- A Better Place, A Better Time
And so she wakes up
in time to break down
She left a note up on the dresser
and she's right on time
You don't know anything
right or wrong
I said I know
and she said so
- A Moment Of Silence
A moment of silence, please, for those who never get the chance
They show up to the party, but they're never asked to dance
The losers, the liars, the bastards, the thieves
The cynicists, the pessimists, and those that don't believe in nothing
I never met a loser that I didn't see eye-to-eye with, I declare
I stare into your eyes
But you look right past me into the air
- Forty Days
And it's been forty days
I've tried forty ways
You will never quite leave your sins behind
They'll haunt you, taunt you until the day you die
You will never really go
You'll just think about it much but you'll need to know how the story ends,
so you'll sit around, even though you should just go
- I've Set Sail
It's soon, but I've set sail again
The wind feels right this time
The waves are small, but they rock my boat just enough
It's soon, but I've set sail again
I've put my trust in the constellations
The pinholes of hope, that steer my boat
I've put my heart in the hands of the man in the moon
- If Only for Memories
When you were born you were not alone
Nothing was carved into the stone quite yet but don't forget
You heard someone say, "It won't get better than this!"
That was the sound of your father
As he held you up to your mother
No one will ever know, a love as pure as the one that you felt right then
- Oh Me, Oh My
Woe is me
I swear that I had it but everyone wouldn't agree
They said I never had a thing
My dying words will be exaggerations, of what I said and what I did
The ticking of the clock
Eventually it stops
Oh me, oh my, yeah goodness gracious what a life
- On and On
I still remember that night
it was the fourth of July
It's still engraved in my mind
and I'm not surprised.
Gang wars no guns hand to hand.
You're black I'm white he's purple
but I still don't understand.
- Sick And Sad
Sick and sad again,
sometimes I'd like the rain to end.
Sick and sad again,
sometimes I like to stand on my own two feet.
Went to the corner of second and main
but there was someone there who mentioned
that they hoped it would rain forever, forever,
so they could drown in peace.
- Somewhere In The Between
You were gone when we found you
You were practically surrounded, you were trapped
But the opposition stalled, their blood ran cold
When they saw the look of love in your eyes
Maybe the times we had, they weren't that bad
And everything else was part of the plan
We sang: "I don't know where we go from here"
- The big sleep
why do you cry when you know how the story ends?
how can you laugh when you know that it hurts your friends?
we've all been there once but you never left
this is me coming back to get you
I have to say goodbye to make amends
i'm not leaving this place
unless i'm leaving with you
you're the only person with a half decent heart
- The Hands That Thieve
I felt no guilt ‘till I was caught and I was told that I was guilty
And even then I wasn’t really sure, yeah yeah
But the thing I felt was guilt itself, or maybe it was something else
Frustration at the fact that I was ever caught at all
I told a lie that multiplied before the time I realized it
I’d given up everything I’d ever loved, yeah yeah
‘Cause the thing you lack when you’re looking back
Is the pressure that you feel that you have to act
- The Littlest Things
The first time that he came to me I was young boy little did I not believe
I had a hole in my heart and I was looking for the missing piece
The next time I was privy to their dirty secrets, all their little hidden clues
And when I added it up I knew a little but a little won't do
Can anybody out there tell me something true
Preferably something that no one can dispute
When everybody's spilling life-long secrets
- The Man With the Skeleton Arms
Wake up, Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
He says there's someone here
Who means to do us harm--
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
Ten years ago on Hogsback Mountain
The flames was roaring like a lion in a fountain
- The Three of Us
There we were the three of us, the Thief the King and I
And finally we were forced to see we were equals in the night
Looking down between the trees, at the town we knew we had to leave
For what it's worth we will walk the Earth till we find the things we seek
And the king said...
I believe I'm a non-believer now
I was a leader but I had to leave them all
- They Broke Him Down
Did I mention we were dreaming
When the devil came to town?
I was awoken by the screaming
But nobody heard a sound
And the lies we told at breakfast
Won't match the lies we had for lunch
And the lies we said for dinner, yeah, for dinner
- Toe To Toe
Someday you will grow up and learn to lie
Just like your daddy did when he told you “No one ever really diesâ€
I hope that I’m not there when you realize
That those with their nose in the air will never look you in the eye
And you will go toe to toe like David and Goliath
They will be Goliath...
And who will throw the stone, I don’t know
- Tornado Joe
This place is quicksand
Don't you ever come back
I guess you knew
What was good for you
You got out before you sank
This place is quicksand
You look after yourself
And you'll see soon
- Ungrateful
Inside my mind there is a man
He's always bragging about his plans
He says he's never gonna leave
(I'm never gonna leave you alone)
Despite your efforts to be free
Your mind and always you will be
At the end of the rope always singing
- Watch It Crash
Last night I woke alone with a whisper in my ear
Recanting all my aspirations and my fears
And when the sun came up that voice had disappeared
But it would linger on for years
It said "We can't just blame it on our mothers
Claim everything they did was always wrong"
And there ain't not turning back when our train is off its track
And there's nothing we can do but watch it crash (watch it crash)
- We Will Fall Together
I once knew a guy, obsessed with the afterlife
Oh what a terrible day that was, he realized he'd wasted all his time
Time was ticking by, and he'd been left behind
And as the clock tick-tocked his heart did stop and everything he had was fucked
And we know not what we do (Can you hear them call?)
Will we ever make it through?
As they watch us fall from the sky to the ground to the see
- Your Day Will Come
A young lady leaves her mother
With no one to love her
To protect her from the world
And I have seen the monsters
That will haunt her
That’ll tear her all apart
And at her gravestone