BALLAD 629
i know why the sun didn’t shine on your birthday, despite all the lies
i saw the paramedics take your breath away
when they told you that your stupid game took a life
but you close your eyes and it’s okay
so why do you hold your skin accountable for everything that goes wrong
how can you shun your friends when they’re next to you
and infect them when they’re gone
do you cry when i ’m on your mind
or just close your eyes ‘til it’s okay, walk away
you’re wishing upon your t.v. screen
counting every dream in the deep blue sea ‘til it’s gone
you wake up in the arms of make believe
on a shelf in your room with all the beautiful things you love
i know why the sun didn’t shine on your birthday,
but who blacked out the skies?
it felt like wintertime was coming early
when you told me that you never meant for me to die
BETTER THAN TEN
ricky had a shot at the top of the charts
riding on half a voice and the pre-shattered hearts
of the teenage girls to whom he meant the world
but the easily entertained are the easily bored
and now he’ll never get better than ten, better than ten
eddie fell in shock at the fame that he lost
left his life on the mic and his heart nearly stopped
yeah, i guess he forgot in the haze of the pot
what put him on top was the business that he fought
now he’ll never get better than ten
better than never get better than ten, better than ten
watching all the stars falling (live without a net)
but they'll keep coming back again and again and again
i’m not just one more comet burning up and out
britney’s rockin’ art on her innermost parts
hoping life won’t fall apart but she never would’ve thought
that a belly-button ring could have speared her through the heart
now everything’s fading, it’s all going dark
BETWEEN YOU AND ME
so how many times does it take ‘til you get it right?
i suppose more than you’ve ever had before
is it too much to ask that you look me in the eyes?
smile and nod, ‘cause you just don’t understand
tonight there’s nothing between you and me but the galaxy
and it’s just like my dreams, except that it seems
in my dreams you almost love me
so do you still say your prayers each and every night
or did your pillow claim your loyalty?
and if i should die before you wake you know it’s all right
heaven loves you, but hell still misses me
so how many times does it take ‘til i get it right?
i suppose more than i've ever had before
COME AROUND
darlin’, won’t you come around
i’m feeling a little unknown
darlin’, won’t you come around
whenever the weather turns cold
i’ve been wondering on about when in the world
your heart started taking on the shape of a carousel
wondering on about when in the world
you stopped feeling your soul
but i’ll keep waiting for you
i’ll keep waiting for you
i’ll keep waiting for you… for now
darlin’, won’t you come around
rest my weary soul
there’s a darkness i feel that’s covering this town
but your touch lights up my world
but i’ll keep waiting for you
i’ll keep waiting for you
i’ll keep waiting for you...
CRUSH
she wakes up late sunday morning
warm in bed, outside it’s storming
she gets up slow, because she’s got no place to go
and looks out her window
he regrets not packing the chute
now that his plane is en route
to the building below where it’s sure to blow
that poor girl in the window
God get me out of here
i am overcome with fear, and it’s clear
this ain’t one of my better days
it looks like i’m headed your way, so today i pray
i woke up late yesterday morning
she calls me up to say she’s going
to leave me again, now she’s my triple-x girlfriend
oh God, will this ever end?
it’s funny how it sometimes seems
your worst nightmare is the girl of your dreams
and you waste years making up for wasted time
it’s funny how it always ends
you kiss, you hug, you say, “we’ll always be friends”
then you go at each other for the rest of your lives
i think you’re great, God,
but i don’t need you around
but disregard that when she leaves me
lying face down on the ground
EVERMORE
i don’t want anybody knowing so i close my eyes, my dear, and i
will dim this heart and the rate at which it’s growing
and i won’t fall for amberthol anymore… anymore
and i want to die for you
and a love worth dying for
is the only love i’ll know evermore… evermore
there’s nothing i wouldn’t do for your love
just when you think that i’ve given enough
i’m giving some more
because my heart just don’t want to let go
JUST SAY YOU LOVE ME
i’d give the world for a ticket to the thoughts in your head
i wouldn’t give a dream for a thing that you've said
just say that you love me, just say that you love me
you told me i was a chapter in a book that you read
as you recited poems from the book of the dead
flagging down the astronauts from up on your ledge
winding up the time bomb in the back of your head
just say that you love me, just say that you love me
how long have we been going so wrong
how long will love keep going on and on and on
i’d give the world for a ticket to the thoughts in your head
i wouldn’t give a dream for a dear thing that you said
just say that you love me, just say that you love me
JUST YOU
some days i want to run for weeks
find a cold, cold world and just fall asleep
trip through the hills like a drunken fool
but today i just want you
some days i want monetary bliss
a song to sing similar to this
a seaside home and a room with a view
but today i just want you
i just want you, don't ask me why
since you've got nothing better to do
why don't you be mine
some days i wish that i could sing
but as you can see it's no big thing
some days i wish that i could fly
but right now i'd settle for being by your side
KEEP DREAMING ON
if i could make you love me, what good would it do
give it time to break me and that’s just what it’d do
but i’m glad you’re here to catch my last breath
the end of my existence as a martyr for loneliness
but if you think this is over yet
keep dreaming on
i’d never make you love me, what’s that say about you?
but we both feel something you know it's true
but now you’ve come to hate the things you didn’t regret
you gained your independence at the cost of your innocence
but if you feel love’s left us yet
keep dreaming on
if i could let you love me
i’m sure it’s just what you’d do
LAST SONG
it's all i can do to stare through you
it takes everything within me
if you would only look at me the way you never do
i might find a chance to be happy
but you don't know i'm alive, so why am i?
but now i won't be for long, another minute and i'll be gone
i'm gonna kill myself at the end of this song
if you would only look for me when you walk in the room
like i pretend i never do for you
if you just weren't so beautiful, and so sweet too
i might never have fallen for you
LAST TIME
she left on a night just like this
traced my lips with her fingertips last time
cold chill on the glass in her breath
what she couldn’t say she held in her kiss goodbye
if you don’t let go i can’t grab hold and we’ll all fall down
so where are you going to now?
you should have known somehow
where you’re going to now
is your heart still burning down?
upstairs i keep hearing the screams
the drink in my veins keeps bringing my dreams to life
one more just to calm down the nerves
but all it does is remind me of her… why?
i don’t need you, i can get through without your doubt
i’m above all of this and now you’re gonna find out
MEMPHIS
she was the sharpest shard from her broken home
running as fast as she could from all she'd ever loved and known
to keep from cutting them to the bone
but she couldn't run as fast as steel can go
coming up fast on the busted back glass of a rusted, battered ford
honey, what are you running for?
don't turn around
'cause we both know i could break your heart
and staying in tennessee is a pretty good start
i can't prove you were on my mind - i walk the line
memphis and me are gonna be just fine
grieving the years of all the time i spent
thinking of how to get you back before you ever ran
now i'm too tired to follow the plan
lest you forget that little girl was you
the truth of the past is staring you back through a crack in the rearview
darlin', i'm done chasing you
don't turn back now
'cause we both know i could break your heart
that mississippi river's gonna tear this love apart
but i've got cash and elvis on my side - i walk the line
memphis and me are gonna be just fine
OPEN YOUR EYES
if you're so independent, why are you afraid to die alone?
you say that love's the thing that's killing you
but darling don't you know
when love feels just like suicide you've already died
so prove to me that you're still alive
and open your eyes
you still mistake reality for proof that we're all on our own
what's the sense subscribing to the truth
to leave it scattered on the lawn?
if sight of the truth was denied how hard would you fight
to tear through the lie that struck you blind
and open your eyes
PERFECT SOMETIMES
it’s been far too long since you’ve fallen in love
so i guess this’ll just have to do
so can we pretend that i’ve already said
everything you wanted me to
to make you mine, though i’m not what you had in mind
but i… i'll be fine
whenever you feel like perfection’s in reach
it’s time to wake up from the lie
and i can’t be what you’re expecting of me
but we could still be perfect sometimes
we could still be perfect sometimes
you’d never expect that you’d ever neglect
your heart as it started to bloom
but doubt and regret broke your heart and your neck
on the love that you’d fallen into
i realize that i’m not what you had in mind
but just try to say goodbye
it’s been far too long since you’ve fallen in love
so i guess that i’ll just have to do
SEND IT ON HOME
come on, get out, turn your back on your shadow of doubt
and just let it go, just send it on home
get off, get high, it’s just another way to die
with an electric smile, still feeling in style
i don’t see why you’re broken hearted
when the time of your life hasn’t even started
your future looked bright ‘til your history bought it
so just send it on home to the dear departed
i’ll be sending my love to you, sending my love to you
God only knows why - you just can’t shake the truth
i’m sending my love to you
get up, get back, don’t even try pretending that
a trip around the sun can change where you’re from
the big love you want is ever going to be enough
for what you’re dreaming of
SINCE I FOUND YOU
sorry about the confusion,
it looks like we’re human after all
somehow something happened
to someone quite some time ago
the details are hazy, conjecture’s heavy,
and the angels say we got it all wrong
colors fall through the sky
like the night we watched the stars
when you whispered to me
one day you’d die in my arms
the scent of the wind, the feel of you breathing,
resurrected by these pictures i hold
since i found you forever started getting closer
since i found you i can’t help but smile when it rains
i’m in a constant state of sunday stroll,
my dreams are leaving scars on my pillow
i’m back on heaven’s mailing list
and it all just goes to show
love is all i know since i found you
still hurting from the incision,
the girl who took my heart from me to germany
but love restored my heart and my vision,
the love that fell from cloud to ground, the love surround
i’m lost in my mind with my world turning blind,
but you were always there to carry me home
since i found you, the thunder doesn’t break so hard now
since i found you, miracles live moments away
and on the night i tried to kill my soul, you still held me through it all
i may just be a recurring prodigal, but you never let me go
i’m never alone since i found you
i wish i could chain myself to you so i could never run