Six numbers, one more to dial
Before I'm before you tonight
I tried to call, been busy all night
Gave up waiting at daylight
Excuse me, Mrs. Busybody
Could you pencil me in when you can?
Though we both know that the worst part about it
Is I would be free when you wanted me
If you wanted me
I am the man on the side
Hoping you'll make up your mind
I am the one who will swallow his pride
Life as the man on the side
One of the many
One of the few
To stand back and wait for you
Excuse me, Mrs. Busybody
Could you pencil me in when you can?
Though we both know that the worst part about it
Is I would be free when you wanted me
If you wanted me
If you wanted me
I am the man on the side
Hoping you'll make up your mind
I am the one who will swallow his pride
Life as the man on the side
Life as the man on the side
I fell in love with the dream that I built of you
Playing the part of the queen
Taking my own advice, I'm giving up tonight
Good luck to you and the king
Excuse me, Mrs. Busybody
Could you pencil me in?
Though we both know that the worst part about it
Is I would be free when you wanted me
If you wanted me
If you wanted me
I am the man on the side
Hoping you'll make up your mind
I am the one who will swallow his pride
Life as the man
You know, life as the man
I like to eat an orange
With my friend George Malakornge
I like to eat an orange
With my friend George Malakornge
So juicy sweet, so good to eat,
An orange with George Malakornge
That autumn leaves fall dry and sweet
Tells me everything is not broken
No everything is not broken
If everything's not fine
If everything's not fine
That nature rains on flames we made
Should tell you everything is not broken
No everything is not broken
If everything's not fine
If everything's not fine
And I will find the colors in my life
The places and times it was now
And I will walk outside on my own into the light
The kind of clarity that only comes to me on Sunday's shine
Sunday's shine
It tells me everything is not broken
No everything is not broken
If everything is fine
And everything is fine
If everything is fine
These days with the world getting colder
She spends more time sleeping over
Than I planned
Tonight were gonna order in
Drinking wine and watching CNN
It's dark I know but then again
It's the brightest thing I got
Cause I'm covered in rain
No I'm covered in rain
Fire woods to fire places
Summer stolen, fallen places
People watching, all the people watching, everybody watching me
Standing by the missing signs at the CVS by the checkout line
She puts her quiet hands in mine
Cause she's the brightest thing I got
When you're covered in rain
Cause I'm covered in rain
Cause I'm covered in rain
No I'm covered in rain
It's alright
If you dont want to go on
It's alright
If you dont want to be alone
It's alright
If you dont want to go home
I understand
I understand
I understand
You and me and everyone, covered in rain
If melody is my destiny
Then what's left of me
I'll give to you
If next to me
Is all that you need to be
Would you settle for fantasy
If it's the best you could do
Can I have my cake?
Can I have you too?
Would you follow me?
Could I ask you to?
Would the world between us
break these ties
We've work so hard to realize
Can a postcard say
What I see in your eyes?
Could I ever break away?
Would I be satisfied
and find peace inside
Rolling half my life
over broken white lines
Can I have my cake?
Can I have you too?
Would you follow me?
Could I ask you to?
Will I wake up one morning
and see your face
and streaks on the window
that the rainstorm makes
Could you bear all the weight
and the strength that it takes
could I ever break away
Can I have my cake?
Can I have you too?
Would you follow me?
Could I ask you to?
Would the world between us
break these ties
We've work so hard to realize
Can a postcard say
What I see in your eyes?
Anger, he smiles, toweredIn shiny metallic purple armorQueen Jealousy, envy waits behind himHer fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground
Blue are the life-giving watersTaken for granted, they quietly understandOnce happy turquoise armies lay opposite readyBut wonder why the fight is on
But they're all, they're bold as loveYeah, they're all, they're bold as loveThey're all, they're bold as loveJust ask the axis
My red is so confident that he flashesTrophies of war and ribbons of euphoriaOrange is a young, full of daringBut it's very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow, in this case is not so mellowIn fact I'm trying to say, it's frightened like meAnd all these emotions of mine keep holding me fromGiving my life to a rainbow like you
But I'm, I'm bold, I'm bold as loveYeah, I'm bold, I'm bold as loveI'm bold, I'm bold as loveJust as the axis
He knows, he knows, he knowsHe knows everything
When sky blue gets dark enough
To see the colors of the city lights
A trail of ruby red and diamond white
Hits her like a sunrise
She comes and goes and comes and goes
Like no one can
Tonight she's out to lose herself
And find a high on Peachtree Street
From mixed drinks to techno beats
It's always heavy into everything
She comes and goes and comes and goes
Like no one can
She comes and goes and no one knows
She's slipping through my hands
She's always buzzing just like
Neon, neon
Neon, neon
Who knows how long, how long, how long
She can go before she burns away
I can't be her angel now
You know it's not my place to hold her down
And it's hard for me to take a stand
When I would take her anyway I can
She comes and goes and comes and goes
Like no one can
She comes and goes and no one knows
She's slipping through my hands
She's always buzzing just like
Neon, neon
Neon, neon
Who knows how long, how long, how long
She can go before she burns away
My stupid mouth
Has got me in trouble
I said too much again
To a date over dinner yesterday
And I could see
She was offended
She said, "Well anyway"
Just dying for a subject change
Oh, it's another social casualty
Score one more for me
How could I forget?
Mama said, "Think before speaking"
No filter in my head
Oh, what's a boy to do
I guess he better find one soon
We bit our lips
She looked out the window
Rolling tiny balls of napkin paper
I played a quick game of chess with the salt and pepper shaker
And I could see clearly
An indelible line was drawn
Between what was good
What just slipped out and what went wrong
Oh, the way she feels about me has changed
Thanks for playing, try again
How could I forget?
Mama said, "Think before speaking"
No filter in my head
Oh, what's a boy to do
I guess he better find one
I'm never speaking up again
It only hurts me
I'd rather be a mystery
Than she desert me
Oh, I'm never speaking up again
Starting now
Starting now
One more thing
Why is it my fault?
So maybe I try too hard
But it's all because of this desire
I just wanna be liked
I just wanna be funny
Looks like the jokes on me
So call me captain backfire
I'm never speaking up again
It only hurts me
I'd rather be a mystery
Than she desert me
Oh, I'm never speaking up again
I'm never speaking up again
I'm never speaking up again
Starting now
Starting now
I got half a smile and zero shame
I got a reflection with a different name
Got a brand new blues I can't explain
Who did you think I was
Every mornin when the day begins
I make up my mind but change it back again
I'm a shifter of the shape I'm in
Who did you think I was
You got my number but I always knew the score
Who did you think I was
Am I the one who plays the quiet songs
Is He the one who turns the ladies on
Will I keep shinin til my light is gone
Who did you think I was
You got my number but I always knew the score
Who did you think I was
Here is a line that you won't understand
I'm half of the boy but twice the man
Carry the weight of the world in the palm of my hand
Not talking about a year
No not three of four
I don’t want that kind of forever
In my life anymore
Forever always seems to be around when it begins
But forever never seems to be around when it ends
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do
From you
People spend so much time
Every single day
Running around all over town
Giving their forever away
But no not me I won’t let my forever roam
And now I hope I can find my forever a home
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do
From you
Like a handless clock with numbers
An infinite of time
No not the forever
Found only in the mind
Forever always seems to be around when things it begins
But forever never seems to be around when things it end
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do
Why won't you come baby
Why won't you come when I call
Why won't you come baby
Why won't you come when I call
Im not up to something funny
I just wanna know you girl is all
You got to know baby
Everybody's free sometime
You got to know baby
Everybody's free sometime
Could you get to spare a moment
I can't seem to get you off my mind
Friday night your busy
Something else to do
Saturday is sleeping
You got work on sunday too
Why won't you come baby
Why won't you come when I call
Im not up to something funny
I just wanna know you girl is all
[Solo]
Keep the motor running
Leave your jacket on
If I had my way you would be driving home at dawn
Why won't you come baby
Why won't you come when I call
Im not up to something funny
I just wanna know you girl is all
Why won't you come baby
Why won't you come when I call
Why won't you come baby
Why won't you come when I call
Im not up to something funny
How soft a whisper can get
When we're walking through a crowded space
I hear every word being said
I remember every day
That I get a little bit closer to you, you
How long an hour can take
When you're staring into open space
When I feel I'm slippin further away
I'll remember that every day
I get a little bit closer to you, you
To you, you
These are the days I won't get back
I won't hear you cry or hear you laugh
But when it's quiet and I don't hear a thing
Well I can always hear you sing
There's no where else that I have wanted to be
Then be there when you needed me
I'm sorry too but don't give up on me
And just remember when you were asleep
I got a little bit closer to you, you
To you, you
And then there's no where else I wanted to be
Then be there when you needed me
I'm sorry too but don't give up on me
And just remember when you were asleep
Some of us, We're hardly ever here
The rest of us, we're born to disappear
How do I stop myself from
Being just a number
How will I hold my head
To keep from going under
Down to the wire
I wanted water but
But I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I'll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me,testing me
How did they find me here
What do they want from me
All of these vultures hiding
Right outside my door
I hear them whisperin
They're tryin to ride it out
Cause they've never gone this long
Without a kill before
Down to the wire
I wanted water but
I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I'll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me, testing me
Wheels up
I got to leave this evening
Can't seem to shake these vultures
Off of my trail
Power is made, by power being taken
So I keep on running
To protect my situation
Down to the wire
I wanted water but
I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I'll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me
Oooooooooooo
Oooooooooooo
Oooooooooooo
Oooooooooooo
Whatcha gonna do about it
don't know why Tori came by
but I could see by the look in her eyes
Tory'd been driving 'round the town for a while
playing with the thought of leaving
don't know why, but Tori just smiled
and mentioned something about how you were right
must have been hard to see through the tears she was hiding
she said "I might not be seeing him soon"
"I've got a few things I've been waiting to do"
hey, Tori came by
Tori came by tonight
hey, Tori came by
she says to say goodbye
looked outside at the car in the drive
and the suitcase on the back seat inside
sure it's so she can't look out behind at the road
she said "I might not be seeing him soon"
"I've got a few things I've been waiting to do"
hey, Tori came by
Tori came by tonight
hey, Tori came by
she says to say goodbye
don't look down, she seemed alright
you might be asking where is Tori tonight?
It's really over, you made your stand
You got me crying, as well as you planned
But when my loneliness is through, I'm gonna find another you
You take your sweaters
You take your time
You might have your reasons but you will never have my rhymes
I'm gonna sing my way away from blue
I'm gonna find another you
When I was your lover
No one else would do
If I'm forced to find another, I hope she looks like you
Yeah and she's nicer too
So go on baby
Make your little get away
My pride will keep me company
And you just gave yours all away
Now I'm gonna dress myself for two
Once for me and once for someone new
I'm gonna do somethings you wouldn't let me do
Just cast away
And I am lost at sea
Another lonely day
And no one here but me
More loneliness
Than any man could bear
Rescue me
Before I fall into despair
I send an SOS to the world [x2]
I hope that someone gets my [x3]
Message in a bottle [x3]
A year has passed since
I wrote my note
I should have known it
Right from the start
Only hope can
Keep me together
Love can mend your life but
Love can break your heart
I send an SOS to the world [x2]
I hope that someone gets my [x3]
Message in a bottle [x3]
Walked out this morning
I don't believe what I saw
A hundred billion bottles
Washed up on the shore
It seems I'm not alone at
Being alone
A hundred million castaways
All looking for a home
I send an SOS to the world [x2]
I hope that someone gets my [x3]
Too many shadows in my room
Too many hours in this midnight
Too many corners in my mind
So much to do to set my heart right
Oh, it's taking so long
I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if I take my heart's advice
I should assume it's still unsteady
I am in repair, I am in repair
Stood on the corner for a while
To wait for the wind to blow down on me
Hoping it takes with it my old ways
And brings some brand new luck upon me
Oh, it's taking so long
I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if I take my heart's advice
I should assume it's still unsteady
I am in repair, I am in repair
And now I'm walking in the park
And all of the birds, they dance below me
Maybe when things turn green again
It will be good to say you know me
Oh, it's taking so long
I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if I take my heart's advice
I should assume it's still unready
Oh, yeah, I'm never really ready
Oh, I'm never really ready
I'm in repair
I'm not together but I'm getting there
I'm in repair
I'm not together but I'm getting there
I'm in repair
I'm not together but I'm getting there
I'm in repair
I'm not together but I'm getting there
I'm in repair
I'm not together but I'm getting there
I'm in repair
I'm a lazy lover
Undercover
Wasting time
Then one day this summer
I changed my number
To cut my line
Good love is on the way
I been lonely but I know, I'll be ok
Good love is on the way
3 years broken hearted
But now her ghost is finally gone
I'm done with broken people
This is me
I'm working on (cause I know)
Good love is on the way
I've been lonely but I know, I'll be ok
Good love is on the way
Good to go for wherever I'm needed
Bags are packed and I'm
Down by the door
You can take all the tricks up my sleeve
I don't need them anymore
Good to go for wherever I'm needed
Bags are packed and I'm
Down by the door
You can take all the tricks up my sleeve
I don't need them anymore
Good love is on the way
I've been lonely, lonely, lonely, yeah
Good love is on the way
I've been lonely but I know I'll be ok
Good love is on the way
Back to you, it always comes around
Back to you, I tried to forget you
I tried to stay away, but it's too late
Over you, I'm never over
Over you, somethin' about you
It's just the way you move
The way you move me
Yeah, I'm so good at forgetting
And I quit every game I play
But forgive me, love
I can't turn and walk away, this way
Back to you, it always comes around
Back to you, I walk with your shadow
I'm sleeping in my bed with your silhouette
Yeah, should have smiled in that picture
If it's the last that I'll see of you
It's the least that you could not do
Leave the light on
I'll never give up on you
Leave the light on
For me too, for me too, for me too, yeah
Back to me, I know that it comes
Back to me, doesn't it scare you
I worry, I weigh three times my body
I worry, I throw my fear around
But this morning, there's a calm I can't explain
The rock candy's melted, only diamonds now remain
By the time I recognize this moment
This moment will be gone
But I will bend the light, pretend
That it somehow lingered on, well all I gots
And I will wait to find
If this will last forever
And I will wait to find
If this will last forever
And I will pay no mind
Well it won't and it won't
Because it can't, it just can't
It's not supposed to
Was there a second of time that I looked around?
Did I sail through or drop my anchor down?
Was anything enough to kiss the ground?
And say I'm here now and she's here now
So much is wasted in the afternoon
So much is sacred in the month of June
How 'bout you?
And I will wait to find
If this will last forever, yeah
And I will wait to find
That it won't and it won't, it won't
And I will pay no mind
Worried 'bout no rainy weather
And I will waste no time
I never liked this apple much
It always seemed too big to touch
I can't remember how I found
My way before she came around
I tell everyone
I smile just because
I've got a city love
I found it in Lydia
And I can't remember life before her name
She keeps a toothbrush at my place
As if I had the extra space
She steals my clothes to wear to work
I know - her hairs are on my shirts
I tell everyone
I smile just because
I've got a city love
I found it in Lydia
And I can't remember life before
The day
She called up and came to me
Covered in rain
And dinnertime shadowing
And as her clothes spun, we spooned
And I knew I was through
When I said "I love you"
Friday evening, we've been drinking
2 AM, I swear I might propose
but we close the tab
split a cab
and call each other up when we get home
falling asleep to the sound
of sirens
I've got a city love
I found it in Lydia
From the battery
To the gallery
It's the kind of thing you only see
In scented, glossy magazines
"The best thing about being on the road is that now I can write my big road opus.
I can write my big song about being on the road, which I couldnt do.
Cuz every artist has to have that sort of like..."
I strolled into town on a Friday night
Another lonely town
Did I mention that it's a brand new town on this Friday night?
It's the town that I'm referring to
When I refer to this town
The coffee's stale
And the cigarettes have...tobacco in them
Can't get over
My dog rover
Got run over
Four leaf clover
Not so lucky little puppy
You got f'd up by a trucky
Picked you up on a friday
You were flat on the driveway
If I could have it my way
You would have died on the highway
little puppy
la la la la
Little puppy
Picked you up on a friday
You were flat on the driveway (yes you were)
If I could have it my way
You would have died on the highway (On the highway)
You would have died,
You would have died on the highway
Now there's a big spot on my driveway
I can't seem to scrub it off
Jingle bell
Jingle bell
Jingle bell rock
Jingle bells swing
and jingle bells ring
snowing and blowing up bushels of fun
now the jingle hop has begun
jingle bell
jingle bell
jingle bell rock
jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
dancing and prancing in jingle bell square
in the frosty air
what a bright time
its the right time
to rock the night away
jingle bell time is a swell time
to go riding in a one horse sleigh
giddy up jingle horse
pick up your feet
jingle around the clock
mix and a mingle
and a jingling beat
thats the jingle bell
thats the jingle bell
Which of the bold faced lies will we use?
I hope that you're happy,
you really deserve it,
this will be the best for us both in the end.
But your taste still lingers on my lips
like I just placed them upon yours
and I starve
I starve for you.
But this new diet's liquid
and dulling to the senses.
And it's crude
but it will do.
Which of the standard lines will we use?
I've been meaning to call you.
I've just been so busy.
We'll catch up soon.
Let's make it a point to.
But your taste still lingers on my lips
like I just placed them upon yours
and I starve
I starve for you.
But this new diet's liquid
and dulling to the senses.
And it's crude
but it will do.
it will do.
I was supposed to be
The heartbreaker
I was the one who
was supposed to survive
I wanted to break your heart
Just to save my own
I hid my feelings though
You showed me yours
Somehow, some way
Everything just won’t go my way
”I fell, I’m fallen, I’m falling
In something I didn’t believe in
I thought nightts and days
If I could even try
I gave in, I gave up
The fight between
My head and heart
The roles have changed
Breaking my own heart just for u
The one who’s reminding me
Why I’ve once been so cold”
It just depends of the time
When I’ll be broken again
My heart is all crushed
But I keep smiling to U, yeah I do
I can’t, and I’ll never will
Understand how it goes like this
Everytime when it happens
Both of us acts like nothing happened
Somehow, some way
Everything just won’t go my way
CHORUS
Sometimes it makes me
Wanna get lost
Away to the other side
of the Earth
It’s starting to hurt
Time to go
My heart screams to stay
When I turned away
As you’re wondering
Knowing nothing
What’s wrong with me
I could feel how
My heart has already
Flown back to you
Oh, why can’t you see
Don’t you know you’re hurting me
CHORUS
Anything just won’t go my way
Go my way…
Why it will not… go my way
CHORUS
Oh, it hurts…
I am driving up 85 in the kind of morning
That lasts all afternoon, I'm just stuck inside the gloom
Four more exits to my apartment
But I am tempted to keep the car in drive and leave it all behind
'Cause I wonder sometimes about the outcome of a still verdict less life
Am I living it right, am I living it right?
Am I living it right
Why, why Georgia, why?
I rent a room and I fill the spaces with wood in places
To make it feel like home but all I feel's alone
It might be a quarter life crisis, just a stirrin' in my soul
Either way I wonder sometimes about the outcome of a still verdict less life
Am I living it right, am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why, why Georgia, why?
So what, so I've got a smile on
But it's hiding the quiet superstitions in my head
Don't believe me, don't believe me when I say I've got it down
Everybody's just a stranger but that's the danger in going my own way
I guess it's a price I have to pay, still everything happens for a reason
Is no reason not to ask myself if I'm living it right
Am I living it right, am I living it right?
Why tell me, why
I was cleaning up,
puttin’ stuff away
when I found her there
yesterday.
It was late,
you were drinking
the picture was dark yea
we're both blinking…
I want you back today.
I thought u left your toothbrush here
as a way to say
I’ll always be messing with you…
Walt Grace, desperately hating his old place
Dreamed to discover a new space
And buried himself alive
Inside his basement
The tongue on the side of his face meant
He's working away on displacement
And what it would take to survive
'Cause when you're done with this world
You know the next is up to you
And his wife told his kids he was crazy
And his friends said he'd fail if he tried
But with a will to work hard and a library card
He took a homemade, fan blade, one-man submarine ride
The morning the sea was mad, and I mean it
Waves as big as he'd seen it
Deep in his dreams at home
From dry land, he rolled it over to wet sand
Closed up the hatch with one hand
And pedaled off alone
'Cause when you're done with this world
You know the next is up to you
And for once in his life, it was quiet
As he learned how to turn in the tide
And the sky was aflare when he came up for air
In his homemade, fan blade, one-man submarine ride
One evening, when weeks had passed since his leaving
The call she planned on receiving
Finally made it home
She accepted the news she never expected
The operator connected the call from Tokyo
'Cause when you're done with this world
You know the next is up to you
Now his friends bring him up when they're drinking
At the bar with his name on the side
And they smile when the can as they speak of the man
We spotted the ocean
At the head of the trail
Where are we goin'
So far away
And somebody told me
That this is the place
Where everything's better
And everything's safe
Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone
Half an hour later
We packed up our things
We said we'd send letters
And all of those little things
And they knew we were lyin'
But they smiled just the same
It seemed they'd already
Forgotten we came
Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone
Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone
Back at the homestead
Where the air makes you choke
And people don't know you
And trust is a joke
We don't even have pictures
Just memories to hold
grows sweeter each season
Come out angels,
Come out ghosts,
Come out darkness,
Bring everyone you know.
I'm not running,
and I'm not scared,
I am waiting,
And well prepared.
I'm in the war of my life,
At the door of my life,
Out of time
and there's nowhere to run
I've got a hammer,
And a heart of glass
I gotta know right now
which walls to smash
I got a pocket
Got no pills
If fear hasn't killed me yet,
then nothing will
All the suffering and all the pain
Never left a name
I'm in the war of my life,
at the door of my life,
out of time
and there's nowhere to run
I'm in the war of my life,
at the core of my life
Got no choice but to fight til its done
No more suffering, no more pain
Never again
I'm in the war of my life,
at the door of my life,
out of time
and there's nowhere to run
I'm in the war of my life,
at the core of my life
Got no choice but to fight til its done
So fight on,
fight on everyone
fight on
got no choice but to fight til it's done
I won't give up
I won't run
No I'm not color blind
I know the world is black and white
Try to keep an open mind but...
I just can't sleep on this tonight
Stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
But honestly won't someone stop this train
Don't know how else to say it, don't want to see my parents go
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own
Stop this train
I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't but honestly won't someone stop this train
So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun
Had a talk with my old man
Said help me understand
He said turn 68, you'll renegotiate
Don't stop this train
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
Don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my hand
John, honestly we'll never stop this train
Once in a while when it's good
It'll feel like it should
And they're all still around
And you're still safe and sound
And you don't miss a thing
'til you cry when you're driving away in the dark.
Singing stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take this speed it's moving in
I know I can't
Cause now I see I'll never stop this train
Takes four days to get to like me
But two to wanna leave
But the part that really gets me
Is the moments in between
I lie to get a little
And laugh at every little thing
She's high on information
Now I'm low on self-esteem
I'm gonna try, try
Gonna try
Try to be myself
Although myself I wonder why
I'm gonna try, try
Gonna try
Try to be myself this time
I'm a hundred kinds of crazy
But I only wanna find
One sweet little angel
Who's gonna let me speak my mind
All I ever do these days
Is knock my process down
She's making her decision
Now I'm losing all of my ground
I'm gonna try, try
Gonna try
Try to be myself
Although myself I wonder why
I'm gonna try, try
Gonna try
Try to be myself
I wanna try to be myself this time
Easy does it now
Keep your damn mouth shut
She thinks I hot already
Don't go and press your luck
No news is good news coming
You gotta wait to find
You know you're gonna blow it
Every single time
I'm gonna try, try
Gonna try
Try to be myself
Although myself I wonder why
I'm gonna try, try
Gonna try
Try to be myself
I hate to see you cry
Lying there in that position
There's things you need to hear
So turn off your tears and listen
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
No it won't all go the way it should
But I know the heart of life is good
You know, it's nothing new
Bad news never had good timing
But then, the circle of your friends
Will defend the silver lining
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
No it won't all go the way it should
But I know the heart of life is good
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
But I know the heart of life is good
My sisters and I
Have this wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
So don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
And his shelter in the sky
Of the desert he would fly
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
On a sailboat
I am slowly
Floating nowhere
Lost the memories
Of where I am and why
Black ocean churning
A million stars
Are burning
Planetariums were right
About the sky
Once upon a day
I set off on a journey
Wishing on the wind
Take me far from home
Now I'm on the waves
And I'm taking on water
Hard to see
I won't always be alone
There was a time
When August sun was high
And centered on me
But it did me on my back
And settled down
Used to scream
Through the land
Used to size it
In my head
But it fell
Behind the line
That leads to sky
Once upon a day
I set off on a journey
Wishing on the wind
Take me far from home
Now I'm on the waves
And I'm taking on water
Hard to see
I won't always be alone
Inside this storm
Whipping in the wind
My sail is torn
In other words
The ends
Are never not my own
Hard to see
I won't always be alone
I'm a sailboat out of here
Slowly floating nowhere
Then someday
I'll wash upon
Take out of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all your so called problems
Better put them in quotations
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Walkin' like a one man army
Fightin' with the shadows in your head
Livin' up the same old moment
Knowin' you'd be better off instead
If you could only
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Have no fear for givin' in
Have no fear for givin' over
You better know that in the end
It's better to say too much
Than to never to say what you need to say again
Even if your hands are shakin'
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closin'
Do it with a heart wide open
A wide heart
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
you know those days before i met you
well good cause i don't either
it's almost like they were meant to
make the whole thing sweeter
You think i'm just a boy who's
consumed by all his fears
the fact that you should have seen me
same time last year
same time last year
oh the same time last year
living fifteen over
shortly over the nick of time
i'm sad like a boy
but I smile like a man
its the best way that I never understand
I wish I would have made it
I hate the view from here
I didn't think I saw my wife that summer
that same time last year
oh the same time last year
oh the same time last year
It's not a silly little moment
It's not the storm before the calm
This is the deep and dying breath of
This love that we've been working on
Can't seem to hold you like I want to
So I can feel you in my arms
Nobody's gonna come and save you
We pulled too many false alarms
We're going down
And you can see it too
We're going down
And you know that we're doomed
My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room
I was the one you always dreamed of
You were the one I tried to draw
How dare you say it's nothing to me?
Baby, you're the only light I ever saw
I'll make the most of all the sadness
You'll be a bitch because you can
You try to hit me just to hurt me
So you leave me feeling dirty
'Coz you can't understand
We're going down
And you can see it too
We're going down
And you know that we're doomed
My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room
Go cry about it, why don't you?
Go cry about it, why don't you?
Go cry about it, why don't you?
My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room
Burning room, burning room
Burning room, burning room
Don't you think we oughta know by now?
Don't you think we shoulda learned somehow?
Don't you think we oughta know by now?
Don't you think we shoulda learned somehow?
Don't you think we oughta know by now?
Did you know that you could be wrong
and swear you're right?
some people been known to do it all their lives
but you find yourself alone
just like you found yourself before
like I found myself in pieces on the hotel floor
Hard times have helped me see
I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time got a rough start
but I finally learned to let it go
now I'm right here and I'm right now
and I'm open knowing somehow
that my shadow days are over
my shadow days are over now
well I ain't no troublemaker
and I never meant her harm
but it doesn't mean I didn't make it hard to carry on
well it sucks to be honest
and it hurts to be real
but it's nice to make some love that I can finally feel
hard times have let me be
I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time got a rough start
but I finally learned to let it go
now I'm right here and I'm right now
and I'm open knowing somehow
that my shadow days are over
my shadow days are over now
I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time got a rough start
but I finally learned to let it go
now I'm right here and I'm right now
and I'm open knowing somehow
that my shadow days are over
midnight
lock all the doors
and turn out the lights
feels like the end of the world
this Sunday night
there's not a sound
outside the snow's coming down
and somehow I can't seem to find
the quiet inside my mind
3:02
the space in this room
has turned on me
and all my fears have cornered me here
me and my TV screen
the volume's down
blue lights are dancing around
and still, I can't seem to find
the quiet inside my mind
daylight is climbing the walls
cars start and feet walk the halls
the world awakes and now I am safe
I'm putting you baby
I'm putting you right out of my mind
I'm putting you baby
I'm putting you right out of my mind
So tired of running after you girl
And being one and one half steps behind
Go tell your friends now
Go tell your friends what Johnny did
Go tell your friends
Go tell your friends just what Johnny did
If they don't tell you that you're crazy baby
Lord, they're as messed up as you is!
(Let me play my guitar people!)
(Let me play my guitar people!)
I'm putting you baby
I'm putting you out of my mind
mind, mind mind,
I'm putting you, baby
I'll put you right out of my mind
So tired of running after you girl
Was a time when I wasn't sure
But you set my mind at ease
There is no doubt you're in my heart now
Said woman take it slow
It'll work itself out fine
You and I've got what it takes to make it
Said woman take it slow
And I nonononooo
You and I'll just use a little patience
Sit here on the stairs
'Cause I'd rather be alone
If I can't have you right now, I'll wait dear
Sometimes, I get so tense
But I can't speed up the time
But you know, love, there's one more thing to consider
Said woman take it slow
'Cause the lights are shining bright
You dontnonoronoroo
Said woman take it slow
It'll work itself out fine
All we need it’s just a little patience
...little patience, mm yeah, ooh yeah,
Need a little patience, yeah
Just a little patience, yeah
I've been walking these streets at night
Just trying to get it right
It's hard to see with so many around
You know I don't like being stuck in a crowd
And the streets don't change but maybe the name
I ain't got time for the game
'Cause I need you
Yeah, yeah well I need you
Oh, I need you
Whoa, I need you
"Welcome to the real world", she said to me
Condescendingly
Take a seat
Take your life
Plot it out in black and white
Well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
And the drama queens
I'd like to think the best of me
Is still hiding
Up my sleeve
They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something's better
On the other side
I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above
So the good boys and girls take the so called right track
Faded white hats
Grabbing credits
Maybe transfers
They read all the books but they can't find the answers
And all of our parents
They're getting older
I wonder if they've wished for anything better
While in their memories
tired
tragedies
They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something's better
On the other side
I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you got to rise above
I am invincible
As long as I'm alive
I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above
I just can't wait til my 10 year reunion
I'm gonna bust down the double doors
And when I stand on these tables before you
Staying home alone on a Friday
Flat on the floor looking back
On old love
Or lack thereof
After all the crushes are faded
And all my wishful thinking was wrong
I'm jaded
I hate it
I'm tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
So tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
Searching all my days just to find you
I'm not sure who I'm looking for
I'll know it
When I see you
Until then, I'll hide in my bedroom
Staying up all night just to write
A love song for no one
I'm tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
So tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
I could have met you in a sandbox
I could have passed you on the sidewalk
Could I have missed my chance
And watched you walk away?
I'm tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
So tired of being alone
So hurry up and get here
You'll be so good
I know you've been sworn
I read your complaint
you're needing someone older
and though I've been warned to live day by day
there's something taking over
did you expect to kiss me one time
while looking at me with the same eyes ever again?
so come on and face it
so come on and face it
it's time that we say it
you can cross the line whenever you want to
I'm calling it love soon
close your mind and waste some time if you have to
I'm calling it love soon
it's not about you now
it's what we are
your mother complains that you need a man
you haven't mentioned me yet
and all of your friends don't know who I am
I've been your best kept secret
I understand I wasn't part of the plan
a dollar short, a minute early
but I am your man
so come on and face it
so come on and face it
it's time that we say it
you can cross the line whenever you want to
I'm calling it love soon
close your mind and waste some time if you have to
I'm calling it love soon
it's not about you now
it's what we are
let's bypass the bullshit and move on because
the minute hand moves faster than you think it does
and by no fault of yours and by no fault of mine
the bottom line is laying in the bed that we've been playing in tonight
you can cross the line whenever you want to
I'm calling it love soon
close your mind and waste some time if you have to
I'm calling it love soon
it's not about you now
I'm so alive
I'm so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
I've got a plan
I'm gonna find out just how boring I am
And have a good time
Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap it's been
Is there a God?
Why is he waiting?
Don't you think of it odd
When he knows my address?
And look at the stars
Don't they remind you of just how feeble we are?
Well it used to, I guess
Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap
It's been
I'm a new man
I wear a new cologne and
You wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed
I know what you'll say
'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time
You're wrong
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
I'm over the analyzing
Tonight
Stop trying to figure it out
(you try to figure, you try to figure it out)
It will only bring you down
You know, I used to be the back
porch poet with my book of rhymes
Always open knowing all the time I'm problably
Never gonna find the perfect rhyme
Don't ask me
What you know is true
Don't have to tell you
I love your precious heart
I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart
We could live
For a thousand years
But if I hurt you
I'd make wine from your tears
I told you
That we could fly
'Cause we all have wings
But some of us don't know why
You were standing
I was there
Two worlds collided
And they could never ever tear us apart
I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart
I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
Love is a verb
It ain't a thing
It's not something you hold
It's not something you scream
When you show me love
I don't need your words
Yeah, love ain't a thing
Love is a verb
Love ain't a thing
Love is a verb
Love ain't a crutch
It ain't an excuse
No, you can't get through love
On a pile of IOUs
Love ain't a drug
Despite what you've heard
Yeah, love ain't a thing
Love is a verb
Love ain't a thing
Love is a verb
So you gotta show me
I came by to get my things
Thank you for getting the door
But I don't feel right walking in no more
You think it's cold, I did my crying at home
But I'm numb now, I'm numb now
Before I'm on my way
I've one more thing to ask
Was it worth the price you paid for my never coming back?
Why did you mess with forever?
Ooohh... what a long time to be unkind
Why did you mess with forever?
Don't you call me cruel
Cruel is what you're making me do
Stick to my rules
I'm at odds with me now
So stay don't go ahead and stay
Before I'm on my way
I've one more thing to ask
Was it worth the price you paid for my never coming back?
Why did you mess with forever?
Oooohhh... what a long time to be unkind
Why did you mess with forever?
You asked to kiss me once goodbye
But you already did
On somebody else's lips
Tell the tiny chemicals
The ones you hold responsible
They lost me, you lost me
Now everything inside me tells me I should run to you
And throw my arms around you
Hold your steaming crying cheek against my own
And tell you nothing's wrong
But wrong is what you were when you forgot
That we were going on
We were going on
