Vienna Teng - The Tower

The Tower
Artist: Vienna Teng
Album: Waking Hour (2001)

Lyrics

The one who survives by making the lives
of others worthwhile
She's coming apart
right before my eyes
The one who depends on the services she renders
to those who come knocking
She's seeing too clearly what she can't be
What understanding defies

She says I need not to need
or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness and won't let go
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
but now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

She turns out the light anticipating night falling
tenderly around her
and watches the dusk
The words won't come
She carries the act so convincingly the fact is
sometimes she believes it
That she can be happy the way things are
Be happy with the things she's done

And yet I need not to need
or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness and won't let go
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
but now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

Reach out
but hold back
Where is safety
Reach out
and hold back
Where is the one who can change me
Where is the one
The one
The one

Reach out
but hold back
Where is safety
Reach out
and hold back
Where is the one who can save me
Where is the one
The one
The one

I need not to need
or else a love with intuition
someone who reaches out to my weakness and won't let go
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
but now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow
The danger and the power
The friend and the foe...

Category:

Music

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• vienna
• teng
• the
• tower
• lyrics
• waking
• hour

[AceofGallifrey]

Vienna Teng is brilliant!! She deserves so much more recognition for her work!

[draygonicewing]

Absolutely beautiful.

[thisfireinmyskin]

And so the 50 people on earth who know who Vienna Teng is were introduced to Vienna Teng. Hard to believe this was the first song she made to be publicly distributed, isn't it?

[lightpaw100]

love this song xD