Had To Be There

There was an art to me

And it grew a little more every day

And it grew a little more every day

I could feel it, I could feel it

But beauty's hard to keep

And before long, it's fading away

Oh, before long, it's faded away

Time will steal it, time will steal it

I was on my own

Before I had to be there

But my time was all my own

Before I had to be there

Can you take me back, away from here

To where it is that I'm supposed to be?

You are a gravity

And you'll bend every bone to your shape

An allure even time won't escape

And I need it

Oh, I need it

Sometimes I feel like a lonely child

My face against the windowpane

All of the world, waiting there outside

Is just beyond my touch, and then I wonder

Are we over?

Or will the ties that bind me back to you

Keep dragging till they're driving me insane?

And I was on my own

Before I had to be there

But my time was all my own

Before I had to be there

Can you take me back, away from here

To where it is that I'm supposed to be?

I was on my own

Before I had to be there

But my time was all my own

Before I had to be there

Can you take me back, away from here

To where it is that I'm supposed to be?

I am not the thing that, once, I was

I am not the thing I'll be

If I ever really had your love

Maybe that's enough for me

Oh, oh, oh

I am not the thing I thought I'd come to be

Oh, oh, oh, oh

I was on my own

Before I had to be there

But my time was all my own

Before I had to be there

Can you take me back, away from here

To where it is that I'm supposed to be?