It takes a lot to be somebody

You don ' t want to be

To give somebody back

What you can ' t keep

Hoping that a lover

Can be gracious in defeat

Knowing you could never be

It takes time

And time makes me so curious

That I no longer sleep

Time makes me so fickle

I can ' t breathe

I owe so much to love that

I ' m left drifting on the breeze

More than I can bring myself to speak

It takes time

It takes time

Say the word and learn to believe it

Let go of what you need gone

Keep hope when you don ' t see it

Keep on moving along

Speak out what you believe in

Make up for what you ' ve done wrong

Let it go and start to open up again

It takes a lot to watch

Somebody tearing at your seam

Knowing you ' re the cause of what they feel

And pain will make

Them furious until they find release

Until you know they ' re ready to make peace

That takes time

And that takes time

Say the word and learn to believe it

Let go of what you need gone

Keep hope when you don ' t see it

Keep on moving along

Speak out what you believe in

Make up for what you ' ve done wrong

Let it go and start to open up again

It takes a lot to see somebody cry

When you care but it ' s just not right

It takes a lot to see somebody cry out

When you care but it ' s just not right

It takes a lot to see somebody cry

It takes a lot to make it right and say

Say the word and learn to believe it

Let go of what you need gone

Keep hope when you don ' t see it

Keep on moving along

Speak out what you believe in

Make up for what you ' ve done wrong

Let it go and start to open up again

Say a word and learn to believe it

Let go of what you need gone

Keep hope when you don't see it

Keep on moving along

Speak out what you believe in

Make up for what you've done wrong

And let it go and start to open up again