Music

All at once
The world can overwhelm me
There’s almost nothing that you could tell me
That could ease my mind

Which way will you run?
When it’s always all around you
And the feeling lost and found you again
A feeling that we have no control

Around the sun
Some say it’s going to be the new hell
Some say it’s still too early to tell
Some say it really ain’t no myth at all

We keep asking ourselves
Are we really strong enough?
There’re so many things
That we got too proud of

I want to take the preconceived
Out from underneath your feet
We could shake it off
And instead we’ll plant some seeds
We’ll watch them as they grow
And with each new beat
From your heart the roots grow deeper
The branches, well they reach for what?

Nobody really knows
But underneath it all
There’s this heart all alone
What about when it’s gone?
It really won’t be so long
Sometimes it feels like a heart
Is no place to be singing from at all

There’s a world we’ve never seen
There’s still hope between the dreams
The weight of it all could blow away with a breeze
But if you’re waiting on the wind
Don’t forget to breathe
Because as the darkness gets deeper
We’re sinking so we reach for love

At least something we can hold
But I’ll reach to you
From where time just can’t go
What about when it’s gone?
It really won’t be so long
Sometimes it feels like a heart
Is no place to be singing from at all

Trouble travels fast
When you’re specially designed for crash testing
Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon
Come on and tell us what you’re trying to prove

Because it’s a battle when you dabble in war
You store it up, unleash it, then you piece it together
Whether the storm drain running rampant just stamp it
And send it to somebody who’s pretending to care

Just cash in your blanks for little toy tanks
Learn how to use them, then abuse them and choose them
Over conversations relationships are overrated
“I hated everyone” said the sun

And so I will cook all your books
You’re too good looking and mistooken
You could watch it instead
From the comfort of your burning beds
…Or you can sleep through the static

Who needs sleep when we’ve got love?
Who needs keys when we’ve got clubs?
Who needs please when we’ve got guns?
Who needs peace when we’ve gone above
But beyond where we should have gone?
We went beyond where we should have gone

Stuck between channels my thoughts all quit
I thought about them too much, allowed them to touch
The feelings that rained down on the plains all dried and cracked
Waiting for things that never came
Shock and awful thing to make somebody think
That they have to choose pushing for peace supporting the troops
And either you’re weak or you’ll use brut force-feed the truth
The truth is we say not as we do
We say anytime, anywhere, just show your teeth and strike the fear
Of god wears camouflage, cries at night and drives a dodge
Pick up the beat and stop hogging the feast
That’s no way to treat an enemy
Well mighty mighty appetite
we just eat ‘em up and keep on driving
Freedom can be freezing take a picture from the pretty side
Mind your manners wave your banners
What a wonderful world that this angle can see

But who needs to see what we’ve done?
Who needs please when we’ve got guns?
Who needs keys when we’ve got clubs?
Who needs peace when we’ve gone above
But beyond where we should have gone?
Beyond where we should have gone
We went beyond where we should have gone
Beyond where we should have gone

Your shadow walks faster than you
You don’t really know what to do
Do you think that you’re not alone?
You really think that you’re immune to it
It’s going to get the best of you
It’s going to lift you up then let you down

It will defeat you
Then teach you to get back up
After it takes away
All that you learned to love

Your reflection is a blur
Out of focus but in confusion
The frames the sun did burn
At the end of a roll of delusions
A ghost waiting its turn
And now I can see right through it
It’s a warning that nobody heard

It will teach you
To love what you’re afraid of
After it takes away
All that you’ve learned to love

But you don’t
Always
Have to hold your head
Higher than your heart

You better hope you’re not alone

Your echo comes back out of tune
Now you can’t quite get used to it
Reverb is just the room
The problem is that there’s no truth to it
It’s fading away too soon
Your shadow is on the move
And maybe you should be moving too

Before it takes away
All that you’ve learned to love
It will defeat you
Then teach you to get back up

Because you don’t
Always
Have to hold your head
Higher than your heart

You better hope you’re not alone

I’ve got an angel
She doesn’t wear any wings
She wears a heart that could melt my own
She wears a smile that could make me want to sing

She gives me presents
With her presence alone
She gives me everything I could wish for
She gives me kisses on the lips just for coming home

She can make angels
I’ve seen it with my own eyes
You’ve got to be careful when you’ve got good love
Cause them angels will just keep on multiplying

You’re so busy changing the world
Just one smile and you could change all of mine
We share the same soul

After we spoke I had a dream that I broke
The teeth from a mouth of a snake
Then I choked on the teeth they were mine all along
I picked up the pieces when I woke up
I put them in a boat made of things that I don’t want to see
I blew on the sail watched it drift out to sea
The further it drifted the closer it came to me I can’t explain
So I took it apart built a billion boxes
But there was only one key

You might think I’m your enemy
But that don’t make you mine
And all I have now is empathy
I wish that you’d stop trying
Please stop lying

I put hatred in a box then I locked it
The strongest one I made
I buried it all grew a tree without thorns
And sat beneath it’s shade

You might think I’m your enemy
But that don’t make you mine
And all I have now is empathy
I wish that you’d stop trying
Oh please stop lying

If I had eyes in the back of my head
I would have told you that you looked good as I walked away
And if you could have tried to trust the hand that fed
You would have never been hungry but you’d never really be
More of this or less of this or is there any difference
Or are we just holding on to things that we don’t have anymore

Sometimes time doesn’t heal
No not at all
It just stands still
While we fall
In or out of love
Again I doubt
I’m going to win you back
When you’ve got eyes like that
That won’t let me in
Always looking out

A lot of people spend their time just floating
We were victims together but lonely
You’ve got hungry eyes that just can’t look forward
Can’t give them enough but we just can’t start over
Building with bent nails we’re falling but holding
I don’t want to take up anymore of your time
Time time time

Sometimes time doesn’t heal
No not at all
It just stands still
While we fall
In or out of love
Again I doubt
I’m going to win you back
When you’ve got eyes like that
That won’t let me in
Always looking out

If you could read my mind
You’d say “Baby you were right
And I don’t want to fight anymore”
You’re usually righter than I am
And I’m not a very good fighter
Am I? No, neither are you
So let’s be through with this one
Because some things never change

I know you’re still my same girl
Who builds her own frames
For the pictures that she paints
Of the lights in Monterey
Coming across the bay
Right back to my same girl

How can you be so calm
When the truth is that sometimes
We live in the eye of the storm
With everything going on around us
I feel comfort in the sounds when you say
It will be okay
Like a star guiding me
To the light of the day
The doldrums could follow me

But not with my same girl
Who builds her own frames
For the pictures that she paints
Of the lights in Monterey
Coming across the bay
Right back to my same girl

Well I can’t give you everything you want
But I could give you what you thought you need
A map to keep beneath your seat
You’ll read to me in time I’ll get you there
But fold it up so we don’t find
Our way back soon nobody knows we’re here

We can park the van and walk to town
Find the cheapest bottle of wine that we could find
And talk about the road behind
How getting lost is not a waste of time
Le Bois d’ amour will take us home
In the moment we will sing as the forest sleeps

It’s all for the sake of arriving with you

Well I will make the table into a bed
The candle is burning down it’s time to rest
I can’t take back things already gone
But I could give you promises for keeps
And I would only take them back
If they become your own and you give them to me

And it’s all for the sake of arriving with you
Well it’s all for the sake of arriving with you
We could make this into anything
We could make this into more than words we speak
This could make us into anything
It could make us grow and become what we’ll be

How will we really know?
It’s just like it feels

Your voice is adrift I can’t expect it
To sing to me
As if I was the only one
I’ll follow you
A leaf that’s following the sun
When will my weight be too much for you?
When will these ideas really be my own?
This moment keeps on moving
We were never meant to hold on

Well this was a scene worth waking up for
When I woke up
You planted me in my own pot
I don’t know why
But somehow it just feels so wrong
When you set I will be lonely
But when you rise again I’ll have become the sun
And I will shine down upon you
As if you were the only one

Your voice is your own I can’t protect it
You’ll have to sing
A verse no one has ever known
Don’t be afraid
Because no one ever sings alone
Your weight will never be too much for me
Your ideas have always been your own
And this moment keeps on moving
We were never meant to hold on

In my rear view
I watch you
Watching the twilight
Behind the telephone lines
With nothing to prove
Or to assume
Just thinking that your thoughts
Are different than mine

In my rear view
I watch you
And I gave you your life
But you give me mine
I see you slowly swim away
As the light is leaving town
To a place that I can’t be
But there’s no apologies

Just go on
Just go on
There’s still so many things
I want to say to you
But go on
Just go on
We’re bound by blood that’s moving
From the moment that we start
From the moment that we start

I see your perfect little eyes 
Watch the shadows of the clouds
On the surface of the ocean
Out the window of the plane
I get nervous when I fly
I’m used to walking with my feet
Turbulence is like a sigh
That I can’t help but over think

What is the purpose of my life
If it doesn’t have to do
With learning to let it go
Live vicariously through you
You could do the same
It’s the least you could do
Because it’s a lonely little chain
If you don’t add to it
So go on
Just go on
There’s still so many things
I want to say to you
But go on
Just go on
We’re bound by blood and love
From the moment that we start

Just go on
Just go on
There’s still so many things
I want to say to you
Just go on
Just go on
We’re bound by blood that’s moving
From the moment that we start
From the moment that we start

Tied down against the tracks
Screaming in silent black and white
Why’d you trust us we are such villains
We would tell ourselves anything we want to hear if we are willing
To listen is to learn
Then too much is what we deserve

And how come when we say that we do
We don’t
Pray to anybody you want
We won’t

But if we’re the ones to blame then the fruit
Shouldn’t taste so good we were used
Used to thinking we got nothing to lose
We’re losing everything but the truth
Is walking straight into a roadblock ending left here bending
Your point of view was chosen by the serpent’s ruse

With all it’s do’s and don’ts
The future is an empty promise unconcerned and so tired of waiting
We could sell it wooden horses full of nightmares and when they open
This all might recompose
There’s no going back to the good old days it’s just a phase bring in some new life
Archaism is a dusty road leading us back to nowhere

But if we’re the ones to blame then the fruit
Shouldn’t taste so good we were used
Used to thinking we got nothing to lose
We’re losing everything but the truth
Is walking straight into a roadblock ending left here bending
Your point of view was chosen by the serpent’s ruse

How come when we say we do
We don’t
How come when we say we will
We won’t

It feels right
It feels wrong
Feels like when you have it
Then it’s gone

I want more
More and more
And if you steal the fire
Give me some

Cause the sun
Dissipates
While it waits
For a friend
To arrive
From the past
While it pulls us around and around
While we wait

I feel sorrow for the fear
And everything it brings
And wonder if it will ever sleep

I know you understand
Because you briefly look away
Focusing on nothing so now everything is clear
Because there’s no one to blame
You’ve got no place to hide
It’s only in your mind

And I saw you
In amazement stumbling through the day
You told me time never waits
What is that supposed to mean

All of life
Is in one drop of the ocean waiting to go home
Just waiting to go home
And if the moon
Can turn the tides it can pull the tears
And take them from our eyes
Make them into monsoons
Turn them into monsoon-er or later
They’ll weep their way back to the sea
Going to finally be free
Free for a while
Until they break
Like waves of sorrow always do
All in due time
Because time never waits

Daddy don’t daydream again
Just help me to believe and then
Show me that there’s more than the meantime

Sonny do you hear the sound
You will feel it when it breaks
You will know it when it’s gone
How else can I explain

Because it’s only the pain
Coming straight through
Coming to remind

Cross cut to you
In amazement stumbling through the day
You tell me time never waits
That’s okay because I don’t wait for time

When all of life
Is in one drop of the ocean
Waiting to go home
Just waiting to go home
And if the moon
Can turn the tides it can pull the tears
And take them from our eyes
Turn them into monsoons
Make them into monsoon-er or later
They’ll weep their way back to the sea
Going to finally be free
Free for a while
Until they break
Like waves of sorrow always break
All in due time
Because time never waits

Don’t worry
Everybody in the room notices you
Sit back and relax the night is early
You’re about to overdo it
So come and tell me something that you’ve already told me
Because everybody’s heard all of your stories
I hope that some of them are true

I’ve been losing lots of keys lately
I don’t know what that means but maybe
I’d be better off with things that can’t be locked at all

I’ve been feeling kind of seasick lately
See you reaching to me going to save me
If it’s you or me I would much rather take the fall

The world has its ways
To quiet us down
The world has its ways
To quiet us down
Down comes the rain
Down come our spirits again
But down comes the strength
To lift us up and then

Been going
Upwind now
For too long
Forget how
To let go
Seems too hard
Too late now
To turn around

The world has its ways
To quiet us down
The world has its ways
To quiet us down
Down comes the rain
Down go our spirits again
But down comes the strength
To lift us up and then