In Terms of You Lyrics

I stood alone outside the locked gate

Counted the hours I would wait

I couldn't recognize my broken state

I believed in fate over what I knew

You know I lied to myself in terms of you

I look back on the hours of fun

Contemplate the damage that I've done

I'm either finished or I've only just begun

A tireless life on the run with everything to lose

Everything to lose in terms of you

I thought about love in terms of dust

Thought about it as a cosmic lust

An iron rod beginning to rust

The timeless truth, you do what you must to get through

I did what I must in terms of you

But nothing really ever is enough

Everything really isn't much

The preacher says a whole lot of stuff

We all must go down or up sometime soon

Babe, I've been going down in terms of you

I wrote a poem about the countryside

I wrote an essay about a political divide

I wrote a song called nothing to hide

I wrote a letter of what I felt inside to be true

Babe, I wrote a little something in terms of you

The thing about passion is it's undying

To stop an avalanche there is no sense in trying

So I stand by the tears that I've been crying

I stand by the things that I sing and do

I'm gonna start forgiving myself in terms of you