When we were young and indifferent
This world will chew you up and spit you out on your own
It hurts me just to watch you sinking
Was there something holding you back?
Was the weight of the world on your back?
So long, you're sick of the gravity?
Is there someone telling you no?
Do you wander with nowhere to go?
What are you waiting, oh, what are you waiting for?
I'm reaching out please take my hand
The water is getting higher and I can't understand
Do you even care, do you even want me there?
Just like our parents taught us to be
Roots planted firmly but we feel so far from the tree
And still we cling to the past with an iron grip
As we all fall fast asleep
The years we wasted living on borrowed time
My will is spent, I used the very last drop
Trying to keep my head on straight enough
It hurts to feel it all slip right past you
Was there something holding you back?
Have you had to cover your tracks
So long, you lost your identity?
Is there something dragging you down
Crippled under the weight of the crown
What are you waiting, oh, what are you waiting for
What are you waiting for?
I'm reaching out please take my hand
The water is getting higher and I can't understand
Do you even care, do you even want me there?
For all of our differences
I always said I'd be there if you should come undone
Do you even care, do you even want me there?
(Do you even want me there?)
There are ghosts in every window
And they'll follow you back home
I can tell you all I know
Of how these times have changed us
How they bring us to our knees
How they send us down the crooked path
I'm reaching out please take my hand
The water is getting higher and I can't understand
Do you even care, do you even want me there?
I swear I'm sorry, I swear I'll do better
I never thought we'd have to carry this weight together
This is contagion, a plague that I bear
And it kills me to say that I really need you here