The Guy
I was feeling kinda low that day when I
saw a guy
In a butterfly jacket on the corner spinning words of life
or maybe it was rye
So yes indeed in need I move close
Try to find my missing life
Just then he looks at me says
"Yes, I know my dear"
Cause I know somehow it all becomes the
same
It’s just the wait that takes us
Time and time again we try to fly,
Deny there will ever be a change
If you wanna go
I can take you with me
Come and go
These are your days
If you wanna go I can take you with me
Come and go
These are your days
Moments later we are right in the center
Of a deep conversation and I start to wondering
If all of this is happening and do I really care?
So I watch all the people gather round astounded
By his move and his colorful infinity
Just then the looks at me says
"Yes, I know my dear"
Cause I know somehow we all become the same
It’s just the wait that breaks us
Time and time again we try to fly,
Deny there will ever be a change
If you wanna go
I can take you with me
Come and go
These are your days
If you wanna go
I can take you with me
Come and go
These are your days
So why is it every time I think I got it
Just about right someone’s there
Trying to stick it to me right in the middle
Just about the time all hope is gone somehow
Someone comes along to say I believe in all this
Hap-hap-happiness
If you wanna go
I can take you with me
Come and go
These are your days I can take you with me
Come and go
These are your days
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Fine Romance
We’ve got such a fine romance
Close calls all at long distance
I can hit the pavement whenever you might feel
There is nowhere to go
No place is my own
Mondays they still come and go
Filled with nicotine and no shows
Your passions only good about two days a week
There’s nowhere to go
Nowhere’s my own
All that I want
All but has up and gone
I should have known
All I want
Now and then becomes the start of the end
All for love
All for love
All for love
Knock knock there’s nobody home
Fancy invites to a tired joke
Punch me with that line that has been
Making you so weak
There’ll be nowhere to go
Nowhere’s my own
All that I want
All but has up and gone
I should have known
All I want
Now and then becomes the start of the end
All for love
All for love
All for love
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Color A Life
Goodbye lost time
How it seems to get away
If I knew why
My world might take a simple shape
I long to see the side of this
When patience tells me to forgive
Cause we’ve all been wronged and wronged ourselves
Picture perfect, what a scheme
I am what you see
Color a life it’s all pretend
I couldn’t be what I was then
Further away from what has been
Color a life and back again
Shameless, hard pressed
To make the coming days worthwhile
Intrigue so deep
It hardly seems to make much sense
Nothing gives and no one gets
The very things that they expect
Over and over
Tell myself it’s make believe
I know what I need
Color a life it’s all pretend
I couldn’t be what I was then
Further away from what has been
Color a life and back again
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Lay Low
Wait, somebody said that I could stay
There’s still room left for me
I thought that I’d leave long ago
But this place is the one I know
It’s never quite ever right
Everyone take a step aside
We all know just what it’s like
When nothing is the one thing
That we keep on finding
Curl up in imagination
God if we were all that patient
Lay low
Everyone needs the chance to
Say so
This is all I can take
Ease up on your heart its breaking
Everything that you’ve been saying
Yeah yeah yeah
Strange, there’s nothing here
That is the same
I had it so well planned
A young girls eyes can’t see the change
That crosses time and comes with age
If we only had it right the first time
Everyone take a step aside
We all know just what it’s like
When nothing is the one thing
That we keep on finding
Curl up in imagination
God if we were all that patient
Lay low
Everyone needs the chance to
Say so
This is all I can take
Ease up on your heart it’s breaking
Everything that you’ve been saying
Yeah yeah yeah
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Complicated
Fireworks out of a noisy corner
The sun is shining underground
People got a mind-set of their own
Break my bones with simple conversation
Bullshit needs an alibi
Turn around and make me understand
Would you answer, would you care
To know all of this could be a little better
Got a feeling less than right
Never thought of keeping such a strange life
I don’t know why
Something’s always lost
I can’t get it done, I’m so tired of waiting
I don’t know why
Something’s always lost
Everything’s become so complicated
All alone, completely suffocating
Yeah my sorrow needs a man
Just so I can show him who I am
Violins are swelling with the notion
I’m not a girl who misses much
Every single thing is out of touch
Would you answer, would you care
To know all of this could be a little better
Get a feeling less than right
Never thought of keeping such a strange life
I don’t know why
Something’s always lost
I can’t get it done, I’m so tired of waiting
I don’t know why
Something’s always lost
Everything’s become so complicated
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All I Remember
Please explain, someone tell me why
When I got it good like a body should
Go on and leave me high and dry
More than I care to handle anyhow
Go screaming what’s right is right
If I were brave you know I might
I want cool lines, slow talk, I find
A little bit of lonely takes it away
Oh I can almost feel it
But I don’t want to wake up
I don’t want to wake up
All I remember I try to forget
It keeps coming again
Leaving no end
All I remember I try to forget
What’s done is done
So we begin again
Caught again, Bell to the ground
I swore this mystery would not take me down
No way of telling me that this is how it has to be
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen paradise
I want cool lines, slow talk, I find
A little bit of lonely takes it away
Oh I can almost feel it
But I don’t want to wake up
I don’t want to wake up
All I remember I try to forget
It keeps coming again
Leaving no end
All I remember I try to forget
What’s done is done
So we begin again
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Paper Flowers
Did he make you smile
Did you hear her laugh
Funny how it becomes
Pretty as a picture torn in half
The man is dressed in black
Fade from happy into sad
All they ever wanted was a simple thing
That simply didn’t come
It always seems so very obvious
Still it always feels undone
A little time and everything gets old
Paper flowers they too will fold
The quiet only marks the time
All is understood
The place where they divide
The only way they could
The woman lay in white
Another day into night
All they ever wanted was a simple thing
That simply didn’t come
It always seems so very obvious
Still it always feels undone
A little time and everything gets old
Paper flowers they too will fade
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Painted
Bride
In glowing color
Wrapped so neat and tight
Set safe aside
How do you know the heart
When all you ever see is a mesmerizing scene
I’ll wait for you
I know the truth has always been so incomplete
What you hide is what we need
The secret you see its one that we can never keep
Do you want me to know
Is it already growing from inside
Giving us this restless life
Just how do I tell which way it will fall this time
When all you see is a painted bride
You’ve taken over
All that I’m to be is all so perfectly unkind
Mosaic color
The hue will start to fade
Cast a subtle shade on me
I’ll wait for you I know the truth
has always been so incomplete
What you hide is what we need
The secret you see is one that we can never keep
Do you want me to know
Is it already growing from inside
Giving us this restless life
Just how do I tell which way it will fall this time
When all you see is a painted bride
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Last Word
A jewel cornered box, ornate gold trim
There must be something inside
That tears at your need to have everything
What is it I have to hide
How could such a small thing
Be all giving to me
What if I told you
That all I am holding is hope on a string
The last word’s unspoken
So leave it unopened
It will be better that way
The first woman’s gift, quite admired
A blessing deep in disguise
Go on continue to pry but you won’t find
What you can’t recognize
What you wouldn’t give
To escape with all this
What if I told you
That all I am holding is hope on a string
The last Word’s unspoken
So leave it unopened
It will be better that way
So much better that way
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One Last Time
So many faces behind me
Tell the story of those yet to come
I look for a place to define me
I don’t have a single one
So I open my heart like a window
The cold rushes through once again
lucky could carry the moment
If only I knew when
Cause it wouldn’t be just for a lifetime
It’s not just my soul’s content
Wait for love to rest quiet beside me
One last time
I’ve been thinking about forever
Could be its driving me mad
Walking through scenes
Of things that won’t be
Losing what I never had
Time continues to wander
A sympathetic thought clears my mind
Lay me out, everything for a reason
Somehow this one is mine
Cause it wouldn’t be just for a lifetime
It’s more than my souls content
Wait for love to rest quiet beside me
One last time
It wouldn’t be just for a lifetime
It’s more than my souls content
Wait for love to rest quiet beside me
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