Unreleased Songs

The Lights Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.The Listening

Lyricist:Valerie Poxleitner, Dave Thomson

Please excuse me, I'm not thinking clear
It must just be stress
But I likely shouldn't be here
I'm such a mess

I never really ever know what to say
When I let my emotions get in the way
And I'm just trying to get us on the same page

I always get it better right afterwards
When all the wrong impressions are said and heard
How come I can never get the right words?
I need to convey, wish I could explain

The things that I have to work out
I don't feel right
What has come over me, I'm about
To lose my mind

I never really ever know what to say
When I let my emotions get in the way
And I'm just trying to get us on the same page

I always get it better right afterwards
When all the wrong impressions are said and heard
How come I can never get the right words?
I need to convey, wish I could explain

Can I let the trees do the talking?
Can I let the ground do the walking?
Can I let the sky fill what's missing in?
Can I let my mouth do the listening? Do listening

I never really ever know what to say
When I let my emotions get in the way
And I'm just trying to get us on the same page

I always get it better right afterwards
When all the wrong impressions are said and heard
How come I can never get the right words?
I need to convey, wish I could explain
What I need to say


2.Face Up

Lyricist:Valerie Poxleitner, Thomas Salter

It's late and I am tired, wish I could spark your smile
The place is flying high but right now I wanna be low
Don't wanna move an inch, let alone a million miles
And I don't wanna go but I know I gotta go

I just want to feel alive

The times you don't wanna wake up
'Cause in your sleep it's never over when you give up
The sun is always going to rise up
You need to get up, gotta keep your head up

Look at the people all around you
The way you feel is something everybody goes through
Dark out but you still gotta light up
You need to wake up, gotta keep your face up

Seems like the more you grow the more time you spend alone
Before you know it you end up perfectly on your own
The city's shining bright but you don't see the light
How come you concentrate on things that don't make you feel
right?

I just want to feel alright

The times you don't wanna wake up
'Cause in your sleep it's never over when you give up
The sun is always going to rise up
You need to get up, gotta keep your head up

Look at the people all around you
The way you feel is something everybody goes through
Dark out but you still gotta light up
You need to wake up, gotta keep your face up

I'm looking for more than a little bit
I'm gonna have to find my way through it
Gonna leave a mark, I'm gonna set a spark
I'm coming up off the ground, I won't be looking down

The times you don't wanna wake up
'Cause in your sleep it's never over when you give up
The sun is always going to rise up
You need to get up, gotta keep your head up

Look at the people all around you
The way you feel is something everybody goes through
Dark out but you still gotta light up
You need to wake up, gotta keep your face up


3.Quiet

Lyricist:Valerie Poxleitner, Dave Thomson

I'm not yours and you're not mine
But we can sit and pass the time
No fighting wars, no ringing chimes
We're just feeling fine

This is where we're supposed to be
Sitting by a broken tree
No tragedy, no poetry
Just staring at the sky

I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet

Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet with you, with you

I like it here beside you, dear
You're even more than you appear
And in the clouds my head is clear
Every time you say hello

Here's my heart and here's my mouth
And I can't help if things come out
'Cause there are words I want to shout
But maybe I'll stay low

I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet

Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet

I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet

Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet with you, with you
With you, with you, with you

I'm not yours and you're not mine
But we can sit and pass the time
I'm not yours and you're not mine
But we can sit and pass the time


4.River

Lyricist:Valerie Poxleitner, Thomas Salter

Out across cities I see buildings burn into piles
And watch the world in wonder as mountains turn into tiles
And trees losing their leaves and our faces becoming tired
I wish I could discover something that doesn't expire
Come and stumble me

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Put me in the undertow

Such are the things that make a kingdom rumble and shatter
The same dynamic that another day would never matter
It really just depends on who's giving and who's receiving
And things that don't make sense are always a little deceiving
Come and humble me

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Put me in the undertow

I wanna know where you're going
A follower following
Changing but never changed
Claiming but never claimed

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Put me in the undertow

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Put me in the undertow

Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Put me in the undertow


5.Savior

Lyricist:Valerie Poxleitner, Thomas Salter

The night is deafening when the silence is listening
And I'm down on my knees and I know that something is missing
Because the back of my mind is holding things I'm relying in
But I choose to ignore it because I'm always denying them

I'm a bit of a manic when it's not as I plan it
'Cause I start losing my head and then I get up in a panic
Remember when we were kids and always knew when to quit it?
Are we denying a crisis or are we scared of admitting it?
I don't want to know

I just wanna run to you and break off the chains and throw them
away
I just wanna be so much and shake off the dust that turned me to
rust
Sooner than later I'll need a savior, I'll need a savior

It won't ever change if you want it to stay the same
I really hate it but I know it's hard to choose if you're
chained
And when it's all you control 'cause you've got nothing else to
hold
You're getting tighter and tighter, it's getting harder to let
it go
I don't want to know

I just wanna run to you and break off the chains and throw them
away
I just wanna be so much and shake off the dust that turned me to
rust
Sooner than later I'll need a savior, I'll need a savior

Stand me up and maybe I won't be so small
Free my hands and feet and maybe I won't always fall, save me

I just wanna run to you and break off the chains and throw them
away
I just wanna be so much and shake off the dust that turned me to
rust

I just wanna run to you and break off the chains and throw them
away
I just wanna be so much and shake off the dust that turned me to
rust
Sooner than later I'll need a savior, I'll need a savior


6.Second Go

Lyricist:Valerie Poxleitner

How many times will the clock go around?
How many times can my hands hit the ground?
How many coffins before there's a crown?
How far will I fall 'til the alarm sounds?

How come you love me when I am ugly?
Guess I can only hope

Give me a second go, don't let me go alone
You saw me at the worst, you caught me falling first
All I wanted to know, give me a second go

No matter the weather there's never a break
Conquer a ladder then slip on a snake
Cried 'til my river turned into a lake
And I'm wondering now before it's too late

How can you save me when I am angry?
Reasons I'll never know

Give me a second go, don't let me go alone
You saw me at the worst, you caught me falling first
All I wanted to know, give me a second go

One to five, I'm half alive
Six to nine, I'm out of line
Ten to twelve, I'm not myself
By the millionth time I cry

Give me a second go, don't let me go alone
You saw me at the worst, you caught me falling first
All I wanted to know

Give me a second go, don't let me go alone
You saw me at the worst, you caught me falling first
All I wanted to know, give me a second go
Give me a second go, give me a second go, again
Give me a second go, don't let me go alone


7.Lions!

Lyricist:Valerie Poxleitner, Thomas Salter

Give me a disaster, give me an emergency
Stand me at the head of the crusade without a remedy
Show me to the shipwreck, show me how your bones shake
And when I'm at the edge of sorrow's blade, show me how a heart
breaks

Be steady on your feet
No matter the trouble you meet

Lions make you brave
Giants give you faith
Death is a charade
You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid

Find me at the bottom looking at the vultures
Standing in the heart of the disease following the hard curves
I'm looking for the thunder, I'm looking for the blackness
I'm learning how to get up off my knees and all it takes is
practice

Be ready on your feet
No matter the trouble you meet

Lions make you brave
Giants give you faith
Death is a charade
You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid

I'm not the hunter, I'm not the marked
Just looking for wisdom in the dark

Lions make you brave
Giants give you faith
Death is a charade
You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid

Lions make you brave
Giants give you faith
Death is a charade
You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid
You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid


8.Pretend

Lyricist:Valerie Poxleitner

Once in a while I act like a child to feel like a kid again
It gets like a prison in the body I'm living in
'Cause everyone's watching and quick to start talking
I'm losing my innocence
Wish I were a little girl without the weight of the world

It would be nice to start over again before we were men
I'd give, I'd bend, let's play pretend

Remember the times we had soda for wine and we got by on
gratitude
The worst they could do to you was check your attitude
Yeah, when fights were for fun we had water in guns
And a place we could call our own
How we lost hold of home I guess I'll never know

It would be nice to start over again before we were men
I'd give, I'd bend, let's play pretend
And when it's the end our lives will make sense
We'll love, we'll bend, let's play pretend

It's not gonna be long before we're all gone with nothing to
show for them
Stop taking lives, come on, let's all grow up again

It would be nice to start over again before we were men
I'd give, I'd bend, let's play pretend
And when it's the end our lives will make sense
We'll love, we'll bend, let's play pretend