compliment

now i've taken the side
of a beautiful calm
can you see this disguise
fading to a resolve

and there it goes my innocence
while gathering up a compliment
and here I lie with words to swear
there's something more than
the world out there

hesitation compounds
i've nothing left to sustain
my worries here have allowed
a momentary refrain

and there it goes my innocence
i'm dying here for a compliment
and here I lie with words to swear
there's something more
than the world out there

- Collective Soul, "Compliment"