 Genius Lyrics
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Flyleaf – All Around Me
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It’s a song about meeting God. I remember looking at a bunch of people’s Myspace when I first saw Myspace and the ‘Who I’d Like To Meet’ the #1 thing people picked was God. I think
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Flyleaf – Sorrow
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes life seems too quiet / Into paralyzing silence / Like the moonless dark / Meant to make me strong / Familiar breath of my old lies / Changed the color in my
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Flyleaf – Fully Alive
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[Verse 1] / Telling Layla's story spoken / 'Bout how all her bones are broken / Hammers fall on all the pieces / Two months in the cover creases / [Chorus] / Fully alive, more than
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Flyleaf – Cassie
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Cassie René Bernall (November 6, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was a student killed in the Columbine High School massacre, at age 17.
Initial reports suggested that Eric Harris asked
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Flyleaf – Fire Fire
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Fire Fire is from Flyleaf’s 2012 album New Horizons, which is the last album to feature Lacy Sturm’s vocals.
The band’s FAQ says the story behind the song is a metaphorical
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Flyleaf – So I Thought
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This song is the last track off Flyleaf’s debut self-titled album released in 2005. It is also the longest of the album, clocking in at around 4:50.
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Flyleaf – Missing
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[Verse 1] / I saw the queen / Swam out below her star on sea beneath / Though I lifted up my hands to her / She never lifted me / [Chorus] / Oh something's missing in me / I felt
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Flyleaf – I'm Sorry
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[Verse 1] / I am sorry / I don't mean to remember / It's true that I dream less often, I'm not ashamed / Of that long December / Your hand's coming down again, I / [Chorus] / Close
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Flyleaf – Arise
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[Verse 1] / Tell the swine / We will make it out alive / There’s a note in the pages of a book / So sleep tonight / We’ll sleep dreamlessly this time / When we awake, we’ll know
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Flyleaf – There For You
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes I'm a selfish fake / You're always a true friend / And I don't deserve you / 'Cause I'm not there for you / Please forgive me again / [Chorus] / I wanna be
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Flyleaf – Marionette
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[Verse 1] / I wanna cut me free / You want make believe / I'm made of flesh and bone / You wanna take control of me / [Verse 2] / You wanna dress me up / I wanna feel the sun / You
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Flyleaf – New Horizons
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[Verse 1] / So you’re tired but you’re alive / So open up your eyes and / You can get your sleep when you are dead / Kill the clock inside your head / Bring your normalcy to the
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Flyleaf – Cassie (Acoustic)
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The question asked in order to save her life or take it / They answer 'no,' avoiding death and 'yes' would make it / 'Do you believe in God?' written on the bullet / Say yes to
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Flyleaf – Mama
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[Verse 1] / What makes you happy? what makes you smile? / And when you smile please, is it for real? / I know you're not one, one to pretend / Even when I was a child you grew up
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Flyleaf – Chasm
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[Verse 1] / Break up already, wake up now / Walk away, take it all back now / Don't be quick to lick the scab off / You're spitting in his face with the rest of them / Break up
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Flyleaf – Circle
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[Verse 1] / Circle encircles the earth / Chance and choice break his heart / His innocent arm moves to save me and I am spared / His beautiful arm is bloody and cut off / His heart
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Flyleaf – Tiny Heart
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[Verse 1] / Tiny heart / Stuck inside yourself / When will you open up for me / [Verse 2] / I love you so / I wanna meet you again / Before one of us must go / [Chorus] / Your lips
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Flyleaf – Breathe Today
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[Verse 1] / You can only move as fast as / Who's in front of you / And if you assume / Just like them / What good will it do / So find out for yourself / So your ignorance / Will
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Flyleaf – Treasure
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[Intro] / That night I felt like I'd become something...treasured...different / [Verse 1] / Can I tell you a story as we dance while the sun starts to bleed / Song of Songs' Love
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Flyleaf – Perfect
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[Verse 1] / Sick of circling the same road / Sick of bearing the guilt / So open the windows to cool off / And heat pours in instead / [Chorus] / Perfect in weakness / I'm only
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Flyleaf – Beautiful Bride
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Flyleaf opens up Memento Mori with guns blazing, providing one of the hardest tracks on the album.
“Beautiful Bride” was the second single for Flyleaf’s sophomore album, released
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Flyleaf – This Close
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[Verse 1] / Had a dream that we were dead / But we pretended that we still lived / With no regrets we never bled / And we took everything life could give / And came up broken empty
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Flyleaf – The Kind
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The song is about money and that money controls us
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Flyleaf – Red Sam
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[Verse 1] / Here I stand / Empty hands / Wishing my wrists were bleeding / To stop the pain from the beatings, and / There you stood / Holding me / Waiting for me to notice you / [
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Flyleaf – Broken Wings
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Thank you for being such a friend to me / Oh I pray a friend for life / And have I ever told you how much you mean to me? / Oh, you're everything to me / And I am so lost for words
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Flyleaf – I'm So Sick (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I will break into your thoughts / With what's written on my heart / I will break / [Refrain] / You broke into my thoughts / This invasion makes me feel / Worthless
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Flyleaf – Swept Away
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[Intro] / Help help help / Out out out out out out out / Now now now now now / [Verse 1] / The evil fell from your pretty mouth, wrapped in your classic voice / Angelic in your
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Flyleaf – Christmas Song
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A frightened virgin teenage girl / Receives a message that defies the laws of this world / All she can do is weep and nod / She's to bring into this world the son of God / God's
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Flyleaf – Tina
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“Tina” is inspired a girl frontwoman Lacey Sturm met on tour. After hearing about her experiences with suicide, Sturm wrote this song about what the girl learned and named it after
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Flyleaf – Again
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The second track and lead single of Flyleaf’s 2009 album Memento Mori.
Lead singer (at the time) Lacey Mosley explained the song in a letter written to fans:
It is written for
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Flyleaf – In the Dark
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[Intro] / I've written songs in the dark / I've felt inspired in the dark / I hide myself in the dark / Used to be afraid of the dark / Those in the light know we die in the dark
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Flyleaf – Believe in Dreams
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[Verse 1] / I know, days will come and go / And maybe I'll grow old, but I will die / For now, is it worth it to be sad / It is harder to be glad to be alive / [Refrain 1] / With
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Flyleaf – Much Like Falling
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When I said good morning, I was lying / I was truly thinking of / How I might quit waking up / He pointed out how selfish / It would be to kill myself / So I keep waking up / Feels
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Flyleaf – Stand
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Breathe on these bones / Breathe on these bones / Breathe on these bones / Find there's no need to hide / The time has come to stand and fight / Save the world / And save that girl
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Flyleaf – Call You Out
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[Verse 1] / How can you act like you know / When all you know is to lie? / Another truth to expose / Freedom will capture their eyes / We find this truth / We fight / You lose / [
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Flyleaf – Uncle Bobby
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“Uncle Bobby” is the hidden Track 0 of Flyleaf’s 2009 album Memento Mori. It is hidden in the pre-gap section of the CD version.
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Flyleaf – Enemy
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I have made you an enemy / I have been my own enemy / I am asking for you to forgive me / For everything / If you don't / You're worthy of compassion / If you do / You're a better
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Flyleaf – Okay
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I won't be satisfied with "okay" / And I can't be okay with "alright" / So point me to the edge of life / I'll stand up on my toes / Stretch my fingers out to there and bring it
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Flyleaf – City Kids
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[Verse 1] / Walking through the city we grew up in, everything has changed again / I remember fighting to believe in truth and how the good will win / But we were young, almost in
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Flyleaf – Great Love
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[Chorus] / Great love setting the world on fire / I am in awe of who You are / And it's Your love I'm living for / [Verse 1] / Can't you feel I'm drawing near / The place that
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Flyleaf – Magnetic
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[Verse 1] / You seem to know when I need to feel you closer / Pulling me places I've never been / There is a light inside you that hypnotizes / Where I am ending is where you begin
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Flyleaf – Bury Your Heart
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Gold, gold, bones, bones / Under platinum headstones / Gold, gold, bones, bones / Under platinum headstones / [Verse 1] / You're so cold as you sit there alone / Selling your
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Flyleaf – Green Heart
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[Verse 1] / Must cross, destroy all that you build / Thieves break in and steal your green heart / My red heart turns white as snow / Every new dawn yours could, would you know / [
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Flyleaf – Cassie (Demo)
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[Intro] / I will say "Yes" / [Verse 1] / The question asked in order / To save her life or take it / The answer "No" to avoid death / The answer "Yes" would make it / Make it / [
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