A Thousand Years Lyrics

Let it take a thousand years

Let these tired voices drown

And I will wake beneath the moonlight

And bathe myself in quiet sounds

Let it take a thousand years

Let me wake each day in peace

Walk through life in slow motion

Have something to give for all I see

I've been burning through the atmosphere

Falling through the same old fears for ages

And I don't know how to feel alive

If I'm not consumed by fire that rages

Lord please pick me up and hold me in the light

so I don't have to breathe

So I can see my life like a city from an airplane

And watch myself like you watch me

We keep all our shit at home

And come home to it every evening

Let's take it out and make a garden

And tell the world to go to hell

I don't want to kill a thing

Especially not the little details

Water drops on my razor in the shower

Before I rush out the door

And when I have to choose between beautiful

I will choose well

And pray what's left behind be blessed

The tragedy of life is it's too full

Lord please help me share the songs I've sung

With all whose hearts can hear

If my heart heard half the things I've said

Maybe my head would be clear

I know I've been here before

Out of breath and out of answers

Wishing I could get there faster

Wishing I'd been born a dancer

So let it take a thousand years

There is no end and no beginnings

Just a moment when we shift

From holding on to letting go 341

And that moment lasts forever

And all our words turn into water

That wells up in the soil in springtime

While we watch the world below

While we watch the world below