The Artist

Lyrics for The Artist

I don't know when it started This feeling I've a long way to go Half a lifetime's work And not that much to show Searching for perfection Second guessing everything To carve a thousand birds And never hear them sing I can imagine the inside out From the darkness the light will come Get into the shadows To let the light escape Who'd have thought creation Would take so much away? Never enough Dreams slowly burn and turned into ash Go through the motions, keep showing up Carve to feel nothing, work for the silence Cut for relief The choice is now (the choice is now) Will I always wonder if it's the time (if it's the time) To make the connection? Heart to the hand, hand to the blade Dreams manifest, glory displayed Searching for a place Find a different way Let go what has gone And cannot be returned I never thought a dream could survive this long In the dark, like a flame without fuel With flutters and sparks, clings on to life Almost gone, almost invisible If I walk away, I'll always wonder Maybe I'm wrong to build up the blaze Let in the air, take a deep breath And watch it breathe into life