All Our Lives - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

I saw this old friend at the Eveleigh bar

Life hadn’t treated him so well

A heart so gold, and words so blue

In a body home from hell

He said, «If I could tell you one thing, I would tell you this:

There’s only one mistake that I have made

It’s giving up the music in my fingertips

By trying to get to heaven through my veins.»

All our lives

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies

This was no path to glory

You always walked before me

But you came back to warn me

All our lives

I saw this woman with tears in her eyes

Driving beside me yesterday

She turned her head, then I turned mine

And I watched her drive away

I thought, if I could tell her something, I would tell her this

«There's only two mistakes that I have made

It’s running from the people who could love me best

And trying to fix a world that I can’t change.»

All our lives

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies

This was no path to glory

You always walked before me

But you came back to warn me

All our lives

I remember being young and staring at my hands

In the middle of the night, the first light of the morning

My room like a church, voices down the hall

I barely made 'em out, but sometimes you don’t want to know

Now that I’m older, I can tell you this

The mornings I miss, but I don’t really miss the voices

You’ve got a choice, I’ve got the hands

Skeletons and plans, you’ve got to let 'em go

All our lives

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies

All our lives

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies

This was no path to glory

You always walked before me

But you came back to warn me

All our lives

All our lives

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies

This was no path to glory

You always walked before me

But you came back to warn me

All our lives