The Inevitability of Closing a Hat

[Verse 1]
Standing on the edge of the rest of my life
She says, "What are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?"
I'll drag my heels across this entire town
Let the blood run free, let it flood the streets
Tonight this city drowns, it's going to drown
(I'm gonna see this path through)
I'll walk the straight and narrow
('Til my legs are broken) Because there
Are just a few things in this world
I need to see with my own two eyes
To believe

[Chorus]
Believing is not seeing
No to me, believing is breathing
(And knowing that each breath won't) be your last
(Tomorrow) you wake up
And you decide with every glorious mistake
You can erase, you can erase your past

[Verse 2]
I am a ticking time bomb counting down
With the swelling of my lungs
With the bursting of my lungs
I am the roar of a thousand lions strong
And tonight I sing my song
Tonight it carries on, it carries on
(This all means nothing)
If I never make it back
(I'll retrace every footstep)
Because even if it takes a lifetime to make it back to you
I just need to see you with my own two eyes
To believe, to believe (that this is true)

[Chorus]
Believing is not seeing
No to me, believing is breathing
(And knowing that each breath won't) be your last
(Tomorrow) you wake up
And you decide with every glorious mistake
You can erase, you can erase your past

[Bridge]
I'm an open book, dying to be read
With a broken spine and I'm showing thread
And my cover is worn and my pages are torn, torn, torn
And page after page, after page, after page
I'm somehow trying, trying to persuade
That somehow this ending will be okay
But it's hard to believe everything you read

The cover's worn and the pages torn
The cover's worn and the pages torn
The cover's worn and the pages torn
The cover's worn...
Open me up and tear me apart
Open me up and tear me apart
Open me up and tear me apart
Open me up and open me, open me up

[Chorus]
Believing is not seeing
No to me, believing is breathing
(And knowing that each breath won't) be your last
(Tomorrow) you wake up
And you decide with every glorious mistake
You can erase, you can erase your past