Birds

Feeling around for the place where I left myself
Taking my dreams dusting them off the shelf
How long have I been gone, too long that I can tell
Coming out of the dark where it felt like hell
Have I just been an empty shell
How long have I been gone from myself?

I can see the sun start to rise
It's coming through the trees, through the windows, through the blinds
It's like I'm waking up for the first time
I can hear the birds start to sing like
I've never heard before
So I throw open the windows
Throw open the doors
It's like I'm waking up again

I've been too scared to say what I really think
Too scared about what it means
If I know my own heart too well and what it really needs
So I keep on just running away
'Cause what if I feel it and it feels like pain
But I'm here now and I'm ready to feel it so I can feel the joy anyway

I can see the sun start to rise
It's coming through the trees, through the windows, through the blinds
This is what it must feel like to wake up for the first time
I can hear the birds start to sing like
I've never heard before
So I throw open the windows
Throw open the doors
It's like I'm feeling it all for the first time
Feeling it all for the first time

Every afternoon I sit in the sun
And I watch my daughter run
She runs and runs and runs and runs again
I can hear the birds start to sing like
I've never heard before
'Cause somehow I was always inside but I'm not staying there anymore
So I throw open the windows, throw open the doors