Lyrics

Waiting for Something

If I'm being honest, I zoned out an hour ago

Could you repeat everything you've said?

If it's your view on politics I don't want to know

Why don't we talk about something real instead?

This place is full of faces I vaguely know

A thousand loud people I don't want to meet

So I’ll walk home beneath the lamppost glow

And talk it over quietly with the street

All the hands that I've been shaking

And the friends that I've been making will drift away

And though I wish that we were closer

Our time together’s almost over so set me free

Feels like I'm waiting for something

Just out of reach or out of mind

Am I trying to find you?

Is it you I'm trying to find?

The evening air smells sweetly of cigarettes

Just enough to flavor up the dusk

I'm in the mood to do something I will regret

So let's go before the neighbors fuss

I've had enough noise for one day

So I shut off the stereo and roll the windows down

And I listen to the music of the evening

And the cicadas' dissonant lullaby

Last night's in bits and pieces on the rug

All of its events seem out of time

Sleep deprivation is one helluva drug

Feel like I'm 2 or 3 days behind

All the hands that I've been shaking

And the friends that I've been making are here to stay

I’m not convinced the world’s not ending

But til it seems impending I’ll sit tight

Alright!

Everybody's waiting for something

A whole world on the edge of their seats

Are we trying to find you?

And if so then why are you so out of reach?

Would You Mind

New Year

Do you think of me the way I think of you?

And would you mind too much if I was to call you soon?

Cause I can't take not knowing where I stand

And I'll break down unless you tell me I'm your man

Footsteps making their way down the hall towards my room

Quietly, to not disturb me from my state of gloom

I know they'll ask what I'm doing with myself and not how

I know they've got good intentions but an intervention's the last thing I need right now

I'm stuck in a never-ending rainy afternoon

And cursed with a brain that only thinks of you

And I wish there were a cure for my teenaged blues

But I'm stuck in a never-ending rainy afternoon

It’s a long way back on this road I’ve started on

I’d love to stay and talk but I gotta get home

Don’t gimme ellipses, lips would be fine

If I can’t see you I’ll lose my mind

There's a sketch of hers taped to the wall of my room

You know I told her that I loved her back in early June

She did not agree, her quiet honesty was like a shout

It made it that much better when the moment of her reply came about

I took a right turn out of Manning now I’m in retreat

I wish you were beside me in my shotgun seat

To be my copilot in life and love

Took a wrong turn out of Manning now I’m headed home

I wish your rays would cut my afternoon

But you’re getting low, you’ll be setting soon

To be usurped by a springtime moon

Who’ll reflect your light into my bedroom

And there’s this quiet magic that followed you into my life

It’s speeding me up so I’ll get home tonight

Maybe I could meet you outside the city lines

If I can’t see you I’ll lose my mind

So if I was to call you would you mind?

New year doesn't feel so new

And I don't exactly feel very resolute

In the coming twelve months, I don’t know how things will change

Thinking back to last year already feels so strange

And that was yesterday

Well I don't know what my plans are or where I want to go

Hey, Mr. Future you can take it slow

Passed by a funeral on my way home

The whole procession just moved so slow

They sang, “Sons will bury their fathers and be mourned by their daughters

This is how it’s always been, and it will continue to be

Tomorrow’s never free or guaranteed”

In an aquarium and it's like another world

The fish swim round in circles as the subaquatic sunlight swirls

But as I stare into this manmade sea I get the most peculiar feeling of dread

Feels like I'm watching a black and white movie knowing all of the actors are dead

Is this all in my head?

Standing out behind the graveyard, talking bout how life is so hard looking up into a cloudy night sky

And I wish stop talking bout how the choices I am making now will stay with me til I die

I still don't know what my plans are or where I want to go

And I'm so scared of the things that I don't know

The world is moving so fast I can't keep up with the flow

Hey, Mr. Future you can take it slow

Rough Air

Well I'm bad with names, but good with faces
When I see yours, it's like all of space is
Enclosed inside those entrancing eyes
Yeah the whole night sky's staring back at me baby

And I’ve been doing my best keeping my cards on my chest
Cause I don't want anybody to guess that
I would do anything to be near to you
Won't you hear me through, I’ve been dying without your love

Maybe I'm sad too much, but baby you’ve had too much to drink
And why is it such a crime when I just need time alone to think?

So maybe we could call it even, but I don't want to call it an evening

I’ve been wondering when you’re gonna see the light
I’d been hoping we could take it slow tonight
I’ve been dreading getting on the home flight
Cause there’s rough air up there tonight

Do you remember the cathedral that we snuck into in New York City?
The angels were singing, there was everything and nothing in the
Same room, and I wanted to reach out for your hand but I could not
Gather the nerve to, so we walked out into the street and you were
Shining, cause the moonlight was attracted to you like I was, baby like
I am, but I'm too scared to tell you that I love you even though
I do really love you, pretty lady baby please don't leave me
Hanging, cause every time you speak this whole damn city seems to stop

Square of Sunset

Square of sunset on your face

Trying to recapture the magic now

I'm in an unfamiliar place

I can't figure out how

To get back home

I dunno how I will get back home

My only bridge has just fallen into the river

They'll recover the rubble someday

There's yet life in this desert land

I feel it in the air, its presence is strong

Destined for the search I am

Destined for a long

Walk home

Destined for a long walk back home

The great temple palace is crushing my soul

Along with everyone I know

And if you could see me now I wonder if you’d be proud of the things I do

I wonder if you’d walk on by without saying hello

Don't leave me here, cause I don't think I can make it on my own

The wild wolves are howling and circling around

Two years later to the day

Playing at the tavern again

We’re talking about you, when through the clouds

Shines a square of sunset bright and loud

My Friends

I miss my friends they hover round me now

And if this is the end let it be with resounding sound

And if I wanna run I wonder would you run with me

And if I wanna sing could you stay with me through everything

I just wanna run with you

I miss my hometown and the smell of its streets

When the rain would come down and leave puddles of memory

But I can’t go back I don’t think those streets would know me now

To all passersby I’d just be a ghost of some better known guy

I don’t care as long as I am known to you

So when I turn to run I hope you don’t think less of me

I couldn’t bear to stay and going seemed like it was just calling out to me

So let me go set me free I gotta find who I’m supposed to be

Maybe I’ll grow up so til things slow down

You know I’ll always sing for you

So It Begins

Lying in my bed, wishing you were here

These visions in my head soon will disappear when I see your face

I've been waiting, but I never thought that I'd feel love like this again

So it begins

Winter's been dark and long, she took me in

I didn't know that you were waiting just a mile around the bend

Now I'm left in the cold, and I feel like there was something that I missed

How will I get home from this

You said the night felt like water on your skin

You said "Is this the end?" I said "No babe let's just sit back and watch as it begins"

I'd been hoping that I'd find love in this desert place

And then I saw your face

And it felt like the sun shining down on me

So would you have me and take better care of me than she once did

Would you watch out for my selfish tendencies

I wanna be more than friends

So it begins

Take My Time

Headed home away from this place

You can take my time but you can't have my faith

Windows down and I can feel the breeze

Gliding down from above the evergreens

You keep telling me that the way I feel is wrong

But I'm ok with my life and with the way things have gone

All my fears and doubts are knocking at my door

But I tell them I'm busy, we don't talk much anymore

This city's alive

I'm biking down backstreets, taking my time

The roads wind on like an endless maze

And I get lost in a pleasant daze

These are pleasant days

Tonight I'll listen to Francis or maybe James

Take my time heading back home

Life right now is sweeter than anything I've known

Walking round the place where we grew up

The world outside is hidden by the fence we hopped

Hands barely touching, remembering the times

Sunset's flickering in between the pines

But all the trees have grown too high

And my sun-starved grass has slowly begun to die

Get back to my basics get back to my core

Say goodbye to my demons, we don't talk much anymore

You're in fortune's bed, I'm sleeping on the couch

I'm ok with my life and with the way things turned out

I'm trying to forget what I think it is

Trying to remember what I knew it was

You were so close and now you're gone

Everyone makes plans without asking me along

The walls around me seem to be getting close

While the cavity in my chest slowly grows

There are ghosts of my former self hiding in my heart

When I try to hold on to em they fly off into the dark

The ghosts made it halfway down I-26 before they burned out

And I'm ok with my life and with the way things turned out