LYRICS
Don't Close Me Out
Tonight let’s put our differences behind us
Even though I’m still not ready to say I’m sorry
Don’t close me out for good
I almost forgot how good it was
To see you just hangin' around here
How I miss the sounds of your music
How the notes seem to erase that we are enemies
So don’t close me out for good
Tomorrow will remind us that
We never will be, never were the same
Meet me in a vague and vacant dream
The kind you’re afraid to see
I’ll be sitting with my legs crossed
Being patient with my memory loss
Nothing less than what you made of me
So, don’t close me out for good
Tonight let’s put our differences behind us
Don’t close me out for good
Tomorrow will remind us that
We never will be, never were the same
Just Not Right Now
We will lay in these streets for good
Under these summer trees
With the breeze breathing deep above our heads
Straight down to our knees
Wondering aloud are you good for me
For tearing apart the world together
Wait, when will we be there soon
I can’t stay forever in this empty room
Breaking apart the hours for my life to bloom
Or saying goodbye to more familiar ghouls
We will lay in these streets for good
Under these summer trees
With the breeze breathing deep above our heads
Straight down to our knees
Wondering aloud are you good for me
For tearing apart the world together
In my dreams you are the way I could want you
In my dreams you are the way I could want you
But, just not right now
Radio
He killed himself with the radio on
A cold front coming north from far away
She said I loved him just the way he was, what was I to say
That no one has the pockets wide enough to hold my change
And sometimes just a cold wind has the power
To tear apart these chains
Tying me to this world
Tying me to this world
A story told as the days unfold
Turn the volume up as high as it may go
We’ll get high as your brothers sigh
Throw our time along to those just passing by
But someday we’ll go our separate ways
And with clearer heads you said
Blend us in with the rest of them
Those lake town places far away from home
Soon you’ll be on your own
No One Knows
Climates change the courage flow
One year ago your hair was streaming ribbons
Underneath the kitchen faucet
Those girls you know begin to think
Their lives would be more glamorous
Begging for a way to make the boys turn into men
When I think about the things back home
I never miss the way that I would lose my glow
Going show to show
Feeling sorry for myself and all the things I couldn’t be
Riding aimlessly down country roads
I never knew the names of
Call me on the phone
Let the tired patterns take us
Where we’d like to go
Where no one knows
A summer swelters humid heat
Your feet are bare along this broken concrete
Singing softly about a love you’ve never known
But sometimes memories can’t mend
Nostalgia’s bitter crashing end
When friends were friends in strange rooms
Turning clocks into the rain
But silently the scene begins
The crashing thunder change of things that
Could have been
But beauty plays a different game
Of proving life is more than just the sky’s you’ve seen
In this eternal screen
Call me on the phone
Let the tired patterns take us
Where we’d like to go
Where no one knows
Part Of Me
My father never played the guitar but the music’s in his blood
This stage becomes a backyard with his face suddenly a fixture
My mom she is a wild one her voice is all I hear
Still singing to my sister on a hot day in summer
I’m afraid to say I think that I am both of them
I still wonder how these halves began to be
I know deep in my heart that I am both of them
Without them I don’t know if I’d be me
My friends are like my brothers we don’t try to get along
Our youth is strong and binds us we laugh and we are careless
One day I know we’ll grow up maybe tall into the trees
Or out into the real world still screaming what we believe
I’m afraid to say I think I am a part of them
I still wonder how these things began to be
I know deep in my heart that I am part of them
Without them I don’t know if I’d be me
This bed would just look empty if I’d hit the road for good
A stranger in a new place the old one drifting further
Writing all these letters to the ones I love back home
The future looking brighter than it ever did before
I’m afraid to say I think that I am all of them
I still wonder how this life began to be
I know deep in my heart that I am all of them
Without them I don’t know if I’d be free
Without them I don’t know if I’d be me
Columbia
There are some things that are let go in your mind
Your face is placed among some long roads
And a postcard to say you’re on a getaway
Away from all the tricks slipped up their sleeves
A canvass blank that soon begins to fill
Once you were a stranger
We kissed behind some dirty bricks downtown
And now you’re somewhere I’ve only been to once
When I was sure that I knew who I was
And let you take me places
I had never been
There are some things you don’t forget in your mind
The way a train goes by the faces of the ones who never knew you
While you sleep lie down beside you
Waiting for your silence when before they wanted answers
Start drifting endlessly away
Your mind starts drifting on endlessly
Sunlight Please
Sunlight please
Stay for me
Inside my bones and I will
Break away
We will be the famous art of sinking
And rising higher
I woke up in my bed
Where a field once was
Where a man sleep next to me now
I hear him breathing and wish he was
Who I wanted him to be
Wish his warmth met me
In my dreams
Five More Minutes
You’re the silly pall mall carton after my last sip of coffee
Empty box placed around creamer
And I remember you can’t sleep after 6:30am
Your third shift bringing you to my warm tired bed
Attempting sex as a release
Pushing my body against the wall
Five more minutes
We Were Heading Nowhere
When we knew each other autumn leaves would cover
Benches sweet with apathy
Weeks would somehow wander
Others here would wonder
We were heading nowhere
We were heading nowhere
Weeks would somehow wander
Others here would wonder
Thursday Morning
He held a peach inside his palm
Just like the axis of the earth
Somewhere under moons
A dirt road east will take you back
To when you were seventeen
Back when you were young
Now watch the universe collapse
Around your skin
Now watch the universe collapse
Them day are backwards
When there’s nothing
Nowhere else to go
I know your pain you pretty thing
Let’s ride off in the distance
Until I Got The Strength
My head is shaking down to my feet pressed on the ground
With the morning in my eyes still burning
I’m so afraid to know all the places I may go
The unknown selling tickets down the line
Oh, this place is full of trickled things to define
If you place your trust in love you’ll go blind
From a troubled heart that beats the blues while you’re asleep
Never getting what you wanted in the first place
But we’re too afraid to die
Think of love just like a prize
Random comfort from another gets us by
Spare my heart of all those silly strings
I can’t rely on
People think of funny dreams to get high on
For a while I won’t be home
Dreaming big when I’m alone
Faces portraits on these dirty streets I’ve grown used to
I grieve a soul that aches believe me when it breaks
A sunset somewhere else may cure you
But for me the things I’d see become just memory
And if there is no kingdom come for the good that I have done
May the weight of all my sins be set free
Because the person I’ve become
Bitter right or better wrong
Never felt the force of nothing except for wandering
To a place I used to know
Before I got the strength to go
Don't Close Me Out
Tonight let’s put our differences behind us
Even though I’m still not ready to say I’m sorry
Don’t close me out for good
I almost forgot how good it was
To see you just hangin' around here
How I miss the sounds of your music
How the notes seem to erase that we are enemies
So don’t close me out for good
Tomorrow will remind us that
We never will be, never were the same
Meet me in a vague and vacant dream
The kind you’re afraid to see
I’ll be sitting with my legs crossed
Being patient with my memory loss
Nothing less than what you made of me
So, don’t close me out for good
Tonight let’s put our differences behind us
Don’t close me out for good
Tomorrow will remind us that
We never will be, never were the same
Just Not Right Now
We will lay in these streets for good
Under these summer trees
With the breeze breathing deep above our heads
Straight down to our knees
Wondering aloud are you good for me
For tearing apart the world together
Wait, when will we be there soon
I can’t stay forever in this empty room
Breaking apart the hours for my life to bloom
Or saying goodbye to more familiar ghouls
We will lay in these streets for good
Under these summer trees
With the breeze breathing deep above our heads
Straight down to our knees
Wondering aloud are you good for me
For tearing apart the world together
In my dreams you are the way I could want you
In my dreams you are the way I could want you
But, just not right now
Radio
He killed himself with the radio on
A cold front coming north from far away
She said I loved him just the way he was, what was I to say
That no one has the pockets wide enough to hold my change
And sometimes just a cold wind has the power
To tear apart these chains
Tying me to this world
Tying me to this world
A story told as the days unfold
Turn the volume up as high as it may go
We’ll get high as your brothers sigh
Throw our time along to those just passing by
But someday we’ll go our separate ways
And with clearer heads you said
Blend us in with the rest of them
Those lake town places far away from home
Soon you’ll be on your own
No One Knows
Climates change the courage flow
One year ago your hair was streaming ribbons
Underneath the kitchen faucet
Those girls you know begin to think
Their lives would be more glamorous
Begging for a way to make the boys turn into men
When I think about the things back home
I never miss the way that I would lose my glow
Going show to show
Feeling sorry for myself and all the things I couldn’t be
Riding aimlessly down country roads
I never knew the names of
Call me on the phone
Let the tired patterns take us
Where we’d like to go
Where no one knows
A summer swelters humid heat
Your feet are bare along this broken concrete
Singing softly about a love you’ve never known
But sometimes memories can’t mend
Nostalgia’s bitter crashing end
When friends were friends in strange rooms
Turning clocks into the rain
But silently the scene begins
The crashing thunder change of things that
Could have been
But beauty plays a different game
Of proving life is more than just the sky’s you’ve seen
In this eternal screen
Call me on the phone
Let the tired patterns take us
Where we’d like to go
Where no one knows
Part Of Me
My father never played the guitar but the music’s in his blood
This stage becomes a backyard with his face suddenly a fixture
My mom she is a wild one her voice is all I hear
Still singing to my sister on a hot day in summer
I’m afraid to say I think that I am both of them
I still wonder how these halves began to be
I know deep in my heart that I am both of them
Without them I don’t know if I’d be me
My friends are like my brothers we don’t try to get along
Our youth is strong and binds us we laugh and we are careless
One day I know we’ll grow up maybe tall into the trees
Or out into the real world still screaming what we believe
I’m afraid to say I think I am a part of them
I still wonder how these things began to be
I know deep in my heart that I am part of them
Without them I don’t know if I’d be me
This bed would just look empty if I’d hit the road for good
A stranger in a new place the old one drifting further
Writing all these letters to the ones I love back home
The future looking brighter than it ever did before
I’m afraid to say I think that I am all of them
I still wonder how this life began to be
I know deep in my heart that I am all of them
Without them I don’t know if I’d be free
Without them I don’t know if I’d be me
Columbia
There are some things that are let go in your mind
Your face is placed among some long roads
And a postcard to say you’re on a getaway
Away from all the tricks slipped up their sleeves
A canvass blank that soon begins to fill
Once you were a stranger
We kissed behind some dirty bricks downtown
And now you’re somewhere I’ve only been to once
When I was sure that I knew who I was
And let you take me places
I had never been
There are some things you don’t forget in your mind
The way a train goes by the faces of the ones who never knew you
While you sleep lie down beside you
Waiting for your silence when before they wanted answers
Start drifting endlessly away
Your mind starts drifting on endlessly
Sunlight Please
Sunlight please
Stay for me
Inside my bones and I will
Break away
We will be the famous art of sinking
And rising higher
I woke up in my bed
Where a field once was
Where a man sleep next to me now
I hear him breathing and wish he was
Who I wanted him to be
Wish his warmth met me
In my dreams
Five More Minutes
You’re the silly pall mall carton after my last sip of coffee
Empty box placed around creamer
And I remember you can’t sleep after 6:30am
Your third shift bringing you to my warm tired bed
Attempting sex as a release
Pushing my body against the wall
Five more minutes
We Were Heading Nowhere
When we knew each other autumn leaves would cover
Benches sweet with apathy
Weeks would somehow wander
Others here would wonder
We were heading nowhere
We were heading nowhere
Weeks would somehow wander
Others here would wonder
Thursday Morning
He held a peach inside his palm
Just like the axis of the earth
Somewhere under moons
A dirt road east will take you back
To when you were seventeen
Back when you were young
Now watch the universe collapse
Around your skin
Now watch the universe collapse
Them day are backwards
When there’s nothing
Nowhere else to go
I know your pain you pretty thing
Let’s ride off in the distance
Until I Got The Strength
My head is shaking down to my feet pressed on the ground
With the morning in my eyes still burning
I’m so afraid to know all the places I may go
The unknown selling tickets down the line
Oh, this place is full of trickled things to define
If you place your trust in love you’ll go blind
From a troubled heart that beats the blues while you’re asleep
Never getting what you wanted in the first place
But we’re too afraid to die
Think of love just like a prize
Random comfort from another gets us by
Spare my heart of all those silly strings
I can’t rely on
People think of funny dreams to get high on
For a while I won’t be home
Dreaming big when I’m alone
Faces portraits on these dirty streets I’ve grown used to
I grieve a soul that aches believe me when it breaks
A sunset somewhere else may cure you
But for me the things I’d see become just memory
And if there is no kingdom come for the good that I have done
May the weight of all my sins be set free
Because the person I’ve become
Bitter right or better wrong
Never felt the force of nothing except for wandering
To a place I used to know
Before I got the strength to go