1.All at Once
We were born without time,
Nameless in the arms,
Of a mother, a father and God.
When the world would wait for us,
A thousand years in the crush,
Of our eyes, fearless in awe.
So quietly we'd fade into sleep,
With nothing on our minds.
Then we longed to be loved,
In the rush we'd become,
Some things we thought we'd never be.
We were surprised by how hard,
Left weary and scarred,
By the nights spent feeling incomplete.
And all those evenings swearing at the sky,
Wishing for more time.
All the promises we broke when we tried,
Just wasting all our time.
We grow old all at once,
And it comes like a punch
In the gut, in the back, in the face.
When it seems someone's lied,
And our parents have died,
Then we hold to each other in their place.
And I feel the water rising around us.
Maybe that's OK.
Yeah, I feel the world changing all at once.
I guess it'll be OK.
When we all had one hope there was someone looking down,
When we return our bodies to each other and the ground.
2.Numb
I've been in a daze
It seems like days that I've been waiting
For this dream to pass
It goes so fast
It seems nothing lasts
I think I've lost something
Stuck here with these people
Wide awake, the crush of bodies in one space
I feel your hot breath on my tongue
I wonder where you've gone
And the ever turning spinning wheel of people, places
Lies I feel
The restless beat of the sleepless night to come
I just wanna be numb
I just wanna be numb
Hopeless these three years like smoking years
I go from place to place
Just endlessly and half asleep
Like I'm falling alone at some endless breach
I don't know where I am
I don't know what I've done
I just go over and over it again and again and again
I can't sleep at night
I can't breathe
But if I drink tonight I'll get you off my mind
And the ever present pit I feel
I'm turning on some spinning wheel
Of faces and the scenes I see
And none of it seems real to me
Just the bleary haze of the morning still to come
I just wanna be numb
I just wanna be numb
I just wanna be numb
I just wanna be numb
I just wanna be numb
3.Changing
All these buckets of rain,
I've heard enough about.
You say that I lied.
I am a gentleman didn't I ask for a place I could stay What were
we both thinking
The next part just got in the way.
You were just always talking about changing.
What if I was the same then,
the same I always was
All these things that you say,
like I'll forget about the mind-numbing games that you play.
I am a gentleman, didn't I pay for every laugh every dime, every
bit every time and then you feed me some line.
I won't hear one more word about changing.
Guess what I am the same man,
same that I've always been.
Days pass and turn into weeks,
when we don't even speak.
We just lay wide awake and pretend we're asleep.
You go home alone and you're checking your phone and you're
looking at me like I'm something you own.
All these buckets of rain, you can't forget about it, you say I
never tried.
I am a gentleman, didn't I answer every time that you call, pick
you up when you fall
But you never listen at all
You were just always talking about changing.
Guess what I am the same man.
changing. Guess what I am the same man.
4.All for a Woman
All of these grateful looks, all these grateful eyes,
All the furious stares and the fretful sighs,
Promising everything to everyone,
We'll be back soon, you're my favorite one.
And I'll keep it quiet, I'll hold you dear,
The whispering fills the ear,
Tell me you'll stay, we would have such fun,
And the lie you don't need anyone.
And the screams, the wails, and the calls,
The headiness of the fall.
Ten thousand miles from where we began,
I fell asleep with a picture in hand.
It was all for a woman.
You say that you're grateful for the time alone,
Two years away, no, I don't miss home,
And everyone asks you if you still think of her,
So you smile politely and you demure.
But then all at once your head starts to swim,
And you can feel her breath on your skin,
You find that you stare at the same spot for days,
She's above you, below you in waves.
And you're shivering cold, like you're just ten years old,
She's lying asleep in your bed,
And you're standing beside her, the light from inside her,
Filling up the darkness in your head.
It was all for a woman.
And you've drowned in the teasing.
You've forgotten the reason, the muse inspired the art,
You'd give anything for her to say them once more,
The words you believed at the start.
Ten thousand miles from where it began,
Falling asleep with her picture in hand.
And it was all, was all for the look in her eyes.
For the promise and the lie of a woman.
5.It Doesn't Mean a Thing
I never knew my mother
I can't say it was so bad
She was still a girl of seventeen the night she met my dad
He was just six months out of chino
Trying his hardest to stay clean
And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing
Like doves sleeping with broken wings
In a bed fit for a king
It didn't mean a thing
It was shot gun forest wedding
And they forgot to bring the gun
As they were busy counting promises
To the children not yet born
No one could afford the ride
Everyone hitched up with the 101
And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing
Like doves dancing with broken wings
With a view fit for a king
It didn't mean a thing
It was a loneliness
They would confess
Like the world had gone bad I guess
So they hold hands and look into the eyes of god
They'd say tell me why'd ya hide from us
Why'd ya fill the world with wickedness
Why'd ya spare us from the grace but not the rot
Now my dad says fuck the details
Just keep your head down hard
Ya got to find yourself alone before you'll find the eyes of God
You make broke and scared and out of jail
Out the flesh of your own heartstrings
But you were born to be a peasant not a king
So just stop acting like your running from something
Ya gonna leave the way you came without a thing
With your heart tattooed and your mind tied to a string
You just sing and you sing and you sing
It doesn't mean a thing
6.The Kids Are Ready to Die
all these inanimate places feel like there changing
the kids are lined up on the wall like they're ready to die
his arms ascend its like they just rearranged them
we're all caged up like animals, questioned and ready to cry
'cause i was just thirteen when i got my first taste of danger
standing by the church i had a bottle and a pen in my hand
i said 'father, i'm sorry, i just don't know what to do with
this anger'
misbehavior is correctable, i know this wasn't part of you plan
but little fucks like us we were always receiving instruction
and you could burn our cloths you could wash out the ink and the
dye
but you can't look me in the eye and say you don't feel like a
little destruction
and the kids are lining up on the wall and they're ready to die
and the kids are lining up on the wall and they're ready to die
all these days just seem like they're getting longer
the view from my room, its a gloomy and over cast day
the weakness we left it behind seems to be getting stronger
i swear theres something in the air and i don't know what anyone
could say
'cause i saw the news this morning there was another
and a boy the side of the road he had a gun in his hand
i thought oh what could you say to make it ever make sense to
his mother
oh man he was excitable, we were just trying to make him a man
but the day will come when it falls like a cheap house of
plastic
and the cards that were dealt will be tossed like a stone in the
sky
and you can only lie for so long before you get something
drastic
and the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die
and the kids are lining up on the wall and they're ready to die
7.Welcome to Your Wedding Day
Well It's another fine day of the nation built
Well let's have a parade
You can dance on the graves and the bones of the children
If you know what to say
And you know its begun from the beat of the drum
And the screams from the mouths of babes
And we pray as were watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day
And it's a damn good day
For the heart and the mind
And the party happened in here
If you'll advert your gaze form the word on the sign
Let me wispier it in your ear
Cause the sign says run
Cause the sign says run
Cause the sign says run
Cause the sign says run
And you know its begun from the crack of the guns
And the screams from the mouths of babes
And we pray as where watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day
Welcome to your wedding--
And we want peace
Yea we want peace
And we don't negotiate with terror
We don't negotiate with terror
We don't negotiate with terror
We don't negotiate with terror
We don't negotiate with terror
We don't negotiate with terror
We don't negotiate with terror
We only make or break
And we know its begun from the crack of the guns
And the screams form the mouths of babes
And we pray as where watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day
Welcome to your wedding--
8.Half of Something Else
On the night, that we met
You told me you wanted, something more from me
And it was all that I could do
I remember your face, like a child
The way that you blush, the way that you smile
But now it's all that I can do, and I wake up feeling new
There's so much more I never knew
So I think, about the years spent alone
It's like you're searching for something, to make you feel whole
Like you're half of something else
Like you're half of something else
Just a fraction of yourself
Don't take it so hard, we did what we could
There were no easy answers, to be understood
And it was all that we could do, we're the only ones who knew
And all I think about is you
The way that you scream, the way that you cry
The way that you wipe your eyes and fall against my side
The way that you told, told me I was wrong
And the way that you'd sing, when you'd hear a song
And the way that you answer, when you knew I was gone
Now I know that I'm blind, and you're all I see
And yeah I know it's not cleaver
But I just want you with me
I'm only half of something else
I'm only half of something else
I'm only half of something else
9.Strange Girl
It was an old song,
From Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me when she sang.
It was an old line,
I kept with me with me with me when she rang
You're such a strange girl,
You're such a strange strange girl.
You're such a strange girl.
It's all been arranged
Everyone is telling me,
It's slightly deranged,
Everyone is telling me.
We traded blindness for some wisdom
＆ some lines around the eyes.
But you just act like it was a fact of life
It didn't come as a surprise.
You're such a strange girl,
You're such a strange strange girl.
You're such a strange girl.
And no you can't ever go home.
Everything has changed and people are gone.
So close your eyes and try to summon a song
and you feel your life falling under you like a (what？)
It was an old song,
I once knew every note and every line.
It was a long night,
When i carried you and you carried me for a time.
You're such a strange girl,
You're such a strange strange girl.
You're such a strange girl.
10.All I Ever Wanted
I can only say these things to you while you're sleeping
I hear the hum from the wires and the sounds of the morning
creep in
I lie awake and pretend you can hear me
And you tell me that you're scared that you're turning into your
mother
And I feel myself turn into my father
We could lie to each other like they do and say we're so happy
It's easy when you're young and you still want it so badly
And I feel my heart pounding
And I think that I might scream
I can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
And I can utter every word you've ever hope to hear
But I shudder when I think that I might not be here forever,
forever, forever
That night you whispered like a ghost and you looked so shaken
You were so quiet and small and you tell me you wanted to be
taken
I just never think of you as the kind of girl who would say that
And you suddenly seem like some faceless thing in my grasp
Your eyes so wide, your face so low
It's the face of someone I don't know
I can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
And I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear
Shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever,
forever
And all I could think is that it must be a kind of rebellion
To arm our fears like soldiers and slay them.
I can tell you that you're all I've ever wanted, dear
Through the dim while you're breathing, while you're sleeping in
here
Waken and you ask me if I'm going to be here forever, forever,
forever
Your face so twisted and your eyes are light
I want to tell I can save you when you cry at night
But I'd be lying
Love is defying
11.The Graveyard Near the House
The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the
house
You asked me if I thought we would ever die
And if life and love would fade, predictably we made ourselves a
kind of predictable lie
And so I pictured us like corpses lying side by side in pieces
In a dark and lonely plot under a bough
We looked so silly there all decomposed half turned to dust in
tattered clothes
Though we probably look just as silly now
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye to all this dog-eared innocence.
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
or how to be.
But you have no idea about me.
Do you？
And it left me to wonder if people ever know each other
Or just stumble around like strangers in the dark
Sometimes you seem so strange to me, I must seem strange to you
We're like two actors playin' two parts
Did you memorize your lines？ Cause I did
Here's the part where I get so mad, I tell you I can't forget
the past
And you get so quiet now, you seem somehow
Like a lost and lonely child and you just hope that the moment
won't last
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye to all this dog-eared innocence.
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
or how to be.
But you have no idea about me.
You have no idea about me.
Do you？
Still, there's always a way around.
There's something tying our feet to the ground.
A moment passed, we hear how it sounds.
And it seems a little less profound.
Like we're all going the same way down.
Yeah, we're all going the same way down.
I'm just trying to write it all down.
Cause I write songs, and you write letters.
We are tied like two in tethers
And we talk and read and laugh and sleep at night in bed
together.
And you wake in tears sometimes, I can see the thoughts flash
across your eyes.
They say, Darling will you be kind？
Will you be a good man and stay behind if I get old？
Then the letters all flash through my head
With the words that I was told
About the fading flesh of life and love
The failures of the bold.
I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will.
And I'll defy every one and love you still.
I will carry you with me up every hill.
And if you die before I die,
I'll carve your name out of the sky.
I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie.
It may be better to move on
And to let life just carry on
And I may be wrong.
Still I'll try.
Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die.
It's better to love whether you win or lose or die.
It's better to love and I will love you until I die.
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