Dead and Gone

Burnt out like a candle and spent like loose change Whenever this worry passes over me, I hear your name Like a storm cloud blocking the sun, I see the future is unknown And though that usually scares me, I feel this place could be my home Cause I will never know what inspiration will Striking like rare beauty lightning the new burns into my soul I'm not done in this life, and all the people I'm yet to love They pour into my heart and I feel I'm not enough And I sometimes worry that every great thing I could make already exists And every song I could write has already been mouthed by hundreds of thousands of lips A picture I'd take is pressed in a frame in some cookie-cutter home Dry is the paint in a masterpiece I could have made, and the ink of the words in this song Oh, my potential, it's all dead and gone Long gone Oh, my my Never to leave its home Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo I'm walking this line that I can barely see And I'm running a race against no one to beat And I can't catch this flight, so please slow down Don't leave me here departed with no love to be found And I wonder if all the love in my heart's been given away But I remember that I'm living when the room's lit with your face There's thoughts that I think have been erased before I even write them I still have time to leave my trace, hand me a paper and a pen And I sometimes worry that every great thing I could make already exists And every song I could write has already been mouthed by hundreds of thousands of lips A picture I'd take is pressed in a frame in some cookie cutter at home Dry is the paint in a masterpiece I could have made and the ink of the words in this song Oh, my potential, it's all dead and gone Long gone Oh, my my Never to leave its home Oh my potential, it's all dead and gone Long gone Oh, my my Never to leave its home