Friday, April 27, 2012

"Ghost Keeps Coming Back"

It's been a while
The distance, more than miles
But they certainly don't help
You're not in my plans anymore
Lord knows I'm not in yours
But I can't picture someone else

[chorus]
Love, true love
Doesn't go away
Even when the feeling's gone
It always stays

I've seen that smile
Once thought I'd meet it down the aisle
How can I see somebody else
Cause now the scene is always blurred
Like a dream that got obscured
How can it be somebody else

[chorus]
Love, true love
Doesn't go away
Even when the feeling's gone
It always stays
When we, give up
The path's already paved
Can't unwrite the love we made

You were so hurt
By all the things I did
When all the while
Thought it was you I was helping
And I don't always do
The smartest things
I may hold too tight
To what I'm scared of losing

[chorus]
Love, true love
Doesn't go away
Even when the feeling's gone
It always stays
And I'm stuck
In constant disarray
Cause it never goes away
No, it never goes away
It haunts me every day

Monday, April 23, 2012

"Undeveloped Film"

So busy trying to change people
You've forgotten who they are
All a part of your picture
Your perfect point of view

I know you're wanting more
Your eyes behind the glass
Are pleading for a notice
That you're worth a little more

Lost sight of the vision
When you could barely stand
A time when you were younger
And the words came easily

Before this was a thought
Before this was all plotted out
You can map out any moment
But it'll never be yours
It can never be yours

The push and pull of heartstrings
We've grown up much too fast
If love was a decision
We can over-complicate it too

Before this was a thought
Before this was all plotted out
You can map out any moment
But it'll never be yours
It'll never be yours
Open your eyes, but wider

Don't want revenge
For what we've lost
Just what is just
No push or shove
Can enemies be friends
After what is lost
We just want what is just
Just what is just

Innocence is lost
But you can still choose who you are
Don't fall into the plans
They've made to mute what's in your heart

Sunday, April 22, 2012

"Nothing In The End"

I can't escape this feeling
I thought I would be alright
But time doesn't always heal it
And neither does running blind

Ooh
The world is upside down
Ooh
I've got to face myself right now

[chorus]
It's never going to change
You can't turn around
Or turn back the page
This time, some things you can't rewrite
But I'm still alive
And in retrospect
It's gonna mean nothing in the end
Nothing in the end

Finding a friend in no one
No, nothing is good enough
Contentment is not the problem
It's always in giving up

But when they're selling all my secrets
Who can you really trust?
Resurfacing these regrets
The distance is deliberate

[chorus]
It's never going to change
You can't turn around
Or turn back the page
This time, some things you can't rewrite
But I'm still alive
And in retrospect
I'll be fine
It's gonna mean nothing in the end

I need a change of scenery
For too long I've been confined to the mind's machinery
The cogs are always turning
But the fuel that keeps on burning
Leads to no where in the end

Losing so much of my time
Rehashing the same old lie
Repeating what I've repeated
Time after time after time
That still means nothing in the end
Still means nothing in the end
Means nothing
Still means nothing in the end

Saturday, April 21, 2012

"Sanctify"

Would you lose your mind to gain your soul?
Find comfort in the lost control?
To give up all that makes sense
To embrace all that could never make sense

The vanity of sanity
To be seen by a world of sleepers
Than be a living martyr, dead to self
Or am I my brother's keeper?

[chorus]
Lead me to the truth, sift through
My heart
With a double-edge, divide what's inside
Into parts
All of the unseen, that you can see
My self-defined reality, and the one that you see

Is everything I do just a show for attention?
Another dishonorable mention?
Am I looking for love where it can't be found?
In the eyes of the walkers of corrupted ground?

[chorus]
Lead me to the truth, sift through
My heart
With a double-edge, divide what's inside
Into parts
All of the unseen, that you can see
My self-defined reality, and the one that you see

Complete in me
The work that you have for me
Not by my formalities
Not by my ability
Cause the walls I've built to filter out
Have boxed you in and shut me out
I'm begging you to break them down

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

"Crooked Fence"

Somewhere along the line
Somewhere, some point in time
Someone told you to grow up
They never told you how
Oh, but look at you now
Was their direction even good enough?

Cause they can tell you to change
Yeah they can tell you to act your age
They say it's only a phase
Before the world finally has its way

[chorus]
I don't want to lose my innocence
So much was already stolen from me
I don't want to flirt with that crooked fence
That I've stood on, wondering
Just what's on the other side

Somebody told you this
And oh, the way it sticks
It doesn't matter if you want to know
And we're all in such a hurry
To pile on the worries
With baby steps to still forego

[chorus]
I don't want to lose my innocence
So much was already stolen from me
I don't want to flirt with that crooked fence
That I've stood on, wondering
Just what's on the other side

Don't wanna close my eyes
But oh, I try
Don't wanna close my eyes
I fight
All the things that keep me up at night

[chorus]
I don't want to lose my innocence
So much was already stolen from me
I don't want to flirt with that crooked fence
That I've stood on, wondering
Just who am I gonna be
Some things I'll just wait and see
Instead of trying to figure out right now
All of the things I've got to learn about

Sunday, April 8, 2012

"I Couldn't Give You More"

When the lights came on
And you were gone
I knew it was the end
I found myself
A little brighter
I lost myself a friend

And I don't know
Just how to feel
But I know the words will come
And go
With everything I've lost
Until the colors run

[chorus]
I gave you what I had
And I couldn't give you more
I gave you what I had
Now it's lying on the floor
And I can't get it back
But I don't want it anymore
So walk away from me
With all the things you saw worth taking

Do you really care
That it wasn't fair
To keep me hanging on
There's just so much
That I can take
Before the feeling's gone

And I could share a thousand times
What's in my heart and on my mind
But if you never trust a word of it
Then I guess it's still just mine
Maybe I'll walk away in tact this time

[chorus]
I gave you what I had
And I couldn't give you more
I gave you what I had
Now it's lying on the floor
And I can't get it back
But I don't want it anymore
So walk away from me
With all the things you saw worth taking

It's wearing down on me
The resistance in everything
And even if I tried
I couldn't pry your hands open
To accept what I was giving
No, I couldn't give you more

I gave you what I had
I gave you what I had
I gave you what I had
I couldn't give you more
I gave you what I had
I gave you what I had
I gave you all I had
And I couldn't give you more

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

"Little By Little"

Life is hard, or so I've heard
Though I only know so many words
And I'm just trying to define
And life ain't short, of this I'm sure
It's the longest day I've yet endured
And I know, there's more
And I know, there's more

And every day an open door
To a place I've never been before
That they call the unknown
And every road in front of me
They could brandish as an enemy
But I won't believe
No I won't believe

[instrumental]

And I'm seeing brighter, bit by bit
On the little piece of ground I sit
Little by little
And though I'm plagued by all the counterfeit
I won't let myself align with it
Little by little

And they broke me down
So low I couldn't hear the sound
Of my own heart
Yeah they wore me down
Little by little

And I'm tired, being stuck in the middle
But I'm wired, to move little by little

(No it's not right here, it's not just yet)
(No you're not quite there, no, not yet)
(No it's not right here, it's not just yet)
(All it takes is just a little bit)