You know me, I used to get caught up in everyday life,
Tried to make it through my day so I could sleep at night;
Tried to figure out my way through the maze
Of rights and wrongs, but like you used to say
Nothing feels like it's really worth it.
Forget perfect, I'm trying not to be worthless.
Since I last saw you I been looking for a purpose.
Well I met this kid who thought like I did,
He had a weird way of looking at it.
This is what he said:

Slip out the back before they know you were there
And at the worst you'll see nobody cares.
Cos you don't wanna be around when it all goes down,
Even heroes know when to be scared.
Slip out the back before they know you were there
And at the worst you'll see nobody cares.
Cos you don't wanna be around when it all goes down,
Even heroes know when to be scared.

I don't remember where I met him or remember his name
But he walked funny like he was just too big for his frame.
Just over five foot but he weighed a buck fifty
And what he said so seemed so right it stuck with me:
"Listen its like poker you can play your best,
But you got to know when to fold your cards and take a rest;
And know when to hold your cards and hold your breath
And hope that nobody else is stacking the deck, because
I don't need to tell you that life isn't fair, it doesn't care,
It arbitrarily cuts off your air, and like you I want someone to say its OKAY,
But in the truest parts of our hearts everybody's afraid.
We're just underappreciated and overwhelmed
Fighting so hard to hide our fear that were scaring ourselves.
You understand when I'm saying cause you always did,
But its different in the words of a cowardly kid.

I'm no hero, you remember how I was, you know,
All I ever did was worry, feeling out of control
To the point where everything is going end over end...
I'm spinning around in circles again.
This is where you come in,
All of this to explain to you why
I had to separate myself away from yesterday's life
Please remember this isn't how I hoped it would be
But I had to protect you from me.

Thats why I slipped out the back before you knew I was there.
I know you felt unprepared,
But every single time I was around I just bring you down
And I could tell that it was time to be scared.
Thats why I slipped out the back before you knew I was there
And I know the way I left wasn't fair;
I didn't want to be around just to bring you down.
I'm not a hero but don't think I didn't care.

"Heaven's isn't the place taht you go when you die; its the moment in life when you actually feel alive" The Spill Canvas

"I just want you to know
That I've been fighting to let you go
Some days I make it through
And then there's nights that never end
I wish that I could believe
That there's a day you'll come back to me
But still I have to say I would do it all again" JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW Backstreet Boys

"I feel so much better now that you're gone forever. I tell myself that I don't miss you at all. I'm not lying, denying that I feel so much better now that you're gone forever" GONE FOREVER Three Days Grace

"Would you run if I told you I love you?
Would you run if I asked you to stay?
Would you cry if I said I have missed you?
Sorry is all i can say..." SORRY IS ALL I CAN SAY StageDolls

"Unbreak my heart. Say that you love me again. Undo this hurt that you caused when you walked out my life." UNBREAK MY HEART Toni Braxston

"I wish i could make you turn around... turn around and see me cry" AGAINST ALL ODDS Phil Collins

"I need you like the heart needs a beat" APOLOGISE OneRepublic

"You might casually spoken a wish out loud in your dream and then found yourself living in the middle of it" THE TENTH CIRCLE Jodi picoult

"I guess it's gonna have to hurt.
I guess I'm gonna have to cry
And let go of some things I loved
To get to the other side.
I guess it's gonna break me down
Like falling when you try to fly.
It's sad, but sometimes moving on
With the rest of yor life starts with goodbye" STARTS WITH GOODBYE Carrie Underwood

"If you take your every memory, every moment and stretch them out end to end, they'd reach forever" MY SISTER'S KEEPER Jodi Picoult

"We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like trees; the trees that are broken and start again, drowing up from the great roots" Robert Bly

"Flatter me and i might not believe you.
Criticize me and I may not like you.
Ignore me and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me and I will not foget you" William Arthur Ward

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is a thin line between seeing something that's lost as missing and seeing it as something that might be found" VANISHING ACTS Jodi Picoult

"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional" Greta Randolph

"If you wanna fight, I'll stand right beside you.
The day that you fall I'll be right behind you
to pick up the pieces" THE HEART NEVER LIES McFly

"Closed off from love I didn't need the pain. Once or twice was enough; and it was all in vain. time starts to pass before you know it, you're frozen" BLEEDING LOVE Leona Lewis

"I wanna run away - never say goodbye
I wanna know the truth instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answer - no more lies
I wanna shut the door and open up my mind" RUNAWAY Linkin Park

"I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world" Mike Shinoda

"Between man and a woman there is always one person who is stronger than the other. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love as strong" Nicholas Sparks

"How would you feel if everybody acted like you didn't exist?
You'd lose your grip;
Probably eventually flip" DEDICATED Linkin Park

"Scars are souvenirs you never lose" NAME Goo Goo Dolls

"My wounds cry for grave, my soul cries for deliverence" TOURNIQUET Evanescence

"You can say what you have to say
'cause my mind's made up anyway
I'm taking the high road going above you.
This is the last time that I'm gonna trust you.

You can say what you have to say
'cause my mind's made up anyway
all that bullshit you talk might work a lot
but it's not gonna work today" HIGH ROAD Fort Minor

"I'm going to the place where love and feeling good don't ever cost a thing, and th epain you feel is a different kind of pain. I'm going home" HOME Daughtry

"We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities" Chester Bennington

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not" Kurt Cobain

"The truth is I can stop and stare,
bleed myself out and no one cares." BLEED IT OUT Linkin Park

"Everybody is searching for something, but all they can find is a whole lot of nothing" BACK HOME Fort Minor

"You cannot run away from a weakness. you must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" R.L. Stevenson

"There are two kinds of secrets: ones that we keep from anyone else; and ones that w ekeep from ourselves" Frank Warren

"The person you were when you went to sleep at night might not necessarily be the person you were when you woke up" THE TENTH CIRCLE Jodi Picoult

"I sent as angel to watch over you last night. But it came back... I asked why?... and it said: angels don't watch over angels" The Thurston Revival

"Close your eyes and they will be gone.
They can scream and shout that they've been sold out
But it payed for the cloud that we're dancing on." SHINE ON James Blunt

"At night I trip without you

and hope I don't wake up,

'cause waking up without you

is like drinking from an empty cup" Damien Rice

"A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on, you are enriched threefold" Henry Miller

"As it turned out, Hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening" THE TENTH CIRCLE Jodi Picoult

"When childhood dies, its corpses are called 'adults' and they enter society, one of the politer names for Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them; they show us the stage of our decay" Brian W. Aldriss

"Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before" THE TENTH CIRCLE Jodi Picoult

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside while we live" Norman Cousin

"You don't love someone because they are perfect. You love them in spite the fact that they're not" MY SISTERS KEEPER Jodi Picoult