We Are Not Alone ft. Tom Troyer Lyrics

Year after year you ask me

What these jumbled up words mean

So I'll give you a bird's eye view of the wreckage

I'll give you my best guess

I feel like a thunder storm of hope and despair

Gettin' squeezed through the eye of a needle

Only the mist sifts through my lips

My poetry

May as well be my speaking in tongues

But for the "one or two"

They're nodding in approval

They help me keep going

For the folks who interpret with a smile

And the words simply confirm

We are not alone

But I've been planning a big ol' breakup

With the folk songs

Cause generally speaking

All the kids just want the beat, the smoke

And the dose of disillusionment

So here I must confess I myself am gathered up

As in a gunny sack and carried off to market

Another piper is playing his tune

And now I'm singing it too

The words simply confirm

We are not alone

But I've played the bad guy

And I've played the foolAnd I painted the corners of suffering

In the hopes of softening their edges

And I sang about a frontier too distant

'Till I excused that dream from a ledge

I've questioned your notions of God

And the duality of justice found in the wild

And I tortured my jealous eyes

From their sockets

Till all I could see was the child

I've said it all as clear as I can

I'm living at the edge of the man

I hope to become

He's just waiting for me to listen in

He's just waiting for me to listen in

Says there's so much of you

That wants to get out of this place.

Feel hope drink fire

Break down the other side of somewhere new

There's just something I want you to read