If I Were To Write This Song

Ring the verse
Let it in
Set softly begin
If it feels like the first time, don't let it in
'Cause it wanders by
Like something that could have been

If I were to write the song
That could penetrate your ears
Would it calm your trembling soul?
Would it ease your every fear?

(Chorus)
Can we go back to
The place where we all used to see through
Everything blinding us?
Now you don't understand anything anymore
You shiver at the sight
And you're afraid to show that
You're only so human tonight

Could one song solve all of our problems?
Could it have the strength to heal?
Would it cripple and destroy
And leave nothing unrevealed?

Then it might it uproot every lie
And force us all to cower
Beneath this tremendous weight
In the wake of all its power

Can we go back to
The place where we all used to see through
Every thing blinding us?
Now you don't understand anything anymore
But you shiver at the sight
And you're afraid to show that
You're only so human tonight

(interlude)

Oh, did you know, did you know
Did you know better?
Don't you know, don't you know
Don't you know better?
Don't you know, don't you know
Don't you know better?
Don't you know that you shiver at the sight

And you're afraid to show that
You're only so human tonight
If I were to write the song
That could somehow change the world
Would it be a calm surrender?
(Or like) a fight to the death?
Would it give something to live for?
Would it give our final breath?
Would it be a lulling opera, as sweet as a child's kiss?
Would it sound like all the others?
Would it sound something like this?

(get through this)

I feel the pastures growing greener
I feel the waves, they
They come all over me
I feel the pastures growing greener
I feel the waves
They're comin' over me and everything's all right
And everything's all right

I hear the others, wondering where I've been
I hear my mother, she's worried again, then
I hear the others, wondering where I've been
I hear my mother, she's worried again, then

She weathers(?) me and hold me to my own
She weathers me and keeps me hangin' on

But I'll get through this, will you?
But I'll get through this, will you?
But I'll get through this, will you?
But I'll get through this...

In the southern, the air will keep you warm
In the western, the air is dry as a bone
In the southern, the air will keep you warm
In the western, the air is dry as a bone

And I've been wondering about that change
And I, I~
And I've been wondering about that change

But I'll get through this, will you?
But I'll get through this, will you?
But I'll get through this, will you?
And I'll get through this...