Would You Do It All Over Again?

Would you do it all over again If you knew it all back then? The past is a companion That you make your future's friend

If you can hold that tension You can redeem what you wanna revenge So, would you do it all over again? Take the chance on an alternate end?

I would do it all over again Even knowing now what I didn't then Beauty can grow out of anything Even the waste even the suffering

I have learned that joy Scorns the shame and the sadness Endures the death and makes a choice Like an artist filling her canvas

How long? How long? 'Cause hope is only hope if it can end How long? (Will you remember?)

Everything that it could have been Is what dies on the altar Of our lives and to our surprise To our wisdom and to our wonder