How Many Times

[Chorus]

How many times must I throw the line

Before this tiny ship comes crashing to the shore?

Tell me, how many times must I say goodbye

Before I start believing it for sure?

[Verse 1]

When one of you gets word of what I do

It shall be forgone

That pretty soon you all will know the tune

I've been screaming from the gutter for so long

[Pre-Chorus 1]

And pretty blue, the sky from which you flew

I saw your dive

Over time

Filled with circles in my mind

[Chorus]

So how many times must I throw the line

Before this tiny ship comes crashing to the shore?

Tell me, how many times must I say goodbye

Before I start believing it for sure?

[Verse 2]

I misconstrue so much I see right through

Love's great rewards

I make things up and blur the lines and such

That telling me won't matter anymore

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Through dizzy blue, the ground comes into view

I'm still alive

Despite time

All the circles in my mind

[Chorus]

So how many times must I throw the line

Before this tiny ship comes crashing to the shore?

Tell me, how many times must I say goodbye

Before I lose my fear of thinking I'm too late to hear it anymore

[Verse 3]

Before the wind

Before the oxygen that kills us from within

This world had lost its way

The murmuring decay just fills our heads

Tell me how

[Pre-Chorus 3]

I misconstrue so much I never knew

I caused your dive

Over time

Filled with circles in my mind