justprompts 'Falling Into Place'
Falling Into Place, by The Afters
Lyrics
It was raining on the sun
The ground beneath my feet was crumbling
Day and Night had come undone
It was the season of my wandering
Somehow Somewhere
You found me there
It was the moment that it all became clear
I was on the edge
Of a distant world
A shattered life
With no where left to turn
Till I saw you there
And everything I thought had gone to waste
Was falling into place
It's finally quiet in my head
As I lay the pieces at your feet
It's finally starting to make sense
I guess I found the missing part of me
Oceans that I almost drowned in
I had to lose it all
Just so I could find out you were there to break my fall
I can remember running through the plaza so clearly. I can remember the colors of a woman's overly bright shirt...the way the sun felt on my scalp. Everything else was breaking around me. The world was shattering and I felt my feet moving.
Seeing him from across the space between us lightened my heart as much as it terrified me. My breath was so thick and my heart must've sounded as though it was breaking through the hollowed space inside me.
His face, as unbelievable as it always was, was there and it was an epiphany. A haze that had been surrounding me lifted and I could see clearly for the first time in what seemed like an eternity. My life had been better as of late, and yet, that single moment of seeing him showed me the inescapable truth: Without him in my life, I'd never truly been whole. Everything had been a lie, a mirage, and I'd been acting out a part.
Reaching him and touching him had sealed that part of myself that had been ripped apart, and I felt like I could finally breathe again.
Everything I'd been through...everything I'd lived through was worth it in that single, crystaline moment.
I keep waiting, in the pessimistic fashion that tends to be my downfall, for the feeling to lessen...to blur or stop impacting me at such a startling strength. It doesn't, of course, and I don't think it ever will.
Word count: 243
Lyrics
It was raining on the sun
The ground beneath my feet was crumbling
Day and Night had come undone
It was the season of my wandering
Somehow Somewhere
You found me there
It was the moment that it all became clear
I was on the edge
Of a distant world
A shattered life
With no where left to turn
Till I saw you there
And everything I thought had gone to waste
Was falling into place
It's finally quiet in my head
As I lay the pieces at your feet
It's finally starting to make sense
I guess I found the missing part of me
Oceans that I almost drowned in
I had to lose it all
Just so I could find out you were there to break my fall
I can remember running through the plaza so clearly. I can remember the colors of a woman's overly bright shirt...the way the sun felt on my scalp. Everything else was breaking around me. The world was shattering and I felt my feet moving.
Seeing him from across the space between us lightened my heart as much as it terrified me. My breath was so thick and my heart must've sounded as though it was breaking through the hollowed space inside me.
His face, as unbelievable as it always was, was there and it was an epiphany. A haze that had been surrounding me lifted and I could see clearly for the first time in what seemed like an eternity. My life had been better as of late, and yet, that single moment of seeing him showed me the inescapable truth: Without him in my life, I'd never truly been whole. Everything had been a lie, a mirage, and I'd been acting out a part.
Reaching him and touching him had sealed that part of myself that had been ripped apart, and I felt like I could finally breathe again.
Everything I'd been through...everything I'd lived through was worth it in that single, crystaline moment.
I keep waiting, in the pessimistic fashion that tends to be my downfall, for the feeling to lessen...to blur or stop impacting me at such a startling strength. It doesn't, of course, and I don't think it ever will.
Word count: 243