Drive

"Breathe" - Taylor Swift & Colbie Caillat

Ah, good ol' country music you sure know how to hit the spot for me when it comes to times like these. This is one of those songs that I could only listen to while driving alone through the hills of Elysian Park, where crying in the car is safely hidden behind trees and secret roads to nowhere. It's calm and mostly quiet and on a day like today, absolutely beautiful. So I drove on.

When I came across a bump in the road, I didn't get out of the car. I didn't turn around and say, "Forget it, it's too hard to maneuver around." I pushed forward. Bump after bump, there I was driving over it because that is what I know how to do. I don't quit because it's difficult. I continued because I wanted to get somewhere; because it was worth it to get there. And now that there are little bumps, bumps I know I can handle, bumps that don't compare to the tire-popping, pot-holes of the past, now...now the road is just over and I'm just supposed to move in a different direction. How the hell is this fair? How is it fair that I got this far only to do it all over again? To go back to the same place where I first started? To fight for something that's worth it and be left without someone fighting for me? It just f@$kin' isn't.

I feel like a certain someone should be singing this to me and I'm trying to believe every word of it, but I just...don't...quite...get...it. I know, I know. It'll get better with time. Things happen for a reason. This may be a blessing in disguise. The grass is greener on the other side. But I'm right here where I've always been and right now, I don't want to know. I just want to drive.

Lyrics:

I see your face in my mind as I drive away
'Cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way
People are people and sometimes we change our minds
But it's killing me to see you go after all this time

Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm

Music starts playin' like the end of a sad movie
It's the kinda ending you don't really wanna see
'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down
Now I don't know what to be without you around

And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand

And I can't breathe
Without you, but I have to
Breathe
Without you, but I have to

Never wanted this, never want to see you hurt
Every little bump in the road I tried to swerve
People are people and sometimes it doesn't work out
Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out

And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand

And I can't breathe
Without you, but I have to
Breathe
Without you, but I have to

It's two a.m., feelin' like I just lost a friend
Hope you know it's not easy, easy for me
It's two a.m., feelin' like I just lost a friend
Hope you know this ain't easy, easy for me

And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me, oh

I can't breathe
Without you, but I have to
Breathe
Without you, but I have to
Breathe
Without you, but I have to

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry

http://www.elyrics.net/read/t/taylor-swift-lyrics/breathe-lyrics.html
http://www.countrymusiconline.net/caillat_swift.html