Lyrics from "Breathe"
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Lyrics from Unreleased Songs
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Your Front Porch [Breathe Album]
I don’t want to be here
Your voice of eloquent persuasion
Oh and I try not to stare
I don’t want to be safe, I don’t want to be cautious
I am not afraid
I’m not gonna fade out another link in this great gray parade
and I will never be that kind of girl
We’ll sit on your front porch you’ll run your fingers through my hair
I’ll strum on my guitar and we’ll watch the world go by from out there
We’ll sit on your front porch and watch the sun go down
Smile we’re going to shine a while and watch the world go by from out there
You pull me close and leave me stormy
The constellations of your smile
An ordinary world falls down around me when you say we will shine
Through these tarnished streets where we have long been hiding all our brilliant light
Your voice of eloquence says just the two of us, you and I
We’ll sit on your front porch you’ll run your fingers through my hair
I’ll strum on my guitar and we’ll watch the world go by from out there
We’ll sit on your front porch and watch the sun go down
Smile we’re going to shine a while and watch the world go by from out there
Ooh and it’s gonna be alright
Cuz we’ve got nothing to hide
We’ll sit on your front porch you’ll run your fingers through my hair
I’ll strum on my guitar and we’ll watch the world go by from out there
We’ll sit on your front porch and watch the sun go down
Smile we’re going to shine a while and watch the world go by from out there
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Pearl Divers [Breathe Album]
Run away to the water, let the tide close over you
I am the ghost alive in these waters,
I am the tide that heals the harbour
I'll wait for you
I am the depths eternal and sheltering,
I am the tides that rise on the harbour
And I live for you, for you
We were pearl divers down, descending the blue
We were pure and unbound returning, returning...to the truth
Scattered shoreline, left our world to transcend it
searching for divinity
And ways to heal under the surface
when the skies grew threatening
I am the silence deep in these waters, I am the cure that heals the harbour
I'll wait for you
I am belief alive in the motion, I am the rhythm sung in devotion
I sway for you, for you
We were pearl divers down, descending the blue
We were pure and unbound returning to the truth
I am the ghost enduring these waters,
I am the tide that heals the harbour
I'll wait for you
I am the depths eternal and sheltering,
I am the tides that rise on the harbour
I live for you, for you, for you...
Pearl divers, down beneath the blue
I am the ghost alive in these waters
I am the tide that heals the harbour
I'll wait for you
I am the depths eternal and sheltering
I am the tides that rise on the harbour and
I live for you, for you
We were pearl divers down, descending the blue
We were pure and unbound returning to the truth
We were pearl divers down, descending the blue
We were shining unbound returning, returning...to the truth
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Perfect [Breathe Album]
I stand in your doorway with nowhere to start
I think I left something on the soul of your shoe
‘Cause you kill me with silence when nothing I say
makes a difference to you
But, if I was perfect maybe I'd be
Enough for you, enough for me
If I was perfect maybe I'd feel
A little more happy, a little more real
I hold up the balance as it all falls apart
If I was perfect, could I change who you are?
So this is the part that we choose to show
And everything else comes and it goes far beyond our control
Now I'm acting it out ‘cause I don't know what to do
And you kill me with silence when nothing I feel even matters to you
I'm searching for something I might have left to give
In all my perfection, you kill me with silence, I'm failing again
But, if I was perfect maybe I'd be
Enough for you, enough for me
If I was perfect maybe I'd feel
A little more happy, a little more real
I hold up the balance as it all falls apart
When nothing I say gets through to your heart
I hold up the balance and pray that you'll see
‘Cause if I was perfect, you wouldn't hurt me.....
If I was perfect
It would be so perfect
If I was perfect
It would be alright...
If I was perfect, it would be all right ....
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Hold You Down [Breathe Album]
and you're asleep with all the bedclothes wound around you so
I have never laid awake so long, daydreaming and pretending
That a million years have come and gone, and we are home
Forty days the road stretched out and we would sing along
with all the oldies on the radio, just to entertain ourselves
And I was glad for the rain, when the rain came down
feeling much stronger then than I am feeling now
I live my voice in a silence, so unable to speak
I wanna hold, wanna hold, wanna hold you down
I want to feel you rise to meet my mouth
Push you up to the wall outside the station
I wanna know how it would go
I wanna hold you down
Last night I dreamt I rode a red balloon,
tore through the skin of this cold room
out past the railway where we could speak our thoughts out loud
You threw me down in the heather
left your mark upon my wrist, left your taste inside my mouth
And now, I live my soul in a silence, so unable to speak
I wanna hold, wanna hold, wanna hold you down
I want to feel you rise to meet my mouth
Push you up to the wall outside the station
I wanna know how it would go
I wanna hold you down
And now, in a stifled voice that says so much about truth
We made our choice when we chose not to choose
This time I don't want to be afraid
Shouldn't I feel this way, feel this way?
I wanna push you to the ground and say
I love, I love, I love
I wanna hold, wanna hold, wanna hold you down
I want to feel you rise to meet my mouth
Push you up to the wall outside the station
I wanna know how it would go
I wanna hold you down and feel you rise to meet my mouth
Push you up to the wall outside the station
I wanna know how it would go
I wanna hold you down, down...
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Job
What are you gonna do, Job?
'Cause now your head is in the bedroom, and your heart is down the hall
and you don't want to play anymore
You say that man is born to trouble, so you trouble all the time
What are you gonna prove, Job?
and all the time that passed you by while you were coveting your pride
Well, did these stars bow down before you?
But, in the darkness where you lie
I'll protect you through the night, when you look away, Job
Even the desert of your life, when you look away, Job
Look away, Job
Who left your hopes there, scattered reckless at your feet
Why are you coming here, Job?
Well, it's easy to lay blame when you are too afraid to change
So you just blame it on me
When love, love is all you need
What do you want from me, Job?
The universe reveals these things you cannot keep concealed
It's in yourself you fail to believe
But I believe
In the darkness where you lie
I'll protect you through the night, when you look away, Job
Even the desert of your life, when you look away, Job
I'll be right there by your side, when you look away, Job
Even the darkness, the darkness of your life, when you look away, Job
Look away, look away, look away
Look away, Job
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Breathe [Breathe Album]
Out the back door, through the field we'd run
Just my brother and me and the lake
the year I learned to breathe
He always called me his sunshine girl
Kiss me and laugh, I thought he owned the world
Skipping stones by the shore and we'd laugh
'till the sun went down
I secretly thought his voice the most beautiful sound
Since I was born, I'd been afraid to swim
'Till the day in the lake, I believed in him
He said, "It's easy, all youv'e got to do is breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out..."
"It's easy, girl, all you've got to do is breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in..."
Two days later and I went calling for him
They said he went down to the lake for a swim
But when I got to the shore, well he was nowhere in sight
I swam through the water and I called to him all through the night
I said, "Come on, boy, all you've got to do is breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out..."
"It's easy, boy, don't leave me now, breathe in,
breathe out, breathe in..."
Now I know he never owned the world
and silence, they say, is the most beautiful sound
and I'm trying so hard to hold on to everything I've got
and not looking back isn't easy, you know
to a day when my life wasn't so barren and cold
And I tell myself every day to breathe in, breathe out...
It's easy, girl, all you've got to do is breathe in, breathe out...
I miss you, boy, you know I'm coming soon, breathe in, breathe out...
I miss you, boy, you know I'm coming to you, breathe in, breathe out...
breathe in...
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Sober [Breathe Album]
85 on the cold highway
You can hold your breath till I get there
Everything will be alright I swear
I will tell them you got lost at sea
For sure this time, sever everything
When can we feel sober
Now that we’ve hurt for so damn long
Knowing we’re more than holding on
Can we feel sober now
These few things we understand still hold everything, we hold everything
And the grace to make a stand
I will be your superstar
And gather you into my arms
And fly away
Let the world fall away I will keep you safe
And hold on
Trust that solace finds you still
Hold on
And know you’re beautiful
When can we feel sober
Now that we’ve hurt for so damn long
We’re so much more than holding on
Can we feel sober now
These few things we understand still hold everything, we hold everything
And the grace to make a stand
And hold on
Trust your soul to miracles
Offer up your faith in me
And find you’re beautiful
You still are beautiful
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Cruel [Breathe Album]
That keeps me spun around you like some misplaced satellite
Is it really any wonder that I'm divided and I falter
‘Cause you sleep with all the lights on
And you smile when you lie
Go smoke another cigarette and throw your thorns into my bed
So clever and so confident, I'm choking on my ignorance
You're pulling on my strings again, sleeping through my suffering
So slowly rolling over me, so slowly, slowly, oh
The cruel things that you do
You don't even know me, you don't even notice
When I fall, I fall to the floor
I'm not a ragdoll, I feel the pain, I feel much more
I'm not invincible, like you
So cruel
I'm such a baby, I feel I'm crawling at your feet
I am desperate and I am getting dirty needing you to comfort me
But you're so vain and so disarming, and I'm so shallow and obscene
You're words are so convincing, I'm wanting to believe
With all the anger in my consciousness, my armor failing me
‘Cause you sleep with all the lights on
Leave the door wide open
Your smile so charming, even you believe
Go smoke another cigarette and slumber dreamless in your bed
So clever and so confident, I'm choking on my ignorance
You're pulling on my strings again, sleeping through my trembling
So slowly taking hold of me, so slowly, slowly, oh
The cruel things that you do
You don't even know me, you don't even notice
When I fall, I fall to the floor
I'm not a ragdoll, I feel the pain, I feel much more
I'm not invincible, like you
Now I'm not gonna be broken, I'm not gonna feel shamed
I know my tenderness is my strength
No, I'm not invincible, like you...
The cruel things that you do
You don't even know me, you don't even notice
When I fall, I fall to the floor
I'm not a ragdoll, I feel the pain, I feel much more
I'm not invincible, like you
No, I'm not invincible, like you
So cruel ...
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Fire on the Highway [Breathe Album]
Laugh until you can't laugh anymore
and wear your bruises with pride
'cause you honorable life is not something you have to hide
Go show the world we are not victims anymore
'Cause there's a fire on the highway
and all the children dance around
all the grownups wear their serious looks
thinking there's no other way out of town
There's a fire on the rooftops setting circles ablaze
There's a shudder in the great white
wheels of change, of change...
Go on, little boy, stand up straight
There's no need for you to ever feel so ashamed
You can follow your faith
The mistakes that you make are earning your spirit it's grace
Go show the world we are not guilty anymore
Only angels have wings, the rest must fall
'till we learn we're not angels at all
We are human, and more blessed be...
'Cause there's a fire on the highway
and all the children dance around
all the grownups wear their serious looks
thinking there's no other way out of town
There's a fire in the searchlights setting heroes ablaze
There's a billow in the great white
sails of change, of change...
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For My Sister
She don’t know all the reasons but she’s trying to understand
The edge is half a mile from any place she’s ever been
Any day we’re holding onto thread so thin
She regards the common feature with an element of trust
Walking backwards down the boardwalk, arms outstretched to catch the sun
We want to save her from the world, but before we can catch up
She’s gone away
Beautifully naïve and so impressed
We want to hold onto her childhood but she’ll grow up far too fast
There’s so much about the world she think she understands
She need someone to hold her hand
Everybody’s talking, and she says it hurts her head
Voices and confusion move without a common thread
She searches for the truth in anything we’ve ever said
Any day she’s more than we have ever been
Reaching out to touch someone from the pedestal she’s living on
The innocence she’s running from
To catch herself before it’s gone
Before it’s gone
Beautifully naïve and so impressed
We want to hold onto her childhood but she’ll grow up far too fast
Beautifully naïve and so impressed
We want to hold onto our childhood but we’ll grow up far too fast
There’s so much about the world we think we understand
We need someone to hold our hand
To hold our hand
To hold
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Singles, Live & Unreleased Tracks
ANGELS (WE'LL BECOME)
Lay
down your head, lay down your pride
Lay down your defense, just for tonight
Between the hope and letting go
You'll find the bravest love you've ever known
And
Angels, Angels we'll become
We will rise above
Even as we fall
It's the soul that still recalls
The return to love
Burned
from the grey, a fight for the dawn
Jaded and weary, can you hear me, calling you home?
There is no truth to a fight, when it's only your pride you appease
Sometimes the only you're going to find your way
is down on your knees
And
Angels, Angels we'll become
We will rise above
Even as we fall
It's the soul that still recalls
The return to love
Even
in this tangled web we've woven
Even as the storm winds its way
Even as it seems there's no hope to carry on
You'll find your way is won
You were never there alone
And
Angels, Angels we'll become
We will rise above
Even as we fall
It's the soul that still recalls
The return to love
Even as we fall
It's the soul that still recalls
The return to love
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Hey
the whole town is talking
There was a fire at the warehouse today
Now O'Leary's at the station
Saying that the girls have got it made
Will
you come 'round to pick me up at 8?
We'll drink Strawberry Hill and stay out late
Then we'll walk through the ruins and talk about someday
We'll run away...'Cause they say
That everything is bound to change
But
I will love you, love you, love you
Love you, love you, love you anyway
Now
the good ol' boys are playing cards
Down at the old club cabin on Fischer Creek
And those good ol' girls seem satisfied
With their drive into the city once a week...
but I gotta know
Will
you come 'round to linger at my door?
'Cause I've had just enough to want much more
And I know there's so much out there that's worth living for
And it's you I adore
Yeah, it's you that I adore
But
I will love you, love you, love you
Love you, love you, love you anyway
They
say that everything is bound to change
Well, this old town could use a little rearranging
And I think that we both know what
everybody's going to say about a day like today
About a day we made
But
I will love you, love you, love you
Love you, love you, love you anyway
They
say that everything is bound to change...
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Deliver
me from dreams, to your Garden of Eden
Deliver me awake, I've been sleeping for years
Stir me from this room where the sunlight fades to shadow
Stir me with your moves, to a rhythm I can feel, really feel
Make me come undone
You
move me this way, tremble with a touch
And I come undone, over and over
You move me this much, and I come undone
It's
the way your rivers rush through fields of flame and heather
The open landscape of your smile, so alive and so surreal
Come unravel me from blue, shine a little color to define me
Find me in the shadow of a truth, waiting to be revealed
You
move me this way, tremble with a touch
And I come undone, over and over
You move me this much, and I come undone
Deliver
me from dreams, to your Garden of Eden
Deliver me awake, I've been sleeping, I've been sleeping, oh
You
move me this way, tremble with a touch
And I come undone, over and over
You move me this much, and I come undone
Over and over...
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I
know I'm a little bit angry
a little bit jealous
a little bit foolish
makes me feel like I'm worthless
So I try a bit harder
a little bit smarter
try to keep a cool head
don't you know that I need this?
Help
me, I'm falling over my feet
and
this insecurity is a little bit jading
when I'm down on my knees and you turn to walk away
that's my little bit of heart breaking
So
why do you have to be so witty
you've gotta seem so stable
gotta be so strong
when I feel like I'm crawlin'
when I feel so pathetic
when I just want to touch you
but I know that I'm wrong
Help
me, I'm falling over my feet
and
this insecurity is a little bit jading
when I'm down on my knees and you turn to walk away
that's my little bit of heart breaking
Now,
I'm a little bit jealous
a little bit foolish
a little dumbfounded
makes me feel like I'm worthless
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Ten
miles to Parson's Bend
You catching fireflies as we went
Summoned the courage in our veins
To leave all our clothes on the riverbank
This
makes us stronger
Keepers of all these silent things I never meant to tell you
I would waste a day, you know that I would waste a day, to touch you
I would waste a day, you know that I would waste a day
So
lay me down in here, the palms of your hands like water
Unravel me until I am a strand of copper fire
This
makes us stronger
Details of all these silent things I never meant to tell you
I would waste a day, you know that I would waste a day, to touch you
I would waste a day, you know that I would waste a day
This
makes us stronger
Keepers of all these silent things
Indian Summer, your dragonflies are on the wing
I never meant to tell you
I would waste a day, you know that I would waste a day, to touch you
I would waste a day, you know that I would waste a day to love you
I would waste a day
Ten
miles to Parson's Bend
You catching fireflies as we went
Summoned the courage in our veins
To leave innocence on the riverbank
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Take
me to the bridge, take me to the water
Make me clean along the banks of the river, make me holy
Take me in your arms, bathe me in the presence of you
Take
me to the shore, weave me in your reflection
Don't leave me in this desert, drowning in the absence of you
Don't leave me high, don't leave me blue
You
run wild, like a river boy, rushing miles below
And it is all that I can do, just to hold on, hold on to you
Mississippi, Mississippi
To you, Mississippi
Take
me to the edge, let passion repossess me
Let the solitary shoreline dissappear beneath the tumbling waves
Let me fall into your grace
You
run wild, like a river boy, rushing through my skin
And it is all that I can do, just to love you, love you
Mississippi, Mississippi
Love you, Mississippi
And
I'm carried away from my love
To you, Mississippi
Won't you carry him home, won't you carry him home
Mississippi, won't you carry him home to me
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Every
broken word I hear the sorrow that your heart has been repeating
Wander room to room to touch the shadows of these scars
that still aren't healing
Every lucid dawn, every windowshade's been drawn
Every door has been opened , every song has been sung
Watch your shadow on the wall, as it's slowly deserting
All
my life, I've been waiting
All my dreams, now I'm awake
To fly beyond these walls, from the tangle of my life
I'm coming clear, I'm coming home
I believe my fever's lifting
Paling
in a summer room you burn under the anchor of the world
Every stone's been laid in place, the magic, that was real
Now it's time and space that have been changed
All
my life, I've been waiting
All my dreams, now I'm awake
To fly beyond these walls, from the tangle of my life
I'm coming clear, I'm coming home
I believe my...
I'm coming clear, I'm coming home
Now I can see, I'm coming on to the dawn
I believe I'm coming home
I believe my fever's lifting
A
summer room reveals the empty room, the circle will remain unbroken
goodbye...
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Dive,
can we swim a little deeper
'Cause the past two weeks, I can't sleep at all
I used to dream about flying from the shelter here
But now I just dream about the fall
Well,
it's easier to define when things went wrong than it is
to find a place where we know that things went right
I stood on the edge where the wind came off the ocean
Oh, but I was too afraid to fly
Oh,
I wish you were here
Your cannonball like you do
'Cause I'm one toe in to touch the water
But I think I'd like to follow you
Come on and dive, come on, come on, come on
Come on and dive
I
woke up wanting some big religion through me
To heal this violence I have painted up my life with
My mother, she stands in the kitchen, she says,
"What if these are the best days of your life?"
Oh,
I wish you were here
Your cannonball like you do
'Cause I'm one toe in to touch the water
But I think I'd like to follow you
Come on and, oh, come on and dive
Dive,
can we swim a little deeper
'Cause the past two weeks, something's opened up my eyes
My mother, she stands in the kitchen, she says,
"What if these are the best days of your life?"
Well,
what if these are
Did you think about that baby
What if these are...?
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3
a.m. on a two-day night,
I fell asleep by the telephone, waiting for your voice to set me right
'Cause when I'm not holding you I'm still holding to
these things I want to believe
I'm not addicted, baby, it's just this spell you have over me
And
it's a strange drug like you
That makes me do these things I do
and it's the way I can't get through to you
Every time
You've
got the stars in your pocket, baby, constellations in your hair
You've got the moon on a line, and the touch that takes me there
I will wait for you in darkness, honey, for your touch to light my sky
I'm not delusional, babe, I just can't keep this inside
And
it's a strange drug like you
That makes me do these things I do
and it's the way I can't get through to you
Every time
And it's a strange drug like you
That makes me do me crazy do
and it's the way I can't get through to you
Every time
You've
got me reaching through the distance, swingin' on a star
And I am sending you my heart, wherever you are
The
sun finds me curled by the telephone
Oh, just aching from sleeping all night in my clothes
Let the sun rise, let it rise, clear the stardust from my eyes
I'm not addicted, baby, I just want you in my life
And
it's a strange drug like you
That makes me do these things I do
and it's the way I can't get through to you
Every time
And it's a strange drug like you
That makes me do me crazy do
and it's the way I can't get through to you
Every time...
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Sawtelle
turned a bitter hand
She don't live here anymore
She comes down when the well runs dry
And she finds herself a man
And
it's all strangers in the bars tonight
The lots brim full with emptiness
What I would give of myself for a desert ride when the moon is high
Get myself out of this mess
You
call and I'm broken
Fear
Tell me all the things I want to hear
Tell me all the words that make believe
Tell me all the reasons that justify my right to be
So leery of this life
Tell me ain't nothing gonna be alright
One
swift move changed the circumstance
She was crying, he was dying, I could not accept less
And every move I made, I made in faith of a calculated risk
Change this night, change this town,
let the shadows come around and know this
Sawtelle
turned a bitter hand
She don't live here anymore
I go up when the well runs dry, when the red wine turns to sand
And I look for something stronger, something stronger than a man
You
call and I'm broken
Fear
You call and I'm broken
Fear
Tell me all the things I want to hear
Tell me all the words that make me believe
Tell me all the reasons that justify my right to be
So leery of this life
Tell me ain't nothing gonna be
ain't nothing gonna be
alright
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Give me your
weary, give me your legions of fear
Give me your dirty and I'll show you mercy, my dear
You've been calling from the grave
You've been calling for the blind to see
I've been calling for a doctor, when I guess all that I need is a priest
Oh, give me something to believe in
Oh, give me mercy I can feel
Oh, give me something to believe in
Looking for the answers or maybe the wings of an angel
Call down to Judas, Jericho's burning again
Slow down the fire trucks and send them with wine instead
I've seen the righteous man drown in the mountains
that the sinner walked to dust
I've had my hands tied, my hopes bound, my love denied
and still said I don't need no one
Oh, give me something to believe in
Oh, give me mercy I can feel
Oh, give me something to believe in
Looking for the answers or maybe the wings of an angel
Tear down these walls you take hold of me
When the righteous rain fire down on prophets
Tell me who will lead, who will lead
Oh, give me something to believe in
Oh, give me mercy I can feel
Oh, give me something to believe in
Looking for the answers or the wings of an angel
Oh, give me something to believe in
Oh, give me mercy I can feel
Oh, give me something to believe in
Looking for the answers or maybe the wings of an angel
Show me mercy
Show me mercy
Show me mercy
I will take
you down
Realize your soul
I'll divine what is sacred in all of these things
I will make you rise
Like moon to sea, you will know my devotion
You will learn my life
With or without your love
With or without your love
I have come
all alone
I have crawled burning miles
To become the test of all of these things<
I will make
you rise
Moon to sea, you will know my devotion
You will learn my life
With or without your love
With or without your love
I will take
you down
Realize your soul
And if that's not enough
I will make
you rise
Moon to sea, you will know my devotion
You will learn my life
With or without your love
With or without your love
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I took a
room with an ocean view
As if these tides could bring me to you
But I can still drean through these four walls
To the voices
down the hall
We might fade away, till there's nothing left at all, but
I'll ride
the fire
I'll cross the desert, you know that I'll do it for you
I"l walk the ocean
Into the wild
I'll tame that question, you know that I 'll do it for you
I'll walk the ocean blue
Even as we
pale in a sun-drenched room
Cool linen recalls a fortress of blue
And I can still dream inside of my head
To the voices
down the hall
We'll not fade away, till there's nothing left at all, but
I'll ride
the fire
I'll cross the desert, you know that I'll do it for you
I"l walk the ocean
Into the wild
I'll tame that question, you know that I 'll do it for you
I'll walk the ocean blue
If these
four winds can recall
We were waiting for a love like this
Now this crashing and burning has taken a toll
The tide keeps on churning
But there's nothing, nothing these two hearts
and these four hands can't recall
I'll ride
the fire
I'll cross the desert, you know that I'll do it for you
I'll walk the ocean
Into the wild
I'll tame that question, you know that I 'll do it for you
I'll walk the ocean
I'll walk the ocean ... blue
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Today I am,
today I want
Anything at all to stop this bleeding heart
Fools rise fast, but they fall so slow
Like the cold grey of the rain falling on the streets below
So why do
we dream in color?
Why do the stars fall from the sky?
Why do we both come back to eachother
When we only believe in black and white?
If I had
wings, they'd be your prize
Sketched out in contradictions on your paper pages fly
It's these little mysteries that keep me warm at night
Like the riddle of your love and why, why
So why do
we dream in color?
Why do the stars fall from the sky?
Why do we keep coming back to eachother
When we only believe in black and white?
I rode a
rainbow bird into heaven
To steal you peaches from the green
But you shivered from the start, and your ghost rode through my heart
'Cause you don't quite believe in me
So why do
we dream in color?
Why do the stars fall from the sky?
Why do we both com back to eachother
When we only believe in black and white...?
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I am better
than this
I am fettered by these hands, this skin, this body
I am shooting amiss, so tragic
But my aim is on the heavens
And I wish that I could show you who I am
But you keep walking away
Before I can say that I don't want to break your heart
You keep walking away
Before I can show you I'm just another lonely soul
Just another fallen angel
Can you hear
me now?
Lift me up I'm drowning in you, drowning in you
If we could just reach out
So sorry that I didn't have the words to tell you
Love is a language I 'm still learning to speak
But you keep
walking away
Before I can say that I don't want to break your heart
You keep walking away
Before I can show you I'm just another lonely soul
Just another fallen angel
Can you hear
me now?
Lift me up I'm drowning in you, drowning in you
But my aim is on the heavens
And I wish that I could show you
But you keep
walking away
Before I can say that I don't want to break your heart
You keep walking away
Before I can show you I'm just another lonely soul
Just another fallen angel
Just another lonely soul
Just another fallen angel
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She walked
for miles from stone fortresses
Till there were only deer and wild horses
Beyond the graveyards where nightmares are put to rest
Beyond the city where all of the sidewalks end
All of the
letters on rose-oil paper
Dreaming in Yellow of fields of light
Lay me down gently in tall fields of heather
When comes the raven I will fly
And it was all Yellow
I've seen
the white caps of Kilimanjaro
Run with the antelope over the plain
Cried with the moon and swum with the Nile
Laid down beside you in a blanket of stars
And it was all Yellow
All of the
letters on rose-oil paper
Dreaming in Yellow of fields of light
Lay me down gently in tall fields of heather
When comes the raven I will fly
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I'm awake
and I'm alive and I can see for miles and miles
Thought I was fragile, took a fall, found that wasn't me at all
I want to
run across the rolling landscape
As clouds unfurl in the turbulent indigo sky
Just run from all this traffic confusion
Let sidewalks and cities disintegrate in my mind
Let me roll over, burn like a fire
A wildfire rushing, come consume my canvas heart
I want to make love on a train
Always going somewhere and never back again, and never back again
My own radio
stays on all night
Playing love songs for the stars, playing love songs for me
My own radio says it's alright
I don't need to judge me anymore
I don't need to hurt me
I come back
home to where I am
Inside my skin and I am holier now
Like birds are caught in a snapshot of flight
This may look like me, but it does not define me, no it does not define
My own radio
stays on all night
Playing love songs for the stars, playing love songs for me
My own radio says it's alright
I don't need to judge me anymore
I don't need to hurt me anymore
I'm awake
and I'm alive and I can see for miles and miles
Thought I was fragile, took a fall, found that wasn't me at all
My own radio...
My own radio...
Playing love songs for the stars, playing love songs for me
My own radio says it's alright
I don't need to judge me anymore
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Did you think
that I was stupid, did you think that I was blind
As she hung up when I answered for the fifty-millionth time
Did you think you were oh, so clever,
claiming you're working late at night
Then coming home with chocolate and roses
and the cliche bottle of wine
Said you
were crazy for me, said you were in love
We had a good thing ‘till you went and (f*cked) messed it up
Oh I liked you better when you had another girlfriend
Way oh, way
oh, way oh, way ah
Tell her that you're sorry
Tell her you were wrong, tell her for me
Way oh, way oh, way oh, way ay
Give her anything, anything, as long as she would stay
I liked you better when you had another girlfriend
What made
you have this flash of conscience,
what made you change your mind?
You were much more entertaining when you were entertaining lies
Now you're Mister Joe Upstanding, you really think you've pulled it off
But if I was looking for true love I'd buy myself a dog
Mister Irresistible
up until you broke it off
Cause the grass is always greener when it is somebody else's lawn
Oh I liked you better when you had another girlfriend
Way oh, way oh, way oh, way ah
Tell her that you're sorry
Tell her you were wrong, if you ever loved me
Way oh, way oh, way oh, way ay
Give her anything, anything, as long as she would stay
I liked you better when you had another girlfriend
You were
Mister Irresistible up until you broke it off
Cause the grass is always greener when somebody else
is mowing your lawn
Oh I liked you better when you had another girlfriend
Way oh, way
oh, way oh, way ah
Tell her that you're sorry
Tell her you were wrong, if you ever loved me
Way oh, way oh, way oh, way ay
Give her anything, anything, as long as she would stay
I liked you better when you had another girlfriend
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Forgive me...
I've been a naughty girl
Forgive me...
It's such a wicked world, such a wicked world
Tried to
be a good girl, but I can't fake it
Tried to be strong, but I just keep breakin'
Tired to hang on, but I just couldn't make it
Know I'm doing wrong, but I just can't shake it
I tried to be the one to earn
the love of a good man
Crucify me, baby, but still I burn
No matter how I try
it just can't be denied
I'm damned
Forgive me...
I'm so insatiable, it's only chemical
Forgive me...
It's supernatural, defies the logical
Tried to
run away, but the feeling it haunts me
Tried to play it cool, but I know that you want me
These criminal delusions keep dragging me under
Everything I do, everything I do
I tried to
be the one to earn
the love of a good man
Crucify me, baby, but still I burn
No matter how I try
it just can't be denied
I'm damned
You're beautiful
You deserve it all
It's unbearable
Watching you fall
Curse this wicked heart of mine
Damn, it's such a crime...
I tried to
be the one to earn
the love of a good man
Crucify me, baby, but still I burn
No matter how I try
it just can't be denied
I'm damned
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Are you asleep?
I can hear what you are thinking
Celestial thief, my secrets are revealed
I know I'm alive now
Cause the stars are up there swinging
Where would we be, if it weren't for gravity, and all this time
I'm so tired...I
can't sleep
This room is darker, so much darker than it seems
If I should
die before I wake, I pray
Someone ought to let them go
Stars were never meant to fall this way
Captive to my vertigo
And I know
that I've been selfish
Heaven help the girl who stole the stars
I just needed a reason to go on
Can you grant me that one wish
I'm so tired...I
can't sleep
This world gets darker, darker everyday they swing
If I should
die before I wake, I pray
Someone ought to let you know
You were never meant to fall this way
Captive to my vertigo
If I should die before I wake, I pray
You take me with you when you go
We were never meant to end this way
Still beneath my vertigo
I know I'm
alive now
Cause the stars are up there swinging for me
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I never needed your love
I never needed your touch
I never wanted just one word from you to mean so much
I never needed a dream
I never needed a friend
Another complicated delicate heart to defend
I never needed
to cry
I never need you to hold
I never needed a road through the impossible
Right now I'm doing all right
Go on before it's too late
and just walk away
Say goodbye,
walk away
Have a little mercy on me baby
All my life it's been this way
And I don't know what I would do if you stay
And if you ever really loved me take pity on me
Just walk away
Say goodbye
I don't need
the complication
I don't want a new frustration
I've been satisfied with living black and white
That is why they call it falling
That's why its called a heartbreak
Gravity's always the nemesis of flight
What if I'm
impossible to reach
What if I'm not everything you dreamed
What if all the endings come much sooner than we think
If all the world came crashing down again
Would we have the strength it takes to mend
I couldn't bear to watch sand castles scatter in the wind
Maybe there
is hope
Maybe there's a fire
Somewhere through the smoldering ashes of my pride
Oh but what if I am weak
What if I'm made vulnerable
And you find that I'm unlovable
I never needed
your touch
I never needed your love
I never wanted just one look from you to mean so much
Right now
I'm doing all right
Go on before it's too late
Just walk away
Say goodbye,
walk away
Have a little mercy on me baby
All my life it's never changed
And I don't know what I would do if you stay
And if you ever really loved me take pity on me
Just walk away
Say goodbye
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So unsatisfied
with life
Come and spare me from the fire
Rain upon me
You are the architect of dreams
Give me reason or relief
Lay hands on me
Suffer me
unto my savior
Shepherd your wanderer
C'mon and
Save me, save me tonight
You're the only one I ever want
Save me, I'm on fire
You're the only one I ever need
Save me, save me tonight
Before I destroy myself again
It's such a slow burn
Such a wicked
way to move
To bend the burden of your proof
And lay it on me
Invocation of your name
Incantations cried in vain
But the story doesn't change
I'm still driven to the flame
Will I ever
live to see your favor?
Offer me up to my maker
C'mon and
Save me, save me tonight
You're the only one I ever want
Save me, I'm on fire
You're the only one I ever need
Save me, save me tonight
Before I destroy myself again
It's such a slow burn
Suffer me unto my savior
Shepherd the lost
C'mon and
Save me, save me tonight
You're the only one I ever want
Save me, I'm on fire
You're the only one I ever need
Save me, save me tonight
Before I destroy myself again
It's such a slow burn
It's such a slow burn
It's such a slow burn...
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Brown paper
boxes on the side of the road
Filled with pictures of crayola unicorns
and poems that struck her with mythical beautiful then
Did you ever
touch her, and feel sorry for the bruise
For the trembling way she eluded you
And the passage of years that you failed to make it okay
All she really wanted was
Nothing but a natural love
So simple, but you fucked it up
Hey Mr. Madison,
disarm your ways
There's no evidence left here for you to erase
‘Cause she knows how to take a fall if she has to
Hey Mr. Madison there's nothing to say
Words that were written in blood wash away
And she knows how to take a fall if she has to
I'm weaving
a highway that runs on the edge
A cold halo of dreams escaping my head
I never felt sorry for anything happened to me
Alone in
the bedroom, still she reasons with ghosts
The first one to feel and the last one to know
Some days I look in the mirror and hate what I see
All I really wanted was
Nothing but a natural love
So simple, so simple, but you fucked it up
Hey Mr. Madison,
disarm your ways
There's no evidence left here for you to erase
‘Cause she knows how to take a fall if she has to
Hey Mr. Madison there's nothing to prove
Wounds feared would last a lifetime fade to bruise
And she knows how to take a fall if she has to
And she knows how to take a fall if she has to
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I woke up
somewhere outside of St. Louis
In a parking lot west of town
Dreamt of you all last night but can't remember the rhymes
and my poetry is no good now
Spilled my
soul for an audience of no one
Chasing tails of the elusive pop song
the way an ex-smoker still fondles the matches
after the cigarettes are long gone
The world
is my playground
and tomorrow is the next town
and if I die or I break down well nobody would miss me for days
I fear anything lukewarm
Chasing heartaches to lose one
Still alive but I'm breathing on borrow believing
that something is gonna get better
Before I hit lowdown
I been driving
out all day from Nashville
Falling asleep at the wheel
Couldn't get warm then I couldn't get cool
so I sleep in your shirt at a Kansas gas station
How long
do I sing for redemption
When I can't afford to pay attention
When
the wind blows I pull my knees close and I pray
The next mile will outrun my confession
But it's beautiful when I catch my reflection
in the windows of bars and the passing of cars
Just enough to glimpse a fragment
of the someone I could be someone other than me
and I find comfort in the distraction
Just called
to say I am hardly an exceptional person
I am humiliated at regular intervals
Crashing through life like a oil barge captain
Leaving behind me a trail of ashes
You've underrated the natural disaster of me
The world
is my playground
and tomorrow is the next town
and if I die or I break down well nobody would miss me for days
I fear anything lukewarm
Chasing heartaches to lose one
Still alive but I'm breathing on borrow believing
that something has got to get better
Before I hit lowdown
Lowdown
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Dancing up
the dawn
In the streets of Babylon
But the sunrise went so wrong
I should have known the tricks
The taste of a bitter kiss
But the sweetness had covered it
I couldn't hear him coming
Bonfire boys
creep up beneath my corset
I thought I'd recognize my own flesh
Till you said American girls are easy, so easy
Is that really all you think this is?
Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na Na
Bonfire boys burn up all too fast, never meant to
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
Bonfire boys burn up all too fast
They were never meant to last
Pour it in
my cup
Come and fill me up
Say it's just like love
Just a little bit
Well, it cuts right into the quick
I was saving the best of it
But it all spilled over
Bonfire boys
creep up beneath my corset
I thought I'd recognize my own flesh
Till you said American girls are easy, so easy
Is that really all you think of this?
Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na Na
Bonfire boys burn up way too fast, never meant to
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
Bonfire boys burn up way too fast
They were never meant to last
Bonfire boys
creep up beneath my corset
I thought that I would recognize it
Thought I had an alibi
Traded virtue for the little white lie that made me
Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na Na
Bonfire boys burn up way too fast, never meant to
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
Bonfire boys burn up way too fast
They were never meant to last
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na...
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Have you
no remorse for this
Invisible, invertebrate junkie?
You push me overboard into that
Dry, wide, unforgiving ocean of you
Then throw me out a daisy chain
whose petals turn to raven's wings
So I am a
dragonfly when you call
Just like rain you're falling on my paper aeroplane
The blue sky sees it all
No wonder that I became so unsteady
Dizzy from
the dream, the one where
I'm lost in mangroves and magnolias
And the air hangs thick and sweet
I try to run but the tide swells and sweeps me off my feet
Still am floating aimlessly
Its so tragic
when you call
Just like rain you're falling on my paper aeroplane
The blue sky witness all
Some stolen wings and I'll fly
All the way to heaven<
So I am a
dragonfly when you call
Just like rain you're falling on my paper aeroplane
The blue sky sees it all
Some stolen wings and I'll fly
All the way to heaven
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40 miles
till Sin City's out of sight
It'll be another million until it's out of mind
My head revs like a race car, I've been driving way too fast
And when I hit Arizona I'll be running out of gas
My bones are dry like city ruins
Touching my soul feels like a bruise
I'm a testament to nothingness the desert blows right through
I just wanna wave my hands
Make it all disappear, pull the magic trick of the year
Burned by all I regret
and by your last cigarette
No, I haven't healed, haven't healed yet
I slipped
on my plastic ego, donned my prosthetic heart
Wore the skins of plastic people in a swarm of neon sharks
But my blood ran pale streets under, trespassing souls floated away
all the counterfeit coinery washed under miles of my veins
I wanna wave
my hands
Make it all disappear, pull the magic trick of the year
Burned by all I regret
and by your last cigarette
No, I haven't healed, haven't healed yet
Shifting
sands swallow me up
Sifting through burnt planets of dust
If there are bones left to remind me
Let them say what I cannot
I wanna wave
my hands
Make it all disappear, pull the magic trick of the year
Burned by all I regret
and by everything you said
No, I haven't healed, haven't healed yet
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Don't change,
don't move, don't displace a thing
I think I understand
When the light falls just so in the space between our breaths
I think I get the plan
When the rhythm on the fire escape plays in-between the rain
And the moon is throwing shadows all across your face
I feel so insignificant on the landscape of the bed we've made
When you
lie I want to believe
The moment is so beautiful I can hardly breathe
When you cry I feel like I belong
Cause I know how to hold you then till the daylight comes
In street
lamp's orbs, in backlit rooms, the world is set alight
Just for this moment in the darkness every movement's set in flight
I drift through your empty silhouette,
dance from the frame, let me forget
The consequence eventually manifests
When you
lie I want to believe
The moment is so beautiful I can hardly breathe
When you cry I feel like I belong
Cause I know how to hold you then till the daylight comes
Take me down,
show me more
Where you lead, I follow
Make me run, make me crave, just a, just little
Take me down, show me more
Drive me to the shadows
Time is wasted on truth
Like I am wasted on you
When you
lie I want to believe
The moment is so beautiful I can hardly breathe
When you cry I feel like I belong
Cause I know how to hold you then till the daylight comes
