I wonder if this Christmas
They'll begin to understand
That Jesus that they celebrate
Is much more than a man
The way the world is I can't see
how people can deny
The only way to save us
Was for Jesus Christ to die
And I know that if St. Nicolas was here he would agree
That Jesus gave the greatest gift of all to you and me
They led him to the slaughter on a hill called Calvary
And mankind was ...
And I have become much less
wide eyed for your indiscretions
And I can't understand why you've chosen me
To keep those dreadful stories
friendly
And your eyes are darker when
The sun hits your brow
You were young once but you're older now
You are older now
Standing in the shadow of what you were waiting for
Standing in the shadow of what you were waiting for
Will your faith be rewarded
And wil...
Hold on a red line
You're taking more than I'd like
It's getting harder
But it's so what I want to be
You're talking to a dead man
You listen like a wet cat
I'm too elated
This is so what I want to be
Farther away but
Feeling better than i've ever
Wanted to say
You'll never get a step ahead of me
Hold on a red line
You're taking more than i'd like
You make it harder
But it's so what i want to ...
In a room of crooked faces
You never wanted to replace this
In your memory
Now the thing that comes to your mind
Is an awful word to describe
A sense of peace
It won't get better on it's own
And it'll follow you along
All in a day's work
The day you went out on your own
Is the day you should have known
That it's all in a day's work
All in a day's work
In a room of crooked faces
You never wante...
Without a doubt I've taken all you can give
And now I suffer through this song
Feel free to hum along
Going back a few short years I can see
That I was never really here
As I collect the facts and sort them in rows
It seems the question's always been
How long can I keep this going?
You can use it against me
In your saddest state of mind
Use it against me
With my ego on the line
Use it againse ...
They met her at the baggage claim
When they read her rights she was causing quite a scene
So they threw her in the lincoln town with the cuffs too tight
Did they have to be so mean
She was on her way to Calispell
to a relatives
Just to lay it low a while
But they must've tapped the phone again
Even though he's gone they won't let her off the line
So she thinks out loud as she screams and shout...
Shade is shelter from the sinking
Kind and knowing of my heart
All I know was taken from me
What I perceived had gone away
Now I feel the light exposing
Things I never thought i'd say
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Shake me now I might believe
All before me is a dream
And kill the feeling of antipathy
Fingers pointing to the ceiling
The faces burned into the walls
The ghost of lies was born this evening
The laughter ...
On a good day
You break my heart again
On the highway
You run me over when
You are leaving me and taking everything
Everyone sees
You at work
And they all think
I'm not worth
The trouble that you go through gets you nowhere
Like waking up before you land
I guess you figured we're no good
I guess I'll never understand
By the time you
Hear my crying
Will you feel like
Understanding
Plans to keep...
She reaches for her latest reading
Her pillow's folded
Her mind is reeling round
She can't remember
What made this different
Before her clock was
Fifteen minutes fast
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When the morning came
It was just the same
Genevieve
Like a loaded gun
Like a letter bomb
Genevieve
She reaches for her latest feeling
She can't control it
Her heart is beating
she made her mind up
It's off to sleep now
To...
Time goes by feelings unravel
Words they make come out like gravel
We're on that road again that makes me feel queasy
Makes me uneasy
Your hair looks nice when I think about it
When I tell you so, you as me to stop it
We're on that road again that makes me feel queasy
There's bound to me more ahead
So please take it easy
Take it easy
Reading all the signs in my mind as they pass us by
Helps me...
In these recent years I have noticed that your face has slightly changed
In this season of the bitter pill that pulled your heart away
In the daylight when it hits you straight on
see the lines in your face have begun
When I tell you that you're beautiful like a second hand that stopped
You remind me of a waterfall that turned the earth to mud
In this season of the bitter pill that pulled your...
She waits alone
She gets tired
As the day falls down
She seems uninspired
She won't wait
Much longer
And the tears held back
Make her stronger
In the meantime I get open eyed
To my lowly state of mind
The kindest thing
That she's seen
Is an open mouth
Without a scream
At her feet
Like water
The reflection there
Is getting darker
In the meantime I get open eyed
To my lowly state of mind
If I ca...
On my own volition
I pound my head against the wall
And I don't hear it when you call
Tumbling down the stairway
I still try to make the phone
I call you back but your not home
Full of good intention
I read the paper to myself
I try to act like someone else
Barely past the headline
I still remember what you said
I'll hold it in until I'm dead
I best be getting on with this
But I can't get you ...
Mae my friend
Will you ever understand
That this might have been
A beginning to the end
All the days all the nights
Of living out of boxes underneath the sky
But mae my friend will
You ever understand
This time
I've given up on wondering where your head Has gone
All I think about these days is your tired heart
And i'll bring it back again
Mae don't fret
I never wanted this
To be my friend
A be...
All this ringing in my ears
Made me numb over the years
Lately I can feel a little more of You in me
I've given up unto myself
Drinking from the weakest well
All I want is just some peace of mind
Tonight
But i'm fine without it
I'm beginning now to understand that its Nothing i can say
When motor cars with racing stripes keep Getting in my way
But this time I can see
The very one thing that I ...
Should you think anything
You should know that i'm not doing ok
Since i've been gone all my problems
Have come back around and they're here to stay
I don't know how
Anyone could rescue me now
The story goes on and on
I'm always susceptible to think
That i could write my own chapter
I've noticed i cannot change a thing
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I don't know how
Anyone could rescue me now
So please remind me again...
We come around
A circle meets
At last I feel I'm closer to beginning
A gentle word
A quiet heart
A soul that stirs another one to start
You'll never know dear how much you breathe
Strength and courage into me
And as the day comes closer to an end
I find no reason to pretend
When morning comes
You'll doubtless be
Awake without a worry I can see
You open up
Clearness comes
A look divides the clo...
Shake the water off my hands
And count the moments
That you really understand this disappointment
Tired of always waking up the darkest feeling
Think i'll open up these blinds and get to seeing
On a day much quieter than this
I will hold your hand and kiss your face
I think it's imperative you know that I am
Not about to
I know that you could feel
Like a girl on a ferris wheel
Falling down the...
As I take this immunity
I'm wondering what you would do to me
If you found out
You know that you could've walked away
Without a scratch but you had to stay
With your watered down friends
So I cry myself awake
To keep from sleeping all day
And I think I'm borderline
Losing my mind
You wrote my name with an underscore
It made me realize what I'm good for
And it's not all bad
Before the laughter ...
When it gets me back again
I'll be ready to begin
Ready to stand up to it
And it gets me back again
On my word I could never see it coming
'Cause I never could keep up on anyone
You said you could but you wouldn't
Tell me what to do and I never could see through you
Even sometimes
On better days you and I
Will figure this out
Push it down look behind
When it gets me back again
I'll be ready to...
I'm working on my forward thinking
Working on my self control
Process this ugly mess
And figure out how to make it whole
Choke down a bus ride to the city
Chase it with a trip to the East Side
It seems like over time
I'll get so numb that I won't mind
Some days I actually forget
That this is really something
One look from you and that is it
This is really something
Being hard is hard so sick o...
If I had a dime for every question
I could buy myself a band to keep the answers in
When the house you rent was getting painted
I thought this out and wrote it down and mailed it
When I think of it, it makes me crazy
And if I hear from you
You know it will amaze me
I'm gonna take a train across the river
And when I see your face I've got a message to deliver
Without a thought you carry on
And ...
I only spoke to you that way
To get it through your haggard brain
That I could be so much more
I could be someone that someone would adore
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Seems like a long time since I felt good
Good enough to not want to cry
Do you know better now?
Well so do I
The hardest thing is knowing when
I should draw the line and not give in
To all of your tired ways
It's like i've got a second job that never...
Showing your self
In an unusual way
I understand you now
Your secrets safe and sound
Minding my own
Business is not something new
But it takes some self control
Not that you would know
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I'm my own man now it's easier
Climbing the staircase wondering what's to see
My oh my how
This does turn things quite around
Tomorrow will be
Here before you know it dear
Signing my name
In through the w...
I see a swallow perched in front of me
Laughing with her eyes so sullenly
The I see a truck go down the way
No delivery for me today
There's a man upon a little bike
That makes him feel so big he can't decide
If he should give up scraping both his knees
For the sake of being so discreet
So discreet
Before I know it I am far away
The swallow looks so small she can't complain
I don't remember wh...
I've lived this day a thousand times it won't go away
And all I can see are the eyes of people I will never be
And it makes me ill the way
You love me still
I can't decide if You're the missing piece buried in my mind
Immersed in sand I try to reach try to take Your hand
And it makes me ill the way You love me still
I think back to the days I was around
And it brings me down to a place I've ne...
Yesterday morning when you told me
That you have never felt this lonely
I saw the sadness in your eyes
You told be how you feel disguised
Confiding in me about the sleepless
Nights that you cannot seem to keep this
Hurting buried in your dreams
You're facing darkness twice as deep
You're much sweeter than me by far
You're much stronger than me
You know you are
Look up at the floral pattern cuu...
Don't think you could stop it now
I'd like to see you try somehow
Realize that it puts it all on you
There's nothing you can do
Right now you're sick and tired
You're feeling sad, feeling uninspired
But the clock just won't slow down
Like it gets it kicks pushing you around
Maybe in the morning it won't be
Quite as bad as it seems
The fact that you can't change
The speed of sound, the rate of ...
You right in front of me
Now I can clearly see
All Your greatness
But it separates this
From what I ever heard
You've been holding me like a bird
In Your heart and
You've kept it guarded
Now that i clearly see
You standing next to me
My loneliness has finally found an ending
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I can't believe
That You're such a part of me
And after all this time You got through
With Your loving ways
And t...
If I seem just a little bit out of touch do you
Think it could be because of you?
Underneath real blood and deep conviction is
Another point of view
You cound down the days 'till the addiction gets a
Foot into the door
You want what you got but you don't know
All this time you see no end
You know no feeling anymore
You got what you want but you let go
Polish up your final campaign
Give a title...
I think you see me
The way that you'd like see
A man that gets nothing done
Ithink you'd like me to be
As useless as i seem
And leave everything undone
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But the little boy I used to be
He had a conscience you could see
And he held it in his hand
He did not understand
That he would soon be me
I think you'd like to know
A place that I won't go
And spend some time
You say you need a friend
...
Take me for a fool and I'll do the same for you
To catch what's coming down I'll repeat myself out loud
Finally I recall all the photographs on the wall
All my friends agree that the latter half is not me
A long time ago I might have been
Tying my hope around you again
But holding me now won't do any good
'cause I died before I could
Remembering what I've seen takes an awful lot out of me
Some...
