If I could open my arms And span the length of the isle of Manhattan I'd bring it to where you are Making a lake of the East River and Hudson If I could open my mouth Wide enough for a marching band to march out They would make your name sing And bend through alleys and bounce off other buildings
I wish we could open our eyes To see in all directions at the same time Oh what a beautiful view If you were never aware of what was around you And it is true what you said That I live like a hermit in my own head But when the sun shines again I'll pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in
Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound But while you do, they're half empty and half full It slowly rises, your love is gonna drown
Your love is gonna drown Your love is gonna drown Your love is gonna drown Your love is gonna drown Your love is gonna...
I want to live where soul meets body And let the sun wrap its arms around me And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing And feel, feel what its like to be new
Cause in my head there's a greyhound station Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations So they may have a chance of finding a place where they're far more suited than here
I cannot guess what we'll discover We turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels But I know our filthy hand can wash one another's And not one speck will remain
I do believe it's true That there are roads left in both of our shoes If the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too So brown eyes I hold you near Cause you're the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Where soul meets body Where soul meets body Where soul meets body
I do believe it's true That there are roads left in both of our shoes If the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too So brown eyes I hold you near Cause you're the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Squeaky swings and tall grass The longest shadows ever cast The water's warm and children swim And we frolicked about in our summer skin
I don't recall a single care Just greenery and humid air Then Labor day came and went And we shed what was left of our summer skin
On the night you left I came over And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders Our brand new coats so flushed and pink And I knew your heart I couldn't win Cause the seasons change was a conduit And we left our love in our summer skin
Alone on a train aimless in wonder An outdated map crumpled in my pocket But I didn't care where I was going They're all different names for the same place Your ghost just appeared with the scenes from the summer I have no words to share with anyone The boundary of language quietly coos All the different names for the same thing
There are different names for the same things There are different names for the same things There are different names There are different names There are different names There are different names There are different names There are different names There are different names different names
There are different names for the same things There are different names for the same things
Love of mine some day you will die But I'll be close behind I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white Just our hands clasped so tight Waiting for the hint of a spark If heaven and hell decide That they both are satisfied Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you When your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark
In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule I got my knuckles brusied by a lady in black And I held my toungue as she told me "Son fear is the heart of love" So I never went back
If heaven and hell decide That they both are satisfied Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you When your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark
You and me have seen everything to see From Bangkok to Calgary And the soles of your shoes are all worn down The time for sleep is now It's nothing to cry about Cause we'll hold each other soon The blackest of rooms
If heaven and hell decide That they both are satisfied Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you When your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark Then I'll follow you into the dark
Burn it down till the embers smoke on the ground And start new when your heart is an empty room With walls of the deepest blue
Fall fades how it ages when you're away Spring blooms and you find the love that's true But you don't know what now to do Cause the chase is all you know And she stopped running months ago
And all you see is where else you could be When you're at home out on the street Are so many possibilities to not be alone
The flames and smoke climbed out of every window And disappeared with everything that you held dear And you shed not a single tear for the things that you didn't need Cause you knew you were finally free
Cause all you see is where else you could be When you're at home out on the street Are so many possibilities to not be alone
And all you see is where else you could be When you're at home there on the street Are so many possibilities to not be alone
I once knew a girl in the years of my youth With eyes like the summer of beauty and truth But in the morning I fled, left a note and it read Someday you will be loved
I can not pretend that I felt any regret Cause each broken heart will eventually mend As the blood runs red down the needle and thread Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved Like you never have known And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams Just a series of blurs like I never occurred Someday you will be loved
You may fell alone when you're falling asleep And every time tears roll down you cheeks But I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meet And someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved Like you never have known And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams Just a series of blurs like I never occurred Someday you will be loved
You'll be loved, you'll be loved Like you never have known And the memories of me will seem more like bad dreams Just a series of blurs like I never occurred Someday you will be loved Someday you will be loved
It was one hundred degrees As we sat beneath a willow tree Who's tears didn't care, they just hung in the air And refused to fall, to fall
And I knew I'd made horrible call And now the state line felt like the Berlin Wall And there was no doubt about which side I was on
Cause I built you a home in my heart With rotten wood, and it decayed from the start Cause you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along No, you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along
I braved treacherous streets And kids strung out on homemade speed And we shared a bed in which I could not sleep At all, woohoo woohoooo
Cause at night the sun in the tree Made the skyline look like crooked teeth In the mouth of a man who was devouring us both
You're so cute when you're slurring your speech But they're closing the bar and they want us to leave And you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along No, you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along
I'm a war of head versus heart And it's always this way My head is weak, my heart always speaks Before I know what it will say
And you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along No, you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along
And it came to me then That every plan Is a tiny glance of father time As I stared at my shoes In the ICU That reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths As I said to myself That I'd already taken to much today As each descending peak On the LCD Took you a little farther away from me Away from me...
Amongst the vending machines And year old magazines In a place where we only say goodbye It's done like a violent limp That our memories depend On a faulty camera in our minds
And I knew that you were truth I would rather lose Than to have never laid in the sun at all Then I looked around At all the eyes on the ground As the TV entertained itself
Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room Just nervous spaces bracing for bad news Then the nurse comes round and everyone lifts their head And I'm thinking of what Sarah said But love is watching someone die...
So who's gonna watch you die? So who's gonna watch you die?
Time for the final bow Rows of deserted houses All our stable mates are highway bound Give us our measly sum Getting the air inside my lungs is heavenly We're starting out with nothing but crippling doubt. We'll rest easy justified I've suffered a swift defeat I'll endure countless repeats The gift of memory's an awful curse. With age it just gets much worse, but I won't mind
The atlantic was born today and i'll tell you how The clouds above opened up and let it out
I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere When the water filled every hole And thousands upon thousands made an ocean Making islands where no island should go Oh no
Those people were overjoyed; they took to their boats I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flood lands to your door have been silenced forever more The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row It seems farther than ever before Oh no
I need you so much closer [x8]
[instrumental break]
I need you so much closer [x4] So come on, come on [x4]
I want to live where soul meets body And let the sun wrap its arms around me And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing And feel, feel what its like to be new
Cause in my head there's a greyhound station Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations So they may have a chance of finding a place where they're far more suited than here
I cannot guess what we'll discover We turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels But I know our filthy hand can wash one another's And not one speck will remain
I do believe it's true That there are roads left in both of our shoes If the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too So brown eyes I hold you near Cause you're the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Where soul meets body Where soul meets body Where soul meets body
I do believe it's true That there are roads left in both of our shoes If the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too So brown eyes I hold you near Cause you're the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
I want to live where soul meets body And let the sun wrap its arms around me And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing And feel, feel what its like to be new
Cause in my head there's a greyhound station Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations So they may have a chance of finding a place where they're far more suited than here
I cannot guess what we'll discover We turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels But I know our filthy hand can wash one another's And not one speck will remain
I do believe it's true That there are roads left in both of our shoes If the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too So brown eyes I hold you near Cause you're the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Where soul meets body Where soul meets body Where soul meets body
I do believe it's true That there are roads left in both of our shoes If the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too So brown eyes I hold you near Cause you're the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
It was one hundred degrees As we sat beneath a willow tree Who's tears didn't care, they just hung in the air And refused to fall, to fall
And I knew I'd made horrible call And now the state line felt like the Berlin Wall And there was no doubt about which side I was on
Cause I built you a home in my heart With rotten wood, and it decayed from the start Cause you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along No, you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along
I braved treacherous streets And kids strung out on homemade speed And we shared a bed in which I could not sleep At all, woohoo woohoooo
Cause at night the sun in the tree Made the skyline look like crooked teeth In the mouth of a man who was devouring us both
You're so cute when you're slurring your speech But they're closing the bar and they want us to leave And you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along No, you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along
I'm a war of head versus heart And it's always this way My head is weak, my heart always speaks Before I know what it will say
And you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along No, you can't find nothing at all If there was nothing there all along
I remember when the days were long, And the nights when the living room was on the lawn. Constant quarreling, the childish fits, and our clothes in a pile on the ottoman. All the slander and double-speak Were only foolish attempts to show you did not mean Anything but the blatant proof was your lips touching mine in the photobooth.
And as the summer's ending, The cool air will put your hard heart away. You were so condescending And this is all that's left Scraping paper to document. I've packed a change of clothes and it's time to move on.
Cup your mouth to compress the sound, Skinny dipping with the kids from a nearby town. And everything that I said was true, As the flashes blinded us in the photobooth. Well, I lost track, and then those words were said. You took the wheel and you steered us into my bed. Soon we woke and I walked you home, And it was pretty clear that it was hardly love.
And as the summer's ending, The cool air will rush your hard heart away. You were so condescending. And this is all that's left Scraping paper to document. I've packed a change of clothes and it's time to move on.
And as the summer's ending, The cool air will rush your hard heart away. You were so condescending, As the alcohol drained the days.
And as the summer's ending, The cool air will rush your hard heart away. You were so condescending. And this is all that's left The empty bottles, spent cigarettes. So pack a change of clothes, 'cause it's time to move on.
You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be No longer easy on the eyes but these wrinkles masterfully disguise The youthful boy below who turned your way and saw Something he was not looking for both a beginning and an end But now he lives inside someone he does not recognize When he catches his reflection on accident
On the back of a motor bike With your arms outstretched trying to take flight Leaving everything behind But even at our swiftest speed we couldn't break from the concrete In the city where we still reside. And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men Cause now we say goodnight from our own separate sides Like brothers on a hotel bed Like brothers on a hotel bed Like brothers on a hotel bed Like brothers on a hotel bed
