Watch Me Rise

(album: The Things We Carry - 2006)

"Goddamn"
He said, "I promised myself I'd never feel this fucking way again
This world has got me praying on my knees for one peaceful thought
In my mind, my stride, my life, my time
Is consumed with a thousand thoughts
Flying free like a flock of birds
With no direction or intention of finding home"

It's so hard to think
It's so hard to change
When this world doesn't see you any other way

In this world, they choose to see me
They choose to see me like a setting sun
So it's up to me, I have to see me
I have to see me like the rising one

In my days somebody told me that the rain would always come
Always come to wash away the pain
But nothing changes and this world still wants me down
Wants me on my knees praying in the rain

"Born this way, die this way"

(I'd rather die on my feet)

I'd rather die on my feet
Than live on my knees
I'd rather die on my feet
So you can watch me, you can watch me
So you can watch me
Watch me rise
With the things we carry

Loss and scars, weight of heavy hearts
(The things we carry)
So I say to the slaves of depression
Carry on

And sing this sweet redeeming song
About living this life
Free and long, it goes like

Watch me, watch me, watch me rise
Watch me, watch me, watch me rise
Watch me, watch me, watch me rise
Watch me, watch me, watch me rise
There's miles and miles