If Only For Memories

Pattern I When you were born you were not alone Nothing was carved into the stone Quiet ? but don't forget You heard someone say it won't get better than this That was the sound of your father As he held you up to your mother No one will ever know The love as pure as the one that you felt right then They held you up, they held you up And everybody else they fell to the wayside This is the stuff of beginning The prologue to the yarn that you're spinning A million synonyms will never come close to describe the feeling Dont ever leave cause if you do dear I guarantee that you?ll regret The day you did And youll miss all the simple things And youll see everything you ever loved Start fading till there's nothing left but dust And I believe that every broken bone is meant to be And when it heals it will be stronger than it was before And I see the things that I pretend that I don't see And I store them in my head, love If only for memories Same as I So now youre young and you feel alone Despite friends, family, and all the good things now surrounding you You cant help thinking Oh there's gotta be some more to do When all the things that you cherish Turn into burdens and there is No other fantasy You know what you gotta do but you don?t know how They hold you back They hold you down And youre gonna feel bad but you know that you gotta get out This is your pain your dilemma Will you stay in the town that they raised you Or will you sail away Pull the anchor and go in for the ? one day You have to leave Cause if you don?t dear Youll never see the things you read about in books You saw the films and you were hooked But everything you want won?t come to you And you realize now that you gotta go see this through Chorus (2x)