1. |
Let Me Down
03:38
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Let me down for a minute
This world and everything in it
Can't be the way that he meant it
If he meant it
Seems we're walking in circles
It's not fair that we feel so close
No one knows where the time goes
Where the time goes
I'm standing all alone somewhere in between
My dreams that have crumbled and this world I see
I watch us drown it goes so slow
Your eyes close as we let go
I thought it would stop if I let go
So I let go
Still I'm all alone somewhere in between
My dreams that have crumbled and this world I see
Let me down for a minute
We're lost and it’s us who did it
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2. |
Morn Pushes On
04:22
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Sleep
Stay here with me
Dream not of being lonely
Keep
Your hand within reach
Suppose I should need and you weren't there
Wake
To a morning birds song
That keeps pushing on and on towards
Day
Should you wander on
Find your way back at least by dawn
This daydream keeps fading when night's begun
Please wake me when you've come back to me
Come back to me my love
We'll rest
While others progress
We'll count not the hours but days
When we met
I thanked God we met
So now we can live in all our sin
This daydream keeps fading when night's begun
Please wake me when you've come back to me
Come back to me my love
Or leave me dreaming
This daydream keeps fading when night's begun
Please tell me will you be back for me?
Come back to me my love
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3. |
Gallery Walls
05:12
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I stare at these gallery walls as I'm trying to find myself
So many pictures and so many paintings of somebody else
I've looked into mirrors I've looked out those windows but none of them help
Been looking so long can't be sure that my mind hasn't gone somewhere else
I'll never get used to saying that we used to
Avoid all the people who ask where she went to
The kinds of things that weigh her down
I tried my best to hide them all
To keep her head above the clouds
The tether only came undone
Now I'm left with all the things
Tattered books and busted seams
Strewn across the space between
These walls I never leave
I listen to the wind as it blows against the faint tick of time on the wheel
I listen to the birds but the words that they're saying are completely unreal
I listen to the voices inside of my head as they tell me I'm ill
But I can hear the flood that's coming and the loss I can already feel
Does she hide in the same quiet places we went to?
Go home with my friends just to spite what we've been through?
The kinds of things that weigh her down
I tried my best to hide them all
To keep her head above the clouds
The tether broke and now she's gone
Now I'm left with all the things
Tattered books and busted seams
Strewn across the space between
These walls she built for me
Staring at these gallery walls I've decided I need someone else
There's too many pictures to hold that I know I can find her myself
I've looked into mirrors I've looked out those windows there's nobody there
Been waiting so long now I know that this road doesn't go anywhere
I'll never get used to saying that we used to
Avoid thinking time's gonna fix what I need to
But I broke and decided to call 'cause miss you
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4. |
Bone and Blood
05:04
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The time has come to open up
Because you were only ever present in your bone and blood
It's my turn to run and just because
We never took a minute of our time to fall in love
Top down pieces of our lives found poignantly awry
Fall down like the shooting stars were omen in disguise
If I dropped by to tell you that you never listened
Would that be alright?
Foresight left my feelings stranded and heavy handed
You got left behind
I never said I mind
If time is just then what the fuck
Could we have ever hoped to do about the things to come
As I've begun to spill my guts
I'm not about to say I would have given bone or blood
Guard down whole bodied with minds now beaten back and bruised
Broke not furled hearts coming unbound we broke before we knew
If I dropped by to tell you that you never listened
Would that be alright?
Foresight left my feelings stranded and heavy handed
You got left behind
I never said I mind
If what you had in mind
Was bone and blood and time
The other girl I find
I'll give her all of mine
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5. |
I Can't Sleep
03:52
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So the truth settles in
As I chalk up all that you've been
Nobody told me you'd be gone today
I run through my head all the things that I'd say
Can you rest now? 'Cause I can't sleep
I'm drawing blanks on the answers I need
I turn the pages but none of this writing I read
Can help me to sleep
So I'm left to discern
The questions won't cease to burn
I am certain your burden no one deserves
The point that you made becomes the lesson I learn
Can you rest now? 'Cause I can't sleep
I'm drawing blanks on the answers I need
I turn the pages but none of this writing I read
Can help me to sleep
Now I have to try to say goodbye
I know this won't reach you
But what have I left of you?
Can you rest now? 'Cause I can't sleep
I'm drawing blanks on the answers I need
I turn the pages but none of this writing I read
Can help me to sleep
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6. |
Pieces
05:01
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He never said it was over
He only left and he never came back home
Keep looking over your shoulder
Put up a wall and you show how tall it's grown
Everything inside is all your own
Put away the need for anyone
Take another day to come undone
Don't mind me I'll just be
Picking up the pieces
Scattered 'round your empty home
If you come to thinking
If you find a reason
To replace what's come undone
We can retrace our steps and I
Can follow the places that you hide
And on our way back to the start
Gather the pieces of your heart
He never said that he loved you
He only meant that he wants to take you home
And if you're feeling so empty
It's just because of a love you've never known
And all of this time you've been alone
Step into the sadness you have won
Take another day to come undone
Don't mind me I'll just be
Picking up the pieces
Scattered 'round your empty home
If you come to thinking
If you find a reason
To replace what's come undone
We can retrace our steps and I
Can follow the places that you hide
And on our way back to the start
Gather the pieces of your heart
Sometimes you need ordinary tears on an ordinary night
It's too much to keep inside
Don't try to be tough as any stone and fix it on your own
Don't mind me I'll just be
Picking up the pieces
Scattered 'round your empty home
If you come to thinking
If you find a reason
To replace what's come undone
We can retrace our steps and I
Can follow the places that you hide
And on our way back to the start
Gather the pieces of your heart
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7. |
These Arms of Mine
03:45
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Quietly as the page runs out
Shadows cast by your red candle's beam
Scoff at me because I can't let go
Hide between the lines
I try
I can't help but think you lie staring up at the sky
In the arms of a guy who promises to keep you from every strife
For the rest of your life knowing that I'd die just to be there
Holding you again now in these arms of mine
The shifting sea in my mind turns to sand
Every grain is a word you spoke to me
Sifting through the ones I believe
And the words you mean
I can't bear to think you lie in the midst of the night
In the arms of a guy who promises to give you anything you'd like
Can you keep on despite knowing that I'd die just to be there
Holding you again now in these arms of mine?
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8. |
Headed Out
03:04
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She'd take everything
Scrounge my secrets to keep
Locked in boxes and crates
But she cuffs me with the linens
Packs them all on board and sails away
I beckoned that blue sky
To be calm for her
She may have been mad
But maybe it's worse
That she's sailing through the ocean
Laughing to herself
Getting drunk on port and potions
Can't remember when she felt
That the days would make her older
Or the years would all run out
There's no talking with the preacher
Left her reason and she headed out
I've reasoned with street lights
To show me a sign
I write down my secrets
And I fill these empty bottles
Give the ocean my words
So she knows I'm in this city
Keeping to myself
Getting drunk on wine and whisky
Been a while since I felt
That the days have made me older
And my time is almost out
There's no talking with the keeper
Take my reason I'm headed out
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