Any Man In America

Blue October Any Man In America Lyrics
1.Everything (AM Limbo)


2.The Feel Again (Stay)

I see the sun go down on the river
I feel the wind blow out, would've stayed to gray
I feel the air around you, it's kinda closing in
Do you feel it fall, or do you feel at all, again

I see the world keep moving as I stumble
They seem to move much faster than me
And while I sit in my four cornered room dividing hearts for a
little girl
Well I can't be anything but who I am

And I wish you'd stay
That was the beginning of the two of us, the start of our show
Stay, stay, stay...
Now I would never have let go

And I see the sun go up as your image
And I feel the weight of your eyes as you stare
I feel it all when you, when you first, when you kissed my lips
You used to make me feel at home, you made me feel at home,
you made me feel again

Oh and that's when you use to say, Will you stay, and not let
go?'
That was just the two of us to think about, the stars of our
show
And you would say, I wish you'd stay and I'd never go
Oh I would never have let you go!

So take this heart of mine
You've taken it a hundred thousand times
But this time, this time, I'm gonna take it with me

I see the door close down behind you
I watch your face turn from glow to straight gray
I see the moon go up and it shines this glory on my face
Who would know? Who would know? Who would know?

How we would stay, and we should stay and never let go, oh hell
no
There's just three of us to think about now
in our show, our show, our show
I think we'd stay, we'd just stay, and then we'd know
That we should never let go
Something to think about, her heart
Just look into those big brown eyes, and you'd just fall apart
We should stay, at least we'd stay, at least she'd know
That we should never let go
No, no, let go, go, oh...

I wish you'd stay
I wish you'd stay...


3.The Money Tree

I'm standin' on a open world,
I've gotta try so hard for myself
Not including the ones that I love,
I call my family.

It's not hard when your focus is a beautiful girl;
A brand new baby - she's a baby girl.
And, yes, she is a cutie like her mommy.
Uhh yes, yeah, she looks like her mommy.

We both know who we are,
And I am not changing a thing I never changed before.
If lovin' me is work, I'm not a job to take
I think we're heading for the crazy-making heartbreak.

I'm wondering 'Why I'm sitting here alone again.
Why you always crush me. '
Why it's never easy.
Easy, easy, easy - it's not easy.

This is you, this is me.
You won't be a part of what we need to be.
Not for me - For the future of us three;
For our daughter, college, family -
- sudden health emergencies.
You think it's easy picking money off my money tree!?

With two houses, both cars,
I paid off your fucking credit card debt,
Did you already forget? Huh?
You threaten, threaten, threaten,
Threaten, threaten, Huh!?
Just fuckin' leave, find a man who will put up with this shit.

We both know who we are,
And I am not changing a thing I never changed before.
If lovin' me is work, I'm not a job to take
Yeah, I think we're heading for the crazy-making heartbreak.

I can't help but think of how good you are
with our baby daughter, half the time a single mother
'when I'm gone away, I so wish you could always stay home
and watch our baby grow, bring her up the right way'

You never take it that way.

We both know who we are,
And I'm not changing...

Ohhhhh, ohhhh, ohhh

I need support - not a slap in the face.
You have to trust me or, I'm sure, this will blow up in your
face.
I'm in love with such an angel! she doesn't even know.
We've torn each other down and why we don't even know

We both know who we are,
And I am not changing a thing I never changed before.
If lovin' me is work, I'm not a job to take (I'm not a job to
take)
Yeah, I think we're heading for the crazy-making heartbreak.
Ohhhhh, ohhhh, ohhh

I can't help but think of how good you are
with our baby daughter, half the time a single mother,
'when I'm gone away, I so wish you could always stay home
and watch our baby grow, bring her up the right way'

It's me the one who has his family's future at heart
It's you the one who never wants a family apart
We both know that together we can only believe
That if we cut the shit there'd be no reason to leave


4.For The Love

Communication
I wait to see if we could ever get together and talk like we
used to
We get together and we talk...like we used to
But you don't want to
You want a separation
And now that's strike three
I try everything, I work so hard for you
To constantly hear how I fail and abandon you
I put my heart in a dream
And now that dream it makes sure the baby
she has food to eat-and your fancy house gets paid for you hear
me?
You never learned one thing, no-you never believed in me..
So if you're gonna leave-get out - just remember this is what
I'm all about;
I do it for the love,
I do it for the rain,
I do it for the passion, do it for the pain
Do it for the rush, do it for the doubt..
Do it for my daughter-man-she's what I'm about
I do it for my mom, do it for my dad
Do it for my sanity, it's hanging from a thread
I do it for the audience who understands the need
Standin on stage cut the shit and let it bleed
So pack it up, pack it in
Write it up, write it down
Just remember that I told you it's what I'm all about
Wait wait wait...
I missed the tour where you told me not to come home again
An ex boyfriend was taking my place at a
(You've gotta be kidding me)
How hard that was because 'cause your voice so crooked and
wrong,
You barely like a mother fuckin nuclear bomb (nuclear bomb!)
I lived in a hotel room until the day she was born
And I never knew what it was to say
That could get us through our first chance at divorce
You promised change and I believed
I walked right back into the same
So if you're gonna leave me- go away
I do it for the love
Do it for the rain
Do it for the passion, do it for the pain
Do it for the rush, do it for the doubt
Do it for my daughter, man she's what I'm about
Do it for my mom, do it for my dad,
Do it for my sanity hanging from a thread
Do it for the audience who understands the need
Standin on the stage cut the shit and let it bleed
I do it for my brother, I do it for his wife
I do it for my manager, cause god he saved my life
I do it for confidence
I do it for release
I do it cause I'm sick of feeling sad, it's war and peace
I do it for the sunshine
For my friends
I do it for you, for you over and over and over again
But you never understand
So fuck it!
So pack it up pack it in write it up write it down remember I
told you it's what I'm all about
(get out! go away!)
I do it for the love,
I do it for the rain,
I do it for the passion, do it for the pain
Do it for the rush, do it for the doubt..
Do it for my daughter, man she's what I'm about
I do it for my mom, do it for my dad
Do it for my sanity, it's hanging from a thread
I do it for the audience who understands the need
Standin on stage cut the shit and let it bleed
I do it for the love
For the love
Do it for the love for the love
I do it for the love
Do it do it do it
For the love
For my daughter
So pack it up
Pack it in
Write it up write it down
Just remember that I told you, it's what I'm all about.


5.Drama Everything

Let me start with I've let you go
But you don't get it, though
Politely I've asked you to leave,
But still you follow

It's hard when you're full of heart
When the house you built just falls apart
Well keep the paint fresh, keep the outside clean
Picture the neighbors see you wear that ring
Don't tell them a thing, they don't know you like me
You're the girl that cries at water in the basement
Everybody stop, wait, look, see
You're the girl that could lie to my face
And fabricate a flood to get through to me
I went away and you found a replacement
So call him, don't call me
To the girl that cries at water in the basement
You drama everything

I heard a good friend once say
'You got one life, live it, cuz they'll take it away'
From both of us, one day, you know they will
So colour it up, colour it up
Say your last goodbye, I don't give a fuck
Bottoms up, just watch me walk away

I'm here to say that -
I don't need your sorry dreaming
What makes you think you can -
Tell me how I to feel or how hard I should fall
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, now you listen
Oh my, you're not anything I need in my life
No, you're not anything I even want
Cuz they don't know you like me
You're the girl that cries at water in the basement
Everybody stop, wait, look, see
You're the girl that could lie to my face
And fabricate a flood to get through to me
I went away and you found a replacement
So call him, don't call me
To the girl that cries at water in the basement
You drama everything

Here's what you gotta do
Hold you head high
Shoot first, man, don't ask why
Yeah, you won't feel the pain at all
Well I guess I, grew this mind
I think for myself and I'm fine
No, I don't need anything from you at all
They don't know you like me
You're the girl that cries at water in the basement
Everybody stop, wait, look, see
You're the girl that could lie to my face
And fabricate a flood to get through to me
I went away and you found a replacement
So call him, don't call me
To the girl that cries at water in the basement
You drama everything

(Fabricate a flood to get through to me)
(So call him, don't call me)
You drama everything
Drama
So much drama


6.The Chills

Take my hand
maybe we should run away
maybe we should disappear
leave everything behind
like the useless things
boxes labeled memories
the sudden health emergencies
yeah we could leave those things behind

Show me, show me arms that reach for all we can be
through understanding, I tried forgiveness,
I faced the past, it's what I witnessed
why do I only feel the chills when I'm with you?
I only hear your words that you say are true
but you keep thinking it over, thinking it over,
you can catch me if you wanted to, oh
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
Now, why you gotta say goodbye
when you know you're gonna come with me
no, can't afford to leave and stay
you're gonna have to just build one way
So tell me, tell me all the things you told me we could be
through understanding, I tried forgiveness,
I faced the facts, it's what I witnessed
why do I only feel the chills when I'm with you
I only hear your words that you say are true
but you keep thinking it over, thinking it over,
you can catch me if you wanted to
I only feel the chills when I'm with you
I feel like I'm so high, I'm feeling so high
c-catch me, c-c-catch me
why does a heart always have to break
(when you're trying way too hard), have to break
(yes she'll see right though you), have to break
oh communication, yeah conversation,
it breaks down
Now there will be nothing to talk about,
(absolutely nothing, just blah blah blah)
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
why do I only feel the chills when I'm with you
I only hear your words that you say are true
but you keep thinking it over, thinking it over,
you can catch me if you wanted to
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
Whoa-ah-oh ah-ah-oh,
Can catch me, c-c-catch me


7.The Flight (LNK to MSP)


8.Any Man In America

(Listen!) I only note spending time away
I only note the truth is spoken, best when brutally so honestly.
I'll let you know you set the standards lyrically for me
One single middle finger, say raise it up, my speech will always
be free
Like Martin Luther King, you had meaning to me
Single handedly saving music starving industry
A hip hop legend was skinned like invisible ink
Like even though he was whiter than me
He was the first to be colorless
Speaking for all of us
Then you let us into your family
Mother, father, brother, sister, wife, daughter
Damn right in front of me
That's when I miss my daughter desperately
Your mocking bird puts dents in me
While touring press and reliving my song hate me

I was losing custody, I never even saw that shit.
How she played me and planned and sought it fit
To turn that trick and financially she would benefit
My first and probably only billboard hit
Was gonna pay for my two year old's college
I should have hid that shit
So she couldn 't spend that shit
It took twenty years of working, just to earn that shit
Now word for word I've listened, heard and I'm done...done...

Like you don't know,
You act like you believe it that you're in control.
It's just your legal system though
That they don't think about you
No, they don't care about you.
Now every man in America take back your control
Like you don't know.
You act like you believe it that you're in control.
It's just your legal system though
That they don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America take back your control.

So I kept my business quiet
Just like my lawyer said.
And I tried to focus on my anger and work instead.
I was succeeding at self-reliant
But inside my soul am dead.
I had to be the sole provider
But not allowed to be the dad.
Literally they took her from me.
Legally they did! They did!
But I'm not a fucking book
So fuck your book and leaking I said
Yeah fuck the judge. Fuck that county
Fuck your family too.
Yeah fuck everybody that took my baby girl, Blue
And I'm way too strong,
I work my ass off all day long.
And I'm gone for months at a time
And you keep sitting there in line
Bitching 'Come back home'
I hate you, hate you God!
And then you came back home
And filed for another fucking divorce.
I'm sick of her I'm sick of you
I'm not sick, I'm lost up in my head.
Any other man in American can get screwed just like me.

Like you don't know,
You act like you believe it that you're in control.
It's just your legal system though
That they don't think about you
No, they don't care about you.
Now every man in America take back your control
You don't know.
You act like you believe it that you're in control.
It's just your legal system though
That they don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America take back your control.

You won't understand, probably never will.
Listen, slowly I'll let you know the deal
Listen,lying ass play the judge with your crying ass
Had your nose wide open when you saw the cash.
Grimy bitch growing tired of you trying shit.
Women run the courts, men provide the chips.
Well eat up bitch until you had enough bitch.
But take my kids, you can kiss both my nuts bitch.
Telling lies cause daddy's always on the road.
But you the one fucking like a groupie at a show.
Money hungry so you try to take my youngest from me.
You a dummy honey I'll chase you across the country.
Bring the drama to you mamma and you mamma's mamma
Cause we all know you chasing half the karma.
Couple checks few houses and Gucci blouses
You changing dicks like you changing outfits.
Constitution now a day's got the daddies losing.
Lot of fathers getting fucked by the constitution.

Like you don't know,
You act like you believe it that you're in control.
It's just your legal system though
That they don't think about you
No, they don't care about you.
Now every man in America take back your control
You Don't Know!
You act like you believe it that you're in control.
It's just your legal system though
That they don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America take back your control.

Like you don't know,
You act like you believe it that you're in control.
It's just your legal system though
That they don't think about you
No, they don't care about you.
Now every man in America take back your control
You don't know.
You act like you believe it that you're in control.
It's just your legal system though
That they don't think about it
No, they don't care about it
Now every man in America take back your control.


9.You Waited Too Long

Did he really get to take you home?
I'm surprised that you chose him.
Surprised that I'm not in a halfway home.
I'm not surprised I never saw you alone.
When they brought me home.
So who does this separation work for?
So which one of us will wage war?
War.
It's not about the feelings that we shared before.
No.
Cause your words don't calm anymore.
Gah, no more.
What did you want me for?
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice,
The look upon my face,
Yeah I've done this before,
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone.
Yeah you waited too long.

And did you really think I'd take it,
When information fabricated.
Look I give you credit for pathetically thinking that you could
hurt this up.
Watch this.
She turns on my face,
A sage little house invading your space.
Helpless, you know that I'm away.
My truck sitting in a hotel crazy.
I'm fine on the phone.
Freaking like it's telling me there's something wrong,
Or right you don't I need to know.
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice,
The look upon my face,
Yeah I've done this before,
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone.
Yeah you waited too long.
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice,
The look upon my face,
Yeah I've done this before,
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone.
Yeah you waited too,
Yeah you waited too long.
This is urgent,
Call 'em emergencies
I don't know how to stop 'em.
My capgun and the pistol,
You fill your clip with lies.
Then load each one and fire right over my head.
I need a finish line, this pressures too high.
Yeah I should have seen the end was coming, sooner than they
ever did
Reach down to the pit of my soul.
I found things that I didn't wanna know with her,
I guess the wait is over.
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice,
The look upon my face,
Yeah I've done this before,
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone.
Yeah you waited too long.
Oh, how do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice,
The look upon my face,
Yeah I've done this before,
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone.
Yeah you waited too long.


10.The Honesty

Let's get it straight
Let's get it straight from the top
You'll be getting with your usual main ingredient
You're good at talking when you say it, are you meaning it?
I don't wanna give you my heart if you're not completing it
I'm blown away at how your family
Your friends just accept it though
No one's ever told you 'no'
Can't expect you to know how to love
When it was somethin' you were never taught

But honesty
Is the one true way to start again
Just be good to yourself and love those unspoken
Instead of always broken, but,
But honestly
When your heart decides to let someone in
Just be cautious of the next one

You win
I never wanted to pay what was meant to screw me up
But I see you're into playing it
Makes me feel sorry for the way you like displaying it
Now the truth is really told you are betraying it
I gotta say I don't think I ever felt you hold us up
Were you embarrassed by me?
Ohhh... somethin' I'm gonna have to pay for

But honesty
Should've been the one true way to start again
Just be straight with yourself and love those unspoken
Instead of always broken, but,
But honestly
If your heart decides to feel again
Just be careful of the next one

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How completely let down
How completely let down I felt
How completely in awe
When I can see it all
No I can see it all

But honesty
Could've been the one true way to love again
Just be straight with yourself and love those unspoken
Instead of always broken, but,
But honestly
If your heart decides to love again
Just be thankful for the next one
Thankful, Thankful, Thankful
Yeah I'm gonna see it all, I'm gonna see it all
I can't wait, I can't wait
I'm gonna keep it up, I'm gonna keep it up
I can't wait, I can't wait
I'm gonna see it all, I'm gonna see it all
I can't wait, I can't wait
I'm gonna keep it up, I'm gonna keep it up
I can't wait, I can't wait
I'm gonna see it all, I'm gonna see it all
I can't wait, I can't wait
I'm gonna keep it up, I'm gonna keep it up
I can't wait, I can't wait
I'm gonna keep it up, I'm gonna keep it up
I'm gonna keep it up, I'm gonna keep it up
Yeah, yeah, yeah


11.The Getting Over It Part

I tried and tried
I tried so many things that wouldn't take
Like stop the leak, prevent the flood, some say
But nothing helped at all

And you're not listening to what I say
You waste the time for memories made
Communication has not made its way
to your agenda for today
Or any other day
'Cause this is the last time I'm gonna say it

If you come around here, you know
We're gonna have some problems, though
'Cause yeah, we're over
Get over it, though
I've seen that look before
Leave that shit at your door
'Cause yeah, we're over
Get over it, though

Now I'm shouting out
You gotta hear me
Can you end this now
I'm tired of waiting
You don't get the point
And you don't get control
And we both have a chance
If you just let go

You can't have me tonight, tomorrow night,
The next day, for anyone or anything
And anyway, I'm not asking you to stay
You're not my fucking problem,
one you just throw away
Let's burn this house we built up down and simply walk away

If you come around here, you know
We're gonna have some problems, though
'Cause yeah, we're over
Get over it, though
I've seen that look before
Leave that shit at your door
'Cause yeah, we're over
Yes, we're over
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

I'm gonna win this conversation
Look who's got the microphone
I can't believe you're stuck on always trying to fuck me up
I think you ruined us all
Yeah, I truly believe you fucking ruined us all

If you come around here, you know
We're gonna have some problems, though
'Cause yeah, we're over
Get over it, though
I've seen that look before
Leave that shit at your door
'Cause yeah, we're over
Yes, we're over
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

If you come around here, you know
We're gonna have some problems, though
'Cause yeah, we're over
Get over it, though
If you come around here, you know
We're gonna have some problems, though
'Cause yeah, we're over
Get over it, though
If you come around here, you know
We're gonna have some problems, though
'Cause yeah, we're over
Get over it, though
If you come around here, you know
We're gonna have some problems, though
'Cause yeah, we're over
Get over it, though

Fade away...


12.The Worry List

I'm tired, twisted, barely breathing,
buried in the dark, I'm creeping

Don't be concerned, it's just the power of a breaking heart.
How good am I hiding it? look, I've got some bad intentions.
Guilty as fucking charged.
Still standing stable, more than able
Cause I know who you are.
I know the birthdays, anniversaries, all the first days I
missed.
I regret them all.
But now I know this:

I know that God exists, I held her in my arms.
I never knew I was able to ever feel this strong.
Take me off your worry list, it'll be better that way.
I'm really fine and there's nothing we haven't talked about.
So, take me off your worry list I said, 'Throw it away.'
This is what my life is about.
I might have been gone but I never walked out.

I've taken a thousand red eyes to change your point of view.
What kind of man would take the trust you break and still follow
through?
'Cause I'm standin' right here.
And you may not show up.
This same gate 14 where, honestly, I'm just sick of calling your
bluff.
And it's just embarrassing, that I nearly threw up
Well I'm trying hard to change the things I always screw up.
And at the top of my list, this visitation's no relationship.
But I gotta make the best of it.
'Cause I know -

I know that God exists, I held her in my arms.
I never knew I was able to ever feel this strong.
Take me off your worry list, it'll be better that way.
And I'm doin' fine and I've got plenty of friends around.
Take me off your worry list, just throw it away.
Well, it's time to stand up on my own for her.
'Cause I'm packing it up, and I'm comin' today.
I couldn't wait to finally pick my family up.
Everything is quiet and covered in snow.
There's something wrong here...
Nobody's at home.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no no, no.
Now, I'm back in the driver's seat.
Heading back home.
Yeah, back to Texas on my own.

Take me off your worry list, it'll be better that way.
And I'm doin' fine and I've got plenty of friends around.
Take me off your worry list, just throw it away.
Yeah, it's time to stand up on my own for her.
I'm packing it up, and I'm comin' today.
This is what my story's about.
I might have been gone but I never walked out.
I'm packin' it up, and I'm comin' today.

This is what your story's about.
My pretty little girl, can you figure it out?
If it helps to know so there is no doubt,
Just listen to the stories, not everything is glorious.
Some hurt, some love, some shout.
I fought the world and I lost that bout.
And you are what my album's about.
I might have been gone, but I never walked out.


13.The Follow Through

pride
it leaves you hollow
another attempt
just to settle the score
a war, you know the one you built it up
it's real defining
humiliation
knocks at your door
usually i blow up
i see, you cave in
we never found the line between
the real and pretend
you know you should accept it
this is really the end
i know for sure, what i have to do
is follow through
in everything i ever want to be
the only thing i ever needed no
i'd wait for you till time lay down to sleep
and i'd sneak across the world to let her know
yeah that's what i do
i follow through
oh i follow through
here i stand
i'm too close but still you're far away
you never tried but i did
we still remain divided
oh i can't believe that your heart's still beating
its beating for me at all
how sad of you
but i'm not sad at all
you say i blow up
i say you cave in
we never found the line between
the real and pretend
you know you should accept it
this is really the end
i know for sure, what i have to do
is follow through
and you were everything i ever want to be
the only one i ever need to know
i'd wait for you till time lay down to sleep
and i'd sneak across the world to let her know
and as it falls down into night we run away
once again divided
but each one knows just what we have to do
we do
we have to...follow through
i will lay down my heart
i will let you go
that's what's best for us all
(and now we stand beneath the clouds and God above)
(like we did before)
(but this time for her)
(i'll follow through)

and you were everything i ever want to be
the only one i ever need to know
i'd wait for you till time lay down to sleep
and i'd sneak across the world to let her know
hold my heart
patiently
take my hand
walk with me
cuz when the evening comes
we'll set the world on fire
i was wrong
let me help you live on

(can i stand)
(enough to follow through)
(its what i do for you)
(i'll follow through)
...let me help you live on...