Verse
Sometimes they come in the middle of night,
Sometimes they fall with the rain,
A sentence appears from somewhere unseen,
Then disappears there again.
I reach for a pen, I turn on the light,
Try to catch what was said,
But something keeps talking when nobody’s there,
These words that live in my head.
Pre-Chorus
I don’t know where they come from,
I don’t know where they go,
Maybe they’re remembering
Something I don’t know.
Chorus
The words in my head,
Are like fortune cookies or rhyme,
Words of future prophecy,
They fill my world and mind,
Playing all the time,
Long after I’m dead.
Verse
Some of them sound like a voice from the past,
Some like a day yet to be,
Some are just pieces of people I’ve loved,
Still having conversations with me.
A name and a face, a moment, a place,
A life in a handful of lines,
We leave little pieces wherever we go,
And somehow they travel through time.
Pre-Chorus
Maybe that’s where they come from,
Maybe that’s where they go,
Passing from one heart to another,
Knowing things we never know.
Chorus
The words in my head,
Are like fortune cookies or rhyme,
Words of future prophecy,
They fill my world and mind,
Playing all the time,
Long after I’m dead.
Bridge
And someday somebody may find them,
In a book on a shelf somewhere,
Or hear an old song through an open door,
And wonder who put it there.
They won’t know the room where I wrote it,
They won’t know the life that I led,
But for three little minutes I’ll still be alive,
In the words that came out of my head.
Breakdown
So write them down when they find you,
Don’t ask them what they mean,
Tomorrow has always been hiding
Inside the things that we’ve seen.
Chorus
The words in my head,
Are like fortune cookies or rhyme,
Words of future prophecy,
They fill my world and mind,
Playing all the time,
Long after I’m dead.
The words in my head,
May find another mind,
And someone I will never know
May read them down the line,
And hear them one more time…
Long after I’m dead.
Outro
Maybe words don’t die,
Maybe they just find
Another head
To live inside.
