Poem From a Dark Room Lyrics

Love is something I won't pretend to understand

But I think it separates a boy from a hard working man

It can cut through a heart like a knife slowly turning

And I've never felt that so I can't understand this burning

That will engulf you and I at one point or another

After we've given up heart and soul to be someone's lover

But I've never felt that so I don't know what I'm saying

And it's these thoughts that keep me from the prayers I should be prayin'

All I have are these words and an acoustic guitar

And that shit takes you somewhere but not very far

But I'm forever grateful for the will to be living

For the sister and mother and father I've been given

For these dreams I can realize when I finally wake up

For the ability to drink from a half full cup

For the insight to see we are not all the same

Maybe you and I are fine and we don't need to change

And the answers aren't found on Oprah or Dr. Phil's couch

And you probably won't find 'em in some movie star's mouth

But I'm forever grateful for these years since I first wrote this

This poem from a dark room when I felt so goddamn hopeless

For my wife and daughters and these friends I've been given

And the depths of some hell just to get to this heaven

For these dreams I've realized when I finally woke up

For this ability to drink from a half full cup

For the insight to see we are not all the same

You and I have been fine and we don't need to change

And these answers never came from the roughest of tests

But maybe lie in the words my father showed me best

Love is something I won't pretend to understand

But I think it separates a boy from a hard working man