Back & Fourth

Pete Yorn Back & Fourth Lyrics
1.Don't Wanna Cry

Don't wanna cry for you
but there's nothing left to lose
If it can make me feel better
Then I'm gonna cry, cry for you

Don't wanna cry for you
there's nothing left to do
If it can make me feel better
Then I'm gonna cry cry for you

I know a man not supposed to act this way
But things they got too real, I couldn't stay
I know one day...we will both feel good
If I could be with you, you know I would

Don't wanna cry for you
But there's nothing left to do
If it can make me feel better
Then I'm gonna cry, cry for you

Don't wanna cry for you
there's nothing left to lose
If it can make me feel better
Then I'm gonna cry cry for you

I turn the lights down low, and close the door
And try to feel the way I felt before
Hell, I'll cry in the middle of the day
If it'll make me feel a better way
if it could take my pain away
Take my pain away ...

Don't wanna cry for you
But there's nothing left to lose
Gotta let the boy have his way,
cause he can't seem to drink it away

Don't wanna cry for you
There's nothing left to do
If it can make me feel better
Then I'm gonna cry cry for you
if it'll make me feel better
then I'm gonna cry cry for you
Don't wanna cry...


2.Paradise Cove

Play me a song...
Play me a song
Sing your heart out

Expecting the sun
I got what I wanted and it wasn't enough
I got what I wanted when you showed up
I got what I wanted and it's never enough

I drove out to the white trash beach
On a brief vacation
I'd felt freer than I had in a long time
I wondered if its cause you were gone

I got what I wanted when you showed up
I got what I wanted and it wasn't enough
I got what I wanted when you showed up
I got what I wanted and it's never enough

Surfers protect the actors from flashers
Fathers and sons talk it out like brothers
The water doesn't sting as much in the summer
The waves can carry you home...

To the girl with the shapes and another life
A freckled complexion and squinting eyes
You want so much to tell her
But it feels like a lie

I got what I wanted and it wasn't enough
I got what I wanted when you showed up
I got what I wanted and it's never enough..never enough

When you talk it makes me cringe
you want so bad to have meaning
But you're empty and draining

You're so 4th street
I can't take it
I know I shouldn't care
But your life's intersecting where mine's disconnecting
Oh, your life's intersecting where mine's disconnecting

I got what I wanted and it wasn't enough
I got what I wanted when you showed up
I got what I wanted and it wasn't enough
I got what I want when you showed up
I got what I wanted and it's never enough..never enough
I got what I wanted when you showed up
I got what I wanted and it wasn't enough

That could be bad for us both


3.Close

Hey what's going on?
I could still be strong
for us tonight

I know it will get hard
but I won't run away
I'll figure it out

Just stay close
Wait for the sun
Learn to live this life, learn to get along

All this innocence
that we've come to miss
will make us stronger
I don't have the time to go back in time
I already lived it

Just stay close
wait for the sun
Learn to live this life, learn to get along

Just stay close
Wait for the stars until they realign
Just like the first time


With all we've come to know
We work so hard for what?
I don't wanna miss it

Just stay close
wait for the sun
Learn to live this life
Learn to get along

Just stay close
Wait for the stars until they realign
Just like the first time
the first time...


4.Social Development Dance

I remember the first time I saw you
You were drifting down Crouse Avenue
You looked like a hot-country-Vermont,
though my eyes were never that good.

Your head seemed to hold itself up high
on that long thin neck of yours
You glanced back, although we never had passed
You lit a cigarette and smiled

And when we kissed it was electric
A chemist made us for each other
but I was far from being your only one
My roommate said he'd seen you before...

There's something missing in us
We try to make it whole
Though it never feels like it, i know you have it all

There's something missing in us
We long to make it whole
Though it never feels like it
I know you have it all
Yeah, I know you have it all

We went to the social development dance
The whiskey went down easily
You kissed the best you had enormous breasts
And we wandered out really early

We were neighbors for a very short time
It all worked out quite wrong
When your boyfriend called
You pressed against the wall
...:'Oh I really gotta go now'....

There's something missing in us
We try to make it whole
Though it never feels like it,
I know you have it all

There's something missing in us
we long to make it whole
though it never feels like it,
I know you have it all
Yeah, I know you have it all

We'd move away when the winters were gone
I think I saw you once in the city
I heard you were staying up North with a friend
And that your hair was falling out

I tried to find out what had happened to you
I Googled you in quotes- got no results
I never learned how you had died
But I knew how you had lived

There's something missing in us
We tried to make it whole
Though it never felt like it,
I know you had it all

There's something missing in us
We longed to make it whole
Though it never felt like it, I know you had it all
Yeah, I know you had it all
Friend my friend, you left us in the end

I remember the last time I saw you
You were floating down Crouse Avenue.


5.Shotgun

Baby gimme a sign
Message coming through
With all we're leaving behind
I miss you

I want to know about you
I want to live around you
But it's easy to worry here
Oh I hope I don't disappear
I know, yeah I know, I know we'll have to choose
But I'm leaving it all to you

Yeah baby
Yeah baby, I needed some time
To figure out my share
Still waklking through the mines
Explosions now afar

I want to know about you
I want to live around you
But it's easy to worry here
Oh I hope I don't disappear
I know, yeah I know, I know we'll have to choose
Is there anything left to loose

Oh yeah baby
Yeah baby

When you're gone
I know it's so hard
I know if you come to me
I can make us happy

Oh yeah baby
I'm here inside
I need to tell you something
Put your hand in mine
What's your name baby?

I don't know your name anymore
I don't know your name anymore
I never knew your name before

Yeah baby


6.Last Summer

we were afraid
we would never meet again
we would never see it thru
our time was short but not for no one reason
we couldnt stay
we were not each others truth
we were close but very far
i'll never see your face in sunshine again...

we were there last summer
it was fresh as the ocean
it was great last summer
but we can not go back again.

we were there last summer
it was fresh as the ocean
it was great last summer
but we can not go back again.

oh maybe as time goes by
we will talk about it and laugh
but now it's too close, it's too close
we know what we must do

we were there last summer
it was fresh as the ocean
it was great last summer
but we can not go back again.

but we can not go back again.
but we can not go back again.
we can not go back again..oh


7.Thinking of You

I keep thinking of you
You're on my mind
For the fifty-seven thousandth time this morning

I keep seeing you in sheets of white
I can't change anything
I can't change... Anything

I was out on my own
For the first time
It was here all alone, that I cracked
Now it won't happen again
'Til the next time
Now I think I can do this all by myself

I've been thinking of you a lot this morning
For the fifty-seven thousandth time today
I will see you in pictures
Dressed as I am
I can't change anything
I can change...
Anything.

I would like to tell you
Where I'm going to
I've seen it before
I've seen it before

I would like to tell you
This is not about you
I've seen it before
I've seen it before

I've been thinking of you
You're on my mind


8.Country

Baby I don't know
what I think of us
Won't be here tomorrow
I get so mixed up

It's a shame that we're not living in the country
A place that I once seen before
In a book you've always loved, but never showed me
You know I never lost before

Baby I don't mind
Where I'm going to
Love that asks for nothing
Love that we never knew

In the days when we were living in the city
It seemed that we were talking more
I can never love you like the way you love me
And these are things I can't ignore
You know I never lost before
You know I never lost before

We give it up to a world that was never true
It was always me and you

Baby I can tell
It's not coming back
Won't be here tomorrow
I know we'll be fine with that

In the days when we were living we were happy
The thing that we were waiting for
From a book you've always loved but never showed me
These are things I can't ignore
You know I never lost before
You know I never lost before
You know I never wanted it more

You and I were two of a kind
I hate to say it, but we'll never relate
You and I were two of a kind, you made me smile....


9.Four Years

He met a girl four years ago
He knew her like he knew himself
He fell with conviction, but not too easily
He wished, his love was hers to keep

But it wasn't enough for him to have her
He never woke up, there'd always be others
Had so much to give but time waits for no one
You don't believe me, but I think he's grown

There's a new light coming
A new day for them
Ask for an answer, and it will arrive
There's new light coming

He was a brave fighter
He had all this heart
And discipline would keep him from falling apart
But these hours in the morning, he finds them so hard

He dreams that he's open,
And now he's sailed on
He's sailing on

There's a new light coming
A new day for them
Ask for an answer and it will arrive
There's new light coming

He realized, he's growin' up
He can do anything with it
He realized, he's growin' up
He can do anything well

He knows there's a difference in walking away
We don't always know exactly what to say
We say it anyway...

There's a new light coming
A new day for them
Ask for an answer, and it will arrive
There's new light coming

There's a new light coming
A new day for them
Ask for an answer, and it will arrive
There's new light coming

He realized, he's growin' up
He can do anything with it
He realized, he's growin' up
He can do anything well


10.Long Time Nothing New

same old town
loose sense surrounds me
always drags you down
don't let it get you down
same four walls
don't mean anything, to anyone
'cause all you cared about
was to see yourself break out

i've seen you this way before
a life strained but true
what are we waiting for
it's been a long time, nothing new

something survived here
she's been working overtime
how's it feel to lie?
it burns on in your mind

i've seen you this way before
a life strained but true
well what are we waiting for
it's been a long time
nothing new

for a while we were living
but it's the pace that will kill you
kill you

i've seen you this way before
a life strained but true
what are we waiting for
it's been a long time, nothing new
it's been a long time nothing new
i'm here, i'm here..


11.Rooftop

Comin over the rooftop baby
Comin over the rooftop
Would you save me?
Cos I'm not okay

Comin over the rooftop baby
Comin over the rooftop
Would you save me?
Cos I'm not okay

And seasons change for everyone
I've seen it all
And if the rain comes down
Let the rain come down

Comin over the mountain baby
Comin over the mountain
Would you save me?
No I'm not okay

Comin over the mountains baby
Comin over the mountains
Would you save me?
Cos I'm not okay

And seasons change for everyone
I've seen it all
And if the rain comes down
Let it rain on me
yeah

Comin over the rooftop baby