Truth Or Dare
Garden State Lyrics

I should have let the bullets shed
I should have let go of the hurt and pain that's been causing me grief

I should have left off where it all began
I should have cut ties with the things that started my pain or mistake

It's been so long I don't know where it ends,
It's been so long that I don't know what is causing me pain anymore

And nothing seems the same
The things that used to bring me joy no longer seem to

My eyes they close, without the sleep
I spend restless nights without any respite from the pain

My broken heart is yours to keep
My heart has been broken and the person responsible for it is the one who can heal it

So, pull out the puzzle and every piece,
Let's examine the details of the pain and hurt so we can understand and solve them

While I take off again
I need to move on from this pain and start living my life again

I dare you to take me for what I was,
I dare you to accept me for who I was in the past, flaws and all

A loving contradiction (I dare you)
A person who loves deeply yet is flawed and contradictory

A perfect life done oh so perfectly wrong (tell me the truth)
A life that may seem perfect but has secretly been falling apart all along

You say sometimes you're overeager,
You may sometimes rush things and not think things through

But girl I am no fool,
But I am not naive and can see through your intentions

I see through you
I can see past the facade you put up and into your true self

Me, I begin,
I need to start anew

Without living with all this pain
Without being weighed down by the past hurt

My roof is collapsed, I'm standing in the pouring rain
My life has fallen apart and I feel helpless and exposed

How do I begin,
How can I start rebuilding my life?

Without living with this to strain?
Without the added weight of past hurt and pain dragging me down?

I'm losing my tracks, and I want them all back again
I feel lost and want to reclaim my life again

Feels like we're breaking our backs
It feels like we are carrying too much weight and it is starting to become too much

The memory, it's apathetic,
The memory of past hurts and pain is starting to make me feel numb and uncaring

And all the times here've been pathetic
All the times I've been hurt have been sad and disappointing

Remind me, so I could not regret it,
Help me remember the past so I do not make the same mistakes again

And make sure we won't reach the same
Help me find solutions and ways to prevent the same hurt from happening again

While I bring home the pain
While I try to solve the hurt and pain