© 2023 Winterstate Music. All Rights Reserved.
Hello my friend
It’s me again
It’s late but I need you to listen
I can’t explain
what caused the change
But a tension inside me is building
Hey!
Just watch the way I’m moving
(watch the way I’m moving)
Hey!
I’m feeling superhuman
Hello my friends
It’s me again
We’re bored and we’re so disillusioned
I lost my place
I forgot what I was saying
But I don’t need to prove myself to anyone
Hey!
Just watch the way I’m moving
(watch the way I’m moving)
Hey!
I’m feeling superhuman
Hey!
Just watch the way I’m moving
(watch the way I’m moving)
Hey!
Here comes the revolution
The air became electric
You can feel it in the music
Kids are climbing up the power lines and pulling out the fuses
There’s a CFO on Wall Street
Playing black jack with the future
And a storm on the horizon that gets closer when he loses
‘Cause never has so much belonged to such a few
I think it’s time that they recognize that they don’t own me and you
Never has so much belonged to such a few
Let’s remind them that they don’t own me and you!
Get the f*** up!
[Guitar Solo]
Hey!
Just watch the way I’m moving
(watch the way I’m moving)
Hey!
I’m feeling superhuman
Hey!
Just watch the way I’m moving
(watch the way I’m moving)
Hey!
Here comes the revolution
I’ve got a new obsession
Intoxicated from the moment I heard
Voices beneath the water
That tempt me down and far away from the shore
To jagged rocks and deepest blue
I fill my lungs and dive into you
I’ve got just one thing on my mind
I think about you all the time
Sailors, sailors and sirens
I’ve got just one thing on my mind
We’re drawn to danger in disguise
Like sailors, sailors and siren songs
and siren songs…
If you sing me to shipwreck,
I’ll be a castaway with nothing to lose
If you can’t reach the surface,
I’ll drown myself in you…
I’ve got just one thing on my mind
I think about you all the time
Sailors, sailors and sirens
I’ve got just one thing on my mind
We’re drawn to danger in disguise
Like sailors, sailors and siren songs
[Guitar Solo]
I’ve got just one thing on my mind
I think about you all the time
Like sailors, sailors and siren songs
Sailors and siren songs
Sailors and siren songs...
[Lead Vocals - feat. Amanda Jay]
When I look at the charred remains
of everything we’ve worked so hard for
I can see the match that lit it all
and set the blaze, from my hand
Wave the white flag one more time
Hands to the sky
Batton down the hatches
We’re gonna be alright
We’re gonna be alright
You know she’s safest in the harbor,
But that’s not what a ship is built for
You know that I could take you farther,
Are you sure that’s what you really came for?
And did you see the red sky’s warning?
You know she’s safest in the harbor,
But that’s not what a ship is built for
You know that I could take you farther,
Are you sure that’s what you really came for?
And did you see the red sky’s warning?
[Gentle Piano Intro]
I dreamt my love was lost at sea,
Where the surges tossed the boat…
Waves of fear crashed over me,
And sank into the foam…
I dreamt I was an old oak tree
And they cut me down to pieces…
To build the ship that carries you now,
And rocks you off to sleep…
I wish I was a lighthouse beacon,
Holding onto hope…
That I could shine a path for you,
Illuminate the sky in gold…
When you’ve lost sight of the shore,
And there’s miles and miles to row….
Keep your eyes on the horizon,
For a light… to guide… you home…
[Music Intensifies]
You should know…
You should know…
Well, I know that you’ve always been scared…
And you don’t think you’ve got what it takes…
And you’re not sure how much you can bend ‘till the moment you break…
But the minutes have stretched into hours…
And the hours have dragged into days…
So how long are you willing to wait until you’re not afraid?
Woah... but you should know
This is the start of something beautiful!
I know sometimes you might find that’s harder to see…
But you should know
This is the start of something beautiful!
I know sometimes you might find that’s hard to believe…
But you should know…
You should know…
For the habits you’re fighting to break…
- Don’t you want to start something?
And the patterns you’re dying to change…
- Don’t you want to start something?
We were trying to hold back the tide
but got lost in the waves…
But you should know
This is the start of something beautiful!
I know sometimes you might find that’s harder to see…
But you should know
This is the start of something beautiful!
I know sometimes you might find that’s hard to believe…
[Guitar Solo]
You should know…
You should know…
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It’s been a rough year, I feel under attack
I’m used to shadowboxing, but the shadow’s fighting back
And I don’t know what to expect
When there’s war and destruction, and death and disease,
for those of us left it gets harder to breathe in and out
in and out – through the long and lonely nights
You’ve got me feeling like, like I’ve never seen daylight before
And I’ll stare into the sun ‘till my eyes don’t burn anymore
It’s been a rough year,
I don’t know what to say,
I’ve been going toe to toe
With all the things that I can’t change
but I’m still too young to accept
And it gives me a feeling that’s hard to define
Like I’m desperate for answers but scared what I’ll find
If the truth is too bright, I don’t care if I go blind
You’ve got me feeling like, like I’ve never seen daylight before
And I’ll stare into the sun ‘till my eyes don’t burn anymore
You’ve got me feeling like, like I’ve never seen daylight before
And I’ll stare into the sun ‘till my eyes don’t burn anymore
[Guitar Solo]
Watch me
Watch me
Oh…
You’ve got me feeling like, like I’ve never seen daylight before
And I’ll stare into the sun ‘till my eyes don’t burn anymore
You’ve got me feeling like, like I’ve never seen daylight before
And I’ll stare into the sun ‘till my eyes don’t burn,
My eyes don’t burn anymore...
Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah!
Was it worth it?
Selling off your dreams just to break even
Trying to hold your breath until the weekend
I can’t wait to see you then...
And my heartbeat’s skipping cause it’s ticking like a clock,
Counting down to the moment you get off,
I’ll be there waiting just so you can let it out!
And what’s so wrong about an ordinary life?
When I see you in Technicolor
I don’t care if the world is black and white
‘Cause I see you, I see you in Technicolor
I see you in Technicolor
Are you here for the hurting?
I was hoping I could ease the burden,
I’m not too good at living but I’m learning how to feel it all again…
And the world gets dizzy cause it’s spinning like a top,
Running ‘round like the cops are chasing us,
I’ll keep you safe and sound
Just tell me, what’s so wrong about an ordinary life?
When I see you in Technicolor?
I don’t care if the world is black and white
‘Cause I see you, I see you in Technicolor
Yeah, I see you in Technicolor!
Oh Yeah, I see you in Technicolor!
Yeah, I see you in Technicolor!
Oh Yeah, I see you in Technicolor!
I saw my life in LEDs
Burning bright in effigy
The light from it is keeping me awake
There were days of hope and consequence
A gilded age of innocence
We set our sights as high as we could reach
Now I’m on top of the world
But baby I can’t sleep
I’ve been digging down deeper and deeper
just trying to find whatever you saw in me
I’m on the top of the world
don’t let me go
Cause it’s a long way down when nobody knows
You’re dying on your own
on top of the world
There were times we lived like royalty
There were moments fit for the silver screen
There were nights we made a scene on the way back home
There were days we felt like giving up
There were fights that made us fall in love
With life and all the heartache it can bring
I’m on top of the world
But baby I can’t sleep
I’ve been digging down deeper and deeper
just trying to find whatever you saw in me
I’m on the top of the world
don’t let me go
Cause it’s a long way down when nobody knows
You’re dying on your own
on top of the world!
I wanna lift you up…
I wanna lift you up…
I wanna lift you up…
I wanna lift you up…
On top of the world
But baby I can’t sleep
I’ve been digging down deeper and deeper
just trying to find whatever you saw in me
I’m on the top of the world
don’t let me go
Cause it’s a long way down when nobody knows
You’re dying on your own
on top of the world!
There’s a girl on the boardwalk drinking in the city lights,
like she’s gonna find her savior on some blinking neon sign,
But the store fronts are sleeping, and the marquis stays quiet
like those charlatan saints she’s prayed to all night..
Do you ever get the feeling
You’re just watching from a distance
Waiting for your real life to begin?
I could be anyone
I could be anyone
I could be anyone tonight
I could be anywhere
I could be anywhere
‘Cause when I close my eyes
I can see all the empty spaces...
While I’m on the rooftop still trying to decide,
whether every shooting star I’ve wished upon was just a satellite,
And for every constellation, there’s another I can’t find
So I try to make the patterns fit the pictures in my mind
But I just can’t shake the feeling
That I’m watching from a distance
Waiting for my real life to begin
I could be anyone
I could be anyone
I could be anyone tonight
And I could be anywhere
I could be anywhere
‘Cause when I close my eyes
I see all the empty spaces…
And it takes the empty spaces
To make the stars align
[guitar solo]
Just think of all the empty spaces
Just think of all the empty spaces
Just think of all the empty spaces
that make the stars align, woah...
Just think of all the empty spaces
that make the stars align
We spent a summer by the coast
Pale sky reflected in the foam
To play it safe I barely spoke
‘Cause every time I moved my lips
I felt so inarticulate
I can’t express the things I want to
Hand over my heart...
I didn’t mean it I swear,
It’s just a slip of the tongue
Honestly, I can’t believe I’d say those words to anyone
I swear it’s just a slip of the tongue
Now I’m in over my head...
Can we pretend we never
got choked up on those four letter words?
I tried to take them back but only made things worse
So day broke in silence
I promise I’m trying
Forget you ever heard
Hand over my heart...
I didn’t mean it I swear,
It’s just a slip of the tongue
Honestly, I can’t believe I’d say those words to anyone
I swear It’s just a slip of the tongue
Now I’m in over my head...
Washed away,
I get swept under the waves
Deeper and deeper until no sound can escape
I swear,
It’s just a slip of the tongue
Honestly, I can’t believe I’d say those words to anyone
I swear It’s just a slip of the tongue
Now I’m in over my head...
No one tells you when you’re walking through that gate
That the world outside’s just a different kind of cage
These streetlights are violent,
your eyes can’t decide on the ways that they flicker and move
And every decision gets harder to make
When life has been measured in time left to lose....
You better run
You better run
You better run
Fast as you can
'Cause they can run faster than you
No one tells you when you’re out there on your own
That the hardest part of all of this is letting down your guard
You thought on outside that you’d feel secure
the more that you try to, the less that you are
Now the sirens are crying out look what you’ve done
Don’t wait around here till the cavalry comes....
You better run
You better run
You better run
Fast as you can
'Cause they can run faster than you
Hide away, Run rabbit run
Hide away, Run rabbit run
You better run
You better run
You better run
Fast as you can
'Cause they can run faster than you
Here I stand, repentant
What do you want?
What do you need?
Take it as an offering,
And do what you want
Do as you please...
Attention is power
If I can’t be the one to save you,
Make me your pariah
So desperate and sallow
If I can’t be your savior,
Make me your pariah
Revelers and revenant
Rise from your sleep
Awake from your dreams
And take it as an offering,
To do what you want
Do as you please...
Attention is power
If I can’t be the one to save you,
Make me your pariah
So desperate and sallow
If I can’t be your savior,
Make me your pariah
Cut off the loose ends,
I don’t care what it takes to keep me in the narrative,
I’ll be what you need,
I don’t care what you think, as long as you still think of me...
Attention is power
If I can’t be the one to save you,
Make me your pariah
So desperate and sallow
If I can’t be your savior,
Make me your pariah
She’s speaking in cursive...
She can’t keep her story straight
She’s fluent in poetry
And I – I’m a blank page
The carpet is bare
From pulling the stitches out
This time it might tear
But I – I just can’t leave it alone
You say we’ve got nothing, nothing but time
Guess we’ve got nothing, nothing but time
It’s always so hard to look in your eyes
But I’m threading the needle
Salt in the wound
I’m laying a circle down
Cause sooner or later
I know everything,
- Everything comes back around...
You say we’ve got nothing, nothing but time
Guess we’ve got nothing, nothing but time
It’s so very hard to look in your eyes
But I’m threading the needle
You say we’ve got nothing, nothing but time
Guess we’ve got nothing, nothing but time
But If we’ve got nothing, nothing but time
Then sooner or later we’ll turn out alright
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey you, I know you think you’re so cool
And your thoughts are so original and new
You’ve got everybody talking
but not the way you want them to
They say, you’ll do anything it takes to get a follow
You can play the role but you’re no f***ing model
Or homegrown celebrity
But if you’re asking me...
They ought to put you on a magazine, magazine
Oh you, they ought to put you on a magazine,
‘Cause tabloids need cover-girls too
Someone just like you...
I know you never used to be this shallow
Now you’re picking fights so you can strike a pose
When the camera’s off do you feel underexposed?
Just you wait and see...
They ought to put you on a magazine, magazine
Oh you, they ought to put you on a magazine,
‘Cause tabloids need cover-girls too…
[Guitar Solo]
(Someone just like you...)
Yeah!
I know what I need, so we can drop the pretense
We’re playing for keeps, so brush up on your defense
Cause when the dam breaks, it’s either sink or swim
Start pulling your weight, or get out of the deep end
You know if I could have done this any other way I would…
But that’s what it takes, woah
I’ll break you down
I’ll break you down!
If that’s what it takes, woah
I’ll break you down
I’ll break you down
and then I’ll take your place!
You know how I said, “I need a little distance”
I think what I meant is I’ve got no time for fake friends
But you know if I could have done this any other way I would…
If that’s what it takes, woah
I’ll break you down
I’ll break you down!
If that’s what it takes, woah
I’ll break you down
I’ll break you down
So stay out of my way!
If you don’t want to live looking over your shoulder,
- Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...
Don’t want to live looking over your shoulder,
- Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...
Don’t want to live looking over your shoulder,
(If that’s what it takes!)
- Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...
(If that’s what it takes, If that’s what it takes!)
Don’t want to live looking over your shoulder…
What do you think it would take
To break what our fathers have made?
Watch the tide wash it away...
But you and I are gonna see it all,
as oceans rise and empires fall,
and streets crack open letting green grow through...
What do you think you would do,
With all they’ve entrusted to you?
How far would you go for the truth?
And what did you think would remain?
Stone gardens of cities and graves?
Their stories will weather away...
But you and I are gonnna see it all,
as oceans rise and empires fall,
So raise your fist up high,
and fight for a brand new day...
Don’t wait for tomorrow!
No, we won’t wait for tomorrow!
Hold your head up, You’ve been patient,
The world that they raised you in is gone
Long gone…
A golden age of glory fades,
A generation takes its place at dawn
At dawn…
Don’t wait for tomorrow!
No, we won’t wait for tomorrow!
Don’t wait for tomorrow!
No, we won’t wait for tomorrow!
No, we won’t wait...
© 2022 Winterstate Music. All Rights Reserved.
I don’t write the words down
They flow through me like the Holy Ghost
Got me feeling like a stereo preacher
Swinging from a microphone
I’ll give you something to believe in
I’ve been obsessing over every sound
I’ve got a sliver in my bloodstream, darling
And I’m only trying scratch it out
And I just wanted you to know
That I won’t ever let you down
I get caught up in what could have been
But you - see everything I am….
Everything I am!
Can I get a witness?
Someone who can keep their story straight
Cause I can be my own worst critic, darling
And you could be my best mistake
I just wanted you to see me
Wanted you to notice I’m alive
I’m the canary in the coal mine screaming
at the top of my lungs all night!
That I just wanted you to know
If you ever go too far
And get caught up in what could have been,
Then I, I’ll show you everything you are
Everything you are!
Everything you are!
Everything you are!
I used to be the kind of person
who felt lonely in a crowd
I think I thought about things too much
I never said out loud
‘Till you cut through the noise,
and helped me find my voice
Now nothing will ever come between us
if I have a choice
The rent’s always gonna be a couple days late
But I don’t mind
Ain’t it good to know that I’ve got your back,
And I know you’ve got mine?
‘Cause you can always count on me…
Me and my friends,
Me and my friends,
I can’t wait ‘till we all get together again
Just me and my friends,
Me and my friends
I stand a little taller
than the person that I used to be
Even if I’m falling short at every opportunity
Getting bitter about it
only lead to disappointment
Guess the glass is never half full
When you’re mixing it with poison
I woke up to a day that was cloudy and gray
But I’m feeling fine
Whenever we’re together things will work out okay
Most of the time…
And isn’t that the way it’s s’posed to be?
Me and my friends,
Me and my friends,
I can’t wait ‘till we all get together again
Just me and my friends,
Me and my friends
Sometimes I wake up under the weather
Sometimes I get in over my head
But there’s one thing that I can depend on
I can count on my friends!
I can count on my friends!
Ooo!
So when I’m down and out,
You won’t catch me crying about it,
‘Cause I’ve got everything I need, oh!
Me and my friends,
Me and my friends,
Hey!
Me and my friends,
Me and my friends,
I can’t wait ‘till we all get together again
Just me and my friends,
Me and my friends
Some days we seem so happy together
Sometimes they really get under my skin!
But they’re the one thing that I can depend on,
Yeah!
I’m gonna hold my tongue ‘till the next round comes
Because I’m sick of stupid questions and I’m done playing dumb
Light the juke box up, put a record on
No I don’t feel like dancing but I’m not going home
‘Till I get your number on the back of my hand
I should have known this wouldn’t go the way that I planned it
but the bartender knows that I’m cutting it close
And she’s eyeing me up like my tab should be closed
And I don’t where I’m going
I don’t where I’ve been
I don’t know where I am and I kinda like it...
I don’t need your touch
Just don’t leave me alone...
No, I’m not asking much
Just don’t leave me alone...
I can’t talk a straight line, but I think I’m alright
Broken down on the shoulder of a Saturday night
Like I’m still missing the part where I had nothing to prove
Never have I ever met somebody like you
I’m gonna walk four blocks through the holes in my shoes
Till my sense of direction gets a little confused
And I don’t where I’m going
I don’t where I’ve been
I don’t know where I am and I kinda like it...
I don’t need your touch
Just don’t leave me alone...
No, and I’m not asking much
Just don’t leave me alone tonight
[Guitar Solo]
Ooo... Ooo....
I don’t need your touch
Just don’t leave me alone...
Yeah, and I’m not asking much
Just don’t leave me alone
Shake the crypt, come alive
Taste the earth, drag me under…
Like a phantom limb, keep holding on
Can’t stop the feeling even when it’s gone
Just like a phantom limb, you keep holding on
Can’t stop the feeling even when it’s gone
Feel the walls closing in
Feel it’s breath wrap around you…
Like a phantom limb, keep holding on
Can’t stop the feeling even when it’s gone
Just like a phantom limb, you keep holding on
Can’t stop the feeling even when it’s gone
[Guitar Solo – feat. Drew Medin]
This town ain’t good for nothing but collecting dust,
Does it ever make you wonder whether God’s forgotten us
Where hands grow rough and blue eyes fade?
No one ever gets out and no one ever really stays in this place
I’ve watched them change…
I don’t wanna wait till my luck runs out
with my eyes on the horizon always wondering what’s out there,
There must be something better out there,
I swear, there must be something more out there,
So throw your head back if you wanna sing,
I think you’ll know the notes like the back of your heartstrings –
Out there!
Can we leave the city limits, can we get real stoned?
Can we get a little lost on the way back home tonight?
Chasing after shooting stars until we feel alright...
Out there, there must be something better out there,
I swear, there must be something more out there,
So throw your head back if you wanna sing,
I think you’ll know the notes like the back of your heartstrings –
So come on, get ready, get set, let’s go,
No homestead religion’s gonna save my soul
I’ve gotta find my own salvation on the open road out there!
There must be something better out there,
I swear, there must be something more out there,
So throw your head back if you wanna sing,
I think you’ll know the notes like the back of your heartstrings –
Out there!
[instrumental breakdown]
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Running in circles, around and round we go
Scratching at the surface like desperate animals…
[Low growl]
It’s time to go to work to pay for things you don’t need
A couple hundred “G”s and you’ll be living the dream
You’ll be alright, keep your head down…
Get the plasma TV with the sixty inch screen,
Gold plated watch and the SUV,
Just play your part, keep your head down…
But underneath your clothes I can feel a change,
Are you scared to lose control of the animal you tried to cage?
How many ads do you think it takes to sell depression?
Like, “You’re worthless now, but buy this and you’ll feel better”
And “You’ll be alright, keep your head down”
You’ve gotta snap the chains, let the animal loose
Before the things you own end up owning you
Before the things you own end up owning you!
[Rap Break – feat. Brail Watson]
And we all end marching two by two,
Into the walls of the ark,
When you buy new,
You got used,
‘Cause everything that you got
Blew out
the windows when the weatherman let you know,
The news out
And everything that you own
Is going into a hearse when
Everything that you want
Is owned by another person lately
You’ve been known to day dream
about going to that upper part of the ark
where all of the good hay be-come a beast
so trained he doesn’t see
when the rains is drained by the arrangement,
but changed from chains.
Now tell me, can you feel the bars of that cage?
In God we trust will you become a martyr for that faith?!
No!
Underneath your clothes I can feel a change,
Are you scared to lose control of the animal you tried to cage?
Underneath your clothes (Underneath your clothes)
I can feel you change (I can feel a change)
Are you scared to lose control of the animal you tried to cage?!
I’ve got an itch to scratch, what do you say?
Meet me out back in ten,
Switchblades for a little bit of foreplay,
Start me up all over again
Shoot the street lights out, my dear
We’ll wrestle in the wet cement
I don’t care what it takes to get there,
I wanna feel alive again!
You can wave the white flag
You can, but what’s the use?
You can cut it to pieces, praying for a cease-fire
But there’s a pack of wolves in the back yard,
And a lion on the loose
There’s blood in the water
Someone’s gettin’ ripped apart,
and I’ve got my eye on you…
You’re just a deer in the headlights,
Too paralyzed to move
You put yourself in the crosshairs,
What are you gonna do?
Now you know you’re skin and bone,
And there’s nowhere to run…
You can wave the white flag
You can, but what’s the use?
You can cut it to pieces, praying for a cease-fire
But there’s a pack of wolves in the back yard,
And a lion on the loose
There’s blood in the water
Someone’s gettin’ ripped apart,
and I’ve got my eye on you…
It’s on the tip of my tongue,
It’s in the way you move,
And it goes on and on and on…
You can wave the white flag
You can, but what’s the use?
You can cut it to pieces, praying for a cease-fire
But there’s a pack of wolves in the back yard,
And a lion on the loose
There’s blood in the water
Someone’s gettin’ ripped apart,
and I’ve got my eye on you…
So it came to this?
So it came to this?!
Wow…
[Laughing]
[Instrumental track]
Dirt Roads, strange faces
Life made more sense back when home was a suitcase,
If you know what I mean…
(If you know what I mean)
Soft spoken, You told me
That if I wanted to, I could come and kick it at your place
And share your threadbare mattress on the ground
She said we’re just two friends in a twin sized bed
But you didn’t trust yourself,
So we slept with the TV on
Now I know better, and you know that
Those days are dead and gone
But you’re the only thing I see,
In that little black dress from back when we were seventeen
- back when we were seventeen…
Lately, I hate how
Every second of the story that we’re living
Seems planned now, played out
Take me back to when
She said we’re just two friends in a twin sized bed
But you didn’t trust yourself,
So we slept with the TV on
Now I know better, and you know that
Those days are dead and gone
But you’re the only thing I see,
In that little black dress from back when we were seventeen…
I don’t think I’ll ever have enough
The sheets so thin that the fabric almost let us –
(Turn me away)
I don’t think I’ll ever have enough
Sheets so thin that the fabric almost let us –
(Turn me away)
I don’t think I’ll ever have enough
Sheets so thin that the static clung on tight enough…
… to drown us
When we were
Just two friends in a twin sized bed
But you didn’t trust yourself,
So we slept with the TV on
Now I know better, and you know that
Those days are dead and gone
But you’re the only thing I see,
In that little black dress from back when we were seventeen…
In that little black dress from back when we were seventeen…
Acting like a couple of latchkey kids
Underneath the blood red sky, the blood red sky
Fists are flying, like it’s poetry in motion, in motion
Oh, I said I can’t take this anymore!
But it shouldn’t matter, ‘Cause this shouldn’t hurt,
How come the greater the lesson, the less that I learn?
I’m just a gentleman caller who can’t come to terms
With coming in second to some guy who strikes first,
If I see your face around here you just might get what you deserve
From a gentleman caller…
Baptized, sweat drips down your brow and leaves a sting in your eyes
A sting in your eyes…
Testify, run my tongue over my broken teeth ‘till it tastes like iron
It tastes like iron…
And I can’t take this anymore!
This shouldn’t matter, ‘Cause this shouldn’t hurt,
How come the greater the lesson, the less that I learn?
I’m just a gentleman caller who can’t come to terms
With coming in second to some guy who strikes first,
If I see your face around here you just might get what you deserve
From a gentleman caller…
[Guitar solo]
From a gentleman caller…
From a gentleman caller…
(caller… caller…)
And I can’t take this anymore!
This shouldn’t matter, ‘Cause this shouldn’t hurt,
How come the greater the lesson…
I’m just a gentleman caller who can’t come to terms
With coming in second…
(Coming in second to some guy who strikes first)
If I see your face around here you just might get what you deserve
From a gentleman caller…
From a gentleman caller…
Welcome to the town where the sun drowns in the sea,
Where girls begin to dance on the day they turn eighteen,
Strung out boys haunt all the one-way streets,
The needle never falls too far from the trees,
In the City of Roses and Evergreens
City of Roses and Evergreens…
I almost fell in love with the dew-soaked streets,
Dreaming like the boys of Aberdeen,
A million voices swimming through the mountain air,
But I could never seem to catch their meaning
In the City of Roses and Evergreens
City of Roses and Evergreens…
City of Roses and Evergreens…
City of Roses and Evergreens…
Strung out messed up hospital kick
Strung out messed up hospital kick
Strung out messed up hospital kick
Cuts and bruises,
Broken bones,
The rattle of a gurney on polished stone
Waiting rooms
With old pay phones
A stale pot of coffee slowly growing cold
Just promise you’ll keep breathing…
‘Cause if they could see us now,
We’d be all they talk about…
If they could see us now…
Plastic wristband, all access
Rocking that gown like it could have been a sun dress,
Strung out, messed up, hospital kicks
(hospital kicks)
Cross my heart, I’m starting to code
A taste of heaven never felt so close to this
Strung out, messed up, hospital kick
Hospital kick…
Crisp white sheets in the ICU
Chemical drip through a plastic tube
If these walls were paper thin,
Would you take my hand so we could run right through them?
If they could see us now,
We’d be all they talk about…
Plastic wristband, all access
Rocking that gown like it could have been a sun dress,
Strung out, messed up, hospital kicks
(hospital kicks)
Cross my heart, I’m starting to code
A taste of heaven never felt so close to this
Strung out, messed up, out of my mind, this hospital kick!
[Guitar Solo]
Out of my mind, this hospital kick!
I swear to follow through
I swear to follow through
I swear to follow -
You laugh a little too loud when you’re trying to come off strong,
When the music stops you keep on laughing a little bit too long…
New clothes, new trends, new friends are never quite the same,
‘Cause underneath it all we haven’t changed
You see the cracks in me, I see the gaps in you
It’s how we let the light in
We’re beautiful and bruised
You see the cracks in me, I see the gaps in you
Take me as I am and I’ll follow through
I swear to follow through
Let me carry your heavy heart when you can’t go on,
We can talk about our troubles
Surrounded by the rubble when all our castles fall
Grind your teeth, spit the truth,
Sing another song from our wasted youth
And say you’ll stay when the world moves on –
Because you see the cracks in me, I see the gaps in you
It’s how we let the light in
We’re beautiful and bruised
You see the cracks in me, I see the gaps in you
Take me as I am and I’ll follow through
I swear to follow through
[Guitar solo]
I swear to follow through
Because you see the cracks in me, I see the gaps in you
(Oo, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
It’s how we let the light in
(Let the light in!)
We’re beautiful and bruised
(So beautiful!)
You see the cracks in me, I see the gaps in you
Take me as I am and I’ll follow through
(Take me as I am, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
I swear to follow through
[Harmony Vocals - Janet Orsi]
Wrapped around her finger was a little piece of coal
That had been pressed into a diamond by the weight of expectation
And every word she whispered was twisted like smoke
A man like me should've turned and ran before she even spoke...
'Cause it starts with a spark on the tip of her tongue,
You can claim that the flames weren't meant to hurt no one...
We'd hide from the street lights where we thought no one would catch us,
But we were careless - just two kids playing with matches…
I kissed her all night till the pastor's daughter caught us
We didn't think twice that the moment that she saw us
It could start with a spark on the tip of her tongue,
You can claim that the flames weren't meant to hurt no one...
But we started a wildfire in a place word gets around
We started a wildfire that swept right through this town
Not looking for trouble, but trouble's what we found...
When we started a wildfire that burned it to the ground…
A rumor's like an ember that's carried on the wind;
Before we knew it everyone had heard.
It smoldered on the lips of everyone who listened in,
'Cause infidelity is just a four letter word
When it starts with a spark on the tip of her tongue,
You can claim that the flames weren't meant to hurt no one...
But we started a wildfire in a place word gets around
We started a wildfire that swept right through this town
Not looking for no trouble, but trouble's what we found...
When we started a wildfire and burned it,
And burned it…
Sooner or later she'll go back to him,
And leave me lower than the ashes on the ground.
But I hope that when they kiss he tastes the brimstone on her lips
That always tells a story 'bout how -
We started a wildfire in a place word gets around
We started a wildfire that swept right through this town
Not looking for trouble, but trouble's what we found...
When we started a wildfire that burned it to the ground…
She says her own reflection doesn’t look like her at all,
As she’s swimming to the bottom of a glass of champagne
and stumbling down the hall
I said I’d never fall for a bachelorette,
But she’s kicking off her party dress,
And I’m doing my best to act impressed
at the way she chain-smokes cigarettes
On the balcony, naked for the world to see
She’s much too cool for modesty
Honestly, like “Oh my God”
(Oh my God!)
She must be
Santa Maria
She’s taken it too far
Santa Maria
So give it up for all the boys
and all the girls
Who’d kill to be someone like her
But she don’t give a damn
Santa Maria
Santa Maria…
Oh!
And balanced on the banister she opened up her palms,
She said a hundred eyes would break her fall
As she crashed down from the mezzanine,
Broken glass and shattered dreams frozen in mid-revelry,
Faithfully, like “Oh my God”
(Oh my God!)
Santa Maria
She’s taken it too far
Santa Maria
So give it up for all the boys
and all the girls
Who’d kill to be someone like her
But she don’t give a damn
Santa Maria…
All the boys and all the girls
would kill to be someone like her
She don’t give a damn
Santa Maria…
(na na na na na na)
Didn’t you know?
Didn’t you know?
You’re not so special on your own…
Santa Maria
She’s taken it too far
Santa Maria
So give it up for all the boys
and all the girls
Who’d kill to be someone like her
But she don’t give a damn
Santa Maria…
No, she don’t give a damn
Santa Maria…
No, she don’t give a damn
Santa Maria…
Santa Maria…
Oh!
[Spoken]
Hey ****,
I got your message and I just wanted to say I - I wish things could have been better for you… I know you might find this hard to believe, but it’s going to get easier, I promise. No, I don’t think anybody feels good about themselves when they’re your age – I definitely didn’t back in high school. But going through that’s gonna help you connect with everybody else, and being on the losing team sometimes is gonna help you be less afraid of loss. I’m not trying to say that it’s easy. Sometimes even I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning… but I wanted to tell you that I believe in you, and I’m so glad you’re here.
Your friend, Kelvin
[Instrumental breakdown]
She looks so good in her boyfriend’s sweater
The way her belt rides low on her hips
God, I hope she didn’t notice I was checking out her
*tsk tsk* I should’ve known better
I wanna make her laugh, but I couldn’t think of something
I get pretty awkward when I try to be funny
Is it better to be clever or to talk fast?
Cause I’m a half-assed multitasker,
But I can whole ass one thing so well…
One more time, just sing with me
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
Keep in mind, you’re just a benchwarmer
And she’s more varsity
She’s more varsity
She’s more varsity
How stupid would I have to be to make a pass
Now that I’m so close to a touchdown in the friend zone?
She could probably kick my ass if she wanted to,
And I’d never score again if she ever let her friends know…
Oh, hell!
One more time, just sing with me
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
Keep in mind, you’re just a benchwarmer
And she’s more varsity
One more time, just sing with me
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
Keep in mind, you’re just a benchwarmer
And she’s more varsity
I could he boyfriend under the bleachers,
(Woah woah, a-woah woah!)
He was making out with two of her friends
(Woah woah, a-woah woah!)
He should know that’s a messed up way to treat her,
(Woah woah, a-woah woah!)
Can’t she see she’s my MVP,
So why’s she gotta fall for the players?
One more time, just sing with me
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
Keep in mind, you’re just a benchwarmer
And she’s more varsity
One last time, just sing with me
(Woah woah, a-woah woah!)
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
She’s out of your league
(Woah woah, a-woah woah!)
Keep in mind, you’re just a benchwarmer
And she’s more varsity!
Ba-da ba-da ba doo!
Bless your heart, you still think that there’s a way to go home
Like there’s some road on a map that could take you back twenty years or so
When the world turned slowly, and we felt invincible
We were younger then than we could ever know
What’s the point in trying to hold back
The grains of sand in an hourglass
They just slip right through your fingers every time…
No one makes it out of this alive
So don’t look back, baby
Don’t fight it
We’re tied to the tracks
So just enjoy the ride
Hush now,
Everything’s alright,
Throw your hands up,
and just enjoy the ride
It’s not about the destination
It’s all the love you’ll find
When you stop trying to hold on
Enjoy the ride
Bless your heart, you still think you’ve got it under control
You’re only holding things together like the flowers at a funeral
Thunder in your chest, but you try your best to look composed
It’s just another practice in the art of letting go
So let go…
And don’t look back, baby
Don’t fight it
We’re tied to the tracks
So just enjoy the ride
Hush now,
Everything’s alright,
Throw your hands up,
and just enjoy the ride
It’s not about the destination
It’s all the love you’ll find
When you stop trying to hold on
Enjoy the ride
[Guitar solo]
Whooo!
So don’t look back, baby
Don’t fight it
We’re tied to the tracks
So just enjoy the ride
Hush now,
Everything’s alright,
Throw your hands up,
and just enjoy the ride!
It’s not about the destination
It’s all the love you’ll find
When you stop trying to hold on
Enjoy the ride!