How do you know where you're going, when you don't know where you've been? You hide the shame that you're not showing, and you won't let anyone in A crowded street can be a quiet place when you're walking alone And now you think that you're the only one who doesn't Have to try, and you won't have to fail If you're afraid to fly, then I guess you never will You hide behind your walls, but maybe you never Forgetting that there's something more than just knowing better Your mistakes do not define you now, they tell you you're not You've got to live this life you're giving, like it's the only one you've got Memories have left you broken, and the scars have never healed The emptiness in you is growing, with so little left to feel You're scared to look back on the days before, and too tired to move on And now you think that you're the only one who doesn't Have to try, and you won't have to fail If you're afraid to fly, then I guess you never will You hide behind your walls, but maybe you never Forgetting that there's something more than just knowing better Your mistakes do not define you now, they tell you you're not You've got to live this life you're giving, like it's the only one you've got Oh, what will it take? Oh, to get you to say that I'll try And what would you say if this was the last day of your life? You hide behind your walls, but maybe you never Forgetting that there's something more than just knowing better Your mistakes do not define you now, they tell you you're not You've got to live this life you're giving, like it's the only one you've got You hide behind your walls, but maybe you never Forgetting that there's something more than just knowing better Your mistakes do not define you now, they tell you you're not You've got to live this life you're giving, like it's the only one you've got