The Novel Ideas - I Was Not Around Lyrics

A familiar hope of my vague intentions
Trying to find, to know, understand
Oh I may need more than my own interventions
Gathering my thoughts like waves on the sand

But these words won't heal
Let your tears fall to the ground
You asked me to save you from yourself...

Where is the heart that was broken?
Where is the love that was right?
Lost are the hopes that were spoken
For they have gone into the night

Oh what I can't feel
Don't you turn away from the sound
You asked me to save you from yourself
But I can't help you now

And I'm gone to find my redemption
I'm goin' far, I'm goin' home
Oh I've asked for things I cannot mention
But I'll ask for peace wherever I go

Still these words won't heal
Let your tears fall to the ground
You asked me to save you from yourself
But I was not around