Waking Up

Driving home from their show
There is nothing like the joy of the people who know you
The ones who hold you when you feel you don't deserve it
When the thought of your life leads to "oh, why preserve it?"

And the fog is thick and all the streetlights are off
But you're driving like tonight is enough

So you said a dumb thing and I snapped
It's just that sometimes relating, it makes me feel trapped
But they know a place and it's gonna be ok
Sometimes dreams come true, they say

And the windshield is hazing over 'cause we're all breathing the same air
And the times are changing now 'cause we're close enough not to care

And the life that I want doesn't sit on a cloud
And the part that feels sorry just can't speak the loudest anymore
Something is coming in the space I'm taking up
I'm waking up

And the road is still not clearing
And all of the windows are covered now
All the steam from all our breathing
I guess that we're all lovers now
And we're trading bridges for tunnels with so much hanging left unsaid
Lost at sea, we desperate couples we work so hard to push through the dread

And the life that I want doesn't sit on a cloud
And the part that feels sorry just can't speak the loudest anymore
Something is coming in the space I'm taking up
I'm waking up
Up
Up
Up

Waking up 'cause I owe it to them all
Waking up 'cause there's nowhere further to fall
If I'm here and I'm planning on staying alive
And I swear she looked me in the eye

And the life that I want doesn't sit on a cloud
And the part that feels sorry just can't speak the loudest anymore
Something is coming in the space I'm taking up
I'm waking up
Up
Up
Up

Waking up 'cause I owe it to them all
Waking up 'cause there's nowhere further to fall
If I'm here and I'm planning on staying alive
And I swear she looked me in the eye