v1
up all night, i wait for you, i wait for you, i wait around here
if you’re lost and scared, i’ll wait for you, i’ll wait for you, i’ll wait around here
your timeless soul could never be contained; to another place or time you’ve disappeared.
see, hopelessness is not my favorite game, but for you i’ll wait around for a thousand tomorrows…
chorus
when have you gone? please don't leave us here to fend for ourselves.
how did you go so far alone without turning back home?
please set us free, bring us to the place where wrongs are righted
how could we have been so foolish?
v2
unprepared, you called for me, you called for me, but i wasn’t there--
i left you hangin’ once again
and like a fool, i baited you, i baited you, so cruel and unfair...
just never knew quite how to love your timeless soul
could never be explained; there’s no year or date could ever hold you down
and desperate angst is now the chosen play of my ruined chanced redemption for a thousand yesterdays…
v3
Now, i miss those countless moments, countless highs, and countless chills that warm the core of all i am
i so wish you’d known i would have waited for you, i’ll wait for you, i’m waiting right here--
looking up and reaching out for your timeless soul may well be birthed again,
but it’s just not the same as knowing who you were
and now i wait with only memories, trying to see your face as tomorrow slowly turns to today…
credits
from Purgatory EP,
released October 7, 2011
Recorded at ASP Recordings, Long Beach, CA
Steve Maggiora - Vocals, Guitar, Keys
Troy Roe - Vocals
Jake Hamilton - Vocals
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