How I'll Live

I climbed up in a tree to see

If you would come and rescue me

I climbed up in the tree quite high

I looked out into the night

Wondering if

This is how I die

Searching for a sign that I am home

I, oh I, will still try

To forget the things that I have known

And I feel like a lie

Looking at myself, how I have grown

Last night I jumped into the lake

The water made my bones ache

Next fall I’ll move to a different state

I don’t want to lie awake

Wondering if

This is how we die

Barely trying to stay alive at all

And is this who I am?

Must every rise create another fall?

I’m gonna try

This is how I’ll live:

I’ll wake up in the morning, face the sun

and I will try to forgive

Myself for the things that I have done

This is how we’ll live:

We’ll wake up in the morning, face the sun

And we will try to forgive

Ourselves for the things that we have done, oh.