Give it All

Detained, and I'm feeling strange
to think that no one thing I knew
will ever be the same

It's quiet, on the frontest lines
when I'm running and I'm fading
and I'm falling all the time

But who can say
what's to come of yesterday?
Because love is what you've got
after you give the rest away

You fought your hollow life away
an undivided word
upon an empty page

I brought you thoughts of better days
and you gave me colored ribbons
so I wouldn't need to pray

But who can say
what's to come of yesterday?
Because love is what you've got
after you give the rest away

Don't turn around and leave me
on the concrete in the rain
You're smiling and you're hiding
saying life is just a game

But who can be their own remedy?
It's you alone inside my memory.

Who can say
what's to come of yesterday?
Because love is what you've got
after you give the rest away

Author notes

This is a song I wrote for my man-friend who is in the army and going off to war. For a little background knowledge, back in the day when a man went off to war his lover would wear a yellow ribbon signifying the fact that she was with someone currently serving, and if he died in combat she would wear a black ribbon. He used to sing me an army song about a woman whose love died in the war and who wore the colored ribbon and then the black one and told me he would bring me ribbons to wear when he left so that nothing would happen to him. He didn't believe in God because he felt it was only safe to believe in himself and so I think he placed more stock in symbolism than religion (which is fine by me, I say this to explain my lyrics a bit better)