Islands

The Mary Onettes Islands Lyrics
1.Puzzles

I think about it all.
I think about it still.
I think I realize, that it will always break
It's just a game we love.
It's just a game we love.
What a way to live.
It's not a way to live.

Do I have time to think?
Do I have time to sink?
To make it look alright, I need to bend my soul.
Those things we never did.
Those things we never said.
I'll be your numb one day.
I'll be your numb one day.

I'm goin' out to stay up all night.
Let's talk about what feels strange on the inside.
Let's make this year look good tonight.
I know it hasn't been the best year, so let's be numb.
Do you feel strange on the inside?

I should be here to grow.
I should be here to know.
That if I make it right, I could be heading home.
That's not a way to think.
Somebody told me how.
We only learn one way.
Could that be said about us?
Could that be said about us?

I'm goin' out to stay up all night.
Let's talk about what feels strange on the inside.
Let's make this year look good tonight.
I know it hasn't been the best year, so let's be numb.
Do you feel strange on the inside?

We should never forget who we are.

I'm goin out to stay up all night.
Let's make this year look good tonight.

I'm goin' out to stay up all night.
Let's talk about what feels strange on the inside.
Let's make this year look good tonight.
I know it hasn't been the best year, so let's be numb.

Do you feel, strange on the inside?
Do you feel, strange on the inside?


2.Dare

Those where the darkest hours of them all.
And I can easily say I had no love.
I see myself outside it all, but somehow I'm always there.
Cause all I know is what I bare.

Now I dare to think of love.
And now I dare to think of something that I'm not.
Now I dare to think of love.
And now I dare to think of something that I'm not.
Now I know. Returning here
ain't that hard, despite my fear.

I have no brightest hours to extend for you.
They were so few they're not worth mentioning anyway.
You took me far too seriously.
Cause all I know is what I fear.

Now I dare to think of love.
And now I dare to think of something that I'm not.
I can't get you into that,
you're just fading into something that you're not.
Now I know. Returning here
ain't that hard, despite my fear.

I swear I had ideas worth gold (now you know they were never
supposed to be told).
Returning here is my ghost (now you know you were never supposed
to be found).
And if I ever get old with you (it won't happen unless you let
it out).
So many years in my chest.
It's all locked. It's all locked up in my chest

Now I dare to think of love.
Now I dare to think of something that I'm not.
Now I dare to make it right for once.
Now I dare to think of something that I'm not.
Now I know returning here
ain't that hard despite you're here.
Now I know returning here
ain't that hard despite my fear.


3.Once I Was Pretty

everything i've ever done is the part of the aching me and the
aching you
everything we ever knew could break us easily
so i pretend that i have what it takes to be a friend to only
you
but i couldn't bear to become your choice of younger love

once i was pretty
i was pretty to anyone
once you admitted
i am pretty to only you
i think you owe me some recognition again

it doesn't make any sense to me now
and looking back it's even worse
but i suppose it was a part of my nature
everything i've ever done was a part of promising you
and keeping true
everything you've ever said is recorded in my heart

you wanna know how it feels now?
i'm just older and it feels right

once i was pretty
i was pretty to anyone
once you admitted
i am pretty to only you
i think you owe me some recognition again

i consequently choose to hide it
you know it's only our youth we're chasing
is it only our youth we're chasing?

we just won't become the wiser ones
we just won't become the wiser ones

once i was pretty
i was pretty to anyone
once i was pretty
i was pretty to only you
only you
only you
only you
only you
only you
i think you owe me
i think you owe me some recognition again


4.Cry For Love

Because of your mother,
I can't seem to forget.
That our love is a trembling one.
And healthy to my soul.
Because of your father,
you've got a hole in your trust.
And when I see you hide it I wish I could,
remove it from your heart.
In silence I make promises.
I'm lying still in the dark.
And because of your peaceful soul
I keep thinking to myself.

Don't, don't, don't cry for love,
cry for love.
Don't, don't, don't cry for love,
cry for love.
Don't you cry for love.

It's a part of our path.
Think about the way
things were left to be.
It's a raging sea
and colors that you won't be
here to see.
And it's just a matter of time.
Till they put me in the grave.
Till they put you in the grave.

So I don't, don't, don't, cry for love,
I don't cry for love.


5.The Disappearance Of My Youth

Into the room we disappear again
Fifteen hours of waiting there
Pictures of you when you were young and real
It's the disappearance of my youth

Wishing for life to go backwards forever
Wishing that I could get closer still
I hold you in my dreams like you did
It's the disappearance of my youth
It's the disappearance of my youth

You lived your life like a shadow and that's how we praise
I can't stop thinking I want those years to be ahead
To be ahead

Walking to the kitchen in the night
Slow steps 'cause the waiting hurts
In my dreams it's me who's fading
It's the disappearance of my youth
I keep words on my tongue forever
Hesitating to take your hand
In the morning you will not be here
Still I hesitate to make a move
I just don't see it happening to me

You live your life like a shadow and that's how we praise
You can't stop thinking you want those years to be ahead
To be ahead, to be ahead

It's the disappearance of my youth
It's the disappearance of my youth
It's the disappearance of my youth
It's the disappearance of my youth


6.God Knows I Had Plans

I'll make it up to you.
And that's all of the time.
It's me in the show
and my friend you know it's too late.
Too late for making sense.
It's not a question of time,
the decade is gone.
That's me in the photograph,
it's me in the shot.

God knows I had a plan
I didn't mean to let you know.
I talk more than I can preach.
And I stumble into it all.
You should know I had a plan,
I didn't mean to let you go.
I talk more than I can preach.
God knows I had a plan.

It's not a sinister plan.
Still a part of a scam.
Full of magical words.
And against the routine world.
I lead you into it all,
you never made a request.
I thought you were the soldier I needed,
with a lazy heart and never too old.

God knows I had a plan
I didn't mean to let you know.
I talk more than I can preach.
And I stumble into it all.
You should know I had a plan,
I didn't mean to let you go.
Am I still behind the wheel?
God knows I had a plan.

I couldn't bare to keep it in me.
I had to know was I a good friend?
Did it last too long?
It's not question of love, oh I'm sure.


7.Symmetry

Years away for you to stay alive
Here is the way to do things wrong
I'll never know love the way I did before
Cause a shout from the past is all I get

And thats the way
A way to find the hurt you know
You know so well
And that's the way to bring us back to where we were
And now it seems
Thats the plan for you and me

(A life of symmetry)
In your eyes a night a night I see
You caving for the ones who know
About your wish for life that never dies
And that only darkness gets you through

And that's the way
A way to find the hurt you know
You know so well
And that's the way to bring us back to where we were
And now it seems
That's the plan for you and me

That's the path it goes to you
I leave my dreams to you
That's the path it burns right through
That was love in me still
(A life of symmetry)


8.Century

I'm waiting, I'm waiting.
For the longest day to come.
And there's nothing but waiting.
Cause I know this time things won't be the way I planned.
Like someone who's aiming.
For the days that never come.
I'm like someone who never shines at all,
but our love is slowly making me recall the years.

So what's in your heart.
When you talk about the days when you were young.
Now who will lead us in this cold century.
What's in your heart.
When you talk about the days when you felt hunger.
Who will lead us in this cold century.

We're all that you're leaving.
But you'll stay for good inside the walls.
And forever I'm waiting.
To begin the hardest day, the hardest day of all.
And there's gotta be something better.
We might have it but all the waiting seems to take it away.

And I'll be something better.
Cause I intend to be like you,
I really hope, I do.

So what's in your heart.
When you talk about the days when you were young.
Now who will lead us in this cold century.
What's in your heart.
When you talk about the days when you felt hunger.
Who will lead us in this cold century.

Promise that you'll wait for me and I shouldn't hide the tears.
Gathering those memories is all that I can do for you.
I have never been good at holding back.
I have never been good at holding back.


9.Whatever Saves Me

Sparkling dreams where have you gone?
Having trouble sleeping again.
A golden age, something we all lost.
I see a path in your eyes.
Can it be that I miss the past?
I'm too tired to make that noise.
I can't explain.

Whatever saves me, will save you too.
Whatever saves me, will save you too.
Whatever saves me, will save you too.

Now that I know I miss it all that much.
I feel something is growing brighter and faster, and brighter
still.
I remember
I remember,
my broken heart, and my broken nose.
Trying hard to figure out a way
to leave it all.

After all this time, I give love but I am paralyzed.
I need love like you do.

Whatever saves me will save you too.


10.Bricks

You ask me what to do.
Through and through and through.
Have you seen my smile fade out?
Bring me something new.
Do it, do it you.
Seems to be so real to me.

You say that you just want to be gone.
And you're just like a brick in the wall.
Trying to make some sense out of it.
Try at least to see.
That everything I do is for you,
and you're not like a brick in the wall.
I'm trying to keep myself out of it.
So try at least for me,
try at least for me.

Did you feel the change?
Anyone to blame?
You're used to be mistaken right?
The summer was in vain.
You're still hoping for the best.
What seems to be a painful thing.

You can say that I was never your kind.
You can do whatever makes it grand.
Or you can sleep through it all again.

You say that you just want to be gone.
And you're just like a brick in the wall.
Trying to make some sense out of it.
Try at least to see.

That everything I do is for you,
and you're not like a brick in the wall.
I'm trying to keep myself out of it.
So try at least for me,
try at least for me.

It's given once again.
Solitude for the heart.
It's given once again.
But never talk too much about it.
It's given once again.
Solitude for the two of us.
It's given once again.

But never talk too loud about it.
Never talk too loud about it.