Sound The Alarm

Howie Day Sound The Alarm Lyrics
1.So Stung

Now will you overcome this impression?
When the life that you lead
Is second guessing me?
So you've come for things you left behind
You left me here with all this on my mind
I'll be fine

Now I feel so stung
Now I feel so stung

All I want to feels is affected
When all you want to be is protected
And when you realize you're on your own
The wind can push the sails and drive you home
This I know

Now I feel so stung
(you got the best, you got the best of me)
Now I feel so stung
(you got the best, you got the best of me)

I can see it come and go
(can you feel it? we hit the ceiling?)
You can feel the undertow
(can you feel?)
I guess we'll never know

When you realize you're on the shore
The wind can push the sail and drive you home
(this I know)

Now I feel so stung
(you got the best, you got the best of me)
Now I feel so stung
(you got the best, you got the best of me)
Now I feel so stung
(you got the best, you got the best of me)
Now I feel so stung
(you got the best, you got the best of me)
By you
By you


2.Weightless

I was alone, so not afraid
I was staying up with you way too late
I thought someone like you
Could come around n make my faults
Seem like they were none at all
Come on somebody help me out
I'm underwater drowned in doubt

But it feels just like we're weightless
Weightless when we're together
Isn't it time to face it, what we already know?
Seems just like we fake it
Pretend it isn't happening
Pretend that it'll go away
Oh but what do I know?

It was all mixed up, ahead of the curve
When you were lying to the world
See I want to lie there too
Feeling down n all around
I see your back in every town
You'll be the one to hold me down
Tell me, is it too late now?

Cuz it feels just like we're weightless
Weightless when we're together
Isn't it time to face it, what we already know?
Seems just like we fake it
Pretend it isn't happening
Pretend that it'll go away
Oh but what do I know?

I want to be alive like you
Be so easy like you
I want to love like you do
Oh wonderous one

It feels just like we're weightless
Weightless when we're together
Isn't it time to face it, what we already know?
Seems just like we fake it
Pretend it isn't happening
Pretend that it'll go away

It feels just like we're weightless
Weightless when we're together
Isn't it time to face it, what we already know?
Feels just like we're turning
Turning ourselves in circles
Pretend that we can find a way
Oh but what do I know?

But what do I know?
Oh... but what do I know?


3.Longest Night

Is it dark, where you are?
Can you count the stars where you are?
Do you feel like you are a thousand miles from home?

Are you lost, where you are?
Can you find your way when you're so far?
Do you fear, where you are?
A thousand nights alone

So here we are set into motion
We'll steal a car and crash in the ocean
You and I, caught in a fading light
On the longest night

It's enough, just to find love
It's the only thing to be sure of
So hard, to let go of
A thousand times or more
I was close to a fault line
Heaven knows, you showed up in time
Was it real?
Now I feel, like I'm never coming down

So here we are, set into motion
Steal a car, crash in the ocean
You and I, caught in a fading light
On the longest night

I recall when we were together
Even now it seems like forever
So alive caught in a fading light
On the longest night

Can we go too far to find,
what is waiting here?
A little fall from grace
On the longest night

Did we go too far to find,
what is waiting here?
We'll take a little time,
to open again

Is it dark where you are?
Can you count the stars where you are?


4.40 Hours

lately after dark i've been wandering through the park
with the angry words you said
wandering through my head
there's nothing i can do
to keep from feeling like i blew
the only chance i had to make it better

the shadow on the wall is looking down from 10 feet tall
and i wonder what it sees
as i stumble through the streets
to never feel alone
it seemed written down in stone
but now its all i can do to try and forget her

40 hours and counting
i could shut my eyes
and sleep here

warning comes and goes
and i'm tangled in the throws
in the stillness of my room
and the bandage on my wound
my heart becomes a bird
she said freely just a word
and now i'm wishing that i had never met her

40 hours and counting
i could shut my eyes
and sleep here

people rushing by
out the corner of my eye
a kaliediscope of bloom
a mirror broke in two
a thousand little stars
and a million little wars
scattered out upon the open desert

40 hours and counting
i shut my eyes
and sleep here

a world is set ablaze
by a never ending haze
and you're closer than a tear
i see you everclear
the rush is in the veins
and there's nothing else to blame
but every minute, every hour, every second

40 hours and counting
i shut my eyes
and sleep here
shut my eyes and sleep to dream...

lately after dark i've been wandering through the park
with the angry words you said
wandering through my head
there's nothing i can do
to keep from feeling like i blew
the only chance i had to make it better


5.Be There

When the morning came I was up before first light,
And Your bed was made you must have cut out sometime lastnight,
My heart beat started pounding out riddle in my brain,
Voice from deep inside said got to be insane,
Everyone knows how this old story goes,
Got in my taxi and drank my conscience away,

If you're gonna be there, be there
If you're gonna stay, stay tonight,
Start livin, out with the old, im on the up,
Must be the good life

I went to your friends house begged you to open the door,
With Your hands on your hips you spoke while i sat down on the
floor,
Two dishes in the kitchen sink, the way you treat me when you
drink,
You don't look so superior when you give your opion,
Don't think i don't know how you act on your own,
Just who are those names on your cell phone anyway,

If you're gonna be there, be there
If you're gonna stay, stay tonight,
Start livin, out with the old, im on the up,
Must be the good life,

Its the cool breeze on the setting sun,
The New Year's , The 4th, wrapped into one,
You make me want to be someone that you could look up too,

If you're gonna be there, be there
If you're gonna stay, stay tonight,
Start livin, out with the old, im on the up,
Must be the good life,

Come on get love,
Come on and try,
Come on now what are you waiting for?
Come on get love,
Come on and try,
Come on now what are you waiting for?

Come on get love,
Come on and try,
Come on now what are you waiting for?
Come on get love,
Come on and try,
Come on now what are you waiting for?

When the morning came I was up before first light,


6.Everyone Loves To Love A Lie

She put her shoulder down into the rain
She doesn't know how she gonna explain
The way it's always been it will probably be again
Cause everyone loves to love a lie

Can't wait for the rain to stop falling
Such a victim of circumstance
On the edge and she thinks of running
Shattering all their plans
Late again and he won't stop calling
Such a victim of their romance
struck down by a strange cold addiction
he never had a chance

She'll need a miracle
to keep her feet down on the ground
She'll need a miracle
if she's ever to be found
and I swear it won't be long
Cause everyone loves to love a lie

By the glow of a red light flashing
She's a vision of poetry
Not sure just where she's crashing
or who she's supposed to be
Doesn't know if its him shes feeling
Doesn't know if it's someone else
Round the bend there's a wrong turn coming
She's putting it on herself

She'll need a miracle
just to keep her feet down on the ground
She'll need a miracle
if she's ever to be found
and I swear it won't be long
Cause everyone loves to love a lie

She'll go where she wants to go
where she wants to go
where she wants to go

She'll need a miracle
just to keep her feet down on the ground
She'll need a miracle
if she's ever to be found
and I swear it won't be long
Cause everyone loves to love a lie

Cause everyone loves to love a lie
Cause everyone loves to love a lie
Cause everyone loves to love a lie
Cause everyone loves to love a lie
Cause everyone loves to love a lie


7.Undressed

Light up, Light up,
This afternoon,
Somehow I've found myself with you

Start up, start up,
Our getaway car,
I'm in too deep,
we've come this far

So bright, so bright,
Your blinding sun
We?ll need to hurry,
we've just begun

Call out, Call out,
Your ocean?s move the water's warm,
I'll swim in you

Come on, Get in
Let's go, Jump in
I must confess I like us best undressed

Turn on, Turn on,
Your stereo
Shake these walls, you sweet and low

Good love, good love,
I finally see,
The past is gone, for you, for me

Come on, Get in
Let's go, Jump in
I must confess I like us best undressed

In a world full of chaos, shut out the deafening world?
For just one moment more

Come on, Get in
Let's go, Jump in
I must confess I like us best

Come on, Get in
Let's go, jump in
I must confess I love you best undressed
I must confess I like us best undressed


8.Sound The Alarm

I dont know if I could last
When I couldnt rescue you
And I dont know if my best
Is enough for me anymore

Well I can take it as a test
And I will see when I console
And Id change it if I could
But somethings wrong
Oh its understood

And at times I miss you
And know that youll make it all to real
I wish it was fate
Sound the alarm
I know well make it right, al-right
I know this night
Alright, thats right


This time I miss you
I know that youll make it all to real
I wish it were fate
Sound the alarm
I know well make it right, alright
I know tonight youre alright
Right alright right alright
You know well be alright, tonight.


9.No Longer What You Require

We had it all we were, young lovers,
we were full of trust and faith
We were dead set on makin' it last forever,
forever and a day.

I recall it was fall last year when,
it started to die.
You stand still as the temperature kills,
the summer strokes that were keeping it alive.

The day got colder so I held you closer,
in an effort to save us from time,
Almost like the wind came and ruined the spark
and left us in the dark.

But hey- I coulda told you that I loved you and stay,
around to rekindle the fire but I was late,
on my return and now you've lost all faith.
And I am a liar,
I'm no longer what you require.

See, I still feel you at night,
turning in the sheets when I turn out the light
It's how it goes, the ghost of your first love wont
ever leave you til the day that you die
I wont ever live down leaving her behind
even if the choice was the right one
It was a good thing staring me right
in the face but I turned and ran away.

I coulda told you that I loved you and stay,
around to rekindle the fire but I was late
on my return and now you've lost all faith.
Cause I am a liar,
I'm no longer what you require.

Back then the days were so much faster,
we were young stubborn and in love with disaster.

You know you cant go back even if you try,
you better just forget it wont you close the door on me
cause it will never be the same
it will never be the way it was before

But hey- I coulda told you that I loved you and stayed,
around to rekindle the fire but I was late,
on my return and now you've lost all faith.
And I am a liar,
well hey- I coulda told you that I loved you and stay
around to rekindle the fire but I was late
on my return and now you've lost all faith.
And I am a liar I'm no longer what you require.
And im no longer what you require


10.Postcard From Mars

Postcard from Mars
Having your fill
You can't see the harm
In a little pill

See what you've done
Biding your time
Making my world
Unthoughtful in sunlight

Till I wake up
Boy I'll take some time to understand
Soon I'll be a part of this
The last time
Oh the last time
I'm sure it comes back on again

Some how you find
Passing the time
Moving along to a different light
Lie on your back
Oh you shoulder the blame
You can't find the time
And you can't find your way home
You shout out

Till I wake up
Boy I'll take some time to understand
Soon I'll be a part of this
The last time
For the last time
I'm sure, I'm coming back real soon

You're coming apart with me at the seams
We'll follow a man says 'he lives in a dream'
Well you've been a part of everyone's style
Since the day you were born
But now you need something more

You're playing a part
Doesn't it hurt, when it's coming apart??
Hey now, I could surely manage a lot
I did it before

Postcard from Mars
Oh now how do you feel??
You can't see the harm
In a little thrill


11.Counting On Me

I see your face in the sun
By a streetlight
By the colors that glow in my eyes
I see them burning bright
And I know where I'm supposed to be
Counting on me
You're counting on me

You've got me tied by the wrist
By the shoulder
By the blood that runs under my skin
I see my hands turn white
And I know that I won't get free
You're counting on me
You're counting on me
Counting on me
Counting on me

I never knew that I could be this way before
Like I was living in your hallway
And you opened the door
Opened the door

And I can feel a change will come
In our love, love
And I can feel a change will come now

Tell me you find
Tell me you find it here

You're counting on me
You're counting on me
Can you count on me?
You're counting on me

And I know that I won't
Yes, I know that I won't
Now I know that I won't get free