Melissa Etheridge Lyrics

Album: Brave and Crazy

Testify Lyrics

Morning's hard coffee's cold

 Pretending that the days mean more than getting old

 Stale headlines other drenched in pride

 Marching to their drum with fear standing beside

 But if I close my eyes and throw back my head

 I can see his face and I hear the words he said

 And my memories ache and my senses burn

 Did he dream too late will we ever learn

 

 I, I want to testify

 My love still lives and breathes

 And my soul is screaming why

 The thoughts won't let me sleep

 Don't let hearts break

 And don't let children cry

 Before it gets too late

 I want to testify

 

 I take what's said as my daily dread

 I turn the page and I turn my head

 I pick I choose on the evening news

 Cause by cause they fight and one by one they lose

 Must I live my days in these concrete ways

 Will the fire break through this smokey haze

 And I swear tonight I'm gonna find that place

 It's not the love that dies but the understanding ways

 

 I, I want to testify

 My love still lives and breathes

 And my soul is screaming why

 The thoughts won't let me sleep

 Don't let hearts break

 And don't let children cry

 Before it gets too late

 I want to testify

 

 Rip through the wire that screens in my window

 Throw open the shade that covers my mind

 I'm going to touch I've got to believe

 The bell tolls for me

 

 I, I want to testify

 My love still lives and breathes

 And my soul is screaming why

 The thoughts won't let me sleep

 Don't let hearts break

 And don't let children cry

 Before it gets too late

 I want to testify