Myth To Live By

You've been told all your life
You don't look like a hero
You believed it and now
You're at absolute zero
You make music alone
'Cause you don't feel pretty
And you're doing too little
In too big a city.

Oh, woah
Oh, woah.

You've been waiting for years
For your world to start moving
You've been waiting for years
But your life's not improving
And I'm not trying to deal you
Empathy or pity.

I'm just doing too little
In too big a city.

Oh, oh
Oh, oh.

I've resigned to living a life
Without glory
I've resigned to living like
That’s not my story
I've been waiting for change
To drop out of the sky
I've been squeezing the meaning
Out of one simple word
Try!

And I'm making a list
Of the things that I'm proud of
And I'm making a list
Of the people that I love
And I'm setting my limits
Impossibly high.

'Cause my life is gonna be
A myth to live by.

You think that I need you
More than you need me
Well there's no way that
I'm gonna give up so easy
'Cause I've waited too long
For my future to slip by
And my life is gonna be
A myth to live by.