Wounded Healer/Sarajevo Medley - Live

[Spoken - Watsky]

This song is off an old mixtape of mine based on a Deer Tick song called “Baltimore Blues”. It’s called “Wounded Healer.”

[Verse 1 - Watsky]

His footprints are fading away from the beach

We're not a family to pray or to preach

But daddy's best friend took a handful of pills and now he's at a podium making a speech

Yesterday night after dark

He carefully wrote his remarks

But everyone said what he put on his page so he threw it way and went straight from the heart

[Chorus 1 - Watsky and Camila Recchio]

I thought this was a party

But all my friends are leaving

And I still want to play

You wrecked me when you stepped out

Cause you're the wounded healer

And you're supposed to stay

[Verse 2 - Watsky]

A year's a bottle in a bucket of trash

It'll tip over the more that it stacks

Didn't notice it till now but dad's been moving slower every time we go play catch

I'm scared of the day when he'll carry a cane

I carry his dream

I carry his name

And when papa is gone he will never be gone because the sound of our sneeze is the same

[Watsky and Camila Recchio]

God bless I

Hear your voice

In mine

I want to stop time

Like a carnival ride

Because

I don't know what I'm saying but I mean it (repeat)

[Chorus 1 - Watsky and Camila Recchio]

I thought this was a party

But all my friends are leaving

And I still want to play

You wrecked me when you stepped out

Cause you're the wounded healer

And you're supposed to stay

[Verse 3 - Watsky]

And they wonder what our parents say

And they wonder how we'll raise our children

And they tell me that I'm living with a monster

And they whisper that she took up with a villain

But I don't see dragon's scales

And I don't see claws and fangs

All I'm looking at is arms that hold me

Brown eyes that understand

And when she closed those eyes one final time no pipers came

But I know I got a love that's truer than a military sniper's aim

But we won't die in vain

Tie that chain around my waist

And pull me from the bottom of the pit of hell up to your final resting place

[Chorus 2 -Camila Recchio]

Sarajevo, Sarajevo

You're the altar that I pray to

God is love and love is all we have

[Verse 4 - Watsky]

We were trynna run from the city

Had the hope and the pride of the kids

People wanna put up walls to divide us

Kinda fitting that we died on a bridge

Same souls, both sides of the banks

They say we're different and they're fillin in the facts

But they put the same metal in the bullets

And they put the same bullets in our backs

Kinda love that we got is one in a mill

Ain't no God that I pray to would wanna kill

It's not God but it's fear and it's politics

And a Molotov that was lit with a dollar bill

Don't say all is lost

Escape this holocaust

My God, Allah, my darling, star and crescent and my cross

[Chorus 3 - Watsky and Camila Recchio]

Sarajevo, Sarajevo

You wrecked me when you stepped out

I will honor and be faithful

You’re supposed to stay

Sarajevo, Sarajevo

Wrecked me when you stepped out

God is love and love is all

[Verse 5 - Watsky]

Where do we come from? Where do we go?

You could fill up the sea with the things I don't know

But I know what I feel and I know when it's real

And I hope that we heal

We're two drops of the blood and the tears

Over thousands of years of the clash of the steel

I'm not blind to the cycle

We’re pressed in the spine of a Bible

They define the divine by the title

But what did Christ say? To be kind to my rival

You're my kind of revival

It's true ya, my favorite Hallelujah

You my you my favorite Hallelujah

[Interlude - Camila Recchio]

Yeah-e yeah yeah yeahh

Ah oh ooooooh

[Chorus 2 - Camila Recchio]

Sarajevo, Sarajevo

You're the altar that I pray to

God is love and love is all

Sarajevo, Sarajevo

I will honor and be faithful

God is love and love is all we have

[Outro - Camila Recchio]

God is love and love is all we have

God is love and love is all we have