Handwritten

The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten Lyrics
1.45

Have you seen my hands, they just flip and shake
And he song just keeps on beating, drop the needle again
And I dance with your ghost
Oh but that ain't the way
I can't move on and I can't stay the same
And all my friends say

Ah hey, turn the record over
Ah hey, i see you on the flip side
There you go, turn the key and engine over
Let her go, let somebody else lay at her feet

But have you sen my heart,
Have you seen how it bleeds
Every night's a so long baby
Yeah out here in the deep
The tick-ticking of hours only
I hear the alarm
I used to hear when you were sleeping in my arms
For better senses

Ah hey, turn the record over
Ah hey, i see you on the flip side
There you go, turn the key and engine over
Let her go, let somebody else lay at her feet

And all my friends say:
Ah hey, turn the record over
Ah hey, i see you on the flip side
There you go, turn the key and engine over
Let her go, let omebody else lay at her feet
Where you used to be
Where you used to be
Where you used to be
You with me


2.Handwritten

Pull it out, turn it up, what's your favorite song?
That's mine, I've been crying to it since I was young
I know there's someone out there feeling just how I feel
I know they're waiting up, I know they're waiting to heal
And I've been holding my breath,
Are you holding your breath, for too many years to count?

And we waited for sirens that never come
And we only write by the moon, every word handwritten
And to ease the loss of youth and how many years I've missed you
Pages plead forgiveness, every word handwritten

Let it out, let me in, take a hold of my hand
There's nothing like another soul that's been cut up the same
And did you wanna drive without a word in-between?
I can understand, you need a minute to breathe
And to sew up the seams after all this defeat
And all of this defeat!

And we waited for sirens that never come
And we only write by the moon, every word handwritten
And to ease the loss of youth and the many, many years I've
missed you
Pages plead forgiveness, every word handwritten

Here, in the dark, I cherish the moonlight
I'm in love with the way you're in love with the night
And it travels from heart, to limb, to pen

And we waited for sirens that never come
And we only write by the moon, every word handwritten
And with this pen, I thee wed
From my heart to your distress


3.Here Comes My Man

And how much time do you think that we have?
If I wanted to, I could start over again
Let the good night decide who she wants me to find
And I'll never let you drop another tear in my eye

Singing oh sha-la-la, oh sha-la-la
Listen honey here comes my man
Singing oh sha-la-la, oh sha-la-la
Listen honey here comes my man

Yeah

And all my life I never had a chance
Don't you think I knew about all your pretty girlfriends
But I waited for you, gave you time to decide
But you never saw it from anybody else's side
So I packed up my things and I faced up my doubts
You know I think I will grow my hair back out
Nevermind what you think
Nevermind what you like
I'll take it out to the streets for somebody else to admire

Singing oh sha-la-la, oh sha-la-la
Listen honey here comes my man
Singing oh sha-la-la, oh sha-la-la
Listen honey here comes my man

Maybe time will tell you
Why I got so much hell to sell you
Please, please understand me
Oh you can't just dance around me
Maybe your work will love you
When I'm just not there to hold you
Maybe your pride can be your companion
Oh but I just won't be there to stand for it
Not one more minute will I stand for it

Oh-oh

You found me singing, baby

Singing oh sha-la-la, oh sha-la-la
Listen honey here comes my man
Singing oh sha-la-la, oh sha-la-la
Listen honey here comes my man
Singing oh sha-la-la, oh sha-la-la
Listen honey here comes my man
Singing oh sha-la-la, oh sha-la-la
Listen honey here comes my man
Here comes my man
Here comes my man
Here comes my man
Here comes my man
Here comes my man


4.Mulholland Drive

Did you sleep last night and do you remember dreams?
Do I ever cross your mind and do you ever think of me?
When you think about your life are there things you would
reverse?
I still remember holding you, just out of sight of her
In the deep, dark parking lot pressed up against my car
With your hands around my neck I felt the pounding of your heart
And the summer night was giving in to the lure of Autumn's sway
I can't seem to forget that night or how I heard you say

That I'd just die if you ever took your love away
Oh and I'd just die if you ever took your love away
Would you miss me if I was gone and all the simple things were
lost?
Would you ever wait on me to say
Oh that I'd just die if you ever took your love away

And I can still recall the hour when you first let down your
walls
I thought I might've died right there floating up above it all
But it scared you love, to need someone, so you killed it all
instead
But in the mist up on Mulholland, I could've sworn I heard you
say

That I'd just die if you ever took your love away
Oh and I would just die if you ever took your love away
Did you miss me when I was gone and the simple things we lost?
I was aching to hear you say
Oh that I'd just die if you ever took your love away

That I'd just die if you ever took your love away
Yes and I would just die if you ever took your love away
Did you miss me when I was gone and the simple things we lost?
I was aching to hear you say
Oh that I'd just die if you ever took your love away

And did you miss me when Im gone?
And the simple things we used to rely on?
Who came to wipe your tears away?
Who came to bring back your dignity baby?
And who came to drive you around this town
Like I used to drive you all around with the radio on
Through the mist on Mulholland


5.Keepsake

It's been thirty-one years
Since she's been in your arms
But don't worry about Mama
Mama's got a good heart

And I'm not looking for your love
I'm only sniffing out blood
Just a little taste of where I came from

And at the bottom of this river
Is where I put you down to lay
So I can live with it
And in my heart there are these waters
Where I put you down to lay
While I learn to live with it
Until I'm free

And it's been all my life
I've been wondering on the inside
What we could've had
If you'd had a part in my life

And there were children involved
And they were brothers to me
Even if we never got to meet

And at the bottom of this river
Is where I put you down to lay
So I can live with it
And in my heart there are these waters
Where I put you down to lay
While I learn to live with it
Until I'm

Free at last from this shadow that hangs
Surely you wonder sometimes
And I'm sure you all sympathize
Just what a man's to become, just like his daddy's done
I just want to love someone
Who has the same blood

And at the bottom of this river
Is where I put you down to lay
So I can live with it
And in my heart there are these waters
Where I put you down to lay
While I learn to live with it
Keepsake
Until I'm free


6.Too Much Blood

Are you scared this sounds familiar?
What if everybody knew the very trials and temptations
That we put ourselves through?
Now I am no angel but I got nothing to hide
Can you say the same thing for yourself tonight?

What can I keep for myself if I tell you my hell?
What would be left to take to my grave?
And what's left for you, my lover to save?
What's left for only you to take?
If I put too much blood on the page
If I put too much blood on the page
And if I just tell the truth are there only lies left for you
If I put too much love on the page?

Now as my eternal witness to the pride and the shame
Are you worried I say too much?
Are you scared they'll take me away?
Now I am no devil but I've got things on my mind
And they're gonna come out and they're gonna come up time to
time

What can I keep for myself if I tell you my hell?
What would be left to take to my grave?
And what's left for you, my lover to save?
What's left for only you to take?
If I put too much blood on the page
If I put too much blood on the page
And if I just tell the truth are there only lies left for you
If I put too much blood on the page?

What can I keep for myself if I tell you my hell?
What would be left to take to my grave?
And what's left for you, my lover to save?
What's left for only you to take?
If I put too much blood on the page
If I put too much blood on the page
And if I just tell the truth are there only lies left for you
If I put too much blood on the page?

If I put too much blood on the page
If I put too much blood on the page again


7.Howl

Hey wake it up! Hey shake it out!
Does anything still move you since you're educated now?
And all grown up and travelled so well
Do you still hear the sound of the thunder while you lie up by
yourself?

Like you waited on his call and made your plans for great
escapes
And there used to be a movement in the way your dress would wave
From your hips on down like electric through the ground

Now do you blow it out come Friday night?
See if you wanna, you can find me on the hood under the
moonlight
Radio, oh radio, do you believe there's still some magic left
Somewhere inside our souls?

Like I waited on your call and made my plans to share my name
And I love the country movement in the way your dress would wave
From your hips on down like electric through the

Sound of the cars rushing the rain on the boulevard
In this city by the sea that has always haunted me
And belonged to me somehow
Bless your waters and your doubts
Bless your waters
Bless your doubts


8.Biloxi Parish

I've been fondling with your heart strings,
And that's good enough for me,
And if I break over your house,
Then I know I must been working,
Try it on for size my darling,
See what man you can make of me,
I will eventually haunt you,
And you'll eventually will be my queen,

And I'll be with you through
The dark so that you do not,
Go through the dark alone,
On your own

I've been down at Biloxi Parish,
And that's good enough for me,
I found that nothing truly matters,
That you cannot find for free,
I love you more than can I tell you,
When you pass through from this world,
I hope you ask to take me with you
So I don't have to wait for long

But until then I'll be with you through the dark,
And until then I'll be with you through the dark

Who else can say that about you, baby
Who else can say that about you, now
Who else can take all your blood and your curses
Nobody I've seen a hanging around
Seen a hanging around

I aint seen my home in half a year
I miss my mother and my friends
Please tell Rita
That I've been praying
For all that trouble to finally end
But When this whole thing is over
And we land in asbury's arms
And the bands all quiets down
And it's just you and me in the dark
I won't say nothing
Cuz that's how I know your heart
I won't say nothing
Cuz that's how I know your heart.

Who else can say that about you, baby
Who else can say that about you, now
Who else can take all your blood and your curses
Nobody I've seen a hanging around
Seen a hanging around

Who else can say that about you, baby
Who else can say that about you, now
Who else can say all your blood and your curses
Nobody I've seen a hanging around
Seen a hanging around


9.Desire

What makes a man do the things that a man does
To be the very thing he perceives would capture your heart?

What does it feel like inside?
Does it hurt you at night?
Or does it keep you alive, and set you on fire, on fire?
I would give anything for the touch of your skin
Yes, I would burn here for years
Up in desire, desire

What makes a woman believe in a man such as me?
Unworthy to sit at your foot or your crown
I can only let you down

What does it feel like inside?
Does it hurt you at night?
Or does it keep you alive and set you on fire, on fire?
I would give anything for the touch of your skin
Yes, I would burn here for years
Up in desire, desire

And some men spend their lives
Chasing the accolades of pride
But that just never crossed my mind,
You were always on my mind

What does it feel like inside?
Does it hurt you at night?
Or does it keep you alive, and set you on fire, on fire?
I would give anything for the touch of your skin
Yes, I would burn here for years
Up in desire, desire


10.Mae

Stay the same, don't ever change
Cause I'd miss your ways
With your Bette Davis eyes
And your mama's party dress

While this city pumps its aching heart
For one more drop of blood,
We work our fingers down to dust
And we wait for kingdom come
With the radio on

I wanna see you tonight
Would you come for a drive?
You can lean into me
If you ain't been in love for a while

I was born beside a river
That flows to a raging sea
That will one day serve to quell
Or one day be the death of me

In my faded jeans and far away eyes
And salty carnival kiss
That all my former lovers say
Was once magnificent

I wanna see you tonight
Would you come for a drive?
You can lean into me
And if you ain't oh if you ain't...

I wanna see you tonight
Would you come for a drive?
You can lean into me
If you ain't been in love for a while

And still this city pumps its aching heart
For one more drop of blood
We work our fingers down to dust
While we wait for kingdom come
With the radio on

It's been so long Mae, so long
It's been so long Mae, so long
But since the radio's on...


11.National Anthem

I never will forget you my American love
And Ill always remember you, wild as they come
And though if I saw you Id pretend not to know
The place where you were in my heart is now closed
I already live with too many ghosts

Now everybody lately is living up in space
Flying through transmissions on invisible airwaves
With everything discovered just waiting to be known
What's left for God to teach from his thrown?
And who will forgive us when hes gone?

So, take what you need now honey
And do what you like
Don't worry about me Mama, I'm alright

And I cant stand the weather, no I never liked the rain
We drink on the job then we go home early
And I remember she used to look so good in that dress
Now she just screams how I promised her more than this
Take it easy baby, it ain't over yet

So, take what you need now honey
And do what you like
Don't worry about me Mama, I'm alright

And if there's something you need
And if there's something you find
Whatever gets you through the night
Whatever gets you through the night

I never will forget you my american love
And I'll always remember you wild as they do come


12.Blue Dahlia

What a hard and sultry summer
Steam just slides up off them streets
You gotta stay inside and wait for the night
And then come on over and see me
Cause there's poetry about these streets
Andi t slips from your skin and goes right underneath
And mama always knew I'd meet a girl like you
But me, I never believed
Cause I've been so lonely I can't imagine that kind of sympathy
Cause I've been so lonely I can't imagine that kind of sympathy

Where'd you get them scars? How blue is your heart?
Is it sad enough to break, she said 'it's sad enough to break'
How long was your life? Was it cold and strange like mine?
Are you man enough to lay here?
She said 'I'm man enough, my baby, come see about me'

I had a dream about you once
I could barely see your form
And I met you between the wax and the needle
In the words of my favorite song
And your black hair was like a raven
With your tan skin on the beach
And your backdrop were the Auroras and my Sidekick was all this
grief
And I been so low down, I been almost level with the ground

Where'd you get them scars? How blue is your heart?
Is it sad enough to break, she said 'it's sad enough to break'
How long was your life? Was it cold and strange like mine?
Are you man enough to lay here?
She said 'I'm man enough, my baby, come see about me'

And did they take you the carnival to get locked up on a ride?
See me, I got caught up with the fortune tellers
And the ladies with the sleepy eyes
And it took years, my baby, just to come clean
Every street light, a reminder
And all those apologies
And the night was lonely next to me
Even the night was lonely next to me

Where'd you get them scars? How blue is your heart?
Is it sad enough to break, she said 'it's sad enough to break'
How long was your life? Was it cold and strange like mine?
Are you man enough to lay here?
She said 'I'm man enough, my baby, come see about me'
Come see about me
Come see about me
Come see about me
Whenever you're lonely


13.Sliver

Mom and dad went to a show
They dropped me off at Grandpa Joe's
I kicked and screamed, said please don't go.

Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home

Had to eat my dinner there
Mashed potatoes and stuff like that
I couldn't chew my meats too good

Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home

She said, well, don't you start your crying
Go outside and ride your bike
That's what I did, I killed my toe

Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home

After dinner, I had ice cream
I fell asleep and watched TV
I woke up in my mother's arms

Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home
Grandma, take me home


14.You Got Lucky

You better watch what you say,
You better watch what you do to me.
Don't get carried away,
Girl, if you can do better than me, then go
Yeah, go. But remember

Good love is hard to find,
Good love is hard to find.
You got lucky, baby
Yeah, you got lucky, babe
When I found you.

You put your hand on my cheek
And then you turn your eyes away.
If you don't make you complete
If I don't take you all the way, then go
Yeah go, but remember

Good love is hard to find,
Good love is hard to find.
You got lucky, baby
Yeah, you got lucky, babe
When I found you.

Oh, then go, yeah, go.
But remember

Good love is hard to find,
Good love is hard to find.
You got lucky, baby
Yeah, you got lucky, babe
When I found you.