Countdown To Nowhere

Allister Countdown To Nowhere Lyrics
1.Failure

It's just another wasted day another wasted year
I'm stumbling and falling crashing on despair
I'm just another nobody whose time has just passed by
I'm just another failure so tonight I'll make it all right

It's just another wasted breath on another cigarette
My world is wrapped inside frustration and regret
I'm just another nobody whose time has just passed by
I'm just another failure so tonight I'll make it all right

I'm dying, I'm trying to stay in control
You're stealing my feelings
Don't leave me alone
Someone save me tonight and I'll be all right.


2.Run Away

Now that the hardest part is done
We'll have to face another one
And figure out what we'll both do and where
Each offer seems to promise new ways to separate us both
And I don't care what others think is best,
I can't just watch you go
If we can stick together, we'll never be alone
We'll run away
Just leave this place
If you're here next to me there's nowhere I'd rather be
So we'll start tonight
Just leave behind
the lives we used to know and venture out to make it on our own

It'll just be harder if we wait.
More settled in with every day
It makes more sense for us to both start new
And the worst thing I'd imagine is to be stuck like this at home
And it might be rough at first
but we'll have stories when we're old
If we can stick together, we'll never be alone
We'll run away
Just leave this place
If you're here next to me there's nowhere I'd rather be
So we'll start tonight
Just leave behind
the lives we used to know and venture out to make it on our own

If things start to break,
we'll pack up and find another way
Settle down again and if it's not working out,
we'll just take a different route.

We'll run away
Just leave this place
If you're here next to me there's nowhere I'd rather be
So we'll start tonight
Just leave behind
the lives we used to know and venture out to make it on our own


3.Dance With For You

Do you wanna dance with me baby
Come along we can do this all night
I'll take you by the hand maybe spin you right around
til we're feeling alright
We can jitterbug on down that line
maybe do the waltz in 3/4 time
Just get out on that floor we can do this all night

The band's got rhythm they've got style
They're gonna kick this party all night so let's go...

We're gonna dance the night away
We're gonna dance the night away
Let's dance, let's dance
Let's dance, dance, dance the night away

Do you wanna dance with me baby
Come along we can shake it all night
We can do the jump baby we can do the jive
til we're feeling all right
I'll make you strut in double quickstep time
Shimmy up and down the Samba line
Just get out on that floor baby do this all night

The band's got rhythm they've got style
They're gonna kick this party all night so let's go...

We're gonna dance the night away
We're gonna dance the night away
Let's dance, let's dance
Let's dance, dance, dance the night away

The lights are going down the mood is right
I can see it in your eyes that you are mine tonight
I'll pull you close, and never let you go
So pull me close and never let me go

We're gonna dance the night away
We're gonna dance the night away
Let's dance, let's dance
Let's dance, dance, dance the night away


4.All We Needed

Million miles from home,
and I finally meet someone like you,
but we'll just be separated soon
you say don't overthink,
and that we should try
and make the most of this time before it goes

I knew when this had started,
how it'd end I knew when this had started, how it'd end
But I can't live life in hiding,
and I don't regret a thing

All we needed was time
Countdown now until the morning light
And the ocean divides
Thrown back to the lives we left behind
Can't help but think of all the things we could've had
We just never got a chance

As we said our goodbye's,
I had to fight the urge to up and move,
and start over here with you.
Maybe it wouldn't work,
and this whole thing was just meant to be left as a memory.

I knew when this had started,
how it'd end I knew when this had started, how it'd end
But I can't live life in hiding,
and I don't regret a thing

All we needed was time
Countdown now until the morning comes
And the ocean divides
Turning us into strangers once again
Can't help but think of all the things we could've had
We just never got a chance

promised you some day I'd make it back again,
but even if I did, would it ever be the same

All we needed was time
All we needed was time
All we needed was time
Countdown now until the morning comes
And the ocean divides
Turning us into strangers once again
Can't help but think of all the things we could've had
We just never got a chance


5.Breathe For You

You fought a long, long losing war
You've seen a time of better days
Yeah but through it all, you stood up tall
You never cowered in fear

You'd always ante up when times were tough
You never gave up on me
In this wicked game of life and death
I would play my hand if I could

I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you

You've seen it all, it's all come and gone
Through the smiles and bitter tears
Through all the endless nights you'd stay up fighting
Just to make it until dawn

Another round of shots, a bigger pot
Lies on the table waiting
In this wicked game of life and death
Let's throw down our hands in glory

I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you

Ain't it funny how life passes in the blink of innocent young
eyes
So many names and faces change while others just lay back in
disguise
I hope you never thought that I was just another rotten
fair-weather friend
Let's try to make up for lost time let's make this last until
the end
Until the end...

I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you
I'd breathe for you


6.Make It Work

That's the sound of the last threads starting to fray
If we don't watch out we'll fall down the rest of the way
If it continues on like this,
then there'll be nothing left for us to fix

What we, both need,
is time apart before it gets any worse
We might, just find,
we're better off, or learn how to make it work

As the flame makes it's way to the end of the rope
if we don't do something soon than it's gonna explode

If it continues on like this,
then there'll be nothing left for us to fix

What we, both need,
is time apart before it gets any worse
We might, just find,
we're better off, or learn how to make it work

Been together long enough, to know sometimes
we need a little space once in a while to breathe.
I know this time was bad
but I think that we should wait a couple days,
take a few steps back and think before we throw it all away

If it continues on like this,
then there'll be nothing left for us to fix

What we, both need,
is time apart before it gets any worse
We might, just find,
we're better off, or learn how to make it work


7.Can't Let Go

The needle spinning on this broken record feels just like a
sentimental heartbeat
Keeping time with all the memories from the past
Going over now it's choking all the thoughts that feed the pulse
inside of my head
So take a number stand in line so you can die to watch your
mistakes. Mistakes....

This voice will sing out now for the last time
Feels like I'm running in circles, I got nowhere left to go
This song wants to ring out now for the last time
It's played over and over but I'm too scared I can't let it go

The stories spinning from the mouths up at the bar are wearing
thin and going nowhere
They're getting stale just like the sour drink in my hand
It's got me thinking I'm about to turn my back and get the fuck
right out of this town
So order up another round so you can wash away your mistakes.
Mistakes....

This voice will sing out now for the last time
Feels like I'm running in circles, I got nowhere left to go
This song wants to ring out now for the last time
It's played over and over but I'm too scared I can't let it go

I've watched these kings in battle with jealous eyes afire
Only to have their cities
Conquered and left in ruins, the walls they built to fall
The masses rise up and they take it all. Take it all..

This voice will sing out now for the last time
Feels like I'm running in circles, I got nowhere left to go
This song wants to ring out now for the last time
It's played over and over but I'm too scared I can't let it go
Can't let it go......


8.Yearbook

They say elders gain the wisdom of years
As time goes by, I fear...
growing up and feeling like the best years are done
Spend life waiting for things that never come, and...

Hope
When living through the memories of youth
Hope
When repetition guides you
Hope
When wondering how you wound up this way
I hope the wisdom's worth the wait

Life's mold gradually enfolds you
Uniqueness given up to be accepted by your peers
Come in from your 9 to 5
Hang your coat and tie
High School yearbook's still on the nightstand...

Hope
When living through the memories of youth
Hope
When repetition guides you
Hope
When wondering how you wound up this way
I hope the wisdom's worth the wait

Salutations and 'How's your day been?'
routine superficial conversations
Gotten too deep, but somehow you keep
working to afford another day you'll live to hate

Hope
When living through the memories of youth
Hope
When repetition guides you
Hope
When wondering how you wound up this way
I hope I never fall in line
I've seen it one too many times
I hope the wisdom's worth the wait


9.Free

Now it seems I've fallen victim to the same disease that's eaten
up the world
Our generation's gonna fall apart if we continue to be pushed
around
So now it's time to make a change
We gotta lock down and rearrange
And reject the fundamentals of society
The time has come to live my life
I'm gonna break out and do what I like
And I don't care what you say or think about me

Now it seems we've fallen victim to hypocrisy and bureaucratic
lies
They got us brainwashed
So we don't stand up and fight for what we think is right
So now it's time to make a change
We gotta lock down and rearrange
And reject the fundamentals of society
The time has come to live my life
I'm gonna break out and do what I like
And I don't care what you say or think about me
Cause it's easy when you're free
Yeah it's easy when you're free
Yeah it's easy when you're free
Yeah it's easy when you're free

Yeah it's easy when you're free
It's easy when you're free
It's easy when you're free
Yeah it's easy when you're free
It's easy when you're free


10.Start Somewhere

When it feels like everything you've built
Is busting at the seams and soon will all come crashing down
Build support or start from scratch again
Move ahead to find your way around

Cause the route that you took was misleading,
and you made some mistakes on your way last time around
So here's your second chance to

Be strong up against attack
Just know you can always build it back
And even the hardest times eventually will always pass

Use the wreckage as a starting point.
Or move on and start again somewhere you've never been
End result will be the same each way
Play it safe or reinvent again.

Cause the route that you took was misleading,
and you made some mistakes on your way last time around
So here's your second chance to

Be strong up against attack
Just know you can always build it back
And even the hardest times eventually will always pass

Sometimes it can seem unfair
But nothing will change just standing there
Every battle that's worth fighting had to start somewhere

And there's always two sides with different ideas
And compromise isn't easy
It seems the cycle never ends
But you know it's alright to sit for awhile,
and think about where you went wrong
If you just get back up again

Be strong up against attack
Just know you can always build it back
And even the hardest times eventually will always pass

Sometimes it can seem unfair
But nothing will change just standing there
Every battle that's worth fighting had to start somewhere


11.Diamond Ring

I don't have the looks and I don't have the money
I don't have no diamond ring
I don't have a job and I don't have a car
and I can't give you everything

But you are the one that I need
I know that you're perfect for me
So please give me just one more chance to get this right
and you'll see

Because tonight, you're all I want to night
You're all I want to night
You're all I want to night
You're all I want to night

I don't go to school, I ain't got no diploma
I don't have no GED
I don't have no stocks and I don't have a Trust Fund
Don't have much of anything

But you are the one that I need
I know that you're perfect for me
So please give me just one more chance to get this right
and you'll see

Because tonight, you're all I want to night
You're all I want to night
You're all I want to night
You're all I want to night

And now it seems I can't go five minutes without thinking of you
Or wishing I was hanging out with you tonight
You're all I want to night
You're all I want to night
You're all I want to night
You're all I want to night


12.Tokyo Sunrise

I woke up yesterday 20,000 miles from home
Got a picture postcard from you in my pocket
I woke up yesterday with a burning in my soul
Got this feeling that I might be losing something
that could make my whole world come alive

Have I been a fool for loving you?
How so quickly our hearts collide
Just one look from your eyes and I knew
I would need you the rest of my life
Just one touch from your hand makes me shiver all over inside

I've been waiting for your call
from clear across the ocean to carry me back home
so I can finally rest my head for one more night
Yeah I am begging for one moment
to fall into your arms so I can find
Everything real we both shared that summer night

I woke up yesterday in this cold, downtown hotel
got a cigarette still burning in my hand
Through my window I watched these trains roll by again
I've been staring at nothing just hoping for something to take
me away

I've been waiting for your call
from clear across the ocean to carry me back home
so I can finally rest my head for one more night
Yeah I am begging for one moment
to fall into your arms so I can find
Everything real we both shared that summer night

Don't think that I wouldn't walk a thousand miles or
Pull the stars out of the sky
Just to have you in my life
We'll take it slow we'll take it easy for a while
Then we'll show the world....

I'm feeling so lonely watching this Tokyo sunrise....


13.I Want You Back