Sentimental, Semi-mental

Last year you ran with open arms
Last year time was frozen hard
And we made every moment ours
But now you watch with broken hearts
Last year you were flying free
Living life as meant to be
Now it seems we've cut too deep
Now you cry and run to me
What if I'd told you that life was so hard?
What if I'd told you he'd go breaking your heart?
What if I'd asked you not to wish on a star?
Would you have kept every love-forsaken part?

If there was a line, I may have crossed it

If I had a mind, I may have lost it

If my head is a jail, I may be the hostage

But here when I write, I'm a little too honest

You entered the scene just in time

To watch me crumble into oblivion

So when you reached for my hand

I may have kept slipping;

I may be a lost cause.

'Cause every shattered-hearted whisper

That screams, "They'll all forget me,"

Leaves me clutching my pillow at night

Crying, "I can't help you if you won't let me."

People ask me all the time what I'd say 

People ask me what I'd do 

But I'm too busy already thinking up questions 

That no one has the answers to

So when I look back through the past couple years

I think of things I could've said to save you from tears

Maybe they were the things you did not want to hear

And a litte girl trying to be an optimist wouldn't speak them so clear

Would you have me had warned you?

Because I already knew

If you were in my shoes

What would you do?

I take it too hard

I take it to heart

That the same voice I'm using

Couldn't stop broken hearts

And the voices I hear

Seem so far out of reach

And they never learn

'Cause I never teach

Which I've heard I'm not responsible for

But if you saw your friends all walk through a door

That led to a million-foot drop or more

Don't tell me that your feet would stay on the floor

Please don't ask me if this is what I'd wanted 

Because I'll choke on my breath

I don't know if I'd say yes.

There's so much behind us that's nailed to my heels

Meanwhile another boy chases what he feels

And she's always asking when it will be real

But he never keeps what he's destined to steal

Then there's her, broken, beautiful, I can't meet her eyes

And there's him, never lacking another diguise

And I can't get either one of them out of my mind

I can't get them out of my mind

And she's hurting from people that should've taught her to love

Another girl is at stake, though she's never thought of

The only hope I get anymore comes from above

And it's all that I need, but it hurts just too much

I guess that it's too much to let it all go

I guess that it's too much to let it all show

I chew on this trust, but I never swallow

I guess that it's too much to let it all go.

Point this in a direction, make it a silent auction 

The fault that no one wants is treated like a toxin

We step around it, jump over it, worry out of caution

But I've gotta have someone to blame, and I'm my only option.