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Down
Don't be alarmed
I'm safe from harm over here
I've called again
Again and then again over here
The rain must be strong
To last so long over there
You just hold on
Soon it will be gone over there
These streets are clear
Where I held you near, seems like so long
I can't let fear
Misjudge these tears, that would be wrong
Well I can't wait to demonstrate
How words can set you free
My words will show what you already know
The past isn't so with me
I hear it now
Thundering down over there
Trees falling like leaves
Like a disease in the air
Please, I'm on my knees
Just can't you see that my words make it there
I've come forward with it all
I know that you want to call
But distance leaves me feeling small
So please come forward with it all
I've called again
Again and then again over here
Please, I'm on my knees
Just can you see that my words make it there
Are you there...
I guess the lines must be down
Brooklyn
Monday it's raining, just like it does
Though you're not complaining, this is not what you dreamed of
In all of these faces you feel on your own
But I never left you, so you're not alone
Tuesday it's raining, your hair is wet
A drop for each dream that hasn't come true yet
When you threw your pennies in the wishing well
One never made it, and now you can tell
There's something missing in Brooklyn
Something you need
Something unexpected, something unique
And it's never easy when everything's new
You take care of the city, then I'll take care of you
Sunday it's raining, cycle completes
You kneel to start praying "please don't let me be weak"
But nobody knows you like you know yourself
If you'd like to change that, then I'd like to help
Tonight
I saw the sky today, and I'll see the sky tomorrow
But my eyes will give the rain, the clouds will have to borrow
I drove these streets today, I'm gonna drive these roads tomorrow
Used to think they'd take me high and far, now down is all they
go
Your light takes me home
Who will take me home
The sun will fall tonight
Tonight...
But it won't look right
The dreams will come tonight
Tonight...
But they won't feel right again
Without you in my life
A life is what it's made, and I've so much left to do
But I'd trade all of my future days with anyone else
For just one of my days gone by with you
Your light takes me home
Who will take me home
The sun will fall tonight
Tonight...
But it won't look right
The dreams will come tonight
Tonight...
But they won't feel right again...again...
Without you in my life
Tonight...
It won't be right again
Anywhere
When I talk in poetry you don't know what to say
But words aren't what I want from you, it's just another way
For me to show you things you have not seen and thought you never
would
And all I want is to be the first to tell you that you could
Go anywhere you choose to go
Cause anywhere with you is home to me
When you're near you make me start thinking clear
And baby, you know that I'm sincere when I say that you make it
clear
I don't need God to make me live this way, I just do it cause it's
right
And where I find my higher place is standing by your side
Go anywhere you choose to go
Cause anywhere with you is home
Take me anywhere with you
Take me anywhere you choose
Then take me home
I don't need God to make me live this way, I just do it cause it's
right
And where I find my higher place is here with you tonight
Go anywhere you choose to go
Cause anywhere with you is home
Take me there
Take me anywhere
I'll Trade Heaven
Since there's no going back for the time we've missed
When I die I'll trade Heaven for the first time we kissed
You look lovely in blue tonight
Let's pretend that you dressed up for me
Just to see the delight in my eyes
When you move and smile and turn
You're so lovely I'm blue tonight
Cause it's not my turn to know that I'll soon smile and say 'I love
you'
Even though I do
This wall doesn't feel much like talking tonight
It's taking your side, and it's probably right anyway
I don't believe in Heaven, but I do believe in you
And I know we missed forever, but I'll look for you after that
Since there's no going back for the time we've missed
When I die I'll trade Heaven for the first time we kissed
When I see you smile it calms me down
Otherwise I'd kill him
This wall doesn't feel much like talking tonight
It's taking your side, and it's probably right anyway
Since there's no going back for the time we've missed
When I die I'll trade Heaven for the first time we kissed
Cause I love you
Next Time
Every time we laid down felt like it was right
It felt so warm, and what harm comes from the night?
The magic slowly faded, something wasn't right
It felt so real…I could feel something that night
How could I have known what's right?
I never could have pictured this end
The timing was off that night
Now I can never go back to back then
I wish my heart was breaking, cause right now it is taking me over
It's over now, yet somehow it never died
How soft would your face be if right now I was holding it to my
own
I'll never know now, yet somehow I have to try
How could I have known what's right?
I never could have pictured this end
The timing was off that night
Now I can never go back to back then
Don't you look at me that way
I think about it everyday
And it's not your place to judge me, anyway
Things may be different next time
There is more life here than just mine
And it's no one's place to judge me, anyway
Please don't judge me, and I might be okay
I might just make it through one endless night
Believing in my blood that I was right
Something To Lose
I said I'd move away, and one day I did
My heart's been broken since I was a kid, and that ain't fair
But when your whole life is created from a dream
I think you need something to be just as it seems
This town is dead, no one wants to hear you
When the beauty in your mind gets it's power from the truth
And it's useless to a life that is refused
Guess I'll just keep going til someone thinks I'm something to lose
Why am I here alone, when I want to be home?
Why am I on my own?
All I want is to be known, and be loved
Time, will you tell them to hear me?
To be near me
Cause distance won't turn into diamonds, not ever
Hear me now before my heart has nothing to say
Except I love you, but I won't be back this way
Time doesn't turn into diamonds
I don't need it to
I just need to be known, and be loved
Cause I am something to lose
Call You, My Love
Did you ever notice that the ocean’s so beautiful, even as
it takes you down?
Just like how I feel about you
And did it not occur to you a wounded man must call for help
When it ain’t coming from above…I’m wounded…
So why can’t I call you, my love?
Sometimes too late just comes too soon
Meet me someday
Lover…why did I let you paint circles upon my heart
When each word from your mouth is an arrow that won’t miss
its mark
I guess it’s all said and done cause you’ve dealt with
the sun
Just to lengthen my nights and to prove to me you are the one
So why can’t I call you my love?
Call out my name
We’ll forget blame
Meet me someday
With daytime I break, with darkness I fall
And all it would take is the sound of your call
Sometimes too late just comes too soon
Why can’t I call you, my love?
Good Enough
If you don't shoot for the stars then there's no chance that your
rocket will explode
But I'll be up here waiting, looking down, knowing what most will
never know
Cause when you ain't got nothin, everything means something
And the truth means everything
No one wants the truth, they want Vermouth and lies to keep them
smiling
Would you smile if I told you that I wanted more?
Than to skate along the surface, never going deeper
You build your own mountain that you have to climb
And life will be harder, love will hurt more
But that's what it's for so make mine steeper
When you ain't got nothin, everything means something
And the truth means everything
It's easy to live at good enough
Everyone's here, nothing's special, nothing's tough
And you can be alive but going nowhere fast
But not fast enough
Your life won't be more than you make it out to be
Just wait and see, the more you know the more you're free
And I am here to be more than you thought I ever could be, and I
will
Will You Be?
I'll give myself five more years to love you
And then I'm gone, but much too soon
Much too soon...much too soon...
When I dream it's of the last thing I see
And my eyes reflect your beautiful body constantly
So when I'm gone, will you be?
Will you be...will you be...
At first I fell too fast, quickly I was your first love
But I meant to be your last
Like sad pages I have read, like the sweetest of my dreams
You are stuck inside my head
Oh, see but I can't ever win
Cause people as close as we have been, they always meet up again
When I'm gone...
Tell me, will you be?
That's What They Say
Just keep looking, they say…and you'll find your way
I don't know if it's true…but that's what they say
We're all fish in this bowl…part of the whole…well,
okay
Well then why am I alone today?
Be at one with your soul…I feel it when I sing
You can't change what you've done…I don't regret a thing
What is meant to be will be…so I've been told
But then why am I afraid to get old?
Can I do it all with no one along the way?
That's what they say
Say what you want, but please God…don't let me die alone
This Ring
I wanted you to know that I'm afraid of time
And what it won't bring
I'm out here on my own now
And I hope that I've trained to be in this ring
I'm out here all alone now, and it's coming fast
Be aggressive now boy, or you'll never last
You can't just be, you must become
Gotta take it now, and you gotta run
No time to hide, you must decide
Are you going somewhere, are you someone?
I'm out here all alone now, and it's coming fast
Be aggressive now boy, or you'll never last
I don't know why I can't look this thing in the eye
What makes me happy makes me cry
But I'll smile again before I die...I'll try
All these people want is someone they can put in a box
To dance in their puppet show
And no one ever leads, round and round they do what they're taught
Cause that's all these people know
I don't know why I can't look this thing in the eye
What makes me happy makes me cry
But I'll smile again before I die...I'll try
Put Me In Motion
Give me an ocean
Give me a wave
Let it take me away til the tides change
Put me in motion
Or put me away
I just can't stand it here watching them live this way
But I'm not backing down
I'm not backing down
Honesty is lonely, but I'm not backing down
I'll start a commotion
I'll do it today
I won't stay silent in fear of what they might say
I will not pretend
This world we've made is ok
There is no love in a lie, and the truth won't go away
So I'm not backing down
I'm not backing down
Honesty is lonely, but I'm not backing down
Don't tell yourself it's not that bad
Because it is
When take is winning out over give
The question is when everyone steps out
Will you step in?
Well I'm not backing down
I'm not backing down
Honesty is lonely, but I'm not backing down
It hurts to be this lonely, but I won't back down
Put me in motion
Or put me away
I just can't stand it here watching them live this way
I'll Never Be the Same
I know her, but I don't know her that well
I know a long time ago she fell
It's clear that fortune passed her by, and kicked her when she was
down and yeah, sometimes you can tell
No, she'd never tell
I never really asked about my name
Her silence said enough about the pain
But maybe I can be a man so great my words can steer someone away
from the same
I'll never be the same
Things could have been so much better
But silver spoons feed shallow mouths
And what I got was so much more
Now I can wash away
All of the hurt, it's not your fault, don't feel ashamed
That's not your fault, but I am, and what you've given me I'll give
tonight to all who came
They'll never be the same
Things could have been so much better
But silver spoons feed shallow mouths
And what I got was so much
So now it's my turn to do unto you what you have done for me
All this time
Now I know that you want nothing
But I know that you need something
So I know that I'll do one thing for you, and me
I promise, I'll succeed
She Was A Lady
There you were, my dream
Not just a wish, the real thing
Angels wish they had that face
A thousand songs can't take your place
So I looked to the sky and I shook my fist
And I shouted at the sun "you won't be missed"
You lift me up with your light but you're nothing like this
Good things end and so do you
You've proven dreams don't come true
Tell me, you're not an angel, are you
Not with that mouth that kissed the truth goodbye
So I looked to the sky and I shook my fist
And I screamed into the night "I know your tricks"
Your darkness fools my eyes and makes me lose my way but it's better
than this
You were a lady, but a liar most of all
Lady's a word that no longer fits you at all
Lady's a feeling that now I no longer recall
You were a lady, but a liar most of all
I'm Listening
You can't hear my thoughts for you
I think they're clear, but I know that's not true
Yes, I know I have a phone
And I know it works, and I know you're home
You just want me listening to what you say
I always listen to what you say
I've wasted time, and it's still going by
But we're still young, and I have to try
Words come so easily for people less dear to me
You're waiting for the day, and I'm waiting too
When I can just say I miss you
You just want me listening to what you say
I'll always listen to what you say
Now, simple things mean the world
Everything means something to a girl
A simple fix is in these words
I'm listening, we've got time, make your problems mine
Funny and Dependable
If I'd never known you, I wouldn't feel this way
If I hadn't seen you, I wouldn't be here today
If I'd never known you, I might have lived my life
Just going unnoticed, but now I'll be your falling star
Sometimes things don't really go the way you want them to
I had planned on being so much more- buy you the world
But what can you do?
You said all you really wanted was a man who'll love you
Someone funny and dependable- well that sounds like me
And you know it's true- you know damn well it's true
If I'd never known you, I wouldn't feel this way
If I hadn't seen you, I wouldn't be here today
If I'd never known you, I wouldn't be so high
If I could have shown you, I wouldn't have to
Wait- if I could just show you
You really never know who lives inside an average guy like me
But goodness don't matter
No, what you're really after are shiny falling stars
Well, fine- here's mine, it's falling soon
What can you do?
You can't do a goddamned thing no more
You've done enough, I'm up here for you
You know damn well it's true
If you could have known me, it wouldn't be this way
If you could have seen me, maybe you'd want me to stay
If you had just met me, I wouldn't need to take this dive
But now I'll be your falling-
Dying To Live
Age is for show
Cause when you find yourself all alone
You're still just a child, but had you known
You wouldn't be prepared, simply thrown out
To fend for yourself, you might have tried
To learn how to live with a lie
The lie that is life, cause it fully armed
Your enemies and gave you a knife
The war is on and reinforcements aren't on their way
Hope is gone and inspiration might run out today
So what am I supposed to do
To make it all come true?
And if I have it to give
Then why am I still dying to live?
You're not gonna take this one
If only I could believe my own words
I could come back for you all
I'd save you all
But I don't know how to save myself
The war is on and reinforcements aren't on their way
Hope is gone and inspiration might run out today
So what am I supposed to do
To make it all come true?
And if I have it to give
Then why am I still dying to live?
That Spark
I'm in here thinking of you
When I should be out on the town
If I weighed all the options and thought about youth
I know I could turn this around
Oh, my mind tells me that I'm still young
And you're not the one, anyway
But I'm on fire when you're near me
I can hardly breathe
I'm on fire, I've been burned so many times
That now I'm just freezing without your spark
I spend so much time on these roads
And there's always a lot on my mind
And you know with my life the way it is
It's just about all I can do to take care of myself
Please, just one thing at a time
But then there's you, and baby if I let you stay
Then there'd always be someone close to me to say that
"There's always you, and you're all I'll ever need"
Oh, my heart tells me that I'm still young
But you are the one, anyway
Cause I'm on fire when you're near me
I can hardly breathe
I'm on fire, I've been burned so many times
That now I'm just freezing without your spark
Oh, that spark...
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