be dramatic

Just after emphatically

Asking the questions that had to be asked

When naturally

Assessing half of what we all have been pretending to be

End this belief

That I'm talking to the ceiling

Please be

Clearly in this room and see me

Feel me

You feel the

Pain reiterated

In a half a million ways

But maybe You could be in love with me

Honestly, it seems unlikely

I could be

Entirely

Rewired to be

Doubtlessly aware of how You see me

But I see

This isn't the first time

Someone's questioned this relationship

And ended in a landslide

But why

Must I assume this long-distance relationship

Will stay this way

For basically forever

Whatever the case

In this in between space

Would You hold onto me

And count the days til we're together?