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Need Not to, climb mountaintops
Need not to, cross the sea
need not to, find a cure
for everything (that) makes you weep.

Need not to reach for the stars,
when life becomes so dark
and when the wind

Love of mine,
Won't you lay by my side,
And rest your weary eyes,
Before we're out of time,
Give me one last kiss,
For soon, such distance,
Will stretch between our lips,
Now the day's losing light.

(Dallas Green)
There is a fire burning in the ocean,
With death black smoke and devil red flames,
You can see it burning from the valley,
Oh you can see it from the high plains,

Oooh x 3

I'd like to take my time
There's a good reason I must find
I want to put a few miles down
I'd like to feel my two feet on the ground

Another year's hard work done
I've paid for it with all of my blood
I've given you more than I'm worth

There's a funeral procession on the highway
traffic screeches to a hault
theres people searching for a better way
to live there lives, woah

Johnny lived a good life you'll hear them say
as tears of sadness soak the ground
the reaper crept in, took his breath away

Old man sits at his desk
One year from retirement,
And he's up for review
Not quite sure what to do
Each passing year
The workload grows

I'm always wishing, I'm always wishing too late

Что ж, я был в Джорджии,
Я видел улицы Запада,
Я ехал под 90, черт возьми, я видел лучшее, что есть в Америке.

Я прошел через Скалистые горы, я видел Саскатун,
Я ездил по первому шоссе, надеясь лишь, что скоро увижу тебя.

Потому что я еду домой, я еду домой...

Well I’ve been down to Georgia
I’ve seen the streets in the west
I’ve driven down the 90, hell I’ve seen America’s best
I’ve been through the Rockies, I’ve seen Saskatoon
I’ve driven down the highway 1, I just hope that I’d see you soon

Cause I’m coming home, I’m coming home

I've been up for days
Trying to find a way
To write this confession down
Seems every line I write's a mess
At least this I'll admit
For what i've done i am not proud
But there's no need to pretend
No need for innocence

How much would you bet
That if I tried hard enough
I would spontaneously combust
I wish I could disappear
And run away from all of my fears
I think I'm coming undone
So stay the night
I promise that I won't bite

So let's face it, this was never what you wanted
But I know it's fun to pretend
Now blank stares and empty threats
Are all I have
They’re all I have…

So drown me if you can
Or we could just have conversation

(Verse)

What becomes of me?
When you stop listening?
Do I disappear into the silence?
Or return from the void with brand new life?
Will I find a resting place?
Somewhere to wash my hands and face

Please believe in what I say
Cause' I'm running out of ways to convey
This lack of faith in myself
That's becoming my own personal hell

Vicious cold now settles in
My bones feel like they're breaking through my skin
Well God damn you

So I'll cross my heart
And hope to die
Before I have a chance to lie
To you my dear
Who I wish no harm
But I know in the end this will turn out wrong
See I've been known to fall in love
But sometimes love just is not enough

When she sleeps there is a fever dream, yeah
It brings the night terrors to harm this fragile bird
She speaks in tongues, the words they come undone, yeah
Then with a wayward mind she struggles through the night

All that I can do, is hope she makes it through
All that I can do, is hope she makes it through the night
Through the night

I fear I'll die from complications, complications due to things that I've left undone
That all my debts will be left unpaid, feel like a cripple without a cane
I'm like a jack of all trades who’s a master of none

Then there's my father he's always looking on the bright side
Saying things like “Son life just ain’t that hard”
He is the grand optimist, I am the world’s poor pessimist
You give him burdens sometimes and he will escape unscarred

(Verse)
Someday I will walk away
When time ain't drawing on me like a blade
Back turned to the setting sun
Leaving behind Toronto's incessant hum

(Bridge)
‘Cause I was born and raised

So there goes my life
Passing by with every exit sign
It's been so long
Sometimes I wonder how I will stay strong
No sleep tonight
I'll keep on driving these dark highway lines
And as the moon fades
One more night gone, only twenty more days

This highway's dark and empty.
Just miles and miles of endless road.
I've got a sickness pounding in my head.
I'm at the mercy of the ghost.

What will it take to live as if I would not another day?
To live without despair, and to be without disdain.
How can I instill such hope, but be left with none of my own?

You could have the sun
You could have the water
This i'd give youyou could be the moon
You could be the harbour
I arrive to
You could come over
Uninvited
You said i'm the one

I don't need to know
Why the oceans blue or how the flowers grow
I don't need to love
Waiting on someone to forgive me for my sins

Like my father before me
I'm a working man a working man

so there goes my life
passing by with every exit sign
it's been so long
sometimes i wonder how i will stay strong
no sleep tonight
i'll keep on driving these dark highway lines
and as the moon fades
one more night gone, only twenty more days.

and i know it's not to get away from me
you just need a change of scenery
so strange how everything went wrong so fast
and i hope that this confusion does not last
because these words might be too little too late,
and i am afraid that i have already lost you
now three months equals eternity, and this will be so hard
and i will long to hold you in my arms

(Verse)

It's the poison running
Through your blood
It's the broken levee
That brought the flood
It's the loaded barrel of a gun

Your words are like knives
They peel my skin and pierce my soul...
Your body will burn tonight...
Though your heart may still remain cold

And I will blame myself
And I will blame myself
For holding on to what I hoped would keep you by my side

Your words are like knives
They peel my skin and pierce my soul
Your body will burn tonight
Though your heart may still remain cold

And I blame myself
And I blame myself
If holding onto what I hope will keep you by my side

What if I can't be all that you need me to be
We've got a good thing going, we have some promises to keep
But my addiction it can be such a detriment
Please believe in this my dear, I am more than penitent

What if everything’s just the way that it will be
Could it be that I am meant to cause you all this grief
My war ships are lying off the coast of your delicate heart

You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy
Love don't live here anymore

When you lived inside of me
There was nothing I could conceive
That you wouldn't do for me

Bound for trouble from the start
I've been walking through this old world in the dark
All along right by my side
There you were shining, my ray of light

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me
Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me
How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

I was raised in catholic school,
taught to obey that one golden rule
That is, He who sits in the Heavens above
deserves all your praise, devotion and your love
Because he had a son who had died for our sins
And with that sacrifice came a sense of contrition
That we all seem to feel when we’re down on our knees
looking up to die hoping he’ll answer all our needs

There is a map of the world
That lies upon my weary face
Each line representing a mile
I have traveled from place to place
The colours are fading
The edges are tattered
It's grown a little [?] with age
There is a map of the world

So, now you're not there
But your ghost still burns in the air
Finally above us the waves have come
To take you away

And with this song, I'll say goodbye
And thank you for what you've done to my life
And Finally I'll say it with love

Can you imagine all the homes abandoned and all alone?
With no one left to care for them, wilting in moss.
The paint is peeling off the walls.
The corners are filled up with dust.
Cigarette smoke hangs in the air,
And the grass ain't growing like it did long ago.

Whether a natural disaster ripped it from it's foundation

I've got too much in front of me
And not enough left behind
I've got too much in front of me
I didn't leave enough behind

I can hear the devil whisper
Payin' no heed to what he says
I can hear the devil whisper

You're the Northern Wind
Sending shivers down my spine
You're like fallen leaves
In an autumn night

You're the lullaby
Singing me to sleep
You are the other half

Down in nowhere, Texas
Along the highway 45'
there is ghostly streach of road
where it's hard to stay alive

South, towards Galveston
young girl stay disappear
where the desert sands

Oh sister
What's wrong with your mind?
You used to be so strong and stable
My sister
What made you fall from grace?
I'm sorry that I was not there to catch you

What have the demons done?

There's a murder of crows,
Flying high over head,
On this desolate road,
Well I tend to forget,
About you and I,
And I'll fight to survive
Through this thunderous life.
When we're not side by side.

(Verse)
I'm looking for a way out
For a place that no one knows
Please take me away now
Somewhere that don't feel so cold
Troubles on my mind
For restful days I cry

I'm giving up on all the sadness
I'm giving up on all the dark
Wanna walk away from all the madness
That keeps on pulsing through my heart

I can smell the rain
Come down and wash away
I can smell the rain

And you can try to fight this all you want,
but I won't be there, I won't be there when you're all alone.
This new season, it brings with it signs of hope, hope.
Now you can't leave me, you can't leave me waiting all alone, all alone.

And I know, there is
Some place I can go
Where no one knows my name.

I get so distracted
By some peoples reactions
That I don't see my own faults
For what they are
For what they are

At times so self destructive
With no intent or motive

Last night I dreamt that they dropped a bomb
Oh the sea ran dry and the winds had calmed
Skyscrapers fell, they all turned to dust,
Their skeletons of steel were covered in rust

And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared
Oh everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

I awoke only to find my lungs empty,
And through the night, so it seems I'm not breathing.
And now my dreams are nothing like they were meant to be,
And I'm breaking down, I think I'm breaking down.

And I'm afraid to sleep because of what haunts me,
Such as living with the uncertainities
They'll never find the words to say which would completely explain

Ten thousand times I will scream
over and over until you notice me
until my voice breaks
and all this heartache

Ten thousand times I will scream
over and over until you notice me
until my voice breaks

If I was a simple man,
Would we still walk hand in hand?
And if I suddenly went blind,
Would you still look in my eyes?
What happens when I grow old?
And all my stories have been told?
Will your heart still race for me?
Or will it march to a new beat?

Sorrowing man,
Look how warn you've become
You once were lord
Of the barren sea
There's blood on our hands
In this perfect madness
We're living on borrowed time

Take better care
Of yourself, my friend
For, you never know
When it will all
Come to an end

Cause only time will tell
When death shall ring his bell

Do I have nothing good left to say
Do I need whiskey to start fueling my complaints
People love to drink their troubles away
Sometimes I feel that I’d be better off that way

Cause maybe then I could sleep at night
I wouldn’t lie awake until the morning light
This is something that I’ll never control

I wish I could do better by you, 'cause that's what you deserve,
You sacrifice so much of your life in order for this to work.

While I'm off chasing my own dreams, sailing around the world,
Please know that I'm yours to keep, my beautiful girl.

And when you cry a piece of my heart dies, knowing that I may have been the cause,
If you were to leave, fulfill someone elses dreams, I think I might totally be lost.

(Verse)

Why's everyone still singing about California?
Haven't we heard enough about the Golden State?
I guess if you like sandy beaches and blue ocean water
There's something about it, to which I cannot relate
I need to see the leaves change and the snowflakes falling
I need to hear the call, the wind whistling through the winter pines

I fear I'll die from complications, complications due to things that I've left undone
That all my debts will be left unpaid, feel like a cripple without a cane
I'm like a jack of all trades who’s a master of none

Then there's my father he's always looking on the bright side
Saying things like “Son life just ain’t that hard”
He is the grand optimist, I am the world’s poor pessimist
You give him burdens sometimes and he will escape unscarred

Everyone wants everything no matter the cost, we're longing to live in a dream.
But we can't let go to all that we think we know, this great escape until we give up the ghost.

But why are we so worried more about the hurry and less about the harm?
Always trying to conquer that which does not offer anything more than a broken heart.
Oh what a cost for love.

Only want oh simple things, mourning the loss and what could have been.

What if I did not love you?
Where wiould that leave me
Would I wander through the avenues?
Under a pall of misery?

(Verse)
Would I be face down in a gutter?
With cheap whiskey on my breath?

This is the story of a man
Who took for granted everything he had
How he let it all just slip away
Never to return again

Now 20 years have come and gone
And still he wonders what he did so wrong
And how that he can win back her heart

When I think of
Fates worse than death
All I can think of
Is something you said
You said we were golden
Bright like the sun
And now I am stranded
Knowing I'm not the one

Northwest is where I'm headed,
Underneath the golden sky
I'm searching for a wisdom
That every man seeks to find
I've got wicked thoughts a brewin'
Many even deeds I've done
I'm looking for a reason
For a reason not to run

A coma might feel better than this
Attempting to discover where to begin
You're weighed down, you're full of something
Of sickness and desertion
You're weighed down, you're full of something
You're underneath it all

[Chorus]

Careless love
Quit pouring honey in my ears
You're speaking diamonds crystal clear
So far away I want you near

Crying out for more
"Just a little more"
Tied down to the floor

I heard the church bells from afar
But we found each other in the dark
And when the smoke does finally pass
We will rise above all the ash

Cuz were gonna live
Were gonna live (x8)
At last

Come close,
Lay next to me
Come close,
Lay next to me
I need to tell you something important

So stay close,
Remain next to me

I can hear my train comin'
It's a lonesome and distant cry
I can hear my train comin'
Now I'm runnin' for my life
What makes a man walk away from his mind?
I think I know
I think I might know

This is the one we were hoping for,
She loves while he lies
She held his back all the way now her arms so tired
Why didn't he stay?

This is the one we were hoping for
He cries when she loves
He laughs his way down to when he'll realize

So go on
And I will refrain
And I'll keep on running this neverending race maybe next time will be the right time and maybe next time will be your time

So save your scissors
For someone else's skin
My surface is so tough
I don't think the blade will dig in

Woman, my love is never ending
Like a sea without a shore
Woman, I'm a fool guilty of old crimes
But you are the one I adore
Woman, when the world has emptied
And the planet is covered in dust
I will stand beneath the silver moon rising
Waiting to resurrect our love