chorus:
you've got your ups & downs, your highs & your lows
your befores & afters, goodbyes & hellos
yeses & nos, doors open & close
it's like a feather it goes wherever the wind blows
with the ups & downs, the highs & the lows
the befores & afters, goodbyes & hellos
yeses & nos, doors open & close
it's like a feather it goes wherever the wind blows...

verse 1:
you ever woke up in the morning on the wrong side of sanity?
cursing holy calamity & questioning humanity
because yesterday you went to sleep & had it all figured out
but by the time today came, things somehow got riddled about
rattling doubt in your noggin, until you're nodding in submission
& wishing that you'd have just listened to your intuition
until it's turning your insides out, allowing the outside in
& now everything you've been about is lost like feathers in the wind
& before you knew it a happy ending seemed imaginary
you forgot to not let the word surrender enter your vocabulary
sometimes we have to vary from the beaten path
just to understand the necessary pieces of the past
and the reasons why the seasons fly away & never last
longer than it takes to scatter the pieces of shattered glass
look, i'm sick of sitting here debating & pretending
spending all my time elevating & descending in the...

chorus

verse2:
i never said i was a perfect person
more like a cursed, worthless version, solitary submergion
so deep that you can't keep from feeling badly
for time away from family & the people
who can't see what my life equals now
i've tried to make it up with the fews & far-betweens
hardly seen by certain folks when i'm focused on keeping the aura clean
but i'm green with nausea for any grief that i've caused to the
ones who all gave applause to me long before i was plausibly
anything even remotely resembling fresh
so quote me in attempting the best i can to confess
i wrote these lines to symbolize the weight on my chest
& to show you i've been pressed to try & clean up this mess
because the stress of daily life has left some nerves exposed
but underneath i'm still the same, i just changed my clothes
& now i'm viewing what i'm doing as a chance to show you
i did a lot to grow from the man you think you know
and so..
it goes & it goes & it goes...

up, down, high, low
before, after, goodbye, hello
yes, no, open, closed
& it goes & it goes
up, down, high, low
before, after, goodbye, hello
yes, no, open, closed
it's like a feather, it goes wherever the wind blows...