Keep Your Friends Close

The Basics Keep Your Friends Close Lyrics
1.Fear Of Failure

Pictures of places
Memories of faces
Lost on me
I see you running
and I wonder how long 'til you
Find your feet

I think you know
What I'm thinkin'
I know you feel it too
All the pressure
In the moment
When you have to choose

Oh, you can bide your time
For the rest of your life
Keep your options open
So you don't have to decide
Are you waiting for excuses to materialize
Or is it fear of failure

Everyone changes
Workin' our way through these fallen leaves
While the branches are breaking
Can't help mistaking if I rest for the trees

I know there's no one
Bad decision
This just can't go on
Stumblin' blind

Oh, you can bide your time
For the rest of your life
Keep your options open
So you don't have to decide
Are you waiting for excuses to materialize
Or is it fear of failure

So you keep treading the same ground
Forgetting that you found
The faith you need
You say your future's in limbo

With your head
In the clouds
Don't look down
I am holding you up
With my feet
On the ground
We can make sense of the pictures, places,
memories, faces that we lost on the way

Well, you can bide your time
For the rest of your life
Keep your options open
So you don't have to decide
Are you waiting for excuses to materialize

Well, you can bide your time
For the rest of your life
Keep your options open
So you don't have to decide
Are you waiting for excuses to materialize
Or is it fear of failure
Or is it fear of failure


2.With This Ship

I think we're heading in the same direction
When you go bit insane
I try to reason it's too easy to give up on it
But I don't wanna play this blame game again

We cover over all the things that bring us closer
And before you know it it's goodbye
So now you've said your piece
And I try to find a way to organize my mind
Stay on course, straight and true
And you, you think we're heading in the right direction
but I don't know if I do too

Cos I try to send a message
But you don't wanna hear it
You're so obsessed with all the things they said and how they
see us
I try to draw the anchor but you just cast another down
Don't wanna go down with this ship

Don't wanna go down (with this ship)
No I don't wanna go down (with this ship)
I don't wanna go down (with this ship)
No I don't wanna go down (with this ship)

Cos I try to send a message but you don't wanna hear it
You're so obsessed with all the things they said and how they
see us
I try to draw the anchor but you just cast another
And I don't wanna go down with this ship

I fly this flag forever but you don't wanna see it
The way it was it's how it is for you and you can't leave it
We're only treading water, but slowly sinking deeper
And I don't wanna go down with this ship

I don't wanna go down with this ship
I don't wanna go down with this ship


3.The Day Mairead Goes Away

The day Mairead goes away
I'll find it in my heart
Memories, Sunny days
Where we will never part

I think of her now and then
Wonder why I passed her way
Wish that I was young again
On the day Mairead goes away

On the day Mairead goes away
I wonder how I'll feel
Life is such a dream and often seems that it's not real

Sure I think of what we had
If I ever feel too sad
I'll tell myself she's comin' back

On the day Mairead goes away
I don't wanna learn to lose somebody
I don't wanna learn to say goodbye
I don't wanna learn no acceptance of the truth
When the truth is not much better than the lie
I don't wanna learn to say goodbye

Say goodbye

The day Mairead goes away
You will find me here
Months that grunts, cigarettes, whiskey, wine, or beer
I'll find a place to disconnect
I'll find a place I can forget myself
A place I can protect myself

On the day that Mairead goes


4.Home Again

I quit my job on a Friday
Told all my friends it's goodbye (eh)
Within a week I was flyin'
'Cross the sea
To where I'm meant to be

Everything felt like a failure
I'd had enough of Australia
The grass is greener philosophy
I don't wanna be

The sun, it crosses in the sky
As I close my tired eyes
When I wake I will
Be home again
Home again

She said that we were connected (oh)
I don't know what I expected (oh)
Maybe I hoped she could rescue me
From everything
Now I'm there again

But the sun, it crosses in the sky
As I close my tired eyes
When I wake I will
Be home again
Home again

The sun, it crosses in the sky
As I close my tired eyes
When I wake I will
Be home again
Home again

Home again
Home again
Home again

I have to wonder at night
Could I have stayed there to fight for it
But there's no sense in denyin'
I was all alone
Now I'm comin' home

Everything right where I left it
I don't know what I expected
She said that we were connected

And the sun, it crosses in the sky
As I close my tired eyes
When I wake I will
Be home again
Home again

The sun, it crosses in the sky
As I close my tired eyes
When I wake I will
Be home again
Home again

Home again
Home again
Home again


5.What Do You See In Me?

One night without booze and I wake up with a head cold
One night without you and I wake drenched in sweat
It's like someone took away this little boy's icecream
And I'm so much colder when I'm without it

I can't see the connection but I know there's one there
So I'm asking you honey: do you really care about me?

When you're around it's like life really matters
When once I was restless now I'm content
There's no meat on the bone but this dog isn't hungry
And what does it mean when I won't jump the fence

I know there's a reason for why I must be
So I'm asking you honey do you really care about me?
What do you see in me?

It all feels to easy, it all seems so strange
I've already forgotten how I used to
for someone like you I've been down on my knees

I'd like to think we could go on forever
yeah the thought of you leaving me hurts my head
but science had answered the laws of attraction
and science can't say what happens when we're dead

there's so much they don't know, so much they can't see
they're so full of questions ...
well there's only one question that matters to me

what do you see in me?


6.The No.1 Cause Of Death Amongst Youth Today

I am an ordinary boy
I tell an ordinary story
I'm alive
My thought was once unique
But now I know I'm wrong
The wheels have fallen out
It should be sad
But no, it's not
'Cause now I've realized
(Ohh)
We all feel pain from time to time
(Ohh)
We all feel shame from time to time
I hear them talking endlessly
Their voices like a symphony
They carry on about my life
as if they've seen it on tv
It all comes back to expectation
Experience then revelation
'Cause we discovered some relationships
Were never meant to be
But do they really think
(Ohh)
We all feel pain from time to time
(Ohh)
We all feel shame from time to time
(Ohhhhh)
It is so heavy on my mind
(Ohhhh)
It's time to leave the past behind
(Ohhhhh)
YOU!
KNOW!
I!
KNOW!
WHAT!
YOU!
KNOW!

I !
THINK!
IT'S!
TIME!
WE!
LET!
GO!

I'm thinkin' 'bout my life
And I'm falling apart
Today,you've realized
It's only just a start
I am an ordinary boy
(in background-I am an ordinary boy)
I tell an ordinary story
(in background-I tell an ordinary story
I'm alive
(I'm alive)
My thought was once unique
(My thought was once unique)
But now I know I was wrong
The wheels have fallen out
(The wheels have fallen out)
It should be sad
But no,it's not
(It should be sad)
(But no,it's not)
'CAUSE NOW I'VE REALIZED!
That IIII
Can put this pain
From out my mind
IIII won't wear this shame
For all my life
(IIII)
Nobody said that life was kind
(IIII)
I Think it's time we
Said goodbye
(IIII)
We all feel good from time to time
(IIII)
We all feel shame from time to time
(IIII)
(Ohhh)
(Ohhh)


7.Trouble In My Head

My friend's got trouble in his head, oh
Oh

His lady's gone
Exploded like the stars in outer space
This venom keeps willing to drown him
To get him off his face
His daddy died at age 24
For the better most people said
Well the days are numb
And a silver haze from a guy left in his head

My friend's got trouble in his head, oh
Oh

My friend's got trouble in his head, oh
Oh

The drift in time
That life became broke
The earth with every way
The voyage to sail free was wrecked
With no one left to save
The call from the depths
To breaths that he could take no more
The moon shone bright
and the shifting tides
He'd seen it all before

My friend's got trouble in his head, oh
Oh

And he left death gladly take him
and he pulled him down with glee
for resurrection in the depths so that he could finally see

My friend's got trouble in his head, oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh


8.The Executioner

I plead for my life
and I plead for my soul
I've been walkin' death row
and I do believe my time is up

She waits at the gate for me
Tightens the noose 'round my neck
And I can't believe this really is the end
of all the hopes and dreams we had
before the world came in and stole them all away

She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner

'Sit down' she said,
'I've got somethin' to say.
I've been patient with you,
but I don't believe you'll ever change.
I've made my choice.
Yeah I made up my mind
and there'll be no remorse
and I'm sorry but the time has come
and yeah we had a lot of fun
but I really have to do what's right for me.'

She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner

You don't have to do this
You can spare my life
You don't have to whip me
I don't wanna die

She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner, oh

Plead for my life
and I plead for my love
and I'm screaming inside
but it just comes out a whimper.
Her eyes are so cold
as she speaks out her sentence
and she kicks out the box beneath my feet
and I fall forever.

She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner
She's the executioner


9.Keep The Door Open

Woman can you tell me
What it is to love someone
Without the getting older
I'd be wiser than I was
Every time I get close to you
I end up right back at the start
So woman can you tell me
What it is to love and be loved by someone

Woman can you hear me
'Cause you know the less I know
This pain you got me goin' through
Is like the ghost of what could have been
And I look out for a sign
Something to tell me I'm getting through to you
But you close your eyes and woman
I cant open them for you

So it's time I went away
It's time I gave you space
It's time I gave myself the chance
to find some piece of mind some day

I'll keep the door open for you
If you ever find a way to make it back to me some day
I'll keep the door open for you
'Cause a fire burns inside, and a love I cannot hide
I'll keep the door open for you

Woman can I ask you
Do you regret the things you said
I could never leave you nor forsake you
And there's no bitterness from my end
But can you acknowledge one thing before I go
There's something special in what we had
I know it's hard to see it now woman
But it'll work out in the end

So it's time I went away
It's time I gave you space
It's time I gave myself the chance
to find some piece of mind some day

I'll keep the door open for you
If you ever find a way to make it back to me some day
I'll keep the door open for you
'Cause a fire burns inside, and a love I cannot hide
I'll keep the door open for you
If you ever find a way to make it back to me some day
I'll keep the door open for you


10.All Or Nothing

I'm in love with someone who just cannot love me back
Someone else who loves me deserves much more than that
There are no winners here
There are no winners here

All the time I've tried to write the words that sum the whole
thing up
But I never can quite get it right and what I write just sucks
So here I go again my friends I guess this is my lot
To do my best and make lieu of what I do and do not want

But it's all or nothin'
It's all or nothin'
It's all or nothin' with you

I'm in love with someone who just cannot love me back
Someone else who loves me deserves much more than that
There are no winners here
There are no winners here

Look I love this song but there's some stuff that's not good for
your health
Songs that make me wanna cry and wanna hurt myself
And it's funny how when you're feeling down, these songs are
just for you
I guess that's what they like to call the power of the blues

But it's all or nothin'
It's all or nothin'
It's all or nothin' with you

I'm in love with someone who just cannot love me back
Someone else who loves me deserves much more than that
There are no winners here
There are no winners here

So I live in a state of constant limbo waiting for a clue
For someone else to tell me what it is that I should do
'Cause even though I know this indecision can't go on
When it comes to breakin' hearts I'd rather die than do the job

But it's all or nothin'
It's all or nothin'
It's all or nothin' with you

I'm in love with someone who just cannot love me back
Someone else who loves me deserves much more than that
There are no winners here
There are no winners here

So there it is my latest try at sorting out my head
But lookin' back I'm not quite sure I know I just said
Still keep someone hangin' on while I entertain the thought
Of bein' with another who I think is more my sort

But it's all or nothin'
It's all or nothin'
It's all or nothin' with you

I'm in love with someone who just cannot love me back
Someone else who loves me deserves much more than that
There are no winners here
There are no winners here

There are no winners here
There are no winners here