Hope when the water rises, you built a wall

Hope when the crowd screams out, they're screaming your name

Hope if everybody runs, you choose to stay

 

Hope that you fall in love, and it hurts so bad

The only way you can know is give it all you have

And I hope that you don't suffer but take the gain

Hope when the moment comes, you'll say

 

I, I did it all

I, I did it all

I owned every second that this world could give

I saw so many places, the things that I did

With every broken heart, I swear I lived

 

Hope that you spend your days, but they all add up

And when that sun goes down, hope you raise it up

Oh, I wish that I could witness all your joy and all your fame

But until my moment comes, I'll say

 

I, I did it all

I, I did it all

I owned every second that this world could give

I saw so many places, the things that I did

With every broken bone, I swear I lived

 

Oh, oh, oh, oh

 

With every broken heart, I swear I lived.

With every broken heart, I swear I

 

I, I did it all

I, I did it all

I owned every second that this world could give

I saw so many places, the things that I did

With every broken heart, I swear I lived.

 

Oh, oh, oh, oh

 

I swear I lived

Oh, oh

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence

I was running from my brother and his friends

And tasted the sweet perfume of the mountain grass I rolled down

I was younger then, take me back to when I

 

Found my heart and broke it here

Made friends and lost them through the years

And I've not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I've grown

But I can't wait to go home

 

I'm on my way

Driving at ninety down those country lanes

Singing to "Tiny Dancer"

And I miss the way you make me feel, and it's real

We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill

 

Fifteen years old and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes

Running from the law through the backfields and getting drunk with my friends

Had my first kiss on a Friday night, I don't reckon that I did it right

But I was younger then, take me back to when

 

We found weekend jobs, when we got paid

We'd buy cheap spirits and drink them straight

Me and my friends have not thrown up in so long, oh how we've grown

But I can't wait to go home

 

I'm on my way

Driving at ninety down those country lanes

Singing to "Tiny Dancer"

And I miss the way you make me feel, and it's real

We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill

Over the castle on the hill

Over the castle on the hill

 

One friend left to sell clothes

One works down by the coast

One had two kids but lives alone

One's brother overdosed

One's already on his second wife

One's just barely getting by

But these people raised me and I can't wait to go home

 

And I'm on my way, I still remember

This old country lanes

When we did not know the answers

And I miss the way you make me feel, it's real

We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill

Over the castle on the hill

Over the castle on the hill

I see this life
 Like a swinging vine
 Swing my heart across the line
 In my faces flashing signs
 Seek it out and ye shall find
 The old, but I'm not that old
 Young, but I'm not that bold
 And I don't think the world is sold
 I'm just doing what we're told
 I, feel something so right
 Doing the wrong thing
 I, feel something so wrong
 But doing the right thing
 I could lie, could lie, could lie
 Everything that kills me makes me feel alive

Lately I been, I been losing sleep
 Dreaming 'bout the things that we could be
 Baby I been, I been prayin' hard
 Said no more counting dollars…