Bruises and Stains

You never know a good thing till it passes

Till it lights you up and leaves you in its ashes

It's always hiding money underneath the mattress for a rainy day

And I wish that I could find a way to slow down

Help the kid I used to know maybe find his way back out

All the callus of the world has dragged his soul down, but who's to blame?

I wanna sing all the words of a sinner

I wanna live by the words of a saint

Give all my love to the world like my mother

Finding the pleasure in the pain

I want the devil to yell on my shoulder

I want the angel to call him insane

I wanna look at myself in the mirror

Proud of my bruises and my stains

And I'm trying to make friends with all the anger

So I go outside 'cause maybe I could walk off all the hurt

You know pale skin always tan after a sunburn

So life is good

I wanna sing all the words of a sinner

I wanna live by the words of a saint

Give all my love to the world like my mother

Finding the pleasure in the pain

I want the devil to yell on my shoulder

I want the angel to call him insane

I wanna look at myself in the mirror

Proud of my bruises and my stains

Mmm, oh

Proud of my bruises and my stains, oh

Maybe I'm not, not what you want me to be

Maybe there's more to the story that you'll never see

I'll never run with the sinners, and I'm no saint

I gotta learn how to live with my bruises and stains

Oh, I gotta learn how to live with my bruises and stains

I gotta learn how to live with my bruises and stains