The Working Title

When I was a boy
Chasing a note
Straining to bring up
The chords in my throat
Battling age clinging the coat
Humming the old songs in stereo

I had not a thought
Of parking lots
And me in the car


With the doors all locked
I'm staring ahead
Everyone's dead
I'm under the pain in between my ribs

It's just like the movies
It comes about face
All at once when I'm breathing
The careless air of the night

(Verse 1)

We sank down under the sand
Down with the creatures
Where we found ourselves lying around
Searching for something so much
More there's so much here
Why do we bend ourselves
Baby it's just a kiss
Why do we compromise

(Pre-chorus)

It's over my neighbor
I'm under such pressure
If Heaven is waiting
There's nothing left here for me now

(Chorus)

Now we're fading into this world of
Desire and shame
There's nothing less radiant

(Verse 2)

Lie awake eyes on the wall
Packing back and forth through
Ever night there is a change
There is an obvious change
When we feel undenied
Why do we go unreserved?
Lights out open thighs
Run away, oh run away

(Pre-chorus)

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

On my face there is a change
And all these scars are floating away
I cross my arms and take on the rain
I'm on my way I am awake

(Chorus)

(Verse 1)

We all went home
To search ourselves
There's no one left
To feed us now
We all want more
Then what we have
Just pick me up
And let me down

(Chorus)

State your reason for cushioning your fall
I call it treason please share with me your thoughts

(Verse 2)

I've learned to find my place to hide
My circus of rust and lies
We take it down these holy ties
Just run away and follow blind

(Bridge)

Do you enter lives
Without knocking or warning
Do you count the lives
And pace the night til' morning

(Chorus A)

How much longer can we take this
How much farther can we drag ourselves
Maybe something's in the water
Tell us if we've gone too far

(Chorus B)

This is the sound we make
This is the forward pace
This is not saving grace
We are the rest of us
We are the ambulance
This is not glorious

(Verse 1)

Break from all of what you must be coming from
Sit down and listen up
We survive while we fall apart through the country lines
Owning up to what we are
In the bus or the car
Take her in but you can't ignore
The undertow is at your neck
It will eat you if you aren't strong enough
I'll take over

(Chorus A)

(Chorus B)

(Verse 2)

Sleep is harder than
Angels to come across
And you've been breaking
Promises with the risk of losing
It all for what
Oh you know it's not enough
The poison leaks through the tar
And everyone is falling apart while lovers wait in far away lands
Is there nothing quite as strong as glue?
Someone tell me

(Verse 1)

Maybe everyone's to blame
Cuz I can't fall in love to save
All the world or anyone else
Turn on the TV and fade

(Pre-chorus)

Maybe it's only me

(Chorus)

Talk to me now
Why do you run from me
Walk up to me
Like we've never met
Break into me
I need you more than you know
Oh no, I'm under the ground

(Verse 2)

Tell me if you want to be
Lonely or if there should be
Someone else tell me it's me
Let's run away in the rain

(Pre-chorus)

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

My parts are falling out it's useless
No one can save me now I'm under
Somebody's painted house I hear their
Surrounding voices fade when I decide to stay

It's four in the morning
I'm naked and staring at the wall
In my lonely apartment room
And I'll swear to your beauty
I'm sorry that I'm so messed up
Don't hate me
When I'm under the ground

Someone came in through the door alone
Dropped their bags revealed a shotgun
Started shooting everyone in sight
Oh my God Im going to die alone

Pre-chorus

Feel love gripping you
Feel love racing through your body

Chorus

So we can run through
So we can run
So we can run through
And work on falling in love

Verse 2

While his plane is crashing down below
Towards the people in the city
In their cars and on their boats he knows
They will never know the loss of time and control

Bridge

Theres so much beauty
Outside and on my bathroom floor
Shes covered in blanket
Everybody wants to see God
So clear and with their own two eyes
Oh I feel alone

Just stay in my arms

(Verse 1)

Last night I leveled with the angels
They were everywhere
And there was nothing I could do
It wasn't their call
We entered the house greeted
By a stranger who would soon replace ours

(Pre-chorus)

And right away I knew I was entering
Into a place of uncertainty and disdain

(Chorus)

Why is father
On the phone did he notice
Her withering hand or is it something she said
Up this flight of stairs how we dare
I enter this room and this house

(Verse 2)

I descend into a room down the hall
My hands are shaking I must reason with the angels
They will understand
They will see the tears
Tell everyone I can make them let her go

(Pre-chorus)

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

Crying out
She's in Heaven now
And this house couldn't work as a cage for an angel
Now it's me I've got to let go

(Verse 1)

The matching children fall in play
It makes me happy without the pain
I've been waiting for the phone to ring
And I'm convinced that we're all the same

(Pre-chorus)

I've seen you cut through me
How long can you wait

(Chorus)

Right now she's dancing in the middle
My heart is naked for the first time
I feel the turning of the ground now
Wait oh weigh me down

(Verse 2)

I bite my lip with the fear that my
Girl's been tasting another guy
It appears to me your life can only move
At the pace of the river you travel down

(Pre-chorus 2)

There's never enough paper
When you leave me face down

(Bridge)

I feel just perfect
There's nothing wrong with me
So leave me alone
Don't make me tell you twice
But when the windows die
It's enough to (x3)
Drain my sanity and leave me helpless
Staring endlessly all night
But the words aren't right

(Verse 1)

You were walking towards my first
Apartment with hesitance
Feeling like you were making mistakes
Oh I've made them I'm sorry
It's an awkward time to replace
History with feelings
But I'll suck the pain out anyways
I'm hardly alive now

(Pre-chorus)

So cut into my chest
And leave me on the bed

(Chorus)

I could crawl on my hands and my knees
Change the way I do everything
My desires crumble away
Leaving me safe driving away

(Verse 2)

I've been a mess no sleep for weeks
My head hurts I've earned it
The other day I heard your voice
For the first time in two years

(Pre-chorus 2)

It should keep me on my way
Chasing after you

(Chorus 2)

I could crawl on my hands and my knees
Change the way I do everything
My desires crumble away
Leaving me safe driving away
Keeping me all alone
Thinking away everything

(Bridge)

Start my car and drive
I'm headed to you and
I'll never hide my face
I'll never go running away again

(Chorus)

(Chorus 2)

I'm sure to find true love under angel wings,
assured and locked so tight I know she's whispering.
Alone and savoring life alone tonight
she's coming out to greet a world so wont of light.
Her first time exposed to the games and bitter ends.
Her last time to feel clean, in broken english she says,

I lost everything to one boy who says he was mine,
he said he'd hold me forever.
Now she's sitting on my floor,
pulling out her hair to ease
that she's not sleeping again.

This cotton down it feels so much more like home.
the memories creep in as she closes both her eyes.
She's walking out into the night for the first time,
completely unprepared for the thousandth time.

I lost everything to one boy who says he was mine,
he said he'd hold me forever.
Now she's sitting on my floor,
pulling out her hair to ease
that she's not sleeping again.

The first time that I saw those eyes
was the first time that I came undone,
oh Mary look what you've done to me.
oh Mary look what you've done.
The first time that I saw those eyes
was the first time I came undone,
oh Mary look what you've done to me.
oh Mary look what you've done.

She says, I lost everything to one boy who says he was mine,
he said he'd hold me forever.
she's sitting on my floor,
pulling out her hair to ease
that she's not sleeping again.

I can't forget this night; another left, another right.
How did I ever get away, the door was locked the key unmade.
Out for the last time life ends here,
there is no next time gas is full; a vehicle that ends all fear.

(Verse 1)

You bring your face to mine
Your anger wells inside
You speak your wasted mind
And mine is wasting
You drag me deep inside
The depths of wide decline
And I could not prepare
For the fall

(Pre-chorus)

You're frozen uncertain empty inside
I've fallen so deep I can't see the light

(Chorus)

I'm bleeding my hands are cold
Someone save me
I've trusted what I can't see
But everyone is blind

(Verse 2)

It took me so long to break the chains of time
Servant freedom comes from the inside
They could not see you tearing apart everything
Such a small one you wanted love

(Pre-chorus 2)

Dilated frustrated you can't get out
My fingers keep shaking it's all in vain

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

I was born for this I swear strengthen me
This is the part where I break down on my knees
Maybe the words have lost their shape but I need you
To paint the picture I can't see for
We are blind
Can't you see

(Chorus)

(Verse 1)

I couldn't find you
Last night for quite some time
Wishing to tell you
Everything running through my mind
We would have drove down
Over the bridge and towards the sea
Parking the sad car
In between 24th and 5th

(Chorus)

I want to write a song about our love
But there is none

(Verse 2)

Still I continue
Driving the lonely road
My thoughts running over
Humming a sad forgotten song
Wasting all our time
That you're spending with someone else

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

Satiate my mind
And calm my nerves to look and find
Words that aren't enough
And never show a single piece of my mind

(Chorus x2)

(Verse 1)

I was licking the wound on my side
Just like the animals I see at night
Dragging me through the depths of
My mind the fear closes my eyes
Wishing I could be folded up tight
In the walls of the castle that I
Built for myself with the purpose of
Keeping the world out of my sight

(Chorus)

Why was I the one eating you
Up over the phone bringing the
Wind straight to my door like ice on the
Road spin around and round

(Verse 3)
I have witnessed a bird in my time
On a schedule for days of its life
Charging and slamming its fragile body
Against the window while I
Am reminded of yesterdays pain
And this mirror is revealed to me
We never change or learn from mistakes
It's a shame we are enslaved

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

I lost time once again
There you are
Turn me on
Touch my skin
Free my heart
Now and let me fly

(Chorus)

(Verse 1)

I am on my way to something small
The turning of a year and I am raw
Stripped away surrounded by the trees
On mountains urging me to fall asleep or

(Chorus)

Fall in love and crumble while you can
Freeze the world in time to understand
A way to trust in turbulence

(Verse 2)

Wonder how much longer we can take
That's silly we can last at least a week
The turning in my stomach has increased
And no one knows like branches how we sleep

(Chorus)