Cradlesong

Rob Thomas Cradlesong Lyrics
1.Her Diamonds

Oh what the hell she says
I just can't win for losing
And she lays back down
Man there's so many times
I don't know what I'm doin'
Like I don't know now

By the light of the moon
She rubs her eyes
Says it's funny how the night
Can make you blind
I can just imagine
And I don't know what I'm supposed to do
But if she feels bad then I do too
So I let her be

And she says oooh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cuz I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best and now she can't win it's
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down

She sits down and stares into the distance
And it takes all night
And I know I could break her concentration
Oh But it don't feel right

By the light of the moon
She rubs her eyes
Sits down on the bed and starts to cry
And there's something less about her
And I don't know what I'm supposed to do
So I sit down and I cry too
And don't let her see

And she says oooh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cuz I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best and now she can't win it's
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down

She shuts out the night
Tries to close her eyes
If she can find daylight
She'll be all right
She'll be all right
Just not tonight

And she says oooh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cuz I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best and now she can't win it's
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cuz I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best and now she can't win it's
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down

I can't take no more
Diamonds on the floor
No more no more
Diamonds falling down
I can't take no more
Diamonds on the floor
No more no more
No more
Diamonds falling down
I can't take no more
Diamonds on the floor
Diamonds fall oh the diamonds
Diamonds falling down

I can't take these diamonds falling down


2.Gasoline

Oh well, oh well
Guess you've got it all worked out so far
You adjust your reason
Until you see the light from where you are

But you can never win
You can never lose that's the worst part
You can only say that what you want
Is where you are

You're beautiful, girl
Won't you listen to me?
Well, I tried so hard to give you what you need
And it burned like gasoline

Oh well, oh well
It never took a lot to make this hard
Cause you're so off-balance
And I knew all the words to set you off

But you can never win
You can never lose that's the scorned heart
Then you throw your head back
And you laugh at where we are

you're beautiful, girl
Won't you listen to me?
Well, I tried so hard to give you what you need
And it burned like gasoline

Won't you listen to me?
Well, I tried so hard to give you what you need
And it burned like gasoline, gasoline, gasoline, gasoline No
no...

You're beautiful, girl
Won't you listen to me?
Well, I tried so hard to give you what you need
And it burned like gasoline, Won't you listen to me?
Well, I tried so hard to give you what you need
And it burned like gasoline

Burned like gasoline

Burned like gasoline


3.Give Me The Meltdown

Feeling worn down
Like a piece of glass
It doesn't take too much to get yourself to feed your monkey
Tell some white lies, they can swallow them
You don't see just how you got into this situation

Late at night,
Late at night you weep for something
Better than the secrets you keep laying down,
Just lay down here close to me,
And tell me what you want from me.

And I said Hey now,give me the meltdown,
Take it out on me this time around,
Oh no it aint over now
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round
Hey now,give me the meltdown,
Take it out on me don't let me down,
Oh no it aint over now
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round.

Wide awake now and your monkey's dead
You're so perfect that you never really need nobody
Put your hands down, you're among your friends
You just take and take and take and take and take and take and

Late at night, late at night
You weep but so no better than the secrets you keep
Stay down, just lay down here close to me
Pretend you're never leaving me.

And I said Hey now,give me the meltdown,
Take it out on me this time around,
Oh no it aint over now
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round
Hey now, give me the meltdown,
Take it out on me don't let me down,
Oh no it aint over now
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round.

Tell me what you want child
Give me the meltdown,
Take it out on me don't let me down,
Oh no it aint over now
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round.
Hey now, give me the meltdown,
Take it out on me don't let me down,
Oh no it aint over now
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round.
Hey now,give me the meltdown,
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round.
Hey now,give me the meltdown,
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round
Hey now,give me the meltdown,
I can feel the world spinning round and round and round


4.Someday

You can go
You can start all over again
You can try to find a way to make another day go by
You can hide
Hold all your feelings inside
You can try to carry on when all you wanna do is cry

And maybe someday we'll figure all this out
Try to put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to make things better now that
Maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow, someday

Now we wait
And try to find another mistake
If you throw it all away then maybe you can change your mind
You can run
And when everything is over and done
You can shine a little light on everything around you
Man it's good to be someone

And maybe someday we'll figure all this out
Try to put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to make things better now that
Maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow, someday

I don't wanna wait
I just wanna know
I just wanna hear you tell me so
Give it to me straight
Tell it to me slow

'Cuz maybe someday we'll figure all this out
We'll put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to just to feel better now
Maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow, someday

'Cuz sometimes we don't really notice
Just how good it can get
So maybe we should start all over
Start all over, again

'Cuz sometimes we don't really notice
Just how good it can get
So maybe we should start all over
Start all over, again


5.Mockingbird

Here we stand
Somewhere in between this moment and the end

Will we bend?
Or will we open up and take this whole thing in?

Everybody else is smiling and their smiles don't fade
And you don't even wonder why you just don't think that way

Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird won't sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love

Take my hand
And I will lead you through the broken promise land

Yes I can, ah yes I can
I can be there when you need it,
I'll give it all till you can't feel it anymore

I don't wanna love you now, if you'll just leave someday
I don't wanna turn around, if you'll just walk away

Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we aint meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird won't sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love

Maybe you and me got lost somewhere,
We can't move or we can't stay here
Well maybe we've just had enough,
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mocking bird won't sing
Well man this life seems hard enough
Well maybe we ain't meant for this love

Maybe we ain't meant for this love

Maybe we ain't meant for this love


6.Real World '09

Hey yeah, welcome to the real world
Nobody told you it was gonna be hard
You said Hey yeah I can't believe it,
I bearly started now I'm falling apart,
and it's hard

Standing at the crossroads
but having all the answers,
never helped me out no
all the better Boom shake, helps me awake
I need some coffee and maybe a shave
And it's a pretty bad way to start my today
Turn on the radio and what does he say?
He says, Hey yeah, welcome to the real world
Nobody told you it was gonna be hard
You said Hey yeah I can't believe it,
I bearly started now I'm falling apart,
and the stars

they were shining through the window
Yeah, feel a little moon glow
Kinda like a rainbow

all the better...Boom shake, now i'm awake
I think it's over but it's everyday
And it's a pretty fine mess I'm starting to make
I couldn't tell you I was never afraid
sayin' Hey yeah, welcome to the real world
Nobody told you it was gonna be hard
You said Hey yeah I can't believe it,
I bearly started now I'm falling apart
Hey yeah, welcome to the real world
Nobody told you it was gonna be hard
You said Hey yeah I can't believe it,
I bearly started now I'm falling apart

Hey yeah, welcome to the real world
Nobody told you it was gonna be hard
You said Hey yeah I can't believe it,
I bearly started now I'm falling apart
Hey yeah, welcome to the real world
Nobody told you it was gonna be hard
You said Hey yeah I can't believe it,
I bearly started now I'm falling apart
ahh, welcome to the real world
ahh, welcome to the real world
ahh welcome to the real world


7.Fire On The Mountain

Fire on the mountain
Through the freeze,
Save yourself
There's evil in the garden
But you don't see it,
I can tell

How do you sleep while the city's burning?
Where do you go when you can't go home?
How do you drink when there's blood in the water?
Where do you turn when the world moves on?
When the world moves on?

Fire on the mountain
You can feel it against your skin
You're standing by the river
Let the river take you in

How do you sleep while the city's burning?
Where do you go when you can't go home?
How do you drink when there's blood in the water?
Where do you turn when the world moves on?
When the world moves on?
When the world moves on?

Hell, I see smoke out on the horizon
Mama, get your baby, take her down to the water
I view the wind like a promise broken
I see the future but it's getting farther
Hell, I see smoke out on the horizon
Mama, get your baby, take her down to the water
I view the wind like a promise broken
I see the future but it's getting farther

How do you sleep while the city's burning?
Where do you go when you can't go home?
How do you drink when there's blood in the water?
Where do you turn when the world moves on?
When the world moves on?
When the world moves on?
When the world moves on?
When the world moves on?


8.Hard On You

Your the best thing I ever knew
you'll do everything that I can't do
sometimes I get lost in my blue
please forgive me if I'm hard on you
please forgive me if I'm hard on you

all right

you and me got so much to prove
your the only thing that I can't loose
the nights are peacful here in our room
please forgive me if I'm hard on you
please forgive me if I'm hard on you

cause I didn't mean to, didn't mean what I said
all the things I said to you
but maybe the worst is the best I can do
with you
and I never want you to go , but I know
how the mood it waits too slow
and I fall apart cause it's all that I know

I know

I know

yeah I know

Yeah your running now baby blue
please don't let it take me far from you
I've been restless, I've been a fool
please forgive me if I'm hard on you
please forgive me if I'm hard on you
please forgive me if I'm hard on you
please forgive me if I'm hard on you


9.Still Ain't Over You

I should have never let you go
Always another
I need this more than you will know,
But there's always another
A million byways and highways
And there's always another
Someone else to pay your way
And try to take your innocence
There's always heartbreak

I hold steady while you're shaking me loose
You keep breaking me down but I still ain't over you
I've been living like there's nothing to lose
And I'm telling you now that I still ain't over you

I keep your letters by my bed
And there's always another
I hear your voice inside my head
And there's always another
A waste of time wasted our days
And there's always another
Someone else to make you suffer
Make you think this whole thing over

I hold steady while you're shaking me loose
You keep breaking me down but I still ain't over you
I've been living like there's nothing to lose
And I'm telling you now that I still ain't over you
I still ain't over you
You're breaking me down
And I still ain't over you
And I got nothing to lose
And I still ain't over you

I hold steady while you're shaking me loose
You keep breaking me down but I still ain't over you
I've been living like there's nothing to lose
and I'm telling you now that I still ain't home
I ain't home
I've been sleeping around but I still ain't over you
I got nothing to lose, oh no
I still ain't over you


10.Natural

this is not the life i promised you before
i can feel them running chains around our door
and i'm coming to the end of what i'm for
but i will pull myself together, i am sure
i will run for you until i start to drop
i will breathe your breath until you tell me stop
we will see the ending of another sunny day
and we'll wait at home until the next one drops

are we all just sitting here waiting on the end?
like it's only natural
it's only natural
are we filling spaces till we find ourselves again?
ike it's only natural
its only natural

this is not the way we wanted this to be
and i can feel your doubt inside of me
we're standing on the edge of everything we've ever seen
and everything well never get to be

are we all just sitting here waiting on the end?
like it's only natural
it's only natural
are we filling spaces till we find ourselves again?
ike it's only natural
its only natural

and when you think its over
it starts coming 'round again
it's coming 'round again
and when you think it's figured out
it starts coming 'round again
it's coming 'round again
it's coming 'round again

are we all just sitting here waiting on the end?
like it's only natural
it's only natural
are we filling spaces till we find ourselves again?
ike it's only natural
its only natural
it's only natural


11.Snowblind

I think we're snowblind
We've had a hard time
And we can't see where we are
Spending our whole lives walking the same lines
And it doesn't seem to stop

This is our life
It's all that we get
The days are all numbered
And the nights are all spent
Losing our focus
We're starting to drag
We're running in circles
And we start to feel bad

But it don't mean that this ain't right
We just both need a little more time

I think we're snowblind
We've had a hard time
And we can't see where we are
Spending our whole lives walking the same lines
And it doesn't seem to stop

He's taking my throat
You're melting my hands
You cause me to wonder as much as I can
I feel it all over
It's starting to lack
We're spinning our wheels so hard
It's hard to turn back

I think we're snowblind
We've had a hard time
And we can't see where we are
Spending our whole lives walking the same lines
And it doesn't seem to stop

Oh, but when the night falls down
On this place (on this place)
I will be the one to hold you
When the tears run down your face

I think we're snowblind
We've had a hard time
And we can't see where we are
Spending our whole lives walking the same lines
And it doesn't seem to stop

I think we're snowblind
We've had a hard time
And it doesn't seem to stop

I think we're snowblind
We've had a hard time
And it doesn't seem to stop

I think we're snowblind
We've had a hard time


12.Wonderful

look at me I'm made of wonderful
wonderful
I'm all easy breath and steady walk
steady walking
but underneath I'm barely moving, no
it's like I'm nothing
all the ways they have to make me smile and then they go and
break me
wait, I think I feel like hell
though I can't be myself
and I can't be nobody else but if I could
would you love me then?

would you love me then?

would you love me then?

look at me, I'm made of wonderful
it's terrible
I'm all easy come and easy go
as far as you know
but underneath, man, I'm just killing time
I guess I'm past my prime
and now I'm overrated, overdressed, and overstated
wait, I think I feel like hell
though I can't be myself
and I can't be nobody else but if I could
would you love me then?

would you love me then?

would you love me then?
if I put my hands up, put your hands up
if I fall down
if I lose my place
and I don't know just where I'm supposed to go
or if you'll be there when I wake
would you love me then?
and I come home tired
and I come home late
everybody wants me
so I give it away
I'm a wanted man
I'm a wanted man
I'm a wanted man
I'm a wanted man

would you love me then?

would you love me then?

would you love me then?


13.Cradlesong

Everybody's got a different story
Everybody wanna give thier selves away
But I'm still afraid

We can stay out of their field of vision
If we can keep ourselves a half a world away
Ah honey we'll be ok

The world can be so cruel
But I will sing for you
This cradle song
All night long

Everybody's got thier own opinion
Everybody's got a place where they belong
Like a favorite song

And I don't want to be a faded memory
I don't want to be the ghost that you can't shake
I want to be the real thing

The world can be so cruel
But I will sing for you
This cradle song
All night long
Yeah all night long
Yeah all night long

Ooohhhh Ooohhhh Ooohhhh

No one said we were victims honey
No one said we had to keep the things we get
There ain't no regrets

And all our friends, they moved to Hollywood
But we aint that desperate yet oh no
Aint nothing like the real thing

The world can be so cruel
Well let me sing for you
This cradle song
All night long

The world can be so cruel
But I will sing for you
This cradle song
All night long
This cradle song
This cradle song
Yeah all night long
Sing it all night long yeah
Yeah all night long
Sing it all night long yeah yeah
All night long


14.Getting Late

this life keeps moving on
gone away before too long
so tell your friends just how you feel
you'd better say it loud for the world to hear

'cause it's getting late, it's time to go
the paper moon is fading slow
but the night, it keeps moving on
'til it takes you in; it brings you home

while you're watching over
the moments that make up your life

it's getting late that's the way it is
you can't deny when it feels like this
and it's strange what it's bringing out
you're gonna open up, 'cause you can't stop now
oh,you can't stop now

it's getting late, you don't know how
you're wide awake, but you're missing out
you get your kicks while you can
then you go to work to pay the man

while you're watching over
the moments that make up your life
it's getting late
it's getting late
it's getting late