THE LAST 3 FEET

THE LAST 3 FEET

You are the darkness of my heart

You are the shadow of my soul

You tore my peace of mind apart

You are the thoughts I can’t control

And I want you to know

That forgiveness isn’t easy

We mine for diamonds in the deep

But all we’re bringing up is coal

You pay me visits in my sleep

Never returning what you stole

And I’m trying to go

Down the path that one day frees me

From you.

The longest mile, the last three feet

How do you make a heart complete

After the wind has ripped your sail in two

The longest mile, the last three feet

Measure the distance in between

It’s never as far as it seems from me to you

We’d like to think that we are right

We want to feel that we are good

We say we’re following the light

We all hope to be understood

But peer-ing in the night

We can sense our own delusion

We’re loving mixed with spite

And we draw our own conclusions

It’s true

The longest mile, the last three feet

How do you make a heart complete

After the wind has ripped your sail in two

The longest mile, the last three feet

Measure the distance in between

It’s never as far as it seems from me to you

And if you wrestle with your pain

When do you feel the seeds of change

Finally take hold

And rearrange the view?