The Herd - The Sum Of It All lyrics

What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against?
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against?
Was it worth it? (one, two, three, four)

My dreams run amok
They don't take in my means
They break-in then break-out
They're making a scene i wake up and leg it
I chase 'em with both hands
They float and don't care where my feet land
Gotta stay fed but you gotta stay friends
What I'd do for the roof over my head
(my head)
The blood the sweat the tears I've shed
What I'd bend for the ends well, it depends
On the prize and the pride
Of the name I inherited
Dirty hands clean heart rose
Up from the sediment
I ain't tryna build a mansion
Or expand a settlement
Be an empty headed guest on Letterman, fire
Gotta keep the engine purring
And the fire stoked
Redemption round the corner holding
On the higher hopes
Bigger than the music and all the liner notes
Good and bad
Sum of everything that I had hoped

What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against?
(one, two, three)
Was it worth it? You compromise so much
That you forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?

Report read she's a dreamer
Something wrong, we should screen her
How could they know of the carnival in
Her fix when life got grim
If only they could taste the real thing
Beneath their feet, beyond the ceiling
Like hounds they'd be stuck on it
Chasin', lovin', hatin', bathin' shakin' it
They'd be doped on the feeling of it
Move mountains clothed in it
Battle waves that swallow ships

Was it worth it? You compromise so much
That you forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?
I run myself away oh into the ground away oh
I live up to my way oh
My father's name away oh

Once more at a crossroads
Looking up at signposts
All of those lies you'll never
Live and cannot know
So I wonder, will I wander or hold my line
And find myself longing for what
Can never be mine this tale's tied together
With invisible threads
Lingering on what she said, what if instead
Of a missed opportunity it just
Wasn't meant to be?
Please believe I never faked what
It meant to me
(Everything must change) Don't I know it
In a moment hesitate ad you've blown it
You want to know the possible
But it would freak you out
If you were shown it
So I'm holding my course until this road ends
I know the pen is the constant
But the ink is transient
More inclined to letting it
Ride than planning it
So I take my lumps, 'cause I wrote this story
It's always feast or famine
Always death or glory

What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against?
(one, two, three)

Was it worth it? You compromise so much
That you (compromise so much)
Forgot what you want forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?
Is that what you want?
You compromise so much
That you (you compromise so much)
Forgot what you want forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all