This thing we've been fighting for
Is it really there?
Cause it seems like
A desert Mirage
Always just out of our grasp

And this thing we've been running from
Can we make it disappear?
Cause you know what
Its hard to run
When your heart is stuck in the past


Oh woah woah!
I wanna break free!
I wanna be the one they say is tough as nails
Hard to get but easy to keep
I wanna just let go
And be myself.


This thing we've been dreaming of
Can it ever happen?
Cause dreams can be like rainbows
Always there
But still evasively breathless.......


When it feels like
You've reached the end
You've tried to hold the rainbow
In your hand
When that damn mirage
Keeps you running hard
How do you know
When is enough?
How do you know
When to stop?


Oh woah woah!!
Break free...
Tough as nails...
Living wild...
Dreaming dreams...

I grew up hearing the words, "Oh grave where is they victory, oh death where is thy sting?" every time someone died. I hated those words with a passion, and I still do.  Death is the final word for us, the gavel on the judge's bench. There's no going back to change anything. There's no last words. You can't have a do-over. Your sentence has been given.  It's the sentence we all get- to rot in a moldy wood box in a moldy grave under a stone that will slowly wear down from the rain and weather. In another 150 years, no one's going to be able to read the engraving.  Death is an enemy, a dark angel that comes for all of us, sooner or later. But why take what we love most? Why take what sometimes anchors us in life- why take the reason we are alive?  Why do we not get any last words? Why do we not get to say 'I love you' one more time, why do we not get to ask our last questions, get the answers we need to know?  Death's victory is the stark fact that it takes what we love and destroys it forever.  Grave's sting is the terrible realization that they will never be coming out of that dank hole in the ground.  Death is a cruel cruel enemy. And no matter how much we try To sugar coat it, it will always be terrible.