Why do I connect
With the most dissonant of chords?
Is it something in my childhood
I've pushed back and ignored?
Or something right in front of me
That I've never had the eyes to see before?
I'm searching for a part of me
A part that I explain
As the boy I was before
The auto-pilot took my brain
He made it through, but ever since
He hasn't been the same
Don't tell him he's broken
The kid's living on hope
The kid's throwing his seeds
The kid's living on hope
They'll someday turn to trees, yeah
The kid's living on hope
The kid's wishing on a dream
The kid's living on hope
The world's more than it seems
The world's more than it seems
Been chasing down the rabbit holes
The places I recall
And the people that remember me
From before I took my fall
I'm coming up so short
Even though I'm giving this my all
I'm calling out the names
That I was called when I was young
Just hoping that the boy I was
Might hear, and he might come
But so far, it's no good
It's not been bringing the kid home
Don't tell him he's broken
The kid's living on hope
The kid's throwing his seeds
The kid's living on hope
They'll someday turn to trees
The kid's living on hope
The kid's wishing on a dream
The kid's living on hope
The world's more than it seems
The world's more than it seems
Don't tell him he's broken
Don't tell him he's left behind
He can write a world to prove you wrong
He'll bring life to characters
To make his own go on
And the poetry in all of this is
I'm just reading all of his songs
The kid's living on hope
The kid's throwing his seeds
The kid's living on hope
They'll someday turn to trees, yeah
The kid's living on hope
The kid's wishing on a dream
The kid's living on hope
That the world's more than it seems
Yeah
The kid's living on hope
The kid's throwing his seeds, yeah
The kid's living on hope
They'll someday turn to trees, yeah
The kid's living on hope
The kid's wishing on a dream, yeah
The kid's living on hope
The world's more than it seems
The world's more than it seems