angry
black and white people
crutch
last beautiful girl
if you're gone
mad season
rest stop
the burn
bent
bed of lies
leave
stop
you won't be mine
So scream you
Out from behind the bitter ache
You're hangin on the memory
You need most
You still want love
Love's oh so smooth
And delicate
But not without affection
Not at all
This better wish
Then it wouldn't get better
Then you see that
You just get angrier
(CHORUS)
And it's good
That I'm not
Angry
And I need to be over
Well I, I'm not
Angry
Anymore
Cry, you cry
Run, you run love
When you love
Well now represent the ashes
That you leave behind
So instead of wishing
The road had a shoulder
Man you see that
You're just thinkin overtime
And you're blind
(CHORUS 2)
And it's good
That I'm not
Angry
And I need to be over
Well I, I'm not
Angry
Anymore
And it's draggin me under
Well I, I'm not
Angry, Angry, yeah, yeah
I'm not angry
Yeah, there's never been enough
It gets inside
And it tears you up
And I'm not angry
And I've never been above it
You see through me
Don't you? Yeah
(CHORUS)
(CHORUS 2)
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We're lonely now
Is anybody missing a dream
One more hard head
And I'm just there to reach my height
It's a lonely life
Is anybody out there the same
It's not over
Cuz this here's fate
And it's bound to be a powerful thing
CHORUS
If it's only the weak
Can we talk about it
It's gonna be something creepy
Just nursing this ghost of a chance
Of affection and romance
In a technicolor dream
Of black and white people
One boy headstrong
Takes some medication just to play
He's pushed down so hard
You can hear him start to sink
It's one last round of petty conversation
You pour over here
You won't go down like this
Just roll on over
And lay down till it's more than you can take
CHORUS
REPEAT FIRST VERSE
CHORUS
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Well I don't wanna be the crutch
One step away from down
Well I don't wanna be the crutch
One step away from
Then I feel like hell
So come here lover
And I can be a love machine
And I can be your friend
Ain't no shame
Feel strong for me lover
Make a real true color
Come end to end
God damn,
Change of pace
Think you got a piece
Of my heart on your face
It's a shame
To let it waste
How will it taste?
How will it taste?
Break it down
Make it simple
Cuz you know damn well
That I'm a simple man
All these things go changin
Like the weather
And they stay that way
Till the weather man says
We're down
Gone to waste
Think there's gonna be
A piece of that smile
On your face
How bout that?
Give you a race
There ain't no two ways about it, no
(CHORUS)
Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
One step away from down
Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
One step away from down, down, down
Bring it on then
And use a lover
Like a cigarette
The way lovers do
Well this sweet song
Messed up so
It goes on and on
It makes you want to
Move around the room
In circles
Everybody wants to be
Try to find my place among the
Map with all the men
You've been through
Dig a little deeper
And you'll realize
All I'm buildin up
Or tearin down
Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
One step away from down
Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
One step away from down, down, down
All you needed was a crutch (yeah, yeah)
Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
One step away from down
Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
One step away from down, down, down
Well I can never be your crutch (yeah, yeah)
Well I can break you down
I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
No, I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
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This will all fall down
Like everything else this was
This too shall pass
And all of the words we said
We can't take back
Now every fool in town
Will find out by now
I can't replace
All of the wasted days
The memory of your face
I can't help thinkin
Maybe if we ever
Could have kept it all together
Where would we be?
A thousand lost forevers
And you never would give me
Here's what I'm thinkin
(CHORUS)
It won't be the first
Heart that you break
You won't be the last beautiful girl
The one that you wrecked
Won't take you back
If you were the last beautiful girl
In the world
So tell me one more time
How you're sorry about
The way this all went down
You needed to find your space
You needed to still be friends
You needed me to
Call you if I ever
Couldn't keep it all together
You comfort me
You tell me bout the river
And the promises I never should have made
Here's what I'm thinking
(CHORUS)
It's over now
It's gone aground
Cuz you're everyone else's girl
And it seems to me
You'll always be
Everyone else's girl
This will all fall down
Like everything in the world
This too must end
And all of the words we said
We can't take back
(CHORUS 2x)
The last beautiful girl
In the world
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I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
I think I'm finally scared now
You think I'm weak
I think you're wrong
I think you're already leavin'
It's like your hand is on the door
I thought this place was an empire
Now I'm relaxed
I can't be sure
And I think you're so mean
I think we should try
I think I could need
This in my life
And I think I'm scared
I think too much
I know it's wrong
That's the problem
I'm feeling if you're gone
Maybe it's time to come home
There's an awful lot of breathing here
But I can hardly move
If you're gone
maybe, baby, you need to come home, come home
There's a little bit of me in everything you do
I bet you're hard to get over
I bet the moon just won't shine
I'd bet my hands that I can stay here
And I'd bet you need more than mine
And I think you're so mean
I think we should try
I think I could need this
In my life
I think I'm just scared
That I know too much
I can't relate
And that's the problem
I'm feeling if you're gone
Maybe its time to come home
There's an awful lot of breathing here
But I can hardly move
If you're gone
Maybe, baby, you need to come home
There's a little bit of me in everthing you do
I think you're so mean
I think we should try
I could need this
In my life
And I think I'm scard
I talk too much
And that's the problem
I'm feeling if you're gone
Maybe its time to come home
There's an awful lot of breathing here
But I can hardly move
If you're gone
Maybe, baby, you need to come home, come home
There's a little bit of me in you
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I feel stupid
But I know it won't last for long
And I know I've been guessing
But I could have been guessing wrong
You don't know me now
I kinda thought that you should somehow
But that whole mad season
Gets you down
Well I feel stupid
But it's something that comes and goes
And I feel like I'm changin
But it's funny how no one knows
We don't talk about
The little things we do without
When that whole mad season
Comes around
Why ya gotta stand there
Lookin like the answer now?
It seems to me
You come around
(CHORUS)
I need you now
Do you think you can cook?
You figured me out
That I'm lost and I'm hopeless
I'm bleedin and broken
Though I've never spoken
I come undone
In this mad season
I feel stupid
But I think I've been catchin on
I feel ugly
But I know I still turn you on
You've grown colder now
Torn apart and turned around
But that whole mad season
Knock you down
So why you gonna stand there?
Are ya gonna help me out?
We need to be
Together now
I need you now
In this mad season
(CHORUS)
And now I'm cryin
Is that what you want?
And I'm trying
To live my life on my own
But I won't know
The times
I do believe I am strong
Just someone tell me why, why, why
Do I, I, I
Feel stupid?
And I come undone
Well I come undone
I need you now
Do you think you can cook?
You figured me out
That I'm lost and I'm hopeless
I'm beedin and broken
Though I've never spoken
Well I need you now
Do you think you can cook?
You figured me out
I'm a child and I'm hopeless
I'm bleedin and broken
Though I've never spoken
I come undone
I come undone
In this mad season
In this mad season
It's been a mad season
It's been a mad season
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Just three miles from the rest stop
And she slams on the breaks
She said I tried to be, but I'm not
And could you please collect your things
Well, I don't wanna be cold
I don't wanna be cruel
But I gotta find more than
What's happenin with you
So if you'd open up my door
(CHORUS)
She said, While you were sleeping
Well I was listening to the radio
And wondering what your dreaming when
It came to mind that I didn't care
So I thought, hell if it's over
Then I had better end it quick
Or would lose my nerve
Are you listenin,
Can you hear me?
Just three miles from the rest stop
And my mouth's too dry to reach it
Light was shining from the radio
And I could barely see her face
But she knew all the words
That I never had said
She knew the crumpled up promise
Of a broken down man
As I opened up my door
(CHORUS)
Can you hear me?
You just don't love to love like I love
While you were sleeping
Well I was listening to the radio
And wondering what you're dreaming when
It came to mind that I didn't care
So I thought hell if it's over
Then I had better end it quick
Or I could lose all my nerve
Are you listening?
Can you hear me?
Oh, can you hear me?
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I thought about
Leavin but I couldn't even get out of bed
I'm hangin cuz I couldn't get a ride outta town
Now anyone who
Really wanted me to be down
Come down
I though about
Singin but I couldn't remember all of the words
Breakin but I couldn't get the pieces apart
Laughin but I didn't know what the joke was about
And now I'm down
(CHORUS)
And I wonder
How I never got the burn
And if I'm never gonna learn
How lonely people make
A life
One strain at a time
I forgot about
Everything and everyone I needed before
Tryin to get a handle on a reason to shine
Pickin up the pieces that have fallen behind
Takes time
(CHORUS)
Still shine
Don't wanna be lonely
(CHORUS)
All this time
I wonder
How I never got the burn
And if I'm never gonna learn
How lonely people make
A life
One strain at a time
Still shine
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If I fall along the way
Well, pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
And if I need some other love, then
Give me more than I can stand
When my smile gets old and faded
Wait around, I'll smile again
Shouldn't be so complicated
[Chorus]
Just hold me and then
Well just hold me again
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Keep breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me...bent
If I couldn't sleep, could you sleep
Could you paint me a better love
Could you sympathize with my needs
I know you think I need a lot
Started out clean but I'm jaded
Just phoning it in, just breaking the skin
[Chorus]
Start bending me
It's never enough
Till I feel all your pieces
Start bending me, keep bending me
Until I'm completely broken in
Shouldn't be so complicated
[Chorus]
Without understanding
When I go there again
[Chorus]
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No I would not sleep
In this bed of lies
So toss me out
And turn in
And they'll be no rest
For these tired eyes
I'm markin it down
To learn it
I am
I don't think that I could take
Another empty morning
I don't think that I could fake
Another hollow smile
But it's not enough
Just to be lonely
I don't think that I could take
Another talk about it
And just like me,
You've got needs
And they're only
A whisper away
And we'll softly surrender
To these lies
That we've tendered away
(CHORUS)
But I would not sleep
In this bed of lies
So toss me out
And turn in
And they'll be no rest
For these tired eyes
I'm markin it down
To learn it
I'm markin it down
To learn it
Cuz I can
Don't wanna be the one to
Turn the whole thing over
Don't wanna be somewhere
Where I just don't belong
But it's not enough just to be sorry
Don't you think I feel the darkness
Closing in?
I tried to be
More than me
And I gave until
It all went away
And we'll only surrender
To worst part
Of these winters
That we've made
(CHORUS)
I am
All that I'll ever be
For you
But God help me
I need this
I would not sleep
In this bed of lies
So toss me out
And turn in
And they'll be no rest
For these tired eyes
I'm markin it down
To learn it
I'm markin it down
To learn it
Cuz I can
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It's amazing
How you make your face just like a wall
How you take your heart and turn it off
How I turn my head and you lose it all
And it's unnerving
How one move just puts me by myself
There you go just trusting someone else
Now I know I put us both through hell
I'm not sayin
That there was nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
And I'm not sayin
We ever had the right to hold on
I just didn't wanna let you get away from me
(CHORUS)
But if that's how it's gonna leave
Straight out from underneath
Then we'll see who's sorry now
And if that's how it's gonna stand
Well you know you've been dependent on
The one you're leavin now
The one you're leavin out
It's aggravating
How you threw me on
And then tore me out
How your good intentions turned out
The way you needed time to sort it out
And I'm not saying
There was nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
I'm not saying
We ever had the right to hold on
I just couldn't let you get away from me
(CHORUS)
And I'm not saying
There was nothing wrong
I didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
But if that's how you're gonna leave
Straight out from underneath
Then we'll see who's sorry now
And if that's how it's gonna stand
Well you know you've been dependent on
The one you're leavin now
Tell me is that how it's gonna end
When you know you've been dependent on
The one you're leavin now
The one you're leavin out
I'm the one you're leavin now
The one you're leavin out
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Yes, it's true that I believe
I'm weaker than I used to be
I wear my heart out on my sleeve
Whoa, and I forget the rest of me
Yes, there's times I've been afraid
And there's no harm in that, I pray
Cuz I'm more frightened everyday
Someone will take the hope I have away
(CHORUS 1)
But you gotta get up to get off sometimes
You gotta get up to get off sometimes
You gotta get up to get off sometimes
You gotta get up to get off sometimes
I know
You gotta get up to get off sometimes
You gotta get up to get off sometimes
You gotta get up to get off sometimes
I know
All the times I've given in
Ya picked me like a second skin
One by one I will begin
To wear you on the days I'm feelin thin
(CHORUS 1)
(CHORUS 2)
You better stop, stop, stop, stop
Usin me up
You better stop
Cuz I've had enough
And I'm ready to
Poke at the reasons
That keep me here
Walk…in the rain
You know nothing
You're never gonna change
Good God,
Need a little love while
You'll find
What you think you're gonna be child
(CHORUS 2)
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You take your head
Around the world
And see what you get
From your mind
Write your soul down
Word for word
You see who's your friend
And who is kind
Well it's almost like a disease
And I know soon you will be
(CHORUS)
Oh but you'll be over the lights
And you'll be strong
You'll be rich
And love
And you will carry on
But no, no, no, oh no
You won't be mine
Take your straight line
For a curve
Make it stretch
The same old line
Then try to find
If it was worth
What you spent
Why you built it for
The way you're feelin now
It's almost like bein free
But I know soon you will be
(CHORUS)
Take yourself out to the curb
Sit and wait
Fool for life
And it's almost like a disease
But I know soon you will be
(CHORUS)
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