Lyrics

in your new life
I hope you promise to be kind
a little softer, less designed
all empathy and grace

in your new life
I hope each old choice can change
each bar and scar and circus train
every shadow to get shed

in my new life
I will wake up happy
I will stand so tall
I will just believe
in my new life
I will return phonecalls
I will pay the bills
like the one you really need

in your new life
I hope you promise to take risks
drop the bottle, take a trip
break out from your blue

in your new life
I hope solitude comes easy
but if you choose to speak to someone
I hope your words are understood

in my new life
I will wake up sober
I will knuckle down
I will just believe
in my new life
I will buy the groceries
I will change the sheets
like the one you really need

I will expect less
I will fence my heart
I will bleed the poison
I will start to shake you off

cause in this life
I see you as a raincoat
boatloads of trouble off your shoulders
the selfish kind of dry