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Songs are listed in alphabetical order.
"168 Hours I'll Never Remember" Seven days is all it takes. 168 hours I'll never remember. I told you they wouldn't stop. The winds of last November. That is at least not until you quit. Taking their air as your own. For such a pretty girl. You give it an awfully, an awfully dirty home. No, I'm not sleeping with love anymore. She's not really my type. And she takes up too much space in bed at night. I'm not one for second chances. Since the first never show their face. My body's already on the ground. All you have to do is trace. And we'll call it even. Isn't this what you wanted?. A life of worry. And a soul that's haunted. Isn't this what you wanted?. A life that's lifeless. And a soul that's haunted. "And When The Storms Come..." everyday before they'd wake up. you'd sneak out. through your broken bedroom window. it made a funny sound. you'd wear your favorite red tshirt. with the hole in the shoulder. no one ever seemed to notice. a single word that you told them. but that's alright, you'l be just fine. one day the sun had burned down. the cloudless sky. you're just a kid with a store bought haircut. all you could do was cry. but that's alright, you'll be just fine. the storms they came and took your best friend. now you spend the days. walking around in your basement. remembering the ways. you used to laugh. and collect your favorite photographs. but now you can't. 'cause you hate the past. and that's not alright. and no you're not doing just fine. then the wind came and swallowed up. all your worry and broken luck. you kept it on your steps all these years. now it's finally out of your hands. then you laugh until you cry. at the years that have passed you by. and a smile makes its way to your face. it's been a while now, hope it stays. now everynight before you close those eyes you kiss the sky goodbye. just in case. to be safe. just in case you don't wake up. just in case the world blows up. or maybe if your heart decides to stop. or maybe if the sky falls on itself. and what if the ocean drowns. what if all the planes fall down. and when the tired buildings get up. decide to leave this town. at least i'll have said goodbye. now everyday when you wake up . you don't seem to mind. the big red sun and how it shines . right in your eyes. it's just like you. alone, hanging in some gravity pull. waiting for time to catch up. it's 7:30 and i've had enough. the wind's blowing outside my window. i can tell 'cause the trees show me so. with their beautiful branches. i could swear they were dancing. arm in arm like leaf in leaf. i've got you and you've got me. and when storms come . we'll send them home. and we'll be alright. yeah we'll be just fine. "Birds On A Wire" holding hands with tomorrow. i forgot about yesterday. a sky made of yellow. and gravel made of grey. holding hands with tomorrow. i forgot about yesterday. trading secrets with the day. i forgot about the night. you never know what to say. i always say i'm alright, what a lie. oh what a lie. trading secrets with the day. i forgot about the night. i sang a song to the moon. in return it gave me light. i sang a song to you. your face shined so bright. i sang a song to the moon. in return it gave me light. i gave waves to the water. it replied with a brilliant blue. each year seems shorter and shorter. i told you a secret, you said you knew. i gave waves to the water. it replied with blue. i smiled at the sky. it thanked me with the wind. said you "like it when i cry". so i did it again and again. i smiled at the sky. it thanked me with the wind. i wrote a song for the trees, when i sang it for them. they sang back to me. not with words, but with their leaves. it was amazing and i wish you could see. the way you look at me. 'cause it makes me happy to breathe. i wrote a song for the trees. they sang back to me. i waved at some birds. on a wire by a home. i save all your words. but you'll never know. how they give me life. how you give me life. i waved at some birds. on a wire by a home. whispered some words to some rocks. like in the books that you bought. the words were small, but had so much meaning. and i'm not sure where you've gone, but i know that i miss you a lot. like the empty heart-shaped frame that you keep on a shelf. i hope for the day you'll see i need, your hands and time and i just can't help. but to imagine our legs tangled like your hair. when the breeze gets the best of it, and you say you don't care. but i know that it kills you knowing you'll never know. why you cry when the sun sleeps at night. you say you'll sit up forever to find out, well if that's so. i'd keep you company, if you wouldn't mind. you say chad, you're dreams are silly, see you're just a boy. and there's only so much you can do to keep them young like you. "well i'm not one to make a promise, if a promise i can't keep,. but i sure as hell will, if i have to..... 'cause see if there's one thing i know. it's that i've only got so long. to do as i please, in this world so small.and i can't get nothing right, if i'm scared of being wrong.". "Boys, Girls, Sing!" i said you might. want to rethink your actions tonight. 'cause that short skirt replaces your innocence. lovely blue eyes. to go along with your persistant sighs. you were the one that wanted to come here in the first place. it's not like this is the end of the world. it's just another saturday in the park. the boys and girls are singing la da da, da da da. so let's join them. yeah let's be best friends. yeah let's fall in love if only for tonight. i saw your hands. reach toward the air while the wind pulled your hair. you were screaming something about how you hated the winter. i lied when i said. that i hated this life and i was better off dead. i'm really quite fond of morning's smile and the night sky. you said didn't wanna. and i had never heard a lie that big from a kid so small. the past is just the perfect prolugue to the present. you gotta you gotta you gotta give it back. because you never if you ever had the chance to. its hard to see the world if a mirror's what you look through. taking chances on the rooftops of your hometown. you're so cute when your feet make love to the ground. and you've got such lovely blue eyes. can't forget about the stars and your night skies. i guess this, i guess this alright. well oh well, it's gonna be tonight. "Envy The Living" Well it's friday night What the fuck are we doing here? If i didn't have this song stuck in my head I'm sure my thoughts would be a little more clear No excuses this time gonna keep it in drive So don't fuss or fight We're gonna live like our buried souls have been brought back to life I know i've said it At least a thousand times before But please just keep your mouth shut Let's live for once Well the streetlights are inline And they're not moving for anybody anywhere So i guess we'll take our business elsewhere for now And when they go out, we'll pour like rain through the streets And light this town up like a goddamn miracle they'll wish they had Never seen "Keep It Casual" i woke up again. sun's shining for once. think i'll think about my life. or maybe i'll just blow it off. it's not like it matters . tomorrow will come soon enough. to knock me right back on my ass. guess i'll have to take another for granted. same damn day for eighteen years. wait i take that back, let's make it nineteen now. just another face for you to forget. but that's the usual. let's keep it casual. the days they are dying. along with my life. tried this shit ten times before. i still can't get it right. i saw you again. you're just as blind as before. won't you take your eyes out of the back of your head. so maybe i can be a little more misleading. same damn day for eighteen years. wait i take that back, let's make it nineteen now. just another face for you to forget. but that's the usual. let's keep it casual. come on, you can't be serious. let's pretend those words never left your lips. a bit more tragic, a little less insincere. you're talking to me, but "i'm a liar" is all i hear. "Nothing Personal" Do you remember when we were younger. And the world was so big. The trees would hang over us like skyscrapers. They still do, but now we don't notice. So sit down, this is no time for a revolution. The days are winding down, you should just give in while you're ahead. And you say, you're gonna get somewhere someday. I'll believe it when i see it, 'til then you're just a waste of my time. do you remember when i moved away. and couldn't say goodbye. i'll never forget that look on your face. no matter how hard i try. Take it or leave it, Promises are only good for the first five minutes. Don't have to believe it, just abide by the lines of the compound sentence. "Not So Meant To Be" don't die i'm coming for you. it's just a matter of time. don't walk closer it's not a good light. wrap your arms around your eyes and just sit tight. i'm a little weary. with the direction your stearing. maybe you should move over. let me take the wheel. common sense's not so common these days. and i myself am starting to feel. a bit less comfortable. not so sensable. more like a not so meant to be. cause that just makes more sense to me. cause i just can't relate. no i just can't relate. i'm having second thoughts. about the car i bought. it's not really that useful. and it never takes me anywhere. i'm always nervous. about the things that have no purpose. i'm so sick of all the people. tired of what they say and how they have to stare. i'm counting backwards. with hopes that i might ask her. about the time i caught her eye, how she felt and what it meant to me. she'll say she saw the future. took a picture got a lecture. made a note, kept it close about . how we're not so meant to be. it's just not meant be. the way the world works. isn't so great. but of course has it's perks. the trees they're making faces. i'm naming people and places. but not the few left off the list. it's not too on key. but they caught the other side of me. with a routine like that. of course theyll remain nameless. until i say otherwise. "Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away" "you are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey. you'll never know dear, how much i love you, please don't take my sunshine away". it was the way you stayed warm. when the cold hit that summer day. on the coast off the shore of the town where we grew up. like the time you turned your back on. your freedom of america. and all the ways you would curse in french slurred foreign tongue. well i miss your rainy days. and your sad grasp on gravity. yeah you'd walk on water if it wasn't for your shoes. and i can't say i haven't thought about it. sailing these seas with our love. storms will sweep us sadly i don't doubt it. but that's okay, 'cause we've got love. and i say "tomorrow is my savior,. from my failure known as yesterday,. yeah i'd pain't those grey skies blue if you'd say the word". but you, you don't ask much. from me and my broken touch. you say "you're just a silly boy there's nothing you can do". cast a stone to the water you always drown in. judge the books you never read by their covers. damn the skies you try to reach from the tops of mountains. send the crying kids home for living life right. "Smile" alarm clock's going off again. you're screaming in a telephone. i wish you were somewhere else. or maybe i should just move out. another state, some suburb of a town. somewhere in north dakota. got an idea and a map. two dollars and a photograph. of a kid... it's me, i'm under a dinosaur blanket. in my old house. i like it, it makes me smile. i like you, you make me smile. this is my song. sing it to myself and nothing can go wrong. for a second i know the world's alright, it's alright. tired eyes wide awake again. think i might like to take a swim. in the pool where we used to kiss the sun's hands all day. you used to run from the dark. i still do, i haven't changed a lot. my voice grew a little deeper but my shirt size's still the same. "Sorry To Interrupt" What's your excuse. Is it the same. Oh god i wish i could've stayed. Back home, where i know, i am right. Two days past, i'm quite confused. I'd go for the win, but i would lose. Maybe i'll just crash here. For the night. And I'm not saying that you're too late. Maybe you should give up, and blame this all on fate. My eyes are closed, i'm looking up. It's not so great when push comes to shove. Next time i'll read the signs and take the blame. Back and forth, but not for long. Like the title of this song. It's not a miracle i'm trying to portray. "Summer Song For Someone" well the lights were on. and we were clapping our hands. to the songs we had never heard before. you were late as usual. and i was little worried about calming the storm. we were tongue tied but didn't mind. waking up late, waking up to the sunset singing sweet songs on the east coast. so give it up love, just for luck one more time. i couldn't say it enough if i tried. but i know this is it, this is what we've been waiting for. so the, day was gone. and we were doing our best to remember. the words to our favorite soco song. the lights were dimmed just a little bit. but your eyes were closed so you'll never know. what it was like when the moonlight died. "Trading Hearts For A Day" My eyes, they rained. For the first time today. I asked them why. They didn't know what to say. See, I saw this girl. She was amazing, and all that I wanted. But could never have. And no she wasn't a dream, she was you. Colors crawled in corners. For what seemed like hours. The sunlight seemed to disapear for the day. I was walking with no description. When I saw you through the trees. The way your hand grazed my shoulder made me weak. "It was an accident, and so is love", you said. "But I'll take what I can get". It was perfect the way your eyes met mine. How our hands slid into place. But it's getting late and you wish you could stay My body screams for you. Did you know my body screams for you?. But the days are getting shorter. And I'm not sure, No I'm not sure what I should do. Please tell me you love me. It's not that hard to say. Our hearts, they're still beating. So there's no need to trade. "Two Plus Two" We skipped town two or so nights ago. To see what the deal was. With these reoccurring dreams we've been having. About night's we never spent outside. It was inevitable that we would end up. A little bit bored, a little more deniable. Stand up, it's time to get down. The cool kids are singing the pop songs they stole from the radio. And we both know we'll never remember this. Time morning comes around. But what's wrong with that?. These late nights always seem longer than the daylight. And these tired roads never get shorter. Yeah i'm impatient. Can you blame me for wanting to get there sooner rather than later?. Stand up, it's time to get down. The cool kids are singing the pop songs they stole from the radio. And we both know we'll never remember this. Time morning comes around. But what's wrong with that?. "Under This Sky With You" well hey i was thinking. maybe we could makeout on the steps by your front door. then take a walk to my block. with the time that we've got and maybe talk some more. 'bout the stars that we see, 'bout the plans that we've made. and the signs we never quite understood. i can't think of nowhere i'd rather be. than under this sky with you. well hey i was thinking. maybe i don't want. maybe i don't want this night to end. and maybe i don't want you to stop thinking about me. well hey i was thinking. maybe we could make it if we run and don't look back. 'cause these roads they can't stretch that far. and the sky it can't turn too black. and i was hoping maybe that you tell me someday. you finally feel okay. and maybe i won't worry 'bout things that make you hurry. to get through these days. well hey i was thinking. maybe we could makeout while our hands do the talking. 'cause you you've got your soft voice. and you know i've never been the best with words. "Watch The Tide Wash Me Away" Fuck crying me a river. Cry me a goddamn ocean instead. I'll sail it's dirty waters, in search of others. Taking in lovers on my leaky boat. When the time's right we'll sink. To the bottom, long forgotten. Don't think twice, don't come back for me. 'Cause I won't be there, No I won't be there. And I hope you take this lightly. So I can whisper politely in your ear come dark. Yeah it's getting late and there's nowhere to park. Can you feel me, slowly creeping. Breahing down your neck. Don't look, 'cause no one will help. You're an undone wreck, and you did this to yourself. You close your eyes for comfort. Which gets you nowhere fast. Lying to yourself again. This condition just can't last. "We Got Lost In Winter" Sunlight's screaming your name again. Why won't you grace it with your presence?. Is it that you're just not up for light?. Or more in the mood to just forget what I said?. She loves in half an hour spans. Dreams up winds that could sink the ocean. And on a good you might see her smile. Hums words you've never before heard. My dear I'm thinking you should give up this disaster. Draw lines that cross out perfect pairs. Sing songs that echo throught the stairs. I'm not one to say you're wearing thin. But love you're caveing, caveing in. Trap hearts in shallow sheltered sinks. Bleed them dry and use their red as ink. For the story you're writing for me. You said, "It's like nothing you've ever seen.... Like the time we got lost in the winter's leaves. It'll take time to finish, but so you know, you mean so much to me.". ....You mean so much to me. I tried stealing you the stars. But the heavens above wouldn't have it. Took pictures of passing cars. While you carved our names in the cement. I know we're not a familiar trend. But if needed I'd die for you tonight. "Well Dressed Mess" you smiled at me with that half-ass grin. you know the one you give me all the time. with a face like that you should be on the cover of a magazine. but you don't read them "they're not my type", at least that's what you say. i won't say a word if you won't either tonight. you can stand there all evening if you'd like. but the looks you're gonna throw my way won't make me any less conviced. you're a smalltown girl with a big mouth, and i'm through with this. lovely, you look so lovely in your new suede shoes. they're you're favorite, mine too, will you take them with you. when you run through your woods you've got back at home?. past the sunset and over the dirty roads. look at you, a well dressed hypocrite. you sing all the songs you hated when you were a kid. you know the ones you never knew the words to. and that's alright, 'cause you're all grown up. but just because you can spell love, doesn't mean you should say it so much. i can't fight the dark if you don't give me some light. you say daytime is your favorite, but you're so unfaitful, when you make love to the night.so won't you wrap yourself up in your insecurity blanket. it's nice and warm, to think you didn't want to buy it. lonely, you look so lonely surrounded in you corner of friends. they're you're favorite, mine too, but will they follow you. when you run through the woods of your past?. "oh don't worry, they don't know about that". look at you, a liar in designer jeans. i don't think this is what best friends is supposed to mean. no no you've got it all wrong. you can't sum up two years with the title of a song. you had me at hello,. but you've got a fancy way of saying goodbye. All lyrics above Copyright 2004-2006 Backseat Goodbye. |