All Our Lives Lyrics - Andrew Mcmahon

I saw this old friend at the Eveleigh bar 

Life hadn't treated him so well 

A heart so gold, and words so blue 

In a body home from hell 

He said, "If I could tell you one thing, I would tell you this: 

There's only one mistake that I have made 

It's giving up the music in my fingertips 

By trying to get to heaven through my veins." 

All our lives 

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies 

This was no path to glory 

You always walked before me 

But you came back to warn me 

All our lives 

I saw this woman with tears in her eyes 

Driving beside me yesterday 

She turned her head, then I turned mine 

And I watched her drive away 

I thought, if I could tell her something, I would tell her this 

There's only two mistakes that I have made 

It's running from the people who could love me best 

And trying to fix a world that I can't change 

All our lives 

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies 

This was no path to glory 

You always walked before me 

But you came back to warn me 

All our lives 

I remember being young and staring at my hands 

In the middle of the night, the first light of the morning 

My room like a church, voices down the hall 

I barely made 'em out, but sometimes you don't want to know 

Now that I'm older, I can tell you this 

The mornings I miss, but I don't really miss the voices 

You've got a choice, I've got the hands 

Skeletons and plans, you've got to let 'em go 

All our lives 

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies 

All our lives 

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies 

This was no path to glory 

You always walked before me 

But you came back to warn me 

All our lives 

All our lives 

I watched you search beneath the fallen skies 

This was no path to glory 

You always walked before me 

But you came back to warn me 

All our lives