Not intend
To leave this castle full of empty rooms
Our love the captive in the tower never rescued
And all the victory songs
Seem to be playing out of tune

But it's not the way
That it has to be
Don't trade our love for tea and sympathy
'Cause it's not the way
That it has to be

You begin
And all your words fall to the floor and break like china cups
And the waitress grabs a broom and tries to sweep them up
I reach for my tea and slowly drink in

[Chorus:]

'Cause it's not the way
That it has to be
Don't trade our love for tea and sympathy
'Cause it's not the way
That it has to be
Don't trade our love for tea and sympathy

So fare thee well
Words the bag of leaves that fill my head
I could taste the bitterness and call the waitress instead
She holds the answer, smiles and asks one teaspoon or two

[Chorus x 2]

Don't trade us for tea and sympathy
Don't trade us for tea and Sympathy
We can work it out
Don't trade us for tea and Sympathy
Don't trade us for tea and Sympathy
We can work it out
Don't trade us for tea and Sympathy
We can work it out

I don't have a line of prospects that can give some kind of peace 
There is nothing left to cling to that can bring me sweet release 
I have no fear of drowning, it's the breathing that's taking all this work 

Do you know what I mean when I say, 'I don't want to be alone.' 
What I mean when I say, 'I don't want to be alone.' 

Empty spaces, shadows hit by street lights
warning signs and weight of tired conversations

In the absence of a shoulder, in the abscess of a thief
On the brink of this destruction, on the eve of bittersweet
Now all the demons look like prophets and I'm living out
every word they speak, every word they speak 

Do you know what I mean when I say, 'I don't want to be alone, ' 
What I mean when I say, 'I don't want to be alone' 
What I mean when I say, 'I don't want to be alone.' 

Do you know what I mean when I say, 'I don't want to be alone.'.... 
I have no fear of drowning. It's the breathing that's taking all this work

It don't matter where you bury me, I'll be home and I'll be free 
It don't matter where I lay, All my tears be washed away. 

Gold and silver blind the eye, temporary riches lie 
Come and eat from heaven's store, come and drink and thirst no more 

It don't matter where you bury me, I'l be home and I'll be free 
It don't matter where I lay, All my tears be washed away 

So weep not for me my friends, when my time below does end 
For my life belongs to Him, who will raise the dead again. 

It don't matter where you bury me, 'cause I'll be home and I'll be free. 
It don't matter where I lay, all my tears be washed away 

OOoh, it don't matter.....OOooh, it don't matter

For all of your tears, 
Are the wages for things you have done. 
On all of those nights, spent alone in the darkness of your mind. 
Give it up, Let go. These are things you were never meant to shoulder, 

There is a river that washes you clean 
There is a tree that marks the places you've been 
Blood that was spilled, although not your own 
For all of your tears, love will atone 

So, give up the right, to control the waves that empty at your life 
Above wild skies, are the rays that break the shadows we design 

Give it up, let go. These are things you were never meant to shoulder. 
Give it up, Let go... 

There is a river that washes you clean 
There is a tree that marks the places you've been 
Blood that was spilled, although not your own 
For all of these things, love will atone 

I know the world can turn in different ways. 
Most of the time we're simply hangin on.
But under the signs of how we all behave, 
we might find the place where we belong... 

There is a river that washes you clean 
There is a tree that marks the places you've been 
Blood that was spilled, although not your own 
For all of these things, love will atone 
For all of those nights, you cried all alone 
For all of your tears... love will atone

Lookin for a place to hide, waitin' for the wind to rise, 
My soul is waiting,
Lookin for a place to hide, I need a little peace tonight. 

Take me higher than the sun, yeah you are the only one 
Take me higher than the sun, yeah, yeah. 

Around the ceiling of the heart, 
Is where we find the things that send us away, 
to where the blind can see the stars. 
So do you see the stars, do you see the stars?

Looking for a place to hide, 
Need a little peace tonight. 

Take me higher than the sun, yeah you are the only one.
Take me higher than the sun yeah, yeah. 
Take me higher than the sun yeah you are the only one.
Take me higher than the sun, yeah yeah. 

Take me higher than the sun, you are the only one 
you are the only one, you are the only one higher than the sun

Carry Me, I'm just a dead man lying on the carpet can't find a heart beat 
Make me breathe, I want to be a new man, tired of the old one, out with the old plan 

I woke up from a dream about an empty funeral 
But it was better than the party full of people I don't really know. 
They've got hearts to break and burn, dirty hands to feel the earth 
There is something in my veins but I can't seem to make it work...won't work 

So, carry me, I'm just a dead man lying on the carpet, can't find a heartbeat 
Make me breathe, I want to be a new man, tired of the old one, out with the old plan.. 

Can you find a beat, inside of me? Any pulse? Getting worse. Any pulse, getting worse? Inside of me.... 
Can you find a beat. 

Carry me, I'm just a dead man lying on the carpet, can't find a heartbeat 
make me breathe, I want to be a new man, tired of the old one, out with the old plan 
Carry me, I'm just a dead man lying on the carpet can't find a heartbeat... 
make me breathe, I want to be a new man, tired of the old one, out with the old plan

Cold fingers find the curve below your tired eyes, no comfort in familiar places not this time,
you hold it deep inside

Oh Sister, if you wake up in the night, walls have fallen letting in the light, no need to worry
Baby, even angels cry. 

No flood warnings, still the waters rise. Flowers through asphalt, diamonds in the pockets of your eyes, 
you turn your face and hide. 
I saw a woman with ribbons in her hair, old and lonely...so beautiful I had to stop and stare, 
the well will not run dry. 

Oh Sister, if you wake up in the night, walls have fallen letting in the light, no need to worry 
Baby, even angels cry. 

Oh Sister if you wake up in the night walls have fallen letting in the light 
no need to worry...baby even angels, 
Cry, Sister if you wake up in the night walls have fallen letting in the light 
It'll be alright, baby even angels cry.....baby please don't worry.... not tonight

All of the giants wake from their sleep, 
and roll outside of safety's keep, 
and the pain makes them feel so alive 

Do you know what you are? 
Do you know what you are? 

And we are bored of all the things we know 
Do you know what you are? 
Do you know what you are? 
Not all monsters are bad, but the ones who are good 
never do what they could, never do what they could 

All the good monsters rattle their chains, 
And dance around the open flames, 
and they make a lot of empty noise.

While all of the bright eyes turn away, 
As if there wasn't anything to say, 
About the justice and the mystery. 
Do you know what you are? 
Do you know what you are? 

And we are bored of all the things we know 
And we are forms of everything we love, we love. 

If good won't show it's ugly face, evil won't you take your place 
nothing ever changes, nothing ever changes... by itself. 

yeah....yeah...aaah 

We are bored of all the things we know 
Do you know what you are 
'Cause we are, we are so in love with ourselves 
And we are forms of all the things we love