View Lyrics All my life I tried to be everything to everybody. I didn't know who I was, or why I was with the people I was with. Every day was like losing a little more of my life, watching it slip by without my participation. When I finally found the courage to do something about it, I realized I couldn't stay in the same situations and relationships as before. To take control meant I had to take responsibility for what would happen. And as I gathered up the pieces of myself, I found the sweetest freedom I'd ever tasted.

View Lyrics What else can swallow a life whole like love? When the mystery is gone and all that's left are the mundane moments, life can seem void of all happiness. We can give up and let love crash into the unknown, dying in our arms. Or we can face the fact that we just exist together and then refuse to love like we're breaking even. When status quo isn't good enough, laying it out on the table has a beautiful way of creating connection in our disconnectedness.

View Lyrics When it comes to getting dumped, I like the experience to be as clean-cut and streamlined as possible. I've never heard a good substitute for the truth, and as hard as it is to swallow, it's better taken in one quick dose. After all, only the one doing the dumping thinks it comes as a surprise. An anthem for the carelessly shoved asides, here's to all the lame excuses out there parading as selfless acts of integrity. Let the flags of justice fly.

View Lyrics Love isn't perfect. Sometimes I wonder if I'm not who you thought I was, or if you're tired of what we have. But then in those quiet moments I realize that through it all, you stay with me. When all I can give is less than perfect love, you ride the waves with me, finding a way to move in the same direction. It's no fairy tale, but you're still my compass, and I'm still your true north.

View Lyrics Sometimes I doubt whether there is a God who cares. Tired of living without faith but unable to hitch onto a bandwagon of believers, I cycle around an orbit of shame, guilt, cynicism and rebellion. When simple answers don't work anymore, all I have left are questions. But as I say out loud the thoughts that seem too raw and unruly to expose, I find a faith that is sufficient in its imperfection. In all the broken places, maybe there really is something to love.

View Lyrics When someone leaves you behind, there is only question that matters. You wonder if you missed the signs, if you were easy to disregard, and if they're hurting like you are. But those answers are just rings around the bulls-eye. It all comes down to you and you alone. While they're following their heart, what will you do with yours? Because what you do is up to you, and what happens for the rest of your life is your own design.

View Lyrics With a billion other people all looking for purpose, I sometimes wonder if there's any reason to it all. I keep coming back to the one thing that gives me a sense of belonging - love. Without it, would anything really matter? When all the striving and trying to become is stripped away, all I'm left with is the only thing that gave it any meaning to begin with.

View Lyrics We all want to be remembered here for something. And with money, power, and sex, we thrive on the illusion that we just might live forever. But when you're going broke, changing jobs, and nothing about it seems beautiful, that's when the truth really hits home. There's nothing to lose when you’ve been stripped of everything. Plans fall apart, hopes are crushed, and a future unravels in the span of a moment. But with some will and the persistence to keep standing, I find out that all I ever could control was everything I still have.

View Lyrics Most people cross in and out of our lives, staying for awhile and then fading into past times and places. But there are some who leave fragments of themselves, haunting us like ghosts. When the void is so unbearable that each new day is just as painful as the last, we'd do almost anything to let them go. Fighting it, forcing it out, and burning it down, sometimes our whole being cries out for relief.

View Lyrics I used to think that at a certain age I'd understand where I've been, where I'm going, and what the future will reveal. Now all I see is uncertainty. But, I've learned to regard that as a beautiful thing. When life doesn’t turn out like I imagine, it's just that I've been forcing a plan that wasn't meant to be. Now I can choose to live a life where nothing is planned out, at the risk of everything falling apart at any moment. I don't want my life to run out and nobody know that I was here. After all, this life might not be what I expected, but it's mine.

View Lyrics I used to fear God. At least, I feared the image that lived in my mind. As I grew older, I realized that the less I could imagine God, the less God seemed real. Now it's as if I only feel God like a brush on my shoulder, or a breath on my skin, and when I turn around, nothing is there. God seems to dance around my intuitions. But something keeps drawing me back to shadowed corners where we first met. I don't know why I can’t just let God go. Maybe I'm not alone after all - maybe there really is a monster in my closet.

View Lyrics How would we love if we only had one chance? The hypnotic drive of everyday life can lull us into oblivion to the power of each moment. We learn to expect mediocrity, until something happens to scare us awake. Then, in the fragile balance of a single moment, the curtain is whisked aside and we see further than we have in a long time. Have I loved like I had everything to lose, or am I always one step out the door? What a powerful moment it is, this opportunity to love. And when it comes to me, will I take it?