This Town

I found my fear in the ashes of this town as it burned
When the smoke entered my lungs, I suffocated on lessons I learned
Made it out of the fire, ran away just in time
Tried to kill my desire
Tried to hold me here all of my life
Suddenly I saw everything that I never could have done with you here
Don’t turn around now, there’s no road back home
No fear to hold you back. Just say you want it, say you want it more
The bridges all burned down and everything you know is lost
Nobody ever leaves
This town won’t take the best of me
You dream about every hope, hidden away but just below the surface of your skin, so coarse but oh so thin
You’re terrified of letting go. Nothing is reaped until it’s sown
No time to give in. Just one life we live
Moving forward is not failing
Don’t turn around now, there’s no road back home
No fear to hold you back. Just say you want it, say you want it more
The bridges all burned down and everything you know is lost
Nobody ever leaves
This town won’t take the best of me
When you feel your heart pumping in your chest and ignites the spark that you’ve always felt
Do you trust yourself? Don’t push those thoughts away
Can you feel the life flowing through your veins
It never mattered what the voices said
Life’s not about how you fall
It’s about how many times you can get up
You made it this far with the courage you had
You carried the weight of it all
And every dead end just begins a new path and oh, the places we’ll go