Learning To Live

album: "Images And Words" (1992)
[Images: Dream Theater] [Words: Myung]




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There was no time for pain
No energy for anger
The sightlessness of hatred...slips away
Walking through winter streets...alone
He stops and take a breath
With confidence and self-control

I look at the world and see no...understanding
I'm waiting to find some sense...of strength
I'm begging you from the
bottom of my heart to show...me understanding

I need to live life
Like some people never will
So find me kindness...Find me beauty
Find me truth...When temptation brings me to
my knees...And I lay here drained of
strength....Show me kindness
Show me beauty...Show me truth

The way your heart sounds
makes all the difference
It's what decides if you'll endure
the pain that we all feel
The way your heart beats
makes all the difference...In learning to live
Here before me is my soul...I'm learning to live
I won't give up....Till I've no more to give

Listening to the city...Whispering its violence
I set out watching from above
The 90s bring new questions
New solutions to be found
I fell in love to be let down

Once again we dance in the...crowd
At times a step away
From a common fear that's all...spread out
It won't listen to what you say
Once you're touched you stand...alone
To face the bitter fight...Once I reached for love
And now I reach for life...
Another chance to lift my life
Free the sensation in my heart
To ride the wings of dreams
into changing horizons
It brings inner peace within my
mind,
As I'm lifted from where I've
spilt my life
I hear an innocent voice
I hear kindness, beauty and
truth

The way your heart sounds
makes all the difference
It's what decides if you'll endure
the pain that we all feel
The way your heart beats
makes all the difference
In learning to live
Spread before you is your soul
So forever hold the dreams
within our hearts
Through nature's inflexible
grace
I'm learning to live