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IT ALL WENT BLACK

When I was young

I used to dream that I couldn't feel.

Now I'm Old.

I got numb and I got my wish,

because it gets cold.

People come and go.

I watch them come and go. 



If I could bring you back

what more could we say

but how it all went black

and where we are today.



True love,

there is no such thing

because being true

is impossible to be

in the world we live.

So walk on and be free.

The time has passed for love or loyalty.

This word hope

is the worst four-letter curse.

I know it well.

It's written on my arm

under my sleeve,

where I can't see. You know me,

I can see the good in anything.



If I could bring you back

what more could we say

but how it all went black,

and what we might have been.





YESTERDAY

It's hard to remember who you were before.

Boys go to battle, men come home from war.

Fight anyone but the one you've become.

You start not to notice the change

when it's all said and done.



Oh my darling what have you done?  

Yesterday I was the lucky one.  

You gave me everything then took it away.

I just wish we could go back to the start.  

Come back to my heart.  



The fire in your eyes has gone dim overnight.

Faults in the darkness now burn in the light.

Hold on to what's in your head not your hands.

If you're learning you're living.

I'm dying to just understand.

  

Oh my darling what have you done?  

Yesterday I was the lucky one.  

You gave me everything then took it away.

I just wish we could go back to the start.  

Come back to my heart.  



If only you had known me when we were still young.

The blood has left my heart and the breath from my lungs.

Burdens have aged me and left us so cold.

It's harder as time passes just to find something to hold.



Oh my darling what have you done?  

Yesterday I was the lucky one.

You gave me everything, then took it away.

I just wish we could go back to the start.

Come back to my heart.  




ANOTHER LIFE

Would you do it all over again

if you knew that your heart would break?

Did you live your life through someone else,

or go it alone to play it safe?

Are you beating yourself up believing

you've given your art away?

Would you trade it all for one more chance?

Relive the fall from the start, you begin to awake.  



Would you do it all over again

if you knew what your heart could take?

Could you make it last for one more day,

to see them hurt, to watch them fade?

You're deceiving yourself for a reason

to see what your love creates.

If it falls sin sails your separate ways.

Either way one goes and the other one stays.



But maybe we knew each other in another life.

And we keep coming back until we get it right.

When there's nothing left to hold on to

there will still be my hand.

I just wanted you to know this.



These arms are prisons, but all is forgiven.

The key, it hangs from the noose you've tied around your neck.

I believe that we all are given

a chance to right the wrongs we've made.

To see it all for the first time again.

But one goes first and the other one stays.

Yea,

but maybe we knew each other in another life.

And we keep coming back until we get it right.

When there's nothing left to hold on to

there will still be my hand.

I just wanted you to know this.

I just wanted you to notice.

I just wanted you to know I understand.  





CANADIAN GRAFFITI

Alone at first sight you're a terrible thing.

I walked into the room and I fell to my knees.

Boy, you should have seen her.

I wish I'd never been there.



Inked up arms that stretched down to the keys.

A smile that could kill you and a voice to believe

and I thought I used to know her.

These days I hardly bother.



We talked and caught up over a couple of beers.

Two pasts and two futures always unclear.

Maybe you and I could just disappear for a while.



So we wrote down some songs and we toured up the coast.

I know there's been others but I gave you the most.

These days we've got it made good.

Yea, but nothing lasts in this world.



We lit up fast but we burned out quick.

What starts off as magic always ends up a trick

because no one's going to have her.

And nothing's going to save me.



We went back North separate into the cold.

I'm hold up in the house where I live alone.

Can't we just talk about it a little more?



She said hey, don't cry.

Don't miss me. Don't write.

We were only making records.



Hey, don't fight.

Don't kiss me goodbye.

We were only making records.

We were only making records,

and killing time.



We lit up fast but we burned out quick.

She blew out the candle, I smothered the wick.

She took what was left and hit the bricks. 



Hey, don't cry.

Don't miss me. Don't write.

We were only making records.



Hey, don't fight.

Don't kiss me goodbye.

We were only making records.

We were only making records,

and killing time. 



CHAINED TO GHOSTS

I'm not brave enough to find the reason.

Tired and wounded.

Blind by bitter thoughts. Search the ceiling.

Time won't heal me.



You get so alone it just makes sense.



How long trapped in thought, locked in my head?

Seems like always.

Life won't wait for me, poisoned slowly.

Just please end me here.



But time goes passing by and those feelings start to change.

I don't want to hear your voice.

I don't want to see your face.

It's so much better now.

Everything has gone blank.

I don't hear or see or feel a thing.



But you get so alone.

You get so alone it just makes sense. 





TIME WON'T HEAL
I'm still scratching at the scars.
I don't show it on my face.
I'm still chained to ghosts.
Time won't heal me. 






LEFT AGAIN

I've been walking these streets for too many weeks,

trying to make some sense of it all.

You slither back in the sack, and say you're willing to plead.

You tell me all these lies I want so bad to believe.

I don't need your sympathy because this ship has sailed.

You're the kind of girl that always has a backup plan.

So just keep turning your back and running away

from everyone and everything.



I don't want to be the one to sit alone at home and think about it.

I've already done my time in hell.

You don't seem to feel real emotions.

Well I do. I still think about it,

and the silence is killing me.



Left again. I've been left again.



I've been falling asleep for too many weeks

trying to make some sense of this life.

I watch you pack up your bags and say you're ready to leave,

then you tell me all you want is for me to beg you to stay.

I don't need your sympathy because it's insincere.

You're the kind of girl that always needs a backup plan.

So just keep turning your back and running away

from everyone and everything. 



I don't want to be the one to sit alone at home and think about it.

I've already done my time in hell.

You don't seem to feel real emotions.

Well I do. I still think about it,

and the silence is killing me.


Left again. I've been left again.


I don't want to be the one to sit alone at home and think about it.

I've already done my time in hell.

You don't seem to feel real emotions.

Well I do. I still think about it,

and the silence is killing me.



Left again. I've been left again.



I've been left again. I've been hurt. I've been wronged. I've been used. You've been warned.

I've been left again,

and the silence is killing me. 




NEON LIGHTS

God I wish I were a bird.

I'd fly towards the sun, and I'd never return to this place.

It's such a disgrace.

I'd cut my arms and my legs up and burn up in space.

All these other worries and problems we have are something

I never wanted or asked for but I'm too left brained.

You're still away, and I'm still awake.



So I walked to the edge of the earth.

I pissed off the side, and I cursed every name I could think of.

Yours came first.

I just thought you should know I'd been thinking of you.

All these other worries and problems we have are something

I never wanted or asked for but I'm still awake.

You're still away, and I need a drink.



So I'm walking on a Sunday night.

I'm looking for a neon light to carry me home.

I have no place to go.

I'm no sight to see.

God I wish I were a bird.

I'd fly towards the sun, and I'd never return to this place.

You're still away, and I'm still…



…walking on a Sunday night.

I'm looking for a neon light to carry me home.

I have no place to go.

I'm no sight to see. 






BLACK SOCKS SET SAIL

You worked. Youth was stolen far too short from arms length.

I guess for some it's far too hard to part again.

Left to make a choice between your heart and them,

even though they're not competing.



New York, hiding in the suburbs with more mouths to feed.

I guess without our faults then there'd be no you.

There'd be no me.

We'd be all afraid to become what when young we hated.



Leave a flower on my grave.

Save yourself, get far away.

Free your time. Find your place.

Save yourself get far away.



You worked. Arrested by the life it seemed so hard to please.

One can only need so many offerings.

Blessed that need for you was never part of me

I only saw as weakness. 



Leave a flower on my grave.

Save yourself, get far away.

Free your time. Find your place.

Save yourself get far away.






FAVORITE HIGH

Drunken thoughts are hard to hide.

To care these days is suicide.

I drink it all in nice and slow.

Take the stage and let it go.

Got me dizzy with your smile.

A good buzz is so hard to find.

Welcome to the one man show.

A six-pack and a radio.



Is this what it takes just to survive here?



Seen the road now for a while.

You seem to feel too old to try.

My need to move from Itchy feet.

Nine to five is your Ketamine.

Self destruction takes all forms.

Different ways to weather storms.

My love is fragile like a child.

Filled with hope, then cast aside.



Is this what it takes just to survive here?

You're my favorite high.



There's no religion. No shattered lives.

No bad decisions, just better lies.

There's no peace inside a swollen mind.



Send me something from Thoreau.

You're the only song I know.

I've been through here a couple times.

Nothing really calms the mind.

Some will ask me when I'll know

to pack these dreams up and let them go.

They put their hopes up in the sky,

but most are too damn scared to fly there. 



Is this what it takes just to survive here?

You're my favorite high.





GREAT BIG EYES

Life is a dream I make up in my head.

Either this isn't happening or I'm already dead.



Forgive me for the things that I can not change.

Draw from the beauty, not from the pain.



I saw you in a dream holding me years from now.



You had no idea that I was I was in love with you.



So keep your voice low and sing me to sleep.

I hope that I never awake.



Broke down and burned out from too many miles.

So I cut off the engine to rest for a while.



I called out for help, but no one was there.

Just when nothing could save me that's when you appeared.



And I saw you in a dream holding me years from now.



You had no idea that I was in love with you.



So keep your voice low and sing me to sleep.

I hope that I never awake.  



Life is a dream I make up in my head.

Hope that I never awake

Life is a dream I make up in my head.

Either this isn't happening or I'm already dead. 

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