Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display. A fireworks event (also called a fireworks show or pyrotechnics) is a display of the effects produced by firework devices. Fireworks competitions are also regularly held at a number of places. Fireworks (devices) take many forms to produce the four primary effects: noise, light, smoke, and floating materials (confetti for example). They may be designed to burn with flames and sparks of many colors, typically red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and silver. Displays are common throughout the world and are the focal point of many cultural and religious celebrations.
The earliest documentation of fireworks dates back to 7th century China, where they were invented. The fireworks were used to accompany many festivities. It is a part of the culture of China and had its origin there, eventually it spread to other cultures and societies. Important events and festivities such as the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) and the Mid-Autumn Festival were and still are times when fireworks are guaranteed sights. China is the largest manufacturer and exporter of fireworks in the world.
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Plot
A study of the career of Ah Kam, the plot is divided into three sub-plots. The first is a behind-the-scenes look at a stunt company. Ah Kam progresses from stunt extra to action director under the tutelage of, and then with growing independence from, director Master Tung. In chapter two, Ah Kam falls in love with a rich playboy businessman. Ah Kam is downgraded into playing a fancy-coiffed karaoke club hostess and a male adornment. And then she meets her replacement adornment. Chapter three is a wild triad.
Keywords: behind-the-scenes, hong-kong, kung-fu, martial-arts, stuntwoman, title-directed-by-female
R. Kelly – Fireworks
Its a new day & I feel good
If I wanna spread my wings
I know that I could
I got a feeling that tonight begins
a healing where we all win
I can see the fireworks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the firewooorks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the firewooorks
Laa da diee jam nam nahh
Awie jam nam nahh
Awie jam nam nah ohweyooo
I feel emotions deep inside my bones
Like an ocean when the wave gets strong
I feel today is my victory
I gotta get out there and make history
I can see the fireworks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the firewooorks
(said it looks like I can see them)
I can see the fireworks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the firewooorks
Laa da wiee jam nam nahh
Awie jam nam nahh
Awie jam nam nah ohweyooo
I had a vision, it was real to me
Like a new song and my heart that sings
Just like the striking of a lightning bulb (?)
I feel the power of a miracle
I can see the fireworks (oohw)
I can see the fireworks (fireworks)
I can see the firewooorks
(said it looks like I can see them)
I can see the fireworks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the firewooorks
(fireworks, fireworks, fireworks)
Said the sky is glowing with peace love and harmony
this day is (?) with joy, cuz theres been a victoryyyy
I can see the fireworks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the firewooorks
(said it looks like I can see them)
I can see the fireworks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the firewooorks
(across the sky, over the water, throughout the city)
I can see the fireworks (hey)
I can see the fireworks
(I can see the fireworks)
I can see the firewooorks
(ooh, like a rainbow)
I can see the fireworks
I can see the fireworks
I can see the firewooorks
Laa da diee jam nam nahh
Awie jam nam nahh
It's on your hand
the scratching choices
the streets are shallow
and so were the sounds
impatient road
is asking questions
from the hour before this
before anything
fireworks went off that night
Alice went home
dreams exploding in the sky
it's all very strong
there she goes alone, outside
thinking you and I
the tired tongue
is leaking stories
from a mind's chaotic
map of the passed
surrender now
you save the clicks and hours
'cause your sorrow's breaching
in the hours to come
fireworks went off that night
Alice went home
dreams exploding in the sky
it's all very strong
there she goes alone, outside
thinking you and I
thinking you and I
fireworks went off that night
Alice went home
dreams exploding in the sky
it's all very strong
there she goes alone, outside, outside
There is the starting line, the starting gun
And it's "On your marks, get set..."
So there goes my head again
And there goes my heart
There are my feet again
Still at the start
There is the line of thought, the fly you caught
And it's "On your marks, get set..."
So there goes my head again
And there goes my heart
There are my lips again
Trying to part
And it feels like fireworks or fighter planes
Light up the sky, they're shooting down the stars
And it looks like it's meaningful and it's meaningless
And it's in my head, it's tearing me apart
So there goes my head again
And there goes my heart
There are my feet again
Trying too hard
Sleep, why don't you sleep
Why don't you rest your head
And it feels like fireworks or fighter planes
Light up the sky, they're shooting down the stars
And it looks like it's meaningful and it's meaningless
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks
Let's walk everywhere we can tonight
It's dark but I tend to see more clearly in this light
Being too angry at the age of sixteen
Turns your early twenties into one of those dreams
Where you can't find what you're looking for
We were over thinking again
Bikes ride faster at 3am
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks
It's still enough for me
Let's walk everywhere we can tonight
It's dark but I tend to see more clearly in this light
Being too angry at the age of sixteen
Turns your early twenties into one of those dreams
Where you can't find what you're looking for
We were over thinking again
Bikes ride faster at 3am, yeah
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks
You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks
No, You don't need maps when you know
where the sidewalk cracks
It's still enough for me
It's dark but I tend to see more clearly...
It's still enough for me
I love this place unconditionally
We pray for the worst things,
Making presidential threats when the phone would ring
We pray for the worst things,
Making presidential threats when the phone would ring
We pray for the worst things,
Making presidential threats when the phone would ring
(We pray for the worst things,
Making presidential threats when the phone would ring)
To prove no one in the sky or behind the lines
Cares we're alive
One time on the Fourth of July,
I went out to watch the fireworks fly.
From the hill I could see all the rockets as they flew from the town below me.
Bombs bursting in the air,
The crowd was cheering with every flare,
But, In the distance the clouds were cracking and flashing,
Mountains shaking with every explosion.
And I remembered thinking that night,
As I looked into the sky,
More than pyrotechnics meets the eye.
Chorus:
And the fireworks fly,
And the fireworks fall,
But I have seen the best of all.
And its true,
After every charge is through,
I can still hear the thunder call.
Glitter bombs turn pasty pale,
Under five-mile electric trails,
Soaring skies and lofty Sierras,
Never looked quite as big in the pictures.
Neon flickers in the haze,
Bilboards set to catch our gaze,
So much noise,
Nothing holds our attention,
It has all been done before.
So let the rockets sparkle and fade,
Let the streamers fill the sky,
More than pyrotechnics meets the eye.
[Verse 1]
Rapping juss changed everything
Its kinda hard tryna move as a man
I'm stressing cuz I'm constantly losing my friends
People hate me cuz I'm tryna stay true to my fans
But I'm grinding cuz I'm tryna provide for my fam
Damn... I'm just spitting out these rhymes
& people hating on me like I'm out doing crime
So I sign... What if I worked a 9 to 5?
Would you hate on the fact that I was juss tryna
provide?
Nah, you just hating on me cuz I'm doing music
& you annoyed with the fact that everybody tryna do it
So its foolish in your eyes... that is it
But you don't see me running around
Putting down your fucking happiness
I ain't tryna ask for no exceptions
I know I'm not anything that you were prolly expectin
I know that I'm a blessing cuz Ive been thru the wire
first
& thats why I'm taking off... Fireworks
[Chorus]
Today it begins... I missed them before
But wont miss them again
I keep having the same dreams
& I think that I just realized what it means
All I see is fireworks... All I see is fireworks
Taking off like fireworks... Taking off like fireworks
All I see is fireworks... All I see is fireworks
Taking off like fireworks... Taking off like... Ohh...
[Verse 2]
You should give it up for me, humble with this luxury
I love all of my fans & the kids that look up to me
But I'm stressin cuz the devil always fuck with me
& why do I feel alone even when I'm with my company?
Damn... Seems like world's closing in on me
The closer I get, the world seems to spin on me
Girls who been on me, were all coolie
Until they try to explain how they are not a groupie
& I hate that, baby we go way back
I didn't know if I made raps, it would create that
But this is the life that I asked for
Subliminal hating on Twitter
Like niggas don't know what that asks for
I wish I had more... so I could give more
I'm heading thru life finding out what I live for
So I'm real more... & you a liar first
& thats why I'm taking off... Fireworks
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Look, anything's possible... Look at Mike Vick
& all the wrong stuff feel like the right shit
& all the right shit seems to be hardest
& the harder you work, the more that everybody's talkin
So it's strange... Can you imagine life without pain?
Where everybody seems to be the same
Walking round life like there was nothing to gain
Lookin in the mirror, not seein' nothing to change
Lame!
So I'm on that get money, fuck everything
Reminiscin' when I used to fuck everyday
Big booty's with the matching lips
Shit, that's when I started on this rappin' shit
The beginning G, I found out what the sinna be
At 12 years old is when I lost my virginity
Yeah, I just didn't try her first
But now a nigga blowin' up, fireworks
[Chorus]
Ohh... Ohh... Ooh... Ohh...
It's hard to be living
You gotta play the cards you were given
You think it's simple but it goddamn isn't
It's tougher now than breaking out of Shawshank prison
And as you're hittin your prime
People say you been committing a crime
But I won't quit till I'm home
I'll chip the limestone a bit at a time
Wait! I'm a pale ass pale middle-class straight white male
I won't have an alibi the day I fail
Cause if I ever went to jail, Mom would pay my bail
In a [boom-boom] heartbeat
Mom and Dad have given me a lot more than a pat on the back
And I gotta thank 'em for loving me
From the moment I was strapped in a Volvo car seat
When I needed a pep talk
I couldn't remember to wreck shop
Writer's block, staring at my laptop desktop
Or sleeping in my rental in a turnpike rest stop
Shit in storage, living from a suitcase
Thinking "this is how a silver spoon tastes?"
Cause you can make a dream possible
But it'll never be easy, no matter what you chase
If you wanna poke fun then do so
I'll do it for you, it's no crime
I'm like if the dude from Juno grew a Jewfro and liked to rhyme [OOoooooohhh!]
So tell me that I'm not a rapper
Tell Rudolph he can't pull sleighs
Tell pluto it's not a planet
And he'll probably keep spinning in the same old way
On and on, every day
Right around the sun, wanna feel the rays
You do it 'cause you love it like nothing else in the universe
I'm sitting in a lawn chair by the dirty hotel pool,
with a suitcase full of fireworks sparkling like jewels.
And there's a girl around my neck who won't leave me alone.
Won't someone get me out of here,
or won't someone take her home.
The lobby's full of shipwrecks, drunk conventioneers.
And the mermaid in the lobby tank is swimming in her tears.
And the possum in the swimming pool is looking slighty sick,
and the pellet gunned greasy kid pokes it with a stick.
Well she tied the wicks together,
and she lit them with no shame.
Her face lit up an evil glow,
from the burning school house of flames.
She's the bottle rocket princess, QUeen of La Motor Inn,
with a sparkler in her teeth and a flashlight to her chin.
With a lady finger cap gun and she put on quite a show,
she took off with my room key and came back in my clothes.
But there's sugar in my gas tank and the battery is gone,
and all the stars in the sky are lying on my lawn.
So if anyone can hear me, if anybody cares,
if there's anybody up there who can answer my prayers.
I'll be in the parking lot with the losers and the jerks,
I'll be in the parking lot selling fireworks.
In a Jimmy Carter rubber mask she hollars out 'Hit the dirt,
no one moves a muscle here and nobdoy gets hurt."
Oh say this isn't happening, please tell me I'm not here.
'Cause the President just pinches my ass,
and she whispered in my ear.
All the love up in the heaven won't save me here in hell,
'cause they tied me to the crime scene, from a hair on my lapel.
I look around to try to find someone in here to blame,
while the hangman makes collect calls,
and he's spelling out my name.
Well I'll be down at the fairground with a shovel and a broom,
where the candy floss meets the air
with a cheap teenage perfume.
Where the cheerleaders gather 'round a suspicious silhouette,
where the devils trading souls for duty free cigarettes.
Meanwhile back at the hotel, the band is tearing down.
They're hitching up the horses, and they're sneaking out of town.
And the mini bar is empty, you're covered in tatoos.
[Verse 1]
So let's take it nice and slow,
'Cause there's nowhere else to go,
Though we can commit to.
Well I've been this way before
And all the roads point to the door
You can leave if you want to.
[Pre-Chorus]
I've had quite enough,
For this lust disguised his love,
Unite our hearts in hopes of losing ours
[Chorus]
Fireworks will never work baby,
There is nothing left when our innocence is overrun
Fireworks will only burn baby,
There is nothing left when our innocence is lost
There'll be nothing left of us.
[Verse 2]
Strike a match and light the flame,
There is no one left to blame,
Once this arson consumes you.
And still we say in God we trust
Set our hearts to self-combust
Say goodbye to all you knew.
[Pre-Chorus]
I've had quite enough,
For this lust disguised his love,
Unite our hearts in hopes of losing ours
[Chorus]
Fireworks will never work baby,
There is nothing left when our innocence is overrun
Fireworks will only burn baby,
There is nothing left when our innocence is lost
[Bridge]
I will wait for you,
If it's the last thing that I do
I will wait for you
I will wait for you
If it's the last thing that I do
I will wait for you
[Chorus]
Fireworks will never work baby,
There is nothing left when our innocence is overrun
Fireworks will only burn baby,
There is nothing left when our innocence is lost
Open your eyes, look up tonight
In the scariest dark hides a marvellous spark
And I know that fire works
I've seen the fireworks
Down here, a higher world
I've seen you
Sparkles flew as brightness blew
First a heavenly glow, then the colours explode
And I know that fire works
I've seen the fireworks
Down here, a higher world
I've seen you
I've seen you
And I know that fire works
I've seen the fireworks
Down here, a higher world
I've seen you
Oh, when you're leaving for the hundredth time of day
Looking for a reason, a reason lived to stay
What about the promises, the promises you can't keep?
Sometimes when you're wounded, there ain't enough reason to bleed
Oh don't hurry your heart
No, don't hurry your heart
Please don't hurry your heart
This time
Now you're really going like a hundred times before
Is there any reason not to step through that door?
Forget about the promises, the promises you can't keep
When you look behind you there's nothing there to see
Oh don't hurry your heart
No, don't hurry your heart
Please don't hurry your heart
This time
Flashing lights and exit signs, fall away into the night
Like everything you couldn't take with you
There's nothing left to break
Everybody's talking
When you want to say your piece
Everybody's leavin'
Right when you were feeling at ease
Sometimes when he's rushing
He's telling you to hurry up
Oh don't hurry your heart
No, don't hurry your heart
Please don't hurry your heart
This time
La da da da da da
Yeah, yeah
Just take your clothes off, lay back, clear up your mind
And I’ll turn down the lights
Just take the pain and the pressure and leave it behind
It’s all for you tonight
(I touch ya) We’re like an island
(I kiss ya) We’re all alone here
I’m going down babe
(I kiss ya) Go ahead get loud
Gonna give you fireworks tonight, my girl, tonight
(I’m going down babe, go ahead get loud)
Gonna set your sky on fire while I’m inside tonight
(I’m going down babe, go ahead get loud)
I’m not the first but I promise I’ll be the last
To get you off like this
(I touch ya) We’re like an island
(I kiss ya) We’re all alone here
I’m going down babe
(I kiss ya) Go ahead get loud
Don’t you be afraid and you’ll feel everything
The waterfalls elate the shakes
Gonna give you fireworks tonight, my girl, tonight
(I’m going down babe, go ahead get loud)
Gonna set your sky on fire while I’m inside tonight
(I’m going down babe, go ahead get loud)
Gonna give you fireworks tonight, my girl, tonight
(I’m going down babe, go ahead get loud)
Gonna set your sky on fire while I’m inside tonight
In this moment the past just melts away
In this moment, high on life we stay
Feel the lips, our hips, we’re sweating an ocean
The sex connects forever to us
Gonna give you fireworks tonight, my girl, tonight
(I’m going down babe, go ahead get loud)
Gonna set your sky on fire while I’m inside tonight
(I’m going down babe, go ahead get loud)
Gonna give you fireworks tonight, my girl, tonight
(I’m going down babe, go ahead get loud)
I'm feeling earthquakes
A natural disaster
Your lips begin to quiver words but the tension's building faster
They build it too thin now the levee's giving in
It should have been fixed before she came back to shore
I've got wide eyes
A sidetracked mind that forgets shit in left field
The constant pressure, the changing weather
The weight I want to feel
The market seems to be crashing they've got nothing to show
Forget general consensus, you know what you know
We're heading upstream
Still try to go with the flow
(Oh!) I'm feeling reckless humming, "Jealous Again"
I need it now more than I did back then
They build it too thin now the levee's giving in
It should have been fixed before she came back to shore
I've got wide eyes
A sidetracked mind that forgets shit in left field
The constant pressure, the changing weather
The weight I want to feel
(So don't tell me how to feel)
The market seems to be crashing they've got nothing to show
Forget general consensus, you know what you know
We're heading upstream
Still try to go with the flow
Still try to go with the flow
I've got this lump in my throat
It's getting harder not to choke
I may be digging a rut
But I'm so far from giving up
When you hear sirens, be silent
Give me a reason not to ignore them, not to ignore them
Who cares that the market seems to be crashing
They've got nothing to show
Fuck general consensus, you know what you know
We're heading upstream
Still try to go with the flow
The market seems to be crashing
We're heading up stream
Still try to go with the flow
Forget general consensus, you know what you know
We're heading upstream
What's your name you old ball and chain?
You won't roll free tied up this way
It was a good idea when you needed a home
But your best days were spent on your own
Please don't be there the next time that they fall
If anything show up late to let them know
You never would've been there at all
When you're happy with yourself you'll never get much done
I'm not saying live for the downside
Just live your own life
(Some people) Come round
Just to feel up when you feel down
Come around
I hope you come around
Well spite isn't quite revenge and childhood friends
Are nothing but dead ends
We could be our own Messiahs
And walk on frozen lakes
Our stomachs could turn wine to water
When you lose your saving grace
Put your weight on that frozen lake
Well we sung these songs before the world could sing along,
Can't take the red off our hands.
And what you do is not what you say,
Cause you'll never take it all the way.
The first thing that they said,
was "You're in over your heads.
Just another novelty, yeah a book unread."
but we're not the walking dead.
I'm not sorry, please don't forgive me tonight.
Every night we spend alone, we'll never have to run
From where we wanna go, cause we'll never need anyone else.
We are all we'll ever need and we're without you.
You'll see.
Well we made this place a home the day that we were born.
We're on the walls and we're in the streets.
But, this place is anywhere. WE ARE EVERYWHERE.
and we'll take our time and we'll be alright.
Shake your heads while we tap our feet.
It's not enough to make you understand.
Every night we spend alone, we'll never have to run
From where we wanna go, cause we'll never need anyone else.
We are all we'll ever need and we're without you.
You'll see.
You try too hard for the simple things
That are never out of reach.
Grew up too fast, gave up on dreams, and you're stuck.
Keep on dreaming (and keep in mind)
Can't believing (they're dead inside)
My Friend Detroit can't seem to keep up
Tell me 'bout it man, neither can I
But I still avoid sleeping in the summertime
While you cut ties longer than (I-)75
In this basement, a steady climate
You're the variable
The wind isn't bringing anything in
That isn't sun behind that shade
Only rain on your own parade
I'd bring over aspiring clergy
If I was allowed in your home
So you could explain what it's like
To spend the rest of your life alone
In this basement, a steady climate
You are the variable
The wind isn't bringing anything in
That isn't sun behind the shade
Only rain on your own parade
Only rain on your own parade
Only rain on your own...
The big difference between you and me
Is understanding the word "alive"
It's more than deep breaths and blinking eyes
We may struggle, but at least we try
The wind isn't bringing anything in
(That isn't sun) behind the shade
Only rain on your own parade
The wind isn't bringing anything in
That isn't sun behind the shade
Only rain on your own parade
Only rain on your own parade
Only rain on your own parade
Now it's day, I've been trying to get that taste off my tongue
I was dreaming of just you, now our cereal, it is warm
Attractive day in the rubble of the night from before
Now I can't walk in a vacuum, I feel ugly, feel my pores
It's the trees of this day that I do battle with for the light
Then I start to feel tragic, people greet me, I'm polite
"What's the day?" "What are you doing?"
"How's your mood?" "How's that song?"
Man it passes right by me, it's behind me, now it's gone
And I can't lift you up cause my mind is tired
It's family beaches that I desire
A sacred night, where we'll watch the fireworks
The frightened babies poo
They've got two flashing eyes and they're colored why
They make me feel that I'm only all I see sometimes.
I've been eating with a good friend who said
"A Genii made me out of the earth's skin"
But in spite of her she is my birth kin,
she spits me out in her surely blood rivers
All the people life lurking in dominions of a hot Turk dish
If elephants are reaching for our purses, then meet me after the world with the shivers.
"What's the day?" "What you doing?"
"How's your food?" "How's that song?"
Man it passes right by me, it's behind me, now it's gone
And I can't lift you up cause my mind is tired, it's family beaches that I desire
That sacred night where we watched the fireworks
They frightened the babies and you know they've got two flashing eyes
And if they are color blind, they make me feel, that you're only what I see sometimes.
And I can't lift you up cause my mind is tired, it's family beaches that I desire
That sacred night where we watched the fireworks
They frightened the babies and you know they've got two flashing eyes
The fireworks from the rooftops fall down around whole town
So tell it seems like so long since I've had you beside me here
We used to walk together
I've nothing to show me now and it seems like so long
Since I've had you beside me here
Well he's got ropes and chains all around her heart
And nothing I can say could ever tear them apart
Her mumbles come now softly (?)
From the other side of this room
And the things she won't say
Just reminds she's not alone
Well I can't help but feeling a little more than blue
Cause the things that matter just don't mean a damn to you
Well he's got ropes and chains all around her heart
And nothing I can say could ever tear them apart
The fireworks from the roofs all fall down around you
So tell it seems like so long since I've had you beside me here
Lets a walk together
I've nothing to show me now and it seems like so long
Since I've had you beside me here
Well he's got ropes and chains all around her heart
So this is the end
Of you and me
We had a good run
And I'm setting you free
To do as you want
To do as you please
Without me
Remember when you were my boat
And I was your sea
Together we'd float so delicately
But that was back when
We could talk about anything
Coz I don't know who I am
When you're running circles in my head
And I don't know just who you are
When you're sleeping in someone else's bed.
3 whole words and 8 letters late
And that would've worked
On me yesterday
We're not the same
I wish that could change
But it can't
And I say your name
And in the same breath
I say something that
I'll grow to regret
So keep your hands on your chest
And sing with me
That we don't wanna believe
Coz I don't know who I am
When you're running circles in my head
And I don't know just who you are
When you're sleeping in someone else's bed.
So its true what they say
If you love someone you should set them free
Oh its true what they say
You wanna throw it away
I don't know who you are!
Yeah I don't know who you are...
Coz I don't know who you are
When you sleep with somebody else.
Coz I don't know who I am
When you're sleeping with him.
Its true what they say
Well we sung these songs before the world could sing along,
Can't take the red off our hands.
And what you do is not what you say,
Cause you'll never take it all the way.
The first thing that they said,
Was "You're in over your heads.
Just another novelty, yeah a book unread."
But we're not the walking dead.
I'm not sorry, please don't forgive me tonight.
Every night we spend alone, we'll never have to run
From where we wanna go, cause we'll never need anyone else.
We are all we'll ever need and we're without you.
You'll see.
Well we made this place a home the day that we were born.
We're on the walls and we're in the streets.
But, this place is anywhere. WE ARE EVERYWHERE.
And we'll take our time and we'll be alright.
Shake your heads while we tap our feet.
It's not enough to make you understand.
Every night we spend alone, we'll never have to run
From where we wanna go, cause we'll never need anyone else.
We are all we'll ever need and we're without you.
You'll see.
You try too hard for the simple things
That are never out of reach.
Grew up too fast, gave up on dreams, and you're stuck.
Keep on dreaming (and keep in mind)
Can't believing (they're dead inside)
This is what you get for giving up.
The body is wrapped in shadow
The face is built of cinders
And panic tears thro' your silhouette
As you're squeezed by burning fingers
And he crackling in our colours
With teeth of gelignite
When he sighs his song and pirouettes
Thro' a dance of dynamite
We are fireworks - slowly, glowing
Bold and bright
We are fireworks - burning shapes
Into the night
His fuel is our frustration
And dreams begin to ache
And all the while we wear a party smile
And happily we shiver
And happily we shake
Oh shake, shake, shake
We are fireworks - slowly, glowing
Bold and bright
We are fireworks - burning shapes
Into the night
Twist and turn - burn, burn, burn
Fireworks
[Verse 1:]
Hello, good morning! How you been?
I practice lines to say to him
It's written on my face
I can't wash it away
I live in dreams more than I should
I've never quite felt this good
I can see Hollywood, in your smile
[B-Sec:]
You are a work of art
Perfect for me to start
Hanging all your posters on my wall
[Hook:]
Cause you are my fairytale
Prince in my nightmares
And I'm lighting up like fireworks for you
Cause you are a superstar
A thief that stole my heart
So I'm lighting up like fireworks for you
[Verse 2:]
I keep your picture in my phone
Lost in time, I'm so far gone
And you don't even know my name
But I'm sure you feel the same
Watch me, I'm stepping up 3D
Dancing like I'm in the movie
But you don't know
Are you ever gonna know?
[B-Sec:]
You are a work of art
Perfect for me to start
Hanging all your posters on my wall
[Hook:]
Cause you are my fairytale
Prince in my nightmares
And I'm lighting up like fireworks for you
Cause you are a superstar
A thief that stole my heart
So I'm lighting up like fireworks for you
[Bridge:]
It's show time
It's only me and you
In a crowded room
Make me fall in love with you
Again, and again
I'm singing the
Sweetest song
Through your radio
I wrote this to let you know
So let's make fireworks
[Hook:]
Beautiful fairytale
Thief in my nightmares
And I'm lighting up for you
But you are a superstar
I shine but you're too far
So I'm lighting up like fireworks,
I'm setting off like fireworks
And I'm coming for you
I'm lighting up like big, sparkly fireworks
Pretty as can be, fireworks
And when we finally meet
You're gonna remember me
I'm lit up like fireworks, like fireworks, like fireworks
[Outro:]
A-d-a-m
I think I love him...
I know it's selfish
But I wanted to say
If I nail myself up every day
Or drop down to my knees
And drive pins through my feet every day
Will I rise again too
I need to feel enlightened
I need to
Everything works out for everyone but me
Everything works out for everyone but me
My brain doesn't feel the same as it did
Four years ago
Yeah, it doesn't exist
There's just no method anymore
Just madness and a meter
That's keeping track as my time decreases
Decreases
No matter where you run
You'll always find your head
No matter where you wake up
You still made your own bed
Everything works out for everyone but me
Everything works out for everyone but me
So take what you did
Take what you did
Make sense of it
Try to make sense of it
I just threw my life against the wall
So take what you did
Hoping somewhere I'll fit
Make sense of it
Try to make sense of it
I just threw my life against the wall
Against the wall
Everything works out for everyone but
For everyone but me
Everything works out for everyone but me
Everything works out, works out
I guess you're over them
No big surprise you let them down again
You did it all for an elevated view from the closet in your room
You did it all for you
And that's what I say
Hold your breath
You're not just hanging by a thread
Nothing's left
You designed your problems and left behind a mess
You made up a world that sits on your back
Weighing down your shoulders and breaking your neck
You're so over them
No big surprise you let them down again
You did it all for that elevated view from the closet in your room
You did it all for you
And that's what I say
(Alright) You know you sing the blues
It's so sad but how true?
What's sad is those with nothing have the most to prove
You made up a world that sits on your back
Weighing down your shoulders and breaking your neck
You're so over them
No big surprise you let them down again
You did it all for that elevated view from the closet in your room
You did it all for you
And that's what I say
So find a ladder so high
And turn back the hands of time
I wouldn't, I couldn't
Bad intentions don't deserve second chances
Blame the world but you kicked...
I guess you're over them
No big surprise you let them down again
For an elevated view from the closet in your room
You did it all for you
It's all for you
(Heroes don't die by their own ropes in their own homes)
And that's what I say
(Heroes don't die by their own ropes in their own homes)
Once again I stumble across old grounds
Guided by my dead weight
A flicker from the past
Dimming from your porch light
Our heads were buried deep in grass
There's things I never said
But everything else, yeah I meant
Our heads were buried deep in the grass
Do you remember seeing the places that you grew up in
For the last time
We were sitting on gold
I could feel it in my toes
No one's to blame, had to walk away
I still think about it every day
These tables haven't been moved since '92
Besides the time I fell asleep in one in '95
I'm changing like the year
These lines are souvenirs
There's things I never said
But everything else, yeah I meant
Do you remember
Do you remember
We were sitting on gold
I could feel it in my toes
No one's to blame, had to walk away
I still think about it every day
Let me get back to when we had to make that hour drive
No one's to blame, had to walk away
The past is something I want to kiss in the rain
Then get back in my car and never let it happen again
(But you still think about it everyday)
The past is something I want to kiss in the rain
We were sitting on gold
I could feel it in my toes
No one's to blame, had to walk away
I still think about it every day
Let me get back to when we had to make that hour drive
No one's to blame, had to walk away
I still think about it every day
We drove to East Lansing the weekend before Halloween
We laughed on the porch
At the fact that my favorite holiday
Is the one where you get to be somebody else
Where you count down until dark
And light bonfires behind the house
Filling up on midwestern fall
The holiday that's not a holiday at all
We drove to East Lansing the weekend before Halloween
It was probably standing in the shadow of the university
That made me too proud to say
I was a part of nothing
The weekend before Halloween
But I couldn't deliver that line
While looking someone in the eye
Behind mine, my head felt like it had a headache
And my chest felt like it took it all
All of the breaths
Felt like it took it all
It could take
We drove to East Lansing the weekend before Halloween
It was probably standing in the shadow of the university
That made me too proud to say
I was a part of nothing
The weekend before Halloween
The weekend before Halloween
Before
We drove to East Lansing singing Misfits songs on Halloween
It made me too proud to say
I was a part of nothing
The weekend before Halloween
I follow the signs, dead ends every time.
For reasons you refuse to understand.
There's no gleam in the future, just a shadow of doubt.
But you take my hand and we walk so proud.
You were the first and you may be the last one to enter my life.
I don't want to let go
If I ever told you I hope life treats you fair
I take it back
Life just doesn't care
Life just doesn't care
But I still hate the way you just expect things to change
And when they don't you say it
In that overly optimistic way
In that overly optimistic
I don't want to let go of this minor key
Makes sense to me
I don't want to let go of knowing what I know
I shot things down like giants
I'll be the Challenger of my generation's space explorations
I am the Challenger
I am the Challenger
I don't want to let go of this minor key
Makes sense to me
I don't want to let go of knowing what I know
I can't keep blaming the light
After sinking my ship
When I walk with my head down
I can't keep blaming the light
After sinking my ship
When I walk with my head down
I still manage to trip
I don't want to let go of this minor key
Makes sense to me
I don't want to let go of knowing what I know
I don't want to let go of this minor key
Makes sense to me
I didn’t need drugs to teach me not to care.
My feet were already downers to a world up in the air
I’m on the outside and I’m choosing not to look in.
I never fell too fast. My friends and I just like being those you see at night.
Walking through graveyards like zombies.
I want to soak in the moonlight.
It’s always been the common life.
That always makes it self seem right.
But I’ll pass it like ships in the night.
What matters most is how well you can walk through the war that’s inside
of your head.
I can’t stop this war inside my head.
Trying to find myself. I can’t give up on everything I’ve ever known before.
But if I could write a letter to the person I once was.
The return address would be, “I miss you, but I don’t want to
know you anymore”.
I won’t let this world make my life an appointment.
Time’s just a measurement.
On occasion, my mouth still bleeds
From when I cut it when I was young
Give me, give me one more chance
To make my old friends laugh
To be just a footnote in their paragraph
Saw I was down but still looking up from the ditch
So they grew their nails out
They were just trying to scratch my itch
If I started over, I'd do the same again
If I started over, I would do the same
This is not my swan song or adieu so beware
When they fly my white flag in the air
I'll shoot it down
I'll shoot it down
With arrows
Because I spend all of my time
Trying to find what I need
What I was biting the hand that fed me
It saw I was down but still looking up from the ditch
So it grew its nails
It was just trying to scratch my itch
If I started over, I'd do the same again
If I started over, I would do the same
This is not my swan song or adieu so beware
When they fly my white flag in the air
I'll shoot it down
I'll shoot it down
With arrows
So I stopped running, started walking instead
It was all in my head
Nothing's against me
This war was more civil, I realized
I had to, secede from both sides
I left myself with no ride home
But it's the last night of summer
And I don't mind walking alone
Remember when we ran naked
In the field behind your house
If I started over, I'd do the same again
If I started over, I would do the same
This is not my swan song or adieu so beware
When they fly my white flag in the air
I'll shoot it down
I'll shoot it down
It's been two years since I've taken this way home
It's comforting to know not much has changed
From the fields we used to roam
To sneak into those two abandoned homes
Everyone's a writer, I just have a general block...
There's signs in every yard
Everyone's a writer
But a piece of plastic doesn't tend to make my mind
I still take bad advice from my best friends
Rather take bad advice from my best friends
And guide a sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you
I'll go to the bottom with you
Thinking back on thinking forward
I always thought I'd be further than I ever am
Without this bad knee I wouldn't have a good one
These vices don't hold me down
They fucking carry me
Everyone's a writer, I just have a general block...
There's signs in every yard
Everyone's a writer
But a piece of plastic doesn't tend to make my mind
I still take bad advice from my best friend
Rather take bad advice from my best friends
And guide a sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you, I'll go to the bottom
Sometimes I can't believe the things I get myself into
Because laying low has never made much sense to me
Sometimes I can't believe the things I get myself into
Because laying low has never made much sense to me
I still take bad advice from my best friends, whoa
I still take bad advice from my best friends
Rather take bad advice from my best friends
And guide a sinking ship down to the bottom with them
I'll go to the bottom with you, I'll go to the bottom with you
So keep on spinning, I'll stay behind
My closing speech...
Fuck your world, I'll take mine.
Glory days
I've wasted them away
"I'm looking forward to getting older."
My greeting card for the holidays
Why do I always keep running towards nothing?
I threw my heart into a dark alley
That no one goes
I traveled so far
But all I've done is come back home
I can't explain where my mind is
But I can sit back and feel my heart
I'm lost like a child's mind
I'm caught on the fences
I look at these holes in my jeans
They never brought me anything
I stopped searching for the holy ghost
Because I'm in hell
If it's guts that I need
I'll be an organ thief
I'll tear you apart
Tear you apart
Find me somewhere in the dark
Find me somewhere in the dark
Find me somewhere in the wake
I'm a stone sinking faster,
It makes my bones ache
Life skips me on a lake
I stopped searching for the holy ghost
Because I'm in hell
If it's guts that I need
I'll be an organ thief
I'll tear you apart
Tear you apart
I stopped searching for the holy ghost
I'm already in hell
If it's guts that I need
I'll be an organ thief
I'll tear you apart
Tear you apart
Right from the start
Right from the start
We're holding on, but you seem to let go.
Chasing your silhouette in those aspirations.
But you swallowed your pride and closed your eyes,
Gave into the trends, you couldn't hide.
Because you can't spell friends without the ends.
And I know that we're still young,
and we've fallen out of love.
We ran so fast with the motions and the moments.
Every sleepness night.
Reminds me of the east coast lights.
You shine so bright.
But you're burned out in my eyes.
We claimed the streets and we moved mountains.
Every landscape, every promise,
You forgot about them.
Every sleepness night.
Reminds me of the east coast lights.
You shine so bright.
But you're burned out in my eyes.
Couldn't hold on to the promise,
So I lost my faith in you.
Looked away from being honest,
And being true.
Do you remember the summer heat?
And the way, we used to be.
Dreamed about the scenery,
The place we'll never see.
This was a lost cause,
You're a lost cause.
This was your family.
And you lost the will to carry on,
So we're moving on,
Without you, now.
Live like a legend,
Die young and live forever.
But we won't die together.
Every sleepness night.
Reminds me of the east coast lights.
You shine so bright.
But you're burned out in my eyes.
Couldn't hold on to the promise,
So I lost my faith in you.
Looked away from being honest,
Las Vegas is a risky town where lovers drink their whiskey down
And sell themselves to sin.
Where somewhere between cheap motels and overnight wedding bells
We're sold; now it begins.
But oh can't you see,
What we had was great.
It was more than a look in a magazine that you tried to emulate.
I hope you made enough room in that fashion-less closet
For the new fall season coming in.
You wore me like a new summer style
Appraised by a designer and textile
But you wore me out until I was no longer in.
They'll buy you up and you'll stay afloat,
But when your ship sinks they'll slit your fucking throat
And you've sold yourself to it.
But oh don't you see
But now you're in that windy town
The lights seem so much brighter now
Cause you've sold yourself to something new.
But you left someone who cared too much
And our summer love dear just wasn't enough
C'mon baby, lets be honest.
Did you really think that you could be
All I ever wanted?
Learn to bite your tongue
And catch your words before the run.
Do you remember staying out all night?
That shooting star was a satellite
That fell short of our mixed signals.
Twisting and turning.
We'll dance on this bridge till it's nearly burning.
Shout it out! Let it out!
This isn't an island, it's just our penninsula.
Now you're washed away,
Dancing like a fool won't change your name
And I've got pictures to prove it.
So just walk away,
Kids like you give kids like us a bad name.
And I've got people to prove it.
You want a piece of me?
I once knew a girl
I can't remember her name but I remember her face
cos her sister looked the same.
They both left school, but they couldn't find a job
So they said farewell and stole a small town car.
As they were riding by the beach some summer night
The radio shouted out one of those songs that might just change
your life
- It went like this:
"Checkin' in checkin' out
Making love I like watching all your fireworks
I like it when I light those stars in your eyes
Just like fireworks in the sky"
- yes it did...
Throwing some poems to the ports and docks
They were sleeping outdoors pushing all their luck.
They sent me a letter full of pills and thrills
Then they both got rich and moved to Hollywood Hills.
Yea they made lots of money playing folk guitar
Cos everywhere the boys went crazy just to hear these words of art:
"Checkin' in checkin' out
Take it to the sky
Making love I like watching all your fireworks
I like it when I light those stars in your eyes
Just like fireworks in the sky".
They're coming to get you
They're coming to get you now
Honesty, is better than putting you to sleep.
No one ever told me how many nights it would take to make it right.
You're on your own now.
And I hate the way you makes things complicated.
No matter where you are
I will be the one that
Catches you when you fall.
You wanted me to stay
But you're the one
Who went away
And I'm already gone.
It's the same day I left you,
The scenery is now a wreckage.
And all I remember is how to follow.
If we all settle down,
Just for a minute and think.
Maybe we're just giving ourselves out
'To broken hearts, city stars,
Starts and stops, over and over agains.'
Till I feel my heart in tact.
Beats and rests and this is only a test,
For You.
To realize how far we've been.
No one could tear us apart way back when.
Twenty more years till I feel my heart in tact.
My heart feels young
My body feels old
My mind just feels like it's trying to please them both
Left my back on the kitchen floor where we laid
And my feet have been rotting from
The places I have bathed
Pessimism, you're on my side my old friend
You make the bad come as a no shock
Once again
Sometimes "why?" is a question
That I wish I never even learned
They say to go with my gut
But there's a hole that I can't keep shut
I wear fucked on my sleeve
I hate what I can't change
There's a difference between running from something
And searching for anything
Pessimism, you're on my side
My old friend
You make the bad come as a notion
Once again
And the good as holy as a downpour
After all the rain dances left us
Begging the gods for more
Sometimes "why?" is a question
That I wish I never even learned
They say to go with my gut
But there's a hole that I can't keep shut
It would kill me to tell you
That this country got the best of my morals
It would kill me to tell you
Out of fifty states
I only feel right in one
Sometimes "why?" is a question
That I wish I never even learned
They say to go with my gut
It's that time of year again
I think I'll stay in tonight
My dogs are barking
Shaking scared
We don't light fireworks in this house
I hate the way they shoot and sparkle
It reminds me of a time I often clung to
And when I see the Catherine wheel turn
it only leaves me with heartburn
Cause it's the 5th of November
It's the 5th of November
It's the 5th and these fireworks make me blue
Cause it's the 5th of November
It's the 5th of November
It's the 5th and I remember rain
It's cold out there
The grass is wet
And I don't care for muddy in my shoes
I can see them from the window
See them if I want to
Leave me here with arms that I can cling to
Children getting louder and louder
May you roll around the sky like thunder
And later all my friends will come to tell me
about amazing fireworks they've seen
Cause it's the 5th of November
It's the 5th of November
It's the 5th and these fireworks make me blue
Cause it's the 5th of November
It's the 5th of November
If there's a goal that everyone remembers it was back in ol '72
We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger
And all I remember is sitting beside you
You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
And I never saw someone say that before
You held my hand and we walked home the long way
You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr
Isn't it amazing anything's accomplished
When the little sensation gets in your way?
Not one ambition whisperin' over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing you can do anything?
We hung out together every single moment
'Cause that's what we thought married people do
Complete with the grip of artificial chaos
And believin' in the country of me and you
Crisis of faith and crisis in the Kremlin
And yeah we'd heard all that before
It's wintertime the house is solitude with options
And loosening my grip on a fake cold war
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish
When you don't let the nation get in your way?
Not one ambition whisperin' over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing, you can do anything?
Next to your comrades in the national fitness program
Caught in some eternal flexed arm hang
Dropping to the mat in a fit of laughter
Showing no patience tolerance or restraint
Fireworks exploding in the distance
Temporary towers soar
Fireworks emulatin' Heaven
Till there are no stars anymore
Fireworks aimin' straight at Heaven
Temporary towers soar
Till there are no stars shinin' up in Heaven
Till there are no stars anymore
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish
When the little sensation gets in your way?
No ambition whisperin' over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish?
This one thing probably never goes away
I think that this one thing is probably supposed to stay
She went down to her house by the water
To hide herself from his grasp
He went down to the water to find her
To consummate their love at last
Then the lightning flashing
(Lightning, flashing, crashing)
Fireworks shooting off in her head
(In her head)
The earth was shaking
(Earth, shaking, quaking)
Fireworks pouring down on her head
(On her head)
Only sound she heard was
(Sound, lovely word)
Fireworks like a charm
(Anointed)
Blazing red
She went down to escape from her prison
To free herself from her fear
All those years up to here with tradition
And opportunity so near
Then the lightning flashing
(Lightning, flashing, crashing)
Fireworks shooting off in her head
(In her head)
The earth was shaking
(Earth, shaking, quaking)
Fireworks pouring down on her head
(On her head)
Only sound she heard was
(Sound, lovely word)
Fireworks like a charm
(Anointed)
Blazing red
She went down on a snow white pillow
To cast herself in the looking glass
He knew the time had finally come now
To break the spell they shared at last
Then the lightning flashing
(Lightning, flashing, crashing)
Fireworks shooting off in her head
(In her head)
The earth was shaking
(Earth, shaking, quaking)
Fireworks pouring down on her head
(On her head)
Only sound she heard was
(Sound, lovely word)
Fireworks like a charm
(Anointed)
Then the lightning flashing
(Lightning, flashing, crashing)
Fireworks shooting off in her head
(In her head)
The earth was shaking
(Earth, shaking, quaking)
Fireworks pouring down on her head
(On her head)
Only sound she heard was
(Sound, lovely word)
Fireworks like a charm
You put your stock in a girl you'd swear was all your own
But all the while you think you have something that you don't
And it took a while to walk away from that
Yeah it took a while to walk away from that
It's like I'd always say
Fireworks on the fourth of July making up the plans
Up the plans that you made
Nobody cares if there's no girl by your side
They're staring at the painted sky
I close my eyes and pretend your sitting here with me
While I try to put my finger on exactly what it was that made you leave
Yeah it took some time to walk away from that
Yeah it took some time to walk away from that
And time is all that I have
It goes like this and we never walk away
the past is the past but it's here to stay
Pull it together boy you don't look so well
Why Is The Night Sky An Exquisite Extent?
It Looks Like You Of My Mind
Thinking Of You, Crawling On Some Illusions
Can't Breathe, Is My love In Air Pollution?
Sorry For My Selfishness
I'm Aware That I'm Tiny Existence In This Wide Sky
Try To Do Big Shit As Possible
making From Me, I'll Stop Your Ear
Don't Listen, I Say Loving With Explosion
Kill Your Silence
Look Up! Fuck Up! Shoot Up! Fireworks!
For You To Kill The Sad Songs, If I'm Anywhere
In This Sky, Look For Answer, Give Me Reason
The Morning Comes, I'll Be Shitting Open That Door Casually
But Midnight Comes, I Wanna Shoot It More Than Shits
Hope It Reaches You, And Emit A Flash
I Kill Ya, I Love Ya, I Need Ya, I Shit Ya
I Found As Words As Number Of Star
If You're Man, Could You Understand?
Voiceless Shooting, Is It Self-Satisfaction?
Last Words From Me, An Impulse Of The Moment
If I Could Hold You Under The Fireworks Again
We Would Leave A Shit Of You And Me
You put your stock in a girl you'd swear was all your own.
But all the while you think you have something that you don't,
And it took a while to walk away from that.
Yeah it took a while to walk away from that.
It's like I'd always say.
Chorus:
Fireworks on the fourth of July making up the plans,
Up the plans that you made.
Nobody cares if there's no girl by your side.
They're staring at the painted sky.
I close my eyes and pretend your sitting here with me.
While I try to put my finger on exactly what it was that made you leave.
Yeah it took some time to walk away from that.
Yeah it took some time to walk away from that
And time is all that I have.
(Chorus)
It goes like this and we never walk away,
sthe past is the past but it's here to stay.
(Chorus)
Pull it together boy you don't look so well and you got nothing but time to kill
I stretched over to reach you
I tried to meet you
I've been wrong
Now the fireworks in me are all gone
It's time you realized
My girl you make all the smart moves
and you see through all my wrongs
When the fireworks in me are all wrong
Well then I realized
And I dont need convincing
I've seen enough to want to try and change things
You fell in love I fell in line
I thought I'd found my place
Before I knew how much it cost to play it safe
Have I let you-I'll never let you down
I work all day and I wanna fight
when it feels right and it's wrong
When the fireworks in me are all gone
Well then I realized
And I wont need convincing
I've seen enough to want to try and change things
You fell in love I fell in line
I thought I'd found my place
Before I knew how much it cost to play it safe
Borrowed
I think this year has left me borrowed
Tomorrow I'm waking up the sun
I'm dragging the lake slow
Follow this life line of memories
Tangled by the water side
That's where my youth drowned
It fell by the wayside
I'm not counting the greys on my head
I'm calling them silver linings instead
It doesn't matter
We take off our shoes and pull out pieces of the lawn
While people light off fireworks
Then they set off car alarms
You will always be the leaf to my tree
But this year fall came
And I never saw spring
It fell by the wayside
I'll keep my wisdom like a tooth
I'm spinning in the black hole of youth
It doesn't matter
We take off our shoes and pull out pieces of the lawn
While people light off fireworks
Then they set off car alarms
My mind is trained to
I want to find dead bodies with my closest friends
And to long for DC at two AM under Lincoln
Let's stay close like the monuments
Carve our names in stone
Let's stay close like the monuments
Carve our names in stone
It doesn't matter
We take off our shoes and pull out pieces of the lawn
While people light off fireworks
Then they set off car alarms
My mind is trained to
I want to find dead bodies with my closest friends
And to long for DC at two AM under Lincoln
So let's stay close like the monuments
Carve our names in stone
Let's stay close like the monuments
You're a classic case of,
"Look around, It's obvious!"
But further down your arm from that bracelet on your wrist
Your armpit's getting sore from the crutches you've been living with
You want to love Him but you don't know how
I can live with I don't know how
You want to love Him but you don't know how
So trust yourself and no one else
When you spend all your time with your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
I see you handing out a pocket sized version of ten rules
Just over the property line of your high school
You want to love Him but you don't know how
(I can live with I don't know how)
When you open that book, you close your mind
So trust yourself and no one else
Before something else
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
You're filling a dark room with hopes that no one will see
(To turn on a light) you have to get up off your knees
So get up off your knees
You always bring me down...
So trust yourself
And no one else
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
When you spend (spend) all your time (your time)
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the...
You always bring me down
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You always bring me down
(You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye)
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
To turn on the light you have to get up off your knees
You're running out, your heavy heart, I hope it slows you down
I'll be your gravity and pull you to the ground
You're running out of solid ground, I'll be that tectonic plate
That shifts and brings your head back to this place
Everybody does their time on the fault line
For now let's keep our feet on the same side
Be the nine and I'll be the three
On a clock that lies over a map of this country
There's some things that time can't change, oh
That same tectonic plate
That shifts and brings your head back to this place
Everybody does their time on the fault line
For now let's keep our feet on the same side
Everybody does their time...
If you'll be the nine and I'll be the three
On a clock that lies over a map of this country
There's some things that time can't change
So leave a piece of yourself, and take something back too, back too
There's some things that just can't change
Father Time is a blurred bird in disguise
Who made his way to my shoulder
It's weighing me down, it makes me grow older
I wish it would all just stop
I put my all into destroying his nest
It's weighing me down, it makes us grow older
There's some things that time can't change
If you'll be the nine and I'll be the three
On a clock that lies over a map of this country
There's some things that time can't change
So leave a piece of yourself, and take something back too, back too
I'll be your gravity
The same tectonic plate; that's me
Well, I don't mind waitin' 'til you're comfortable with me
But what's it gonna take
To prove that I'm for real?
'Cause you know how I feel about you
You know I can't live without you
I just wanna stay and make it real
'Cause I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know, that I know you love me
Well, I've made up my mind
That I want you to be the one
The one I wanna be with when I'm ninety-two
'Cause I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know, that I know you love me
'Cause I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know, that I know you love me
I just wanna feel you tonight
Makin' sure the moment's just right
I could die just starin' in your eyes
I just wanna feel your heartbeat
Hold you even closer to me
Fall asleep with you right by my side
We'll see fireworks tonight
We'll see fireworks tonight
I've waited all my life
To make this perfect every way
And sharin' it with you
Would make it even more than that
'Cause I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know that I know you love me
'Cause I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know that I know you love me
I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know that I know you love me
I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know that I know you love me
I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know that I know you love me
I know, you know
It can't get much better
Fireworks flyin' whenever we're together
I know, you know that I know you love me
You keep your cards so close to your chest
You're making me confused
It's hidden deep what you need to address
If you want it to resume
Aching and longing never ending fireworks
Let it be, let it be, let it be oh baby let it hurt
The heat is on for the action to speed up and tension to ease
We could keep talking but only be certain through physical means
Patience is just another word for getting old
Resolution just as impossible as letting go
Is there a hint of a vulnerable you there a drift in your eyes
Could it be that the sharp and the blunt side have shifted this time
I wanted you, you wanted me but he was there
There are people in this country who work hard every day
Not for fame or fortune do they strive
But the fruits of their labor are worth more than their pay
And it's time a few of them were recognized
Hello Detroit auto workers, let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a livin' just to send it on down the line
Hello Pittsburgh steel mill workers, let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a livin', a-just to send it on down the line
This is for the one who swings the hammer, driving home the nail
Or the one behind the counter, ringing up the sale
Or the one who fights the fires, the one who brings the mail
For everyone who works behind the scenes
You can see them every morning in the factories and the fields
In the city streets and the quiet country towns
Working together like spokes inside a wheel
They keep this country turning around
Hello Kansas wheat field farmer, let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a livin',a-just to send it on down the line
Hello West Virginia coal miner, let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a livin', just to send it on down the line
This is for the one who drives the big rig, up and down the road
Or the one out in the warehouse, bringing in the load
Or the waitress, the mechanic, the policeman on patrol
For everyone who works behind the scenes
With a spirit you can't replace with no machine
I wouldn't call it romantic
While veterans drank in the basement
Of the packed hall where we met that fall
There's nothing I'd rather do,
Than break fire codes with you
And my spend my nights on your front lawn
When these couple years won't let me catch a break
And keep throwing me on the ground.
You make it feel like it's nothing at all
You make me feel stronger than all
With you I didn't care I slept through lectures
I only stayed those two semesters
It's always been those pieces of plastic
That I arranged alphabetically on a shelf
That taught me how to be myself
How to be...
You make it feel like it's nothing at all
You make me feel like I am stronger than all
You make it feel like it's nothing at all
You make me feel like I am stronger than all
Stronger than all
You will always have my attention
It's something I don't even have to think about anymore
You will always be the life lesson
In a world that just lets down, you stand up with me now
You will always have my attention
(You make me feel like it's nothing at all)
It's something I don't even have to
(You make me feel)
Stronger than all
Stronger than all
It's New Year Day;
Looking up to the sky
We all await for the fireworks to fly
And I hold you
And I stand by you now...
Over the bay darkness breaks to a glow
But still the sands keep on running too slow
And I love you
And I care for you now...
Green comes after white
Night turns to day into the fire
Look at our dreams flying away
Climbing up higher
Along the shore timeless faces reflect
The innocence of childhood never left
And I miss you
And I cry for you now
Green comes after white
Night turns to day into the fire
Look at our dreams flying away
Climbing up higher
And the ones who we trust
And the moments of joy
Mirrored there is a glow
That will dazzle our eyes
Here is my heart, in my soul
Sharing the miracle of Hope
In my heart, in my mind, in my soul...
Stay hand in hand, stay with me
Love is the keys to believe
In our hearts, in our minds, in our souls!
...But now no matter what I say,
Remember when I said,
"Let's go to the neighborhood they haven't finished yet?"
Our minds crossed as cement set
"I don't want to change"
Is what I should have wrote in that driveway
Stay the same
Some decisions you don't make
All this pushed aside
I'm scared of losing the past that we built
You pushed me away
You pushed me away
But I feel alright
If time was on my side, then the clocks would say
"I'm sorry."
Caught myself again
Saying something I didn't mean
All because of spite
The truth remains I'm wrong, you're right
I fuck this up almost every time
All this pushed aside
I'm scared of losing the past that we built
We built
Like every lock needs a key
Nostalgia's just a pillow between my knees
And I can't decide if that's a good or a bad thing
You pushed me away
You pushed me away
But I feel alright
If time was on my side, then the clocks would say
"I'm sorry."
You push me away
You push me away
But I feel alright
I feel alright
If you feel your lake overflowing
I'll drink your water
We could spend more scholarship money
To live like modern day draft dodgers
It's about time I said
Coming up has got me down again
It's about time I said
Coming up has got me down again
Coming up has got me down again
You pushed me away
You pushed me away
But I feel alright
If time was on my side, then the clocks would say
"I'm sorry."
You push me away
You push me away
But I feel alright
If time was on my side, then the clocks would say
Losing hope, sailing alone across your night sky
I'm trying to show you fireworks so
I took the back roads to nowhere
You said that you'd be there
Digesting the warmer air
We always gamble with cheap talk
Cracks in the sidewalks
It's too late to just walk away
Losing hope, sailing alone across your night sky
I'm trying to show you fireworks so why don't you notice
My eyes comprised of everything out of focus
The sound of silence setting in
If I could get in I'd follow
This buzzing my hollow incessant head makes
Now you're always on my mind
Will you come down?
The motives that I found
I question but somehow you're all I need (all I need)
Lost my faith
Made mistakes
Kept myself awake
Just to see how if felt to be strung out
I can say that I'll change that I'll keep you safe
I know it's selfish
But I wanted to say
If I nail myself up every day
Or drop down to my knees
And drive pins through my feet every day
Will I rise again too
I need to feel enlightened
I need to
Everything works out for everyone but me
Everything works out for everyone but me
My brain doesn't feel the same as it did
Four years ago
Yeah, it doesn't exist
There's just no method anymore
Just madness and a meter
That's keeping track as my time decreases
Decreases
No matter where you run
You'll always find your head
No matter where you wake up
You still made your own bed
Everything works out for everyone but me
Everything works out for everyone but me
So take what you did
Take what you did
Make sense of it
Try to make sense of it
I just threw my life against the wall
So take what you did
Hoping somewhere I'll fit
Make sense of it
Try to make sense of it
I just threw my life against the wall
Against the wall
Everything works out for everyone but
For everyone but me
Everything works out for everyone but me
Open your eyes
Look up tonight
In the scariest dark hides a marvellous spark
And I know that fire works
I've seen the fireworks
Down here a higher world
I've seen you
Sparkles flew as brightness blew
First a heavenly glow then the colours explode
And I know that fire works
I've seen the fireworks
Down here a higher world
I've seen you
I've seen you
And I know that fire works
I've seen the fireworks
Down here a higher world
I've seen you
I've seen you
Today I waited, I waited in line to have my tooth removed
By a student, a student three years into dental school
They must have left some, left some chemicals in my gums
'Cause from time to time, from time to time my head still feels numb
On the way I passed the room where we sat
With the window view behind you
That I pretended to be staring through when I was really looking at you
Like a dandelion, a dandelion turns yellow to white
I felt it coming like a subway wind that blew you into flight
Tradewinds like me try their very best
But you still floated from east to west
Now you're a planted seed in a field by the sea
While you're still growing next to me
Yeah you're still growing next to me
It's just the way we from Michigan tend to, tend to speak
Our S's long as the rope I bent down and tied around my own feet
I won't sink too deep
On the way I passed the room where we sat
With the window view behind you
That I pretended to be staring through when I was really looking at you
When I was really looking at you
Like a landlocked Brian Wilson
Always aching for the tide
Our heads comfortable on the pillow
But always thinking on the other side
We all grew up weird enough
To laugh at how we used to be
Do you turn out weird enough
To laugh at how you used to be
I stopped searching for the answers
I've learned my lesson
'Cause time is just a rhetorical question
I was promised a lot
So I took some time to cross some seas
This must be the part where my ship wrecked
Now I'm left alone with the breeze from the sea
We all grew up weird enough
To laugh at how we used to be
Do you turn out weird enough
To laugh at how you used to be
I stopped searching for the answers
I've learned my lesson
'Cause time is just a rhetorical question
And I came out with a bang
We built this home on top of
Ancient Indian burial grounds
We built this home on top of
Whenever something goes right
Something goes wrong
And it's been this way too long
We built this home on top of
Ancient Indian burial grounds
At least now I know that what I have
Was built by the people I love
You wish you loved anything
The way I love my friends
Now we're moving glaciers
I hope this never ends
We all grew up weird enough
To laugh at how we used to be
Do you turn out weird enough
To laugh at how you used to be
You used to be
You're a classic case of,
"Look around, It's obvious!"
But further down your arm from that bracelet on your wrist
Your armpit's getting sore from the crutches you've been living with
You want to love her but you don't know how
I can live with I don't know how
You want to love her but you don't know how
So trust yourself and no one else
When you spend all your time with your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
I see you handing out a pocket sized version of ten rules
Just over the property line of your high school
You want to love her but you don't know how
(I can live with I don't know how)
When you open that book, you close your mind
So trust yourself and no one else
Before something else
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
You're filling a dark room with hopes that no one will see
(To turn on a light) you have to get up off your knees
So get up off your knees
You always bring me down...
So trust yourself
And no one else
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
When you spend (spend) all your time (your time)
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the...
You always bring me down
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You always bring me down
(You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye)
When you spend all your time
With your eyes to the sky
You end up looking down your nose just to look me in the eye
Open your eyes, read between the lines
Their book is fiction and it lacks a spine
They'll catch your ears
They'll build you up inside
Recycled one liners, don't compromise
(I can) clearly see what's on the screen
A distorted image of the industry
But the heart on your sleeve is so hard to believe
Reputation means everything when music means nothing
Things will change when you're back at home, you're all alone
You build yourself up so you can be different just like everyone else
But oh well, we're pointing the finger if you couldn't tell
Our hearts are not on our sleeves
They're where they should be.
Live, live for yourself
And nobody else
And fuck what they sell
The night is hot
My mood is down
Animals walk the industrial part of town
My teenage parents couldn't sneak out
Cause of tanks on the front lawn of the house
And the night just grew it's fangs
and I felt it growing pains
You know I'm barely hanging on
I'm burning on your front lawn
Like a glowing cross
They're playing sad songs on the radio
This mothers knocking on her daughters door
I can't seem to get enough
I always thought I was heading somewhere
Never thought I'd just end up just enough
And the night just grew it's fangs
and I felt it growing pains
You know I'm barely hanging on
I'm burning on your front lawn
Like a glowing cross
God has a door for you
But keeps it locked
Man can't walk on water
So I built a dock
And the night just grew it's fangs
and I felt it growing pains
You know I'm barely hanging on?
And the night just grew it's fangs
and I felt it growing pains
You know I'm barely hanging on
I'm burning on your front lawn
Like a glowing cross
Fireworks
Music & Lyrics: Andre Tonanni
Fireworks, Fireworks
Fireworks, Fireworks,
Don't you know the fire is burning in my heart
Fireworks, Fireworks
Burning inside my heart
Kissing you, feels like standing on the edge of me
Like a fool, I just stare and hope that you don't see
When you're standing by my side
I go crazy, I can't hide
Hold me, just touch me there cause you know
Baby only you can light my (Chorus)
Try to hide, but your body says that you're a liar
Fake disguise, 'cause I'm sure you wanna start the fire
Close to you I loose control
Head is spinning, heart says go
Stop it, I can't hold back anymore
Baby only you can light my (Chorus)
I wanna dance, so baby gimme a chance to make horizontally,
as fireworks exploded over your house it was 3am
I noticed, you're not home
and the silhouettes in windows at your old boyfriend's house
are smoke-and-mirror signals that
you're around
better luck next time kid,
now you've loved and lost we'll call it quits
and best of luck,
getting over it.
I've taken the biggest hit,
and all that you could think to say was this
I'll collect my things
when it's convenient
don't write
don't call
i won't miss you at all
late nights are kicking in,
the caffeine and these love songs aren't working,
just hit repeat and sing along again
I can't believe it came to this
the sound of breaking glass and mix-tape hits
drown out the words
as I sing
and I know this will fade over time
but tonight it's just heartbeats and lines
from our song and the thousands of lies
that you told
don't write
don't call
i won't miss you at all
Drake
Money just changed everything, I wonder how life without it would go
From the concrete who knew that a flower would grow
Lookin' down from the top and its crowded below
My fifteen minutes started an hour ago
Truth over fame, you know I respect the blatant shit
When I hear talkin, I just dont know what to make of it
Hate is so familiar to me, I'm slowly embracing it
Doesn't come natural, bear with me it could take a bit
Yeah, and my dreams are who I'm racing with
You can see Im pacin it so that Im always chasin it
Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper with
I hope that my success never alters our relationship
Yeah, this life is something I would die for
Octobers Own, but its lookin like July 4
I just wish they'd let you try it first
This time I'm really goin off, fireworks
Chorus
Drake
Oh, today it begins
I've missed them before, but won't miss them again
I keep having the same dream
And I think that I just realized what it means
Alicia Keys
All I see is fireworks,
All i see is fireworks
Every night it's fireworks
Every night it's fireworks
All i see is fireworks
All i see is fireworks
Taking off like fireworks
Taking off like oh-ah-oh-oh
Drake
I'm just such a gentleman you should give it up for me
look at how I'm placing all my napkins and my cutlery
I can tell it wasn't love I just thought you fuck with me
who coulda predicted love could strike now you stuck with me (?)
Damn I kept my wits about me luckily
what happened between us that night it always seems to trouble me
now all of a sudden these gossip brags wanna cover me
and you making it seem that it happened that way because of me
but I was curious and I'll never forget it baby
what an experience you coulda been the one but it wasn't that serious
their was smoke in the air before now its me clearing it
that felt good, all and all I learned a lesson from it though
you never see it coming you just get to see it go
yeah, I shoulda looked up in the sky at first
now I can see it in her eyes
Fireworks!
Chorus
Drake
Oh, today it begins
I've missed them before, but won't miss them again
I keep having the same dream
And I think that I just realized what it means
Alicia Keys
All I see is fireworks,
All i see is fireworks
Every night it's fireworks,
Every night it's fireworks
All i see is fireworks
All i see is fireworks
Taking off like fireworks
Taking off like oh-ah-oh-oh
Drake
Everything the same but it feels different
my dad called me up knowing that I still listen
and he's still got his foot out, guilt trippin'
It's been years, though, I just learn to deal with it
For real, me and my realtor we built up a better rapport
got my mother in a place with some better decor
she searched the entire city I let her explore
ant now she's sayin' she more lonely than every before
How many of our parents' marriages lasted?
I was only 5, I bet I barely reacted
I'm flying back home for the heritage classic
searchin for that feeling, tell me where is the magic?
let's stay together 'til we're ghosts
I want to witness love, I never seen it close
yeah, but I guess I gotta find it first
that's why I'm really going off, Fireworks
Chorus
Drake
Oh, today it begins
I've missed them before, but won't miss them again
I keep having the same dream
And I think that I just realized what it means
Alicia Keys
All I see is fireworks,
All I see is fireworks
Every night it's fireworks,
Every night it's fireworks
All I see is fireworks
All I see is fireworks
Taking off like fireworks
Nothing fancy , nothing special about my fireworks. They just explode like I do. Like I always have. Thank God for aggression (or rather) Thank oppression for aggression. Like everyone before me did. As my inspiration isn't orginal. As I am not that much different. My fireworks will still explode
I've got a secret that you should know,
From the deepest part of an actors heart.
Lights, Camera, Kiss here comes the spark.
Let's take our chances in hide and seek.
I'm all in if we're playing for keeps.
Cause I can't let you know, I can't let this go.
Calling all cars we've got an emergency.
We'll clear the streets on the count of 3
To make way for the parade.
We'll float away.
Let's get our hands on the key to the city and
Live life like our favourite celebrities.
Cause growing up ain't catching up to these
Kids lips, sealed by a finger tip.
Let's take our chances in hide and seek.
I'm all in if we're playing for keeps.
Stick out your toes and be as loud as can be!
(This time you've got the best of me)
Calling all cars we've got an emergency.
We'll clear the streets on the count of 3
To make way for the parade.
We'll float away.
Oh no! The streets are packed,
The doors are locked and we're floating back.
So crack a smile. Give a little time. Give a little slack.
It's the secret to have the city by its neck.
Turn up the heat
I will soar across the sea
It will be you and me,
Again...
Nobody else knows me like you do
But after everything that has happened
And all the things that weve been through
Is it wrong to want you back
After all this time
I wonder can I win you over
I want you to be mine
Cos we're two fireworks
We're lighting up the sky
We're shooting for the stars
They don't seem too high
I know I can survive
Without you by my side
Doesn't mean that I want to
I wont shine half as bright
Cos we're two fireworks
Lighting up the sky
Nothing seems too high
With you by my side
But like everything that goes up
It has to come back down
But after we explode
We wont have to touch the ground
Dance with me through the flames
I'll turn, you'll sway
And our colours will interchange
Over and over again
We're two fireworks
Burning through the sky
And you wont see me
You'll have to avert your eyes
But like everything that goes up
It has to come back down
But after we explode
Welcome into my sweet diversion
Tell me stories of love in your life
And I am lost yet
You claim I'm searching
Quite what for
I have yet to work out
If I'm wrong
And everything is wrong
Welcome into my sweet confusion
Tell me stories of strength in your life
And I am weak yet
You claim I'm searching
Quite what for
I have yet to work out
If I'm wrong
And everything is wrong
Can I blame fireworks that
instrumental
We were born night owls
The warm air makes our eyes glow
Summer makes our heads spin
And the smell of hot pavement
Making rain rise like spirits
Holy water still freezes come winter
We drink from the sprinklers
The neighborhood left on
And use them as metronomes
For our walk home
For our walk home
Just do what you can to do what you love
And be mindful when someone out there gives a shit
I don't where I'm going
But it's where I want to be
It's where I want to be
Passing by this school yard
There's a cavity you can't see
Down at least three feet deep
If it was our past inside of that box
I wouldn't just bury it beneath
I'd keep it locked
My Nativity scene would be the people sharing this floor
Instead of a care let's head through the downstairs door
Half renovated basements make great men
And they're great men
Just do what you can to do what you love
And be mindful when someone out there gives a shit
I don't where I'm going
But it's where I want to be
It's where I want to be
This place holds my attention like a presidential speech
But makes my stomach like the college campus
The first line was written on
Just do what you can to do what you love
And be mindful when someone out there gives a shit
I don't where I'm going
But it's where I want to be
It's where I want to be
These fires never die
They told me this would help
I'm walking by the water
I'm falling with the tide
They said that this would end
I went as far as I could
I'm on distant ground now
Fishing boats go by
I fall asleep too early
I scream when no one hears me
And the waves will wipe it out
And we'll be even
I turn my face to
From wherever the wind blows
Is it worth so much to try?
I turn my face to
From wherever the wind blows
Is it worth so much to try?
I'm at the airport waiting
For lights to fade below
And then something else
All instant things are fading
The pain will go
I won't remember
And if the lights went out
If the elevator stopped
If we were lost where I was
Or in the deepest tunnel
The train just stopped
But you gave me no chance
I turn my face to
From wherever the wind blows
Is it worth so much to try?
I turn my face to
From wherever the wind blows
Open your eyes and read between the lines
Their book is fiction and lacks a spine
They'll catch your ears
They'll build you up inside
Recycled one liners, don't compromise
I can clearly see what's on the screen
A distorted image of the industry
But the heart on your sleeve is so hard to believe
Reputation means everything when music means nothing.
Things will change when you're back and home and you're all alone
You build yourself up so you can be different just like everyone else
Oh well, we're pointing the finger if you couldn't tell
Our hearts are not on your sleeves
They're where they should be
Live for yourself and
Nobody else and
Crashing down on consensus.
It's the vice that kills defenses.
Piercing through sort of feeling.
It only hurts if I let it take control of me.
Won't let the world weigh me down.
Cause I'm coming alive.
What's the deal with life lessons?
If you can't forget regret them.
Taught to fold under pressure.
Failure doesn't mean you have to die.
Won't let the world weigh me down.
Cause I'm coming alive.
Just how many are there on my side.
A calendar filled up with sleepless nights.
Keeps time. Afraid of what it may have left behind.
Who cares? I've thought about it all too many times.
What's worse? Is that my self-esteem suffers a curse.
That tries to kill me but I kill it first.
I'm coming alive, alive through you.
Today I found a friend in who I am.
Who promises to be there 'till the end, of what?
When it's over will it start again?
Can't worry about it or life becomes too crowded.
With panic. I'll panic and then I'll start to doubt it,
it's not worth it. So fuck it.
Not gonna walk around it. I'll face it.
I'll smash it. I'm not gonna lose again.
Yeah
We don't sink to the bottom, we rise
As your life slowly rots from the inside
Your throne is slowly slipping
From the side of the world
It's down to you in the corner
You've been pushed into
A mold of your father is what you've become
Melting in the neighborhood sun
You're living proof
Misery loves the company
I live how i want
And hope it never catches up on me
No, not on me
We don't sink to the bottom, we rise
I've learned to block out the world on the outside
Disconnect, disconnect
It never helps to reflect
It's next to you in the corner
You've been pushed into
A mold of your father's something you never wanted
Melting in the neighborhood
You're living proof
Misery loves the company
I live how I want
And hope it never catches up on me
No, not on me
Some are meant to wander
Some are meant to be what they wanted to be
Yeah, I live how I want
And hope it never catches up on me
Hope it never catches
Here's to feeling seasick
Here's to feeling seasick
While living landlocked
Living proof
Misery loves company
I live how I want
And hope it never catches up on me
Here's to feeling seasick
While living landlocked
You're living landlocked
First came the fountain
First came the fountain of youth
I'm sympathetic,
I went through what they went through
Next came Pet Semetary
Instead of worshiping the ground,
I'll keep my eyes off of it
So I can turn my life around
I want to make you feel like you just read
A dedication written in the book that you found
I'll keep holding on
Even though nothing wants to hold back
I'm getting over this rock I'm pinned under
I don't need to feel the way I used to feel
Birthdays and New Years
Have just turned into deadlines
And the worst part is
there's only a month between mine
When I speak people look at me
Like I'm sending smoke signals
The right words don't come easy anymore
I'll keep holding on
Even though nothing wants to hold back
I'm getting over this rock I'm pinned under
I don't need to feel the way I used to feel
I've never seen vultures in the suburbs before
No, no
But throwing rocks at them won't stop me from dying slow
No, no
I'll keep holding on
Even though nothing wants to hold back
I'll keep holding on
Even though nothing wants to hold back
I'm getting over this rock I'm pinned under
I don't need to feel the way I used to feel
I'll keep holding on
Even though nothing wants to hold back
It's been quite a long time
I'm getting over this rock I'm pinned under
You look so cute in our old shoes,
But we didn't break them in for you.
Not to mention your words came from our mouth,
Before they turned around and walked all over you.
None of those spaces should be waste on you.
It's time to give up.
When the lights go out, we'll scream and shout to you.
Friends are your friends and not the competition.
You're living a life of 'High Five Interception'.
And you'll never play for this team.
And oh, we're not speaking highly,
Cause you know we're still drowning.
At least we're not washed up in the midwest.
And it's your name that left you last in line.
Too quick to forget when you tell a lie.
And you're ashamed clenched teeth, and fingers crossed
That you separate for photographs on bedroom walls.
We'll sing out a song while we tear them down.
None of those spaces should be waste on you.
It's time to give up.
When the lights go out, we'll scream and shout to you.
Friends are your friends and not the competition.
You're living a life of 'High Five Interception'.
And you'll never play for this team.
New look same old story.
We hate this world in key.
We're two steps ahead.
We are the harmony.
You'll never finish this.
I speak too often, so I'll bite my tongue and try to listen to you angel
And all this time, I couldn't find someone something like you
and it tends to make me believe that it's all that I need
It's the interstate darling that will end our lives tonight
Well my dear misery this is merely in our chemistry
We're love sick kids with poison lips and promise to keep our secrets ours
Am I only yours?
There may be explosives that sleep in our stomachs and
When we lay under covers the butterflies flutter
Nervous intentions that we had on that April night when I held you tight
Close to me against concrete, I was watching your chattering teeth
Oh my god the time is now we lost ourselves on the ground
No time now, we've lost it now (take a breath) and forget about the kisses, the dreams
and all the wishes and go ahead and start again (take a breath) there is no second
chances for new love and romances go on and start again.
Disregard the photographs developed over years
They're just the evidence that anything can disappear
It's getting harder knowing we're still young, naive and scared out of luck
You're going to hear about it, dream about it, until there's nothing left at all
Worst case scenario it will end and you will go
Spent the night counting down all the cracks in the wall
I'll start having to cope with the fact that
I see everything that used to hold my feet on the ground
Falling apart around me
Everybody knows the world will spin without you
And talk about you when you're away
Everybody knows the world will spin without you
Your best years seem further away, further away
Maybe this year I'll get myself off of the floor
And try to pretend
That things are getting better, that I'm changing
But I still feel the same
My friends and I still get off on making no sense at all
We'll start having to cope with the fact that
All these lines that make no sense will be the best I've ever said
They make sense in my head
Everybody knows the world will spin without you
And talk about you when you're away
Everybody knows the world will spin without you
Your best years seem further away, further away
Maybe this year I'll get myself off of the floor
And try to pretend
That things are getting better, that I'm changing
But I still feel the same
I still feel the same
So even if this is the last sunshine
Let's warm ourselves in it
We'll just spend the rest of our days in the shade
Maybe this year I'll get myself off of the floor
Maybe I won't
Things might get better, yeah I might change
But I don't care at all
And maybe this year I'll get myself off of the floor
And try to pretend
That things are getting better, that I'm changing
But I still feel the same
I still feel the same
I still feel the same
Sometimes you choose to make any excuse
Any reason to believe you belong in this room
You can't live life from the sheets on your bed
Sometimes you choose to make any excuse
Any reason to believe you belong in this room
You can't live life from the sheets on your bed
And it's a long way down, before you reach the ground
It's okay... because I've felt that way before
And it will happen again I'm sure
I'm sure, wrong or right
I'm on your side
In time you'll find
That so close to living is just waiting to die
You only take what you can get,
(Just in case you hate yourself for losing it)
And it's a long way down, before you reach the ground
Nothing goes as orchestrated
But before you know you're there
Keep your fist in the air
It's okay... because I've felt that way before
And it will happen again I'm sure
I'm sure, wrong or right
I'm on your side
It's okay... because I've felt that way before
And it will happen again I'm sure
I'm sure, wrong or right
Your my friend and I'm on your side
Look over your shoulder and you'll see I'm in your corner
Make this world give you what it owes you
Look over your shoulder and you'll see I'm in your corner
Turn around, turn right around
Turn right around (look over your shoulder and you'll see I'm in your corner)
It's okay... because I've felt that way before
And it will happen again I'm sure
I'm sure, wrong or right
I'm on your...
(Look over your shoulder and you'll see I'm in your corner)
I'm sure, wrong or right
So I stayed the night hoping you and I
Would fix this shit, sorry can I get it right
But the lights are off,
And I had my doubts she can't be gone
Using photographs
We're over exposed when the shutter snaps
We're the best damn actors imitating our past (we won't last)
Drowning in the midwest, so let the water fill your lungs
And make sure you do your best?
Stories told, lives are sold,
We can't hold everything I promised you
It was a long shot and I missed in the dark
Come on, let's forget how to breathe
It's the only way we used to be
So I stayed the night hoping you and I
Would fix this shit, sorry can I get it right
But the lights are off,
And I had my doubts she can't be gone
All this time we cross each others body lines
We were fighting on
What can I say? I was vulnerable at the way
(And your crazy) Driving me crazy
What can I say? We were determined to make it out
(And your crazy) Driving me crazy
Stories told, lives are sold,
We can't hold everything I promised you
Everything I promised you
So come on, let's forget how to breathe
So I stayed the night hoping you and I
Would fix this shit, sorry can I get it right
But the lights are off,
And I had my doubts she can't be gone
All this time we cross each others body lines