John Akers

Lyrics

Testament
When the lights go down
With no one in the seats but this one lone fan
And I hear no sound
Just this ringing in my head from my favorite band
The silent movie’s starting right on cue
You fill the screen just like an ingenue
And when the ending credits hide the final view
I’d rather be with you…
When my hands are tied
Broken down like a world-weary shipwrecked crew
No matter how I tried I end up sailing faraway
from where the best winds blew
There’s only danger in the deepest blue
The stars above don’t match no map we drew
And no hand of God is there to pull us through
I’d rather be with you…
When only pieces remain of all that’s left of this life I made
And I start feeling afraid
all that will matter is that you stayed
When the memories fade
And everything I see becomes brand new
I hear the songs we played
They may be beautiful but even they forget me, too
When I can’t remember any one I knew
And have to admit that I’m a useless fool
There’s just one thing that’s absolutely true
I’d rather be with you…