Wednesday, September 14, 2011

They Say It Better

The sun is filling up the room, and I can hear you dreaming. Do you feel the way I do, right now? I wish we would just give up 'cause the best part is falling.
Call it anything but love, and I will make sure to keep my distance. Say I love you when you're not listening. How long can we keep this up?
Please don't stand so close to me, I'm having trouble breathing. I'm afraid of what you'll see, right now. I'll give you everything I am, all my broken heartbeats until I know you'll understand.
I will make sure to keep my distance, say 'I love you' when you're not listening.
How long can we keep this up?
And I keep waiting for you to take me, you keep waiting to say what we have.
So I'll make sure to keep my distance, say 'I love you' when you're not listening.
How long till we call this love?

I'm scared today, more than I told you I was yesterday. Give me a moment to catch my breath and hold me every second left.
Proud of me.
That's the only way I want you to be. Look at me, and love what you see. I won't make it alone, I need something to hold.
Kiss me on my shoulder, tell me it's not over. I promise to always come home to you. Remind me that I'm older, to be brave, smart, sweet and bolder and don't give up on what we're trying to do;
Don't count the miles, count the 'I love you's'.
We made it out, and all the other people are asking how. This doesn't even sound like truth, to grow from a group. But one day we will realize how hard it was, how hard we tried and how our hearts made it out alive.

Can you find the time to let your lover love you? He only wants to show you the things he wants to learn, too. The hardest parts, you'll get through and in the end you'll have your best friend.
Love like this may come once. Baby, it's fate. Like a soulmate, he's your penguin. Baby, it's fate.
Baby, it's fate--not luck.
Can you find the time to let your lover hold you? He needs somebody to hold to, his love is strong and so true. His arrow's aiming for you and he's the one that you were born to love.
Let go, let go of time for you and I.
Love like this may come once. Baby, we're fate. Like a soulmate, you're my penguin. Baby, we're fate.
Baby, it's fate--not luck.

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team. But yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league. And I know it's so cliche to tell you that everyday I spend with you is the new best day of my life. Everyone watching us just turns away with disgust. It's jealousy, they can see that we've got it going on.
And I'm racking my brain for a new improved way, to let you know you're more to me than what I know how to say. You're OKwith the way this is going to be.
This is going to be the best thing we've ever seen.
If anyone can make me a better person, you could. All I gotta say is I must've done something good. I came along one day and you rearranged my life. All I gotta say is I must've done something right.
I must've done something right.
Maybe I'm just lucky cause it's hard to believe. Believe that somebody like you'd end up with someone like me. And I know it's so cliche to talk about you this way, but I'll push all my inhibitions aside. It's so very obvious to everyone watching us that we have got something real good going on.
And I'm racking my brain for a new improved way, to let you know you're more to me than what I know how to say. You're OK with the way this is going to be.
This is going to be the best thing we've ever seen.

It's the dreams that make you real. It's this change in me that finally fits. The undercurrent deep in my veins, deeper than my soul, that finally flows straight and true. You, you, you are my fantasy. You and your simple reality. Reality in myself--in this love--in this need.
More seamless than sky and sea, I mold to your arms forming the perfect, permanent memory.
Memory of life behind the eyes, safe behind the vision.
It's the dreams that make you real.



:) <3

1 comment:

  1. hey i can sing most of these songs!!!!! those are some pretty fantastic lyrics, i am always amazed by the depth in Christina Perri's lyrics. She is incredible! Miss you darling!!!!

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