Now that I know
The way it goes
You gotta pay back every penny that you owe


Twelve years old
In your mama's clothes

Shut the blinds and lock up every door

And if you hear

Someone's coming near
Just close your eyes and make them disappear now


Years away
Finds me here today
On my own and knowless of my way now


So I send my friends
Gifts from where i've been

Something for the hand that never there to lend

Better keep those eyes

Climbing paradise
And don't pretend you won't reach it in the end now


Dearest dear
I know you've been near
Why'd you run, tell me why'd you disappear now


That you're not
Here with me

Seems to be the only time I can see you clearly

I may not know

How to treat or give you what you need
But I am a gentleman who says what he means now


And now I sing
Upon my knees
And praise the kindness of a gentle breeze


I see it swell
Like a story in me to tell

Told years away and past my day of dying

So you raise them up

To heaven always hell
There are nowhere to share give a hand to help some


Oh you give them away
But they’ll come back to you someday
What I know I know nobody’s ever there to help him


And I know it ain’t fair
And if God forbid you care

It’s enough to get you in a whole lot of trouble

I realize it ain’t wise to idealize

Or put your life in the hands of any struggle

And every nights or ever claim to be

Never buy that freedom just ain’t free now

Ella said

Sifting in the sand
Like a hymn within to help us understand


Heaven awaits
We’re making our last stand
Glory bound and sparrow in our hand