See It So Clear

There's a photograph in celluloid

Some little boy

A sweet, sad paragraph

I wrote in the school magazine

And if I close my eyes

Then it all comes back to me

Under sunny skies

When I was 17

But all these solid certainties

They had sadness underneath

And all these happy memories

They have spaces in between

Oh, I see it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows, the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it's never alone

It was buried so deep

But I see it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows, the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it's never alone

Now there's nothing to fear

I see it so clear

Online video, low quality

I'm watching me

Why, I'll never know

What's dead and gone

Keeps holding on

I try to shut my mind

But it still comes back to me

Under different skies

Now I'm 33

When all life's solid certainties

Have been shaken to the core

No defeats, no victories

I won't fight it anymore

Oh, I see it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows, the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it's never alone

It was buried so deep

But I see it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows, the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it's never alone

Now there's nothing to fear

I see it so clear

I see it so clear

I see it so clear

I see it so clear

I see it so clear