July For Kings

The day god closed her eyes
My mother says
She felt
Twenty angels

That came through the window and helped him to fly
My sisters wept and I stepped
Further from faith
The most beautiful sky turned to grey

But hey - the memories seem real
It's been years since I've prayed
Still insisting
That I don't want to feel

Like you feel
I set it all on fire
And watched the walls collapse
I stand alone and tired

Now I want it back
And even if everyone is a liar
I don't want to be

Within this silent choir
I want to believe
In something
I want to believe in something

When I close my eyes
Will they come for me
Will you not believe that I
I've learned how to fly

Will I still be singing
Somewhere in heaven
I wonder if angels can cry
I hope they come for me

I hope I see something
I hope that I
Walk into the white light
Walk into the white light

I set it all on fire
And watched the walls collapse
I stand alone and tired
Now I want it back

Even if everyone is a liar
I don't want to be
Within this silent choir
I want to believe

In something
In something

I want to believe
To believe in something
I said I

I set it all on fire
And watched the walls collapse
I stand alone and tired
Now I want it back

And even if everyone is a liar
I don't want to be
Within this silent choir
I want to believe

I want to believe in something
I want to believe in something
I want to believe in something
But god closed her eyes

I want to believe in something
I want to believe in something
I want to believe in something
But god closed her eyes

I want to believe in something
I want to believe in something
I want to believe in something

But god closed her eyes
We all want to believe in something
I want to believe
In something

I stood under ohio's skies
I could see the open fields for miles
I thought "what the hell am I doing back here again?"
but now I'm trying to reassemble the things I kept and
the pictures fade but I hope to resurrect
the things that kept me sane back then

in the backyard playing on the swingset
dark green shoes off you can get your feet wet
mom and dad sat quiet in the sunroom
sundown, big moon, big sky.

now I just want to live a normal life
get a fast car and a pretty wife
we could have children of our own
settle down here until they're grown
we could buy a house out on the beach
and just die there, out of reach
do you want to live
do you want to live
do you want to live a normal life with me

live
a normal life with me

for years I cursed these dead end streets
no where to go, no one to meet
we only talked about the crazy woman down the road
but everything makes much more sense now
someday I'll have my own house
I'll make enough to make it easier to pay the phone bill

in the backyard playing on the swingset
dark green shoes off you can get your feet wet
my wife and i will sit quiet in the sunroom
sundown, big moon, big sky.

I just want to live a normal life
get a fast car and a pretty wife
we could have children of our own
settle down here until they're grown
we could buy a house out on the beach
and just die there, out of reach
do you want to live
do you want to live
do you want to live a normal life

I'll watch the kids until you get home
4:58 and you're on the phone
coming back from work on friday
wide-awake in the american dream
I'll make the bed, you feed the cat
could it really be as simple as that? (yeah)
do you want to live
do you want to live
do you want to live a normal life with me

do you want to live a normal life with me

now I just want to live a normal life
get a fast car and a pretty wife
we could have children of our own
settle down here until they're grown

I just want to live a normal life
get a fast car and a pretty wife
we could have children of our own
settle down here until they're grown
we could buy a house out on the beach
and just die there, out of reach
do you want to live
do you want to live
do you want to live a normal life
do you want to live
do you want to live
do you want to live a normal life
do you want to live
do you want to live a normal life with me?

Room 421
an airport hotel
I know I should be sleeping
but it’s too soon to tell
if I’ll fly out tomorrow
if I’ll see her tomorrow
I hope that I will.
no place like alone
and no sound like my own voice
fading into
this quiet december night
but I’m doing alright
I ’ll make a phone call or two

Could I get some room service please?
send the maid in to see
about a few things I need

"Do you think you could
bring me my girlfriend
and a bottle of wine
bring me a future
just make sure it’s mine
will you open the window
but leave out the cold
could you make a phone call to Jesus
to clean up my soul"

Miles from my own bed
further from content
I guess I should get used to this
still rain on the runway
but I’m doing okay
I ’ve got cigarettes to kiss

"Could I get some room service please?
I ’m down on my knees
I ’m only here for tonight
‘cause they fucked up my flight
serenading the wall
and I thought I should call
you to ask for it all
for it all
for it all

Remember to

Bring me my girlfriend
and a bottle of wine
bring me a future
make sure it’s mine
will you open the window
but leave out the cold
could you make a phone call to jesus
to clean up my soul."

Dial seven for a savior
"is this soul keeping please...
could you put me through to jesus
I ’ll pay your long-distance fees"
he said "hello and god bless you.
there’s a bible in the drawer."
I said "that’s wonderful sir. but I don’t read it anymore"
I don’t read it any more...

Bring me my girlfriend
and a bottle of wine
bring me a future
make sure it’s mine
will you open the window
but leave out the cold
could you make a phone call to jesus
to clean up my soul"
bring me my girlfriend
and a bottle of wine
bring me a future
just make sure it’s mine
will you open the window
but leave out the cold
could you make a phone call to Jesus
to clean up my soul"
yeah
could you bring me my girlfriend
yeah
bring me a smile

Room 421
a cleveland hotel
I know I should be sleeping
but it’s too soon to tell
if I’ll fly out tomorrow
if I’ll see her tomorrow
I hope that I will.

Do you hear those distant voices
and sounds through the flames
the deafening drone
of these clanking machines
in the lights
it’s the same
we're trying to free
the sculpture from the stone
we'll take the rhythm from the throne
if the radio is dying
listen to me won't you listen to me
I don’t want to lie in a bed of ashes
I don’t want to burn in a midnight sun
I don’t want to know if the system crashes
I don’t want to go if it’s just begun
I don’t want to lie in a bed of ashes
I don't want to burn in the midnight
sun
in the midnight sun
I scream like a madman in the morning
no one heard a thing
I had hoped for a more effective warning
no one felt the sting
someone's savior never saved
take it away 'till there's nothing left to say
the radio is dying
listen to me
won't you listen to me
I don’t want to lie in a bed of ashes
I don’t want to burn in a midnight sun
i don’t want to know if the system crashes
I don’t want to go if it’s just begun
I don’t want to lie in a bed of ashes
I don’t want to burn in the midnight
sun
in the midnight sun
Dancing like a child
will we feel at all
or just smile in another pretty prison
the wires frayed and broken free
it's loud as hell but I don't want to listen
is existentialism so desperate?
condition may seem painful but it won't last
I just march, march
sometimes I get the last laugh
Machines and dreams
to make the choices for you
machines and dreams
I won't go out like that
machines and dreams
to make the choices for your
machines and dreams--
I won't go out
I don’t want to lie in a bed of ashes
I don’t want to burn in the midnight sun
I don’t want to know if the system crashes
I don’t want to go if it’s just begun
I don’t want to lie in a bed of ashes
I don’t want to burn in a midnight sun
I don’t want to know if the system crashes
I don't want to go i don't want to go
I don't want to lie
I don't want to go
I don't want to lie
I don't want to go

I want to dream you
a beautiful dream.
I want to hold you
in the dark
it would seem
that no one sees me like you do
no one moves the way you move
and I can't see anything else
I want to take you now.
Honestly, you're killing me.

And we're drinking
cheap champagne alone in my room
drinking
your name, you wear my favorite perfume
cheap champagne
the flowers in bloom
drinking your name
champagne.

Champagne

If I was stronger
I would take down the moon
we could hang it up
in the corner of your bedroom
and if at night you could not sleep
you could watch it shine
like counting sheep
and only I'll know where the moon has gone.

I want to take you now.

Honestly, your killing me.

We're drinking
cheap champagne alone in my room
drinking
your name, you wear my favorite perfume
cheap champagne
the flowers in bloom
drinking your name
champagne.

Sitting on the floor of a spinning room
the morning sun won't be coming too soon
it's the way you look in that dress
there's nothing I can taste that compares to you
and nothing I can say that's quite as true
as the gift you are. I confess...

That I... I...
I want to dream you
a beautiful dream.
I want to hold you
in the dark
it would seem
that no one sees me like you do
no one moves the way you move
and I can't see anything else

Champagne with you in my room
drinking
your name, you wear my favorite perfume
cheap champagne
the flowers in bloom
drinking your name
champagne.
cheap champagne with you in my room
drinking
your name, you wear my favorite perfume
champagne
the flowers in bloom
drinking your name
champagne.
Champagne

Waiting tables at your restaurant job
An old man reads the paper in the booth
Where I stop
To say hello when I'm in town

To ask a friend if you're around
And I think about those summer nights
We never slept we didn't mind

And I felt so alive and happy
Just sitting on the porch
And swinging back and forth
Now everything seems so distant

But I promise I'm not too far
When you're alone in your brand new car
Driving your new black car
Into the rain

Are you listening to the radio
Are you driving down a city road
Are you alone in your new black car
I imagine you there

I'm sitting by the window here
The morning birds will reappear
And I feel empty
Our songs are on the radio

You call me up but I have to go
And I'm sorry angel
I'm sorry
But I'll call you right back

I swear
You think I've left you there
Alone with an empty chair
But I whisper your name

[Chorus]
Are you listening to the radio
Are you driving down a city road
Are you alone in your new black car
I imagine you there
Are you listening to the radio
Are you driving down a city road
Are you alone in your new black car
The wind in your hair

Are you tired of watching the rain hit the glass
All alone but aware of the places we've passed
Together we were singing along to the songs
Are you now? are you now?
I'm thinking of you in your college town
Are you thinking of me as you're driving around
Are you listening to me? are you listening?

[Chorus]

Are you listening to the radio
Are you listening to the radio
Are you listening to the radio
Are you listening to the radio

Woo
She said "is anything wrong?"
and I tried to look away
she said I think we should
put it down where secrets lay
I think we finally know
that this won't fill the space
it's over, it's nothing, it's now
the heaviest silence erased, hey hey

If you love me fucking let me go.

I will begin to turn it around
try to start again and watch it come down
I will begin to turn it around
try to start again and watch it come down

Come down
woo
come down

She said "I'll take you home"
I packed up my things
I knew I couldn't handle the words
and the deep regret they bring
I think we finally know
that this won't fill the space
it's over it's nothing it's now
it was more than we could face, hey hey.

If you love me fucking let me go.

I will begin to turn it around
try to start again and watch it come down
I will begin to turn it around
try to start again and watch it come down

Come down
come
woo
come down

Come down

Start again
start again
start again

Why do I find myself here again you disappeared
with no last words I tried to keep you near.
but like he who stood before the open sea,
you rose your god damn hands and fucking parted me.
but I can start again.
I can try again.
I can always break but I can never bend.
you could lie again
never to find again.
it was your mistake but I will start again

I will begin to turn it around
try to start again and watch it come down
I will begin to turn it around
try to start again and watch it come down
I... I... I...
will start again

Woo
come down.

I remember when I only cried
when I fell down
everything was either black or white
but it's gray now
Iremember when I learned of love
and the way she sings
like the hurt and the sting
when they're tearing off your wings
and they won't tell you why
but you'll never learn to fly
and if you feel like i do
then you've seen it too
I've seen angels
Iknow time changes almost everything
I've seen angels
without wings
without wings
I remember when the sun fell down
across a perfect sky
we lit the candles but they all burnt out
and it was a long night
I remember when I learned of death
and the weight of time
and the weight of time
I remember when I only cried
when I fell down
every now and then I still feel like
I'm on the cold ground
looking up at all the things I've lost
taking comfort in the things I've found
in the things i've found
like the hurt and the sting
when they're tearing off your wings
and they won't tell you why
but you'll never learn to fly
and if you feel like i do
then you've seen it too
I've seen angels
I know time changes almost everything
I've seen angels
I've seen angels
like the hurt and the sting
when they're tearing off your wings
and they won't tell you why
but you'll never learn to fly
and if you feel like I do
then you've seen it too
I've seen angels
I know time changes almost everything
I've seen angels
I've seen angels
without without without without
wings
without without without
wings
without without without
wings
without ... without wings

Meteor flower you settled in my life
shine among the cut-out stars and fireflies
singing careful songs across a technicolor night
signals stronger pass between our silver satellites
I think I want to fly away with you
but for now I'm afraid, I'll hold you close it's
all I can do.
Write our names across the galaxy
meteor flower
I'll hold the stars above your life
I'll be your sweet or sour
I could be right there in your perfect stare
I'll be your every hour
write our names across the galaxy
meteor flower
Meteor flower you settled in my night
flashing bright among a field of fireflies
dreaming careful dreams that everyone thought wouldn't last
spinning spider webs around the dying stars we pass
I think I want to fly away with you
but for now i'm afraid, I'll hold you close it's
all I can do.
Write our names across the galaxy
meteor flower
I'll hold the stars above your life
I'll be your sweet or sour
I could be right there in your perfect stare
I'll be your every hour
write our names across the galaxy
In your whisper I get lost
on a stormy sea I'm tossed around 'till nothing else is right
it was a million miles of empty space
before I found a warmer place
orbiting a home up in your sky
up in your sky
Write our names across the galaxy
meteor flower
I'll hold the stars above your life
I'll be your sweet or sour
Icould be right there in your perfect stare
I'll be your every hour
write our names across the galaxy
I could hold the stars above your life
I'll be your sweet or sour
we could write our names across the galaxy.
Write our names across
we could write our names across
we could write our names across the galaxy
meteor flower
meteor
meteor flower
meteor
meteor flower
we could write our names across
the galaxy

I could feel from miles away
the time you spent and the games you played
in his eyes and his name upon your tongue
but I kept walking
Through the pain and the desert sand
through the night as you took his hand
I found a way to remind you how it was
to remind you how it was

So long ago
so long ago
yeah

Let's walk away from the valley
there's no life in here anymore
let's pack our hopes and our dreams away
and just walk through that door

Now we're marching miles until the sky will rest
until we're free, and we're safe unless
you turn around to see it all fall
no we can't look back

She said "I know"
I know
she said I know
I know
she said I know
she said I know
she said I know
that we can't look back

Now our burning city
lighting up the night
now our burning god
takes away our sight
all those fallen angels
came a little late
our forgotten god
never hesitates
hesitates

Trust in me
trust in me
I will give you life
take my hand
take my hand
I will clean your eyes
trust in me
trust in me
I will give you life
close your eyes
close your eyes
from Gomorra's skies

From Gomorra's skies

She said "I know"
she said I know
she I know that we can't look back.
no we can't look
she said I know
no we
we can't look back

Now our burning city
lighting up the night
now our burning god
takes away our sight
all those fallen angels
came a little late
our forgotten god
never hesitates

Trust in me
trust in me
I will give you life
take my hand
take my hand
I will clean your eyes
trust in me
trust in me
I will give you life
close your eyes
close your eyes
from Gomorra's skies

From Gomorra's skies

Trust in me
trust in me

I will give you life

Awaken to a world devoid of hope and faith
I don't want to look anymore
I turn it off but it won't go away.
the pain of a high school end
the rest in a young suicide
the media drawing in
an escape from a young girl's life
from a young girl's life.
And we're falling further every day
now our tallest towers sway
I ’m holding on in this world of decay
and I’ve realized that
this is anything but beautiful
anything but beautiful
this is anything but beautiful
anything but beautiful.
Awaken to a day
the fear in the eyes of a boy
the cold of a hospital stay
where a child is a cancer’s toy
and if the angel for the lord
is the angel with the sword
I don’t believe that anymore
I just don't believe that
still holding on for a chance to be strong
Falling further every day
now our tallest towers sway
I ’m holding on in this world of decay
and I’ve realized
this is anything but beautiful
anything but beautiful
this is anything but beautiful
anything but beautiful.
Somebody hold my eyes closed
somebody make the snow and the rain
one step from the fall don’t you know
looking for heaven but the light never came
somebody keep my head turned
give me a soul for a piece of the wire
I came for a god but it all burned down
in the fire
Falling further everyday
now our deepest oceans dry
we’re holding on in this world
of decay
I've realized
open your eyes
this is anything but beautiful
this is anything but beautiful
anything but beautiful
a world anything but beautiful
anything but
anything but
anything but beautiful
anything but
anything but beautiful
anything but
anything but beautiful
anything but beautiful

There was blue green clay
on the banks that day
as we left the world behind
it was upstream then
like it's upstream now
in this livelong outside
there's a trestle across the water
like my hands across that year
for a moment the green was mine
And our footsteps worn
from years of rain
and it held my hand
like it holds my name
and my childhood born
and the difference
the water washed away
the water washed away
I'm bruised and red
from the pain of rock
stepping stones until I fall
and daggers when I land
a roman candle in my hand
was a weapon to the outside
and I walked in my father's wake
I prayed to a god to take
the endlessness of those shores
And our footseps worn
from years of rain
and he held my hand
he still holds my name
and my childhood born
and the difference
We let the water wash away
the water washed away
The water washed away
the water washed away
the water washed away
the water took it all
all away
Those sacred trails
by the waterside left
to other souls(soles) without love or hate
they're bleeding the everything
they're soiling the brilliant green
and I'm drowning for the water's sake
our footsteps worn
from years of rain
and he held my hand
and I still hold his name
and my childhood born
and the difference
I let the water wash away
The water washed away
Let the water wash away
I let the water wash away
The water washed away
Washed it all
The water washed it all away
I let the water wash away
I let the water wash away
The water washed away
away
Water washed it all away
washed it all away
away
The water washed away
the water washed away
the water washed away
take it all away
all away
There was blue green clay
on the banks that day
as we left the world behind