Take Me To The Pilot (EP)

Take Me To The Pilot Take Me To The Pilot (EP) Lyrics
1.Call The Cops

Take it all away from me before fall in love
I think it's time we figured out this mess
Been kicked around enough to know what leaving is
Waiting on your promises, won't hold my breath
Take your time with the break that you're taking, now
But I don't wanna know just where you've been
I'm getting sick of all this slow rotation
But you're content to just let the wheels spin

Yeah I'll admit that I'm new and naive
If you'll admit that I'm exactly what you need

Look around and check the locks before you call the cops
False alarms are ringing in your head
I couldn't tell you where the point of entry might have been
But I can tell that you wish you were dead
But check the goods, count your shoes, you'll see that nothing's
gone
Except that my side of the bed is made
So sick and tired of being sick and tired
So I decided to just up and make my getaway

Yeah I'll admit that I'm new and naive
If you'll admit that I'm exactly what you need
You know I'll take a joke as well as all the other guys
But I'm more concerned with making this right

So think twice baby, this maybe the very last time
That you and me stand here as we tonight
And these clasping hands, they seem to mean something
But the notes we play begin to mean nothing
So maybe it's best if we just fade away


2.Tonight

You're fed up, you can't do it
Close your eyes and I'll talk you through it
It's too bad that your plan got red-tagged
You're leaving home with your heart in a handbag

I don't know where they found you
But I know they'd be lost without you
Sanding at the gate with a tear in their eye
As they wave goodbye

You're tied up, you can't make it
Take your time 'cause you can't replace it
You left home with a pack of old clothes
You got stuck, that's how this story goes

They clipped your wings and left you
They locked the door and let you pull yourself apart with silent
grief

But I could be
Something special, something sane
Something used, something plain
I could take you away, I could take you away
Take my hand, don't be shy
Please don't beg, please don't cry
I could take you away, I could take you away tonight
I can tell by the look in your eyes that you need saving
And I can tell by the scars on your feet that your way needs
paving


3.Green Eyes

Where've you been?
I've been waiting here a while
Seems like a thousand years since I last saw your green eyes
smile
Close the door, it's cold
This frozen summer's getting old
Just come in and let me warm you for a while

You look like you've been crying, but dear there's nothing to
cry about
Just come in, I'll wipe the teardrops from your cheek
Let me whisper in your ear, I'll sing this song till you're
asleep
Because tonight, well it's only you and me

'Cause when you get lost you know I'll find you
And when you're feeling all alone, just look behind you
I'll pick you up when you collapse and in my arms I'll bring you
back
My love I swear I'll always be your second chance

Here we are
On the same old road again
We'll take the chance that is together, the chance we took since
god-knows-when
We'll melt into tonight
And as the time rolls by
Well I swear I'll love you till I die

'Cause when you get lost you know I'll find you
And when you're feeling all alone, just look behind you
I'll pick you up when you collapse and in my arms I'll bring you
back
My love I swear I'll always be your second chance

It's the little things, the ones you love, the moments you would
die without
The simple pleasures: a hand to hold, two lips to kiss as you
get old
Take me back to the bitter cold, when I kissed you in front of
the fourth-floor windows
And we fell, am I still falling?

'Cause when you get lost you know I'll find you
And when you're feeling all alone, just look behind you
I'll pick you up when you collapse and in my arms I'll bring you
back
My love I swear I'll always be your second chance


4.I Was Alive For 15 Days In The 80's

Walked in to the tune of the very last song in the set
I guess there wasn't much time left
I blinked my eyes, the stage was bare, and I'm still standing
there
Not a single note left, just lingering
But still I stood there silent, listening
To the echoes of everything I just missed
Old photographs and memories
Are all that's left here for me
To show the way things were
Back when life was carefree
Take me back in time
To when the lighters' glow reflected in your eyes
As you stared out from the stage
Back when all the world was a stage
Well I tried with all my might to re-live those days
I tried to do it through the songs I played
Fell in love with long hair and rock clothes
The big drums and the guitar solos
But through it all, one thing's missing
And till the day I die I'll be wishing it was 1984
And that the band was still on tour
I wanna be on the midnight train, going any way
I wanna feel the bite of that November rain
I wanna be 18 till I die
I wanna roll with that sweet child o' mine
I wanna feel as cold as ice
I wanna feel my heart beat in the still of the night
I wanna meet a girl who's only seventeen
Just don't you forget about me
I'm still standing by that stage
I'll always be standing by that stage


5.My Rags, My Riches

There's a secret little spot downtown
That I don't think anyone knows about
Deep within the city lights
Inexplicably you can see into the night
Tucked away, sheltered and hidden
Its scruffy charm has got me smitten
And I'll take another minute
Just lay here, just lay here

'Cause I can't help it without a little bit of something real
To keep me alive you'll need to take your hands right off of the
steering wheel
And how I wish that I could stay this way, never change
I'll take it all in stride, turn out the lights and say
goodnight

Heavy loads make their way to the stage
Back turned so you can't see my face
As the heat from a thousand eyes
Burns through me faster than the brightest spotlight
The mics crackle, the keys take flight
Buzzing nerves make this room feel so alive
And I'll savour that first chord
Just stay here, stay here

'Cause I can't help it without a little bit of something real
To keep me alive you'll need to take your hands right off of the
steering wheel
And how I wish that I could stay this way, never change
I'll take it all in stride, turn out the lights and say
goodnight

To one more memory
Is that all you've got for me?