Always Before

Meg Hutchinson

Walk these streets, no one knows my name



City rain, I've come to fix my wings again



It's always the same, this brokenness, this shame



I don't know how long boy, I can play this flying game







You think its easy, then why don't you change?



You haven't been there, who are you to say



That above all this darkness, it's a clear clear day



Are you just gonna stand there, are you gonna take my pain away?







Always before, when I could no longer swim



I felt an arm under heavy limbs



Hey you, on the shore



Are you watching anymore



Are you going to pull me from this?



I need a hand under my ribs







I've seen their eyes, they'll do anything



Sell the only thing they have, to escape again



Out on the corner, selling ticket till the mourning



Crawl back to a bridge, to sleep it off until tomorrow







You could say, I bared my veins of my own sweet will



You were the first, boy, to clear your name, when trouble fell



You said "I'm not to blame" and I said I'm empty all the same, empty all the same...







I am this night, I am air rising from below



Under these miles of waste and stone



I am living, I am still warm







Always before, I had all ways before me



Before, now I'm always to find more before me, before me, before me



Hey you, who were before me



Be before me, and below me and above me, now, always and forever,



Be before me now, (after and before)