"Maybe" genre: Pop
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	An epic song which ties together the drama a four year relationship, from getting together, to losing each other, to watching her find someone else, and what it means to really love someone in the first place.
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	Story Behind the Song On New Year's Day, 1998, I sat down with a guitar and wrote Maybe about the conversation I had the night before with the girl I was supposed to marry. We had been together for over three years, but we were only three months removed from a seperation that had almost lost our relationship. But New Year's Eve, we laid awake at night and talked about the future, about what it would mean to be together. And then she started telling me about her deepest thoughts, her deepest fears, the things that had happened to her years before, how she had lost her mother when she was a child on New Year's Day, and feeling after feeling, thought after thought that in three years I had never heard from her or seen in her. And I realized that it was a challenge to me. It was seeing her for who she really was, realizing that in three years, somehow, I had never really known her, and having to decide that now that I'd seen all of who she was, did I want to be a part of it? The answer, to my suprise, was yes. Somehow, it made me love her even more, and I knew for sure, for the first time, that she was the one for me. But things happen. She decided just a few months later that I couldn't be the man she wanted me to be, and she told me I had to leave, and that she had to move on. Lots of songs emerged from that break up and that relationship, but Maybe was shelved for some time, until I decided that it had to be a part of this new CD, which is mainly about that relationship and that part of my life. Since the song was slated to be the last track on the album, I decided it had to have some kind of closure to it. Some part of the song had to represent the fact that it took years, but somehow, I learned to be happy for her and her new love, and I learned that I could be happy in my self. Spiritual peace, growing up, and just living a while without her taught me so much. So the last part of the song was added on in the studio, to let her know if she ever hears the song that I've found love again. Lyrics Maybe Words by Jonathan English Music by Jonathan English, Clif Haley, Ryan Holley, and David English Maybe I can shake the dust off my feet and leave it here Maybe I can walk away Maybe I can leap tall buildings in a single bound Maybe I can talk my way to somewhere Maybe when I laid there next to you and heard your life Maybe I can put it down Maybe I wont let it stay inside my head Maybe I wont be around And maybe I wont cry myself to sleep at night Maybe I can finally be alone Maybe I wont let it stay inside my head tonight Maybe Im not home Maybe priests and Pharisees that gather in the clouds tonight Cant make our laws abide Maybe youre still naked and revealed in this new days light And tonight you cant hide Maybe once a little girl laid like this on a cold, cold New Years Day Maybe God reached out His hand to you that night And He carried you away And maybe you could pass it on to me inside your eyes tonight Maybe Im prepared to pay Maybe even though its nothing that I want to feel its right Maybe youd please stay Would it be unfair or insincere for me to fall in love with you When loves a passion not defined? And it would it be construed as lying if I told you that I dont believe In all these distractions Ive left behind? Would it be abusing all Ive left for you to judge me by To tell you that youve touched my heart? Would you be forgiving if I looked you in the eye and told you This is where we have to start? Maybe now I can see through all this smog Maybe now Ive felt a truth Maybe you could stay with me a little while longer here Protect this innocence of youth Maybe what Ive seen in you tonight can give me one more chance To be today Maybe Im surrounded by a force unknown and undiscovered That never went away And maybe now I wont give up the fight Maybe now I can believe Maybe even though its so very far away from me its right Maybe a coward can achieve with you Oceans open in between, its something you could not foresee Its changing you Blind we stumble into fears and I cant hear you answer when I say Youre scared arent you? Find me out alone again, its rage and hate, I cant begin To tell you all the things I know are wrong with me Life, it starts and ends and ends and where you end and I being Is something I cant see Winters, wishing wells and roses, unrequited games they pose I want to run, but who we are keeps getting in the way When he comes to you I cry and I wont let myself just try to Learn to let it go But now its funny how our life would teach us All the years we were, they reached us Every single part of who we grew into becomes a little More inclined to laugh, a little more inclined to pass on All the hate and fear and unforgiveness The I see you carried on a stream of love and mercy settles like a dove And I feel so warm Tender one be safe with him, and now my God and I begin Princess, princess Ive found love again

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