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A Place of Her Own

She got a job at a diner in the South Slope
It's a nice place in its own way
She had to move back to Queens
with her mom though
She takes the F train
It's a long way

Charlie's walking out
She knows that he'd be proud
She wakes up early in the morning for the F train
She's making her way
She's making her pay in the South Slope
It's a nice place

He left a hole the size of the world
And she ain't never had nothing
Wasn't asking for gold
Just a place of her own
Place of her own
Place of her own

Carve out a space
Just enough to breathe
For the long nights of uncertainty
Place of her own
Place of her own
Place of her own

Summer is so hot
Winter is so cold
On the F train to the South Slope
And most are people okay in their own way
It's a nice place
But it's a long way

He left a hole the size of the world
And she ain't never had nothing
Wasn't asking for gold
Just a place of her own
Just a place of her own
Just a place of her own
Carve out a space
Just enough to breathe
For the long nights of uncertainty
Place of her own
Place of her own
Place of her own

She says, 'yeah you leave
Yeah you go
Where do I belong
Where do I belong'

Yeah you leave
Yeah you go
Where do I belong

She says, 'yeah you leave
Yeah you go
Where do I belong
Where do I belong'
Yeah you leave
Yeah you go
Where do I belong
Where do I belong

He left a hole the size of the world
And she ain't never had nothing
Wasn't asking for gold
Just a place of her own
Just a place of her own
Just a place of her own

Carve out a space just enough to breathe
For the long nights of uncertainty
Place of her own
Place of her own
Place of her own

Aerostar

A forest fire
Some careless spark
Weren't we embers burning
In your mama's car?
The window warnings
Your body carved
A clear horizon
In that Aerostar

For a moment we were weightless
Taking off our masks
There were angels in the canyons
But the fire moved too fast
For a second we were infinite

But I mistook the glow
Suddenly the roar
Now suddenly the undertow

And the keys to your apartment
In the charred remains
And the kingdom of your heart bent
When you wrote my name

Just needed someone to walk you home

There was a magic show
And the world began
And your soul stretched farther than your skin
And for a moment all was calm
And I was home once
But now it's lost

For a moment we were weightless
Taking off our masks
There were angels in the canyons
But the fire moved too fast
For a second we were infinite
But I mistook the glow
Suddenly the roar
Now suddenly the undertow

And the keys to your apartment
In the charred remains
And the kingdom of your heart bent
As you wrote my name

Just needed someone to walk you home
Now I need someone to walk me home

Now I need someone to walk me home

And you can't go back again
And the doctors did what they said they could do
And you can't go back again
I know it's hard going through

Now I need someone to walk me home

America 2

I made my home in a ten-ton bomb
And I was so happy with 28 years of free fallin’
But now it’s all guts and I’m bawlin'
She was born in a tenement walk-up
With shit for nerves, you know she never learned to talk to adults
She said ‘everything's easier in here’

Like the dancer with bruises who gathers the cash
When the music is through, no she don’t look back
I’ve come to look for America too

All I ever wanted was a spot in the mountains
With an a-frame cabin and nobody counting our days
Or cursing or praising our name
But the best we could do is to enter the void
Like a wide-eyed child waking up to the noise of East Harlem
Don’t they see that we’re starving?

Like the dancer with bruises who gathers the cash
When the music is through no she don’t look back
I’ve come to look for America too
And we stole the car on the 4th of July
I pawned my guitar and we drove through the night
I’ve come to look for America too

America Online

If I love you, will you love me?
If I want you, will you want me?
I’m reaching, are you reaching out?

If I touch you, will you touch me now?

Through the wires to the heart
Phantom fingers fumble in the dark

I thought I did; I felt a spark

Are we all one beating heart?

If I love you, will you love me?
If I hurt you, will you hurt me?
I’m reaching, are you reaching out?

If I touch you, will you touch me now?

Through the wires to the heart
Phantom fingers fumble in the dark

I thought I did; I felt a spark

Are we all one beating heart?

Or are we strangers?
Am I a stranger?

Avalanche

You were a whisper in the night
And I loved you for a summer
But now the garden of delights lies under snow cover
Sail on in my memory
I'll wave from the shoreline
A ship so grand you cannot believe

Disembarking on an avalanche
From butterfly wings
Saw my last chance
In a faded dream
When it's gone
Wherever you land
Sing your song
Take this dance
Avalanche

We were a star-crossed fantasy
That was never gonna hold us
Or our future histories
But maybe it was just to mold us
Sail on in my memory
I'll wave from the shoreline
A ship so grand you cannot believe

Disembarking on an avalanche
From butterfly wings
Sold my last chance
For a faded dream
When it's gone
Wherever you land
Sing your song
Take this dance
Avalanche

If I had known you
I would have told you
Would have skipped this and
Missed this
Waterfall in slow motion
Devotion of a love
Unsuitable but beautiful
If I'd have known you
I'd have come back a thousand times
Just for the ride

Avalanche
From butterfly wings
Sold my last chance
For a faded dream
When it's gone
Wherever you land
Sing your song
Take this dance
Avalanche

Because The Night

Take me now, baby, here as I am
Pull me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe
Love is a banquet on which we feed
Come on now, try and understand
The way I feel when I'm in your hands
Take my hand, come under cover
They can't hurt you now
Can't hurt you now
Can't hurt you now

Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us

Have I doubt when I'm alone
Love is a ring, the telephone
Love is an angel disguised as lust
Here in our bed 'til the morning comes
Come on now, try and understand
The way I feel under your command
Take my hand as the sun descends
They can't touch you now
Can't touch you now
Can't touch you now

Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us

With love we sleep
With doubt the vicious circle turns and burns
Without you I cannot live
Forgive, the yearning burning
I believe it's time, too real to feel
So touch me now, touch me now, touch me now

Oh, because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
Because the night belongs to lovers
If we believe in the night we trust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us

Bend

I break like glass
You break like waves on the ocean, on the ocean
I tend to crash
And you have to deal with the explosion, though I know that

Everything will always be exactly how it's gonna be
Though I seem to worry every single day
This prodigal turns home again then morning comes and in the end
I see that new sun shining on your face

We begin to bend
We begin to mend
We begin to bend
We begin to mend

I sink like stone
You seem to flow above the madness like wings on canvas
And all that I know
Is that I hear the notes through the darkness like a promise

Everything will always be exactly how it’s gonna be
Though I seem to worry every single day
This prodigal turns home again then morning comes and in the end
I see that new sun shining on your face

We begin to bend
We begin to mend
We begin to bend
We begin to mend

We begin to bend
We begin to mend
We begin to bend
We begin to mend

Brooklyn

There’s traffic on the bridge
But the skyline shines with a certain light
And I know you’re sick of it
But I know a happy hour nearby

And there’s a possibility
That one day things will get better for
The huddled masses in between
The shadows and the stars

Floating empire
Held up by fraying wire
I’ll cover you in winter like a blanket by the fire
And when the rent is too high
We’ll just buy cheaper wine
And hang on to see if whether
Constellations hold together or not

Four years in Brooklyn
And happy birthday darling
When we feel young again
I’d like to take you dancing

Cause there’s a possibility
That one day things will get better
For the huddled masses in between
The shadows and the stars
And there’s a possibility
That we’ll both go down together
Or free ourselves from gravity
And tumble through the dark

Floating empire
Held up by fraying wire
I’ll cover you in winter like a blanket by the fire
And when the rent is too high
We’ll just buy cheaper wine
And hang on to see if whether
Constellations hold together or not

I never placed too much faith in the stars
I never placed too much faith in my heart
But the siren call of the chandelier city
And inch by inch we’re breaking apart
As we’re rising through the dark
From the sky I bet the lights look pretty

Floating empire
Held up by fraying wire
I’ll cover you in winter like a blanket by the fire
And when the rent is too high
We’ll just buy cheaper wine
And hang on to see if whether
Constellations hold together or not

Brooklyn. Friday. Love.

Day-trader in a tie-dye jumpsuit
And a gutter punk kid with a neck tattoo
Hooking up at the unisex bathroom
It was Brooklyn
it was Friday
it was love

Across the bar sat the hip-hop purist
Arguing with the jazz obscurists
And in the corner were the terrified tourists
Brooklyn. Friday. Love.

Angel choirs on the corner all night
Sing Johnny Cash and Jackson 5
Little heaven you can stumble into
We got your invite tonight

Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday

They come from Mississippi and La La Land
New wave hippies and the pop goth glam
It's just 'cause parents don't understand
It was Brooklyn
It was Friday
It was love

From this roof you can see the stars
We are the left bank dreamers
And the avant garde
I'll sing my borrowed song on your borrowed guitar
It was Brooklyn
It was Friday
It was love

Angel choirs on the midnight G train
Some Beastie Boys and Kurt Cobain
Revolution you can learn to dance to
With a friendly face on the way

Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday

Bushwick Avenue
Bedford Avenue
Franklin Avenue
I'm on my way
Where are you

Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday

Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Don't try to fight it
Oh, it's just Brooklyn on a Friday

It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Bushwick Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Bedford Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
Franklin Avenue
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday
I'm on my way
It's just Brooklyn on a Friday

Change Your Heart or Die

Took a lot of money to look the part
Took a lot of pain to tame a heart
Took a lot of years to lose my fear of flying
Took a lot of time to finally start
Then it took a good day to fall apart
Took a lot of tears to lose my fear of crying
Of crying

Change your heart or die

Fire, ticking like a time bomb
Fire, burning like napalm
Fire, waiting at the crossroads
How will you survive?
Change your heart or die

Took one look to find your mark
Took a rogue wave to blow apart
Took a wrong turn to finally find the yearning
In the burning

Fire, ticking like a time bomb
Fire, burning like napalm
Fire, waiting at the crossroads
How will you survive?
Change your heart or die

Chariot

I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it on your pretty face
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it on your pretty face
That heartbreak

Is it about control
Tell me I wanna know
Have you been burned before
On some other chariot

I make the crosstown run
Faster than anyone
Let the reigns take themselves
And fly like a loaded gun

Faster Faster Free
Coming close to me

I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it on your pretty face
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it on your pretty face
That heartbreak
(He broke your) You only like the bad boys
(He broke your heart) I can see it on your pretty face
(He broke your heart) I could be that new toy
(He broke your heart) I could be that heartbreak
He broke your heart again
Washed up in the city of sin singing
Washed up in the city of sin singing
Washed up in the city of sin singing

Is it about control
Or are you just a restless soul
Burned by some former king
Some other small town scene

That's not my kind of love
I race for fame and fun
The secret is when to know
When to let it go

Faster Faster Free
Coming close to me

I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it on your pretty face
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it (he broke your heart)
I can see it on your pretty face
That heartbreak
(He broke your) You only like the bad boys
(He broke your heart) I can see it on your pretty face
(He broke your heart) I could be that new toy
(He broke your heart) I could be that heartbreak
He broke your heart again
Washed up in the city of sin singing
Washed up in the city of sin singing
Washed up in the city of sin singing
Washed up in the city of sin singing
Washed up in the city of sin singing

City Dreams (interlude)

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~Seventeen, seventeen~
~City dreams, city dreams~
~Seventeen, seventeen~
~City dreams, city dreams~

Comet

If the sun's not up
I'll bring it to you
And if my mind says stop
My heart will know what to do

And if the stars are faded
I'll blow the sun to pieces
Make it rain
Then the loneliness is gone

We could roll back time
Before we were broken inside
And leave it all behind
And forget the world for a while

Or maybe we'd be strangers
And we'd never needed fixing
We'll be okay
Cause we never met at all

I could be a comet
Floating through space
Cause being lost in you
Is the best place

Let's go back to where we started
I'll be right here
Just follow the light
Let me burn through your atmosphere
I'll burn for you

When the day turns night
You know where to go.
You see the light in the sky
You know you're not alone

Maybe we could make it
Out here where the air is clearer
In the blue
Far away from gravity

I could be a comet
Floating through space
Cause being lost in you
Is the best place

Let's go back to where we started
I'll be right here
Just follow the light
Let me burn through your atmosphere
I'll burn for you

I'll be like a comet
Floating in your space
Being lost in you
I'll be lost for days

Let's go back to where we started
I'll be right here
Just follow the light
Let me burn through your atmosphere
I'll burn for you

And I keep burning through
Cause I burn for you

Crystalline

Rush hour
On an uptown train
Doors open
As she walks in
She’s soaking
Caught in the rain
Her skin shines
Crystalline

Eyes meet
You know where this goes
Her key’s in
They take off their clothes
They’re soaking
Caught in a dream
Her skin shines like
Crystalline

The problem with believers
They’ll let anyone in the door
The problem with deceivers
Is all the bodies buried under the floor boards

Sailors knew sirens would sing
From rocks off the cliffs by the sea
The monsters with waiting teeth
Their skin shines
Crystalline

Rush hour
On an uptown train
Doors open
As she walks in
She’s soaking
Caught in the rain
Her skin shines
Crystalline

Dance With Somebody

Take off your armor
Friend of mine
I have no arrows
But I got time

All your sorrows
Keeps you glued to your seat
Can we get you you outta your head
Into your feet

It’s not that the rest of us
Don’t have the blues
It’s just that some dance partners need a dance
Partner too
Is that you

Life’s too short to dance by yourself
Think you should dance with somebody
Life’s too short to dance by yourself
Think you should dance with somebody

Take off your armor
Let down your hair
You could sit on your hands or
You could get closer if you dare

And it’s not that the rest of us don’t have to fight
For every bit of love for and every bit of light
But tonight
It’s Friday night

Life’s too short to dance by yourself
Think you should dance with somebody
Life’s too short to dance by yourself
Think you should dance with somebody

Days of Thunder

Love is a setting sun
Is a smoking gun
Is a four letter word
I hope it hurts
Love is a fatal flaw
Is a broken jaw
Is a burning bridge
Move your hips

And the ghost of the boulevard
Littered with lonely hearts
The city like a graveyard
Once was a postcard
When you lose your wonder
And you can't remember
When we were living
In the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of

Love was a dream to have
Was a king-size bed
Was an escape plan
Was an open hand
Now it's a dog from hell
It's a dream you sell
It's an epitaph
It's photograph

And the ghost of the boulevard
Littered with lonely hearts
The city like a graveyard
Once was a postcard
When you lose your wonder
And you can't remember
When we were living
In the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of

Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of thunder
Living in the days of

Deep Blue

I wasn’t looking for action
Just some distraction
Just a little weeknight
Booth in the back
I wasn’t looking for romance
Just a quick slow dance
On the off chance
That an off night
And a side glance
Might lead me to the wrong hands

I wasn’t looking for you

I wasn’t after forever
Just for whatever
I was one of the dark hearts
Who thought that they’d never
Truly be open
But this is an explosion

Of star crossed and
Blood rush and
Hair tossed and
Cheeks flushed
And weeks lost

I wasn’t looking for you

I said “I’ve never felt my heart like this”
She said “I’ve never felt my body”
I always thought the point of love was just
To keep from falling

Into the deep blue

I wasn’t looking for devotion
Just cheap emotion
But I found love, I found love like an ocean
On my second whiskey
Your eyes try to miss me
They lost control
I didn’t know I had a soul until the moment you kissed me

I wasn’t looking for you

I said “I’ve never felt my heart like this”
She said “I’ve never felt my body”
I always thought
The point of love was just
To keep from falling

Into the deep blue

Devil Make a Deal

Once there was a man with good intentions
And some people at home he forgot to mention
She was looking for a friend and he was willing to listen
Once was a man with good intentions

And nobody has to know
It's alright
It's alright to let go
And nobody has to see
What's between you and me
Is you and me
Is you and me
Is you and me

Once there was a girl that thought she needed to be saved
By a white knight on a white horse in a white cape
And maybe he's taken but you'll take him anyway
Once there was a girl that thought she needed to be saved

And nobody has to know
It's alright
It's alright to let go
And nobody has to see
What's between you and me
Is you and me
Is you and me
Is you and me

I don't wanna change your mind
But I don't wanna go home tonight
Tell me no or I'm coming over
Let the devil make a deal with the angel on your shoulder

Is you and me
Is you and me

Endless Summer

[should have known at the end of summer
the innocence fades and the weak become stronger
should have known at the end of the summer
I'd be lost without you]

the skyline looked like a stained glass window
the city sang such mad crescendo
four bare feet on a rain soaked street
summer airbrushed fever dreams

disappeared in a camera flash
why do the bad girls never last
lost in gin and lemonade
electrospins and the mermaid parade

four quartets and no regrets
except for the polaroids i left
you were just some spell i was under
that endless summer

Explorers

To the freedom fighters, to the everest climbers, to the castaways
To the midnight riders, to the spark igniters, I am on my way
Let it be said, and let it be known,
he who is free is never alone
The path before us, the world behind us
I’ll wait for you there

To the lost ark raiders, to the lion tamers, to the stowaway
To the white tide chaser, to the black flag raiser, I’m on my way

Let it be said, and let it be known,
he who is free is never alone
The path before us, the world behind us
I’ll wait for you there

There’s a song that sailors know
Lost, alone and far from home
Golden gallions. golden guns
And find that place under the sun

There’s a song on the Sahara wind
That lifts you to your feet again

That dances on the clockwork stars
That pulses through a beating heart

Fire In The Sky

I wasn’t looking for forever or a one night stand
I was just hoping for a smile or a quick slow dance
But when I saw you, there was nothing I could ever do
To ignore the smell of smoke across the room

I’ve had my mistakes
But my heart was clean
But I’m made of matches
You’re made of gasoline

The room around began to catch fire and disappear

Fighting fire with flames
If I burn down would you do the same
You tell me it’s wrong
But we’re both to blame
I wasn’t looking for a sign

When I touched you your skin was hot and eyes were clear
And the room around began to catch fire and disappear
I told my heart that I would keep it safe and locked away
But I found myself walking to you through the flame
I saw the flashes
I saw the fire grow
I saw the ember
I saw the cinder smoke
The room around began to catch fire and disappear;

I see fire in the sky

Ghost in Your Stereo

Tombstones climbing up the sky
To claim the boredom in the whine of the radiator
To freeze the fates that intertwine
Unresolved and undefined in this echo chamber

Once you've given up the ghost
Just like Lazarus you'll know there's an operator
Some strange passenger inside
To that strange power I'm resigned like an iron anchor
I'm just a ghost in your stereo
The fading memory of a shipwreck in the undertow
You're just a lost song I wrote
And I'm just a ghost in your stereo
Ghost

You move on a thousand times
New lover's shadows on the blinds
Your heart's a mercenary
But like a dancer on the wire
Come the sparks of frayed desire as the fire's carried
I'm just a ghost in your stereo
The fading memory of a shipwreck in the undertow
You're just a lost song I wrote
And I'm just a ghost in your stereo
Ghost

Gloria

Oh, Gloria
I feel so much better
I feel so much better today
And it's not the drugs
And it's not the weather
I just feel so much better today

I've been asleep in the driver's seat
I've been lost in my head for weeks
Tryin' to find what it is I need
Too god damned tired to sleep

And then there were other times
I'm so aware that I lose my mind
And that I feel I could get enough
So high that I can't stand up

Oh, Gloria
I feel so much better
I feel so much better today
And it's not the drugs
And it's not the weather
I just feel so much better today

There are those who will never learn
Who build a fire and can't stay warm
The only secret to make it through
Is to take what's in front of you
The fear of death and the thrill of speed
And all the lights in front of me
Drive 'til the coast is clear
Faster 'til it disappears

Oh, Gloria
I feel so much better
I feel so much better today
And it's not the drugs
And it's not the weather
I just feel so much better today

Oh, Gloria
I feel so much better
I feel so much better today
And it's not the drugs
And it's not the weather
I just feel so much better today

Oh, Gloria
I feel so much better
I feel so much better today
And it's not the drugs
And it's not the weather
I just feel so much better today

I've been asleep in the driver's seat
I've been lost in my head for weeks
Tryin' to find what it is I need
Too god damned tired to sleep

Golden Gate

We got married under the Golden Gate
Then we got drunk in the Upper Haight
It was a sunny day
All our friends got laid
And when we got a little older we moved away

Took I-80 to New York City
It's a long damn way but it sure is pretty
We ran out of gas
Near Colfax
And delivered our first child 9 months after that

And I just called to say
I know you're always sitting in the barrio waiting
There will come a day
And it'll be easier to fly away than it will be to stay

Lived in a New York studio
'Til we left the city for a modest home
A Springsteen song
A whole life long
A breeze that lifts your head once before it's gone

Time will come and shift its weight
The laugh lines, bruised knees, birthday cake
And when I die I'll see your face in a sun dress on a Saturday

And I just called to say
I know you're always sitting in the barrio waiting
I know that there will come a day
And it'll be easier to fly away than it will be to stay

Good in Red

Called a curse in the cradle
Loving mother, unstable
Daddy gone, under the table
But you found a song in your heart
So you learned how to fight
How to starve
How to survive when the others blocked your light
You learned to see beyond the stars

The curse of small desires
Easily acquired
It's time to set your gasoline heart on fire

Kill your demons
Kill 'em dead
In your mirror, in your bed
In your heart, in your head
Don't you look good in red
Slay your devils, kill 'em all
Take your throne, paint the walls
And if you make it out alive
Hold that bloody head up high
Don't you look good in red
Don't you look good in red

Is there more beyond those plains?
You cut your hair, changed your name
Left a note as you escaped
To thine own self be true
But there was no gold in those hills
No platinum in those pretty pills
Just werewolves tossing dollar bills
And the wine dark sea of Malibu

The curse of small desires
Easily acquired
It's time to set your gasoline heart on fire

Kill your demons
Kill 'em dead
In your mirror, in your bed
In your heart, in your head
Don't you look good in red
Slay your devils, kill 'em all
Take your throne, paint the walls
And if you make it out alive
Hold that bloody head up high
Don't you look good in red?
Don't you look good in red

No one's coming to save you
No one's coming to save you
Swing that sword that you made
With the pain that they gave you
Like the pain is gonna save you
(Pain is gonna save you)

Kill your demons
Kill 'em dead
In your mirror, in your bed
In your heart, in your head
Don't you look good in red
Slay your devils, kill 'em all
Take your throne, paint the walls
And if you make it out alive
Hold that bloody head up high
Don't you look good in red
Don't you look good in red

Heart Worth Breaking

All I want is to feel how deep it really is
Somehow we always get lost in the bullshit
Another night getting high in your dad's car

I think maybe we're bigger than we think we are
Baby you better than you think you are

I just want to have a heart worth breaking
That's all I really wanna say
I'm sorry my hands are shaking
I don't normally feel this way
But my whole life is just the chances I'm not taking
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart worth breaking
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart worth breaking

All I want is to feel this moment
You think happiness is somewhere else
I just wanna always treat you well but
Maybe first I have to love myself

I don't know why you love me
I'm gonna try and love me

I just want to have a heart worth breaking
That's all I really wanna say
I'm sorry my hands are shaking
I don't normally feel this way
But my whole life is just the chances I'm not taking
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart worth breaking
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart worth breaking

I just want to have a heart worth breaking
That's all I really wanna say
I'm sorry my hands are shaking
I don't normally feel this way
But my whole life is just the chances I'm not taking
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart worth breaking
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart
I just wanna have a heart worth breaking

Heartbeat

If the world is made out of love
Then the pain is proof that it isn’t done
When you’re empty you can use me up
You won’t run out there is love enough

Everybody wants to walk away sometimes
Some believe they can fly
Either way,
Coming down is still a hell of a ride

If you can feel your heartbeat
You’re not done yet
You can’t be
If it hurts, it’s working
There is love enough
For you and me

If the world is made out of love
Then a heart can change in anyone
I was nearly dead when you shared your cup
You’re the proof to me there is love enough

Everybody wants to walk away sometimes
Fools believe they can fly
Either way
Coming down is still a hell of a ride

If you can feel your heartbeat
You’re not done yet
You can’t be
If it hurts, it’s working
There is love enough
For you and me

If you can feel your heartbeat
You’re not done yet
You can’t be
Just keep going
There is love enough
For you and me

If the world is made out of us,
All our shadows suggest a sun
Every desert heart that wants the flood
Come and bring your need
There is love enough

Keep going ‘cause we can’t go back
Keep going ‘cause we can’t go back
Keep going ‘cause we can’t go back

If you can feel your heartbeat
You’re not done yet
You can’t be
If it hurts, it’s working
There is love enough
For you and me

If you can feel your heartbeat
You’re not done yet
You can’t be
Just keep going
There is love enough
For you and me

Heroes

One year closer to my death
I still haven't found what I'm looking for yet
It's not big blue eyes, long blonde hair
It's not a million dollars or a secret prayer

Another year asleep under the spell
Sometimes it's hard to remember
'cause you wear it so well
Made my home in the underground
'Cause nothing grows in the wasteland now

Are we just too easily pleased
Here with the pundits and sages
Witty and pretty and shitty and high
Almost getting by
Almost getting by

I'm ready to live my life again
Like there's a chance worth taking
Ready to love you like I can
Like my heart's not breaking
Wherever you are, wherever you are
Red, white, and bruised
I'll keep waiting
The missing hero is you

Broke down on the 101
Just bad luck believers
Blinded by the sun
Yeah, we chased our dreams
like you taught us how
But nothing grows in the wasteland now

Are we just too easily pleased
Here with the pundits and sages
Witty and pretty and shitty and high
Almost getting by
Almost getting by

I'm ready to live my life again
Like there's a chance worth taking
Ready to love you like I can
Like my heart's not breaking
Wherever you are, wherever you are
Red, white, and bruised
I'll keep waiting
But the missing hero is you

Jason

[keep on running]

He comes alive in metropolis lights when the musics way too loud
Deep in the night it's easy to hide and he's got it all figured out
White satellites getting lost in his eyes but to him she's just another girl
Roll with the tide like the wind and the sky and he'll only let you down

Oooh Jason
Tell me what you're chasin'
Because the night will never give you what you want
Oooh Jason
And if you can't escape it
I hope you find whatever you've been looking for

Where do you go in a town full of ghosts and everybody knows your name
And all the homecoming queens in the small town scenes they'll offer you a place to stay
Some want forever instead of whenever when they're naked in the light
It's a strange little potion but sometimes the motion almost makes you feel alive

Oooh Jason
Tell me what you're chasin'
Because the night will never give you what you want
Oooh Jason
And if you can't escape it
I hope you find whatever you've been looking for

And I'm gonna keep on running

Kick Drums & Red Wine

Some look to the sky for truth
I look across the room
Katie's dress in full bloom
Yellows and blues

But I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine

Some people find it with devotion
Some with gold and some with bourbon
Some like praying to the blue sky
Some like putting on a disguise

But I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine

I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine
I prefer kick drums and red wine

Kids

The kids are sad
The sky is blue
There are monsters in the spare bedroom
Kids grow up
And move away
They closed the plant
Then the mall arcade

The kids are sad
Their Parents too
Kids get high in the spare bedroom
We grow up
And move away
The seasons pass but the monsters stay

Land Locked Heart

Maybe I left here a long time ago
And neither of us knew it

Would they say I've lost the plot
Would you say I blew it

Thought I found a way back home
And now I'm looking through it

After all this time spent gone
I think I just outgrew it

Empty out my bedroom
Throw all that stuff away
All I'm taking with me now is a blank slate
'Cause these days are too short
To live a whole life through
In this land-locked,
In this land-locked heart with you

Maybe I left here a long time ago
And maybe we both knew it

Maybe this could've been heaven
But the weeds just grew right through it

So what is left of paradise
Out beyond it's edges

Empty lights, sunset skies
Over the empty hedges

Were we supposed to waste away

Empty out my bedroom
Throw all that stuff away
All I'm taking with me now is a blank slate
'Cause these days are too short
To live a whole life through
In this land-locked,
In this land-locked heart with you

Last Train

The top shelf tumbles
And the wall clocks run
Well scotch bottles and the soda guns
You missed the last train from the city tonight
Old friends see each other in a different different light

The alphabet city's
Dive bars drone
And two pilgrims seek a makeshift home
You missed the last train from the city tonight
Old friends see each other in a different different light
You missed the last train tonight

There is a song
Singing in the dark
Don’t get too close
Or it’ll tear you apart
There is a reason
For every season
Of the heart

There is a song
Singing in the fire
Don’t get too close
It cuts like wire
There is a reason
For every season
Of desire

The subway rumbles under union square
The morning finds an unlikely pair
Hotel lobby holding hands don’t blink don’t think don’t look in her eyes
Is this forever or is this goodbye

There is a song
Singing in the dark
Don’t get too close
Or it’ll tear you apart
There is a reason
For every season
Of heart;

There is a song
Singing in the fire
Don’t get too close
It cuts like wire
There is a reason
For every season
Of desire

Half in light and half in dark is where we start
Half in light and half in dark is where we are
Half in light and half in dark is where we start
Half in light and half in dark is where we are

We are one beating heart

Light Years

I fell in love with the feeling.
I didn't fall in love with you.
There was a song I was singing
But it wasn't meant for you

And I'm sorry I'm sorry
That I can't stay
I'm sorry
We're light years away

I bite your lip
And you taste like summer time
I can’t forget
The days when you were mine

Do you wander the streets every night
Just to find me too?

Lightyears
Echos
In the streetlights
In between those
Spaces in the moment
Come and find me
Where we let go
Come and find me
Where we let go

I fell in love with a feeling
And your funny faces
That you were beautiful and broken
In all the right places

I'm sorry I'm sorry
That I can't stay
I'm sorry
We're light years away

Millions behind or lightyears ahead
Our time is now- our time was then
And I hear your voice inside of my head but - It’s just a silhouette

Do you wonder what happened
To all of the love we lose?

Lightyears
Echos
In the streetlights
In between those
Spaces in the moment
Come and find me
Where we let go
Come and find me
Where we let go

Lightyears
Do you want your tears back?
Lightyears
They’re gone
I’m sorry

Los Angeles

Fire on the beach
Face to the sky
The stars dance around like gods in disguise
The gold silhouette
You take off your clothes
And my heart feels the weight of all I don't know

Memories and mountain tops
Drunk on Sunset Boulevard
With the city of angels singing on
Maybe this is just a dream
And maybe we are still asleep
But I, I will miss you when I'm gone

Flickers of the canyon fire
Its hands raised like a gospel choir
If we live forever, let us live forever tonight
Helicopters against the moonlight
Our holy mother of the midnight
And if we live forever, let us live forever tonight

Tomorrow we'll go
Back to our lives
With sand in our skin and sun in our eyes
But I know the truth
I've seen the signs
And I've seen the golden gods in disguise

Memories and mountain tops
Drunk on Sunset Boulevard
With the city of angels singing on
Maybe this is just a dream
And maybe we are still asleep
But I, I will miss you when I'm gone

Flickers of the canyon fire
Its hands raised like a gospel choir
If we live forever, let us live forever tonight
Helicopters against the moonlight
Our holy mother of the midnight
And if we live forever, let us live forever tonight

Flickers of the canyon fire
Its hands raised like a gospel choir
If we live forever, let us live forever tonight
Helicopters against the moonlight
Our holy mother of the midnight
And if we live forever, let us live forever tonight

Flickers of the canyon fire
Its hands raised like a gospel choir
If we live forever, let us live forever tonight
Helicopters against the moonlight
Our holy mother of the midnight
And if we live forever, let us live forever tonight

Lost Boy

We were the monsters and fire-breathers
We were the quiet sunrise leavers
You were a good girl, what could I do?
I was a lost boy when I met you

Hold me til I’m not lonely anymore
It’s only the crashing of the ocean to the shore

Because in the dark there are no strangers,
There are no strangers at all

We were the rebels, lone survivors
We were the cult of deep sea divers
We were young once then we grew old
We were shining, we were fool's gold

Hold me till I’m not lonely anymore
It’s only the crashing of the ocean to the shore

Because in the dark there are no strangers,
There are no strangers at all

Loved By You

Keep a dream in my suitcase heart
I sleep where I can and wake up in the dark
I keep on moving 'til I find that spark
I got a dream in my suitcase heart

Keep a memory in a photograph
When times are good
Good times don't last
I keep on moving through and moving past
But I got a memory in a photograph

We were young and we were free
Two runaways and an impossible dream

All I want is to be loved by you
Loved by you
Loved by you
All I want is to be loved by you
To be loved by you

Keep a ghost in my suitcase heart
She keeps me company when things get dark
I keep on waiting for that brand new start
I keep a ghost in my suitcase heart

We were young and we were free
Too many ways and an impossible dream

All I want is to be loved by you
Loved by you
Loved by you
All I want is to be loved by you
To be loved by you

All I wanted was the thick and thin
Til the ship goes down at the bitter end
All I wanted was the hallelu' to be loved by you

There is no place like yesterday
When we're broken and completely unafraid
There is no place like yesterday
Except your waiting arms
Safe and warm
Keep holding on
Through the storm
I'm on my way

All I want is to be loved by you
Loved by you
Loved by you
All I want is to be loved by you
To be loved by you

All I wanted was the thick and thin
Til the ship goes down at the bitter end
All I wanted was the hallelu' to be loved by you

Memories

everything is clear in the rear view mirror
the coast highway and the golden hour
only love
nothing was lost

everything fits when you tell your story
the blurry portraits in the halls of former lovers
gone
but nothing was lost

you'll always be a part of me
you gave me a song to sing
dancing in your room
innocent and true
elvis tattoo on your shoulder
we'll know better when we're older

you'll always be a part of me
some wounds will always sting
forever in full bloom
barely twenty two
summer days are growing colder
we'll know better when we're older

all of this was planned when the world was started
the red blood hearts
the final word was never said
i'm tossing in my bed

but everything is clear in the rear view mirror
when nothing is left
the lights of evening round us shine pink and silver skies

you'll always be a part of me
you gave me a song to sing
dancing in your room
innocent and true
elvis tattoo on your shoulder
we'll know better when we're older

you'll always be a part of me
some wounds will always sting
forever in full bloom
barely twenty two
summer days are growing colder
we'll know better when we're older

Monsters

Put two beating hearts together
Stitched the seams and pull the levers
Strange desires
Sparks and wires

I signed the dotted line
That tethered yours to mine
No anesthetic
For hearts electric

But parts start to decay
When just your shadow half remains
The operation
Had complications

And the part of you that died
I’ll carry all my life
Lovers slowly decomposing
So it goes

It could’ve been Paradise
We could’ve had diamond eyes
I held so tight that I lost her
We could’ve been fireflies
But that fire died
Dead and gone
I was wrong
Love’s a con
And I’m a monster

[Monsters]

Hope lingers on
After the one you love is gone
Thought I smelled your ghost
In my winter coat

And our love became a void
Another echo in the noise
I can’t erase
What we became

It could’ve been Paradise
Could’ve been you and I
I played the fool
And you played the martyr

We could’ve been fireflies
But some fires die
I meant no harm
We were both wrong
Moving on

I’m a monster

Neon Medusa

Don't fall in love with the man on stage
I'll be on in a minute
I'm just sharpening my blade
Don't fall for his flattering tune
He'll promise you the world until you drink that perfume
It's a highway
Highway to the dark
And a neon medusa's got your heart
Sweet canyon lullabies
Don't look straight into its eyes
It's a highway
Highway to the dark

There's only two ways to make it in this town
One is to be brilliant
The other is to drown
But don't take both drugs all in one go
You can't reach the heavens passed out on the floor
It's a highway
Highway to the dark
And a neon medusa's got your heart
Sweet canyon lullabies
Don't look straight into its eyes
It's a highway
Highway to the dark

If your mama could see you now
If your mama could see you now
Topless and upside down
The room spinning around
If your mama could see you now
With the party lines coming out
Are you lost and are you found?
Are there too many mirrors in this house?

Don't fall in love with the man on stage
I'll be on in a minute
Then I'll sweep you away
Don't fall for the monsters in this maze
But I could love you forever if you'd meet my gaze

Night Skies

Your house is on fire won’t you let me in
Your house is on fire won’t you let me in
I’m drowning in desire
Your hair
Your skin
The flames burn hotter the deeper you go in

Your house is on fire won’t you let me in
Your house is on fire won’t you let me in
I’m drowning in desire
Your hair
Your skin
The flame burns hotter the deeper you go in

1000 miles an hour, how does it feel?
A million horsepower, no steering wheel
Running off the shoulder, asleep on the stage
Exploding cold steel, fire beauty and rage

Your ship is sinking let me climb aboard
Your ship is sinking let me climb aboard
The flames burning hotter, oh my lord
Your ship is sinking let me climb aboard

Nighthawks

i see you
you see me
eighteenth floor
across the street
sometimes you dance
sometimes you read
tv dinners fall asleep

do i ever cross your mind
through your window in the sky
when you forget to close the blinds
so do i

i see you
check your phone
wash the dishes
fold the clothes
sometimes you stay up
and get stoned
but you always sleep alone

do i ever cross your mind
through your window in the sky
when you forget to close the blinds
so do i

Nothing Beats Like A Heart

总有更加先进的一代
There will always be a more advanced generation
不断被制造出来
Being manufactured
我并不失落
I’m not sad
也不会很寂寞
And I won’t be too lonely
只是在被遗忘的角落
Though I will be blue
偶尔会闷闷不乐
When left in the corner of forgotten
这其实也没有什么
And it’s really nothing
所有我们曾看到和触摸到的一切
Everything we used to see and touch
都在不断消逝 而最终消失
Decaying as they are, Will all be gone eventually
如果终将一败涂地
If we were to fail in the end
未来不再需要你
You won’t be needed in the future

Like you know it’s a heart beating now that can melt away and bury everything
Extremely hard as a stone and sometimes fragile
As you know time is so fast as if we never separated
I won’t cry just hold me tight
just hold me tight

I am the ticking of the clockwork stars
I am the fragments of the beating heart
Waiting on a fainting spark
To warm me in the cold
I am the dying leaf upon this tree
I’ll maybe last a century
Waiting on a gentle breeze
To cast these sails to shore
Only a fool would ask for more

Like you know it’s a heart beating now that can melt away and bury everything
Extremely hard as a stone and sometimes fragile
As you know time is so fast as if we never separated
I won’t cry just hold me tight

Like you know it’s a heart beating now that can melt away and bury everything
Extremely hard as a stone and sometimes fragile
As you know time is so fast as if we never separated
I won’t cry just hold me tight

just hold me tight
just hold me tight
just hold me tight
just hold me tight

Photograph

Take a picture of your life
Put it on your bedroom wall
Check on it from time to time
Make sure that you don't lose heart

Take a picture of your life
Frame by frame
Profiles in courage
Name by name

Put a picture of your sadness
Next to one from better days
It's a holy madness
There's holy joy and there's holy pain
You came to bum a smoke
We stayed together as the seasons passed
You left with a story
And a shoebox of photographs

Lightning
The cameras are flashing
The moments are passing
The proof of it all
Lightning
Petty and tragic
The horror
The magic
Remember it all

Prom Night

There’s an open road
And now an open door
And a pretty girl’s hand
Beside yours

Do you know what to do
As she looks at you
Can leap from the ledge
And bridge the two halves of the world

Hold her hand
We’ll never pass this way again
Hold her hand
Forever or a slow dance
A breath as deep as you make
There’s a chance if you take it
And a heart that you break is still a heart
Hold her hand

There’s an open floor
As the chorus soars
And a pretty girl’s hand
Beside yours

Who knows what you’ll find
But the threshold shines
Can you leap from the ledge and bridge the two halves of the world

Hold her hand
We’ll never pass this way again
Hold her hand
Forever or a slow dance
A breath as deep as you make
There’s a chance if you take it
And a heart that you break is still a heart
Hold her hand

Prom night turns to daylight rediscovered
Friends become lovers under covers

Hold her hand
We’ll never pass this way again
Hold her hand
Forever or a slow dance
A breath as deep as you make
There’s a chance if you take it
And a heart that you break is still a heart
Hold her hand

River of Darkness

Glowing windows in the buildings from the elevated train
I see a thousand different stories pass
And faces without names

I forget why I came here
And forget why I stay
And wonder if they'd notice
If I slipped away

What if I kept going
What if I don't get off tonight
What if I ride this to the edges
Through the darkness to the light

Could I find you there?
Could I find you there?
If I slipped away?

What if there's no answer
We’re all just hearts that have to fight
Through the dangers of the rapids
Through the darkness to the light

Could I find you there?
Could I find you there?
If I slipped away?

Seventeen

I was a runaway and you were a Queen
Our tongues tied in the mezzanine
We were free
No strings on you no strings on me

I was a cannonball and you were the sea
When I crashed into your blue dream
We were free
Time takes no prisoners, you’ll see

When you’re seventeen
The thought of a spark could start a fire
Tube top and faded jeans
How we forget how we desire
Seventeen

We were seventeen
We had city dreams

I was a runaway and you were a jewel
It was Paradise in the land of fools
We were free
No strings on you no strings on me
Free
Time takes no prisoners, you’ll see

When you’re seventeen
The thought of a spark could start a fire
Tube top and faded jeans
How we forget how we desire
Seventeen

We were seventeen
We had city dreams

Shadows

The city carved a silhouette
On the ocean after dark Over The lonely and the holy
And the red blood beating hearts

Up from the dirty black water
A shadow void of form Raised itself out of the river
And it climbed upon the shore

Neon on the black top
Theres a gentle rain downtown The shadow pooling underneath me
As it follows on the ground

Kissed you when I saw you
Stared deep into your eyes I meant to say ‘I love you’
But instead I said goodbye

Shadows in the city

I’m a stranger to myself On these streets I’m someone else Shadows in the city Like a demon in the dark
Come to tear us apart (neon on the city)

(shadows, downtown)
(neon on the city) (shadows, downtown) (neon on the city) (shadows, downtown) (neon on the city) (shadows, downtown)
(neon on the city)

For all my good intentions
There's a shadow in this dark It comes to me infrequently
And breaks your perfect heart

I don't know why I do it
(I) Apologize but it's too Late A single tear you leave me here and
Shadow slips away

Shadows in the city
I’m a stranger to myself On these streets I’m someone else Shadows in the city Like a demon in the dark
Come to tear us apart (neon on the city)

(shadows, downtown)
(neon on the city) (shadows, downtown) (neon on the city) (shadows, downtown) (neon on the city) (shadows, downtown) (neon on the city) (shadows, downtown)
(neon on the city)

(shadows, downtown)
(neon on the city) (shadows, downtown) (neon on the city) (shadows, downtown) (neon on the city) (shadows, downtown)
(neon on the city)
(shadows, downtown)
(neon on the city) (shadows, downtown) (neon on the city) (shadows, downtown)
(neon on the city)

Silence

(Nothing but silence)

Late at night had a sinking feeling
That you were right sayin' I'm not seeing
All the lies that I made myself believe
That seemed to divide us

Once in my life moving on towards something
I realized it was all for nothing
Wonder why every good thing has to end
In nothing but silence

I'm trying but I can't find
A way to let you know that
I'm dying on the inside
The feeling sets in in the silence

In the silence
In the silence
In the silence
(In the silence)

Pressing through the paradoxes
One door opens, another locks it
Shrinking walls of freedom's fantasies (fantasies)

My gravity spins off its axis
Fever dream phantoms of your absence
Fading frames to cold geometry (geometry)

I'm trying but I can't find
A way to let you know that
I'm dying on the inside
The feeling sets in in this silence

In the silence
In the silence
In the silence
(In the silence)

The feeling sets in in the silence

Sometimes She Smiles

He spoke of the truth and how it might save her
And she spoke of the trees in Vermont in the winter
He said we must strive for faith through devotion
While she dreams of the smell of the Indian Ocean
He spoke in philosophical structure
She spoke of a vineyard, she spoke of her lover
When he does not understand
You can hear bones breaking in his head
When she does not understand
Sometimes she smiles
When he does not understand
You can hear bones breaking in his head
When she does not understand
Sometimes she smiles
He said reason is what separates man from the beasts
And she kissed him and put him at ease

Souvenir

Souvenirs of pioneers
Proof that the West was won
These rotten beams will tumble down
Replaced by the newer ones
Weren't we fine gunfighters in another time?
Were we celebrated writers after the war?
After the war

History repeats itself
But I don't know what for
I got all these souvenirs
But I can't seem to find you anymore

Souvenir
Now you're gone, now you're gone
You were here
I'm moving on, I'm moving on
How does it feel
After I'm gone
To be the ghost in the picture as it disappears
Souvenir

Souvenirs of privateers
Our black flag in the sun
Was taken down and passed around
And put in a museum

Weren't we fat cat tycoons in the Gilded Age
In flower children costumes in the Bay
High as a summer day

History repeats itself
But I don't know what for
I got all these souvenirs
But I can't seem to find you anymore

Souvenir
Now you're gone, now you're gone
You were here
I'm moving on, I'm moving on
How does it feel
After I'm gone
To be the ghost in the picture as it disappears

Our past is a foreign country
The neighborhoods have changed
I was the fool who got lucky
You were the fool who flew straight

Souvenir
Now you're gone, now you're gone
You were here
I'm moving on, I'm moving on
How does it feel
After I'm gone
To be the ghost in the picture as it disappears
Souvenir

The past is a foreign country
Our neighborhood is changed
And I was the fool who got lucky
You were the fool who flew straight

Static

At the shoreline in a snowstorm
I was baptized
Like a new born
In the static

There was a voice inside a dream
Said Lift your head up
Come up clean
Into the static

You were a wild thing
pretending to be tame
I was a wild thing
Trapped inside a cage
I wasn’t looking for deliverance
When you walked in from the wilderness
I was yours and you were mine
But Everything returns on time
To the static

Though the circuit board erased
Flashes of memory still remain
In the static

In between the ones and zeros
You will find me if you let go
In the static

Sunset

faked our deaths
lit a match
closed the door
waited for the flash

greyhound station
paid in cash
miss lazarus
we're coming back

they say it's darkest before the dawn
we've been in this town for far too long
they say it's darkest before the dawn
we're moving on

sunset
no regrets
first chance
last dance
stuck in the middle
even bad girls
know good love
you taste so sweet
it hurts a little

make our home
where we stand
one suitcase
and half a plan

follow the wolves
and sing along
past the voices
to the Song

they say it's darkest before the dawn
we've been in this town for far too long
they say it's darkest before the dawn
we're moving on

sunset
no regrets
first chance
last dance
stuck in the middle
even bad girls
know good love
you taste so sweet
it hurts a little

Synthetic

Been trying to move on
Been black and blue
Trying to turn the old
Into something new
You found somebody
I found someone too
She got everything I need
Yeah but she's not you

I locked my love into the ground
Hoped it never could be found
Body slowly shutting down
And now I am...

I'm still alive but I can't feel
I got stuff inside but it's not real
They say I'm fine but I feel synthetic
Nothing human left in me
I'm just a machine full of moving parts
I got emptiness where I used to have a heart
I'm still breathing but I'm synthetic
Nothing human left in me
Nothing human about me

No emotion
Just autotune
Left who I was back there with you
Maybe I died
And I kept movin'
In a body made from plastic and glue

I locked my love into the ground
Hoped it never could be found
Body slowly shutting down
And now I am...

I'm still alive but I can't feel
I got stuff inside but it's not real
They say I'm fine but I feel synthetic
Nothing human left in me
I'm just a machine full of moving parts
I got emptiness where I used to have a heart
I'm still breathing but I'm synthetic
Nothing human left in me
Nothing human about me

The Comeback Kid

i been so low
felt the wind blow
like i was a screen door
in a thunderstorm

yeah i've been down
i've been laid out
but you always were
what I came here for

waiting all day
waiting all day
just for my say
for a bell to ring
for the first sting

Yeah I been blue
that ain’t nothing new
it’s you my friend
you’re why I get up again

I’ve make mistakes
I’ve been hard hit
I say so what
so what if I did
I’m the clear eyed
I’m the
comeback kid
start it over
start it over again
I'm the clear eyed
I'm the comeback kid

it’s been a rough year
been some tough tears
I’ve lost so fast
all that I had

but when it’s time to
i will fight for you
cause you know you are are
why i’ve come so far

I’ve make mistakes
I’ve been hard hit
I say so what
so what if I did
I’m the clear eyed
I’m the
comeback kid
start it over
start it over again
I'm the clear eyed
I'm the comeback kid

The Years (prologue)

Shy kid, knees always bruised
The daddy's girl that became you
In the front seat, you pulled me close
Kissed my lips, it tasted like home

Flashes of crosswords and chamomile
The years pass like a Ferris Wheel
The tiny fractures in the form
The days we live are so much more

We got a little place near the beach
We watch the sailboats out at sea
And we ride along the Palisades
Love is just a summer day

If you hold too tight it starts to fade
Let it go then, then it floats away
In time will you remember me
For a second we had everything

Half awake and sunburned...
Searching vines of summer...
Aimless and upwards...

Vampires

Strangers in a dark room, laughing at jokes they didn't quite hear
Frosted window panes and cheap champagne a face appears
And anything could happen in these cathedrals we roam
Where shadow people dance and trade their glance and walk home alone

She's staring out the window of the Roosevelt Hotel
Watching midtown empty out and I kiss her farewell
They say we come from nothing and to nothing we'll return
And in between is gravity and bridges left to burn

Wave

We are not a sentimental age
We don’t want our parent’s china or their ticker tape parade
We are not a sentimental age
We’re out getting high on fire escapes
We are hooking up with strangers we will never see again
We are not a sentimental age

But when I dream, we’re all melting together
Synchronized in a mass embrace
Beads of water folding together
Like a north shore wave
How strange
We’re parts of each other how strange
I’ll never even know your name

We are not a sentimental age
On our shoulders is a boulder of a debt we cannot pay
We are not a sentimental age
Diagnosis says I tend to disengage
I’d rather have my privacy, I’d rather have my space
These are just the pills I have to take
We are not a sentimental age

But when I dream, we’re all melting together
Synchronized in a mass embrace
Beads of water folding together
Like a north shore wave
How strange
We’re parts of each other how strange
I’ll never even know your name

WeMoveForward

Sun in my eyes and the gold coast shining
And the girl with the braids in her hair
Steady breeze and oh I was falling
I would follow her anywhere
The sky turned grey in a flash flood warning
She smiled and she took my hand
She kissed my lips and the rain came pouring
Swore I heard a marching band

WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back

Hanging out of the third story window
Oh you were a sight to see
The black dress that bends when the wind blows
Roll back the tide for me

WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back

WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back
WeMoveForward
‘Cause we can't go back

Sunset skies, the paint is peeling, the wind blowing sand in her hair
Endless days in the deep blue feeling
I would follow her anywhere