If Only For Memories

intro x4 x2 When you were born you were not alone Nothing was carved into the stone quite yet, 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, a love a 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 start the beginning The prologue to the tale that you're spinning A million synonyms will never come close to describe the feeling Don't ever leave, cause if you do dear I guarantee that you'll regret the day you did and you'll miss all the simple things And you'll see everything you've ever loved start fading till there's nothing left oh 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 keep them in my head love If only for memories break x4 So now you're young and you feel alone Despite friends family and all the good things now surrounding you You can't help thinking that there's gotta be some more to do When all the things that you cherish Turn into burdens and there is No other path to take, you know what you've got to do but you don't know how They hold you back they hold you down And you're gonna feel bad but you know that you've gotta get out This is your pain your dilemma Do you stay in the town where they raised ya Or will you sail away, pull the anchor and go headed for the come-what-may? You have to leave, cause if you don't dear you'll 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 you realize now that you've gotta go see this through 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 keep them in my head love If only for memories Instrumental Bit x4 x3 -------> So now you're old raising your own Two souls to make yourself a home, you finally settled down you've seen the world but your heart never left this town They have the eyes of their mother The kind of crooked teeth of their father No one will ever know A love as pure as the one that you feel for them You'll hold them up you'll hold them up And everybody else will fall to the wayside There is no end no beginning On this merry-go-round we call living Some day you will return, every single ounce of the love you were given Someday they'll go, and when they leave home you will be grateful for the lesson that you learned you had to travel half the world to realize what you knew all along that everything will end up where it belongs 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 keep them in my head love If only for memories outro x4