asleep for so long it seems then the breeze came from the stream woke the birds out of the trees fly away
like a railcar losing steam nearly stopped the heart in me now i'm up from winter's dream fly away
fly away where did you ever go? the fire that burned inside of me that shone from far below by one day i'll learn the way to keep the burn from causing pain taming fire takes a while but trust me, I'll wait
blood and roar and all the rest with the good stuff comes the test catch the wind, i'm headed west fly away
coolest gaze and taking shapes, come in you have lit the fire again may it burn and warm my skin oh, if it may
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you, i swear you do you still have a place tonight, you have ignited the hurt that went away i still burn for you but what's done, we can't undo so fly away fly away
CHORUS
2. Patterns
basement tunnels and skycraper highs i am trying to crack open the case of the patterns i leave in my wake
cuz a first step is only a mark it is always a surprise but the second shows the direction you'll take
it's a habit of mine, i should know i leave bread crumbs wherever i go you can follow me from starting point to jump
and the blessing and the curse paradigm and worst is not knowing where i'm going, but from where i've come
i wanna try to break the patterns that i make so i won't let us down you'll never want more if you don't know the score so what i am will always be the best you've known
he left me in some shape with a trail of x's and o's and i still think about him when the city sees the snow
well once you start to guess about what is coming next the odds are more than likely what you get is something less
well, my hindsight has shown me and i know what you are you deserve much more than the way i've set my stride and babe, i've tried and tried
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i don't know what i have to give maybe i've got a lot or maybe what you need is what i haven't got all i know is as of late i want to lay these stones i've seen us like a picture it develops, and god, i know
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3. Monument
no change of pace to lover's face but the weather changed around us it turned like falling leaves the trees emptied their pockets and went cold
but it was good we understood and from one thing to another we followed autumn's trail from the water to the warmth of what lay waiting
so i don't mind the cold no i don't mind the time i'm not from this city but i've learnt to make it mine you can't fight the way you feel what feels like home is real you're close to home, i feel
one day they'll make a monument
the season smokes these fires burn they cloud the sky quietly like the passion of a snowstorm in the night the buildings look like bonfires when the sun dies
so here i am, an unchanged man i'm reaching out for lover's hand across the distance and years went by i can't explain what happened but the season saved our lives
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One day they'll make a monument to mark the day i found you and forever in their history will be a little moment just of you and me
one day they'll make a monument to mark the day i found you since we fell into our rhythm without trace you turned from none to love without a hitch, we kept our coast so we're owed a little monument someplace
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no change of pace to lover's face
4. Today Was A Good Day
the fact of the matter is i'm terrified that one of us will turn and walk away see, i'm still walking with you by my side yesterday was bloody, but today was a good day
i'm walking terrified of hindsight that i'll awake to find that we passed away in the night let's stay in bed and fight the choice i'm not quite ready to rewrite
i'm giving you my kisses like i haven't got much more i'm holding you in the night each one part of a moment so unsure so unsure, and undefined oh, these ties that blind
when i think about trying to pick you out of it all i fall apart but then again i guess i see i guess that it was so naive for a a kid to fight his way into your heart
all that's from before our hist'ry and folklore has no place, now it's just anticipate all you can tell me is how you feel and you say that today was a good day
CHORUS
there's a bit of light to guide us but how could we know if the light is from a star that died a long time ago that died before we could know
i put all my money on a tired horse everything is riding on him but if i go home a penniless man at least i know that i can always start again i'm sure i'll know better by then
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5. Gravity
i spent last night as a no-go doubting my happenings little boy blue at the puppet show saying hold on, i see strings once you look for real everything has seams isn't dirt just mountain top that failed at being up where it belongs once you're fixed on roots the flower's just afterthought moot
the heart is bold like a soldier the soul is resolute but when you resolve to solve the story the rest just gets the boot cuz recently it seems all i've got is truth it's nice but it's lonely, more bitter than smooth i just want some puppets and a little wood booth i just want tall-tales, get me fooled
honestly take this gravity all that matters be gone to dust leave me revery just "pretend to-be" teach me trust
he loves you like it's his duty i see you two, i do the boy is made of patchwork but his stitches tried and true all i see are rags real boy, to you you say, the lining makes him comfortable button eyes are cute s'pose the masquerade isn't hurting, well, well, fool the world with button-boy, teach me too oh, and
CHORUS teach me trust teach me trust
oh, slip me lies mix them in 'til i'm none the wiser an old miser at twenty-two and oh, i want cardboard cut-out nights getting drunk on red-water wine kissing button-eyed you under plastic stars and a paper moon just us make-believe two they'd never believe it believe it... i don't believe i do
CHORUS teach me trust teach me trust teach me trust
6. Together In This
i can see the world at large sittin in my tree i climbed up the branches cuz they got at me seems like everybody is the next best thing oh me, oh my, it stings oh, oh my, it stings
i want a conversation with communication not 'tell me about me' it gets so hard to believe oh me, oh my it seems they've all got some ace up their sleeve
oh, oh aren't we together in this? oh, oh can't we just co-exist? oh, oh
i've spent so much time lately travelling underground packed like a sardine in a can surrounded by my fellow man but nobody smiles. dead-pan.
oh, oh aren't we together in this? oh, oh still you gotta shake your fist oh, oh
Under the streetlights They're all on the move Proving to me they've got something to prove How many scars must you give to feel good? Oh me, oh my, I would Help you off that ledge if I could
Is this some war I didn't know I was even fighting in? Got me hiding inside my own skin Would it kill you to goddamn grin?
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7. Choice I Made
big things can look so small small things that have pushed through took years to get this far stemmed from so may roots
well, i have travelled miles grown from such small dust to find my voice and learned that what i have is because of my choice
they all say that love is about gut and feeling takes you until the shoreline, but what makes me love you so unafraid it's just a choice i made
so many passerbys they've given smiles in spades, but in the end the ones that matters most are the ones that stay
love is a call to arms trust is a hand of glass win or lose, it has been proven in all that's come to pass
CHORUS
days are getting shorter, evenings are graying rose-coloured times fall flat. i suppose it's time to put an end to games we're playing you can't always coast
CHORUS x2
8. Love Takes Tending To Grow
everyday I'm amazed by the fight in the foliage I see it takes a strong will, a stiff drink to grow in the city running from your roots or reaching for the sky no matter why, oh why it takes work to push up green through concrete but i gotta try
it reminds me of you, little you you've been planted here so long you've perfected the art of the handshake and smile with your hand on your gun
now we're here together, and if we want shade one day we know love takes tending to grow x4
you bring me water so faithfully when it gets too hot outside oh, the summer can move in on you so i left the garden wide oh why, but winds they come so you always keep me warm, stay so warm i remembered you through the harvest i remembered you through the storm
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now we're here together, planted side by side sown next to eachother, along for the ride
CHORUS
9. Nothing Can Do
looks like rain took this summer's day i climb the flights to my third-story hideaway
try to find the words to say but the weather makes it hard to communicate
scrunch up my face as i concentrate brave birds circle outside the window refusing to be
grounded by a little old rain i hear you i've been circling too trying to be brave but i just can't reciprocate
i walk the city streets and all i see is you i think about it and i know i've fallen through oh, why it's just one of those things it's just nothing can do i tried to right it until it was just a need tried to save it with some smiles and good deeds oh, why it's just one of those things it's just nothing can do
wait, wait, wait a minute, i may have spoke too soon the headlines're proof gotta hold on too
watch their faces for the pans and perks what am i not getting how'd you make it work
can i fix it did it break have i learnt my lesson did i make mistakes
am i grounded by a little old rain i hear you all the words you're saying point of push-off made but i can't reciprocate
CHORUS
from third-flight perch to rain-run view can i cut through and take you to my hideout for a while
we'll talk like kids with too much truth all our secrets we'll let out we'll change eachother 'til we'll see it through we'll fit together like some special two It's a beautiful dream It's just nothing can do it's just nothing can do
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10. Bird on a Wire (by Leonard Cohen)
like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir i have tried in my way to be free.
like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old fashioned book i have saved all my ribbons for thee.
if i have been unkind, i hope that you can just let it go by. and if i have been untrue i hope you know it was never to you.
like a baby, stillborn, like a beast with his horn i have torn everyone who reached out for me.
but i swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong i will make it all up to thee.
i saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, he said to me, "You must not ask for so much." and a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, she cried to me, "hey, why not ask for more?"
oh like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir i have tried in my way to be free
before seasons changed it was clear i walked along without question i took flood and snowstorm in stride, didn't i with wide-eyed why's and starry eyes
but the journey changes on a dime once something more's at stake cuz this road veers everywhich way, in each direction and suddenly i question, suddenly i pray
where did i go wrong, i wonder when should i have seen the way cuz i've followed my map of white and black but when i look up i see gray when i look up i see gray, oh
well, i just wanna coast, like before i just want to coast to your door leave that candle burning, through this stark, cold night cuz without that light i don't know where to go, anymore maybe i was safer with my eyes on the floor there are footsteps before me, and footsteps behind was i comin' or goin' this time, love was i comin' or goin' this time
and now these bitter winds leave me cold and the storms i braved are blinding when the way is clear, i've got thick skin but throw some stones in the road and i'm a kid again
where did i go wrong, i wonder when should i have changed my way cuz i've followed my map of white and black but when i look up i see gray when i look up i see gray, oh
CHORUS
where did i go wrong, i wonder or am i even lost at all all you hear is black and white but i've been going gray, from neophyte to fly right
maybe they should call off the search and let me flounder cuz around here, like you said, "we bleed or else we're dead" and somehow gray matters matter more than most so i just wanna coast
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2. Here To Change My Mind
Such sweet irony Sits in front of me What I learned from love Is play it safe and tread cautiously
Don't get comfortable Complacent or you'll Find that you've just Sailed out into an empty sea
Of highest hopes to sweet irony And all you have to show Are bruises and breaks Love leaves kisses you forget the taste of
So no, I won't let you in Because you seem right The reason I am drawn to you Is enough to tell me, draw the line Or could it be you're here to change my mind
So the question is Which outweighs which Is good worth the bad Am I better safe than sorry Or to scratch the itch I have
Right now I'd rather cut all ties to heart and love, be it virtue or vice despised Cuz all I have to show Are bruises and breaks Love leaves kisses you forget the taste of But I still remember him
CHORUS Or could it be you're here to change me Could it be you're here to change my mind
Cuz it'd mean the world to me Cuz it'd change my everything If you could take this whole damn thing and turn it right Dont matter if it's perfect Just yours and mine
Well I want to let you in Because you seem right The reason I am drawn to you Is enough to tell me walk the line So tell me that you're here to change me Tell me that you're here to change my mind
Well I want to let you in Because you seem right The reason I am drawn to you Is enough to tell me walk the line So could it be you're here to change me Could it be you're here to change my mind
3. Close
Wake up and huddle in close To the blanket on the bed It's another cold day "Stay warm", you said
And I wonder as I wander On my way streetside Why do I do? Does my nature choose warmth And leave you by the wayside
It's those things, you see Fortune cookie wisdom you take in but don't achieve Play with but don't believe But believe me
Something about it is real But to get close I have to give up my pole position To get close, makes sense, but showing you in's The ticket to showing me up To putting me down, mmm
Everything you give me Seems so loaded with a catch Still you got candy And my sweet tooth kicks-but
What a- bout tricks My eyes adjust to the dark And they flick the damn switch It's the human conditions inconsistency---> Sometimes it doesn't know how to want what it needs -and
You wake up and huddle in close And it feels so sweet Love is warming And I'm sorely missing heat
(you said it's) Quite alright if I Opt to keep you company But to keep is to tend And I'd rather wait, just yet, and see
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caught up, huddled in close but my mind prods and pulls all night caught up, huddled in close oh baby i want to fall but we're so high, and do i want to lose myself to love sick cuz that sounds like it needs a cure pensive, but can't be sure if i've got the strength, what it takes to endure but to hear you say you're thinking leaves me without words
so say you'll stay for good or just make me think it cuz i'm pensive, and can't be sure if i've got the strength, what it takes to endure
wake and up and huddle in close to to you i'm caught up wake up and huddle in close to you i'm caught up wake up and huddle in close to you ooooh
4. Better Than The Alright
Feels too good To be sound Feet are just above the ground
All my instincts Overruled If this is too good to be true I'm happy being fooled
Cuz I thought I'd been everywhere But it seems I missed a beat Cuz this is better than the alright that I used to think was sweet and well, I thought I knew the story But I must've skipped a page it seems Cuz this is better than the alright that I used to think was sweet
Turn your lights down low Draw the blinds Sing to me a melody Oh, come on and treat me kind
Cuz I've been waiting For such a long, long time Sifting through the echos searching for a lullaby
Cuz I thought I heard music But I was singing way off key Cuz this is better than the alright that I used to think was sweet and well, I thought I'd sailed the ocean But I was standing in a stream Cuz this is better than the alright that I used to think was sweet
Turn your lights down low Draw the blinds Cuz I'd never known it all this time Now I wanna tell the world I'd never known it all this time And now I wanna sing At the top of my lungs that I'd never known it But it's better than I thought anything could be
Well I thought I'd been everywhere but it seems I missed a beat Cuz this is better than the alright that I used to think was sweet And well, I thought I knew the story But I must've skipped a page it seems Cuz this is better than the alright that I used to think was sweet This is better than the alright that I used to think was sweet You are better than the alright that I used to think was sweet
5. Don't You Just Love The Lie
I could say All the things I feel about you Those dirty little secrets I brood But what's the use
And I could say All the things I've wanted to Since I was a boy without a clue But tell me what would that do
Since we're just so content to play it cool
So why is it the one Who falls in love's the weakest link And when it all comes down to it It don't matter what you think Oh, don't you just love the lie
How could I Feel the way I feel beside you Yet play it off and let it slip by you And call that falling in love
Well, I won't stop to think about it I'll be wisest, keep it under my breath Where you'll still doubt it Ooo, there's nothing like falling in love
Is this what you were thinking of?
So why is it the one Who falls in love's the weakest link And when it all comes down to it It don't matter what you think Cuz I just want to love you And you just want the same But I can't go and tell you Cuz then I'm the one to blame Oh baby Don't you just love the lie Said don't you just love the lie
Your sting is somewhere in my skin I cannot scratch it out I sat there, hand under my chin, and you kept your arms around How could I feel the way I do Impassive, lost or found? Parasite, I'd leave for the surface tonight but For the company, cancer, undergound
I just want to love you x4
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6. All That's Missing
It's justified to say I sleep to dream They're so much sweeter than my memories All the "what if's" and the "could've beens" can't bother me Oh, it's justified to say I sleep to dream
It's rational to wish For a chance to turn back time To change the blocks we came to 'Cross the rhythm and the rhyme But now these faded photographs Tell a story that's not mine So, actual to say But too late to try
If I could say one thing This time it would be true All that's missing from my memories is you Is you Is you
It's hard to say What we want to communicate But so easy to say a lie So easily told, so quick to deny yourself So I'll just say I'm sorry - apologize For leading astray When I could have said why, oh I guess those are the games we play So try as I might to shake this hold I can't break away
CHORUS
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It's you, It's you, It's you
7. Baby, That's Weakness
last time i saw you we were soldiers we both stood up straight
they had us trained to squint our eyes and block the glare as we took aim
but then coming back from the bombshells i looked safe and sound
while you were full of shrapnel stumbling with defences down and i thought
[well,] weakness, baby that's weakness that's what they warned about you let your guard lower like we were lovers but you'll recover you've got time to figure out
last time i saw you we were shaping we had miles to go
i was a fighter i fought all night, or until the adversary begged for mercy or home
i stayed up made my plans charted my course through an unknown land
and you just wrote me love songs with an ink-stained hand you just wrote me love songs with your ink-stained hand well, i don't understand, i say
CHORUS
this weakness I need this I can't do this So I buck up, on the cuff, tight-lipped and tough But I'm a bystander standing far I watch love go down Like some burnt-out star
Last time I thought I was saving my skin Now i have memories half-in
Was I the one who was in love Or did I just feel it go by, and take him
CHORUS x2
This time I'll love you enough to wear you inside out
8. Moved
I am listening for the door Waiting for you Hear your key turning Your shoes on the step As you step through
And I think about how things changed And you changed me too And all the while this smile sticks Oh, what's a boy to do But be
CHORUS
oh, oh, oh, oh - Oh ->x3
I am listening for the door Waiting for you Cuz when this bed's half empty I just take up more room
And my coffee cup's my love affair And the hi-fi too But all the while now this smile sticks Oh, what's a boy to do But be
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9. Safe And Sound
Love is good The hours pass by And it's time well spent
Written in the place Of the blue erased And I couldn't care where it went
But something is creeping around Fading into play now And I can't help but feel stung
Cuz love is good This is understood But how do you know what is love
Say we're on the same page That you're hanging around--> Cuz things are just getting comfortable Can I consider them safe and sound Can I consider them sound and safe Oh, gimme the okay-dokay, ok?
Love is good It pacifies The heart irate
Calms the storm And brings some warm Makes the base line syncopate
But something is creeping around Fading into play now And I can't decide whether it belongs This disarray has it's certain charms So long as you stand strong
CHORUS
Cuz you're doing good work Cuz you're pulling your weight You tell me I'm doing the trick And you make a good case But gimme the okay-dokay Gimme the ok, baby
CHORUS Gimme the okay-dokay, baby
10. Settle For Why
whatever happened to simple was it my imagination or were we doing okay i remember knowing that something was around the bend but until then we were content to sail away the days
now simple is simply nowhere to be found my words have weight to them despite their simple sound
now simple is simply gone now she talks like bombs are going off on and on
And it's simply too much to talk about anymore i admit i'm jumping ship to swim to shore so raise your glass like we did before and so long mi odio, mi amour
whatever happened, it's happened now every action's loaded with a what, when, how could this happen to me i'll grit my teeth let someone try and stop me now
now this living is a battlefield just shuffling through your wounded, looking for a friendly face so go cry wolf make a mountain out of this and find some solace in my new empty space
PRE-CHORUS CHORUS
so analyze this or maybe we both should whatever happened to the greater good? whatever happened to the greater good? good grief, whatever happened at all
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11. Simplify
Don't make me choose Between having to hold or to lose Don't make me place my bets There's no regrets I can slip by without a scratch like I want to
Stuck with these thoughts Stitches and seams 'Round the ragged edges where a memory meets a dream And I meant what I said, but I said "Wait and see" So wait for me Wait for me
The sun's setting and the lights are fading dim And everyone has got their wish as the starlight brims But I'm not ready to sing it out I know bits of the words but the tune leaves doubt Hold off the stars tonight
Is it really so unexpected To shy from a question so unexplained Only to set my pieces to have them rearranged I'd rather slip by without a catch Undetained while
CHORUS
Well I like to think indecision Yields its own kind of wisdom A little mystery Seems pretty good right now If I don't know the 'how' I might be prone to stick it out i might be prone to let this get profound
CHORUS
Sing me something sweet I wanna hear you frame each phrase as a bird in a cage Poetry on page Just sing for me a while
Sing me something sweet I wanna hear you whisper words as a darkness and warmth envelops the source of a restless mind on a one-way course since I can't place the song Won't you sing for, say you will
just sing for me a while just sing for me a while
Say you will
12. Relate
You spend all your time looking for love But turn so much away So is it really love that you're looking for Or do you just long to relate Cuz the love that you find doesn't matter enough You still feel that empty space So is it really love that you're looking for Or do you just long to relate
There's got to be more, you say Got to be more So keep singing love songs 'til you find what you're singing for There's got to be more, you say Got to be more So keep singing your love songs, 'til they mean much more There's got to be more, you say Got to be, got to be
You spend all your time looking for answers But turn so many away So is it really an answer you're looking for Or do you just long to relate Cuz the truth that you find doesn't matter enough You still feel that empty space So is it really an answer you're looking for Or do you just long to relate
There's got to be reason, say Got to be truth So keep singing the answers 'til they dawn on you There's got to be reason, say Got to be truth So keep singing the answers 'til the answers come through There's got to be more, you say Got to be, got to be
You spend all your time looking, just looking But what do you see What you've seen before, takes shape again Like a movie playing constantly Cuz the things that you see don't seem to impress And without impressions then nothing's been left So is it really something you're looking for Or do you just long to relate
There's got to be more, you say Got to be more There's got to be more, you say Got to be more
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