The Fold - This Too Shall Pass lyrics
- Gravity
- Backseat Drivers
- New City
- The Title Track
- What Is Right
- Going For My Lungs
- Evermore
- Remnant
- Rid Of Me
- Stay
- With You, I Sink
- We've Been At This
- Surrounded
- I Believe In You
Gravity
Let’s start at the beginning of this story
I was just a boy with nowhere to call home
There I was building houses on the sand
I could see that I was only running circles in my mind
It just goes on and on and on until it finally catches up to me
Like gravity it takes me round and turns me upside down
That’s when it all came screaming back
Just like gravity, what draws you to me
Someone I didn’t know I needed
It’s like gravity, and it’s stronger than me
I need you here
There you were in your perfection looking on
You see that I can only run in circles for so long
You just press on and on and on until you finally catch a grip on me
Like gravity you take me down and turn me upside down
That’s when it all came screaming back
Just like gravity, what draws you to me
Someone I didn’t know I needed
It’s like gravity, and it’s stronger than me
I need you here
When will you be able to see past your own hands?
I’m taking down, empty pictures that we used to hold close, before you…
That’s when it all came screaming back
Just like gravity, what draws you to me
Someone I didn’t know I needed
It’s like gravity, and it’s stronger than me
I need you here
Backseat Drivers
We’re hollywood stopping as the same old song comes on your radio
And I don’t feel a thing, except your hand in mine
It’s all or none, cause I am one who don’t believe in half hearted attempts
I’m taking this one serious, it’s serious
It’s the sound of a hand across your face, singin’ like
It’s a sad place but where do I fit in, singin’ like
I’m through with words, I’m gonna start to live this out for you
And I don’t feel a thing, except your hand in mine
Cause it’s all been, and we had fun but the time has come to state our best defense
I’m taking this one serious
It’s the sound of a hand across your face, singin’ like
It’s a sad place but where do I fit in, singin’ like
It’s a car of backseat drivers, where do I fit in, singin’ like
It’s a car of backseat drivers, afraid to take the wheel
Either one of us takes the wheel, or all of us take the fall
It’s the sound of a hand across your face, singin’ like
It’s a sad place but where do I begin, singin’ like
New City
I’m not listening I’m over it, sending it over and out
It isn’t alright to reside in this town anymore
And what for?
Call all my good friends, tell them it’s come down to this
I always said that they’d know where to find me
When all else fails and I’m running on ocean time
This city’s colder than it used to be
Sometimes I wonder can anyone else see
My heart’s not broken but it seems to be ignoring me
I’m not listening I’m over it, sending it over and out
It isn’t alright to reside in this town anymore
And what for?
This city’s colder than it used to be
Sometimes I wonder can anyone else see
My heart’s not broken but it seems to be ignoring me
Midnight is where the day begins, get up and get over it
The darker the berry the sweeter is the wine
This city’s colder than it used to be
Sometimes I wonder can anyone else see
My heart’s not broken this time but it seems
I’ve just spent to long in this place I believe
I’ll start again today in a new city
The Title Track
It doesn’t work that way, you’ve seen enough to know better
Better recalculate it, this time use your heart and not your mind
Maybe you just don’t get it, and you’ve worked too hard to throw it all away
Maybe you’re just not ready baby, to start over again
Set set set, now you’re ready to go
You couldn’t make it better if it never belonged
You can take your time, figure it out
This is a call to all the pain (this too shall pass)
We’ll find a brand new way, you’ve seen enough to do better
When you recalculate it, darling use your heart
Maybe you just don’t get it, and you’ve worked too hard to throw it all away
Maybe you’re just not willing baby, to start over again
Set set set, now you’re ready to go
You couldn’t make it better if it never belonged
You can take your time, figure it out
This is a call to all the pain (this too shall pass)
It’s funny how we starve for our salvation, maybe it was right in front of you
Searching in the strangest of all places, maybe it was there beside you
Know that this will pass
All dressed up and you’re ready to go
You couldn’t make it better if it never belonged
You can take your time, figure it out
I can’t take away the pain but it will pass, this too shall pass
Set set set, now you’re ready to go
You couldn’t make it better if it never belonged
You can take your time, figure it out
This is a call to all the pain (this too shall pass)
Set set set, now you’re ready to go (woah)
You can take your time, make it last
This is a call to all the pain (this too shall pass)
What Is Right
And I know that it’s in you to accept what is right
But there’s something in your way tonight
And I know that it’s in you to accept what is true
Maybe it’s a broken heart away from you
You react, but refuse to respond to poison
When it’s eating away at you.
And I know that it’s in you to accept what is right
What is right
What is right
Going For My Lungs
You held me closer than you ever have before
And it’s all that I can do to try to be everything you need
I’m sorry if it seems that I have let you down
I thought that I was looking out for us
In the quietness of mind we both know it’s true
I’m going for my lungs these days
I’m going for it now
On nights like these I wish I’d never left your side
You are beautiful dear (beautiful dear) beautiful tonight
I’m sorry if it seems that I have let you down
I thought that I was looking out for us
In the quietness of mind we both know it’s true
I’m going for my lungs these days
I’m going for it now (going for it now)
Get out of my dreams, get into my arms
I miss that smile on your face (get out of my dreams)
I miss that smile on your face (get into my arms)
I miss that smile on your face (get out of my dreams)
I miss that smile on your face (get into my arms)
I am with you now
Evermore
Once in a dream I chased you down in a cloud
I’m certain now I’m the one who’s changed
I have determined that my tongue is the culprit, everyday
And I can do nothing on my own
January’s going fast
February almost certainly will not last
Wake me next year (what is, what was, what will be?)
Once in a dream I chased you down in a cloud
I’m certain now I’m the one who’s changed
I have determined that my tongue is the culprit, everyday
And I can do nothing on my own
January’s going fast
February almost certainly will not last
Wake me next year (what is, what was, what will be?)
I’ll tear this down
I’ll tear this down
I’ll tear this down, take it away
I’ll take this, I’ll take this
I will destroy this place
I will destroy this place
Oh, what is, what was, what will be?
I will destroy this place
I will destroy this place
Oh, what is, what was, what will be?
What is, what was, what will be?
Forevermore
Remnant
We are the remnant, the boulder stands
The disconnected, the after plan
An alien from another place
Breathing your air, and taking up space
No longer empty out your words
Many days we come away
Are we get-get-getting it down?
Many days do we come away
Are we getting it getting it down?
We are the remnant, the boulder stands
Beneath the ocean, the earth and sand
They own the circle, they earned it well
They erect the statues, convince themselves
No longer empty out your words
(No longer will keep breathing)
No longer empty out your words
(What say you I’ll become the remnant)
Many days we come away
Are we get-get-getting it down?
Many days do we come away
Are we getting it getting it down?
Don’t breed anymore.
Rid Of Me
This is real to me, and it’s running through my veins
Driving you away
Getting rid of me, I am uttering these words
Never to return
This isn’t easy for me either
This is the way it will be
You’ll find it strange how little you’ll miss me
Here’s to letting go
Here’s to letting go of all that held me down
Getting rid of me
Here’s to letting go
Here’s to letting go of all that held me down
Getting rid of me
I suppose that I should get a little deeper with you now
It’s kinda like the feeling of watching everything around you tumble down,
But you don’t seem to mind, in fact the ashes seem to be too beautiful for words
Never to return
I need to know you’re with me now
Here’s to letting go
Here’s to letting go of all that held me down
Getting rid of me
Here’s to letting go
Here’s to letting go of all that held me down
Getting rid of me
So, I’m ready now, I’m ready
Get rid of me.
Stay
You put a vision in me
A passion so strong that it beckons me still
Calling me desperately, Stay
Oh, what do I know?
You’re rendering beauty from what I dispose
Characteristically so buoyantly, vitally barely alive
All that remains, from off in another direction
Is calling me still, Stay
Stay, where you are
Time will pass as they fall away
It’s a shame to come so far,
Just to watch it all fade away
If you wanna stay, where you are
Time will pass as they fade away
It’s a shame, to come so far
Just to watch it all slip away,
As you fade away
Oh, what do I know?
You’re rendering beauty from what I destroyed
Characteristically so buoyantly, vitally, barely alive
All that remains, from off in another direction.
Is calling me still, Stay
With You, I Sink
You listen in to what we have to say
But turn and walk away
Are you listening now?
You know it won't take much to change my mind
So I can turn this car around
Just the tone of your voice could make me hit the brakes
And look out for an exit
So I can turn this heart around
When you look this way, and I can say
I’ve been there, until recently…
In you, it’s another lesson learned in letting go
And I’m too scared to let you, to let you know
Could it be I’m scared to let you go?
You know it won't take much to change my mind
So I can turn this car around
Just the tone of your voice could make me hit the brakes
And look out for an exit
So I can turn this heart around
When you look this way, and I can say
I’ve been there, until recently…
In you, it’s another lesson learned in letting go
And I’m too scared to let you, to let you know
When you call me by my name
It feels like sinking sand
In you, it’s another lesson learned in letting go
And I’m too scared to let you, to let you go
We've Been At This
Misery bangs at your front door
My arms are not so strong to swim against this anymore
But I don’t claim to have this figured out
Maybe the difference is in that, maybe I’m starting to see it
You’ve got me in your peripheral vision
You’d rather have me in your rear view
At times things don’t go as expected
May I have your attention?
Meet me again behind front lines
Outside my window I can see the leaves have changed
But my heart is constant
I don’t claim to have this figured out
Maybe the difference is in that, maybe I’m starting to see it
You’ve got me in your peripheral vision
You’d rather have me in your rear view
At times things don’t go as expected
What were those words that you said?
And may the road rise to meet your feet
I know you are tired, but don’t admit defeat
You’ve got me in your peripheral vision
You’d rather have me in your rear view
At times things don’t go as expected
May I have your attention?
Surrounded
Take it all
Take it all away and watch me fall
Take me in
Show me what it’s like to be alive, truly alive
I’m holding fast to what I know,
I found it surrounded
Take it on
Take it on for what you think it’s worth
Find your life, find it in your heart to let this go
To come back home
And all we ever wanted was the truth
Count the rest as lost, count it all as lost
I’m gonna figure out what’s right
Count the rest as lost, count the rest as if it’s lost for good
I’m holding fast to what I know,
I found it surrounded
I found it surrounded
Surrounded
Hallelujah, left the back door open
There’s a reason, one which we can hope in
There’s an answer, he left the back door open
There’s a reason, one which we have hope in
I Believe In You
So I believe you, with eyes open wide it seems impossible not to
When I received you a child had died, but a better man was begotten
And help me to see continually this prodigal grace abounding me,
And help me to listen, if I could just listen hard enough
And take me away, to heaven above
Take me to what is in my heart
I'll only behold it, I'd never attain this on my own
And while we're away in heaven above
Promise I'll never be defiled
I cannot wait to find out what true beauty is
Will they believe me, the man that I am
Wretched filthy and rotten
Your words relieve me, when I'm in this world
A world I've long since forgotten
And help me to see continually this prodigal grace abounding me,
And help me to listen, if I could just listen hard enough
And take me away, to heaven above
Take me to what is in my heart
I'll only behold it, I'd never attain this on my own
And while we're away in heaven above
Promise I'll never be defiled
I cannot wait to find out what true beauty is
Lord of lords, protect me with white angels
Lead me not entangled, hold me in your arms
If my body seeks to walk in sinful places
My heart no longer embraces protect me with your graces
King of kings, protect me with white angels
Lead me not entangled, hold me in your arms
If my body seeks to walk in sinful places
My heart no longer embraces protect me with your graces
And help me to see continually this prodigal grace abounding me,
And help me to listen, if I could just listen hard enough
And take me away, to heaven above
Take me to what is in my heart
I'll only behold it, I'd never attain this on my own
And while we're away in heaven above
Promise I'll never be defiled
I cannot wait to find out what true beauty is