- Adulthood
I go outside
Ask the air if you'd like to hide
Take a deep breath
Walk inside my prise
In my lungs I still feel young
But my body won't play along
I'm thinking this must not be where we belong
And the world
- All For Love
No one knows
Why you save
All your lows
For the days
Well you were quite
The love interest last night
Last night
- At Last
He was a songwriter, writing songs about a girl.
She was a ghostwriter, lying to the world.
And in deep anticipation,
on the day that she had written
and by her own admission she'd
be picked up, kissed, and twirled.
- Beady Eyes on the Horizon
There's a dead man hanging, slumped over the steering wheel of an interstate
Runaway bursting into flames
And the devil was gently breathing, sleeping face-down in my
Apartment, and like all his friends I'm growing tired of his games...
And there's a homeless man arranging his hands, grooving to the beat
Radiating from a police scanner, who said "The air was feeling good to
Me, just as cool and ripe as air can be," and a woman who sincerely
- Carrying
You were
carrying a lot of weight upon your shoulders
and shrugging it off like
it didn't even matter
And I was
caught holding a door for an old bowlegged stranger
And he looked at me like
- Devils On Our Side
With devils on our side
What's the use of lying?
The truth itself will speak
Volumes when we're dying
We spoke to ourselves when
All was bathed in silence
We spoke to ourselves with
- Everybody Knows
You were never a soldier
You were never a prize
You were never a song in my eyes
Yeah you were childhood, twisted and disguised
Oh I am drowning in a world that's always been dry
You're the sun I've never seen rise
Yeah it is midnight but my day only just arrived
- Everybody's Lonely
Dragged into another heartbreak
Like a moth into a flame
Are we programmed for broken romance?
Everything just sounds the same
Why's every song about love or drinking too much?
Yeah maybe that's because everybody's lonely
And on your radio, there's another song that goes
"Babe, I'll never let you go"
- Fire in the Sky
Launching themselves into space,
They gazed at the wrinkles on god's face,
And he followed them down.
He was surprised by what he found.
Lights and towers that touched the sky.
Submarines and machines that attempted to fly!
He said, "You all look the same from far away
And I really hate to be this way,
- Ghosts in Empty Houses
In this country at any given time
There are two million empty houses
And one of them once was mine
There were twelve million spirits drifting
In twelve million empty rooms
Waving their ghostly arms at the stars
And howling sad songs by the light of a crescent moon
- Good Day
I think that I would like to invite everyone I've known dead and alive
To a street where we can be, totally free.
They will come in droves
Wearing their hearts on their sleeves but oh!
How good it felt to have them worn just like they should.
Everybody here wants to know
- Half Crazy
When you were locked up in your room alone
neglecting even just to touch the phone,
salty tears rolling down your cheeks
like they had done any times before,
did you fear that every time you speak
would be the very final word that creeps
between your teeth and off your tongue before
you collapse from a broken heart?
- Hold It In
Jump into that water and see for yourself
Take a deep breath and hold it in
Hold it in
She's got a secret
And she wants to tell
But I made a promise to hold it in
Hold it in
- Hollywood
If all the world's a stage,
Then you're my favorite actress
If all of life's a game,
I sure could use the practice (exhale)
I wouldn't call this a love song
You want me pounding on the church doors,
- Long Way Home
Seems like many years ago
It's strange how you can never know who's
Going to stay with you and who will leave
Do you remember me?
Do you remember me?
We walk through the park at night
Gazing up at all the satellites
- Man in the Moon
The face in the moon
I can see it in the water, too
I can see it just the same as you
But I can't be there with you
Sleepy eyelids
I could write a song for you
I could buy you roses, too
- Miss Templeton's 7000th Dream
She recognizes the voice on the phone
But she can't recall his face
She hears knocking on her door at night
But he never leaves a trace
She's had seven thousand nights with the very same scene
Repeated again and again in her dreams:
A muffled scream, and a broken fall as the moonlight streams in from down the
- My Heart's the Same
Your heart's breaking in me
Like I ain't been broke before
And it feels good,
It feels good...we should do this more.
I can't see your ears no more
I fell in love with you when your hair was still short
But now you've gone and matured
- Ramona
Oh, Ramona, oh, Ramona
Do you feel like the world is just too much for you?
Come over, we can lay in bed and watch whatever you want to
Oh, Ramona
Do you feel a storm is out there and growing?
Ramona, is the world outside your window too much to cope with?
Oh, Ramona
Are you strung out? Is it too hard to stay sober, Ramona?
- Schizophrenia
Yes I can,no I can't,
yes I can, no I can't,
yes I can, no I can't,
yes I can
I swear to it,
that's just how my brain works.
Yes it is, no it isn't,
- Show Me Where It Hurts
Her turn signal blinked to the east
Towards the long wooden pier that hangs over the beach
She took off her dress
And she walked towards the sea
And thought maybe it could sweep away me
His engine turned off with the keys
As he ran towards her, he fell to his knees
- Sound Of A Broken Heart
You never saw me, you never did,
Though I tried, and tried, and tried to get you to notice.
I think I'll always love you, I just might.
Oh, I think I'm gonna love you until the day that I die.
I wanna get you over by my side.
When you're next to me babe,
You can only ever do right.
- Temptation
Heaven, a gateway, a hope
Just like a feeling I need, it's no joke
And though it hurts me to treat you this way
Betrayed by words, I'd never heard, too hard to say
Up, down, turn around
Please don't let me hit the ground
Tonight I think I'll walk alone
I'll find my soul as I go home.
- The Great Unknown
Walking through the heavy light
The streets are empty and you don't feel right
You didn't want to let yourself down so don't be scared to get out
There's a thousand voices saying
The time is now
So let go
You're on your own
- The One
Maybe the sky isn't falling,
Maybe it's all in my head.
Maybe the world isn't dangling off the edge.
But the feelings the same,
In fact it feels like a trap,
Set by someone who wants for my heart to collapse.
- The Popular Thing
Oh, here's to new mornings, to new evenings
Pack your bags babe and we are leaving.
Don't you say no cause I know that you want to go, oh believe me.
Out west babe, out west with rest
we'll go fast and we'll go faster yet
don't you worry, I've been there before
and so has everybody else... everybody's doing it.
- The Spiritual
Some walk quiet, some walk loud
Sometimes people yell but they don't know what they're yelling about
I've said things I didn't mean, but I'd already said them out loud
Forgive me if you can find out how
You could rise, you could sing
Some keep filled up with the secrets that they think they need
Oh, what ever will the others think?
- Undeniable You
The truth, the undeniable truth,
That a few days ago I didn't think that I could have seen this through.
But then you, undeniable you,
You came to me like a dream and you changed me through and through.
Because I, I was broken good,
Never thought that I could love again.
I thought I'd leave this world a lonely man,
But then you, undeniable you,
- under my skin
How much can you fit under your skin?
How much can you fit under your skin?
I wish you were dead babe, I wish you were dead,
I can fit too, I can fit two
I can fit two people under my skin
I can fit two people under my skin
And I will prove it if you will listen