All Of This Is Yours Today

Do you remember laughing

When you thought you had it all 

You made a fool of everyone 

Before your own downfall 

Lets see you crack a smile 

In the world you haven't been 

It's funny how afraid you look

Not shielded by your screen 

Here is all our hatred 

Here is where you stand today 

Here is all our anger 

All of this is yours today

Many times i saw you

With that smirk upon your face 

You wore it like a trophy won 

From being a disgrace 

And now you stand here trembling 

Like man without his pride 

But here there is no place to run 

There is no place to hide

Here is all our hatred 

Here is where you stand today 

Here is all our anger 

All of this is yours today

Once you were a big shot 

Now you walk amongst the hurt

And soon you'll know just how it feels 

To crawl upon the dirt 

No pity for the joker then

Who thought he was a king

You cannot buy forgiveness 

When you don't own anything

Here is all our hatred 

Here is where you stand today 

Here is all our anger 

All of this is yours today

Here is all your hatred 

Here is where you stand today 

Here is all the anger 

All of this is yours today

The Child You Never Knew

I never felt a fathers smile

On the day that i was born 

I didn't know the fear of you 

Of that, i wasn't shown 

The years went by, and still...

I'd hadn't held a fathers hand

But now the father that i am

Will never understand

For here i was, your new born son 

A fathers pride and joy 

Did you ever see, the good in me 

Your little baby boy 

Now here i am, that child a man 

A man that's proud and true 

And nothing, that i've done in life 

Is any thanks to you

Yet now I'm old, i find myself

Forgiving you at last 

As somethings changed within my heart 

Your hurt is long my past 

And if you hear, i even thank you 

For all you didn't do 

As here i stand, a better man 

The child you never knew 

My children, they are beautiful 

In truth, i have to say 

Without you, i'd have never had

The joy that came my way  

And one day, in the years ahead 

I will meet you once again 

And i will stand before you

As a son without your shame 

As your neglect was pitiful 

Yet made the man in me 

And all the things you never were

Was what i came to be 

I Never Dreamed (I Would Love You)

I never dreamed, i would love you

I never thought that, i could care 

Then when i looked, at the world i didn't like

That's when i found you, hiding there 

You were the sun, that was shining 

You were the rain that, fell on me 

Seems that whichever way, i might turn to 

You are the one thing, that i see 

And now that i have, fallen for you

And now at last, i find you here 

Not seeing you in, each direction 

Is the one sure thing, that i fear 

Do you then mind, if i tell you 

However hard, this is to say 

Baby, i beg that, you don't leave me

Promise me you won't, go away 

Stay with me now, and...  then forever 

Keep me in your heart, if you can 

I would be nothing, without you darlin'

Left just a broken, drunken man 

As I never dreamed, i would love you 

I never thought that, i could care 

Until i searched the places, no one else had been

That's where i found you, hiding there  

Home Shall Remain

How can a father let his children go?

Leave their hands... Let them grow 

What will become of them? He might not know

But he must let them go

How does a father say the words good-bye  

See their eyes... Watch them cry

Not knowing all the simple wheres or why

Quickly the years flew by

What does he do to make them understand 

This is not, as he planned 

He never dreamed that he'd let go their hand 

No longer in command 

Now that they've gone and he is all alone 

Home no longer, feels like home 

Gone with the wind his little birds have flown 

Life's journey now their own

But here in his heart... 

They've no need to fear

As home shall remain... Right here 

Sweet Summer Song

When the leaves fell in autumn, and scattered the ground 

They colored the grass in their reds and their browns 

While the sun still shone brightly, through the chill of the air

The trees standing barren, striped naked and bare 

And the birds sang no more in the silence of day 

They had joined the migration, and flown far away

It was then that i missed them, as something felt wrong 

For what is this life without the sweetest of song? 

What is this life without the sweetest of song?

When the rain began falling from clouds in the sky 

A teardrop of sadness escaped from my eye

I listened... but nothing, was all i could hear

I looked up above but the sky was still clear

The birds sang no more in the silence of day 

They had joined the migration, and flown far away

It was then that i missed them, as something felt wrong 

For what is this life without the sweetest of song? 

What is this life without the sweetest of song? 

The wind came a-calling and whistled out loud 

It blew out the rain and removed every cloud 

But the skies remained empty, there was nothing at all

No orchestra played from the creatures so small

'Fore the birds sang no more in the silence of day 

They had joined the migration, and had flown far away

It was then that i missed them, as something felt wrong 

For what is this life without the sweetest of song? 

What is this life without the sweetest of song? 

Now the winter draws near, with its blanket of cold

Another year ends with another year old 

As i wait for the songs that this heart of mine yearns

I long for the spring when the singing returns 

When the birds sing their songs in the warmth of the day 

Back home from the place, where they flew far away

That time when i missed them, when something felt wrong 

For what is this life without their sweet summer song? 

What is this life without their sweet summer song?

Fall Apart

I see her fall apart...

But there is nothing i can do to ease her pain

I'm too ashamed that she has come undone by me again 

She smashes everything at hand

She claws the badly painted walls

I want to reach out to her 

And catch her as she falls

But all i do is watch her 

As she screams out something i can't hear

Her words they flow so freely but they somehow disappear 

The shadows they drip everywhere 

I call her name but she's not there 

Her eyes... Just look at me and stare

And then she rushes up to me

I pull her closely to my chest 

Her heart beats heavy next to mine beneath her trembling breast 

She cries upon my shoulder

Like this pain she feels is something new 

And then she catches me 

Before i fall to pieces too