Me thro my own eyes

• it's the only one you've got

  Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:16 am by csmith23

  This is one of those times when the song just says everything I want to say, so I won't even try to change. It's a really old song I came across yesterday when I was being adventurous with my library by 3 Doors Down. I don't even know how I'd never noticed it before, but I haven't been able to stop playing it since.
  

  How do you know where you're going
  When you don't know where you've been
  You hide the shame that you're not showing
  And you won't let anyone in
  A crowded street can be a quiet place
  When you're walking alone
  And now you think that you're the only
  One who doesn't
  

  [Chorus:]
  Have to try
  And you won't have to fail
  If you're afraid to fly
  Then I guess you never will
  You hide behind your walls
  Of maybe nevers
  Forgetting that there's something more
  Than just knowing better
  Your mistakes do not define you now
  They tell you who you're not
  You've got to live this life you're given
  Like it's the only one you've got
  

  Memories have left you broken
  And the scars have never healed
  The emptiness in you is growing
  But so little left to fill
  You're scared to look back on the days before
  You're too tired to move on
  And now you think that you're the only 
  One who doesn't
  

  [Chorus]
  

  What would it take
  To get you to say that I'll try
  And what would you say if
  This was the last day of your life
  

  You hide behind your walls
  Of maybe nevers
  Forgetting that there's something more
  Than just knowing better
  Your mistakes do not define you now
  They tell you who you're not
  You've got to live this life you're given
  Like it's the only one you've got
  

  I suppose this one's about living. Bringing down the walls. Immersing yourself in the moment. If you're afraid to fly, then I guess you never will. Cut yourself a break - no one's ever perfect. We all make mistakes, we just shouldn't let them define us. Pick yourself up and get right back on that horse. If this is as good as it's gonna get you don't want to be the guy who'll be wishing he'd lived a little when he could. You don't have any other life, this is the one you've been given. Live it, and make it rock! If you think about it, you really don't have any other choice - coz what's the worst that could happen, you could die? Well, that's gonna happen anyway so...
  
  
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