Joshua Radin

I can't get to bed
But I'm really tired
The things in my head
You used to admire
In your sundrenched world
It couldn't be worse
Don't bother asking
Here comes the nerves
While I'm trying to bask
In your sundrenched world

I'm talking to you
But you're not listening
I don't know what to do
My heart is blistering
Writing this song
Tell me I'm not wrong

I close up my mouth
When you're around now
Suffocating in doubt
I can't make a sound
In your sundrenched world
I always wanted to be
The one you looked to
For the answers in me
I'm the one who took you
To your sundrenched world

I'm talking to you
But you're not listening
I don't know what to do
My heart is blistering
Writing this song
Tell me I belong

It's all been said
Once before
We fucked around
On your bedroom floor

I'm talking to you
But you're not listening
I don't know what to do
My hands are blistering
Writing this song
Tell me I belong

Tell me I belong
Tell me I
Tell me I belong

Old doubt and a girl by your side
She's feeding your pride
As you go for a ride
Down the star mile
Worlds rise as she lets you come in
A duo begins
To the Hollywood din
Of the lonely

And all the gold dust in her eyes
Won't reform into a ring
You had and lost
The one thing
You kept in a safe place
Remember the face
The girl who had made you her own
And how you left her alone

All's well at the base of the hill
You might need to fill
A prescription to kill
Off the sirens
Look down from your tower on high
And take in the night
Look her right in the eye
She'll listen

And all the gold dust in her eyes
Won't reform into a ring
You had and lost
The one thing
You kept in a safe place
Remember the face
The girl who had made you her own
And how you left her alone

Life comes to those that'll choose
The regular news
Over playing the blues
With the light on

And if you burn the road that'll lead you
Back to her in time
I'll watch you turn to stone
Can't find the sublime
She's moving on
Without you
The tide breaks
You watch the stars fake
They gather you back to their home
I guess it's better than being alone

You're Sylvia Plath
As you drift from the bath
I hand you a robe
And so it goes
The moment'll pass

You're Simone de Beauvoir
As you get out the car
The way you read me
No one can see me
Is who you are
And these photographs keep me alive

Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise

You're Nina Simone
When you talk on the phone
You sing to me
And I'm truly
No longer alone

You're Mary Cassatt
When people tell you you're not
You're like a child
All the while
I need you a lot
And these photographs keep me alive

Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise

And I wanna know what you know
And I wanna go where you go
These things remind me of
These things remind me of
These things remind me of you

Babe, here's your song
Babe, it took too long
To find in your eyes
My best surprise

So we're alone again
I wish it were over
We seem to never end
Only get closer
To the point where I can take no more

The clouds in your eyes
Down your face they pour
Won't you be the new one? Burn to shine
I take the blue ones every time
Walk me down your broken line
All you have to do is cry
Yes, all you have to do is cry

Hush, my baby, now
Your talking is just noise and won't lay me down
Amongst your toys in a room where I can take no more

The clouds in your eyes
Down your face they pour
Won't you be the new one? Burn to shine
I take the blue ones every time
Walk me down your broken line
All you have to do is cry
Yes all you have to do is cry

Photographs and brightly colored paper
Are your mask you wear in this caper
That is our life
We walk right into the strife
And a tear from your eye brings me home

Won't you be the new one? Burn to shine
I take the blue ones every time
Walk me down your broken line
All you have to do is cry

Shoelaces untied
You can dry your eyes
Perfect shadows lie behind us
And this is the day I make you mine

The way your hair lies
Sometimes unrecognized
All the way from Nice, today
On a train
Nothing to say, but there's still time

And you are the one I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun, it's been baiting morn' today

Lately I've lost my tongue
Today you found a song
Unknown our love has grown
And I thank God you came along

And you are the one I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun, it's been baiting morn' today

You looked right through me, there was no one else
I sat beside you and became myself today
Today

And you are the one I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun, it's been baiting morn' today

I should know who I am by now
I walk, the record stands somehow
Thinking of winter
Your name is the splinter inside me while I wait

I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wait

The walk has all been cleared by now
Your voice is all I hear somehow
Calling out winter
Your voice is the splinter inside me while I wait

I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wait

I could have lost myself
In rough blue waters in your eyes
And I miss you still

I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wait

Somehow I'm leading someone else's life
I cut a star down with my knife

And right now
I still see the way the moon
Plays this tune
Though our nights died

My hands shake, my knees quake
It's every day, the same way
'Cause then came you, then there's you
I keep your picture in my worn through shoes
Then there's you then came you.
When I'm lost I look at my picture of you

And somehow
I'll make tonight our own
I'll show you every way I've grown
Since I met you

And right now
I'll be the boy in your next song
I'll learn the parts and play along
If you let me

My hands shake, my knees quake
It's every day, the same way
'Cause then came you, then there's you
I keep your picture in my worn through shoes
Then there's you then came you
When I'm lost I look at my picture of you

If you let me, I'll show the world to you
Yes if you let me, I'll know just what to do

'Cause then came you, then there's you
I keep your picture in my worn through shoes

When I'm lost in your eyes
I see a way for me

You asked me to write a tune
All about the things that go wrong
And then you asked me to come home soon
To the place where I belong

But you stand on the other side
Of the line in this place
And you can't see me, you are blind
And this you can't fake
No this you can't fake

And sometimes, sometimes I wanna be
I scream that I wanna be anyone but me

And I don't know if I can write about
Chosen walls and the things you feel
And I don't know if I can sing aloud
Closing doors showing you what's real

But I know when I close my eyes
Late at night there's only one thing
The night's shown that she can lie
It's your fight, show me something
Can you show me something?

And sometimes, sometimes I wanna be
I scream that I wanna be anyone but me

What do you want me to say
All I know is love, it's okay
I'll write what I know
And you do the same
Tell me I'm sane

But sometimes, sometimes I wanna be
I scream that I wanna be anyone but me

What if you could wish me away?
What if you spoke those words today?

I wonder if you'd miss me when I'm gone
It's come to this, release me
I'll leave before the dawn

But for tonight I'll stay here with you
Yes for tonight I'll lay here with you

But when the sun hits your eyes
Through your window
There'll be nothing you can do

What if you could hear this song?
What if I felt like I belong?

I might not be leaving oh so soon
Began the night believing
I loved you in the moonlight

So for tonight I'll stay here with you
Yes for tonight I'll lay here with you

But when the sun hits your eyes
Through your window
There'll be nothing you can do

I could've treated you better, better than this
Well I'm gone
This song's your letter
Can't stay in one place

So for tonight I'll stay here with you
Yes for tonight I'll lay here with you

But when the sun hits your eyes
Through your window
There'll be nothing you can do

Looking from the window above
It’s like a story of love
Can you hear me?
Came back only yesterday
Who went further away
Want you near me

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

Sometimes when I think of her name
When it’s only a game
And I need you
Listen to the words that you say
It’s getting harder to stay
When I need you

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

This is gonna take a long time
And I wonder what’s mine
Can’t take no more

Wonder if you’ll understand
It’s just the touch of your hand
Behind a closed door

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

Joshua Radin - Sky



(feat. Meiko)
I woke dreaming we had broke
Dreaming you left me for someone new,
And you cried drying those brown eyes
Crying you're sorry, sorry won't do.

But this is the way I need to wake
I'll wake to you, and you never left me
All that I dreamt had been untrue
Open my eyes I see sky

Oh oh oh oh you know
The way to keep me on my toes
I-I-I-I'll be just fine
Just say you'll stay forever mine
Till we fall asleep tonight

Last night we had a great fight
I fell asleep in a horrible state
Then dreamt you loved my best friend
My heart would not mend
Seemed it was fate

But this is the way I need to wake
I'll wake to you, and you never left me
All that I dreamt had been untrue
Open my eyes I see sky

Oh oh oh oh you know
The way to keep me on my toes
I-I-I-I'll be just fine
Just say you'll stay forever mine
Till we fall asleep tonight

Sometimes I forget to love you like I should
But I'd never leave you
No I never would, I never would

Oh oh oh oh you know
The way to keep me on my toes
I-I-I-I'll be just fine
Just say you'll stay forever mine
Till we fall asleep tonight

Some kind of magic
Happens late at night
When the moon smiles down on me
And bathes me in it’s light

I fell asleep beneath you
In the tall blades of grass
When I woke the world was new
I never had to ask

It’s a brand new day
The sun is shinning
It’s a brand new day
For the first time
In such a long long time
I know
I’ll be ok

Most kind of stories
Save the best part for last
Most stories have a hero who finds
You make your past your past
Ya you make your past your past

It’s a brand new day
The sun is shinning
It’s a brand new day
For the first time
In such a long long time
I know
I’ll be ok

This cycle never ends
Gotta fall in order to mend

And it’s a brand new day
It’s a brand new day
For the first time
Inn such a long long time
I know
I’ll be ok

Wait right here,
Is all she said to me
And so right here I stay

Time has reached our home
And I've been left alone
It's carried her away

And everyone keeps saying,
"Nothing helps but time"
Time is all I own

And time won't stop replaying
Over in my mind
I watch the hours slow down

So I crawl underneath my blanket
Where I can hide away, I know I can't take it
'Cause I see now, it's just one of those days

Now a year has passed
Alone I stay inside
And I await the rain

To wash away your face
So I don't have to hide
The sight of you is painful

So I crawl underneath my blanket
Where I can hide away, I know I can't take it anymore
'Cause I see now, it's just one of those days

And I can't stop seeing your face
I can't stop seeing your face every place

So I crawl underneath my blanket
Where I can hide away, I know I can't take it anymore
'Cause I see now, it's just one of those days
Yeah

Sitting here, on this lonely dock
Watch the rain play on the ocean top
All the things I feel I need to say
I can't explain in any other way

I need to be bold
Need to jump in the cold water
Need to grow older with a girl like you
Finally see you are naturally
The one to make it so easy
When you show me the truth
Yeah, I'd rather be with you
Say you want the same thing too

Now here's the sun, come to dry the rain
Warm my shoulders and relieve my pain
You're the one thing that I'm missing here
With you beside me I no longer fear

I need to be bold
Need to jump in the cold water
Need to grow older with a girl like you
Finally see you are naturally
The one to make it so easy
When you show me the truth
Yeah, I'd rather be with you
Say you want the same thing too

I could have saved so much time for us
Had I seen the way to get to where I am today
You waited on me for so long
So now, listen to me say:

I need to be bold
Need to jump in the cold water
Need to grow older with a girl like you
Finally see you are naturally
The one to make it so easy
When you show me the truth
Yeah, I'd rather be with you
Say you want the same thing too
Say you feel the way I do

Joshua Radin]
I woke dreaming we had broke
Dreaming you left me for someone new

And you cried
Drying those brown eyes
Crying you're sorry
Sorry won't do

But this is the way I need to wake
I wake to you and you never left me
All that I dreamt had been untrue
Open my eyes
I see sky

Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
You know the way to keep me on my toes

I
I
I will be fine
Just say you'll stay forever mine 'til we fall asleep tonight

[Joshua Radin & Meiko]
Last night we had a great fight
I fell asleep in a horrible state

Then dreamt that you loved my best friend
My heart would not mend
Seemed it was fate

But this is the way I need to wake
I wake to you and you never left me
All that I dreamt had been untrue
Open my eyes
I see sky

Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
You know the way to keep me on my toes

I
I
I will be fine
Just say you'll stay forever mine 'til we fall asleep tonight

Sometimes I forget to love you like I should
(Love you like I should)
But I'd never leave you
No
I never would
I never would

Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
You know the way to keep me on my toes

I
I
I will be fine
Just say you'll stay forever mine

Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
(Oh)
(Oh)
You know the way to keep me on my toes
(You know)
(To keep me on my toes)

I
I
I will be fine
(I will be fine)
Just say you'll stay forever mine 'til we fall asleep tonight

[Joshua Radin]
'Til we fall asleep tonight

I like the way you're not afraid You got the world planned in your mind People say you cannot do well They don't know a friend like you The girl you love has gone away Still too young to know her heart She'll return her love renewed 'Cause she'll never find a friend like you When I had no one to call All the world had shut me down I showed up at your door so blue Thank god I had a friend like you Many times I've gone without a home a meal A pair of shoes, if you had three you'd give me two There ain't no other friend like you

Some kind of magic
Happens late at night
When the moon smiles down on me
And bathes me in it’s light

I fell asleep beneath you
In the tall blades of grass
When I woke the world was new
I never had to ask

It’s a brand new day
The sun is shinning
It’s a brand new day
For the first time
In such a long long time
I know
I’ll be ok

Most kind of stories
Save the best part for last
Most stories have a hero who finds
You make your past your past
Ya you make your past your past

It’s a brand new day
The sun is shinning
It’s a brand new day
For the first time
In such a long long time
I know
I’ll be ok

This cycle never ends
Gotta fall in order to mend

And it’s a brand new day
It’s a brand new day
For the first time
Inn such a long long time
I know
I’ll be ok

You looked like the sun.
I was the only one
Who could stare until you were done
Shining on me.

As we drank our wine
and let the world fade away,
the sunrise tried to end it
while we tried to stay.

The rest of my life
can't compare to this night.
And only the heartaches
have given me sight.

They bring me to you.
They bring me to you.

Moon pours
Through the ceiling tonight,
Embraces us tight,
Shows me we're right for each other.

And as we lie here
And let the world fade away,
The sunrise tries to end it
While we try to stay.

The rest of my life
Can't compare to this night.
And only the heartaches
Have given me sight.

They bring me to you.
They bring me to you.
They bring me to you.
They bring me to you.

It's all about the first night and last,
Some people say.
But I love you so much more tonight,
More than yesterday.

The rest of my life
Can't compare to this night.
And only the heartaches
Have given me sight.

They bring me to you.
They bring me to you.
They bring me to you.
They bring me to you.

Baby, you don't even know me but one day I'll get up the courage as you pass by.
You'll see.
Oh baby, one look just might save me.
I need you to slow by the corner.
Stop right in front of me.

Till then I'll see you hopefully through.
I do wish that you'd ask me to ride along.
It wouldn't be wrong to tell me more than I know about you.

[Chorus]
She drives a vegetable car.
Diesel, Mercedes, green, two-door.
I barely know who you are.
Lisa Lobe glasses.
I'd sure like to ask you to stay.

Baby, I need you to save me.
The one thing that my heart requires is that you admire me.

Till then I'll see you hopefully through.
I do wish that you'd ask me to ride along.
It wouldn't be wrong to tell me more than I know about you.

[Chorus]

How do I know why the sight of you makes me weak?
Each time I see you turn onto my street
Your hair is always up in a bun.
This girl is the one.

[Chorus]

Don't go.

Something's wrong from the hilltop
I know you can see
I look strong
All together
Though inside I'm weak

Still I bleed
Still I wait to heal the wound from my crime
What I need are more bandages
They've torn over time

You're shelter from the rain
Turn around, walk away

Go now and don't look back
My life's come off it's tracks
And you should be
Free of me

I can be who you wanted somewhere down the road
When I'm whole, when the rains are done, when I've reaped all I've sown
But here and now, on my hands and knees I crawl through the mire
And your bed is so soft and warm, I'm weary and tired

You're shelter from the rain
Turn around, walk away

Go now and don't look back
My life's come off it's tracks
And you should be free of me

Leave me alone
I'll find another home
I'm on my knees crying out please

Go now and don't look back
My life's come off it's tracks
And you should be free of me

Free of me
Free of me
Free of me

I've been down this road before
I walk out the door
Leave you on the floor

Sometimes you run and hide
Your foolish pride's
What keeps me from
Giving you more

So the best thing I can give to you
Is for me to go
Leave you alone
Cause you got growin' up to do

Someday I'll return when its time
For payment in kind
The church bells will chime

You'll stand before me surrounded by lights
Dressed in white
You throw flowers in the air this night

But the best thing I can give to you
Is for me to go
Leave you alone
You got growin' up to do

Looks like the rain's pouring down on me
It's drowning me now
And all I want is to come back home
And this old corduroy coat is not keeping me dry
But I can't think of what else to try

That's why the best thing I can give to you
Is for me to go
Leave you alone
You got growin' up to do

Yeah, the best thing I can give to you is for me to go
Leave you alone
You got growin' up to do

We are grown but cannot see
Lost our world of make believe
Simple times now seem so far
Used to be in my backyard
Yeah, the world was still in my backyard

But, we are okay, we are alright
We sing very loud,
Yeah, we're singing
We are okay, we are alright
Close our eyes, close our mouth
Yeah, we shut our eyes though we're in doubt

Build me a home from a cardboard box
Many windows never locked
This is how we used to play
Shorter nights and longer days
With faith we would not fade away

But we are okay, we are alright
We sing very loud
Yeah, we're singing
We are okay, we are alright
Close our eyes, close our mouth
Yeah we shut our eyes though we're in doubt

And so it goes
We can never seem to find, the time we lost
Though we try at any cost
We try, we sing

We are okay, we are alright
We sing very loud
Yeah, we're singing
We are okay, we are alright
Close our eyes, close our mouth
Yeah we shut our eyes though we're in doubt

Some are reaching, few are there
Want to reign from a hero's chair
Some are scared to fly so high
Well this is how we have to try

Have no envy and no fear
Have no envy and no fear

Brother brother we all see
Your hiding out so painfully
See yourself come out to play
A lover's rain will wash away

Your envy and your fear
So have no envy and no fear

When your sister turns to leave
Only when she's most in need
Take away the cause of pain
By showing her we're all the same

Have no envy and no fear
Have no envy and no fear

Every day we try to find
Search our hearts and our minds
The place we used to call our home
Can't be found when we're alone

So have no envy and no fear
Have no envy and no fear