III. The Mosaic

Lyrics

Take all the sadness, still never quelled Dissect the misery, let it meld With all the traumas past, slow burn them down to green glass Abstract the contrast Under a lens you may see blood and bone You'll see the sorrow blur the edge of the whole But if you step back slowly, widening your focus In broken glass you'll catch a glow How does anything evolve before it decays? How do you find the light when you sleep through the days? How do you pull yourself together when fractured in so many ways? It starts with learning to love It starts when death turns to growth It starts with holding on to life and never letting it go We're painted with joy, sculpted by grief And tragedy can be just a path leading, weaving into beauty unseen I couldn't be Who I'm meant to be Without finding peace In every perfect broken piece I see clear the mosaic revealed I know I'm blessed to speak of healing so Countless the lives whose beauty never were known This world's a storm so violent Apathy and silence Is hope too lost to find us? And in this fading light, do we await a dawn? Cause if the end's in sight, then tell me, why go on? Bleed, seep, from the cuts made by jagged edges All our broken systems, horrific scenes, I can't forget it Is the collective image we create one of regression? One of doom impending? Or misery's ending? All along, so afraid So misled as to what defines brave Hide our love, show our rage And mistake the true weakness for strength We'll only find our way when love is the depiction The only path to change, is being love envisioned To be the love in every day, to cease to harbor hate To be the kind of love that once inspired faith Faith in us Though true these words "the greatest is love" But what can I say, yeah, how can I speak of love? I've never really given anyone enough And far too often how I have rushed To anger when convinced that that's no longer who I was The lines of change are ill defined The shapes we make within our minds And I hope in time, I hope it's love I leave behind 'Cause I know that hate, hate only stems from the loss Of the only thing we ever really need at all Our glimpse of each other, so very small A mono-colored fragment of an endless vibrant sprawl We all have pain we hide inside, repeating cycles, living lies And you saw all mine, but still your love abounds So baby let your hair fall down I remember you say, you said when it comes to love It could never ever ever ever be enough We'll make it home, a place to grow Gold from indigo, and ignite a brighter glow To learn to take the pain in stride, the hurricane that is this life It's all I want, baby, to live in love Our hearts keep running and I know that it'll be enough