matchbox 20 Profile
Rob Thomas lead vocalist, born Feb 14, 1972, Brian Yale bassist born Nov 14, 1968, Kyle Cook lead guitarist born Aug 29, 1975, Adam Gaynor guitarist born Nov 26, 1964 and Paul Doucette drummer born Aug 22, 1972, make up Matchbox Twenty. The band was formed in 1996. Prior to the formation, Doucette, Yale, and Thomas were members of the band:
Singles
She said, "It's cold outside"
And she hands me a raincoat
She's always worried about things like that
She said, "It's all gonna end
And it might as well be my fault"
And she only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams, and her voice is straining
And she says, "Baby, it's 3 a.m., I must be lonely"
And she says, "Baby, well, I can't help
But be scared of it all sometimes
And the rain's gonna w...
Everywhere someone's getting over
Everybody cries
And sometimes you can still lose even if you really try
Talking about the dream like the dream is over
Talk like that won't get you nowhere
Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie
And that's all that I need, yeah
Someone else to cling to, yeah
Someone I can lean on until I don't need to
Just stay all through the night
And in ...
Why don't you just go away?
I can't seem to get my head straight
There's so much I need to say
It could take all day, yeah
But what you got, I don't need it
I can't listen to all your reasons
Wake up, I don't feel it
I can't listen to all your reasons
Your bad mood just ties my hands
Turn my cartwheels into headstands
I've done everything I can
To get all I had, yeah
But what you got, I don't ...
So scream you, out from behind the bitter ache
You're hanging on the memory, you need most
You still want love, love's ugly, smooth and delicate
But not without affection, but not alone
Instead of wishing that it would get better
Man you're seeing that you just get angrier
And it's good that I'm not angry
Well I need to get over
Well I, I'm not angry anymore
Cry when you cry, run when you run
...
She don't, but she will he says, "Anything to keep her by him"
She takes, what she gets and she never did flinch no
So over and over and anyone
With any mind would think that's all she gets
If you want you can get to know me well
We get along so we shouldn't argue yeah
And I don't know, I said I don't know no
All these feelings, cloud up my reasoning
Yeah they cloud up my reasoning yeah
I know...
Not normal, not normal, oh, not normal
It's nothin', it's so normal
You just stand there, I could say so much
But I don't go there 'cuz I don't want to
And I was thinkin' if you were lonely
Maybe, we could leave here and no one would know
At least not to the point that we would think so
And everyone here, knows everyone here
Is thinkin' about somebody else
Well, it's best if we all keep this u...
No, I would not sleep in this bed of lies
So toss me out and turn in
And there'll be no rest for these tired eyes
I'm marking it down to learning
I am
I don't think that I can take another empty moment
I don't think that I can fake another hollow smile
When it's not enough just to be sorry
I don't think that I could take another talk about it
Just like me you got needs
And they're only a whisp...
If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
If I need some other love, then
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again
Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Oh, just hold me again
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Keep b...
I think you can do much better than me
After all the lies that i made you believe
Guilt kicks in and i start to see
The edge of the bed where your nightgown used to be [ohh]
I told myself i wont miss you,
but i remember
What it feels like beside you
I really miss you hair in my face
and the way your inisense tastes
and i think you should know this
you deserve much better than me
found these pi...
One more day down
Everybody has those days
Where one soft sweet song's
Just enough to clear my head
Fall on real life
Is anybody left there sane?
And then slide on over and accept fate
Then it's bound to be a powerful thing
If it's just that you're weak
Can we talk about it?
It's gettin' so damn creepy
Just nursing this ghost of a chance
The fiction, the romance
And the technicolor dreams
Of b...
She got out of town
On a railway New York bound
Took all except my name
Another alien on Broadway
There's some things in this world
You just can't change
Some things you can't see
Until it gets too late
Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright ligh...
Well, I forget when the words were only words
She knows the party makes me nervous
In this stage we can't get hurt
Don't try to understand me
We're too cool to be alone
But, not too crazy to get busted
Well, I found out one life just ain't enough
I need another soul to feed on
I'm the flame, I can't get burnt
I'm wholly understated
An' I found silence in this space
An on and off again attracti...
Closing time, open all the doors
And let you out into the world
Closing time, turn all of the lights on
Over every boy and every girl
Closing time, one last call for alcohol
So finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time, you don?t have to go home
But you can?t stay here
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
Closing time...
Well, I will do without
The spaces in between
If you can tell me now
What it means to be
You have been found out
I have been deceived
By the one that I need
Tell me why you gotta be so cold
How'd you get so high, why you're keeping me low
You don't know, you don't know
And tell me how we're gonna make it last
You're ready to fly, I'm ready to crash
Don't go, don't go, no
You will go without
A ...
Something is wrong with the some of us
That I can't seem to erase
How can I be the only one
Without a smile on my face
Well now, you're laughing out loud
At just the thought of being alive
And I was wondering
Could I just be you tonight
You show your pain like it really hurts
And I can't even start to feel mine
Well, I'm standing in place
With my head first and I shake, I shake
I see your prog...
Well I don't wanna be the crutch
One step away from down
Well I don't wanna be the crutch
One step away from
Man I feel like hell so come on over
Be a love machine and I could be your friend
Ain't no shame feel strong for one another
Make a real true color come end to end then
God damn, change of pace
I think you got a piece of my heart on your face
It's a shame to let it go waste
How does it ...
This old world well
Don't make you wanna think, damn
This cold girl well
Don't she make you wanna scream, damn
What's the matter girl
Well, don't you think I'm good enough?
This old heart's had a whole lot of breakin' down
She's got all these reasons in her head
Well all that time she knew if I lied
You can bet she will
She's taken her time 'til I thought I would die
And I can't sit still
Thin...
Dear joan
I've almost forgotten, the pane in the window
Blue dress in the doorway
Dear joan
Help me remember, the face I forget
And the traps that I've sprung
I guess I've grown tired, it's just what's expected of me
To tear your heart from the inside to the outside
You know I was wired, I just couldn't help it
The hundred thousand times I hurt you
Chorus:
Dear joan, I wanted to say
That I'm s...
Feels like you made a mistake, you made somebody's heart break
But now I have to let you go, I have to let you go
You left a stain on every one of my good days
But I am stronger than you know, I have to let you go
No one's ever turned you over, no one's tried to ever let you down
Beautiful girl, bless your heart
I got a disease deep inside me, makes me feel uneasy, baby
I can't live without yo...
And outside, the sky is falling
People dodging raindrops, staying dry
And inside, I never gave a damn about those outside people anyway
And it hurt me
They don't even know who I am
And inside, there's no rainbows
And inside, I try I try I try, I try to clear my head
And outside, the rain is drying
And inside, I'm dying
'Cause in here, I'm staring at the rings my coffee cup has made on the tabl...
I wonder how you sleep
I wonder what you think of me
If I could go back
Would you have ever been with me?
I want you to be unused
I want you to remember
I want you to believe in me
I want you on my side
Come on and lay it down
I've always been with you
Here and now
Give all that's within you
Be my savior
And I'll be your downfall
There we go again
Ashamed of bein' broken in
We're gettin' off t...
We were drawn from the weeds
We were brave like soldiers
Falling down under the pale moonlight
You were holding to me
Like someone broken
And I couldn't tell you, but I'm telling you now
Just let me hold you while you're falling apart
Just let me hold you and we'll both fall down
Fall on me
Tell me everything you want me to be
Forever with you, forever in me
Ever the same
We would stand in the...
What you want, what you got, live your life in a crawl space
I'll help you out but you don't want a chance at a better life
You said you never took a ride and now you wanna play
Well, it's a big, big city let me show you around some time
Oh, some time
And now you crossed that line, you can't come back
Tell me how does it feel now?
It's too late too much to forget about can't stop now
How does ...
Rob thomas, jay stanley, brian yale and john goff
I reach within my isolation, I harbor it, I honor it
You say you'd like to see me closer, of course you would, you have no choice
And I cry cause the weather has gotten to me
And I laugh at the people that I can't be all their lives silly pictures
Chorus:
Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
Baby's getting older, baby's getting older
Hey now now n...
I reach within my isolation,
I harbor it, I honor it
You say you'd like to see me closer,
Of course you would, you have no choice
intro to chorus
And I cry cause the weather has gotten to me, and I laugh at the people that I can't be,
All their lives,
Silly pictures
chorus
Hey now now now, hey now hey baby
Baby's getting older
Hey now now now hey now hey baby
The tide is turning, turning us aw...
You think this life would make me bolder
But I'm running scared is all
Well, I hang on everything about you
You think I'd settle down 'cause I'm older
But I roll with the change is all
But I'm same old trailer trash in new shoes
She gets sad when there's nothing going on
She says it makes her feel damn worthless
Well, you got to think with a girl like that
Any love at all is better than nothin...
Someday they'll find your small town world on a big town avenue
Gonna make you like the way they talk when they're talking to you
Gonna make you break out of the shell 'cause they tell you to
Gonna make you like the way they lie better than the truth
They'll tell you everything you wanted someone else to say
They're gonna break your heart, yeah
From what I've seen
You're just a one more hand m...
She grabs her magazines
She packs her things and she goes
She leaves the pictures hanging on the wall
She burns all her notes and she knows
She?s been here too few years to feel this old
He smokes his cigarette
He stays outside ?til it?s gone
If anybody ever had a heart
Well, he wouldn?t be alone
He knows, she?s been here too few years, to be gone
And we always say, it would be good to go away...
It's bad enough that we had to learn
The hard way about giving up
When I thought that you were jokin'
Well I'm broken
You've known for a little while
You pass it on and try something else
And hell, you knew that you were the one
You turned on me
??cause that's the way you heard it was supposed to be
And right away you start thinkin' about
The wrong things, we'll start giving up
Well hell, you ...
Help me to remember girl if you don't mind
Cause it feels just like a jester when the music died
Haven't seen you lately, but I know that nothings changed
Feeling kinda shaky, but the wounds have healed,
There's a crack there in the doorway where the walls have peeled
Well the last you see the sun go down on a clear day
Chorus:
Here comes horses
Yeah there goes the rain
Here goes nothing
Here ...
She had said, don't cry
Said it only hurts forever, and all we have is time
And she said, she will never know
So close your eyes, turn down the lights,
And I can start this show
Chorus:
Yeah well I can't sleep, so why believe
If the shades are drawn, then she can't see
So don't look at pride, well there is no other way...no
Don't try to make no sense of this scene, it's just between caroline a...
Hello, hello, hello
I'm wakin' up at the start of the end of the world
But it's feeling just like every other morning before
Now I wonder what my life is gonna mean if it's gone
The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour and I
Started staring at the passengers and waving goodbye
Can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?
But I believe the world is burning to the g...
I'll stick around and see how bad it gets
I'll settle down and deal with old regrets
You know I, I adore you
I can't let you go, can't let you go
You're part of my soul
You're all that I know, I can't let you go
Is it better now, do you feel like all is fair?
Oh, can we work it out, so it's easier for me to bear?
Because life, it can blind you
I can't let you go, can't let you go
You're part o...
I've tried so many times
To tell you how I feel
But you're far too disbelievin'
Are you tryin' to get even with me
Maybe once or twice
I wasn't fair I wasn't nice
But now I've got myself together
When I promise to be better you say
Whoa, I'll believe you when
Whoa, I'll believe you when
Whoa, when everything you say
Don't turn out wrong
Whoa, I'll believe you when
Whoa, and I'll believe you wh...
All Day Staring At The Ceiling
Making Friends With Shadows On My Walls
All Night Hearing Voices Telling Me That
I Should Get Some Sleep
Because Tomorrow Might Be Good For Something
Hold On Feeling Like I'm Heading For A
Break Down And I Don't Know Why
I'm Not Crazy I'm Just A Little Unwell
I Know Right Know You Can't Tell
But Stay Awhile And Maybe You'll See
A Different Side Of Me
I'm Not Craz...
When I get close to something beautiful
Then I feel love because I know
I'll never have it for too long
I've been everywhere
I'm like an institution
I fell down upon myself
Just to pray for sweet solution
And if I fall, fall
When I get home, I swear
I'm gonna change my ways
And I'll stop dancin'
And never let it livin' up these days
I say all the words
But lack a real solution
I tell all of my...
I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
I think I'm finally scared now
And you think I'm weak, I think you're wrong
I think you're already leaving
Feels like your hand is on the door
I thought this place was an empire
And now I'm relaxed and I can't be sure
But I think you're so mean, I think we should try
I think I could need this in my life
And I think I'm scared, I think t...
I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
I think I'm finally scared now
You think I'm weak - I think you're wrong
I think you're already leaving
Feels like your hand is on the door
I thought this place was an empire
Now I'm relaxed - I can't be sure
and I think you're so mean - I think we should try
I think I could need - this in my life
I think I'm scared - I think too much
I...
Never survive at your no-go grocery store
And if you believe that boy will sit down and I will
Tell you more
Lee harvey oswald, well you know he had to have known
Charlie manson, only wanted to make his house a home
Chorus:
Jesus was an alien, flying through space
God was an astronaut, who said quot;boy, I like your facequot;
So the story begins...
Girl I love you, well the check is in the mai...
Kody sat down on the avenue
He tapped his feet
To the humming of the highway
He watched the light shine down on the broken glass
And thought
Well, I don't got no reasons, yet
And there it is and there it was
Now it was clear to all of us
We kept this hat of broken dreams
And we pulled them out and when we needed them around
So please hand me the bottle
I think I'm lonely now
And please give me...
This will all fall down like everything else that was
This too shall pass and all of the words we said
We can't take back
Now every fool in town would've left by now
I can't replace all of the wasted days
The memory of your face, I can't help thinkin'
Maybe if we ever coulda kept it all together, where would we be
A thousand lost forevers
And the promises you never were giving me
Here's what I...
It's amazing
How you make your face just like a wall
How you take your heart and turn it off
How I turn my head and lose it all
It's unnerving
How just one move puts me by myself
There you go just trusting someone else
Now I know I put us both through hell
I'm not saying there wasn't nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
And I'm not saying we ever had the right to hold o...
Im waking up at the start of the end of the world
But its feeling just like every other morning before
Now i wonder what my life is gonna mean if its gone
The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour and
I started staring at the passengers and waving goodbye
Can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time
Well i believe the world is burning to the ground,oh well i guess w...
She's leaning on the mailbox
In someone else's driveway
And she laughs to herself cause she knows
That she's still here
She won't wait forever
God knows that she wants to
And you know that if it comes down
It's gonna be war
This ain't how we're supposed to be
And nothing changes between you and me, at all
chorus
Ain't it just like a loser
Ain't it just like this chip on my sleeve
Ain't it like...
Please don't make me answer you
The world is big but my circles are small
And please don't try to shut me out
I'm in love that's all
I'm not afraid to listen, if you're not afraid to hear
And please don't laugh I just can't help,
Grinning when I'm giving it all
And please don't show you're face around my place
I've seen it all before
And I'm not afraid of dying, but sometimes I refrain,
I beli...
Hey
I found out
On a late night drive
In my winter coat
With my bloodshot eyes
Well my faith ain't been
No friend to me
And the way I sin
Is hanging off of me
And I'm sorry
Can't take me anywhere
Pretty soon we're almost there
Baby one more night
It's been a long long drive
And I'm way way tired
I don't need no backup plan
Chorus:
I said I don't want nobody
Nobody don't want me
I'm so sad, so ...
It?s sitting by the overcoat
The second shelf, the note she wrote
That I can?t bring myself to throw away
And also reach she said for no one else but you
'Cause you won?t turn away when someone else is gone
I?m sorry ?bout the attitude
I need to give when I?m with you
But no one else would take this shit from me
And I?m so, terrified of no one else but me
I?m here all the time, I won?t go away...
He got bad when she got mad
He lowered it one more time and she got even
No one heard a single word
But as the clock ticked from next door I could hear her breathing
I said quot;good morning mr. sun, now I would like you to meet my friend mr. bomb
he has a house made out of butterfliesquot;
Well I can't sleep sometimes but I've been told
It's a lonely condition called growing old.
Let me stumb...
I feel stupid, but I know it won't last for long
And I've been guessin', and I coulda been guessin' wrong
You don't know me now, I kinda thought that you should somehow
Has that whole mad season got ya down?
Well, I feel stupid but it's something that comes and goes
And I've been changin', I think it's funny how no one knows
We don't talk about, the little things that we do without
When that w...
Can you roll down the window, can I have a cigarette
Can I sweep you for forgiveness,
Can I sweep you for regret
And can you drive a little faster, to clear my head
Can you see that I've been crying, can you tell that I've been alone
Can we walk the streets at the same time, I don't mind
I'll be quiet and no one will know
And can you drive a little faster, take me home
intro to chorus
These ar...
Oh yeah....oh yeah
Not a never from me well...it beats watching you
My baby saw some happy people yesterday, that I never knew
Never too much violence every time we had a war
You belong shirt and now the skins and
Well we're flying through the door
These are violent times and I only want to do my part
Sing til hatred steps and smile at what we've only thought, cause
Chorus:
I need understandin...
She said, I don't know if I've ever been good enough
I'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in
And I don't know if I've ever really been loved
By the hand that?s touched me, well I feel like something gonna give
And I'm a little bit angry, well
This ain't over, no not here, not while I still need you around
You don't owe me, we might change
Yeah, we just might feel good
I wanna ...
Well, I wonder what it's like to be a rainmaker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain
I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on every one
And you could come and see them when I'm done, when I'm done
I wonder what it's like to be a super hero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown, yeah
From some other planet, I'd get this funky high, on the yellow sun
Well, ...
Just three miles from the rest stop
She slams on the breaks
She said, "I tried to be but I'm not
And could you please collect your things"
Well, I don't wanna be cold
I don't wanna be cruel
But I gotta find more than
What's happening with you
An' if you'd open up the door
She said, "While you were sleeping
I was listening to the radio
And wondering what you're dreaming when
It came to mind tha...
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone
Pass yourself forget the light, things look dirty when it's on
Funny how it comes to pass, that all the good slips away
And there's no one around you can remember being good to you
Shame, shouldn't try you
Couldn't step by you and open up more
Shame, shame, shame
What've we lost here is something better left alone
Second steps have been...
Man it's a hot one
Like seven inches from the midday sun
Well I hear you whisper and the words melt everyone
But you stay so cool
My mu equita my Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa
You're my reason for reason
The step in my groove
Yea
And if you say, "This life ain't good enough"
I would give my world to lift you up
I could change my life to better suit your mood
'Cause you're so smooth
And it's just li...
I found out
On a late night drive
In my winter coat
With my blood-shot eyes
My faith ain't been
No friend to me
And the way i sin
Is hanging off of me
And i'm sorry
You can't take me anywhere
Pretty soon we're almost there
Baby, one more night
It's been a long, long drive
And i'm way, way tired
I don't need no
Back-up plan
chorus
I don't want nobody
Nobody don't want me
I'm so sad so lonely
Bu...
Hang out my window and over your head
Stare at your feelings to see where they end
You're waiting here for someone else to break you
From the inside
You've been so composed
We all know there's always something tearing you apart
It's always so much longer than you counted on
And it hits you so much harder than you thought
But you don't worry, you don't worry
'Cause you've got soul
You're so hea...
Yes, it's true that I believe
I'm weaker than I used to be
I wear my heart out on my sleeve
Wow, an' I forget the rest of me
Yes, there's times I've been afraid
And there's no harm in that I pray
'Cuz I'm more frightened everyday
Someone will take the hope I have away
But you gotta give it up
To get off sometimes
You gotta give it up
To get off sometimes
You gotta give it up
To get off sometim...
She wanted something just like the real thing
He needed love and it all worked out somehow
He knows that love is the king of emotion but
He can't touch her 'cause she's too perfect now
But she wasn't like that then
And he wasn't like that then
They were everything
Everything they need
Suffer me
Call on me and I, I will call on you
Suffer me
Call on me and I, I will call on you
I will call on y...
Still don't mean nothin
Was written on the concrete
The words weren't on my tongue
So we don't talk about it
Day nor evenin, fashion or superman
Just little warped people, with little black minds
Chorus:
Well I wasn't sure just what to think
Say the lights went out
Somebody, somebody swing
Don't wanna, don't wanna talk anymore
Somebody swing, don't wanna talk no..no
What if we're tainted
Who c...
I thought about
Leaving but I couldn't even get outta bed
I'm hangin' cause I couldn't get a ride outta town
Now anyone who really wanted me to be down
Come 'round
Thought about
Singin' but I couldn't remember all of the words
Breakin' but I couldn't get the pieces apart
Laughin' never knowing what the joke was about
Now I'm down
And I wonder how I never got the burn
And if I'm ever gonna lear...
I thought about leaving but I couldn't even get outta bed
I'm hangin' 'cause I couldn't get a ride outta town
Now anyone who really wanted me to be down, come 'round
I thought about singin' but I couldn't remember all of the words
Breakin' but I couldn't get the pieces apart
Laughin' never knowing what the joke was about, now I'm down
And I wonder how I never got the burn
And if I'm never gonn...
Slow dancing on the boulevard
In the quiet moments while the city's still dark
Sleepwalking through the summer rain and the tired spaces
You could hear her name when she was warm and tender
And you held her arms around you
There was nothing but her love and affection
She was crazy for you
Now she's part of something that you lost
And for all you know
This could be
The difference between what y...
I don't know what we're fighting about
When every one can see that I'm not crazy
I only wanted to be the only one
I only wanted to be the only one
A chance to be forgiven
A chance to be forsaken
Did I ever by chance cross your mind?
I only wanted a chance to see you shine
I only wanted a chance to see you shine
I don't have no worries, no and I don't need no answers
And there's just enough to ...
Morning falls like rain
Into the city life
There goes another night
Lose my breath in waves
Knowing that every crash
Is bleeding the hourglass
And taking the stride
From all our lives
Everyone keeps talking
They promise you everything
They don't mean anything
We may lose our focus
There's just too many words
We're never meant to learn
And we don't feel so alive
Say goodbye, these days are gone...
I'm running out of reasons for caring about the other half
I think my half wants a little more pride
I'm running out of reasons for sharing sometimes I can't think of one
I'm running out of faces that I can call familiar
Hey man I'm running out of friends
That I can call at all
How long have I been sleeping, why the hell am I awake
It seems just to stand here is overkill
If I bend any farther,...
Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you
Caught up in circles, confusion is nothing new
Flashback, warm nights, almost left behind
Suitcases of memories time after
Sometimes you picture me, I'm walking too far ahead
You're calling to me, I can't hear what you've said
Then you say, "Go slow", I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
T...
You've been talking for an hour
And I swear to God that I can't hear a word you say
So would you come to me, come to me
I get caught up and the waves of conversation, they wash over me
And they cover me, they cover me
Should I just pack my things and leave
Would I be a bigger man if I built a wall around your heart
And dared you to come in?
I could lie to you and say I didn't mean it
But hurt'...
Read on baby, what you're gettin in to
It's livin on pain, the thing that's getting to you
Write my name, painted up my picture
Say it's the only thanks I'm not around around
Beaten and battered
Well if my dreams get shattered, then
Pain gives my the right to be unkind
Wait on baby which with some indevotion
I trade a river of tears for just a little emotion
You can curse my name, painted up m...
All day starin' at the ceilin' makin' friends with shadows on my wall
All night hearing voices tellin' me that I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for somethin'
Hold on, feelin' like I'm headed for a breakdown
And I don't know why
But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know, right now you can't tell
But stay a while and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm...
Well, it's for sure
Well, things came down hard
But you couldn't wait here
All I ever think about is myself and anyone else
Well, they get strung out
But I get high, high, high
But it's something you better get straight
I don't got no room in my life
Pick up the anchor set it straight
Well, stop, well I, I don't wanna thank you
Honey I don't think so
You'd better well stop and try
'Cause if th...
You and I and I
Well its for sure
Well things came down hard but you couldn't wait
Well all I think about is myself and anyone else
Well they get strung out but I get high
Well buddy something you better get straight
I ain't got no room in my life
pick up the anchor set it swinging
And well stop well I - I don't want to thank you honey
I don't think so
You better oh stop and try
'cause if ther...
Take your head around the world
See what you get from your mind
Write your soul down word for word
You see who's your friend and who is kind
Well it's almost like a disease
And I know soon you will be
Over the lies, you'll be strong
You'll be rich in love, you will carry on
But no, oh no
No you won't be mine
Take your straight line for a curve
Make it stretch, the same old line
Then try to fin...
Yes, I am
I hope you think you beat me
Hope I start talking crazy
Before you understand me
Are we through?
You think that I'm beneath you
But you like the things that I do
Wrap 'em up and take 'em with you
I'm alright
I hope I can sleep for one night
If not to cool my insides
Maybe to calm my backside
Rain on me
I've got a weakness in me
I think that weakness feeds me
I don't think you think y...
Yes I am
I hope you think you beat me
Hope I start talking crazy
Before you understand me
Are we through
You think that I'm beneath you
But you like the things that I do
Wrap em up and take em with you
I'm alright
Hope I can sleep for one night
If not to cool my insides
Maybe to calm my backside
Rain on me
I got a weakness in me
I think that weakness feeds me
I don't think you think you need m...
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Exile on Mainstream |
She said, "It's cold outside"
And she hands me a raincoat
She's always worried about things like that
She said, "It's all gonna end
And it might as well be my fault"
And she only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams, and her voice is straining
And she says, "Baby, it's 3 a.m., I must be lonely"
And she says, "Baby, well, I can't help
But be scared of it all sometimes
And the rain's gonna w...
Why don't you just go away?
I can't seem to get my head straight
There's so much I need to say
It could take all day, yeah
But what you got, I don't need it
I can't listen to all your reasons
Wake up, I don't feel it
I can't listen to all your reasons
Your bad mood just ties my hands
Turn my cartwheels into headstands
I've done everything I can
To get all I had, yeah
But what you got, I don't ...
Not normal, not normal, oh, not normal
It's nothin', it's so normal
You just stand there, I could say so much
But I don't go there 'cuz I don't want to
And I was thinkin' if you were lonely
Maybe, we could leave here and no one would know
At least not to the point that we would think so
And everyone here, knows everyone here
Is thinkin' about somebody else
Well, it's best if we all keep this u...
If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
If I need some other love, then
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again
Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Oh, just hold me again
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Keep b...
She got out of town
On a railway New York bound
Took all except my name
Another alien on Broadway
There's some things in this world
You just can't change
Some things you can't see
Until it gets too late
Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright ligh...
Feels like you made a mistake, you made somebody's heart break
But now I have to let you go, I have to let you go
You left a stain on every one of my good days
But I am stronger than you know, I have to let you go
No one's ever turned you over, no one's tried to ever let you down
Beautiful girl, bless your heart
I got a disease deep inside me, makes me feel uneasy, baby
I can't live without yo...
Hello, hello, hello
I'm wakin' up at the start of the end of the world
But it's feeling just like every other morning before
Now I wonder what my life is gonna mean if it's gone
The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour and I
Started staring at the passengers and waving goodbye
Can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?
But I believe the world is burning to the g...
I'll stick around and see how bad it gets
I'll settle down and deal with old regrets
You know I, I adore you
I can't let you go, can't let you go
You're part of my soul
You're all that I know, I can't let you go
Is it better now, do you feel like all is fair?
Oh, can we work it out, so it's easier for me to bear?
Because life, it can blind you
I can't let you go, can't let you go
You're part o...
I've tried so many times
To tell you how I feel
But you're far too disbelievin'
Are you tryin' to get even with me
Maybe once or twice
I wasn't fair I wasn't nice
But now I've got myself together
When I promise to be better you say
Whoa, I'll believe you when
Whoa, I'll believe you when
Whoa, when everything you say
Don't turn out wrong
Whoa, I'll believe you when
Whoa, and I'll believe you wh...
When I get close to something beautiful
Then I feel love because I know
I'll never have it for too long
I've been everywhere
I'm like an institution
I fell down upon myself
Just to pray for sweet solution
And if I fall, fall
When I get home, I swear
I'm gonna change my ways
And I'll stop dancin'
And never let it livin' up these days
I say all the words
But lack a real solution
I tell all of my...
I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
I think I'm finally scared now
And you think I'm weak, I think you're wrong
I think you're already leaving
Feels like your hand is on the door
I thought this place was an empire
And now I'm relaxed and I can't be sure
But I think you're so mean, I think we should try
I think I could need this in my life
And I think I'm scared, I think t...
It?s sitting by the overcoat
The second shelf, the note she wrote
That I can?t bring myself to throw away
And also reach she said for no one else but you
'Cause you won?t turn away when someone else is gone
I?m sorry ?bout the attitude
I need to give when I?m with you
But no one else would take this shit from me
And I?m so, terrified of no one else but me
I?m here all the time, I won?t go away...
I feel stupid, but I know it won't last for long
And I've been guessin', and I coulda been guessin' wrong
You don't know me now, I kinda thought that you should somehow
Has that whole mad season got ya down?
Well, I feel stupid but it's something that comes and goes
And I've been changin', I think it's funny how no one knows
We don't talk about, the little things that we do without
When that w...
She said, I don't know if I've ever been good enough
I'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in
And I don't know if I've ever really been loved
By the hand that?s touched me, well I feel like something gonna give
And I'm a little bit angry, well
This ain't over, no not here, not while I still need you around
You don't owe me, we might change
Yeah, we just might feel good
I wanna ...
Well, I wonder what it's like to be a rainmaker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain
I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on every one
And you could come and see them when I'm done, when I'm done
I wonder what it's like to be a super hero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown, yeah
From some other planet, I'd get this funky high, on the yellow sun
Well, ...
Morning falls like rain
Into the city life
There goes another night
Lose my breath in waves
Knowing that every crash
Is bleeding the hourglass
And taking the stride
From all our lives
Everyone keeps talking
They promise you everything
They don't mean anything
We may lose our focus
There's just too many words
We're never meant to learn
And we don't feel so alive
Say goodbye, these days are gone...
All day starin' at the ceilin' makin' friends with shadows on my wall
All night hearing voices tellin' me that I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for somethin'
Hold on, feelin' like I'm headed for a breakdown
And I don't know why
But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know, right now you can't tell
But stay a while and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm...
|
Mad Season |
So scream you, out from behind the bitter ache
You're hanging on the memory, you need most
You still want love, love's ugly, smooth and delicate
But not without affection, but not alone
Instead of wishing that it would get better
Man you're seeing that you just get angrier
And it's good that I'm not angry
Well I need to get over
Well I, I'm not angry anymore
Cry when you cry, run when you run
...
No, I would not sleep in this bed of lies
So toss me out and turn in
And there'll be no rest for these tired eyes
I'm marking it down to learning
I am
I don't think that I can take another empty moment
I don't think that I can fake another hollow smile
When it's not enough just to be sorry
I don't think that I could take another talk about it
Just like me you got needs
And they're only a whisp...
If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
If I need some other love, then
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again
Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Oh, just hold me again
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Keep b...
One more day down
Everybody has those days
Where one soft sweet song's
Just enough to clear my head
Fall on real life
Is anybody left there sane?
And then slide on over and accept fate
Then it's bound to be a powerful thing
If it's just that you're weak
Can we talk about it?
It's gettin' so damn creepy
Just nursing this ghost of a chance
The fiction, the romance
And the technicolor dreams
Of b...
Well I don't wanna be the crutch
One step away from down
Well I don't wanna be the crutch
One step away from
Man I feel like hell so come on over
Be a love machine and I could be your friend
Ain't no shame feel strong for one another
Make a real true color come end to end then
God damn, change of pace
I think you got a piece of my heart on your face
It's a shame to let it go waste
How does it ...
I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
I think I'm finally scared now
And you think I'm weak, I think you're wrong
I think you're already leaving
Feels like your hand is on the door
I thought this place was an empire
And now I'm relaxed and I can't be sure
But I think you're so mean, I think we should try
I think I could need this in my life
And I think I'm scared, I think t...
This will all fall down like everything else that was
This too shall pass and all of the words we said
We can't take back
Now every fool in town would've left by now
I can't replace all of the wasted days
The memory of your face, I can't help thinkin'
Maybe if we ever coulda kept it all together, where would we be
A thousand lost forevers
And the promises you never were giving me
Here's what I...
It's amazing
How you make your face just like a wall
How you take your heart and turn it off
How I turn my head and lose it all
It's unnerving
How just one move puts me by myself
There you go just trusting someone else
Now I know I put us both through hell
I'm not saying there wasn't nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
And I'm not saying we ever had the right to hold o...
I feel stupid, but I know it won't last for long
And I've been guessin', and I coulda been guessin' wrong
You don't know me now, I kinda thought that you should somehow
Has that whole mad season got ya down?
Well, I feel stupid but it's something that comes and goes
And I've been changin', I think it's funny how no one knows
We don't talk about, the little things that we do without
When that w...
Just three miles from the rest stop
She slams on the breaks
She said, "I tried to be but I'm not
And could you please collect your things"
Well, I don't wanna be cold
I don't wanna be cruel
But I gotta find more than
What's happening with you
An' if you'd open up the door
She said, "While you were sleeping
I was listening to the radio
And wondering what you're dreaming when
It came to mind tha...
Yes, it's true that I believe
I'm weaker than I used to be
I wear my heart out on my sleeve
Wow, an' I forget the rest of me
Yes, there's times I've been afraid
And there's no harm in that I pray
'Cuz I'm more frightened everyday
Someone will take the hope I have away
But you gotta give it up
To get off sometimes
You gotta give it up
To get off sometimes
You gotta give it up
To get off sometim...
I thought about leaving but I couldn't even get outta bed
I'm hangin' 'cause I couldn't get a ride outta town
Now anyone who really wanted me to be down, come 'round
I thought about singin' but I couldn't remember all of the words
Breakin' but I couldn't get the pieces apart
Laughin' never knowing what the joke was about, now I'm down
And I wonder how I never got the burn
And if I'm never gonn...
Well, it's for sure
Well, things came down hard
But you couldn't wait here
All I ever think about is myself and anyone else
Well, they get strung out
But I get high, high, high
But it's something you better get straight
I don't got no room in my life
Pick up the anchor set it straight
Well, stop, well I, I don't wanna thank you
Honey I don't think so
You'd better well stop and try
'Cause if th...
Take your head around the world
See what you get from your mind
Write your soul down word for word
You see who's your friend and who is kind
Well it's almost like a disease
And I know soon you will be
Over the lies, you'll be strong
You'll be rich in love, you will carry on
But no, oh no
No you won't be mine
Take your straight line for a curve
Make it stretch, the same old line
Then try to fin...
|
Mad Season |
No, I would not sleep in this bed of lies
So toss me out and turn in
And there'll be no rest for these tired eyes
I'm marking it down to learning
I am
I don't think that I can take another empty moment
I don't think that I can fake another hollow smile
When it's not enough just to be sorry
I don't think that I could take another talk about it
Just like me you got needs
And they're only a whisp...
If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
If I need some other love, then
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again
Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Oh, just hold me again
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Keep b...
One more day down
Everybody has those days
Where one soft sweet song's
Just enough to clear my head
Fall on real life
Is anybody left there sane?
And then slide on over and accept fate
Then it's bound to be a powerful thing
If it's just that you're weak
Can we talk about it?
It's gettin' so damn creepy
Just nursing this ghost of a chance
The fiction, the romance
And the technicolor dreams
Of b...
Well I don't wanna be the crutch
One step away from down
Well I don't wanna be the crutch
One step away from
Man I feel like hell so come on over
Be a love machine and I could be your friend
Ain't no shame feel strong for one another
Make a real true color come end to end then
God damn, change of pace
I think you got a piece of my heart on your face
It's a shame to let it go waste
How does it ...
This will all fall down like everything else that was
This too shall pass and all of the words we said
We can't take back
Now every fool in town would've left by now
I can't replace all of the wasted days
The memory of your face, I can't help thinkin'
Maybe if we ever coulda kept it all together, where would we be
A thousand lost forevers
And the promises you never were giving me
Here's what I...
It's amazing
How you make your face just like a wall
How you take your heart and turn it off
How I turn my head and lose it all
It's unnerving
How just one move puts me by myself
There you go just trusting someone else
Now I know I put us both through hell
I'm not saying there wasn't nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
And I'm not saying we ever had the right to hold o...
I feel stupid, but I know it won't last for long
And I've been guessin', and I coulda been guessin' wrong
You don't know me now, I kinda thought that you should somehow
Has that whole mad season got ya down?
Well, I feel stupid but it's something that comes and goes
And I've been changin', I think it's funny how no one knows
We don't talk about, the little things that we do without
When that w...
Just three miles from the rest stop
She slams on the breaks
She said, "I tried to be but I'm not
And could you please collect your things"
Well, I don't wanna be cold
I don't wanna be cruel
But I gotta find more than
What's happening with you
An' if you'd open up the door
She said, "While you were sleeping
I was listening to the radio
And wondering what you're dreaming when
It came to mind tha...
Yes, it's true that I believe
I'm weaker than I used to be
I wear my heart out on my sleeve
Wow, an' I forget the rest of me
Yes, there's times I've been afraid
And there's no harm in that I pray
'Cuz I'm more frightened everyday
Someone will take the hope I have away
But you gotta give it up
To get off sometimes
You gotta give it up
To get off sometimes
You gotta give it up
To get off sometim...
I thought about leaving but I couldn't even get outta bed
I'm hangin' 'cause I couldn't get a ride outta town
Now anyone who really wanted me to be down, come 'round
I thought about singin' but I couldn't remember all of the words
Breakin' but I couldn't get the pieces apart
Laughin' never knowing what the joke was about, now I'm down
And I wonder how I never got the burn
And if I'm never gonn...
|
More Than You Think You Are |
Everywhere someone's getting over
Everybody cries
And sometimes you can still lose even if you really try
Talking about the dream like the dream is over
Talk like that won't get you nowhere
Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie
And that's all that I need, yeah
Someone else to cling to, yeah
Someone I can lean on until I don't need to
Just stay all through the night
And in ...
She got out of town
On a railway New York bound
Took all except my name
Another alien on Broadway
There's some things in this world
You just can't change
Some things you can't see
Until it gets too late
Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright ligh...
Well, I will do without
The spaces in between
If you can tell me now
What it means to be
You have been found out
I have been deceived
By the one that I need
Tell me why you gotta be so cold
How'd you get so high, why you're keeping me low
You don't know, you don't know
And tell me how we're gonna make it last
You're ready to fly, I'm ready to crash
Don't go, don't go, no
You will go without
A ...
Something is wrong with the some of us
That I can't seem to erase
How can I be the only one
Without a smile on my face
Well now, you're laughing out loud
At just the thought of being alive
And I was wondering
Could I just be you tonight
You show your pain like it really hurts
And I can't even start to feel mine
Well, I'm standing in place
With my head first and I shake, I shake
I see your prog...
Feels like you made a mistake, you made somebody's heart break
But now I have to let you go, I have to let you go
You left a stain on every one of my good days
But I am stronger than you know, I have to let you go
No one's ever turned you over, no one's tried to ever let you down
Beautiful girl, bless your heart
I got a disease deep inside me, makes me feel uneasy, baby
I can't live without yo...
I wonder how you sleep
I wonder what you think of me
If I could go back
Would you have ever been with me?
I want you to be unused
I want you to remember
I want you to believe in me
I want you on my side
Come on and lay it down
I've always been with you
Here and now
Give all that's within you
Be my savior
And I'll be your downfall
There we go again
Ashamed of bein' broken in
We're gettin' off t...
What you want, what you got, live your life in a crawl space
I'll help you out but you don't want a chance at a better life
You said you never took a ride and now you wanna play
Well, it's a big, big city let me show you around some time
Oh, some time
And now you crossed that line, you can't come back
Tell me how does it feel now?
It's too late too much to forget about can't stop now
How does ...
Someday they'll find your small town world on a big town avenue
Gonna make you like the way they talk when they're talking to you
Gonna make you break out of the shell 'cause they tell you to
Gonna make you like the way they lie better than the truth
They'll tell you everything you wanted someone else to say
They're gonna break your heart, yeah
From what I've seen
You're just a one more hand m...
Hang out my window and over your head
Stare at your feelings to see where they end
You're waiting here for someone else to break you
From the inside
You've been so composed
We all know there's always something tearing you apart
It's always so much longer than you counted on
And it hits you so much harder than you thought
But you don't worry, you don't worry
'Cause you've got soul
You're so hea...
Slow dancing on the boulevard
In the quiet moments while the city's still dark
Sleepwalking through the summer rain and the tired spaces
You could hear her name when she was warm and tender
And you held her arms around you
There was nothing but her love and affection
She was crazy for you
Now she's part of something that you lost
And for all you know
This could be
The difference between what y...
All day starin' at the ceilin' makin' friends with shadows on my wall
All night hearing voices tellin' me that I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for somethin'
Hold on, feelin' like I'm headed for a breakdown
And I don't know why
But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know, right now you can't tell
But stay a while and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm...
Yes, I am
I hope you think you beat me
Hope I start talking crazy
Before you understand me
Are we through?
You think that I'm beneath you
But you like the things that I do
Wrap 'em up and take 'em with you
I'm alright
I hope I can sleep for one night
If not to cool my insides
Maybe to calm my backside
Rain on me
I've got a weakness in me
I think that weakness feeds me
I don't think you think y...
|
More Than You Think You Are |
Everywhere someone's getting over
Everybody cries
And sometimes you can still lose even if you really try
Talking about the dream like the dream is over
Talk like that won't get you nowhere
Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie
And that's all that I need, yeah
Someone else to cling to, yeah
Someone I can lean on until I don't need to
Just stay all through the night
And in ...
She got out of town
On a railway New York bound
Took all except my name
Another alien on Broadway
There's some things in this world
You just can't change
Some things you can't see
Until it gets too late
Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright ligh...
Well, I will do without
The spaces in between
If you can tell me now
What it means to be
You have been found out
I have been deceived
By the one that I need
Tell me why you gotta be so cold
How'd you get so high, why you're keeping me low
You don't know, you don't know
And tell me how we're gonna make it last
You're ready to fly, I'm ready to crash
Don't go, don't go, no
You will go without
A ...
Something is wrong with the some of us
That I can't seem to erase
How can I be the only one
Without a smile on my face
Well now, you're laughing out loud
At just the thought of being alive
And I was wondering
Could I just be you tonight
You show your pain like it really hurts
And I can't even start to feel mine
Well, I'm standing in place
With my head first and I shake, I shake
I see your prog...
Feels like you made a mistake, you made somebody's heart break
But now I have to let you go, I have to let you go
You left a stain on every one of my good days
But I am stronger than you know, I have to let you go
No one's ever turned you over, no one's tried to ever let you down
Beautiful girl, bless your heart
I got a disease deep inside me, makes me feel uneasy, baby
I can't live without yo...
I wonder how you sleep
I wonder what you think of me
If I could go back
Would you have ever been with me?
I want you to be unused
I want you to remember
I want you to believe in me
I want you on my side
Come on and lay it down
I've always been with you
Here and now
Give all that's within you
Be my savior
And I'll be your downfall
There we go again
Ashamed of bein' broken in
We're gettin' off t...
What you want, what you got, live your life in a crawl space
I'll help you out but you don't want a chance at a better life
You said you never took a ride and now you wanna play
Well, it's a big, big city let me show you around some time
Oh, some time
And now you crossed that line, you can't come back
Tell me how does it feel now?
It's too late too much to forget about can't stop now
How does ...
Someday they'll find your small town world on a big town avenue
Gonna make you like the way they talk when they're talking to you
Gonna make you break out of the shell 'cause they tell you to
Gonna make you like the way they lie better than the truth
They'll tell you everything you wanted someone else to say
They're gonna break your heart, yeah
From what I've seen
You're just a one more hand m...
Hang out my window and over your head
Stare at your feelings to see where they end
You're waiting here for someone else to break you
From the inside
You've been so composed
We all know there's always something tearing you apart
It's always so much longer than you counted on
And it hits you so much harder than you thought
But you don't worry, you don't worry
'Cause you've got soul
You're so hea...
Slow dancing on the boulevard
In the quiet moments while the city's still dark
Sleepwalking through the summer rain and the tired spaces
You could hear her name when she was warm and tender
And you held her arms around you
There was nothing but her love and affection
She was crazy for you
Now she's part of something that you lost
And for all you know
This could be
The difference between what y...
All day starin' at the ceilin' makin' friends with shadows on my wall
All night hearing voices tellin' me that I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for somethin'
Hold on, feelin' like I'm headed for a breakdown
And I don't know why
But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know, right now you can't tell
But stay a while and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm...
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She said, "It's cold outside"
And she hands me a raincoat
She's always worried about things like that
She said, "It's all gonna end
And it might as well be my fault"
And she only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams, and her voice is straining
And she says, "Baby, it's 3 a.m., I must be lonely"
And she says, "Baby, well, I can't help
But be scared of it all sometimes
And the rain's gonna w...
She don't, but she will he says, "Anything to keep her by him"
She takes, what she gets and she never did flinch no
So over and over and anyone
With any mind would think that's all she gets
If you want you can get to know me well
We get along so we shouldn't argue yeah
And I don't know, I said I don't know no
All these feelings, cloud up my reasoning
Yeah they cloud up my reasoning yeah
I know...
Not normal, not normal, oh, not normal
It's nothin', it's so normal
You just stand there, I could say so much
But I don't go there 'cuz I don't want to
And I was thinkin' if you were lonely
Maybe, we could leave here and no one would know
At least not to the point that we would think so
And everyone here, knows everyone here
Is thinkin' about somebody else
Well, it's best if we all keep this u...
Well, I forget when the words were only words
She knows the party makes me nervous
In this stage we can't get hurt
Don't try to understand me
We're too cool to be alone
But, not too crazy to get busted
Well, I found out one life just ain't enough
I need another soul to feed on
I'm the flame, I can't get burnt
I'm wholly understated
An' I found silence in this space
An on and off again attracti...
This old world well
Don't make you wanna think, damn
This cold girl well
Don't she make you wanna scream, damn
What's the matter girl
Well, don't you think I'm good enough?
This old heart's had a whole lot of breakin' down
She's got all these reasons in her head
Well all that time she knew if I lied
You can bet she will
She's taken her time 'til I thought I would die
And I can't sit still
Thin...
You think this life would make me bolder
But I'm running scared is all
Well, I hang on everything about you
You think I'd settle down 'cause I'm older
But I roll with the change is all
But I'm same old trailer trash in new shoes
She gets sad when there's nothing going on
She says it makes her feel damn worthless
Well, you got to think with a girl like that
Any love at all is better than nothin...
She grabs her magazines
She packs her things and she goes
She leaves the pictures hanging on the wall
She burns all her notes and she knows
She?s been here too few years to feel this old
He smokes his cigarette
He stays outside ?til it?s gone
If anybody ever had a heart
Well, he wouldn?t be alone
He knows, she?s been here too few years, to be gone
And we always say, it would be good to go away...
Kody sat down on the avenue
He tapped his feet
To the humming of the highway
He watched the light shine down on the broken glass
And thought
Well, I don't got no reasons, yet
And there it is and there it was
Now it was clear to all of us
We kept this hat of broken dreams
And we pulled them out and when we needed them around
So please hand me the bottle
I think I'm lonely now
And please give me...
It?s sitting by the overcoat
The second shelf, the note she wrote
That I can?t bring myself to throw away
And also reach she said for no one else but you
'Cause you won?t turn away when someone else is gone
I?m sorry ?bout the attitude
I need to give when I?m with you
But no one else would take this shit from me
And I?m so, terrified of no one else but me
I?m here all the time, I won?t go away...
She said, I don't know if I've ever been good enough
I'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in
And I don't know if I've ever really been loved
By the hand that?s touched me, well I feel like something gonna give
And I'm a little bit angry, well
This ain't over, no not here, not while I still need you around
You don't owe me, we might change
Yeah, we just might feel good
I wanna ...
Well, I wonder what it's like to be a rainmaker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain
I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on every one
And you could come and see them when I'm done, when I'm done
I wonder what it's like to be a super hero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown, yeah
From some other planet, I'd get this funky high, on the yellow sun
Well, ...
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone
Pass yourself forget the light, things look dirty when it's on
Funny how it comes to pass, that all the good slips away
And there's no one around you can remember being good to you
Shame, shouldn't try you
Couldn't step by you and open up more
Shame, shame, shame
What've we lost here is something better left alone
Second steps have been...
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Yourself Or Someone Like You |
She said, "It's cold outside"
And she hands me a raincoat
She's always worried about things like that
She said, "It's all gonna end
And it might as well be my fault"
And she only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams, and her voice is straining
And she says, "Baby, it's 3 a.m., I must be lonely"
And she says, "Baby, well, I can't help
But be scared of it all sometimes
And the rain's gonna w...
She don't, but she will he says, "Anything to keep her by him"
She takes, what she gets and she never did flinch no
So over and over and anyone
With any mind would think that's all she gets
If you want you can get to know me well
We get along so we shouldn't argue yeah
And I don't know, I said I don't know no
All these feelings, cloud up my reasoning
Yeah they cloud up my reasoning yeah
I know...
Not normal, not normal, oh, not normal
It's nothin', it's so normal
You just stand there, I could say so much
But I don't go there 'cuz I don't want to
And I was thinkin' if you were lonely
Maybe, we could leave here and no one would know
At least not to the point that we would think so
And everyone here, knows everyone here
Is thinkin' about somebody else
Well, it's best if we all keep this u...
Well, I forget when the words were only words
She knows the party makes me nervous
In this stage we can't get hurt
Don't try to understand me
We're too cool to be alone
But, not too crazy to get busted
Well, I found out one life just ain't enough
I need another soul to feed on
I'm the flame, I can't get burnt
I'm wholly understated
An' I found silence in this space
An on and off again attracti...
This old world well
Don't make you wanna think, damn
This cold girl well
Don't she make you wanna scream, damn
What's the matter girl
Well, don't you think I'm good enough?
This old heart's had a whole lot of breakin' down
She's got all these reasons in her head
Well all that time she knew if I lied
You can bet she will
She's taken her time 'til I thought I would die
And I can't sit still
Thin...
You think this life would make me bolder
But I'm running scared is all
Well, I hang on everything about you
You think I'd settle down 'cause I'm older
But I roll with the change is all
But I'm same old trailer trash in new shoes
She gets sad when there's nothing going on
She says it makes her feel damn worthless
Well, you got to think with a girl like that
Any love at all is better than nothin...
Kody sat down on the avenue
He tapped his feet
To the humming of the highway
He watched the light shine down on the broken glass
And thought
Well, I don't got no reasons, yet
And there it is and there it was
Now it was clear to all of us
We kept this hat of broken dreams
And we pulled them out and when we needed them around
So please hand me the bottle
I think I'm lonely now
And please give me...
It?s sitting by the overcoat
The second shelf, the note she wrote
That I can?t bring myself to throw away
And also reach she said for no one else but you
'Cause you won?t turn away when someone else is gone
I?m sorry ?bout the attitude
I need to give when I?m with you
But no one else would take this shit from me
And I?m so, terrified of no one else but me
I?m here all the time, I won?t go away...
She said, I don't know if I've ever been good enough
I'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in
And I don't know if I've ever really been loved
By the hand that?s touched me, well I feel like something gonna give
And I'm a little bit angry, well
This ain't over, no not here, not while I still need you around
You don't owe me, we might change
Yeah, we just might feel good
I wanna ...
Well, I wonder what it's like to be a rainmaker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain
I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on every one
And you could come and see them when I'm done, when I'm done
I wonder what it's like to be a super hero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown, yeah
From some other planet, I'd get this funky high, on the yellow sun
Well, ...
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