I wish I were you


In these recent years I have noticed that your face has slightly changed
In this season of the bitter pill that pulled your heart away
In the daylight when it hits you straight on
See the lines in your face have begun

When I tell you that you're beautiful like a second hand that stopped
You remind me of a waterfall that turned the earth to mud
In this season of the bitter pill that pulled your heart away
Feel it coming in again

All that you've known up till now
You could trade for this thought I'm singing about
That now and again I'll play the fool
But I love you so much I wish I were you

All that you've known up till now
You could trade for this thought i'm singing about
That now and again I'll play the fool
But I love you so much I wish I were you

In the meantime


She waits alone
She gets tired
As the day falls down
She seems uninspired
She won't wait
Much longer
And the tears held back
Make her stronger

In the meantime I get open eyed
To my lowly state of mind

The kindest thing
That she's seen
Is an open mouth
Without a scream
At her feet
Like water
The reflection there
Is getting darker

In the meantime I get open eyed
To my lowly state of mind
If I can't hear her
Will I ever know
A love that's meant to grow

All my life I've wondered how
The things I've been
Could make a difference in the end
But every day it seems more clear
I don't know how I'd make it through
If you weren't here

Let me in


On my own volition
I pound my head against the wall
And I don't hear it when you call
Tumbling down the stairway
I still try to make the phone
I call you back but your not home

Full of good intention
I read the paper to myself
I try to act like someone else
Barely past the headline
I still remember what you said
I'll hold it in until I'm dead

I best be getting on with this
But I can't get you out my head
Ten times a day when I stop to pray
I ask that you would let me in

Beading on the window
The weather underneath my eyes
Is it rain or am I crying
TV in the distance
Am I awake or still asleep
I feel a hand against my cheek

I best be getting on with this
But I can't get you out of my head
Ten times a day when I stop to pray
I ask that you would let me in

Like every time before
I'll sing a metaphor
To try to she'd some light inside my mind
A lot of good that will do
I can't get inside of you
To take back the back the past and make things ne

I best be getting on with this
But I can't get you out my head
Ten times a day when I stop to pray
I ask that you would let me in

Mae


Mae my friend
Will you ever understand
That this might have been
A beginning to the end
All the days all the nights
Of living out of boxes underneath the sky
But mae my friend will
You ever understand
This time

I've given up on wondering where your head Has gone
All I think about these days is your tired heart
And i'll bring it back again

Mae don't fret
I never wanted this
To be my friend
A beginning to the end
Bring it back bring it forward
And all you need to know is that i wanted more
But mae my friend
It could have been the end
This time

I've given up on wondering where your head has gone
All I think about these days is your tired heart
And I'll bring it back

Maybe this time I'll get through
To the best of you
All my years of letting down
Have driven you to the ground

Mae my friend
Will you ever understand
That this might have been
A beginning to the end

Motor cars


All this ringing in my ears
Made me numb over the years
Lately I can feel a little more of You in me

I've given up unto myself
Drinking from the weakest well
All I want is just some peace of mind
Tonight
But i'm fine without it

I'm beginning now to understand that it's Nothing i can say
When motor cars with racing stripes keep Getting in my way

But this time I can see
The very one thing that I need

I'm beginning now to understand that its
Nothing I can say
When motor cars with racing stripes keep
Getting in my way
But this time I can see the very one thing
This time you could be the very one thing
This time I believe the very one thing that I need

My own chapter


Should you think anything
You should know that i'm not doing ok
Since i've been gone all my problems
Have come back around and they're here to stay

I don't know how
Anyone could rescue me now

The story goes on and on
I'm always susceptible to think
That i could write my own chapter
I've noticed i cannot change a thing

(chorus)
I don't know how
Anyone could rescue me now
So please remind me again
How You'll always be my best friend
Show me who You are
Hurry, don't be far
I'll give You my heart

And i promise You
I will read into
All the ways You show Your love

(chorus)

No reason to pretend


We come around
A circle meets
At last I feel I'm closer to beginning
A gentle word
A quiet heart
A soul that stirs another one to start

You'll never know dear how much you breathe
Strength and courage into me
And as the day comes closer to an end
I find no reason to pretend

When morning comes
You'll doubtless be
Awake without a worry I can see
You open up
Clearness comes
A look divides the clouds I see the sun

You'll never know dear how much you breathe
Strength and courage into me
And as the day comes closer to the end
I find no reason to pretend

Not about to


Shake the water off my hands
And count the moments
That you really understand this disappointment
Tired of always waking up the darkest feeling
Think i'll open up these blinds and get to seeing

On a day much quieter than this
I will hold your hand and kiss your face
I think it's imperative you know that I am
Not about to

I know that you could feel
Like a girl on a ferris wheel
Falling down the stairs and then
We could do it again we could to it again...

On a day much quieter than this
I will hold your hand and kiss your face
I think it's imperative you know that I am
Not about to

When it seems like everything's fine
Just look up and close your eyes
And remember
It's imperative you know that I am
Not about to let it go

Not all bad


As I take this immunity
I'm wondering what you would do to me
If you found out
You know that you could've walked away
Without a scratch but you had to stay
With your watered down friends

So I cry myself awake
To keep from sleeping all day
And I think I'm borderline
Losing my mind

You wrote my name with an underscore
It made me realize what I'm good for
And it's not all bad
Before the laughter had just begun
Around a table with everyone
Is too good to be true

I follow lines that never end just to reach you again
I get tired and then i break down
So I will rest and in the daybreak I will find you and be
Forever your friend again

So I cry myself awake
To keep from sleeping all day
And I think I'm borderline
Losing my mind
So I cry myself awake
To keep from sleeping all day
And I think I'm borderline
Losing my mind

Pillbox


When it gets me back again
I'll be ready to begin
Ready to stand up to it
And it gets me back again

(chorus)
On my word i could never see it coming
Cause i never could keep up on
Anyone
You said you could
But you wouldn't
Tell me what to do
And i never could see through you
Even sometimes

On better days
You and I
Will figure this out
Push it down
Look behind

When it gets me back again
I'll be reeady to begin
Ready to stqand up to it
And it gets mee back again

(chorus)

(chorus repeats)