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Savior
(Billy Bob Thornton/Randy Mitchell)
When your blood is boiling And your heart is full of fear A saviour doesn't visit Miracles don't appear The minute hand ticks slower And the hour hand don't move When you can't dream the future And you have something to prove If you need an explosion To clean out all the pain Clouds just swell in silence While you're waiting for the rain The phone looks like a cobra On the table by the bed Even if your saviour called Everything's been said Your nerves grow through your swollen soul Like racing evil vines You read her goodbye letter And try to see between the lines Praying to be sleeping When the house burns to the ground But hoping on the other hand That somehow you'll be found People try to be a friend And come by for a talk But when they start the speech The words just break in two like chalk Waiting for the sweat That pours out when the fever breaks Wishing you could take back Every one of your mistakes Do you find a fix? Do you give up on everything And sit and take your licks? Do the lonely and the broken ones Keep waiting for it all Or do they just lay down And accept the bitter fall? But then some tiny magic Starts to grow and warm your veins That mystery of life That somehow keeps you kind of sane A daydream starts to grow That hasn't been there in a while The kids are in the back yard And it makes you start to smile The saviour rushes in And grabs you hard and holds you strong And not the one you wait for The one that's been there all along The daydream doesn't end Instead your smile turns to a laugh As the young ones teach you once again To be the better half So you suck the poison from your blood And kick the bastard out And walk out in the sunlight Into what it's all about You can't find a fix You can't give up on anything Especially when you're sick If you're a lonely or a broken one Keep giving it your all So when you finally lay down You'll know you didn't fall