Your eyes they tie me down so hard

I'll never learn to put up a guard

So keep my love, my candle bright

Learn me hard, oh learn me right.

This ain't no sham

I am what I am.

Though I may speak some tongue of old

Or even spit out some holy word

I have no strength from which to speak

When you sit me down, and see I'm weak.

We will run and scream

You will dance with me

They'll fulfill our dreams and we'll be free.

And we will be who we are

And they'll heal our scars

Sadness will be far away.

So as we walked through fields of green

Was the fairest sun I'd ever seen

And I was broke, I was on my knees

And you said yes as I said please.

This ain't no sham

I am what I am

I leave no time

For a cynic's mind.

We will run and scream

You will dance with me

Fulfill our dreams and we'll be free.

We will be who we are

And they'll heal our scars

Sadness will be far away.

Do not let my fickle flesh go to waste

As it keeps my heart and soul in its place

And I will love with urgency but not with haste.