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Singles
You see I got this American love
Brand new planet in my solar system
I kiss her neck but I just can?t look her in the eye
You leave for college at the turn of autumn
I spent the winter down into the bottom
I kiss your neck but I just can?t look you in the eye
Big hearts, big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking.
Big hearts, big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking.
You see I got this critical conc...
You see I got this American love
A brand new planet in the solar system
I kiss her neck but I just can't look her in the eye
You leave for college at the turn of autumn
I spent the winter diving to the bottom
I kiss your neck but I just can't look you in the eye, yeah
Big hearts, big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking
Big hearts are for breaking
Big hearts, big hearts
Big hearts are for breaki...
It started feeling like October
I got stranded on the road
You know where to find me
Anytime you want me Annie
Annie use your telescope
So they made my life into a movie
As if I could forget those years
But I know where the time's gone
Just how well my mind's been wandering
Annie use your telescope
Telescope
Annie use your telescope
When it's late, don't stop looking
Where my eyes turn to glas...
Should the canyons burn
All night long like the 4th of July
We won't need an alibi
There's gas in the car
Hours til sunrise
And there's no guarantee
That leaving town's gonna set us both free
But staying here it's just not what we need
Staying here it's just not what we need
Because America shines yes it does
In between the white lines where I found love
All alone on a road going nowhere
Going...
She walks to the mailbox each morning at nine
Every day she begins, she's always one day behind
At least when it comes to the mail
She sits on the balcony paying the bills
Her letters just hashing her cigarettes onto the sill
Every breath a little more pale
And the hill's still left to climb
It's just so high and I'm so tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on fire
It's...
I've got my things
I'm good to go
You met me at the terminal
Just one more plane ride and it's done
We stood like statues at the gate
Vacation's come and gone too late
There's so much sun where I'm from
I had to give it away, had to give you away
And we spent four days on an island
At your family's old hotel
Sometimes perfection can be
It can be perfect hell, perfect
Hours pass and she still c...
I'm caught somewhere in between
Alive and living a dream
No peace, just clicking machines
In the quiet of compazine
The walls caved in on me
And she sings my bird dressed in white
And she stings my arm in the night
I lay still, still I'm ready to fight
Have my lungs but you can't take my sight
The walls caved in tonight
And out here I watch the sun circle the earth
The marrows collide in rebir...
I have become increasingly
Overwhelmed but not discouraged
And soon I'll leave the infirmary
Feeling well but lacking courage, courage
And now the rockets fly above
Passing over Cape Canaveral
There's the woman with the drugs
In the caf? by the launch pad
By the launch pad
And she is gonna
Ring me up on my cellular phone
So I know I'm not alone
In a world full of vampires
Come on, darling
Talk...
I wanna hear some music
Now that they're driving us all underground
Not the radio music or their satellite singing this
In this town, in this town
I wanna hear some music
And with the rock stars all flicker and fade
Power radio music
I'm a ghost over ground on, on parade
And even if your voice comes back again
Maybe they'll be no one listening
And even if I find the strength to stand
It doesn'...
I have, I have you breathing down my neck
Breathing down my neck
I don't, don't know what you could
Possibly expect under this condition
So I'll wait, I'll wait
For the ambulance to come, ambulance to come
Pick us up off the floor
What did you possibly expect
Under this condition, so slow down
This night's a perfect shade of
Dark blue, dark blue, have you
Ever been alone in a crowded room?
Wel...
I saw her wait, waitng at the bus stop
Watching as her tears dropped
Like pennies down a well
Oh well
We can drink until the sun comes up
I never let a good thing go
So I'll stay here if you're not leaving
I am on your side
This house is empty
We could cross the line
And we could make a big mistake
The silence breaks and you hear me say
"Don't go, don't go so far away"
You don't have to go
"Do...
I will give you this confession, I am taking you with me
Where we can contemplate our chemistry
And your eyes were lined with questions with blood rushing away
To take this feeling with us to our graves, to our graves
I get the feeling we're so misdirected
I get the feeling we have lost control
Till then I'll turn you to the new religion
We're dropping out into the so unknown
The so unknown, y...
These hammers and strings been following me around
From a box filled garage to the dark punk rock clubs
Of 1000 American towns
And my friend calls me up,
She says, how have you been? I say dear I've been well
Yeah, the money's coming but I miss you like hell
I still hear you in this old piano, yeah
She says Andy I know that we don't talk as much
But I still hear your ghost in these old punk ro...
Keep your eyes on the road on the Glass Passenger
He sings for a traveling band.
Well I'll be tommorow
Is God only knows
Seems there's a science in hand
But I'll finish the shows when I lay.
I said hey hey hey
We're all gonna die
Hey hey hey
We're all gonna die
We're all gonna die someday.
To England turned gray
To the old TLA
To the lands of my portable camera
Labeled proud to the new yorks s...
She thinks I'm much too thin, she asks me if I'm sick
What's a girl to do with friends like this?
She lets me drive her car, so I can score an eighth
From the l**b**ns out west in Venice
Oh, California in the summer
Ah, and my hair is growing long
F***, yeah, we can live like this
But if you left it up to me
Everyday would be a holiday from real
We'd waste our weeks beneath the sun
We'd fry ou...
I need you
I need so much
I need you
Get me out of this place
I need you
With the lightning this close I can see
That so much in this world is make believe
And this ticking clock isn't for me
And still nobody knew I need you
I need you
In my blacker days
I need you
With the walls coming down I need you
Through this hole in my chest I can feel
That so much is this world isn't real
And there's s...
And today was a day just like any other
I'm on the verge, I'm on the verge
Unraveling with every word
With every word you say, make me believe
That I won't feel your tires on the street
As I'm finding the words, you're getting away
I come undone, oh yes, I do
Just think of all the thoughts wasted on you
And every word you say, say something sweet
'Cause all I taste is blood between my teeth
As...
From an empty room on the first floor
As the cars pass by the liquor store
I deconstruct my thoughts at this piano
And it's all that I can do to stay with
All the things I didn't say to you
Before you moved across the country
And from the burning building where I lay
As I watch the stars become the day
The L.A. girls were lacing up their sneakers
They run the boardwalks and the beach
This fish...
katie you're a brave girl, and i know it's only just start, but i'm gonna be there at six with some flowers on sticks that were clipped just to make the weak strong and katie its a strange world where girls can get so broken-hearted and if it were me in the universe i'd get the worst of this gone
katie, katie i'm sorry that in your condition the sun shines been missing, but katie don't believe...
Oh my God, this hurts like hell
I had that dream again
Where I was lost for good in outer space
Tell me, doctor, how to shake?
A waking nightmare that is only worse
When I am sleeping
Kill the messenger, I swear it's not me
It's just someone I used to know
And get to church 'cause you're a good girl
And I never told you that
And all I need from you
Could be the thing
[Incomprehensible] up here...
Guess what I'm done writing you songs
You'll give up your job at the bank
Proving money's not fun when you're gone
So this is the first verse
It's not very long
But I'm ready to move on
Guess what I'm done writing your book
The ending got twisted around
But for all the hell that it took
The electrical wires
They'll hum in the walls
In the room that I rent now without you
I've got friends who l...
I heard that you went out last night
And you looked beautiful just like a bat
Beneath the moonlight
I stayed home took a Vicodin...
Sometimes it's all that I can do
When I think about the president
How did he become the president?
And I stayed awake for a day or two
I thought about the world
Drank gin and watched the news
And there are some things I'll never understand
Why the country needs a ...
these hammers and strings
been following been following me around
from a box filled garage
to the the dark punk rock clubs
of 1000 American towns
and my friend calls me up
she says how have you been?
I say Dear I've been well.
yeah the money has been coming.
but i miss as hell
I still hear you in this old piano, yeah
She says Andy, I know
that we don't talk as much
but i sill hear your ghost
i...
Every time I'm thinking 'bout
The day coming 'round, well, I'll be strong
Well, that's the day that passes into night
It's like I can't hold on, I can't hold on
I'm uneasy, and I'm weak in the knees
And I'm trying not to breathe
Not believing, not believing you're gone
And that I was the one to let you
I'm so, I'm so lonely for her
I'm so, I'm so lonely for her
So lonely for her
I'm staring at...
Meet me at my window
At my window
I could use a hero right now
You could use someone to save
Someone like me
Someone who's not brave
Someone who's not free
Meet me at my window
With the darkness, cometing down
I could use your, saving now
Meet me at my window
Meet me at my window
I will wait for you there
I will talk to you, no
When there's no one, around
Come on, you could change me
You could...
Pt. 1 Made For Each Other
I swim across an ocean
It's my matress in the basement
I'm sweatin' out excuses
That would make your stomach turn
The road we drove last night
Stretched from the desert to Las Vegas
We filled our cups, and lit one up
The snow began to burn
Oh, Oh maybe, we were made
We were made for each other
Ahh, is it possible for the
World to look this way forever?
Ahhh, Ahhh...
I...
I swim across an ocean
It's my matress in the basement
I'm sweatin' out excuses
That would make your stomach turn
The road we drove last night
Stretched from the desert
To Las Vegas
We filled our cups and lit one up
The snow began to burn
Maybe
We were made
We were made for each other
Is it possible for the
For the world to look this way forever?
I talked so much
I'm sure I didn't realize I'd ...
I swim across an ocean
It's my matress in the basement
I'm sweatin' out excuses
That would make your stomach turn
The road we drove last night
Stretched from the desert to Las Vegas
We filled our cups, and lit one up
The snow began to burn
Oh, Oh maybe, we were made
We were made for each other
Ahh, is it possible for the
World to look this way forever?
Ahhh, Ahhh...
I talked so much, I'm sure
...
I call on Jesus, but he didn't check his phone today
Oh oh there's my summer girl, I've been wantin' her
I hear she's got a boyfriend
Thought I could leave her for a season but it just got cold
Yeah and it's a lonely hour in my cellphone tower
Broken down transmission
But I'm gonna take you to my boxcar on the beach
And I'm gonna hang the sun above your bed and soak your hair in bleach
You'll ...
Finally, I'm letting go of all my downer thoughts
In no time, there'll be one less sad robot
Looking for a chance to be
Something more than just metal
Now I'm going part time with a film projectionist
And she's the vinyl queen from my surfer dream
She likes the Beach Boys more than radio metal
And she's so good, but, she's no good for me
Oh, Miss Delaney, what's the matter?
You waited by the w...
This is morning
That's when I spend the most time
Thinking 'bout what I've given up
This is a warning
When you start the day just to close the curtains
You're thinking 'bout what I've given up
Where are you now?
As I'm swimming through the stereo
I'm writing you a symphony of sound
Where are you now?
As I rearrange the songs again
This mix could burn a hole in anyone
But it was you I was think...
I am looking for a sign, my spirit's faded
She holds on like a vine, patterns in traffic
They sound just like my heart race in the dark
In time to catch you, no one should let you
Go wandering off into the night
You're not an orphan
I keep waiting for my breath to come back never
So take what I have left, patterns in traffic
That pulls just like my heart race in the dark
In time to catch you, ...
Two to one, static to the sound of
You and I undone for the last time
And there this was hiding at the bottom
Of your swimming pool, some September
And don't you think I wish that I could stay?
Your lips give you away
I can hear it a jet engine
Through the center of the storm
And I'm thinking I'd prefer not to be rescued
Two to none, roads that lead away from this
I'm following myself just thi...
welcome to the future
we're all so glad you came
attacked me in the laneway
in this town you don't get nowhere unless you're on a bicycle
so hip and out of touch
parked out on the speedway
just trying not to move
its only getting harder now
we could engineer a wall that couldn't fall
with all this time
my life in techinicolor
can you check the shutters
someone get my mother
on the phone
she ou...
I'm keeping quiet til there's no more sirens
Lately it's hard to keep the hinges on with all the noise
I'll find my words when there's no one talking
The room is spinning, I have got no choice
Be patient, I am getting to the point
I can't remember when the earth turned slowly
So I just waited with the lights turned out again
I lost my place but I can't stop this story
I've found my way, but un...
And there is no world wrapping me up
I've got a view from the valley
Living well but we're dying young
To bankrupt a blue sky
I saw the post office from the book
On my way to the west side
Going broke but I'm feeling good
I brought my girl to keep me with it
She's a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand
Suicide blonde, she's part of the big plan
She's part of the big plan
Got a job at the DMV
A...
You've gotta swim, swim for your life
Swim for the music that saves you
When you're not so sure you'll survive
You gotta swim and swim when it hurts
The whole world is watching
You haven't come this far to fall off the earth
The currents will pull you away from your love
Just keep your head above
I found a tidal wave begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets, they fired at me from a ...
I'm coming home from my hardest year
I'm making plans not to make plans while I'm here
And this life has been no holiday, a complicated situation
I'm fine with all my memories
Still I could use vacation
It's Christmas in California
And it's hard to ignore that it feels like summer all the time
But I'll take a west coast winter to remove my splinters
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
...
This is morning
That's when I spend the most time
Thinking 'bout what I've given up
This is a warning
When you start the day just to close the curtains
You're thinking 'bout what I've given up
Where are you now?
As I'm swimming through the stereo
I'm writing you a symphony of sound
Where are you now?
As I rearrange the songs again
This mix could burn a hole in anyone
But it was you I was think...
There's a lot that I don't know
There's a lot that I'm still learning
But I think I'm letting go
To find my body, it?s still burning
And you hold me down
And you got me living in the past
Come on and pick me up
Somebody clear the wreckage from the blast
Yeah, I'm alive
I don't need a witness
To know that I survived
I'm not looking for forgiveness
Yeah, I just need light
Light in the dark as I ...
It was last night
In an empty warehouse party
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And there in the black light
I could see the tattoos glowing on your body
Well, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
She says to meet her there
Beside the power station
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And she said she'd let me stare
If the chemicals don't keep her waiting
Well, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
Well, I'm always coming down fro...
Albums
Everything in Transit |
I've got my things
I'm good to go
You met me at the terminal
Just one more plane ride and it's done
We stood like statues at the gate
Vacation's come and gone too late
There's so much sun where I'm from
I had to give it away, had to give you away
And we spent four days on an island
At your family's old hotel
Sometimes perfection can be
It can be perfect hell, perfect
Hours pass and she still c...
I have, I have you breathing down my neck
Breathing down my neck
I don't, don't know what you could
Possibly expect under this condition
So I'll wait, I'll wait
For the ambulance to come, ambulance to come
Pick us up off the floor
What did you possibly expect
Under this condition, so slow down
This night's a perfect shade of
Dark blue, dark blue, have you
Ever been alone in a crowded room?
Wel...
She thinks I'm much too thin, she asks me if I'm sick
What's a girl to do with friends like this?
She lets me drive her car, so I can score an eighth
From the l**b**ns out west in Venice
Oh, California in the summer
Ah, and my hair is growing long
F***, yeah, we can live like this
But if you left it up to me
Everyday would be a holiday from real
We'd waste our weeks beneath the sun
We'd fry ou...
And today was a day just like any other
I'm on the verge, I'm on the verge
Unraveling with every word
With every word you say, make me believe
That I won't feel your tires on the street
As I'm finding the words, you're getting away
I come undone, oh yes, I do
Just think of all the thoughts wasted on you
And every word you say, say something sweet
'Cause all I taste is blood between my teeth
As...
From an empty room on the first floor
As the cars pass by the liquor store
I deconstruct my thoughts at this piano
And it's all that I can do to stay with
All the things I didn't say to you
Before you moved across the country
And from the burning building where I lay
As I watch the stars become the day
The L.A. girls were lacing up their sneakers
They run the boardwalks and the beach
This fish...
Oh my God, this hurts like hell
I had that dream again
Where I was lost for good in outer space
Tell me, doctor, how to shake?
A waking nightmare that is only worse
When I am sleeping
Kill the messenger, I swear it's not me
It's just someone I used to know
And get to church 'cause you're a good girl
And I never told you that
And all I need from you
Could be the thing
[Incomprehensible] up here...
Guess what I'm done writing you songs
You'll give up your job at the bank
Proving money's not fun when you're gone
So this is the first verse
It's not very long
But I'm ready to move on
Guess what I'm done writing your book
The ending got twisted around
But for all the hell that it took
The electrical wires
They'll hum in the walls
In the room that I rent now without you
I've got friends who l...
Every time I'm thinking 'bout
The day coming 'round, well, I'll be strong
Well, that's the day that passes into night
It's like I can't hold on, I can't hold on
I'm uneasy, and I'm weak in the knees
And I'm trying not to breathe
Not believing, not believing you're gone
And that I was the one to let you
I'm so, I'm so lonely for her
I'm so, I'm so lonely for her
So lonely for her
I'm staring at...
I swim across an ocean
It's my matress in the basement
I'm sweatin' out excuses
That would make your stomach turn
The road we drove last night
Stretched from the desert
To Las Vegas
We filled our cups and lit one up
The snow began to burn
Maybe
We were made
We were made for each other
Is it possible for the
For the world to look this way forever?
I talked so much
I'm sure I didn't realize I'd ...
I swim across an ocean
It's my matress in the basement
I'm sweatin' out excuses
That would make your stomach turn
The road we drove last night
Stretched from the desert to Las Vegas
We filled our cups, and lit one up
The snow began to burn
Oh, Oh maybe, we were made
We were made for each other
Ahh, is it possible for the
World to look this way forever?
Ahhh, Ahhh...
I talked so much, I'm sure
...
Finally, I'm letting go of all my downer thoughts
In no time, there'll be one less sad robot
Looking for a chance to be
Something more than just metal
Now I'm going part time with a film projectionist
And she's the vinyl queen from my surfer dream
She likes the Beach Boys more than radio metal
And she's so good, but, she's no good for me
Oh, Miss Delaney, what's the matter?
You waited by the w...
This is morning
That's when I spend the most time
Thinking 'bout what I've given up
This is a warning
When you start the day just to close the curtains
You're thinking 'bout what I've given up
Where are you now?
As I'm swimming through the stereo
I'm writing you a symphony of sound
Where are you now?
As I rearrange the songs again
This mix could burn a hole in anyone
But it was you I was think...
Two to one, static to the sound of
You and I undone for the last time
And there this was hiding at the bottom
Of your swimming pool, some September
And don't you think I wish that I could stay?
Your lips give you away
I can hear it a jet engine
Through the center of the storm
And I'm thinking I'd prefer not to be rescued
Two to none, roads that lead away from this
I'm following myself just thi...
|
The Glass Passenger |
You see I got this American love
A brand new planet in the solar system
I kiss her neck but I just can't look her in the eye
You leave for college at the turn of autumn
I spent the winter diving to the bottom
I kiss your neck but I just can't look you in the eye, yeah
Big hearts, big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking
Big hearts are for breaking
Big hearts, big hearts
Big hearts are for breaki...
It started feeling like October
I got stranded on the road
You know where to find me
Anytime you want me Annie
Annie use your telescope
So they made my life into a movie
As if I could forget those years
But I know where the time's gone
Just how well my mind's been wandering
Annie use your telescope
Telescope
Annie use your telescope
When it's late, don't stop looking
Where my eyes turn to glas...
Should the canyons burn
All night long like the 4th of July
We won't need an alibi
There's gas in the car
Hours til sunrise
And there's no guarantee
That leaving town's gonna set us both free
But staying here it's just not what we need
Staying here it's just not what we need
Because America shines yes it does
In between the white lines where I found love
All alone on a road going nowhere
Going...
She walks to the mailbox each morning at nine
Every day she begins, she's always one day behind
At least when it comes to the mail
She sits on the balcony paying the bills
Her letters just hashing her cigarettes onto the sill
Every breath a little more pale
And the hill's still left to climb
It's just so high and I'm so tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on fire
It's...
I'm caught somewhere in between
Alive and living a dream
No peace, just clicking machines
In the quiet of compazine
The walls caved in on me
And she sings my bird dressed in white
And she stings my arm in the night
I lay still, still I'm ready to fight
Have my lungs but you can't take my sight
The walls caved in tonight
And out here I watch the sun circle the earth
The marrows collide in rebir...
I wanna hear some music
Now that they're driving us all underground
Not the radio music or their satellite singing this
In this town, in this town
I wanna hear some music
And with the rock stars all flicker and fade
Power radio music
I'm a ghost over ground on, on parade
And even if your voice comes back again
Maybe they'll be no one listening
And even if I find the strength to stand
It doesn'...
I will give you this confession, I am taking you with me
Where we can contemplate our chemistry
And your eyes were lined with questions with blood rushing away
To take this feeling with us to our graves, to our graves
I get the feeling we're so misdirected
I get the feeling we have lost control
Till then I'll turn you to the new religion
We're dropping out into the so unknown
The so unknown, y...
These hammers and strings been following me around
From a box filled garage to the dark punk rock clubs
Of 1000 American towns
And my friend calls me up,
She says, how have you been? I say dear I've been well
Yeah, the money's coming but I miss you like hell
I still hear you in this old piano, yeah
She says Andy I know that we don't talk as much
But I still hear your ghost in these old punk ro...
I call on Jesus, but he didn't check his phone today
Oh oh there's my summer girl, I've been wantin' her
I hear she's got a boyfriend
Thought I could leave her for a season but it just got cold
Yeah and it's a lonely hour in my cellphone tower
Broken down transmission
But I'm gonna take you to my boxcar on the beach
And I'm gonna hang the sun above your bed and soak your hair in bleach
You'll ...
I am looking for a sign, my spirit's faded
She holds on like a vine, patterns in traffic
They sound just like my heart race in the dark
In time to catch you, no one should let you
Go wandering off into the night
You're not an orphan
I keep waiting for my breath to come back never
So take what I have left, patterns in traffic
That pulls just like my heart race in the dark
In time to catch you, ...
I'm keeping quiet til there's no more sirens
Lately it's hard to keep the hinges on with all the noise
I'll find my words when there's no one talking
The room is spinning, I have got no choice
Be patient, I am getting to the point
I can't remember when the earth turned slowly
So I just waited with the lights turned out again
I lost my place but I can't stop this story
I've found my way, but un...
And there is no world wrapping me up
I've got a view from the valley
Living well but we're dying young
To bankrupt a blue sky
I saw the post office from the book
On my way to the west side
Going broke but I'm feeling good
I brought my girl to keep me with it
She's a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand
Suicide blonde, she's part of the big plan
She's part of the big plan
Got a job at the DMV
A...
You've gotta swim, swim for your life
Swim for the music that saves you
When you're not so sure you'll survive
You gotta swim and swim when it hurts
The whole world is watching
You haven't come this far to fall off the earth
The currents will pull you away from your love
Just keep your head above
I found a tidal wave begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets, they fired at me from a ...
There's a lot that I don't know
There's a lot that I'm still learning
But I think I'm letting go
To find my body, it?s still burning
And you hold me down
And you got me living in the past
Come on and pick me up
Somebody clear the wreckage from the blast
Yeah, I'm alive
I don't need a witness
To know that I survived
I'm not looking for forgiveness
Yeah, I just need light
Light in the dark as I ...
It was last night
In an empty warehouse party
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And there in the black light
I could see the tattoos glowing on your body
Well, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
She says to meet her there
Beside the power station
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And she said she'd let me stare
If the chemicals don't keep her waiting
Well, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
Well, I'm always coming down fro...
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