This Is What It Means

I've built some dreams

I've held them close

Celebrated perfect days

I lost the one i loved the most

Now she's 6 feet of earth awayI've cried til I thought I couldn't stop

and I've laughed until it hurt

and I've prayed in an empty parking lot

and my friends were my churchSometimes the joy can give you wings to fly

Sometimes the pain will cut you so just like a knife

There's fear, there's faith, there's loss, there's grace

I've seen it from both sides

This is what it means to be alive, alive

This is what it means to be aliveI've seen the face of have to have

Of a child without a home

A casualty of circumstance

Written off and all aloneI've cried for the wars that they've been through

and i've walked by their side

I've watched what the power of love can do

and how it changes livesSometimes the joy can give you wings to fly

Sometimes the pain will cut you so just like a knife

There's fear, there's faith, there's loss, there's grace

I've seen it from both sides

This is what it means to be alive, alive

This is what it means to be alive

This is what it means, this is what it means, this is what it means to be alive, alive.This is what it means, yeahSometimes the joy can give you wings to fly

Sometimes the pain will cut you so just like a knife

There's fear, there's faith, there's loss, there's grace

I've seen it from both sidesThis is what it means to be alive