The minnow and the trout

Help me out said the minnow to the trout
I was lost and found myself swimming in your mouth
Help me chief
I've got to plans for you and me
I swear upon this riverbed
I'll help you feel young again

Not your every day circumstance
Hummingbird taking coffee with the ants

Please, I know that we're different
We were one cell in the sea in the beginning
And what we're made of was all the same once
We're not that different after all

Help me out said the eagle to the dove
I've fallen from my nest so high above
Help me fly
I am too afraid try
Now saddled with a fear of heights
I'm praying you can set me right

Not your everyday circumstance
Elephant sharing peanuts with the rats
And I said

Please, I know that we're different
We were one cell in the sea in the beginning
And what we're made of was all the same once
We're not that different after all

We are tied in history
Connected like a family

Please, I know that we're different
We were one cell in the sea in the beginning
And what we're made of was all the same once
All the same
We're not that different after all

The world without


It must be written that
The moon elbowed the atars and said:
"Let's do our best to make it hard for them"
Your house burned into paper cranes,
We watched the wind blowing them awasy
Some sorry comfort I was then

The weight of a mountain
The skin off your knees
From climbing up to me
We can work this wout
I believe,
Although it seems impossible

They turned our skeletons to wood,
And scattered matches underfoot
We must walk carefully in place
The circles darken round our eyes
And yet our bodies, when combined
They gleam like diamonds in a cave

The weight of a mountain
The skin off your knees
From climbing back to me
We can work this out
I believe,
Although it seems impossible now

Keep the world without
Only the two of us count
Two hearts as one
It is possible now
They tried to tear us down
But we'll find our way again

And how we each,
Gave her whole heart to Pete
Now eternally sleeps by his side
Oh, go ahead fate
Oh, give us your best
What is worth living for, is worth a fight
Into the night

We can work this out
I believe,
Although it seems impossible now
Yeah, without a doubt
We'll work it out
They can't hurt us now
On my knees,
It makes me want to scream n shout
"Yeah, we'll work this out"
Just the two of us
Keep the world without
(without, without.. keep the world without)

Think of you

It's one hundred and nine degrees in this crowded room
No room to breathe with walls as cold as a gallery
This is no place for me
Such hard faces in smoke
The smell lingers in my clothes
It's a bad night to be alone
But thats the way it goes

And I think of you whenever life gets me down
I think of you whenever you're not around
And you rest your bones
Somewhere far from my house
Yeah, but you still pull me home

I thought I had it figured out in a brand new life with a great big house
And green initials on the towels
I should be happy now
Well, you got yourself a family
And you planted roots down by the sea
I saw you once on the street
You didn't notice me

But I think of you whenever life gets me down
I think of you (I think of you) whenever you're not around
You rest your bones
Somewhere far from my house
Yeah, but you still pull me home

Just to put your mind at ease
You don't owe me anything
You paid me well in memories

And I think of you (I think of you) whenever life gets me down
I think of you (I think of you) whenever you're not around
And you rest your bones
Somewhere far from my house
Yeah, but you still pull me home
You still pull me home
You still pull me home

We stood up


We are not. frightened anymore,
We stood up
We stood up
And there are two of us
Oh, There will be more
They'll show up
They'll show up
They'll show up

You can blame a change of mind,
A seismic shift in times
They told us not to fight
But we'll fight until we die

Cuz we are not frightened anymore,
We stood up
Yeah, We stood up
And there are two of us
There will be many more,
They'll show up
Yeah, they'll show up

And so they sunk, every ship we sailed
But we stood up,
Yeah, we stood up
And they fought hard,
But somewhere fighting failed
They're all shook up
They're all shook up
All shook up

When steel and concrete break
Beneath the steadly waves
Of fearless, hope and grace
In kindness, there is strength

Cuz we are not frightened anymore,
We stood up
We stood up
And there are two of us
Oh, there will be more
Oh, they'll show up
Oh, they'll show up
Yeah, they'll show up

(instrumental w/group singing "We are not.." x5)

We are not frightened anymore
We are not frightened anymore

What I wouldn't do


If we were children
I would bake you a mud pie
Warm n brown beneath the sun
Never learned to climb a tree
But I would try
Just to show you what I'd done

Oh, what I wouldn't do
If I had you, babe
I had you
Oh, what I wouldn't do
If I had you, babe

If I were old, my dearest
You woulld be older
But I would crawl upon your lap
Wrap a blanket 'round our frail little shoulders
And I'd die happily like that

Oh, what I wouldn't do
If I had you, babe
If I had you
Oh, what I wouldn't do
If I had you, babe
I had you

So laze your hands 'round the small of my back
And I will kiss you, like a king
I will be your bride
I'll keep you warm at night
I will sing, I will sing

It was now and we were both in the same place
I didn't know how to say the words
With my heart ticking
Like a bomb in a birdcage
I left before someone got hurt

Cuz it was, what I wouldn't do
I might, if I had you
It was, what I wouldn't do
When I had you, babe
When I had you

Whisper

Running the race
Like a mouse in a cage
Getting nowhere but I'm trying
Forging ahead
But I'm stuck in the bed
That I made so I'm lying

But if you keep real close
Yeah, you stay real close
I will reach you

I'm down to a whisper
In a daydream on a hill
Shut down to a whisper
Can you hear me still

Eager to please,
Trying to be what they need
But I'm so very tired
I've stopped trying to find
Any peace in my mind
Because it tangles the wires

But if you keep real close
Yeah, you stay real close
I will reach you

I'm down to a whisper
In a daydream on a hill
Shut down to a whisper
Can you hear me
Can you hear me still

The sound tires on my lips
To fade away into forgetting

I'm down to a whisper
In a daydream on a hill
Shut down to a whisper
Can you hear me
Can you hear me

I'm down to a whisper
In a daydream on a hill
Shut down to a whisper
Can you hear me
Can you hear me still

You picked me

one two three,
counting out the signs we see
the tall buildings
fading in the distance
only dots on a map
four five six
the two of us a perfect fit
you’re all mine all mine

and all I can say
is you blow me away

like an apple on a tree
hiding out behind the leaves
I was difficult to reach
but you picked me
like a shell upon a beach
just another pretty piece
I was difficult to see
but you picked me,
yeah you picked me

so softly,
rain against the windows
and the strong coffee
warming up my fingers
in this fisherman’s house
you got me,
searched the sand
and climbed the tree
and brought me back down

and all I can say
is you blow me away

like an apple on a tree
hiding out behind the leaves
I was difficult to reach
but you picked me
like a shell upon a beach
just another pretty piece
I was difficult to see
but you picked me, yeah you picked me