Someone's in the back yard, banging on the door Daddy's gone away, he's coming back no more His baby's curled up on a stranger's floor Mama's thinking family dinners weren't too much to ask for
Everybody here's got a story to tell Everybody's been through their own hell There's nothing too special about getting hurt Getting over it, that takes the work
Cause one way or another, we'll all need each other Nothing's gonna turn out the way you thought it would But friends and lovers, don't you duck and cover Cause everything comes out the way it should
Blessed are the humble, blessed are the meek Blessed are the hungry, blessed are the weak Blessed are the ones on the other side Blessed are we for just being alive
One day I stopped wanting anything at all The heavens opened up like a waterfall No use in worrying about when it ends Just for now be thankful for what I get
Cause one way or another, a man's gonna suffer It makes no difference the way you wanted it But friends and lovers, don't you duck and cover Cause everything comes out the way it should in the end
Seems like life is a palindrome You cry when you die, you cry when you're born In between it's all about the ups and downs Add 'em all together, they cancel each other out
Cause one way or another One way or another You won't get what you wanted You'll get enough, for sure One way or another Winter pays for the summer Won't get what you wanted What you got'll be good
Someone's in the back yard, banging on the door Daddy's gone away, he's coming back no more His baby's curled up on a stranger's floor Mama's thinking happy endings weren't too much to ask for
Forgive me this sin I'm falling over And flashing tin grins And rolling in clover So ready to get out And eager to please Well its late in the day in the middle of a life But it's early in the century
I never got it I never got it before
Hey, hello How do you get on So much undone It's like it was before
We both got a lot to be thankful for
Forgive me my tongue It doesn't know what it's doing It used to get washed out Now it's undisciplined and crude I'm losing my language And calling a truce And the shape of the thoughts in my head Aren't right for the words i've got to use
I got 'em never Never got 'em before
Hey, hello How do you get on So much undone And still you shine like the sun
We both got a lot to be thankful for We both got a lot to be thankful for
White dwarf, red giant It's empty in space And where there's matter there's violence
I never got it I never got it before
Hey, hello How do you get on So much undone And still you shine like the sun
We've got a lot to be thankful for We've both got a lot to be thankful for We've both got a lot to be thankful for We've both got a lot to be thankful for
At the start of the conversation I didn't have much to say I was looking for some inspiration You just got in my way Took a shot at an easy target You were too stunned to say anything You were the unsuspecting martyr You were not the most dangerous game
Bring my courage back now Bring it back to me Tired of being afraid of what I can't change And I want to be living free
I don't want to be a prisoner I want to live free
Well it could be I was mistaken Could be that I deceived myself But it's hard to understand somebody Who doesn't want to understand himself There's an ocean of unlatched windows And a world of unlocked homes The only reason anybody still feels safe Is most people still knock on the door
Bring my courage back now Bring it back to me Tired of being afraid of what I can't change And I want to be living free
I don't want to be a prisoner (x3) bound in these chains a slave to my fears Just want to be living free
Though we all return to dust There's a lot of us In an awful rush to (then as before)
By the end of the inquisition I was brought back from the brink Torquemada and a couple of friends got together All went out for drinks Left me here in this empty dungeon While they're living it up downtown As if they never even existed Doesn't make much difference now
Bring my courage back now Bring it back to me Tired of being afraid of what I can't change And I want to be living free
I don't want to be a prisoner (x3) (afraid of these chains) (slave to my fears) Just want to be living free
Well some take the road to Damascus Some take the road to hell I'll take highway 1 to the evergreens And everything will turn out well
Clouds rumble, earth will shift Walls tumble, hearts will skip Things changing Everywhere but here Small window, tiny room Sun hits in the afternoon For one minute fills this space Beautiful, illuminated
When I am released And the gates fly open before me When I am released Will you still be waiting for me?
Some look and all they fin Are problems and alibis But my cup is one sixteenth full I'm getting there, but the getting's slow
When I am released And the gates fly open before me When I am released Will you still be waiting for me?
When I walk outside I will see the sky I will leave all this behind When I walk outside Sun to warm my skin, friends to take me in When I walk outside
When I am released And the gates fly open before me When I am released Will you still be waiting for me?
Ever since I was a kid I've been cleareyed Cleareyed I can't forget but I forgive Did you notice Are you all right
Beyond the edge of memories The shapes take form and call to me There's some things I wish I'd never seen And never been But so it is So it is If all I know is what I see Then certainty Is what you are to me
Cleareyed Cleareyed Someone came and changed the words Left me tongue tied Tongue tied It's not a sky without the clouds There is no blue sky Blue sky
Beyond the past beyond the fear The simple act of being here There's some things I wish I'd never seen And never been But so it is So it is
If all I know is what I see Then certainty Is what you are to me Cleareyed Cleareyed Cleareyed Cleareyed
Blind me with love Make me blind Blind me with love Make me blind
Cause I've seen too much Too much of this life
I have seen too much Too much of this life
I have seen too much Too much of this life
I have seen too much Too much of this life
Now I only see you Only see you Cleareyed Cleareyed Cleareyed Cleareyed
Oh my enigma, I'll never forgive ya You have confirmed my suspicions as if they had mattered You're so removed, I can't approach With an attitude beyond reproach The constitution of a roach With skin of satin
Oh you tease, you taunt, You don't you know what you want You're too cool, too hot; I'm wishing I'd forgotten But there is no bottom, no there is no bottom And I just keep on falling
Oh my nemesis, I always knew you were the best The high priestess of bitterness, queen of the morning You fight me 'til the bitter end No white flags, no chance to make amends With enemies like you, well, who needs friends? They all just seem boring
Oh you tease, you taunt, You don't you know what you want
You're too cool, too hot; I'm wishing I'd forgotten But there is no bottom, no there is no bottom I just keep on falling
Oh, I just keep on falling
Are we alright? Are we still here? Are we alive? Does anybody still care?
Oh you tease, you taunt You're everything I want You're too cool, too hot, I'm wishing I forgotten But there is no bottom No there is no bottom Oh there is no bottom, and I just keep on falling Oh I just keep on falling And I just keep on falling I just keep on falling
Count down the rings, pick up the phone But she's sure to know, you're not alone More on the side, less at the home Dust and dry earth, where a garden should grow
It's your decision now, give love or just get out Don't bring another half life to this house
so why did you come here, what did you want you did something right, just look what you've got you can fake it at work, you fake it for friends but not for the children or the woman you wed
It's your decision now, give love or just get out Don't be another half-life in this house You'll be another half-life in this house
And I know you've got it in you to Let it go, just let her into you There's dirt on your nails and blood on the floor You play for the angles, you play what you know
It's your decision now, dig in or get the hell out Don't be another half-life to this house You'll be another half-life in this house Don't bring another half-life in this house
But I know you've got it in you Just let 'em into you Just let 'em into you
So how, how did I lose the thread? When you reeled it in again I could be caught on that line Spending my time swimming with you Your love is often unkind, bitter and blind Sometimes casually cruel
but it's true but it's true
You give more than you would ever take Forgive the mess I leave in my wake I'm inconsistent at best Never at rest, ever the fool I'm always stumbling around knocking things down But whatever else I do
I'll be true I'll be true I'll be true
You're in and out of my hands Slipping like sand, passing like time Your love is brutally bold, careless and cold But it's mine, mine I won't tell you a lie, so be careful what you ask me I don't care, I don't mind if you never understand me Every day, every night I can promise you I can promise you
I was eighteen, so were you I was that birkenstock geek rock dude You were the back-flip, doe-eyed Tree-climbing earth mama Beautiful evergreen girl
I never thought that I could be Getting my grey hairs with you beside me And there's something I'm blind to But you still see
And it couldn't be better, I know And it shouldn't be easier, oh I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall
I want to be the toy in your cereal box I want to be carter at your peace talks I want to get almost too familiar But still notice the way that you walk
And if you said you were going away I'd run on the tarmac And I would lay down in front of the plane Just to get you to stay
'Cause it couldn't be better, I know And it shouldn't be easier, oh I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall
Got everything i'd ever wanted here Everything and then this constant fear Sure I'm gonna lose it all Just waiting for the other boot to fall
And if you thought I could be replaced I wouldn't just stop with an ear I would cut off my whole fucking face Just to make my point clear
That it couldn't be better, I know It shouldn't be easier, oh I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall Waiting for the other boot to fall
You opened the door and in came the night Curled 'round a woman and turned out the light And I finally got it figured out But it's too late to go back now
Proud as a lion of your new obsession Tongue of a liar, little recollection And there's no use in keeping score Cause no one plays fair anymore
And the voices trailing doubt Are finally fading out Finally fading
Gave all the right answers to all the wrong questions And you burned a few bridges when they raised objections And I probably shouldn't think out loud But it's too late to take it back now
And the voices trailing doubt Are finally fading out Finally fading
Whatever they said Just have to swallow it Whatever you did No use in bothering Get out of my head Out of my head
And the voices trailing doubt Are finally fading out The voices trailing doubt Are finally fading out Finally fading Finally fading out
Let us be humbled tonight End these doubts, show us the light Give us peace, lay down the mighty In these doubts show us the light
Oh God, I pray to thee I don't want to die before I'm free Dive down inside the sea Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key
Let us be humbled tonight End these doubts show us the light Give us strength, lay down the mighty In these doubts show us the light I pray
Oh God, I pray to thee I don't want to die before we are free Dive down inside this sea, Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key
Oh God, will you hear my cry I don't want to see another innocent die I'll dive down inside these depths, Keep my faith and hold my breath
We fight to hard and this won't bend Lay down your arms and gather your friends Strenghten your heart and this will end Lay down your arms, gather your friends Lay down your arms, gather your friends Lay down your arms, gather your friends Lay down your arms, gather your friends Gather your friends
Oh God, will you hear me cry I don't want to see another innocent die Dive down inside this see Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key Oh God, will you hear me cry I don't want to see another innocent die Dive down inside these depths I'll keep my faith and hold my breath
I've got gardens growing, got quiet days Clothes on my back and food on my plate Got friends to help me if I call for them
Well I don't need anything that I don't have
I've got eyes to see this beautiful land Feet to take me where I want to stand If there's work to be done There's these two strong hands
Well I don't need anything that I don't have I don't need anything that I don't have
And some years the rains don't come Some years floods clear out the plains But if those waters wash this town away I would still have enough If she was with me
I've got a roof overhead, stars if I choose But I've no need to fly, I've got no itch to move I've got almost nothing, but I understand
That I don't need anything that I don't have I don't need anything that I don't have
*it's hard to rely on my good intentions when my head's full of things that i can't mention seems i usually get things right but i can't understand what i did last night
it's hard to rely on my own good senses when i miss so much that requires attention have to laugh at myself sometimes and i can see that i'm not blind
**there's little relief give us reprieve for all the things i've left behind i'm positive that i'm not blind
i'm not afraid things won't get better but it feels like this has gone on forever you have to cry with your own blue tears have to laugh with your own good cheer
*repeat
**repeat
i can't be hard on you 'cause you know i've been there too learned a lot of things from you
but life gives little relief give us reprieve and when everyone is cold as ice i clinch my fists and close my eyes imagining the world outside but i can see that i'm not blind
there's almost nothing left you eat my kind for breakfast what did i expect? to come here and find anyone? find open arms to greet me and friends to feed me i sicken myself so much and you eat my kind for breakfast you eat my kind
whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whenever i let my guard down, whatever i was ignoring whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whatever i have been given, whatever i have been
seeing myself this way i am a monster i believe and seeing is believing is there no doubt left when i poison myself and poison leaves no appetite i sicken myself so much i sicken myself so
whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whenever i let my guard down, whatever i was ignoring whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whatever i have been given, whatever i have been
did we expect these things to change by waking up and suddenly there they are and all i need's a starting place and nothing ever seemed so hard...
whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whenever i let my guard down, whatever i was ignoring whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whatever i have been given, whatever i have been
open up and let me in i was lucky to live, don't need to win forgave myself and if that's a sin it's not enough you'd even know it you did right to call my bluff 'cause i won't say when i've had enough and i worked so hard to need this stuff and you tried so long to just ignore it
won't you come down where i am words are hidden, understand
i won't repeat myself again i will not repeat myself again it's another promise d.o.a. and despite my every hope there is no truth behind my best intentioned oath
won't you come down where i am words are hidden, understand won't you come down been away to long, i know i have
won't you come down, help me stand there is healing in your hands won't you come down where i am words all leave me been away too long i know i've been away too long i know i have
are you the plane that shapes the board part of a history smoothed and worn and oh, the windy weather dry spells, brushfire
isn't it strange to see my life you must cut me down to look inside and oh, the simple pleasures this ring tells of rain and this one summer good years, nightmares
how is it i remember knowing that i would live forever isn't it strange how truth can change and oh, the windy weather this ring tells of rain this one, summers dry spells, brushfire
is it this place that makes me fall from you forget the words that once rang so true did we expect that life was ever fair, my god... i sowed a field of rose and reaped a whipping rod and everything i've held too tight inside could make a part of me die and if my lips could only speak the name the dam would break
what is this ice that gathers round my heart to stop the flood of warmth before it even starts it would make me blind to what i thought would always be the only constant in the world for me and every hours of every day i need to fight from pulling away and if my mind could only lose the chain the dam would break
for all the things i hid away and all the words i could not say the dam would break
i want to be clean, i want to be whole i want revenge, i want control i want to give up, i want to give in destroy all i have been i want to be cruel, i want to be cold i want a chance to sell my soul i want to break out, i want to dive in to lose myself in sin i don't need anything i'm just wanting just wanting i don't need anything i'm just wanting just wanting desire all desire is desire feeds desire desire all desire is desire breeds desire i want to scream, i want to shout i want to have faith and never doubt i want to bend, i want to break to sleep and never wake to break down walls and to escape be alone and hide my face i want to feel, i want to touch want to stop wanting it so much i don't need anything i'm just wanting just wanting i don't need anything i'm just wanting just wanting desire all desire is desire feeds desire desire all desire is desire breeds desire
lead me well, don't clear my way it's fascinating how the pallor can stay upon your face when you are light like a little boy flying kites and shouting to the world you're shouting to the world your joy don't fade, you're staying here with me don't fade, i need to know that someone still believes
look around, see for yourself he led us down and at the water's edge we knelt petals in the lake and red upon my face she's crying as we pray and it all comes down to money, again how could you forsake the love of god that way don't fade, you're staying here with me don't fade, i need to know that someone still believes.
