1.Dear Anyone
You've never felt quite right in your own skin
and there's no place for a crook like me.
You've never been in love.
I don't know what it is
and I don't believe that anyone can change me
because you don't know anything about me.
My backs against the door to keep you on the outside
and nobody knows what I'm trying to hide.
and nobody knows what I'm trying to hide.
You've never felt quite right behind those green eyes
and you can't hide from a crook like me.
You left me outside just knocking on your door, knocking on your
door.
I'm not sure if I can do this anymore.
You left me outside, knocking for so long
that my knuckles bleed
and nobody knows what I'm trying to hide.
and nobody knows what I'm trying to hide.
and nobody knows what I'm trying to hide.
and nobody knows what I'm trying to hide not even me.
2.Please,Head North
After tonight I just can't be alone
I'm driving home beneath the stoplights
They're holding me in suspense.
But that's just the way it is I guess
For those of us who move too fast
And I wish that I could say
That I'm wishing you the best
But I can't, but I can't.
So I'll write it out on paper to remember every word
For all the things I've lost and found inside of every verse
These are my directions to you：
Please, head north.
Voices scream inside of me.
Well, Maybe I'm just cursed.
Just like they say, maybe I'm just cursed.
I'm always hoping for the best
Maybe I'm just cursed.
I'm always hoping for the best
Preparing for the worst
So please, head north.
Maybe I was right, maybe I was wrong
I just can't write another one of these summer songs
Oh please not another sad, sad song,
You'll find me hanging on every word
It kills you to know that this world, it owes you nothing.
So just forget what you're expecting
You'll find half what you deserve.
3.Footwork
Keep focused on your footwork;
your feet won't leave the ground.
but your head will hit the concrete to make a sick sad song.
Even sadder then writing this all down to a ghost
that doesn't care enough to haunt you, to want you.
It just keeps you around.
I always thought it was me.
I always thought I would be the one to come and fix your life.
I really thought you would see
but all I turned out to be was just a fragment of a lie.
Are you just keeping me around as a reminder？
of before the world took it's toll and left you full of cracks
and holes.
your body's shaking in the cold, have you always been this cold？
I always thought it was me.
I always thought I would be the one to come and fix your life.
I really thought you would see
but all I turned out to be was just a fragment of a lie.
I always thought it was me.
I always thought I would be the one to come and fix your life.
I really thought you would see
but all I turned out to be was just a fragment of a lie.
My bleeding heart has filled my chest and overflowed into my
head.
You can paint a wall but you can't cover up the cracks
and things will never change, until you change the way you look
at it.
You can paint a wall but you can't cover up the cracks
and things will never change, until you change the way you look
at it.
4.Hope This Finds You Well
You were walking down the dead end streets while I was chasing
echoes.
Just trying to catch familiar voices.
But all I'm hearing is this：
'Your choices lead you down this road so if you're walking all
alone'
Is that you, did you get lost, well I did too.
Did you get lost？
Maybe you got what you deserved.
Maybe you got what you deserved.
There's no hope in 'live and learn'
Maybe you got what you deserved.
Maybe you got what you deserved.
There's no future, when every bridge is burned.
Is there any hope left for tomorrow
or are we just buying time.
Looking to an empty sky
so we don't have to look into our lives.
Is that you？
Did you get lost, well I did too.
Did you get lost.
Maybe you got what you deserved,
Maybe you got what you deserved.
There's no hope in 'live and learn'
Maybe you got what you deserved,
Maybe you got what you deserved,
There's no future when ever bridge is burned.
and if you get the love you give the world
then you got what you deserved
and if I get the love you give the world
then I got what I deserved...
5.Return Address
So many times I could of walked out not knowing if I'd be back
again.
I guess kids like me know how to make an exit but we never
really leave.
I was the last to see you, I left you standing all alone
but you didn't have to deal with the guilt that will plague my
thoughts forever.
and you didn't have to look into here eyes
and tell her you're not coming home (let a part of yourself die)
You were never coming home.
I was the last to see you,
I left you standing there,
I guess that everyone listens.
but no one really hears.
So many times I could of walked out not knowing if I'd be back
again.
I guess kids like me know how to make an exit but we never
really leave.
I could of changed it all, I could of made it right.
I could have said the thing that saved your life.
I would of changed it all, I could of stayed the night,
I should of stayed that night.
I should of stayed that night.
I was the last to see you, I left you standing there.
I guess that everyone listens but no one really hears.
And you didn't have to deal with the guilt
and you didn't have to look into her eyes
and tell her you're not coming home.
You were never coming home.
And you didn't have to deal with the guilt
and you didn't have to look into her eyes
and tell her you're not coming home.
You were never coming home.
6.A Living Diary
We're only talking cause you lost someone close to you.
Without this entry you'd feel incomplete.
Come treat me like a living diary and just turn the page and
walk away.
and it's true that I can feel this season in my bones
as New England fills with snow.
I find it hard to believe through everything I see that every
bits unique,
that maybe there is someone who's just like me.
Someone who feels just like me.
Someone who feels just like me.
Incomplete, someone who feels just like me.
Come by and ask me how I'm holding up.
My good intentions were never good enough.
I was empty before I met you
and I'll be there soon enough again.
I wont forget, I'll save your place,
don't walk away. I can't erase anything about you.
For all the things we fake you're words they seem so real.
So real that they could take all the hope left
in my life and leave my insides blank.
So close me or up or turn the page
So close me up but don't bury me away.
So close me or up or turn the page
So close me up but don't bury me away.
7.No Inbetween
I have nowhere to be but I'm leaving again
and that's just how it's always been.
Alone, in this backyard, scratching away at the fences.
Never escaping, never mending.
So enter and exit up, recite your scene.
That same old song, take a bow and move along
and please don't have mercy on a man who flails and folds.
That's just how my friend it's always been.
Do you find yourself clinging to straws for something to hold
you up.
Move along, just move along is what I've learned about life.
And I've learned about love, you're either in heaven or you're
in hell.
There's no in-between.
That boy grew up too fast, his bones were made of glass.
He threw too many stones, leaving him in pieces everywhere.
That boy grew up too fast, his bones were made of glass.
He threw too many stones, leaving him in pieces everywhere.
Now he fails alone. Now he fails alone.
He left his pieces everywhere and how he fails alone.
So enter and exit up, recite your scene.
That same old song, take a bow and move along.
So enter and exit, recite your scene.
Your heart always seems in the right place at the wrong time.
8.I Was Going To Cross This Out
Leave the keys inside the mailbox.
I'll be by soon enough.
Too young to hold on, too old to just give up.
I'll be by soon enough.
(if you won't)
Change the locks and throw away those keys (don't bury me).
I'd rather watch this place burn down then let it all slowly
engulf me.
When you say goodbye, you better mean it for the last time.
Leave the keys inside the mailbox.
I'll be by soon enough.
Too young to hold on, too old to just give up.
I'll be by soon enough.
but if I goes don't put it out, If I go don't put me out.
Just let it burn, just let it burn to the ground
but if I goes don't put it out, If I go don't put me out.
Just let it burn, just let it burn to the ground
and I'll carry the last three years away in this broken
cardboard box.
I guess I'm too young to hold on and too old to just give up.
I'll take one last look around the room. I've never felt so
lost.
I guess I'm too young to hold an too old to break free and run.
I'm writing all down to let you know 'I gave you my very best'
How could you treat anyone like this.
I would never treat anyone like this.
but everyone misses someone more then they would like to admit.
So I'm writing you a six-word letter with no return address to
let you know.
'I gave you my very best'
9.The Downsides
Just this once (believe me)
You hate how I'm always right.
You never listen to me.
Over and over and over again.
I'm driving you home tonight.
and you can't blame the distance, persistence, or time
and though I'm far from perfect
I know that I always tried, I always tried.
I try to be honest, I try to be sincere.
I tried so hard not to dwell.
But it never seems I do any of these too well.
and all I've ever asked of you is one chance
to let you down.
Just this once (believe me)
You hate how I'm always right.
You never listen to me.
Over and over and over again,
I'm driving you home tonight.
and I need to know what's in your head.
With one hand on the wheel, the other hand in yours
This moment is far from perfect
and I've got the drive but I won't try anymore.
10.Photographic Memory
I learned to say these words long before I knew what they meant.
and I know you're good at keeping secrets
well I'm better at wearing them out for the world to see.
So take that old cracked photograph and tuck it away.
Well knowing you it takes most of the to get half of the truth.
But if you can keep this to yourself, I will tell you all about
the last twenty something years of heartache and deception,
rock bottom and redemption.
Well knowing you I learned to write these words
long before I knew just what they meant.
and you can have a photographic memory it still won't bring it
back
it still won't bring us back.
But if you can keep this to yourself.
I will tell you all about how we got left behind.
So take another picture for someone else to find.
So take another picture for someone else to find.
11.P.S.
In my defense the sky isn't getting any clearer
and day-by-day I'm finding place in myself
that were best left under lock and key.
and sometimes it seems
there's happiness for everyone but me.
so how do you take this when someone says to your face
'why can't you believe that anyone cares about you'
I care about you
If I could stack my doubts or spend the time to sort them out
I would be climbing till I couldn't breathe
and the pressure always gets to me.
The more I look around I see that even though it seems,
There's happiness for everyone but me.
Everyone but me.
We're all just kids, scared and flawed
clinging to the legs of all the good inside we've lost
or thought there was but never was at all
so carry on, because someday we'll leave this place behind.
and you will let me go, just like a balloon.
I hope you watch me float away into the atmosphere
I'll be waiving till I'm out of site
I know I couldn't make things right
But I know that you're drifting towards a better life, with
better times.
12.Keep This to Yourself
13.Our New Year
Just picture me on a train heading home at one a.m.
and I'll picture you're doing the same.
dressed up with somewhere else to be.
I hope he says that he loves you.
I hope you see it in his eyes.
I hope his shoulder is softer than mine.
I hope that he's better than me.
It's one thing to ruin these songs for me,
those songs that still rot in my ears
but you've ruined places that I used to love and live to forget.
It's one thing to ruin this song for me,
this song it still rots in my ears
and you've ruined these places that I used to love and now live
to forget.
because in this city of potholes and rooftops
the people they live to forget and drink to forgive
I guess that nobody wins.
Is this the happiest you've ever been.
I hope that it is.
Is this the happiest you've ever been.
I guess that nobody wins.
Is this the happiest you've ever been.
Oh god I hope that it is.
Is this the happiest you've ever been.
I guess that nobody wins.
Oh god I hope that it is.
Oh god I hope that it is.
Is this the happiest you've ever been.
Is this the happiest you've ever been.
nobody wins.
14.Love
I always knew that I would live and die in Boston.
When I was five I put my hands into cement and you knelt beside
me.
It dried up and hardened so fast.
We packed our bags and headed south
leaving them behind, never coming back.
To those same small hands that pulled you through a crosswalk,
ready for whatever's coming next.
Someday I hope you find everything you want
and just forgive me for everything I'm not.
I'll try and hide how damaged I've become.
Oh my god, why is the world so sad？
I always knew that I would live and die in Boston.
When I was five I put my hands into cement and you knelt beside
me.
It dried up and hardened so fast.
I guess I found my way back home but those hands no longer fit.
(I was never any good at saying sorry, thank you for that.)
But I'm ready for whatever is whatever is coming next.
I always knew that I would live and die in Boston.
When I was five I put my hands into cement,
and you knelt besides me.
It dried up and hardened so fast.
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