I Heard About a Place | a song for everyone who's tired of surviving

I heard there's somewhere the mornings come in soft where the first thought isn't armor and the windows aren't afraid where the birds have stopped pretending and the silence doesn't mean something's on its way --- I don't want to leave before I see it I just need to know it's real that somewhere out there ordinary is just ordinary nothing you have to survive to feel --- I want the tired that comes from living not the kind that comes from holding on I want to lose my keys on a Tuesday and have that be the whole thing that went wrong I want to go I just want to go there --- I heard they argue over small things and the small things stay small that they dance without a reason and tomorrow's just tomorrow not a rumor after all I heard they smile and no one asks them why I heard they plan for years they trust will come I heard that when they say God willing something actually becomes --- I don't want to leave before I see it I just need to know it's real that somewhere out there ordinary is just ordinary nothing you have to survive to feel --- I want the tired that comes from living not the kind that comes from holding on I want to lose my keys on a Tuesday and have that be the whole thing that went wrong I want to go I just want to go there --- I heard you get to miss people quietly not the way we miss them here not with a hole where a city used to be not with a year that disappeared I heard grief there has a shape you can put down that loss doesn't become the air you breathe that you can carry someone with you without carrying everything --- and maybe I'd finally get bored really bored, the good kind miss a train, waste a morning waiting call it a bad day and mean it just that just a bad day nothing underneath it --- I heard that's living I heard it's enough I want to see it I want to see it before I go