"Lost And Found"

Endless skyscrapers

Pass me by as I ride onward,

Trying to find my own thing.

My own road where I can find my own joy.

I threw it all away that day,

Kept it all dead and buried.

And now everyone knows.

Knows how it felt for me to be burnt out.

For so long I wanted it

All to stay away but now I

Accepted all of me.

But where do I go from here?

I’ve been thinking

About this for way too long.

But now that it’s gone

Do I have anything left to say?

Will I be abandoned like

A fad now that I said

What I wanted to say?

I was drowning but

Then I found my way out.

Lost and found,

Dead and resurrected anew from my ghosts.

And am I just a wallflower

Now that it’s all said and done?

I spent so long living in my

Own shadow that now that I’m free I dunno where to go.

I never thought I’d find my way out

Of the suffering.

Never thought that I’d be able to

Sit up here on this bridge looking at the sunset in Suburbia.

Yet I made it through,

I made something new.

But it’s so wild and young,

I’m hoping that it can grow without burning out.

Is what I said too much

For everyone to hear?

I know it was so dark but what else could I have done?

It had to get out there somehow.

And I wanted it to be known

That I let go

Instead of living in the shadow of my pain.

I hope I’m done being a wallflower

To so many people.

It took me so much time and so much effort

To make it out.

Can you listen to my story

Without criticizing me?

Because this time I’m free.

And I’m driving in suburbia trying to find my own place to call my own.

I needed to show them all

What was lost and found

So I could move on!

And now that I have, what else is for myself?

Yeah. What else is there for myself?

That day, I made it dead and buried.

Yeah, tore it apart like they said.

No more being stuck on the clock.

My life is finally my own!

So beautiful of a thought but if I’m honest

I’ve been stuck in this pain for so long that

I forgot what I wanted to do if I was ever free.

But I do know that I’m done

Living as some sort of photocopy.

My critics can go pound sand,

Because I’m done living for their approval.

I finally accepted who I am.

Maybe I’m different than you all and that’s okay.

I mean, look what I’ve done to get this far!

I made it through Hell and back and I’m standing tall.

And I threw what I had to say on a wall.

If you wanted to listen to it then

Go ahead but now I’ve moved on.

This time I’m free to do anything with myself.

Yeah I’m free, free to live my life.

And you know what?

Now I feel like I don’t have to live with you.

I can finally rest knowing that I have this weight off of my shoulders.

I waited everyday for them to come back to me.

Building a home that would be pleasing to their eyes

Once they walked back into my life.

But I had to learn the hard way that they were done but then I realized so was I.

I can finally say that my life is different

And that’s okay.

Who needs people who only remind them and

Hold them to their regretful mistakes?

And now that I’m free,

I realize that it’s been so long since

I’ve had my own dream!

So now I’ll make my own sound that the world can embrace or reject but I’m just happy that it’s my own.

I was lost and found.

I was so alone living this burden for so long!

But now as I drive by these endless skyscrapers

The jealousy and pain fade away because now I can live as myself without the burden of my mistakes.

I’m finally free to find my own dream.

No more asking myself why did it happen

Because now I’m free from it. And now

I can build something for myself!

I sit on this bridge as the twilight comes around.

Cars pass me by, reminding me of those times.

But now instead of them stabbing me in the back, I can smile and

Accept them as sweet memories.

Staring at the sunset I find that

I was lost and found

But now I’m free.

Free where I’ll find my own dream.