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Hand over hand
I crawled back to land
There is no retreat
That option's far and away
I have to be brave
I always did crave
The golden sunlight
It's been about me
But I'm setting that free
For golden sunlight
There's a door open to walk through
All I want is, just beyond
What if I could let my guard down
Into freedom, on and on
Somehow it came out
What I can't talk about
Someone to help me
As free as I wanna be
I cannot erase
But you helped me face
The songs and the flowers
At last, perception
Of my self-deception
And then the songs and the flowers
There's a door open to walk through
All I want is, just beyond
What if I could let my guard down
Into freedom, on and on
What if I could just let my guard down
What if I could live wide open
What if I could just let my guard down
And go beyond into the great unknown
Sweetheart I've been bothered
A golden sunlit path I've been after
Grass hills, wildflowers
Chaparral trails for our daughter
I want to be her father
I want to hear her laughter
Under meteor showers
Our dogs will howl at the midnight hour
There's a door open to walk through
All I want is, just beyond
What if I could let my guard down
Into freedom, on and on
What if I could just let my guard down
What if I could live wide open
What if I could just let my guard down
And go beyond into the great unknown
I crawled back to land
There is no retreat
That option's far and away
I have to be brave
I always did crave
The golden sunlight
It's been about me
But I'm setting that free
For golden sunlight
There's a door open to walk through
All I want is, just beyond
What if I could let my guard down
Into freedom, on and on
Somehow it came out
What I can't talk about
Someone to help me
As free as I wanna be
I cannot erase
But you helped me face
The songs and the flowers
At last, perception
Of my self-deception
And then the songs and the flowers
There's a door open to walk through
All I want is, just beyond
What if I could let my guard down
Into freedom, on and on
What if I could just let my guard down
What if I could live wide open
What if I could just let my guard down
And go beyond into the great unknown
Sweetheart I've been bothered
A golden sunlit path I've been after
Grass hills, wildflowers
Chaparral trails for our daughter
I want to be her father
I want to hear her laughter
Under meteor showers
Our dogs will howl at the midnight hour
There's a door open to walk through
All I want is, just beyond
What if I could let my guard down
Into freedom, on and on
What if I could just let my guard down
What if I could live wide open
What if I could just let my guard down
And go beyond into the great unknown
Lyrics submitted by jbond311
Track duration: 04:30
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There is something about the Line..."Want to be a father, want to hear her laughter...under meter showers" then he names his daughter Nova, that just strikes me. Not only that but the golden sunlight....is a new day of dawn....A new begining! Lyically i feel 311 has come a long way with deeper meaning that grassroots....which is my fav. _Kat and baby Zoe.
Maybe in a couple years, we can look back and reminisce, and maybe it will seem better than it does now.
To me anyways.
But you helped me face
The songs and the flowers"
I wonder if this is any add on to the idea they were singing about in Long for the Flowers in their previous album?
I think this song is about wanting something in life, but certain things such as having a guard up and self-deception is stopping that, so the song is about what could be if that all went away.