1. _ Still Love
You drank a bit down, spilled the rest of it in me
And that's the minute, I let go
Your direction with the bending of the light
If I remember it right
It carried on just fine
But tonight I will cry myself to sleep
Every rain makes its way into somebody's song
As a way to relieve the pain
This one is calling me out of my shelter
To face the truth but I still love
More than one time this color has been mine
To consume the energy
To be a painter and cover all the blue
I would give up wanting you
But still the morning sun, yeah
Will leak into my window when I'm done
Every rain makes its way into somebody's song
As a way to relieve the pain
This one is calling me out of my shelter
To face the truth but I'm still
Searching for my intuition
Even though I recognize
Myself in all these silver walls
But as I stare they all break me down
Every rain makes its way into somebody's song
As a way to relieve a pain
This one is calling me out of my shelter
To face the truth but I still love
I still love
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2. _ Curious
Someone tell me what to do
I feel like I must be a fool
For ending up right back at the start
The things that we don't comprehend
Are laughing at my mind again
I think that I think too hard
And I don't give enough credit to my heart
I'm so
Damn curious to know
And there are too
Many unanswered questions
Then we hold on to
I've put my theories to the test
You know I've tried to do my best
But maybe we weren't meant to strike gold
Sometimes things that you ignore
Are all the things I'm looking for
Will I learn to let go
Give into love and listen to my soul
I'm so
Damn curious to know
And there are too
Many unanswered questions
Then we hold on to
Portraits of your loved ones
Are more than what you see
All the elements they capture
Are more to you than me
A different dimension we've yet to define
There's a forest to cut through with thorns and vines
There is no reason to try
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3. _ Saturdays
Saturday what a day what a silly little day
Time to kill take a pill as I sit and contemplate
How I'd like to be around all the people in the town
With their fancy cars and things
And I have got time
Stop pushing all your tragedies away
Each moment has got a lesson for the day
Take something with you
We can't drag our heels in yesterdays
Oh these Saturdays
In the haste in the grace I've had up to my waist
It isn't real what you feel when you find love in a chase
I've been waiting for the day when someone takes me away
And I'd never get replaced
But I have got time
Stop pushing all your tragedies away
Each moment has got a lesson for the day
Take something with you
We can't drag our heels in yesterdays
Oh these Saturdays
These Saturdays, oh
As I sink one more drink I am running out of ink
I'm feeling void paranoid about every little thing
And I wonder if I tried to give up and say goodbye
If I'll have the strength to leave
Cause I don't have much time anymore
Stop pushing all your tragedies away
Each moment has got a lesson for the day
Take something with you
We can't drag our heels in yesterdays
Oh these Saturdays
These Saturdays, now
These Saturdays now, baby
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4. _ Wanted
Painted eyes and empty streets
Taking it down
Selling perfect tragedies
Without a sound
Faded roses scattered on the ground
I will be wanted
I will not fall from grace
Daylight has waited
Just to live upon your face
I won't be haunted
I will not sleep to dream
All that I wanted
Has been right in front of me
I won't be haunted
I will not sleep to bleed
All that I wanted
Has been right in front of me
Now that I am coming to
Black from the fight
Shaking out the dusty blue
Into the night
And there will be no waving of the white
I will be wanted
I will not fall from grace
Daylight has waited
Just to live upon your face
I won't be haunted
I will not sleep to dream
All that I wanted
Has been right in front of me
All the hell just gets me higher than before
Now an angel has come knocking on my door
To tell me I can fly
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5. _ Heavy
Now I've come to cry
Shed your skin to rest my naked eye
And criticize
All that I implore
Seems to be one foot outside that door
Coming between me and waking
Underneath the corset of your mystery
Piece by piece undress you from your history
I'm sleeping with seclusion in sweet disarray
You can go heavy on me
And I will not weigh you down, down, down
You can be steady and clean
I can take it
Heavy on me
And I will not weigh you down
Born unto this pride
Silence is something you can't hide
You can't deny us
Nothing has been said
Yet so many words have filled my head
Now they completely surround me
Tie the lines of honest conductivity
Caught between the center of our gravity
I don't have that much time to burn anymore
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6. _ Cellar Door
Cellar door, what's the use
Cellar door, are you open to find me
Iron ore shields remorse
When I look, I look to your beautiful name
And find you're not the same
Cellar door, what's the case
Are you locked in your shadow's embrace
Do you feel so insane
That you don't, you don't want to show me your face
But I, I can relate
Holding on to everything
That makes us bleed
Overflowing underneath my pretty face
With the presence of the haste
Now they're sayin' don't believe anything
But I do believe, I know you well
Cellar dooroligist
Your therapy is the one I love best
You give me strength to confess
That I, I will not last very long
So soon, I'll be gone
Oh, these walls know everything
And I'm tired of being lost inside
Overflowing underneath my pretty face
With the presence of the haste
Now they're sayin', don't believe anything
But I do believe I know you
Overflowing underneath my pretty face
With the presence of the haste
Now they're sayin', don't believe anything
But I do believe I know you
Love will come to me and I will not remain
Hover over these confused contaminated veins
Love will come to me and I will not remain
Hover over these confused contaminated veins
Hey yeah, hey yeah
Hey yeah, hey yeah
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7. _ Giving It Up for You
Though I'm young and cynical
That''s not my only crime
I've been stealing all your cigarettes
To save another dime
In case you haven't noticed I just gave them all away
TELL ME WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ME NOW
THAT I'VE TRADED ALL MY ARMOR FOR A CROWN
COME ON WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ME NOW
THAT I'VE TAKEN DOWN THE MIRROR ON THE WALL
AND THE SWEET RAIN IS READY TO FALL
GIVING IT UP FOR YOU
Well I take a lot of medicine
I don't really need
I was drinking at eleven
Getting high at seventeen
So now I don't appreciate the taste of expensive bitter wine
TELL ME WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ME NOW
THAT I'VE TRADED ALL MY ARMOR FOR A CROWN
COME ON WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ME NOW
THAT I'VE TAKEN DOWN THE MIRROR ON THE WALL
AND THE SWEET RAIN IS READY TO FALL
GIVING IT UP FOR YOU
Take your aim like Artemis
And kill another dove
But when your heart becomes a hunter
You may wound your chance to love
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8. _ All Will Be Forgotten
Sittin' here I'm dwellin' on the things that I keep
Holding on to yesterday
Ties are broken ties are made I try so hard to find my way
Around this crazy place
Nobody seems to understand me
Till you came along and told me this
All will be forgotten
Every tear you've cried
As soon as you awaken
To what's right in front of your eyes
Standing by your side
Sittin' here I'm thinkin' 'bout the weather and
The countryside around me
Simple little things like these are good to keep
My silly mind from wondering
I feel the summer breeze wash over me
Oh I know the laughter know the love and
Maybe I've just got enough to give
All will be forgotten
Every tear you've cried
As soon as you awaken
To what's right in front of your eyes
Standing by your side
The road is long before me now
The memories beg me to stay
But lonely is born from pride I've found
So I'll reach out
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9. _ Like Blood Like Honey
You want to catch your breath you want to get out
But as you surface you don't really know how
How to live upon the solid ground
Sometimes it's easier to let yourself drown
LOVE IS
THICK LIKE
BLOOD LIKE
HONEY
You cannot spell it out there are no words
Mrs Johnson never taught me those verbs
On how to give myself and how to receive
It is something that's inside of you and me
LOVE IS
THICK LIKE
BLOOD LIKE
HONEY
Forget everything you ever learned
No one listens when you want to be heard
Just bleed the bittersweet
Seven sunrises and seven more nights
You'd think that we could learn to do it right
If nothing changes then I'm gonna stop
But do I really have a choice?
I think not
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10. _ What I Wouldn't Give
Feeling like I can't forgive
But I want to
It's like I don't know how to live
I'm afraid to
I used to think, take them as they come
Without hesitation, no
Now it's like my head is filled with lies
And persuasions
As the sun begins to fall
I hear her calling out to me
She's saying, hurry it's one more day gone
What I wouldn't give just to forget
So I can remember how to live again
I want to live again
I'm feeling dissonant
And distracted
Toxic chemicals are spilling in my head
And they're bleeding deadly reactions
As the moon begins to rise
It shows me all the colours
That I'm hiding, I'm hiding myself
What I wouldn't give just to forget
What I wouldn't give to get some rest
So I can remember how to live again
I want to live again
Am I desperately losing this fight
When I should really be choosing my flight
Take me, take me, take me now
What I wouldn't give just to forget
What I wouldn't give to get some rest
So I can remember how to live again
I want to live again
What I wouldn't give just to forget
What I wouldn't give to get some rest
What I wouldn't give just to forget
So I can remember how to live
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11. _ Again and Again
Unlocking metaphors
Caches that were safe before
Lost their secrets to the wind
It isn't everyday
You can see the other face
Watching you I'm watching me who could this be
Your wounds begin to sing
Red melodies that sting
Like ice bury me twice
Running from the heat from the lines that break me
I'll give another try
Fallen angel
Your terminal high
Feeding the hunger of your sky
Take all the poison that I give
Just to live
For the feeling
Use me again
Your stuck in a centerfold
Written in capitals
Bake the time talking through wine
Young boys that you tantalize
Sipping on your pretty eyes
But you kill just to feel real
Lately on this vine the showers have been steady
Are you ready for this flight?
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