Treading Water Lyrics

And oh, what a life to live
When you're dying for someone to give
To give you their love
To give you their love

Lie awake stargazing, I won't sleep till morning
Echoes of your words sayin', "Don't write a song for me"
Everything is wrong in me, raised under wings of demons
And even if God's with me, without you I have no reason
This'll be the last time you hear me say sorry
That'll be the last tear you waste on me crying
I broke this home
And just like my father, I'll die alone

And oh, what a life to live
When you're dying for someone to give
To give you their love
To give you their love

I'm lookin' at the kids' faces sittin' in the driveway
While I pack up suitcases, I just ruined their holiday
And lies don't die, they grow
And everything you try to hide eventually shows
The beast killed the beauty, the last petal fell from the rose
And I loved you truly, that's why it's hard to let it go
I broke this home
But I'll change for our daughter so she's not alone

Oh, what a life to live
When you're dying for someone to give
To give you their love
To give you their love
And oh, what a life to live (Oh, what a life to live)
When you're dying for someone to give (When you're dying)
To give you their love (To give you their love)
To give you their love (Mmm)

I wrote this in room 3, spending Christmas in rehabilitation
I got no phone, just a cell that I'm trapped in while my home's vacant
I'm an inpatient but I lost patience, I just broke something but I'm fixated
On the gossip that I know is happenin' while I'm just being left out of the conversation
It's a complicated relationship, that's nobody's business, but I'm in this business, face it
I've been hiding from the ideation that the public has of ruinin' my reputation
And it's crazy seeing quotations from a source that somebody curated
'Cause for me, y'all can feel pure hatred, but just keep our baby out the situation
It's a long road to redemption and a shorter one to damnation
I know which one is my destination, but the journey doesn't come without the frustrations
Like it doesn't come without the temptations, and failure can lead to an elevation
'Cause sometimes you gotta see what's waiting on the other side to know your soul's worth savin'

And oh, what a life to live
When you're dying for someone to give
To give you their love
To give you their love