Almost lover

Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick

Well, I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, never forget
These images

No
Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine

Did I make it that
Easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should have known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

Ashes and wine

Don’t know what to do anymore
I’ve lost the only love worth fighting for
I’ll drown in my tears
Don’t they see?
That which show you that which make you hurt like me

All the same
I don’t want mudslinging games
It’s such a shame
To let you walk away

Is there a chance?
A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
A reason to fight?
Is there a chance you may change your mind?
Or are we ashes and wine?

Don’t know if our fate’s already sealed
This day’s spinning surface on a wheel
I’m ill with the thought of your kiss
Coffee laced intoxicating on her lips

Cut it out
I’ve got no claim on you now
Not allowed to wear your freedom down

Is there a chance?
A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
A reason to fight?
Is there a chance you may chance your mind?
Or are we ashes and wine?

I’ll tear myself away
That is what you need
There is nothing left to say
But

Is there a chance?
A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
A reason to fight?
Is there a chance you may change your mind?
Or are we ashes and wine?
The day’s still ashes and wine
Or are we ashes?ashes and Wine

Birds of summer


You came with the season,
As the first swallow song
A brown headed stranger,
With a five-letter name
dooodoodoo

We planted our kisses
Where the wild berries grow
My feet sprouted wings
And I flew al the way home
dooodoodoo

My cheeks red like fire engines racing
Straight to the heat of your skin
And I know our days are numbered,
Early bird of the summer you'll fly south
Just as the fall begins

The leaves changed their colors
And the schoolyards were filled
My coat with the patches
Barely keeps out the chill,
dooodoodoo

You sent me a postcard
From a town out of state
I wish it were warmer
And I hope you're the same
dooodoodoo

The fields where we wandered were golden
Now only muddy my boots
And I know I should recover,
You're a bird of the summer,
I was wrong to try and capture you

(instrumental)

Flight.. Flight..
Flight.. Flight..

I met someone walking
Out on the park by the lake
They don't fly any greater
But they don't fly away
dooodoodoo

Gone is the pale hand of water
Here is the first flush of May
And soon I will discover whether
Birds of the summer
Fly in circles or
Just fly away

Blow away


One of us is gonna be here and
One of us is gonna be running
Off alone into the great unknown

You're not me
You're a model of freedom
All you need are your kicks when you need 'em
Come and go, caught that slow, alright
With one hand off the side
We get farther away, in the blink of an eye

And it's the time we waste
Swallowed into space
It's the time it takes, to blow away
To blow away
To blow away

Hey, hey you, yeah you gotta be leaving,
Say what you want, what you say, say anything
No one knows just how deep it goes
We are old in your teenaged tyranny
And all you need is a hunger to feed
I've got my own secrets though, say what?
With a heart full of mess and love
We are doomed but we wanted more

It's the ride we take
The many winged escape
It's the bough we break, to blow away
To blow away
And we blow away

One of us is now retreating
You knocked me down so hard
I'm seeing a thousand stars
Come out where you are
Cuz I won't ever be caught crying
I will not be taken lying down

It blows into smoke
The time we waste,
Swallowed into space
It's the time it takes to blow away

It's the ride we take
The many winged escape
It's the bough we break to blow away
It's the times we say that
"No one is gonna take your place"
It's a mistake to blow away
We blow away

Borrowed time

Thick as thieves the last of leaves
In the winter sun
Holding fast this freezing branch
Is home to us

Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide, to divide

Counting stars and passing cars
On the interstate
The end is near, I feel it dear
But I am not afraid

Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide, to divide

But you say you?re getting tired
You?re tired and so am I
When you follow from behind

Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide, to divide

But you say you?re getting tired
Well, you?re tired and so am I
When you follow from behind

Come on, come out

Come on, come out
The weather is warm
Come on, come out
Said come on, come on

A spot in the shade
Where oranges fall
A spot in the shade
Away from it all

Watching the sky
Watching a painting coming to life
Shaping and shifting
Staying inside
It all goes it all goes by

A blanket unfolds
A blanket tonight
The pieces of gold
They light up your eyes
Now we're alone
Now we're alive

Watching the sky
Watching the painting come to life
Shifting and shaping
Staying inside
It all goes it all goes it all goes by

Stopping the time
Rushing, waiting
Leave it behind
Shifting and shaping
Keep it inside
It all goes it all goes it all goes by
It all goes passing by
It all goes passing by

Coming around


Leathers, she said leathers
Cutting new cloth,
From our grandparents' patterns
We have big dreams
And big dream takers
They come in at the sun
Just to see what would happen

We're coming, we're coming around

Faster,
Moving faster
Pushing harder,
Falling forwards n backwards
Of all these converts
Engage our patterns
Folding empires
Fighting golddiggers' down

We're coming, we're coming around
We're coming, we're coming around
Yeah, we're coming, we're coming around
It's coming, it's coming around
It's coming, it's coming around

We seem to even be missing the start
No one else but you n me have a say
And we're coming, we're coming around
It's coming, it's coming around

We're coming.. We're coming around
It's coming.. It's coming around

Electric twist


You should be wilder
You're no fun at all
Yeah, thanks for the input
Thanks for the call
With dull knives and white hands
The blood of stone
Cold to the touch, right
Right down the bone

But you.. give me the electric twist
And it kicks, it kicks like a pony
And true, you might get away with it
It's a risk
It's a risk, yeah

Picked from a hot grove
Packaged for sale
It drips down the sleeve gets
Under your nails
A loss of the senses
A chip off a tooth
The smells of the city
They ride in your suit
He says "don't think, don't talk"
Don't think
Don't think, Don't talk
Don't think
Don't think, Don't talk
But I don't think I want to

'Cuz you.. give me the electric twist
And it kicks
And it kicks, like a pony
And true.. you might run away with it
It's a risk,
It's a risk, yeah

Because it kicks, yeah
It really kicks, yeah

And the touch of you lips
It's a shock, not a kiss
It's electric twist, It's electric twist, yeah
And the touch of you lips
It's a shock, not a kiss
It's electric twist, It's electric twist, yeah
And the touch of you lips
It's a shock, not a kiss
It's electric twist, it's electric twist, yeah

He says "don't think, don't talk"
Don't think
Don't think, Don't talk
Don't think
Don't think, Don't talk
But I don't think I want to

'Cuz you give.. give me the electric twist
And it kicks
And it kicks, yeah
And true.. letcha get away with it
It's a risk,
It's a risk, yeah

You might get away with it
It's a risk, yeah
But it kicks, yeah
It really kicks, yeah

Elements


You show up like a hurricane
All hungry-eyed n weatherer-stained
The clock forgets to tick
And I feel the same
I died the day you disappeared
So why would you be welcome here??
Ride the wind that brought you
Back away

No you can't come in
No you can't come in

I cannot stop my rebel hands
From pulling out the pots and pans
I left you in the cold until you shook
You're gentle now, but I recall
Both tender fire and bitter squall
A history so deep It hurts to look

No you can't come in
No you can't come in
No you can't, you can't come in

And If the sea should swallow up my house
I will turn my rooftop inside out
And the wind will be wailing
But I will be sailing faster

Oh, the elements
I do not fear
But I fall apart when you appear
Cuz you are the greatest
The greatest disaster

(instrumental to outro)

And If the sea should swallow up my house
I will turn my rooftop inside out
And the wind will be wailing
But I will be sailing faster

Goodbye my almost lover

Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick

Well, I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, never forget
These images

No
Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine

Did I make it that
Easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?

So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should have known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do