Honest Questions

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it." — Mother Teresa

In the middle of a desert Id stay for eternity and a day just to feel your love coming my way I would meet any challenge and succeed walk through the Sahara on my bare feet just to have you close to me There's no question that for you I'd go around mountains crawl through vast valleys, Swim across the widest of seas If that would give me a chance to be with you, then that's what I'd do just for a chance, I'd risk all i have Just to have you close to me Prayer after prayer night after night I'd waited for something like this and though I'm scared of being hurt I'm willing to take the risk There's no question that for you I'd go around mountains crawl through vast valleys, Swim across the widest of seas If that would give me a chance to be with you, then that's what I'd do just for a chance, I'd risk all i have Just to have you close to me

Let the needy search I will supply their needs Let the lost stop wandering And seek me Direction they will find I’ll be their map Compass and guide Rejoice I am hope, love, I am life, joy Let go of your troubles, Doubts, and broken dreams My beloved child Let go and rejoice in singing Let the lonely open their hearts Knock down the walls Reacquaint themselves with hope And I’ll make the seas of sorrow and sadness depart Let the proud fall to their knees Let the self seeking stop Repent and depend on me Soon they’ll see Earthly treasures and money amount to nothing but greed Rejoice I am hope, love, I am life, joy Let go of your troubles, Doubts, and broken dreams My beloved child Let go and rejoice in singing

No more No more Tears keep falling Pain's forever calling Unrelenting Seems like it's never ending Dead End I know you're the one holding on if it were up to me I'd be out, over this done But you're the one holding on Just wish I could see the typhoon before it hits so damn confused Dead end I have moments when I feel strong there are days I wish you'd let go let this disaster end between pain and sorrow I'm an oncoming wreck Dead end

It is in these times of doubt times of sadness, suffering, Tears running down my face feeling abandoned, forgotten, afraid ashamed of these numbed, dead ended sentiments It's in these very moments When chaos is so loud Disaster crumbling all around me I'm ripping at the seams Untangled, dismantled, so worn out Completely incomplete I'm ripping at the seams As the storm passes silence is revealed the fiasco in my troubled mind Overcome with peace Once again I will yield My life to you and everything within It's in these very moments When chaos is so loud Disaster crumbling all around me I'm ripping at the seams Untangled, dismantled, so worn out Completely incomplete I'm ripping at the seams I ask for your forgiveness I ask for your strength to get the weary wanderer Back on the road again

this is like a game of make believe Who can I be today? How many prefer me this way? Identity oh, identity crisis Trying to fit into a mold you're not meant to be in Cookie cutter world demands perfection but there's a problem with their perception so many misconceptions And where does this leave you? Identity crisis Walk how you're taught go on, strut your stuff Say everything you're supposed to rehearsed lines you aren't so tough Give it up Smiling but inside you're dying For once be who you are Leave behind the hurt keeping your wall up, so tall Let go of this identity crisis Walk how you're taught go on, strut your stuff Say everything you're supposed to rehearsed lines you aren't so tough Give it up Smiling but inside you're dying

Hurry up and step on the gas I gotta get outta here now Gotta get outta here fast I know there's more to life than this pain I'm feeling Cutting thru me like pieces of sharpened glass Get me out of here Outta this nightmare So many years trying to get away but the pain is always there No use in trying to evade it Hurry up and step on the gas I gotta get outta here now Gotta get outta here fast I know there's more to life than this pain I'm feeling Cutting thru me like pieces of sharpened glass There are things I just can't see to much uncertainty, I'm looking to you now to help get me out I'm not strong enough to do this all by myself If only I could run Start over, in a new place somewhere unknown Hurry up and step on the gas I gotta get outta here now Gotta get outta here fast I know there's more to life than this pain I'm feeling Cutting through me like pieces of sharpened glass

Trusting isn't easy when you've gotta do it blindly forget what you're feeling you're either for or against me Every crossroad is a decision Each jeopardizing my condition Gonna quiet myself, let you speak I'll try my best to stay still forget everything that's been bothering me and there are things I must confess My heart is a bit bruised and abused fear has become part of my Sunday News My life is a mess I trust in you I trust in you Can't see the road, but I trust in you I trust in you I trust in you To take me far above what I'm physically able to do Darts are flying We are all moving targets Justifying our freedoms and rights Bit by bit building up our own pride A little white lie won't hurt anyone, right? I trust in you I trust in you Can't see the road, but I trust in you I trust in you I trust in you To take me far above what I'm physically able to do

How long have I been running? Trying to hide from the reality reasons for all my pain Leave me lonely and afraid How much time have I wasted Trying to grasp things that are out of my reach The ship has left the shore Curtain is down Show's over Gotta keep moving towards higher land Don't wanna stay here Get swallowed in by the quicksand Looking for a way out too long trying to hold on to what's clearly long gone The ship has left the shore Curtain is down Show's over Gotta keep moving towards higher land Don't wanna stay here Get swallowed in by the quicksand Cause you can't give what you don't have you gotta open the window if you ever want to feel the breeze don't be afraid of the wind What are you waiting for? No more running Cause all this time you've been running in the wrong direction

Walking on thin air taking a step into unknown territory Hoping you'll notice me My heart's not sure whether to stop or skip beats I'm walking into unknown territory Uncharted waters this is undiscovered land you reach out Looking into my eyes, you touch my hand, I recognize I'm walking on thin air with no map, don't know where I am And I'm almost certain undoubtedly sure that this was no coincidence Some say these feelings seem premature But the world froze for those moments And I'm almost certain undoubtedly sure that I'd met you some time, Somewhere, before Uncharted waters this is undiscovered land you reach out Looking into my eyes, I recognize that I'm... I'm walking on thin air with no map, don't know where I am Unanswered questions fill up my mind Keeping me up in the middle of the night Uncharted waters this is undiscovered land you reach out Looking into my eyes, I recognize that I'm... I'm walking on thin air with no map, d...

What's hope when drowned by fear, What's light when there are so many shadows? Give me something anything I'm following blindly hands out in front of me trying to keep myself from stumbling There is always that step you just didn't see that thing you always thought, you might just beat On life support and I'm flat lining everything I've known is colliding Hands out in front of me, I'm following blindly Burned by my own flame Like an open wound Everything stings there's a light somewhere, I know Through the fog of confusion and unacheived illusions Minimized hopes not quite realized I'm still trying Searching for that light There's gotta be light somewhere Someone pull me out of here

Vanishing Horizon There's a deafening silence screaming the sound of dreams continuously breaking knees tremble as the earth beneath me quakes there's an unsteady feeling a wave of uncertainty crashing over me How long until I will wake? How can you start something you've never begun how do you win a war without ammunition? how do you break through cement thick walls when there's a beating heart behind it and it's ready to stop Pain won't kill me though some days I could say differently pushing myself, keep walking one more mile towards the vanishing horizon no, this pain won't kill me How can you start something you've never begun how do you win a war without ammunition? how do you break through cement thick walls when there's a beating heart behind it and it's ready to stop I'm wounded yes I'm wounded and I don't know how to fix it I'm broken, words unspoken though bleeding I can't give in How can you start something you...

Take a crayon and fill me in Fill me with color cause I'm so tired of being Black and white More than a smile amuse me for a while can you give me a second of your time? To look past the visible See more than just a face in a crowd Take a crayon and fill me in Fill me with color cause I'm so tired of being Black and white sitting and watching As the world passes me by Wish I could walk out of the past Wish I could dance Into a new start Still hoping for that chance I'm still... here Take a crayon and fill me in Fill me with color cause I'm so tired of being Black and white Fading this is fading quickly