A Piece of the World Lyrics

I took a piece of the world

Put it away behind these walls

To keep me sane during this whirl

While everything falls

I took this piece of the past

To keep track of the things I’ve lost

I thought that you were here to last

Now I need you the most

I’m stuck in this familiar place

What is this world I’m standing on?

All of my friends lie in my face,

Are they all gone?

I put the pieces in a box

Of every little thing we were

The memories that it unlocks

Are better left in a blur.

We built a house to have a home

Hung photographs, made the telephone

But is it some Stockholm Syndrome

To love this place and this place alone?

It gets harder when you have things

But no one there to show them to

It feels like we traded our wings

And for all this, did I lose you?

Look at the night sky again

Shining over this sandcastle

Come out and meet a friend

I’m strong yet so feeble

I wish I could defeat the wind

Use all my tools to get him

Stuck here I just feel skinned

And I can’t even swim.

We built a house to have a home

Hung photographs, made the telephone

But is it some Stockholm Syndrome

To love this place and this place alone?

It gets harder when you have things

But no one there to show them to

It feels like we traded our wings

And for all this, did I lose you?