See It So Clear

[Verse 1]
There's a photograph in celluloid
Some little boy
A sweet, sad paragraph
I wrote in the school magazine

[Pre-Chorus 1]
And if I close my eyes
Then it all comes back to me
Under sunny skies
When I was seventeen
But all these solid certainties
They had sadness underneath
And all these happy memories
They have spaces in between

[Chorus]
Oh I see it now, see it now
Look back and see
From shadows, the loneliness reaching for me
I will give it a home so it's never alone
It was buried so deep but
I see it now, see it now
Look back and see
From shadows the loneliness reaching for me
I will give it a home so it's never alone
Now there's nothing to fear
I see it so clear

[Verse 2]
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I'm watching me
Why I'll never know
What's dead and gone
Keeps holding on

[Pre-Chorus 2]
I try to shut my mind
But it still comes back at me
Under different skies
Now I'm thirty-three
When all life's solid certainties
Have been shaken to the core
No defeats, no victories
I won't fight it anymore

[Chorus]
Oh I see it now, see it now
Look back and see
From shadows the loneliness reaching for me
I will give it a home so it's never alone
It was buried so deep but
I see it now, see it now
Look back and see
From shadows the loneliness reaching for me
I will give it a home so it's never alone
Now there's nothing to fear
I see it so clear
I see it so clear
I see it so clear
I see it so clear
I see it so clear

[Outro]
See it now, see it now
Look back and see
From shadows the loneliness reaching for me
I will give it a home so it's never alone
Now there's nothing to fear
I see it so clear