chorus..
i wanna be the sun
above the sky
make the stars fade
into the light
that makes me
you and i
last chorus..
all of the world
spinning upside down
we'll find the way right
all the time
day or night
it doesn't matter when
just you and i
there's a flurry
in my brain
running 'round
little things
keeping me cautious
keeping me safe
i wonder all the time
where just all the influences lie
genetics, politics
love gone wrong and right
one day i'll find
where all the hopes & dreams lie
whether in a grave or outer space
time only knows
what pressures me
to know to know
or just to repeat the code
finding little things that don't fit
seem to answer everything
like war and cancer and laughing at it
life's to short for surgery
to make things look right
while the soul's still dying
art museums and towers high
will crumble far and wide
so what's the use of using time
when even the collective dreams will die
it's just going over
like it tumbles over
this is not a hopeless thing
just don't make it out to be
more than you and me
you would lose
the little things
jokes and books
dreams
and you and me
stuck
in a rut
nothing makes me
give enough
locked
in a place
with the best things
out of state
i can't bring you home
i can't bring you back
i don't want to go alone
i don't want to hold the phone
i just want
the american dream
nice car, girl next door
and shiny things
stuck
in a rut
buggin out
on what's missed out
self
sacrifice
i don't know what i'd do
even if i had my life
i can't make it now
i can't make it on
i'll never loose myself
even if i can't live things down
i don't want to go alone
i don't want to hold the phone
i just want
the american dream
nice car, girl next door
and shiny things
nothing comes
after your dreaming
dreaming only gets you up
piecing your parts
your fits only rage
it never takes
takes the fit
have another drink
cause i'll try anything
just to love you
nothing comes
after your dreaming
dreaming only wakes you up
cause i relate you
cause i respect you
cause i appreciate you
cause i want to send my love to you
sleeping with my idols
won't get my dreams
but i will take my chances
if they come
burning a candle
at both ends
life is sweet
like sugar on concrete
face to the sun
trying not to burn up
a poison apple
a poison fruit
it takes what life
it gives to you
so tired
i'm not giving up
a worker's spirit
holding onto it
just for the hope and love
just for the hope and love
all you know
all you care
why can't it be
everywhere
a poison apple
a poison fruit
it takes the life
right out of you
work for the bright lights
starry eyes
face to the sun
face to the sun
for the hope and love
slow
enchanted
dream from beginning
locked in a bed
counting myself to sleep
counting all the outside pieces
guessing the stars
are the angels there
and what do they dream
our we accounted
or are they mastering
their own convictions
while my arm's pinned down
forcing revelations
there's still a breathing
static signals
taking this
age
poison or
seraphs
growing these walls
an awe
to silence
the desperation
and silence
a fall
white shrouds
for a new skin
we will slip you in
take some
of me
they say
this age
Flicker
In a life
In a breath
Conciseness
Then a death
Something so evil
Living
Breathing
And beautiful
Flicker in and enter
What you give
With what you’re given
And flicker out no more
No more given
What you see
You might will
If others had not
Already
Taken
Given
Forced
And bidden
Forgive us
Kill us
Eat us
Good riddance
What you say
Is what you make
What you do
Is what you take
In a flicker
She steps me aside to tell me things
Every now and again
When I see your face
Your always repeating
your mistakes
Looking for me still
Only when you need relief
Confessing to me
You believe in me
Now… for just these few things
If I’m your conscience
I need to speak up
You may be in trouble with troubled luck
Those better days of luck in love
Are far from few and far away stuff
For you, you think you’re mixed up now
Those thoughts and dreams you think you’re losing out
I think of us when you think it was a bust
You think you’ve never meant a thing
To anyone or anything
Baby you were
Baby you were
The perfect girl
You were
Baby you were
Everything
Everything
Baby you were to me
As time goes on and spins us out
Like mix tapes playing without a crowd
You wonder
Still wonder
Where do you go, where do you begin
When nothing’s changed from where you’ve been
People change sometimes just only from within
I still see you and I still feel the same
You gave me everything
And when I let you go still you came
You don’t think you gave enough
You don’t think you were in real love
But baby you were
Baby you were
The perfect girl
You were
Baby you were
Everything
Everything
Baby you were
To me
the last trace
the last thing
going... gone
nothing more
it's all been done
remixed all the meanings
everything you know is wrong
breath in what this
day really is
spending blood
to cash in your fix
love it more
give it more
for nothing
nothing
but living like a reject
lacks love
the love you've learned to trust
learned to love
like the blood you run
through the veins
you're bleeding out
the love you give
is bleeding out
replaced by all the things not matched
empty
for nothing
nothing
this pool
is filling up the hole
complete
to be just
given up
content but lonely
all for nothing
nothing
all but everything
you've known is wrong
the pool just fills it up
nothing is as thick as blood
and what you trust
what i can't miss
is you
these modern cities
are tombs
how i wish
wish for you
diamond cities
i must have been kept alive
to ruin
in a cage
lost in a world
misplaced
locked in the past
every year the same
i fill the void
to avoid the same
repetition
indecision
keeping this world
i live
all for nothing
nothing
to wish for anything
you want
it's just your love
just your love
be with me
for everything
i take you with me
but your not here
just imagination
spinning madly
spinning madly
all i can do is wish
all i can do is wish
you're just a dream away
when i take this life to the edge
i always see you there
open goodbyes
and unforgiving mistakes
my love
in me
deep down
my life's dream
all i can do is wish
all i can do is wish
for this
the kiss
and your presence
if i could speak to the girl
i once held
i once loved
i set you free
you're not free from me
all i can do is wish
all i can do is wish
i will paint you a rainbow
dull and grey
i will take you to
the color fade
i will hold you close
and swallow you
i will take away
more than a part of you
i will hide you away
where your sweet
light blonde in brown turns grey
i will stretch out the time
i will be the deep sleep
deep sleep
at night
you wouldn't want this
you wouldn't want
my love
my desperation
where the road is shared
all the hopes and dreams descend
where the color ends
i'm your burdens
bearing down
i'm the weight
that makes you drown
i'm the sweet chorus
hailing the only sound
you wouldn't want this
you wouldn't want
my love
my desperation
where the road is shared
all the hopes and dreams descend
where the color ends
it might be something surprising
to say from me
i'm forgetting
i'm forgetting
i'm forgetting all the dark nights
in the bright lights
i'm forgetting the dark room
upstairs room
i'm going on
to a new scene
to carry me
away
i'm picking off my mistakes
a present take
before the past
is part of me again
and i'll see you there-
behind a mirrored wall
you don't see me
you won't see me
if i ask you
small talk questions
quick glances
i'll just be another life
you don't know anymore
it might be something surprising
to say from me
i have to move on
in spite of things
before the past
is part of me again
i'm not standing in place
i never wanted to
i never felt like it
it might be something surprising
to say
i have to move on in spite of things
before the past
catches me again
Look at you
Staring at something
Avoiding eyes
Emancipating your place
You don’t want to know
The world of tomorrow
Don’t let go of me
Just to live for today
Where are you
Hiding in your shadows
Disappearing
To avoid a mistake
I remember a girl
Laughing at the darkness
Never stumbling blindly
Lost in her quest..
Of certainty
Certain things
making herself happy
Flying in the face of
What you now stand in
Your confusing yourself
With ideas of yourself
From other people’s dreams
What they expect you to be
Don’t leave me here
Following the girl
That you
are supposed to be
don’t forget
Your certainty
Of certain things
Living life happy
Forgetting the other views
You’re pulling yourself into
Look at you
Avoiding all ambitions
Apathetic like the rest
Have grown up to be
Leave me here
Forget all your answers
Conscience calling
Don’t answer your prayers
Look at you
Walking away
Leaving me behind
Like the dreams
You didn't take
you were the greatest gift
i've ever loved
how could someone forget
the dreams & years
from just a touch
how do you do it
with not knowing
this much is gone
these things are not enough
to fill this life
with memories of love
with knowing this much is gone
i would give up anything
anything to be what we were
far away
when we still stayed
friends in love
it's hard enough to go through this life
having you
for all i tried
it was everything
washed away
these things are not enough
to fill this life
with memories of love
without holding what you wanted
waiting on what you haven't become
so undone
knowing this much is gone
i made a painting of your smile
it just looks like the sun
and everyday i wake up
and still feel the burn
it's hanging from a shelf
just like i was held
waking up
i step outside
i'm never gonna turn & run
you won't leave me here
i'm no longer in that mind
it might just take the sun
to help open up my eyes
you won't see me
past your yesterdays
you might be thinking of me
but that's not me
just a painting
and it's no good
unless it's the sunshine blinding you
pieces of something far away
might be enough to light a way
better than it ever did
close beside me
holding me
'cause i'm seeing for myself
looking back through this
shattered mirror
i see it all
fractured pieces
of kissing you
empty
i didn't see
you didn't see me
pacing your bedroom
you knew what you were taking
you knew you were selfish
so why did you want to care
have your heart there
you didn't know
if you
wanted to feel
wanted to love
wanted to run
come undone
a million miles away
we had our hearts misplaced
it was just love
and growing up
i saw you in September
walking around
reading your stories
stories for boys
in a store window dress
but you weren't still looking
or trying to impress
i know now
you were never selfish
trying to bruise me
or trying to feed me - anything
you just didn't know
i guess i should've known
you never
wanted to feel
wanted to love
wanted to trust
wanted enough
you just wanted
to be young
i'm still expecting to find
the wolves
alone
over the trees
i'm stumbling upwards
i know i don't know much
on my own
i'm still looking to find
someone else's answers
to all my questions
from myself
when there are only simple things
left for conclusions
when you take
out all our confusion
when this is just this
on a hill
for these brief minutes
this view
i'm glad for my vision
if just for this
my simple interests
in these simple physics
a conquest
an understanding
this is this
this place
is this place
before another minute
heavy
but i don't sleep
follow
around the things
in my head
plan something
a trip, a crutch
to weigh on things
a crucifix
to tell me things...
a way out
heavy
for all the things
taken for granted
it's a lonely planet
even if we
try to think together
it just gets bigger
heavy
yeah i just need
a sleep
to shovel
this whole $#*+
over me
and just
keep
keep keepin on
moving on
moving on
and
keep
keep keepin on
moving on
moving on
Yours ever so truly
Is out past curfew
And wanting something
More to do
Come out of your sleeping
Come out to the streets with me
Unlock your windows
And slip into something
I’ve been through the woods
And over the hills
Past the evil dogs in the night
Howling at the moon
Come out with of your sleeping bed
There’s more to do
Before this day is through
Little scarred
Of the street lights
And car lights, headlights
Don’t want to get caught
In a sticky
Free carouse
Looking in from your window
I’ll be peeking in
I want you to come out to me
I don’t want to come in
Play out about
In the night
Under stars over head
It’s where you are
That hinders what matters
To a world full of sleepy heads
Little demons
Running about
Don’t feed on me
When I’m out about
The nymphs try to keel me
Save the slumber for tomorrow
Until then
I'm looking in your window
Peeking in
Come out to me
I don’t want to come in
every time i fall
i feel this foot
pushed in my face
the voices up
on halo's heads
are turning older
and farther away
wounds over the old scars
it turns my voice into tears
falling into a quiet
this is the new life
this is the new life
for the rest of the years
cast into doubt
cast
into shame
the world disappears
drowning me again
into the mouth
of a feared fiction
true
disease
it will turn it around
only to be eaten again
still
full of life
if even an empty life
on the inside
full on the insides
of pain on the insides
it's full of an empty life
it's full of an empty life
eaten on the insides
like a mouth with a heart
keeps a mouth with a silence
falling into the quiet
this is the new life
this is the new life
this is the new life
this is the new life