Do You See the Thread of Light?

I walk across the bridge And up the cracked old stairs I've got no illusions, I know I'm just a baby and There's some things that you know are Way to high to reach But you still want to Reach up, and! It seemed like he really knew What it really meant to be Great and our eyes were All on him, but We got lost inside a nightmare and My blood just felt cold But he wasn't scared Like he should have been, and Someday I'll conquer all the stars I'll pull them to my eyes And see through them And I'll meet all their children, and Carol says she heard them And wrote what they said Down but he missed it Because he already left I want to see the morning I want to feel the sunlight And I want to see the stars When all of this is over I want to open my heart up to my friends And tell them I love them I want to read a book And I want to draw a picture I want to play a game And stay up 'til the morning And all of the smallest reasons to live, are good enough I want to see the morning I want to feel the sunlight And I want to see the stars When all of this is over I want to open my heart up to my friends and tell them I love them And even the petty reasons to live are good enough Dust drifts in from the window to the floor Illuminate against the walls where we once lived Softly touch the broken music box For a time when its song would still ease your mind Chase a light through the haunted streets For a chance that that your world might still be saved Promise that you wont lose your way? But your hand and your heart and your life might change A flower blooms in cold blood And I changed, and the world changed A memory that once was warm Is now only cold, and I walk away