6 Seconds | | back to top
I watched your smile turn quickly down
Then wrinkles formed around your brow
You raised a hand and opened your mouth
But in this instant I forgot
What we were talking about
You brushed a bunch of hair from your eyes
But it fell right back while you moved your head
From side to side
The scar on your chin hidden by the light
Reminds your skin but not your heart
That we'll outgrow this life...
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10 Verses | | back to top
Did you know you can kill with a word?
At the sound of your name I'll be dead
My eyes will be open, my jaw will be set
In each fist will be our fantasy and regret
As you speak you will know the message you sent
I will leave your world in the end
She took up my hat from my head,
With an (impish) smile, "mine" is all that she said
She ran out the door, I didn't know her name yet
In the months to come I'd learn what she meant
The words you don't share are all there is left
I will leave your world in the end
Then her name was all I could hear,
And I feared that I knew where we'd steer
Her troubles were strong, and my love couldn't speak
The smile in her eyes left with the pink in her cheeks
And I thought for a while it was all just pretend
You will leave my world in the end
For a time we were happy to be
What it was we decided was free
Our bodies drew closer than our minds ever would
Pleasure and passion were well understood
But we missed the mark to hurt each other instead
You will leave my world in the end
There's a language that lovers share
Of actions and some silent stares
The body translates what the mouth never could
But I lost the cipher, I thought I lost her for good
I thought I could follow where ever she led
I will leave your world in the end
You see, I strayed as men often do
And my stuttering could never prove
The depth and strain, the tears that we shed
The spark in her touch to my wrinkled forehead
My mistakes bore witness to the things I had dread
You will leave my world in the end
Did you know you can kill with a word?
Did you think this is what we deserve?
The whispers of others are lies incomplete
The longer you listen the deeper the seed
The game is not mine to hate or defend
I will leave this world in the end
Did you know that she haunted my dreams?
A white ghostly shimmer; pale, perfect, pristine
My lips would quiver, my palms would sweat
But the dream would not follow once I got out of bed
The things we see are not truth, I confess
I will leave your world in the end
As the days stretch out and blur
It takes a toll on a mind so disturbed
The tangled threads have left me confused
And question return with the answers refused
Will time ever show what their hearts intend?
I will leave this world in the end
Now the trail back the way I have come
It's growing colder than the dying sun
The dust is still settling, the steps are not clear
But stray memories still make me smile ear to ear
Our history's a dream changed in self-defense
We will leave this world in the end
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Adrift/Ego | | back to top
I've never seen a place quite like this
The sky split open the ground so sick
We seemed to think nothing could change
But life's a cycle; The body a vessel
I've never felt a cold cut so deep
It reaches beneath my skin through the words I hear you speak
We seem to think we're safe as long as we pray
But the truth runs deeper and I'm digging toward it every day
Just as we falter we find belief
Too late to ebb the flow of the blood around our feet
In this moment I'm learning to see my shame for what it is
I won't admit defeat
Don't you hate the hold this world has on us?
Every move we make determines who will be our judge
I hear the lies I see them in your face
The answer is there and in everybody else
You come to me eyes closed hands bound
Asking forgiveness for sins when atonements all around
I find your Ego's trace. It seems you're to blame
The truth is too much to bare, will you take it to your grave?
We're set adrift at birth together questioning
Very few will see their worth but there's
None so blind as those who will not see
Is this a nightmare or a pleasant restful sleep?
Just as we falter we find belief
Too late to ebb the flow of the blood around our feet
In this moment I'm learning to see my shame for what it is
I won't admit defeat
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After All | | back to top
After all, after everything
I let you go in my way
I don't see indifference in your eyes
And I don't feel no panic or surprise
But after all and after yesterday
I let you go in my way
And I don't see indecision in your eyes
And I don't feel no panic or surprise
But after all, after yesterday
I let you go in my way
I let you die in my way
Cause you're not going my way
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And It Hurts (1-3) | | back to top
Part I:
...And it hurts
In time it will fade away
Part II:
Reach out but it's not there
The ones you loved no longer can care
You severed the bonds that held them close
Cutting out the ones you loved the most
Tread on lightly just to be safe
They may turn on you or spit in your face
The cold of winter envelopes me now
Though still the warmth of some caresses the clouds
That on me shall rain the tears of heaven
From the eyes heaven; of angels as I perish
Part III:
Give me strength
Give me hope
Give me constancy
Give me love
Give me peace
Give me strength to see
Give me time
Give me proof
Give me day and night
Give me pain
Give me calm
Give me eternity
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A story. A life. | | back to top
They'll love me til I stay
They'll make me turn from blue to gray
They'll turn me round til I don't know what's home
I'm tired and I'm bleeding out
You're coming closer even now
I'm sure you know you're coming close to home
Well it's all here on paper
All my words, I know, will matter
I have run to keep ahead of my own pain
But they say I need to feel it
You have to cry to become strengthened
This story will not have to end in vain
Dig deeper down beneath the covering
Under the facade left smouldering
Questions I'll never answer a lifetime old
You are more than just a memory
Every word of journal entries
I am quiet but I am open, now, for good
It's a story. It's a life.
It's my glory blinding white
It's a shadow cast away
It's a journey true to stay
At story. A life.
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Bite Your Tongue | | back to top
You put the sounds where they belong
Forming syllables and words
But your meaningless exchange
Translates into nothing I know
I'll never understand til you say what you mean
The greatest power of man is our gift of speech
You put the sounds where they belong
Building nonsense with your words
And the more you have to say
The less you make me wanna know
I'll never understand til you say what you mean
The greatest power of man is our gift of speech
But your tongue, It's hung in the middle
And you let it spread your lies without a stutter
Bite Your Tongue and bleed just a little
You cannot take it back. You cannot take it back
I'll never understand til you say what you mean
The greatest power of man...
But you don't have a clue. You're lying to my face
I might play along, but your voice is a waste
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Blow It Away | | back to top
These words are a growing flame
Burning to the edges of the page
Blackening the corners
Curling under tendrils
A smoke that will always hang
Burn it away
Leave no trace
Down to the smallest part
There will be no memory of this face
In turn I will feel ashamed
Yearning for the image to be replaced
Questioning the answer
Quaking under pressure
As an ocean of calm is displaced
Blow it away
Leave no trace
Down to the smallest part
There will be no memory of this face
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Carry Me Away Pt.1 | | back to top
I threw opportunity to the wind
Burned your pictures in my head
I tried to convince myself what we saw was never there
This kind of love was more than we could bare
It carried me away
I believe the scars and memories they shade
Walk the streets and broken summer ways
Outline the lovers you thought we should be with your sorrow
Cuz the debtor has reaped his pay
He carried me away
So tell me why you're still here
By my side, you shed no tear
Lay me down and time stands still
You are evermore as life is stilled
You carry me away
It's not betrayal if you're not real
It's not heartache if I can't feel
And I'm not gonna lose nothing
If I don't fill my heart with pain
You carry me away
So tell me why you're still here
By my side, you shed no tear
Lay me down and time stands still
You are evermore as life is stilled
You carry me away
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Carry Me Away Pt.2 | | back to top
I finally burned the pictures of your face
The smoke escaped like satin from my fireplace
It danced away with leaves to block the stars
A tired wind carried you far from me
You couldn't know but I felt you might
See the signals rising from my sorry eyes
A billowed dream of used-to-bes
You never knew your heart like me
From the shadows came a devil
To stoke a fire in my burning brain
Remember the time. Remember this place
You'll need it when they forget your face
Who ever said "love is forever"
Must not've counted on time and the bonds that it severs
I'll search my soul for who I should be
And silence my selfish need of your memory
But what will be left when the body has died?
Who will carry me? Who will remember me with pride?
And what is left when the body has died?
Who will carry me in the corner of their mind when the tears have dried?
From the shadows came a devil
To stoke a fire in my sorry brain
Remember the time. Remember this place
you'll need it when they forget your name
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Certain Things | | back to top
I'm always looking back for hints at what's to come
I'm never settled unless I see my time is done
There are no certain things; no measurements for lies
I am my own mistakes, my methods, and my crimes
I've come to expect your image in my dreams
You're in my thoughts, you're in the words I sing
You've littered my future with a twisted view
Love is not simple. My love is still with you
How do I pick myself up from this?
I'm not a prisoner, there's no shackles on my wrist
My freedom is not certain. There's a cage that waits, I know
I'll get all the answers but there's a lifetime left to go
If you treat the wound like it will never heal
The blood will run and seep into everything you feel
Terrified and angry, humbled and still
Too proud to answer for the love you kill
I will pick myself up from this
I'm not a prisoner, there's no shackles on my wrist
My freedom is not certain. There's a cage that waits, I know
I'll get all the answers but there's a lifetime left to go
My world will shake in places I have yet to see
And the power of my thoughts will set these fault lines free
You're a hurricane on course to test my crumbling ground
You're a terrifying force but I am a mountain of sound
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Come Clean | | back to top
I've tried - I've really tried to wipe it all away
I've tried - Tried to come clean and face this every day
But why should I try to pay for something that's not mine?
Why do we all say quit hiding? Oh you...
And why should it hurt so bad to be? You gotta come clean
It's a fallacy, what we see and how they define
It's a mockery, what they think and how we can whine
But why should I try to relate to something that's not fine?
What's with this charade; hide & seek? Wait and see
And why should it be so wrong to be?
You gotta come clean!
Just look at each other
Just look at each other
We're brothers and sisters, yeah we are
Where angels can catch us
Just look at each other
Just look at each other
We're brothers and sisters, yeah we are
Where angels can catch us where we fall
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Come See | | back to top
I am out among the hills
Longing to see what I've been missing
Overflowing with ideas but lacking clarity to see
This wisdom is not new
It is altogether used up
Come see. Come see...
I am here among my fears
Lifting a weight I've been avoiding
Her face flashes the answer
While I face mortality
The truth will dry my blood to dust
Am I altogether used up?
Come see. Come see
The lion's lying with the lambs
Come see
I am become the calm between them
I'm fighting to be, not pretend
Aiming for sky but always crashing to land
This distance has not changed
Am I, for the better, the same?
Come see. Come see
The lion's lying with the lambs
Come see
I am become the calm between them
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Contrary Motion | | back to top
Cover my tracks though there's nothing to conceal
The fear of confliction makes the nightmares real
Conscience: Leave me, lovely as you can seem
Broken promise: Sometimes there's truth in what you see
Tear open my hands. I've nothing to hide
Just empty riddles in the middle of my sight
Consciously breathing, fighting as I stumble through your open door and
I saw a chance there's this life and nothing more
So you wanna fight me on this?
You wanna strip me of my bliss?
Well I gotta tell you
This is me
Contrary motion
Sail every ocean
You'll still hear the same boy screaming
This is me!
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December | | back to top
December, warmer than it's ever been 'round Christmas
Tongue's dry from thirst. Wonder when I'll get another kiss
Tonight I drink to the past;
To all the actions that led to the crash and the halt
To futures all unseen, unclear
I'm certain we'll be right here. It's not your fault
This vision stands in light
This image placed inside
But are you the one?
You, my love, are allowed to leave behind
So many uncounted reasons to smile and cry and love
You, my love, are a life after death
You, my love, are a lifetime spent in passion's waking breath
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Defy | | back to top
He's reading her words in her bed
She sings the song while heavy thoughts swim
Carefully avoiding their touching skin
She's ready to speak, ready to explain
Lying on the blankets in a fog
The sun creeps up. Blues, blacks and reds
They move in the dark of the early morning
A carload of things boxing them in
She's ready to speak. Ready to explain
Driving on the highway in a fog
The drinks have gone to his head
And he cries his way to confusion
Cutting deep through the quieted apartment
He's ready to break, ready to explain
Lying face down on the carpet in a fog
She's reading his thoughts though lightly she treads
He blames the night in a place he's never been
Completely overwhelmed, this has to be a sin
Lying on the wet grass in a fog
Moving closer now, nearer to the end
They sing a while in harmony then perfect unison
Winding and tumbling their bodies meet again
He's ready to fight a fight she's ready to relive
She ready to embrace a flame he's ready to forget
He drives away to stay his tongue never to return
Driving from the ocean in a fog
And you go. Spreading your arms to defy
Moving until we're eye to eye
Calling out your anxious hidden other side
To stand against the storm
And you grow, without me to confide
Even now I know you can't deny
Calling me "lover" to your side
To stand against the storm
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Dream of Me | | back to top
Drive, I wanna drive far away. It's a typical thing to say
It's easy to talk about not so easy to follow through
She says 'it's all there is for us to do"
She opens her eyes and closes them again
She smiles and she laughs
She says she's okay. It's okay to run away
Dream of me when I'm gone
Think of me when the night's too long
Dream of me when I'm gone
I wanna have seen it all, I wanna see everything
Then all of this shit would be nothing new, nothing new to me
She says "sure you can go but you gotta get through me"
She says I gotta get through her
She smiles and she laughs
She says it's alright. Alright
Dream of me when I'm gone
Think of me when the night's too long
Dream of me when I'm gone
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Do You Ever Think (What Might've Been)? | | back to top
She took my hand and led me through the rooms
One precious flower in her hair still blooms
All these spaces filled with old forgotten things
Her lifetime scattered through the song she starts to sing
Do you ever think what might've been?
Her question hangs in silence
No answer on my quiet tongue
While she slips into a wild trance
I left her there and wondered what I'd lost
Careless words can do no good for hope
A severed link with which to measure love
A broken frame of reference, oh God, it's gone
The rhythm races as our growing distance brings
Realizations in the songs we both now sing
Do you ever think what might've been?
This question stands in silence
No answers in my empty head
As you escape my waiting hands
Do you ever think what we might've done
With the second chance that beckoned?
When all we ask is a moment to think
What might've been.
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Gather in your children
There's beasts out in the land
Huddle in your kitchens
There's no time now, understand?
Take up your arms
And fight to save what's left
Do What You Can
They're starving for attention
These thirsty souls lay bared
Keeping watch the night through
These tired eyes still stare
Gather at the fire
And tend your wounds with care
Do what you can
Why do we help the stranger at our side?
What is it that draws the good of me from inside?
I am no hero; No saintly soul
I do what I must until the pieces are whole
The best of men will wonder
While the worst claim to be blind
The last of us to falter
Is the first we stand behind
Stake your claim and hold
And shelter in the light
Do what you can
You can clear away the wreckage
Or leave this troubled land
Bring the fight out to the villains
Or they will come again
Keep your faith and rise
We'll never be the same
Do what you can
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Embrace | | back to top
Here I am pacing back & forth 'round 3am
Must be the sound of the cars rolling by
Passed my door, passed my eyes, passing out
There on the floor - How cool I am. How cool am I?
Her picture opposite me reflecting that would be
Unconscious but moving energy in me
Silently crooning in this machine
But I don't buy it - It's obvious and I've tried it
Not sure where to turn my eyes
Blazing passed cars and miles
This girl is on my mind
Fine lines criss-crossed
My time is lost to her
To be under those sheets
Press repeat, to feel again in that embrace
Smiles booze and laced inside the phrase
"The sweetest lips I'll ever taste"
Is a poison that only frustrated lust can trace
Everybody agrees it's a season of change
Must be something in the water, or in the blood
Pass me by, pass me by, please pass by
Her images and words, kaleidoscopic turns
Unchangeable, immoveable, unchanging but so frightening
My racing heart. Her moving hands
It tears me up, I'll buy into this
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Explain To Me | | back to top
Explain to me - Tell me what have I done
Explain to me why you think I'm the one
To have broken your heart, singled you out
And left you to the crows...
Explain to me why you asked to be all alone
Explain to me - Are you feeling alright?
I know you've been alone but you can't give up the fight
To have thrown it away, turned in your key
And say you're going home...
Explain to me why you think I could leave you alone
Don't go leaving this way
There's a chance we can make it out safely
Don't go turning away
You know you can leave with me
Explain to me - Tell me what have I done
Explain to me why you think I'm the one
To have broken your heart, singled you out
And left you to the crows...
Explain to me why you asked to be all alone
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Fine Point | | back to top
Still awake
Refreshing to see the sun's not up yet
I can hear the birds sing
No room for sleep
I confess to you the wrong's not right
To you, the wrong's not so frightening
Still I ask you to
Try to erase my name
Leave it blank and
Try and erase my name
Leave me
It's a good point, you made a fine point
Still afraid
I contemplate the ways
The moon's gone hiding from this rain and horizon
No room for weakness here
I'll calculate so you don't have to know that
'My-head-has-gone-looking-for-my-hands' kind of feeling
Then I ask you to
Try to erase my name
Leave it blank and
Try and erase my name
Leave me
Try and erase my name - Leave me sleeping
Try and forget the plans - Leave me broken
Try and erase the sound - Leave me shattered
Try and forget your heart's pounding and leave me
Try to leave me, beauty
Try to...
It's a good point but you made a damn mess of me
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Finite Growth | | back to top
(instrumental)
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Flood Water | | back to top
Flood waters rising, flood water's rising
Creeping up over my shoes
I can still see the way back
Still see my way back
Still see the way back home to you
I knew right when I walked away
There'd be nothing more but rain
Filling up the seconds
Filling up with minutes since I left you
I see the flood water rising, flood water's rising
Gathering up around my knees
Nothing good has come from this
Nothing good can come from this
Nothing good since I set you free
The rift is growing deep and wide
As I'm driven further from your side
It's a hell of a way to go
Hell of a way to go before I find my peace
Flood water rising, flood water's rising
Wrapping up around my hips
The hour has struck and I'm waiting for a change of luck
This deluge has a stinging kind of kiss
Let time take me if it will
The torrents will find my will steel
I will learn my lesson
I would learn my lesson better if I knew nothing to begin with
Flood waters rising, flood water's rising
Coming up bobbing round my eyes
I can't see the way back, can't find my way back
Wanna find the way back to you
Can't swim. There's nothing I can do
Flood water's rising, still that water's rolling in
Come on! Swallow me whole
I can't swim. There's nothing I can do
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Fly, Love. | | back to top
Here for the duration
Cautioned by a passer-by
Watch the next step, it's steep
And the air is thick with lies
There's that girl of my dreams
Here is the love that shapes her
Breaking me cuz it's not ours
Blurs of memories and things to come
I've fallen sick with lies
I can't see her. Why?
Is it that I don't need her?
I feel her and cry for it, my love
Here for the morning paper
Blocked by warning signs: The road ahead is hard
Watch for falling rocks
The sky is crumbling
But I'm too blind to move on
From my fluid nightmare
My crooked time-share half & half mind style
See in my jealous cold stare - My wounded flesh bared
I can't grit my teeth and smile
I can't see her. Why?
Is it that I don't love her?
I feel her and cry for it, my love
I see her fly
Is it that I don't need her?
I feel it die a little more, my love
A little more, cry love, cry more
Die love, a little more
Fly, Love.
Jealousy - It finds a place in me
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For The First Time | | back to top
Be new, be you - Be everything I am not
Be sure, don't turn away. This moment could be the only one we've got
Envelope me - Live inside this memory, looking for security
40 days, 40 nights. But I'm drowning in your smile so sweetly
Wrap around me, you touch me for the first time
And in between each breath we're whispering, I'm straining
I think patience will be my guide
But something don't want me to be anywhere near you
Be clear, my dear - Be everything I am not
In time you'll find that I'm struggling to complete all my thoughts
Prove to me that you won't complicate this offering that I'm making
40 seconds, 40 years - I'll take what I can have just so it feels real
Wrap around me, you touch me for the first time
And in between each breath we're whispering, it's killing me
I'll let patience be my guide
But fear don't want me having anything to do with you
There's no crowds staring, no sirens, no judges
No past, future, or present when there's no you
No dark. No sun. No love
No lightning strikes, no god above
No fear. No fire. No hate. No power
Only you inside my blood
Only you inside my head
You're driving mad
You're driving me insane
You crawl under my skin, you cut me up and down
Right back down to size
Still it's you I love
Only you I love...
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For You, For Me, Too | | back to top
Get me away, take me away
I need time to think on what I am
Get me away take me, I pray
If you can't see where I stand
It's all here in my head
Cried some tears and I've bled
For you, for you - For me, too
Step off, step back, take a different track
I've got my plans, I know you don't understand
Fade out, fade black, fake a heart attack
If I knew you'd come see where I stand
It's all here in my head
Cried some tears and I've bled
For you, for you, for me, too
I would never tell you the pain wasn't enough
I'd never tell you that I want it
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Guilt | | back to top
Drawn me together with a thread
Fixing me up with my guilty conscience
Follow it downhill end over end
You fixed me up and sent me out
Patched up the holes within with doubt
Daring me to make my first move
And my sweat, it pours into my wounds
You stand in the shadows
With anger and arrows, you move in and out
Of my memories always
And the sorrow, it went away
I think I can trust you with (these pieces of) me
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Have Another | | back to top
Isn't this a contagious little mixer?
Having drinks with someone else's lover...
Isn't this the part where you call in your Fixer?
"Have one on us. Forget her, mister"
And it's all good
We were supposed to level
But each step we take's a little farther from each other
Soon I won't know the difference
From our very first and very last kiss...
Have another...and another
Then she called a few months later
"Haven't heard from you. How's your brother?"
"Weren't we supposed to talk this over?...
Never mind. I've had some drinks...by the way
I have Another.." I have another
It's all good
We never got to level
Each word you say shows you're not too bright, not so subtle
And I don't see the difference
From our very first and very last kiss...
Have another...
Who's willing to walk this off with me?
Who really wants to see us fall apart?
Who's still wondering what I mean?
Who wants the whole and nothing but?
Who wants the whole and nothing but.
(Have another. Have another.)
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Happenin' Right Now | | back to top
And it's happenin' right now
And it's happenin' right now
And the dream becomes your life
And the dream becomes your life
And it's happenin' right now
And the earth begins to shake
And the life you know, you see is fake
When you open up your eyes and find
It's happenin' right now
It's happenin' right now
And a wish has been sent
And a wish has been made
To see your life become the dream
Well, it's happenin' right now
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Hello Myself | | back to top
Hello my self, I don't believe we've met
Here in the mirror I see mountains of sadness
We've counted mistakes which add to regrets
We've bronzed the pain to display in our chest
Here in the dreamtime it's a face I won't soon forget
But maybe you can, my friend, for the both of us
Wait a while for the wind to bring the dust
Then you won't remember the scars once they're covered up
Won't you remind me when the time has come
Why I chose to leave; to break this up
So what do I do now that we've made amends
Here in the night air where the cold steals our breath
Maybe we walk on and seal off the past
Maybe we should marry the pain with regret
Here in the heart of it, so we don't forget
But maybe you can, my friend, for us both at last
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Here, Now. | | back to top
I feel like I've gained some time
Enough to understand
The promises and the problems that
Stand between us, you and I
I feel as if there's good left in me yet
To change the lies that have gone before
There's always gonna be that something that
Pulls me down and straight to your door
Can you really know the way
Without ever asking how
I stepped into my trap and let it
Drag me away from you now
Can you really know the why of it
Before ever you had thought
I'd step into my trap and let it
Sweep me up off my feet
Come on and ask me...
When's it time to be here?
I feel the current turn again
Tugging me out in a swell
Journeys and moments have an end
Beginning or end, it's hard to tell
It's just as well
Can you really know the way
Without ever asking how
I stepped into that trap and let it
Drag me away from you now
Can you really know the why of it
Before ever you had thought
I'd step into that trap and let it
Sweep me up off my feet
Come on and ask me...
When's it time to be here, now? Hear.
Here, now. Hear
Here, now. Hear
Can you really know the way
Without ever asking how
I stepped into that trap and let it
Drag me away from you now
Can you really know the why of it
Before ever you had thought
I'd step into that trap and let it
Sweep me up off my feet
Come on and ask me...
When's it time to be here, now? Hear.
Will these words ever be enough?
Here, now. Hear
All of the days I counted, I counted on you
Here, now. Hear
The world will still turn but will it burn?
Here, now. Hear.
Come on and ask me...
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Honesty | | back to top
In his eyes is where I know I could be
Someone better than the same old me
In these arms is where I know I could stay
Somewhat safer than in the depths of the sea
Don't say so sad. It's not too late
Don't say - Don't say anything
How could I change this mind without
Showing everything I am inside and out?
It's a strength I don't see, honestly
It's called honesty
Don't say so sad. It's not too late
Don't say - Don't say anything
Don't go breaking habits
Or change your style just to suit me, baby
Just give me a kiss
Say you'll rock with me like this
Don't say so sad
It can't be that bad
Just gimme a kiss
Say you'll rock with me like this
Don't say so sad. It's not too late
Don't say - Don't say anything
Don't go breaking habits
Or change your style just to suit me, baby
Just give me a kiss
Say you'll rock with me like this
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I Am Lost | | back to top
I am lost, but lost is a matter of when and where you lose yourself
Time will tell if I'm ever gonna gain back control
And they're all gone leaving me with more miracles under my belt
I've chosen now to put frustration in this hole
So I can see you more clearly
Imagining you there standing beside me
And to hold you more clearly
Inspire me to see you
I could feel it building up,
Waiting for the when and where to reach the surface
Cuz I was numb. Skirting issues to save face
And I pray that's done. I don't wanna be a mousy timid mouthpiece
For a greater good. I want a moment of grace
So I can see you more clearly
Intriguing how you always find the words to move me
I can hold you more dearly
Inspire me to inspire you, too
I will hold you more dearly
Inspire me to love you
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If Love Was... | | back to top
If love was just a game of chess
You'd have me cornered in check
I would give over and you'd take the rest
What did I think would come next
If love was as starved as a deep black hole
You'd have swallowed me long ago
I'd be a fine mist in the mystery of your soul
All actions out of my control
I am less the lover than the fool
You are more hopeful than you are cruel
So what's a fool to do to change his muddy tune?
If love was going to grow, expand
From seed to spreading branch
I would've cracked with the leaves busting from my chest
Rooted where I stand...
If love was never going to leave
You'd be here as I sing
I wouldn't doubt. I'd never question what you bring
Our timing's out of sync
I am less the lover than the fool
You are more hopeful than you are cruel
So what's a fool to do to change his muddy tune?
So burn the future. Damn the past
With the present still ringing from the blast
I was caught in the path but I will stand until the last
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Intentions | | back to top
There's a rumble of thunder over my head
I've a mind to stay and wait for the rain
Then a strange idea came to change my dread
"You don't have to wait for the rain to cleanse the stain
You don't need to see the bolt to feel the pain"
Fold up your umbrella. Go back inside
You don't have to let the lightning change your mind
Figure in this day and you'll see what I mean
Separate the myths from the human being
Look through the fog of loss to see the ending scene
Is this a finale to a Shakespearian tragedy?
Is this how you'd end it if the slate was clean?
Fold up your umbrella. Go back inside
You don't have to let the lightning change your mind
"What's it gonna take to make you cross that line?"
I've a mind to show them all right here and now
Still the thoughts spill out to seduce my mind
"You don't have to stay to claim some stolen crown
You don't need to hear applause to know the crowd"
Fold up your umbrella. Go back inside
You don't have to let the lightning change your mind
Lay down your intentions. Go back inside
You don't have to let the lightning change your mind
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Is Anyone Listening? | | back to top
Is anyone listening?
Is anyone hoping for the truth to come in stages
By God, it'll take a little more hope than this
Is anyone scared?
Right now I'm huddled deep inside this bravery
You'll know by the tone of the horn it's time to go home
So be strong, baby, stand tall
Though time is short and life's running circles 'round your heart
Self-indulgence is your favorite part of all
Stand strong. The line is drawn
Don't keep your distance if you're gonna stand with me
Myths are being made with each breath we breathe
Winter to come: Be gentle. Be kinder
These bones are weaker this go around
There's more friction in my thoughts
Than between hands and ground
I used to be so sure you would know me when we met
Come to think of it I had no idea, no memory of it
I could see you crawling through the canyons of a love distressed
tiptoe 'round the reservations about all the rest
So be strong, baby, stand tall
Though time is short and life's running circles 'round your heart
Self-indulgence is your favorite part of all
Stand strong. The line is drawn
Don't keep your distance if you're gonna stand with me
Myths are being made with each breath we breathe
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Is It Ever Too Late? | | back to top
I opened the door. She stepped inside
Not a hint of pain. It's been washed away
I know somewhere there's a space
Big enough for this feeling I chase to see the story change
She danced around the room and I stared
Never to forget how I can forget that
Sometimes there's a break in my thoughts
For the memory to bleed out and see the story change
So I can step up and face my fate
So she can see this frustration
It's not over. It never can be
But is it ever too late?
Many times I stumbled to grasp at straws
Trip on words that fall from my tongue
I know somebody's keeping track when I break my rules
But it makes me wanna turn back to see the story change
So I can step up and face my fate
So she can see this frustration
It's not over. It never can be
But is it ever too late?
I will come face to face
With the fact that I'm broken again
Is it destiny? Can it ever be?
Is it ever too late?
Set the time and place, I will come to see you
I will come to understand and set the story straight
So I can step up and face my fate
So she can see this frustration
It's not over. It never can be
But is it ever too late?
I will come face to face
With the fact that I'm broken again
Is it destiny? Can it ever be?
Is it ever too late?
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Isn't It a Wonder | | back to top
Here's a name I'll remember, it's got a face
One that I'll try to forget
The days will pass and come again
The darkness last longer than the daylight where they stand
Isn't it a wonder, I know my place
Right here. She won't let me forget
When I try her name is there again
But the trouble will go and I'll find it hard to understand
Go through the motions by muscle memory
Sift through sands spilled over centuries
Sometimes flashes find me;
Your photographs and drawn poetry
You may walk on water but I never learned to swim
I may be cut down but I will grow back again
It's a wonder I accomplish anything
When so much time is already spent
A tired mind forgets what it wrote
Wake me up before I go so I can see me hang by my own rope
Go through the motions by muscle memory
Sift through sands spilled over centuries
Sometimes flashes find me;
Your photographs and drawn poetry
You may walk on water but I never learned to swim
I may be cut down but I will grow back again
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It Kills | | back to top
You smiled as you spoke thinking that would lighten the blow
The descent into the glass is slow, it brings me closer to your lies
You said I'm just gonna cry the whole way home, beautiful boy
Because heartache is a proper crime
And it kills, it kills - It kills me to listen
Typical of me to learn exactly what I'm missing
It's true, it's true - It kills you, too
But if you had called hoping to undo this imagined brawl
There's more intent in the fullness of your laughter, it's tempting me
You said "I'm not your sunbeam to light the way home, boy
I'm the shade you're sheltered in."
And it kills, it kills - It's killing me to listen
Subtlety and me have some ground to be covering
It's true, it's true -It kills you , too
Damn myself for not fighting through
It kills, it kills - It's killing me to listen
Typical of me to learn exactly what I'm missing
It kills, it kills - It's killing me to give in
Subtley and me have some ground to be covering
It kills, it kills - It kills you, too
Damn myself for not fighting through
I'll leave the heartache in the shade
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I Was Saved | | back to top
I was saved when I was broken
Like the sun you shone on me
I was saved though not a word was spoken
Now my thoughts are filled with doubt
And now I can not do without your love
I was saved when I was choking
And you came and took the words from my mouth
And now I can not do without your love
I can see how much a memory can change
My thoughts will move to ideas of you
It's a simple truth, there's no reason for it
I am changed. I'll live, but not for you
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Light and Shadow | | back to top
There's a line that's been crossed
I see a woman in a flowing dress
There's a sign up above
Says I'm closer than I've ever been
I feel an unrest
Like I'm dancing on a bed of coals
Dreams come easier
Finding solace in new words
Will they outlive the rest?
Sleep in a strange bed
Finding peace in a blanket of happiness
A wish has been made
A thousand more to come
There's a home for me
Somewhere I've never been
Light a candle
For each untaken way
A chance is taken shaping sounds only love can know
Bodies move as one, open to light and shadow
Chasing memories, leaps and bounds, far as mind will allow
True vision and fantasy become one, open to light and shadow
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Made By My Own Hand | | back to top
When ghosts dream do they see a normal life?
When they scream do I hear a silence inside?
When they sing is it a tune to inspire?
Is our brightest day their darkest night?
I am clay. The world shapes me in many ways
Yet my world is what I make of it
My world is what I make
I understand the circle feels incomplete
But what I am is made by my own hand
When I wake will you still be there?
Will we feel the same? Would we really care?
If my voice was lost beyond repair?
Would my eyes still speak the truth you long to hear?
I am clay. The world shapes me in many ways
Yet my world is what I make of it
My world is what I make
I understand the circle feels incomplete
But what I am is made by my own hand
When life ends do you think you go on?
Does it end? Is that it? Is it black? Is there physical form?
If my path ends here am I reborn?
Do my choices now tell me that I have been warned?
I am clay. The world shapes me in many ways
Yet my world is what I make of it
My world is what I make
I understand the circle feels incomplete
But what I am is made by my own hand
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Mary / Just Tell Her | | back to top
Mary had a little land
She built a home upon a stone
See she always had a simple plan
And she knew she'd be alone
But every day her smile seemed to fade
This home would have to do
Though every plan should be ready for a change
For the unexpected to come true
Just tell her what she wants to hear and prove her so very right
The jealousy, the property - It's supposed to come down to a fight
Mary had her lover's arms
But she still pushed it all inside
She never could stand him being away
But either way she still would cry
Years and years are gone from her now
Her walls were wearing thin
But she still knew how to fight him
How to lose some, and how to win
Mary had a broken heart
She tried to rebuild it her way
And everywhere she turned to look
It seemed that he would stay
But she always had her plans
She meant to be alone
See, she changed the locks
Threw out his box
She's the one who built this home
Just tell her what she wants to hear and prove her so very right
The jealousy, the property - It's supposed to come down to a fight
Just tell her what you know she'd say and sacrifice your heart
Promise her a heart of gold and you'll never come apart
Just tell her she's the only one and tell her not to cry
Or tell her that her lover is lost and that house is where she'll die
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Monster | | back to top
Maybe I'm blind
Maybe I'm naive
Maybe it's the night spent half-slept
Because half-rested is tired
And tired is weak
Maybe it's the monster in me
I believe that the answer to life is a question
And I see between time and desire a connection
Do you know what I am? I believe I'm a monster
And in silence it waits for a chance at disaster
Am I still asleep?
Am I half-dead?
Are you a real woman who's stuck in my head?
You tell me things I understand you've seen
But I'll never have your sight
Maybe it's the monster that writes
I believe that in life death is not the answer
But in death you may find what You've been after
Solitude, an eternity of reflection
And in silence it comes...
I believe that the answer to life is a question
And I see between time and desire a connection
Do you know what I am? I believe I'm a monster
And in silence it waits...
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Monument | | back to top
The books on my shelf stand unread
Towers of albums I've barely heard
Now dust collects on them
A monument to what I haven't done
Medicine jars and empty bottles
My half pack bags and an ancient bible
A testament to what I haven't said
To all of you: I may forget
The things I have done or haven't yet
So do not believe every story when I explain
The when and the why of the tracks I've laid
The stains of my blood I'm sure are there
In the tattered clothes I've worn for years
A hidden hint of a war I haven't won
So I set up my shrine to music love and life
Trinkets and things that mean nothing to your eyes
A fairy tale; a myth I still can't describe
In all of my days I've tried to learn
To better myself to better my world
It's a distant light. I haven't found the end
When the call comes in I'll make my claims
There's too much focus on who's to blame
So when the other shoe drops I'll stand and say
I am not perfect but maybe I'm okay
Here I sing to you in earnest honesty
Tell a couple secrets. Maybe you will see
A decent man - no motives, no back-up plans
To all of you I may forget
The things I have done or haven't yet
Before the curtain falls I should explain
I'd never give up my art for the shadows where I've laid
Maybe I'm okay.
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Neverglow | | back to top
Middle of the night, I woke up, turned over
There you were wrapped around my heart
In the middle of your bed
I choked it down, I turned around
There, you were not
Stupid to think your eyes wouldn't overflow, neverglow
Sadly mistaken for truth
Openly broken for you
Withered and borne away
Hopelessly lost in gray
Middle of the sky, I slid by and wrote this down for you
There you were charging toward my open arms
In the middle of your bed
I cut out, I burned it out
There you were not
Middle of my universe, I walked out and looked up to see you
There you are sliding in my stars
In the middle of your bed
I broke down, fell to your holy ground
There you were not
Stupid to think your eyes wouldn't overflow, Neverglow
Sadly mistaken for truth
Openly broken for you
Withered and borne away
Hopelessly lost in gray
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Never You Mind | | back to top
Living inside the memory
In the moment you refuse to believe
You're in that place
You're in that time
You are that child, never you mind
Calling up the image to the screen
You see what it is you wanted to see
You're in that pose
You're in that frame
You are that man, never you mind
Justify the recollections and purify your heart
Imitate the kind of man that you've been from the start
Wear that badge and own that face and purify your heart
It'll take a moment but you'll feel better 'bout the scars
Living in the daydream
In the sunlight you can choose to reveal
You're not that cold
You're not that sad
You are the greatest thoughts you've ever had
So never you mind
Stop spilling out the vessel
Stop telling me you need to be free
You're free right now
You're here right now
Your love is safe
Your fingers laced
You are that strong so never you mind
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Nothing But Blessings | | back to top
I would have you walk away smiling
I would have you talk about the day
How we spent our time staring with nothing to say
How we found all this emptiness right
I would that you come back ready
To understand you've taken me away
How dare we spend our breath talking with nothing to say
I would have your eyes tell me it's alright
If I had wings to fly would I choose still to walk?
If I had sight to see would I choose to turn my cheek?
If our ears could hear what's left of this dying tune,
Would I know you from Adam or Eve?
Would you still know me?
I would have you know me this way
I would that we were always guessing
How honest our tongues would stay with nothing but blessings
With that we turn out the light
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No One But You | | back to top
I lacked the strength to call your name
While you lay just by my side
And smoke rose from your curling lips
Wrapping wisps of wisdom in a smile
No one but you could possibly know
No one but you I know
I lacked the strength of will to stay
Once you asked me to leave this behind
And no one asked me questions why
Avoiding the truth in my eyes
No one but you could possibly know
No one but you I know
No one but you could ever know
No one but you, my love.
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Old News | | back to top
Lonely tonight. My eyes are heavy
Temperature's still high enough to burn me up inside
My mind is wandering
Still I think if I try I'll get passed this feeling
You'll see the difference between
Who you think I am today compared to yesterday
That guy's old news
Today's paper read me nothing new
You tell me it's alright
But there's a little thing I call change
It comes around for every living thing in sight
And I am blown away
You see, I'm sure that there's no cure to fake
Only bonds to break. No pills to take
To fix this thing we've made today
It's old news
You tell me it's alright
But here comes that change and I am blow away
You see I'm sure that there's no cures to fake
Only bonds to break. No pills to take
To fix this thing we've made today
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Old Trouble | | back to top
Well the old trouble comes again
Bringing out how selfish I am
I had an eye for love
I got an earful of yours
I've had my fill of a handful of things
The winter moon, the snowy cold that made me think
Maybe I've had enough of your love
I've got a mind to give you some of mine
Old trouble, you burn
What I've mended, you've singed at the edges
You never bothered to learn
Old trouble
I've had my turn at changing some things
The way I reflect the blurry cold that made me think
Maybe I've had enough of your love
I've got a mind to give you some of mine
Old trouble
You burden
Old trouble
You devil
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One More Prayer | | back to top
Dear someone,
I hope you come around to find this letter
There's plenty of things I have to say
May not be eloquent or clever
But forgive me now
Dear lovers,
I broke into song again for you at home
There's chances I have to take. I may not have grown
But forgive me now
Dear insight,
Is it safe to walk out into the storm?
Suffice to say - I don't know. Don't you know?
I'm on my knees and praying
Forgive me now
Dear lover, oh soldier
Shadows strewn o'er your bloody broken life
Dear brother, One more prayer
Now you see your secrets hang in the wind
Forgive me with one more prayer
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Our Secret Hope | | back to top
So it's happened again
I see your beauty, my friend
How do you know my name?
How long should it take for the storm to break?
The lines have all gone quiet
The days stretch out before me a bloody gauntlet
How far will she take our secret hope?
How far will it last 'til one of us cracks?
I'm beginning to see
I'm beginning to see hope is all there is for us to hang on
Hope is our last breath to see you come home
Hoping for a better way. I hope you find it soon
I'm beginning to see my way, through
So they found you a friend?
I see they forced you back into a dark dead end
How do I know her fate?
And how could I save her from this bitter state?
The show's about to stop
But the icy road slides you to a fatal drop
How far will she fall?
And how long will i wait? will I see her lose it all?
I'm beginning to see
I'm beginning to see hope is all there is for us to hang on
Hope is our last breath to see you come home
Hoping for a better way. I hope you find it soon
I'm beginning to see my way, too.
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Paper Mache | | back to top
I learned young to dream old
See the future for the past it holds
I can outrun the chasing clock
I will come home but you will not
There's only so much
Paint and clay and paper mache
You can pile on to hide
The pain and rage, disappointed dismay
Too many layers and it crumbles away
Too many whole ones before this darkened day
I came too late to fall in line
The gathered mass I stand behind
I will outshine the burning fear
I can come down and still shed tears
I grew young and dreamed old
Naive enough to never know
I can't outdo the living end
I won't come round here again
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Poisoned Leading The Weak | | back to top
Thirty days has September and I'm the one you should remember
I saved you from yourself that day
When everything was safe to play, tucked away
I broke my skin, my teeth to bare
The water flowed unaware
Of the rain inside under the stair
Somewhere between the two will meet, skin and teeth
Like the poisoned leading the weak
Thirty days has November
Coming on strong and I can't forget her
I saved you from yourself that day
When everything was cold and gray, plucked away
You broke your wrist, the bone is there
And the water flowed without a care
Of the rain inside beneath the stair
Somewhere between the two will meet, ground and feet
Like the poisoned leading the weak
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Power | | back to top
You had the power to be a fickle bird taken by the wind
You had the power to pluck off your wings and learn to stand
you had the power to be a graceful koi swept up by the sea
You had the power to take your time and learn to sink
You could've made me your right hand
You could've banished me to be any other man
And you could've crippled the sun
Instead you've done nothing for no one
You had the power to be the rings and ripples on a pond
You had a chance to make things right and still and pure and calm
You had the power to be a blade of grass broken under foot
You might have learned to grow up straight and strong and tall and true
You could've made me your right hand
You could've banished me to be any other man
You could've crippled the sun
But you've done nothing for no one
You could've made me bold and grand
You could've bid me: Set fire to this land
You could've crippled the sun
Yet you've done nothing for no one
You've done nothing for no one
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What did you do with your time?
What have you done to mine?
I gotta say I'm getting kind of tired of living
Living in a shadow of doubt
Kind of getting tired of singing
How I can't do without
How you won't find me out
God knows I'd give near anything
For a taste of what you're thinking
You gotta know I've finally found I am worthy
Worthy of my time in your light
Kind of getting tired of running
To keep you in my line of sight
No, I don't sleep at night
Probabilities and chance have written our stories
The molecules that make us make up our minds as well
Still, I think there's no chance in hell
What are you trying to prove?
I'm already sick and weakened
And all I hear is a heartbeat, strong but lonely
Waiting in a shadow of doubt
Getting tired of wondering
Wondering how to go without
Can't this flame burn out?
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Everything couldn't be fine on this night
There's a full moon hiding it's light
You took his hand and led him down your winding path
But to his ignorance you'd bring his shame
And it's 1, 2, 3 times he tried to escape you
To run away and tear up the pages that remind him of you
Cuz you know he can't live without you
It's gone well beyond just listening
His favorite records been playing but it started skipping
So you turn to go without a goodbye
And take back your hand to shut out his cry
And it's 1, 2, 3 times he tried to catch you
But you run away and burn all the pages to ash
To fast-forward through cuz you know he can't live without you
There's no need to walk in circles
You're making him jump your hurdles
You got him wrapped inside the curls of your hair
And he's walking 'round in madness
You're folded up in his sadness
You're speechless and it tells him you're leaving him for good
And it's 1, 2, 3 times he tried to save you
But you run away and burn all your bridges
To fast-forward through cuz you know he can't live without you
Oh it's 1, 2, 3 times he tried to please you
But you run away and burn all your bridges
And fast-forward through cuz you know he can't live without you
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Rockaby into dreamland
Quiet on a hillside inside my mind
The wind may blow but that won't push us inside
The bow won't break until you can decide
...To let me go
Or make me stand in this sideshow
Where I'm just another man waiting for your hands
To let me go...
Lying cold in my grave I can't seem to find the space
To fold my hands while my demons try to take them
Little by little we'll spread the good word
Starting drinking in this new birth
Teacher let me know you're there
Stand a little farther from my electric chair
Preacher confront me with my fears
Father, oh father, take this prayer
And let me go or make me stand in this sideshow
Where I'm just another man waiting for your hand
To let me go...
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"May I ask you for this?"
You may ask for anything but that
Please don't ask me for my love
There's none left to give so freely
When I tell you what I've done
You may say "oh look how far he's come"
But you still point a finger
Cuz ain't nothin' ever nobody's fault
I shot a falling star
It fell straight to earth from it's arch
Now I know just what I've done
But that don't change me
That won't change a thing
You may send me all your thoughts
You may tell me everything I'm not
But complication finds it's easy
To get caught up in the mind of a sad man
There's a demon lurching in
With his fists so full of sin
Telling me it's my time
He will drag me away
His tattered wings hide my shame
To repeat it all again
I shot a falling star
It fell straight to earth from it's arch
Now I know just what I've done
And that don't chance me
No, it won't change a thing
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You're scrambling in a sinkhole
But there's gotta be a way out
Now you've been slingin' your mud for way too long
Your whole world is covered from head to toe
You couldn't possibly have another thing to say
Where do you get your info?
Where did you earn the right to...
Preach it like you've lived it your whole damn life
Handing out your snake oil, but it comes with a hefty price
You couldn't possibly have another ounce to give
When did you buy your own elixir?
Where did you hide the evidence?
You're scramblin' in a sinkhole and the walls are caving in
You're getting buried at the bottom covered in your own sin
Right now you may have your doubts but there's got to be a way out
Well drink it down, you better, for all of us to see
Eat your words and savor how it feels to still be hungry
You couldn't ever guess it would all end this way
How did you ever come this far?
You could've gotten away
You're scramblin' in a sinkhole and the walls are caving in
You're getting buried at the bottom covered in your own sin
Right now you may have your doubts
But there's got to be a way out
Oh, you're scramblin' in that hole, struggling all alone
Right now you may have your doubt
But there's got to be a way out
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My eyes struggle to focus
Like they've never seen before
And I blink into the glow
My hands struggle to move on
Like they've never touched your skin
The hair on my neck stands
I go numb but you tell me it's alright
I've come across this before
The thoughts start to form
Please remember you said that
Sooner or later I'd try to write it off as a
Good thing I said I'd change my ways
But you'd rather see me stay the same
Here's my song of repetitions
You know it hurts to sing it
But don't it make you feel so good
Sooner or later you know I'd be trying to write it off
But something had to be done
My eyes struggle to focus
Like they've never opened before
I've come to think of you as a good thing
I've come to think of it as I've
Come to think of you and I've
Come to think of it as a good thing
...Come to think of it as I always knew I should
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I will write you back into my world
You'll remember everything
A perfect replica of an imperfect girl
But I'd be able to explain
And you'd stay...
Stay
I've written chapters and books about your face
Every inch of flesh and bone
I've tried to live a dream while I'm awake
It's left me sitting here alone
Believing you'd stay...
Stay
Your apologies come after a pointed attack
Unconditional surrender after you've shot me in the back
From old wounds a bandage becomes your white flag
Soaking in our history, and dried to black
I will write your story as it happens now
No more bitter agony
No other actions left for you to disavow
I'll reign in my empathy
I wish you'd stay...
Stay
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What goes up is a simple prayer
What comes down is a stillness in the air
I'm still waiting for the sign
Still waiting for the light to change my mind
What goes out is all I am
What comes in is every word, every breathe I have
I'm still waiting for the sign
Still waiting for your light to shine on my mind
When it comes, when it lifts this weight I hold
I will stand and gather the strength to go
To go on toward the sign
To go on toward the light
Still waiting for your light to shine on my mind
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Tell me stories that I know
In this time, I can't relate
Give me memories of my own
The Good Ones that make us feel safe
Now tell me something I don't know
My mind is starving for truth
Share an honest dream of your own
The good ones are the hardest ones to lose
I'm in no hurry to see
New love come and go;
To make amends with new foes
I'm in no hurry to change
My mind about my gods
Or find time for those who have no time for me
I'm in no hurry at all
Show me something to make me laugh
These days are crippled with grief
Say you're ready to walk this path
The good ones are never straight, paved streets
I'm in no hurry to see
New love come and go;
To make amends with new foes
I'm in no hurry to change
My mind about my gods
Or find time for those who have no time for me
I'm in no hurry at all
I'm in no hurry to see new love....
I'm in no hurry at all
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In that hand won't you place your own?
In my mouth won't you lay your weary spells?
Into the dark. Into the dark. Into the unknown
Won't you go with me where we don't know ourselves?
Won't you go with me where we won't know ourselves?
You see that space? There's room for you to grow
You see that spark; That lonely light? Secrets you won't tell
Into the dark. Into the darkness where you never go
Down into your mind, into that golden well
Won't you go with me where we won't know ourselves?
Are you waiting for the time to be right?
"Make your own luck," they say, and "Find the time"
I'm waiting for you to come to your senses. You're not alone
Waiting for the line to bring you home
Waiting for the line to draw you home
Drive into the blackened night with a quickness you'll find
You covered your eyes with a jealous rage, you burn too bright
Later they'll find, later they'll find you nothing left but light
But when I come running a step behind, my timing's still right
When I come running to see the line draw you home
It's the past, the past that keeps coming up
It's your lies, their cries, they keep cropping up
It's your broken image cast upon the wall
From the mirror where you let your light fall
Are you all staring, waiting, debating my last rites?
Making up for losses - counted, weighed, and sized
Leave me to the wolves of my own deeds. I'll go alone
Waiting so long for the line to draw me home
Waiting for the line to draw us home
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The sky is the color of the streets
Grey and beaten. Tired as me
The cracks in the pavement - my many mistakes
The oils stains and patchwork were too much to drink
Of all the places my eyes have seen
None of them fill me with that sense of defeat
I walk out to work. I walk it back home
The winter never changes the fire in my bones
You can die more than once
You can live again and again
You can lead different lives
But don't spread 'em to thin
For your love, life and blood you'll have to defend
But don't kill all who come, because love needs a friend
The blood on my lips where the skin has cracked
Sums up my feelings - The loss and the lack
Can't fight for tomorrow when you can't face the day
If you trust in the promise of yesterday's grace
You can live again and again
You can lead different lives
But don't spread 'em to thin
For your love, life and blood you'll have to defend
But don't kill all who come, because love needs a friend...
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Settle into a long stare
Over my coffee into your eyes
Settle into a long walk
Down the street to the river bend
To find you're right
Settle on a namesake
Conversations are full of life
Just a little longer
Down the street to the river where
I met your light
You may be a wilder child than most
But for all I know you've been here before
As a mother, as a ghost
You're an older version of a child you still wanna be
But a stronger woman now than what you ever meant to be
Call me a coward
Call me a liar
Call me a friend and settle in...
...to a long stare
Your words have opened up my eyes
Just took a little longer
Further from the river where
You're too bright
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We're used to lies
Doesn't mean we like to hear them all the time
We've heard your lies
Now give us the truth straight and to the point
The taste of lies
A sickly sweetness on your lips
Behind your eyes
A sadness burning at the core of this
The test of time
You will give yourself away
It's no surprise
The contradiction's clear now, I'm afraid
We've got a line
And if you cross there will be hell
We've done our time
Now it's your turn to enjoy the taste of lies
The taste of lies
A sickly sweetness on your lips
Behind your eyes
A sadness burning at the core of this
The test of time
You will give yourself away
It's no surprise
The contradiction's clear now, I'm afraid
I've lost my head
So if you're gonna help, you better let me go
I'll join the rest
If this is where you stand, you can't expect me calm
(open ended....may have more verses to come)
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I crawled out of bed this morning
Put on the same clothes that I wear
Feed the pets and lie to myself
This is the life for me
I threw out my favorite things
Boxed up the rest to rust under the stairs
Pay the bills and lie to myself
This is the life for me
I never planned to make these plans
This journey was not in the cards
But I'm on my way up the road to the store
Instead of down the road with the stars
I busted up my only chair
Burned the pieces and a few other things
It'll keep me warm tonight, next we'll tear up a shelf
This is the life for me
I crawled into bed this morning
Pull these old sheets straight up to my chin
Sing my songs and lie to myself
This is the life for me
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Every time it rains you're there
Words cannot explain that stare
Cutting through everything from a picture on a screen
This stone hasn't moved in a thousand years
Life springs up and falls while it lies here
Waiting through everything for the lightning to scream
So are my thoughts for you
Maybe we knew love, but you don't know my anger
And this god we trust is no more than a stranger
I can see the tangles come apart and find our own stars to chart
Your face tells my tale in worried lines
A man standing in the dark waiting for sunshine
Two steps to the left or two steps right would bring me to the light
Maybe we knew love, but you don't know my anger
And this god we trust is no more than a stranger
I can see the tangles come apart and find our own stars to chart
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I may linger a while longer
Rest a finger upon your lips
Passing over the words behind you
And the sceneries we missed
While we're making subtle changes
We see leaps in minute moves
We come close to feeling something
But we've passed the time to choose
Turn our heads to follow gazes
We have spent the time to muse
You may wonder while I wander
Rest in winter in the woods
Journey inward for words to guide you
But I won't let you go for good
And I see a child lost to amble from the line
Though visibly torn, she could follow it home
Her lips move in silence while she prays for more time
While we're making subtle changes
We see leaps in minute moves
We come close to feeling something
But we've passed the time to choose
Turn our heads to follow gazes
We have spent the time to muse
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No name beauty, how i stare at you
No way to me? Oh, how sad for you
Oh your eyes they've been sung about for years
And your touch has been the center of my fears
The telephone rings and
There's a terrible sting
Who could it be?
I've got nobody
I've got no one to choose for me
And that's the way
That's the way it should be
I could not have seen
I've got nothing, or so it seems
I've had all this time
Under wind, under pressure, and under fire!
Face me boy. How does this compare, this truth?
No fair. No way. Oh, I'm scared, it's true
Your sins, they've questioned you to tears
And your guilt has been there, been there so clear
The red dawn falls and the clouds roll on
Where could you be?
Anywhere but here oh please, anywhere
I've got no one to breathe for me
And that's the way it should be
I could not have seen that...
I've got nothing or so it seems
I've had all this time
Under wing, under pressure, and under fire!
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The control has slipped off
The television won't talk
The telephone hasn't called back
The bedroom won't go black
The movies rip it off
I gotta know if this grin
Is filled with hate and flames
A couple of days
In a deep dark hole
You left me for dead
'Cause this is a war
And all our peace is encouragement
It's a struggle just to die
But that's not the end of it
No it's not the end of it
Let me fall so hard into your hands
Held close to your open heart
You hold me up
I'm tired of what I see
Then you stepped into the scene
A golden chance in your eyes and deeper
The control has slipped off
The television won't talk
Their vision has been blurred
It's what you see
Not what they've heard
A couple of days in a deep dark hole
You left me for dead
'Cause this is a war
And all our peace is encouragement
It's a struggle just to die
But that's not the end of it
No it's not the end...
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Here's another sad tune so hum along
Give another sigh for what's become of us
You might say it's all gone according to plan
If the plan was meant to fail in my shaking hands
Here's another dying star to wish upon
Circling it's dim glow, we spin where we are
Give another piece of yourself to save
What is left of us in this fading yellow flame
See the others fall in line to give up their all
Send another lone, lost, lazy, sweet, tender call
You might hear it echo in your own perfect ears
What is left of love at the end of your years...
(More to come of this piece...but worth sharing as is.)
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Where are we headed, baby?
What are we going to do?
What have you done to me, honey?
What have I done to you?
I have no answers but this much is true
We can't go on like this, baby
I can't be with you
It feels like I'm drowning slowly
Does this hold true for you, too?
Maybe it's better if we just go
Just leave it alone
I have no answers but this much is true
We can't go any further, baby
Even though I still love you
I still love you
I have no answers but this much is true
I can't go any further, baby
I can't be with you
Even though I still love you
I can't be with you
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Would you dare to turn me out?
Would you put me on the street?
I've fought for you
I'd nearly die for you
Yet you treat me as though there's no one about
How do I tame you?
You raise my hopes with oily words
The hair on my neck stands
Then you batter me down to where hope's no good
How do I tame you, wild one?
I never thought you'd send me on
I'd settle for a knife deep in my back
I've sought for you
I'd clearly lie for you
Yet you look straight through me to the coming dawn
How do I tame you, Wild One?
You raise my hopes with oily words
The hair on my neck stands
Then you batter me down to where hope's no good
How do I tame you, Wild One?
You're not alone calling out in the night
I must believe, I must believe
you're not a stone
You're not a blade
You're not a beast
I must believe
You're not alone
You're not a stone
I must believe, I must believe
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