Didn't come over here to argue
Didn't come by to try to spark a flame
Been a long time since you left me
But lately you've been keeping me awake
I blame myself for pushing you away
But now there are some things I need to say
You need to know that you were everything I wanted in my life
You need to know you were my compass, my Polaris burning bright
I'm moving on from where I've been
I'm taking back my heart again
And now before I go there are a few things
That you need to know
I know it seemed like I was absent
You cried and thought I never heard
I didn't know then how to show you
That I was hanging on your every word
If I made you feel alone with my replies
I'm sorry for the distance that you saw within my eyes
(chorus)
You need to know that I've moved on
You need to know I've never been stronger
I'll never forget you
I will not regret you
I know I'll find love again
And you need to know
You need to know I'm sorry
That's all you need to know
I'm afraid to be alone
And I say these things so you won't go
I just speak the words you want to hear
Yeah, I'd say anything to keep you near
And you don't know me
I don't want to let you in
Afraid the fear in me will mean the end
So I smile and make the best of things
Empty in this company of make-believe
The star beyond my reach
The ground beneath my feet
The heart inside of me, no
You don't know me
In love I've tried to find
A little piece of the divine
It's not a question in my mind though
If we really told the truth
We'd see there's nothing between me and you
Just familiar strangers wasting time
Pretending everything will be alright
But you don't know me
It doesn't matter who takes the blame
It'll always end up the same
'Cause if you want a change
It's gonna take a little pain
It doesn't matter who crossed the line
It was only a matter of time
Before we'd say goodbye, love
'Cause you don't know me
The stars beyond my reach
The heart inside of me
Will anyone ever know me
And I'm begging baby, please don't go
If we all saw black and white
Saw every little bitty thing as right or wrong
That's life in monochrome
If we all shared the same point of view
Shared, the differences would not be there
Life in monochrome
Where is the beauty (Can't you see the colors make us beautiful)
Where is the blue sky (The color in the pictures of the ones we love)
If there wasn't any color to the soul
We'd only see a gray kaleidoscope and say
Where is the beauty
So if you don't fit into the box
Fit into the mold of
That life in monochrome
Then you might be free
And you just might see
You're livin' life so perfectly
Not lost in monochrome
Without conviction
Without perdition
Where there's no contradiction
Eye to eye we'll never see
But at least we agree
We'd rather have beauty
We'd rather have blue sky
If I'm living I'm dying
But no one knows how soon
Every breath brings me closer
No matter what I do
After I'm gone
What carries on
A father, a brother, a lover, a friend
Or just a poet, a dreamer, a fool in the end
It's a lot that I'm asking
But I want to leave something good
So there might be echoes of me
Could a life be a love song
With seasons as a page
Or are these melodies wasted
Lost in idle days
When I leave the stage
What will remain
(Chorus)
Echoes of life lived without boundaries, borders, or fears
With more given than taken away
Not to squander the balance of these precious few years
Without leaving the tiniest trace
In my father, my brothers,
My wife or my friends
Not as a poet or a singer, but a man in the end
So there might be echoes
In the faces of children
Our daughters and sons
And this generation will give way to the young
Like those gone before us
I want to leave something good
Something good
I sit by the fountain
And listen to birdsong
I sip at my coffee
And head back for home
To pick at my six-string,
'Till I get sick of the fumbling
Then I turn on my TV
To feel less alone
And it's all just noise until you're with me
Sound until you're near
Breath until you bring me clarity
It's all just noise until you're with me
'Cause no one else could reach me
It's noise until you bring me clarity
I am a sailor
A song is an ocean
Where the storm is a chord change,
And the sun is a word
I have a dear friend.
A love like no other
And I'm alone in the seascape
Unless I'm with her
Clarity
It's a symphony
With every note painting my eternity
Washing over me
Washing over me, the sound of clarity
And it's all just noise...
This is me in an El Camino
Rockin' out to the royal trio
Boppin' my head to Prince, Queen and the King of Pop
This is us at a stoplight
Windows down and the radio up high
Moby's out but I really don't mind 'cause Jay Z's back like it's 1999
People
We are still the same
Though the galaxy's collapsing
Somewhere deep inside I hear a voice I cannot name
Can you hear it calling
Softly singing
You are not alone and though we've changed
Way back in my day
It was Bugle Boy Jeans and an old school mix tape
Life was so much simpler then
A little tiny house and a bike and my friends
Some-teen years later
Gets a little bit complicated
I'm still the little kid swingin' hockey sticks
Tryin' to pick a fight with my next door neighbour
Oh, can you feel it
We are still the same as all the other days
We'd stay outside and play until it rained
We are still the same as every other child
Who makes his mother smile with gifts of dandelions paper dolls and lemonade
We are broken and I'm to blame
I think I lost you, yeah, you're gone again
There's no desire, I'm just so tired these days
Just after sunrise I lay me down
I shut the windows just to dull the sound
The day is fading and I am waking
To haunt the moonrise
To hide from daylight
To try to feel alive
When all the world is paralyzed
I can't feel you and I'm afraid
What used to burn me now is just an ache
Afraid of feeling, just not sleeping
I haunt the moonrise
I hide from daylight
To find a new life beyond the goodbyes
I've felt alone forever
Something's gotta give
I'm fighting to believe it
We were never made for this
We either feel everything break
Or never feel anything
And I'd rather feel everything break
Than never feel anything
The pain of the age bends the knee
And aches for justice
Sodden sunken souls stagger streets
Lost in lies
Unmarked graves, poetic ruins,
Forgotten dreamers
Spray-can melodies, graffiti words
We somehow recognize
Watch the sky
And wounded we'll wait for any kind of sign
Overwhelmed by all these pictures
Of starvation
Thumbtack mosaics of the lost
On station walls
Forgotten papers, dog-eared
By disappointment
Lost in condemned broken mansions, Conscience calls
And wounded we'll wait for any sign of life
Oh love, do you feel the brokenness between
The ideal and the real,
Between man and deity?
Oh my love, do you search
The stones beneath your feet
For answers to questions
So far beyond our reach?
I tried so hard to carry you
But in the end it didn't matter
'Cause these are both our lives
And they're both about to shatter
I wish this choice was not mine
I want to shed this burden
But as for you and I
You know I never meant to hurt you
I wish that I could help you through
But this is something only you can do
I've got to let you go to save you
And I pray that you don't crash
I pray that you won't break
This is just the dark before the dawning of a brighter day
This life is just a breath
But you keep holding on
Don't you know a part of me will be there, stay strong
Don't crash
I know you're out there right now
I hope you're finding something bigger
'Cause you've got everything you need
To make a life that's better
Even though I miss you
I know that someday we'll be together
Until you find another saviour
I'm prepared to wait forever
I wish that I could walk you through
To tell you what you're supposed to do
But I am not the one to save you
Don't you know I can't be the one to save you
I've tried a thousand times
I can't be the one to save you
From the crash
Don't break
This is just the dark
Before the dawning of a brighter day
And this life is just a breath
Don't you know ... don't you know
A part of me is there for you so stay strong
This is not the end
The same chords
The same tune
Telling the same lie
That all of this is something new
Under the same sky
Wrapped in the same gloom
Selling the same drugs
Locked in the same rooms
Haven't we heard it all before?
Doesn't anyone wonder if there might be more?
How can we ever change
If everything around us just stays the same
The same black
The same white
We're just the same fools
Lost in the same fight
Go to the same church
Sit in the same pew
Sing all the same songs
Still just the same you
I think I've heard it all before
I think I'm afraid that there might be more
But how can I ever change
If everything around me just stays the same?
And I wonder where we strayed
I wonder if we'll go back someday
And I hope we find
I hope we find the strength
Or everything will remain the same
It's just kinetics or thermodynamics now
But my high school days are so far gone
I can't remember which
An object in motion tends to remain
And a heart that's broken
Tends to do the same
Now that it's over
I'm looking for a new normal
For change to settle in
A patch to ease addiction to your skin
A new normal to keep myself
From reaching for your hand when I go walking
'Cause that normal's gone
And it won't be back again
Twelve steps from freedom
That's what they're telling me
Steps one and two so far so good
But I can't understand the mix of
Three parts misery to one part ecstasy
Gotta have a little chat with God to see if there's something wrong with me
Now entropy has got a bit of a hold on me
It's taking everything I've got
To fight this slow decay
I'm just looking for a new normal
Looking for a new normal
I forgot to call
You forgot to write
In and out of love
For six days and seven nights
Now I can't see your face
When I speak your name
I've looked deep inside
And baby I don't feel a thing
But I don't want to be the one to say
I don't want to be the one to say
Goodbye
It's August now
We feel the colors change
They're calling me
But I'm still not listening
Old November pulls
At the hurt in me
To strip me bare
To try to tear off every leaf
No
Don't want to say goodbye
To easy summer days
Rainy days and Saturdays
To any other day that you might find me
Beat down and broken
To each moment that we'd say
We're gonna hold on
We gotta hold on
Gotta say goodbye
Now the winter snows
Quench the ground again
I start to think about
You every now and then
But the heart in me
Is a fickle thing
Born to cast you down
Just to try to raise you up again
But I don't want to be the one to say it
It's time to say goodbye to easy summer days
To rainy days and Saturdays
Can't hold on to this
Everyone tells me this is the end
Now they're all turning their heads
I knew it would happen sooner or later
Now they've all left me for dead
But I'm gonna rise after the fall
I'm gonna get back up and someday
I'm gonna look back at it all
And I will call these days the rise after the fall
The phone isn't ringing; the line must be dead
All of my peeps have gone home
I used to be living the life of the party
Now I'm just living alone
They say what goes up must come down
Spinning wheel, you got to go round
You're talkin' bout your troubles and you never learn
Ride a painted pony let the spinning wheel...
Rise after the fall
Gotta get back up and someday
And I will call these days the rise
