Waging War

The Swift Waging War Lyrics
1.Reset

I can't make the choices in my face it's not erased
I'm just taking myself off the shelf and catching up on all the
things that you don't see
What about me (it doesn't matter)
You can't leave (it doesn't matter)
Don't walk away from me the sun would barely shine
If things last and are meant to be and it never truely leaves
I was just taking time out to figure out what all my friends
were worth
Jamie (it doesn't matter)
Billy (it doesn't matter)
Don't walk away from me the sun would barely shine
Hold on to the way things once were
What I say (it doesn't matter)
What we play (it doesn't matter)
Finished now and I can finally breathe new air into the deceased
Mikey (it doesn't matter)
Why can't we (it doesn't matter )
Don't walk away from me the sun would barely shine


2.Lovesick

Killed--but I'm still struggling, to hold on to
You--I know I'm failing. it feels like my arms
Are tied to my hips, and I, just tripped I'm
Falling--

But not because I'm lovesick or am I lovesick?

It felt so warm with you and now my own bed
Feels foreign to me--I guess I just hate things,
That are empty and I'm sleepy--

But not because I'm lovesick or am I lovesick?

It seems like my world is falling to it's end,
It seems like the color gray.

Pictures in perfect color with words to listen to,
That's the scene I saw--and now, that my hope is
Crushed, and fingernails are gone, I'm bleeding--

But not because I'm lovesick or am I lovesick?

Please don't hold out on me, the distance cant be
That far, it can't be--this is confusing me, what's
Wrong with me? what's wrong, with me?

I'm not lovesick or could i be? I'm so--confused
What's wrong with me?


3.The Guatemalan

Save me--I don't wanna die.
Don't just stand there--just stand there.

(throw me away)

I'm just hoping
That this dirt under my fingernails,
Can keep them clothed.
I've gone too far to be tossed out.

And this knife is upon my neck,
I'm just trying to feed my wife.
I've felt your grab for the last time.

Don't tell me that I wronged you,
When you're not the one giving hugs to the phone.
You've had your chance now give me mine.

Watching my chance roll by--
Watching my chance roll by this time.

Save me--I don't wanna die.
Don't just stand there--just stand there.

(donde esta mi familia?)


4.Breathless

Last night, all smiles, we were holding hands.
And now you, wont share the bed with me,
Explain if you can.

We may not agree on this, but lets not fight.
Because who cares who is wrong or right? i
Feel like I can't breathe like this--your
Grip is too tight.

Taken by surprise, because I felt so secure.
Because all the things, that you've done,
Have let me wondering.

We may not agree on this, but lets not fight.
Because who cares who is wrong or right? I
Feel like I can't breathe like this--your
Grip is too tight.

You leave me breathless with your words

We can say that we've changed, together,
Another day--give me your hand, let me
Explain, because I've come to terms with
Who you are.

We may not agree on this, but lets not fight.
Because who cares who is wrong or right? I
Feel like I can't breathe like this-your grip
Is too tight--let's not fight. your grip is too,
Is too--tight.

You leave me breathless with your words.


5.The Handshake

I feel what
The sharpest smile and the highest of friends
But when I see the cloud that you ride in on
You make my heart sink you make my chest feel sick
File me down so I'm not your mistake and
Bend me back
I can't take your word on this because it's all I have
Bend me back
I want my feet not to touch the floor
I've waited for you something is wrong
My hopes are in your briefcase
and all the dreams that I handed you
only made it to your desk and never to your heart
I gave you my hand you chose to shake it
Forget it all I'm not your mistake
I've waited for you something is wrong
Turn me around turn me around again
It's common sense listen you cannot force love
and that's what this is this is trying to force something that's
not here
You cannot change mind like ours
I can't fake for you I can't
I don't bleed this for you
I bleed this not for you
I trust this not your handshake
You feel what


6.Nurse

As I sit alone in the half darkness
Listening to the lonely hum of my soul
I only wish to taste what's on that plate so far away
And then I find you something almost perfect
And something almost able to feed me
And now your hours look like minutes to my watch
And I can no longer feel empty in your eyes
Nor do I realize that the emptiness exists
Because all that exists is this moment
And your beautiful hands on my back
Because I need more and I'm wasting away without you
Because something inside you makes me grow inside
And I wish I wish you were here because I would take you out
and everyone knows that dinner is far more glamorous than lunch
I'll tell you something that you don't know I'll tell you
something is that I trust you so I trust you more than the
sunrise
And life and death and I love you the same
And you can't wipe, god knows you can't wipe
The smile off my face
Don't go
And now the world is such a different color
with your hand in mine so different that now
I sleep well


7.Dr. Shaw

Five years old with an imagination the size of the red sea
and every night he's out to get me
I can't escape from his clutches I don't know one day I might
just run away with nothing left to give
every time I lay my head on my pillow I get fucked up
well I know that I can't wake my dad up or he'll send me back to
bed with a spanking
and I can't tell anyone at school they'll just laugh and treat
me cruel
actually this guy is chasing me inside my head
I don't know if I'm alive or I'm dead
will this guy fucking leave me I can't seem to escape from these
dreams and this madness
I gotta go wake my grandpa up because he's the only one who'll
understand
won't you stop chasing me because in these dreams I cry
but no one hears me
frustrated at what I am I don't know I talk to the doctors
but they can't help me
I don't know which way is up or down all I know is he's chasing
me
won't you stop chasing me because in these dreams I cry
but no one hears me
and I still get chills remembering the way that my head was
tucked between the cold wall and my left arm and he's swinging
that belt so hard
I can hear it cutting the air and I look up to him and I say

I hope you shoes shine from all the tears that you walk on

and I ran all the way home


8.Pretty Girl


9.What Tears Are For

Take away this pain inside.
I can't feel my face.
Words can't describe.
So far away.
So far
That I can't go to sleep.
The way that I feel tonight.

I'm fazed by days.
Mocked by all.
I begin to see what we are.
And now, I know.
There's no way I can sleep.
The way that I feel tonight.

And I would work.
Until my hands bleed to feed you.
Because you're the well that I drink from.
And toss all of my wishes in.
You're the five dollars I found in my pocket
That I didn't know I had.
I didn't trust.
That there were people like you in this world.
But I guess.
That's what tears are for.

This can't keep us apart(4x)

I stay awake.
And think about you.
Holding on to these dreams.
And why, I guess that I may as well sleep.
The way that I feel tonight.

This can't keep us apart (3x)


10.Birds

I cast away everything I own for this feeling inside of me
live my life for my home I'll be safe rather than be left alone
feels like I can't live like I used to so I keep bringing new
things
in this to improve the stature of my stance
at first glance it seems so hard to figure
protect my home I hate to but I'm forced to kill
two birds with one stone
so fly away
just fly away
fo find your place
while I stay
I can't stand these claws
reaching for my things
I'll clip your wings
you sing the same song all the other birds sing
pictures and memories take place
and in due time they wither away
and all that's left are the feeling that we had
in reverse
stay away while you are here
my life's not mine
when you look down from above
wishing you could fly with me
I'm bound by the same things
I'm not free
I'm just sticking to the path that belongs to me
it belongs to me


11.3 Fools...

Simply when you watch me
I can't see another soul

Strolling away
Some things may never change
Like the way I see you

A brilliant mind controls you

Strolling away
Some things may never change
Like the way I see you

And ever so often
When my feet stop enough to let my eyes see
I realize this is forever and we're forever

Strolling away

Strolling away
Some things may never change
Like the way I see you