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Frozen in place
Filling the space in between us
there’s just stardust and some tears
Sun's getting low
We’re never going to know
but I keep hopin' that the spark will reappear
Would you stay, would you go?
Would you lie, would I even know?
When I ask you: do you love me?
There is no right answer
Would you fall, would you fly?
Either way you’ll never see me cry
When you ask me: do I love you?
There is no right answer
Promise to keep
the truth buried deep
So far down I only feel it in my bones
How many nights
I’d see you in the lights
of the city and the rain on the stones
Sometimes you look like you might know for sure
and my heart beats faster
If we don't feel a little insecure
then we’re headed for disaster
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I have no illusions left
I’ve shed my last pretense
a shadow of my sunday best
in a world that makes no sense
I threw the grand charades
with my stamp the deals were made
to my will whole nations would bend
a smile from me was silver
a kiss was solid gold
now I’m rich in a coin I’ll never spend
Dance with me, feel the pull of the stars
How the beating of my heart
Slows for one sweet moment
That's all I need, one little thing that's ours
so when we finally drift apart
I'll still know the pull of the stars
I hear your voice but you're not here
it's the howling winds of change
blowing out the candles in the chandelier
‘til only one remains
The north facade fell first
no battle just the curse
of time passed that we cannot retrieve
the others found escapes
through death or friends betrayed
the grandest tapestry will one day unweave
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There, on those rocks
my brother made out with his girl and a tourist caught them at it
There, by the waterfall
we lit a fire and said our last goodbye to summer
there were screams and laughter and bitter tears
we tried not to notice we went farther out every year
I guess what I’m trying to say
There’s no one else I’d rather be with
Here at the end of it all
The chill of the wind, the sting of our tears
Hold me as the last ice falls
we kissed knee deep in the river there
we came up for air to find the sun had set
I, I never wanted you
like I wanted you when you shivered from the wet
our clothes were steaming as they dried above the fire
the ancient cold wasn’t a match for our desire
I picked the kids up from school
Oh baby we were fools
scared the years would change us
you are twice what you were
I’ve never been so sure
it’s a fair exchange
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Highway 101
03:50
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I drift ‘round corners
borrow from gravity
use up endorphins
borrowed from future me
'cause he's not here yet
why should he get all the fun?
stupid boy he still thinks you’re the one
I left this morning
the sky was dirty glass
I thought about swerving into
every car I passed
‘cause I’m not there yet
don’t even know what’s down this road
stupid plan was nothing more than "GO"
When my tires leave the road
For a moment I won’t know
I’ll be flying
Just like loving you
As I fall I’ll say a prayer
Raindrops frozen in midair
just like crying
crying over you
I carried water
from your poison well
we raised our glasses high
until I couldn't tell
where you end and I begin
the marks on my skin
like the lines on the highway
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I never took a chance
Sized up the world at first glance
Fit my emotions in their places
Never thought that it could come unraveling like this
Face to face with you the summer wind is blowin’ in
And I could sure use some of that girl
If you kiss me one more time
I will miss my last train home
If I give into your lips on mine
I am sinking like a stone
Goodbye to my last train home
I built a quiet life
Got good at hiding desperation
Checked all the boxes you’re supposed to
One touch from you and I’m giving up the ghost, you are
Testing my limits, testing all of my control
Watching myself crash in slow motion
The space between me and who I could be is a desert, a starless sky
And I don’t know where to turn
The space between us dissolving slowly
Surround me, envelop me, and I'll forget my way back home
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Packed my bag full of regrets
Cut strings and placed my bets
Trapped my hopes inside a room with a view
Falling rain on dirty streets
tried in vain on dirty sheets
To find a substitute for you
Then in the stillness of dawn
I’ll find out where it all went wrong
before the battle lines were drawn
I don’t know where you’ve gone but I’m find gonna you
I dream of falling through the glass
The desperate lives I’d pass
I wake up just before I hit the ground
One of these nights it will be over
If beauty's in the eye of the beholder
Baby you'll be framed in light
burst out of the night
like the dawn of a brand new day
And when my love reaches out to you
will you feel me?
will you know it’s me?
I'm waiting there
in the stillness of dawn
I’ll find out where it all went wrong
before the battle lines were drawn
I don’t know where you’ve gone but I’m find gonna you
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I remember when the lights went out again
We poured another and pretended it's the end
Inch by inch we grew
too big for the world
One by one we flew
Into the great unknown
Songbird spread your wings
Keep the engines runnin’ and the filters clean
I cut the cord that kept us in between
I told you all my secrets
and suddenly I’m floating into space
we won’t remember when the times were lean
the sun is brighter than we’ve ever seen
tell me all your secrets
and we won’t leave a trace
We never needed our feet upon the ground
We don’t need to see the flash to hear the sound
five by five we read
you are the first one I call
time by groundspeed
shot out like a cannonball
Songbird spread your wings
Keep the engines runnin’ and the filters clean
I cut the cord that kept us in between
I told you all my secrets
and suddenly I’m floating into space
we won’t remember when the times were lean
the sun is brighter than we’ve ever seen
tell me all your secrets
and we won’t leave a trace
If there’s something out there gonna fire at will
The rounds will fly forever in the endless still
We don’t have to worry anymore that they’ll fall back down
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I thought you loved
the lightning in my veins
when I would take your reins
and shake your foundations
I thought you wanted
your doors off their hinges
life on the fringes
of a greater temptation
Shattered glass on the floor
now I’m watching a door
you won’t walk through anymore
Damn you
Now I see that she is your harbor
and I’m the storm
My rage and pain crash on your window
as she keeps you warm
I thought you cheered my
bitter cold shoulder
how I give no quarter
when love is the prize
I broke the sky wide
sundered the earth
but you proved your worth
and your courage were lies
I refuse to concede
I know what you need
I’m bringing the hells home with me
tonight
But you were all along
a leaf in the wind and I was wrong
to think you could stand beside me
when my rage is coming sideways
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When I got your letter
we were in the middle of a dance
walking a fine line
stopping just short of romance
Drowning my sorrows
tears falling on the page
you’re fighting the good fight
I’m rattling my gilded cage
where are you now?
I’m lost in the garden of your words
every platitude a weed
every ‘I Love You’ a bed of roses
prick my finger, do I not bleed?
I put on a brave face
Take up causes and take down names
I am lightness I am mercy I am grace
but I'll never be the same
The girl that you left won’t be here if you return
I can’t find my stance on a world that refuses to turn
where are you now?
I’m lost in the garden of your words
every compliment a weed
every ‘I Love You’ a bed of roses
prick my finger, do I not bleed?
I think you want a statue
patient as a stone
but I’m only human
flesh and bone
yeah I’m restless flesh and bone
I can’t read your words through
the tears falling on the page
you’re fighting the good fight
I rattle my gilded cage
where are you now?
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I felt the crash, I was thrown clear
they burned to ash, I dusted myself off and ran
I cut the ties, broke the cycle
I will rise up and carry on the best I can
beside your black heart I shine gray
take me in your arms there's nothing left to say
hey let's make waves
Let them drag us into the breach
You, I choose you
but you linger just out reach
come back to me
you pulled the string, it all unraveled
winter spring, back in the machine you go
so sabotage it, dance on the pieces
break the mirage it's the fantasy they sell you know these
stolen moments are no way to live
taking is easy but something’s gotta give
I know it calls your name
you know it haunts me too
Tether to me
we will make it through together
you know it calls my name
I know it haunts you too
join with me
we’ll wash over this dirty world like waves
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Petrified
03:52
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summer when the rain is on fire
your skin is steaming beneath your coat
we scheme and we conspire
to circle round desire in a leaky boat
we went up the mountain a subtle storm
a tempest in a teacup by the fire
the spark between us it lept the firmament a shooting star
all energy potential a rainstorm so torrential it never fell
a gold rush never ending we got caught pretending we know its tell
obvious like the mountain beneath you shedding water
shedding skin we’re reborn new
and all we know about love is how to hold it till it’s gone
I tried to stand up straight and tall
I turned to stone
I tried but I was petrified
we were giddy from the riches bigger than our britches
we thought we had more time
years from I’ll dust off a picture frame
the heat will rise in waves and take my breath
the unresolveable tension evidence that we were fools
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