Nineteen Lyrics

I'll tell you the time it takes to settle in

The moment you can feel your heart begin again

Cause when you take something so vital

And turn it into nothing

It takes a little bit to ease the sting we felt back then

Cause you have sat for days and stared at spaces I no longer see

You have built yourself a bed of broken hearts and buried dreams

And you're only 19

You're only 19

I don't want to talk about the weather then

I have pushed myself through rain

Seen death turn children into men

And though the smoke and bubbles helped a lot

I mean look how far I've come

Ive lived a lifetime in 2 years

And I'm still better off than some

But you have lost so much

You shrug it off and say that you have won

But underneath I see a little boy

Who says that he is done

And you're only 21

You're only 21

You're only 21

You're only 21

I can see my body shaking in that little room

Heaving in and out like grief is in the air that I consume

My heart is pounding like a broken battered buried drum of war

I think I'm dying

As I lay there on there on the tiled floor

The end is near

And you are free

And you take all that is and will be

You take bones and death and grief

And you feel all that you can see

And you're only 23

You're only 23

You're only 23

You're only 23

Cause I have roamed for days

In blindness and still I have arrived

And in the darkness I can say I feel better off alive

And I'm only 25

I'm only 25

I'm only 25

I'm only 25