I taught you to play guitar last night
We've been sick for days and we were stuck inside
And I held your arm as you hit the string
I pressed your fingers down and started to sing
And our heater was shaking 'cause the city was cold
And my favorite guitar was between us to hold
And I held your arm as you hit the strings
Analyzed, thought it over too much
Criticize myself way too much
I will utilize the energy I have left
To say goodbye to you and I will survive
To you and I will survive
'Cause I've lost what I once found in you
Take your smoke, coughing, choking, there is no hope
Take your records away, I hate folk
Pack your bags and don't forget your coat
It's cold outside, but you'll survive
It's cold outside, but you'll survive
It was a Tuesday morn in November
I slept at your house the night before
We couldn't wait to get up to go for
A big breakfast in an old fashioned diner
A full meal six coffee refills later
We both have to be at work in an hour
Let's call in sick I suggest to her
I'll call your boss and tell her that you're under
The weather, you'll call mine, you will tell her
That I'm very sick and that, you're my mother
So we walk down the street
Looking for a phone booth we
Rehearse what we're going to say
So that we can have this day, away
We find a phone booth with room for two
I call your boss and I don't speak the truth
They're pretty mad about you but they'll get through
You call my work in my mother's voice, they believe you
And it starts to rain outside
In our phone booth we hide
It doesn't let up until 5
took you round the back,
picked a flower for your hand
to hold.
careful as the wind blows.
we rented movies and then we watched
things that made us laugh and talk.
you taught me things about myself
a lot of things i hadn't felt.
we talked about a winter trip
somewhere that doesn't look like where we are.
not like where we are.
anywhere but where we are.
hey what did we know?
hey what did we know?
hey what did we know?
hey what did we know?
i feel your warmth inside of me
you are lying right beside
right beside me.
my hand is touching yours,
our feet are sticking out of the covers.
out of the covers.
i feel your warm breath on my neck.
i feel that i'm starting to drift.
starting to drift.
I'm getting off at the next stop
Will you leave with me so that we can be seen
By my old love who's standing over there
She left me so stunned that I walk around scared
Wide eyes, I think that I've seen you
And I need you to do this for me
Wrap both your arms around me
And act like I'm all that you need
And so it went like that and she agreed to get off
With me by her side, 3 blocks from her stop
And we stepped to the street and she kissed my cheek
And whispered words that I won't repeat
Wide eyes, I think that she saw us
But I didn't look up to see
Wrap your warm arms around me
I wake up beside you, in mom's car
I try to get you out
You're strapped to the backseat
I am too
The car is rolling down to water
Why are we strapped to our seats
Trapped, what did we do?
I cleaned my room just as she asked me to
Filling up, dirty water
My chin's up, going under
You're still asleep, baby brother
I'll wake you up when this is over
The car is rolling down to water
Why are we strapped to our seats
Trapped, what did we do?
I brushed my teeth just as she asked me to
This is it, baby brother
One more breath together
We're almost underwater
Where is mom? I miss her
The car has rolled into the water
Why are we dying in this way, what did we do?
I was nice to him her boyfriend, this is stupid
When people come to search the lake
We'll be found in our pajamas, they will see
Why do I feel this way
Years are becoming days
And why was I so surprised
I opened my eyes to see
Summer for you and me
Wasn't going to be
I thought you were what I needed
To break out of how I was feeling
But I never saw
You are beautiful
And your eyes are..
Your face doesnt't't need
Still want to heard it said
Tell me all your wrongs
Just so I'd know all along that you would be that way
To be that way
To be that way
Why did it end that way?
Hours into wasted days
And was I so surprised
Guess it's all for the best
I only wanted sex and I think that you knew
It was in my eyes to see I was looking for you in me
I saw in line I checked in
And I thought that you smiled but I'm uncertain
I know all of the lines but they don't work for me
So I just turned away and let it be
There's only two doors in between us
I got a bucket and I'll get some ice
We'll watch a movie and we'll feel alright tonight
We'll watch a movie and we'll feel tonight
On the way to my room, I saw you in the hall
Our rooms were side by side in this huge hotel
I could hear through the wall you were watching what I was
So I picked up my guitar and I wrote this for us
There's only two doors in between us
I've got a bucket and I'll get some ice
We'll watch a movie and we'll feel alright tonight
We'll watch a movie and we'll feel tonight
There's only two doors in between us
I've got a bucket and I'll get some ice
We'll watch a movie and we'll feel alright tonight
Broken bottle won't hurt me
Nothing worse that I have dreamed
Gun shot in my chest you'll leave
I can take that you will see
Late at night is when I dream
Horrible things are what I see
Hard for me to believe
I wake up and I won't freeze
Car crash highway tragedy
Nothing worse than I have dreamed
Loss of my best friend I grieve
I've got neighbours who argue terribly in the house
And act like they're real nice
When I pass them in the night
Oh, you'd never know
Oh, it's like this life
The no one else has seen
That neither of them dreamed
It's sinking their esteem
And they're ashamed of it
I was going to tell them
I can hear them through the rads
All the fights they've had
And most of what's been said
Remember when we were young
And the summers felt like they would never end
This one was like that again
But only because so much was said
Two I loved went away
Not to come back any day
In my life since the day it started
Now I'm one of the broken hearted
Since time has passed and thoughts have been thought
I look at it from a different shot
It was going to happen, it had to end
The way it went down was the best for them
And all I hope is the day I die
I'm ready to face all that I've tried
And I follow you right behind
Parked underground the night you left
It took me an hour and a half
To find my way back up above
There was nothing up there without your love
I was Speeding out, filled with doubt
And Heading home
Playing with the lights thinking of times
And freaking out
The street car stopped and I had not
It's hard to explain except to say
We're on our own in every way
Someone who says they'll stay, may just
Be waiting around for some luck
Who's speeding out, filled with doubt
And heading Home
Playing with the lights, thinking of times
And freaking out, the street car had stopped
I bought a rose
To give to you
A windy day
The petals flew
From the stem
Onto the street
I tried to catch them
With my feet
I got to your door
You looked to see
Through the peep hole
Right at me
You let me in
And I just froze
I gave you a stem
That was a rose
Your legs are at the door
I'm feeling good and I want more
But you've got one thing on your mind
It's leaving everything behind
And I feel like starting over
More now, as I'm older
Come on now, come over to me
Drop your skirt down past your knees
If this is the last we ever meet
Let's go out in style and see
If you feel like starting over
Or you'll look back when you're older
At times we had together
And realize there was nothing better
And I feel like starting over
More now, as I'm older
Maybe some of that was a bit too much
It's just that we won't stay in touch
So come on baby, come over to me
When I was younger, a part-time job worker
Department store center, I saw a man enter
He was middle-aged, deep lines on his face
Tight mouth and eyes glazed, eyelids just half-raised
And I looked at him, he looked at me
He looked so sad, I had to see
What did he want, what could it be
What had he been through before me
Seeing him in the store I worked for that year, that year
Ice skates he asked for in the middle of summer
He wanted a good pair, the price he did not care
I looked for his size, our best pair he tried
Custom back and sides, excitement in his eyes
And I looked at him, he looked at me
He looked so sad, I had to see
What did he want, what could it be
What had he been through before me
Seeing him in the store I worked for that year, that year
I asked are you a pro, he looked sad and said no
These skates are my last hope, without them I cannot cope
And he said my wife, she drowned this summer
Behind our house, the river took her, I cannot swim
I need to find her, I will wait till it freezes over
And then I will skate, as far as it take
I will skate as far as it takes, to bring her back home
I don't want to be here when you get back from Texas
You've been doing some thinking and I know just where that leaves us
A month ago we were doing alright
Now I'm just trying to get by
This is one of those times when you're forced out of submission
And the choices you've made are coming to conclusions
A month ago we were doing just fine
Now I'm just left here robbed blind
I don't want to be here when you get back from Texas
You've been doing some thinking and I know just where that leaves us
A month ago we were doing alright
Now I'm just left here robbed blind
You're looking in on my life and I don't think I like you around here
You're looking right at my wife like she's part of the dinner we're serving you
You told me yourself over beers how you felt when you let her go
When the coice was between a family and the way things were
But nothing remains the same once decisions like that are made
You're treating both of my kids like a prize that was taken away from you
You roll into town, live off your sound and do what you need
You live for the chase, just getting a taste of whatever you please
Then you stay at my place and realize the choices you made were mistakes
So look one more time at my love and you'll find that it's here to stay
Your stupid lines and the thoughts just behind are not working today
Get back on that bus, you'll forget about us in a week or a lay
Time, time when you stayed over
Stayed in bed forever, the mail piled at the door
Time, we lost track of the hours
Pizza boxes tower on the floor beside the bed
Time, my body's sore from something
It surely wasn't walking
Our friends thought we were dead
And I can't recreate those times we used to have
Without you they'll be bad
Lets meet next month at my parents house they'll be
Away like they were then, away like we were then
Time, you'll met someone new
Someone who likes you, not like I liked you
Time, you ask him if he'll mind
Of course he'll surely mind, so just leave him for me
Will you meet me and we'll try to set things right
I want things to be right
And I bet we'll stay in bed for days and never leave
The long long day is through
The lights been replaced by blue
You lie awake in your room
Thinking about what to do
And everything depends
On one single chance
Should you accept this dance
The last ten years have flown
Days come and then they go
Is this your life you're meant to know
Is it too late for you to glow
Everything depends
On one single chance
Should you accept this dance
The long long day is through
Figure out what is true
Close your eyes and think about
What you can live without
Close your eyes and think about
I was driving North
By myself feeling sad of course
Off a 2-lane highway I was forced
To get out of my car
5 police cars froze
By the side of the road in a row
Flashing lights all over snow
Looking for someone who'd flown
Out into the night
20 Miles before
A family in a car
Drove in front of me for an hour
I got to know the kids from their smiles
Do you ever go to the places we both were known?
Do you walk where we used to roam?
Do your thoughts go by me in their flow?
When Im alone sometimes I need to know
Baby, it's a long way down
And I wonder how youve changed
Have the years left lines I can't trace?
Has your brain lost cells that wont replace?
And are you light or weighed down with mistakes?
When it gets late sometimes I see your face
Baby, it's a long way down
Baby, let your feelings show
Its all I need from you to let go
Cause baby, I can't stay this low
When there's so much I need to grow
And I know you never go to the places we both were known
And you don't walk where we used to roam
And your thoughts don't pass me in their flow
Because if they didn't I wouldn't be out alone
Baby, it's a long way down
Baby, let you feelings show
Its all I need from you to let go
Cause baby I can't stay this low
The afternoon light
Was reaching down to the site
As my old love stared
Into the fire with her new love there
Camping up North, the same place we shared
Behind the van
They heard the crashing of land
And they looked to see
A grizzly bear lurking amongst the trees
Searching their ground for something to eat
From what I'm told
My old love just froze
But her man got scared
He started to run, thinking she had begun
But he left her there, alone in the woods with the bear
So the bear all surprised
Looked right into her eyes
And decided that
She was it's prey or some kind of threat
So it followed it's instincts to deal with it
It charged up towards her
And stopped just before her
And stood up high
Swiped at her shoulder and dragged her by the torso
Around the site, And that's how my old love died
If I'd been there I wouldn't have run from the bear
That's the worst mistake
I would've yelled and banged pots
I don't need to, take this shit from you
And, I don't want you calling me up at 2
Just to tell me that some guy you met who
While at a party, told you that he loved you
And, I don't need to know this
Need to know this
And, I don't wanna know this
Wanna know this
Tell me the way, they are with you
Tell me exactly what they do
Things that you say don't need to prove
That what I have is much to lose
And, I don't need to take this shit from you
And, I don't want you calling me up at 2
Just to tell me, that some guy you met who
While at a party came just looking at you
And we never should have said that, in September
We shouldn't go away but stay together
Tell me the way to be with you
Tell me exactly what to do
Things that you say don't need to prove
I considered your letter
I understood your questions
I'm wasting away
I've gone astray
Take me away
I know what you'll say
I'm to blame
Didn't want change
Things can't stay
The same way
Come get me
I'm ready
My mind's changed
Will you take me?
I'm wasting away
I've gone astray
Take me away
I remember the day it came
Flashing lights and sirens rang
They took you and put you inside
I walked the house ten times
And I'm riding down to let you know
That I love you although it doesn't show
When we argued about the car
I want you to know
That I am so
Thankful that you're here
How come everything has to change?
I wish were 4 and 6 and in the rain
When we were 6 and 8 we dressed the same
When we were 24 and 26 I wrote this down
And I'm coming down to let you know
That I love you though it doesn't show
When we argued about the car
I want you to know
That I am so
We saw a movie where the hero had
This may sound silly such honour, and
He protected all those he loved
With such power it made me glad.
When we left the show, i know it's so
Different from those days long ago.
I held your hand and didn't let go
Until you were safe inside your home.
The hero's family and friends all died.
He couldn't help them, no matter how he tried.
Fate was stronger he could not deny.
The story moved me,
I almost cried.
When we left the show, i know it's so
Different from those days long ago.
I kept looking behind, i was hoping no one
You're the one thing that I'm leaving
That will come to my mind dreaming
All along the highway speeding
And up in the air as far as I fly
You're the first thing that I'm thinking
When I'm taking off and landing
In the cities that I'm playing
To the people I won't ever know
This is the last time out for me
I don't want to find out we
Drifted apart or lost our way
I'll be home by Saturday
Last night in New York City
I met a girl almost as pretty
And if I had one more whiskey
Everything would have all just slipped away
This is the last time out for me
I don't want to wait and see
If while away you've been untrue
Have you found somebody new
And if I'm wrong then don't you stray
I'll be home by Saturday
You're the one thing that I'm leaving
That will come to my mind dreaming
All along the highway speeding
You are who you are to someone else,
Whos waking up to your smile.
He's watching you sleep,
And hearing about your dreams...
But if he gets any closer,
Im gonna put on my holster,
Have a showdown with him on your street.
He's picking you up and droppingn you off,
And waiting around inbetween.
He's falling so hard,
I know your on guard.
If he gets any closer,
I'm gonna put on my holster,
Have a showdown with him on your street.
Or maybe i'll just talk to him,
And tell him he'll never win,
Your heart, cause it belongs to me.
You are who you are,
To someone else,
Whos waking up to your smile.
He's falling so hard,
I know you're on guard.
If he gets any closer,
I'm gonna put on my holster,
Have a showdown with him on your street,
Or maybe i'll just talk to him,
And tell him that he'll never win,
There is a girl outside my door
I don't know what she's here for
She's the star of the movies
Now she's looking right at me
Just like she does on T.V.
I tell her I'm her biggest fan
She tells me about her man
How he cheats and mistreats her
And how she can't see the future
Unless I kill him and his two lovers
There are two cops outside my door
Oh, I know what they're here for
I'm the one that they want
So I go out on the lawn
And tell them what went wrong
They take one long look at me
Start to laugh and say:
"There's a movie on my street"
And they're just directing the traffic
Could I be the one thing
Missing from your life and from your everyday?
I need you to be beside me
Why don't you call me and we'll see?
I see you having coffee
You are almost beside me
Laughing with your friends
I tell Lorraine to look at you
I tell her I need to tell you
I don't know you, you, but I want to, to
I just can't leave here without telling you
Just how lonely I've been lately
You are just as lonely, maybe?
We should go out for some coffee
I wonder how I can
Give you my phone number
And not be so afraid?
I ask Lorraine to give it to you
When I go to the washroom
I return to the table
I look, but I'm unable
To find you anywhere
I ask Lorraine to look for you
I tell her I needed to tell you
Don't know you, you, but I want to, to
I just can't leave here without telling you
Just how lonely I've been lately
You are just as lonely, maybe?
We should go out for some coffee
On the way out the door
Lorraine lets me know
That she went up to you
Gave you my number and said
'Call him or else he'll be sad'
And I waited, waited, for two weeks and, and
I realized that you'd never call me
How could I have been so stupid
I should have gone up to you and
With your summer hat and smile
You came here to leave there
And as the sun stained your legs and your arms
The men arrive with their one-track minds
You like that they're there when they ask you the time
They say what they do, and they'll do what you say
And they'll tell you some lies if you let them . . . stay
And you laugh, but not too hard
And you look, but not too far
Your eyes drift across the beach
And just before you reach me, he speaks
His face is red, and he's talking to breeze
You get up to leave as the sun hits the trees
And you jump in the water with him at . . . your feet
And I laugh, but not too hard
They were the only
Smokers
So they'd meet
Outside every twenty minutes, when we all used to hang out.
Soon they became drawn
To each other and anticipated
The next time they'd meet and we had no idea.
The four of us, the two of them;
My girlfriend, and my best friend.
One night they announced
To us
They were going
To go for a walk and soon they began splitting packs in half.
Half for him, and half
For her.
Half for me is half
Open your eyes
Put it in drive
Get on the road and just go.
City lights
Turn the tree lines
And National Park signs
Mountains approach
With small winding roads
And the air turns to falling snow
Miles away or just up ahead.
It doesn't matter what,
Any of us is looking for.
We'll never find it, because
It's not even there.
High beams showing
Falling rock warning
Construction work, slowing
The engine blazes
The elevation raises
The dynamite walls contain us
Everyone's wathcing
For animals crossing
Through the part of the glass
That's defrosted
Miles away or just up ahead
It doesn't matter what,
Any of us is looking for
We'll never find it, because
It's not even there.
Open your eyes
Put it in drive
Get on the road and just go.
City lights,
Turn the tree lines
And National Park signs.
Mountains approach,
With small winds in the road
And the air turns to falling snow.
The engine blazes
The elevation raises
Don't get down
Don't waste time on things that you can't ever change
I know we all do
Write a song
All your new ones are the best you've ever sung
Write another one
And all you need to do
Is get away from everything
Quit this sad old scene
Come back when you feel the need
We'll all be here for you
Don't get let down
Don't spend time with people you don't even like
I know we all do
Write a song
All your old ones don't mean a thing if you don't sing
Any new ones
And all you need to do
Is get away from everything
Quit this sad old scene
Come back when you feel the need
We'll all be here for you
And find something that will make you feel
Like everyday's too short
We're only here for a little while
Baby on the drive
Time is almost five
Laundry basket I
Sit in while lee tries
To tell me I should know
Tell me I would grow
Sticking fourteen stones
Gently up my nose
So I shoved one up
Until it got stuck
Five more then I'm done
Playing with Lee's no fun
Dad came out the front door and he saw
Only Lee sticking a rock
Up his nose while I just watched
Dad chased him around the block
Dad caught him real quick
Then he gave him shit
Hospital by six
His nose the doctors fixed
I sit on the drive
Waiting till they arrive
Nose is full inside
I'm trying to stay alive
Lee was too scared to tell dad how many
Stones up my nose, no one says
Till one day a bleeding face
So Carry On, Mentality
It's a screwed up, Excuse
It's a part of your, Personality
It's a pain in... the ass
Chorus
What did I do to deserve this?
Was I doing something wrong?
How did I cause this disturbance?
I think I'll write you a song
It's a Monkey shaped like a man
He has a tray in his hands
Was a fortune, I'm not sad
I put a candle in his tray, I'm Glad
Don't be scared to leave him
You've been sad all season
You should think of something to say
Maybe you could tell him
That from the day you met him
You've been liking him less and less
And things have got to change
Cause if they stay the same
You'll both get carried away
He might really love you
And be crushed by the news
Then you can take back everything you said
And if he feels the same way
Has been waiting to say
The same things, but on a different day
You'll go your separate ways
And all your days with him will fade
Or be carried away
Lee and I had a beautiful Bunkbed
Bottom was mine to keep rain from my head
And Yoga, my Mom, she took when I was young
She said she'd teach me moves when she got home
Chorus
I bounced my bed...
I hurt my head...
I saw red, I thought
I'm dead from my bunkbed
I hate bunkbed
Waited till ten, for her to come on in
To show me how, she learned to twist her limbs
That's Great...
Show Me...
It looks like so much Fun...
Just Once, Oh Please...
I'll sleep when I am done
Chorus
I'm holding my head, from a nail on Lee's Bed...
They stitched me up, But I wanted the top Instead
Did you open your eyes when you first saw me?
Did you open your eyes when you first saw me?
First saw me
It's funny how things make sense when you're lonely
It's funny how you want more when you're happy
I'm coming over, will you open the door for me?
I'm better off inside
In your eyes, I see you in disguise
You're talking backwards, telling lies
Telling lies
It's funny how things make sense when you're lonely
It's funny how you want more when you're happy
I'm coming over, will you open the door for me?
The day after the storm
I didn't leave the house at all
They assumed from the lack of prints in the snow
That I had been away for some time
But I was upstairs
And I couldn't hear them
With my headphones on, recording a song
They broke my windows
And walked inside, beneath me as I played on
Unaware of what was going on
As my song began to fade
I heard whispering and then I couldn't breath
They were walking up the stairs
Towards me as I looked for somthing to try and scare them away
And I couldn't find shit
So I grabbed my bass guitar by the neck and held it above me
And hid by the top of the stairs and that's where I was found
Girl of my dreams
Things are as bad as they seem
She is only 16
That's why she's only a dream
Woman of my dreams
Lives right down my street
Has a daughter who's 16
That's why she's only a dream
What do I do this for
Got to get out some more
Go down to the grocery store
Meet someone I'll adore
Someone who'll make me laugh
Someone to be my better half
Keep me warm under the sack
Share with me my midnight snack
Job of my dreams
Things are as bad as they seem
Working where I did at 14
Making less pay it seems
What do I do this for
Got to get out some more
Go down to the grocery store
Meet someone I'll adore
Someone who'll make me laugh
Someone to be my better half
Keep me warm under the sack
Share with me my midnight snack
House of my dreams
Things are as bad as they seem
My parents' house I'll stay for free
I once saw a girl on my lawn
She was so pretty and young
She walked right up and just said
"Your house is where I once lived"
She asked to look around
To see if she could find
The part of her she left behind
That she needed to move on
I didn't want to let her down
It was with her that I was found
So I lead her into my place
You should have seen her face
She said her name was Sam
And I let her know who I am
She asked if she could bathe
And I said: "Okay"
An hour went by and the door opened wide
And through the steam I saw her eyes
She said: "You saved my life"
It was with her that I was right
A week maybe two disappeared
She never came back around here
I asked the old man living beside
If he remembered Sam and he cried
The beauty he described
Was the girl I let inside
But what he said after I'll never forget
Until the day that I die
The girl I met drowned in the bath
In my house at 25
In 1939
Teachers who saw their education as a blessin
Come to school now all in a sort of depression
All o' da kids in the class, they all stressin
The teacher's just waitin for that first kid to test him
So school doesn't seem like its any kind of lesson
We're out on the streets tryna make our possession
The manor that we're from has turned like spaghetti western
With itchy fingers on da triggers ready for the pressin and its...
Pure depression, I'm standin at the crossroads
Thinkin bout all the other children of the lost souls
And now we only aim for goals that we can see
Another brother thought he saw his future shottin B
He's 19 an' he's caught wid a half a Kee
So now he ain't comin' home until he's 33
What a waste of a life
Jus' like a criss girl I knew who fucked man for a taste of pipe
No-one's ready to face up to these fights
But you find some mad shit on these council estates at night
So lock your shit down safe an tight
And stand firm like a soldier so you don't lose face, all right?
The police patrol the streets like beasts
Instead of chasin the thiefs they pull us up and give us beats
So we run these streets red, kids are holdin their head
As they drivin around on their stolen peds
They're just dealin the cards that life has dealt em
Half of their crews are now lockdown in Feltham
Schools an' probation just can't seem to help dem
The law has made sure that they've grown to resent dem
Don't ask them now what is their life representin
To get through their day is their sole intention
An you can't tell them that they're wrong
Coz they're all men-child and feel they know what's goin on
They haven't got no time to enjoy jus bein young or havin fun
They out there keepin it headstrong
They couldn't let Skinnyman come and advise them
They look at me as if my words was patronisin
They can't think about no long-term plans
When they just young boys tryin to be some o' da mans dem
They can't think about no long term plans
