To Be Known

all the melancholy on the wind

low as a prayer spoken

you feel it blowing through you

everywhere your heart is broken

haunts you like a shadow when

you’re walking through the city on you own

all the ghosts who holler in the night

try to make you lonely

and when in desperation

someone says that you’re the only

one they want you’ll go to sleep beside them

but you’ll wake up all alone

isn’t it all you ever wanted to be known?

remember when you thought

somebody else was waiting for you?

and all the emptiness would end if only they’d adore you

how you had a child’s way of dreaming

don’t you miss it now you’ve grown?

and isn’t it all you ever wanted to be known?

all the melancholy on the wind

you feel it shuffle through ya

how it breaks you open

til you’re singing hallelujah

never know the gravity of grace

until it hits you like a stone

isn’t it all you ever wanted to be known?