Seek Up...

SEEK UP
Dave Matthews

Sometimes I feel like I'm falling
Fall back again, fall back again,
Fall back again, fall back again

Oh, life it seems a struggle between
What we see and what we do
I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you or appease you
Inside a crowd, five billion proud
Willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong
Ashes to ashes all fall down
Look around about this round
About this merry-go-round around
If at all God's gaze upon us fall
It's with a mischievous grin, look at him

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotions can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away

Look at me in my fancy car
And my bank account
Oh, how I wish I could take it all down
Into my grave, God knows I'd save and save
Take a look again, take a look again,
Things we have collected
In the end they all pile up so tall
To one big nothing, one big nothing at all

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Your emotions can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
Soon we will all find our lives swept away

You seek up an emotion
And your cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil is not going--ha, ha

Sit awhile late at night with TV's hungry child
Big belly swelled
Well, for the price of a coke or a smoke
I could keep alive those hungy eyes
Take a look again, take a look again,
Face it all, face it all again
Well in the end it all stays very much the same
No one but us to blame

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that our emotions can be
Wept away, kept at bay
Forget about being guilty, we are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away

You seek up an emotion
And your cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you, the devil's not
Going--ha, ha

Fall back again, fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, fall back again, fall back again...

So we live, in part, and go on
We don't give enough
Don't leave behind your soul
Oh in the end left us behind
Protect me now
Oh lover
Don't leave me
Don't leave me alone here...
Lonely lives
Oh lonely lives
Forgive me
Don't leave me alone

Forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me

So alone
Oh love in this pain
And when I caught you there
You swore that you were innocent
Well how's it so
When you stole all you could from me
And when the last breath was breathed
You walked to another place
To end together life was strange