A Loss For Words

(Instrumental)

Anonymous

I ran into an old friend last night. His head was down and he was crying. I asked my friend if he was alright, he said his girl had left him and he was dying. He might never know why. I told my friend I knew his feelings, he just smiled and looked away. He told me he had stopped believing in things like happiness and faith. He might never know why.

Julie's Song

Julie says she was staring at the trees, but you're not a little bird Julie. Julie says she was smiling in the breeze, but you're not a little bird Julie. Julie says she can think about whatever she pleases, but you're not a little bird Julie. Julie says she was lost in her dreams, but you're not a little bird Julie. And we all have real big dreams but a bird you will never be. Keep your eyes on the road Julie.

Knowing When to Stop

Why are you still here? What are you still looking for? I'm not going to fight with you can walk you're ass right out that door. All you did was hurt me, and I just kept on loving you. Only for you to desert me, leaving everything I did for you. Let's go back to that day you left me crying on the floor. I didn't need that pain. What was all that crying for? I learned that life is difficult and can change with just one breath. It's too short to waste on you and I don't need your stupid tests. So go on, leave me. I'm not going to worry about it. I don't need you. Let's see you get by without it. Chances are that you will go on being selfish. One day, you'll see everything you had with me.

Sweet Release

Looking back now, it's hard to see how you ever let me go. But I've learned to be strong, and wrote this sad song about everything we know. The time won't soon come when I find a new one to fill my empty heart, but I've let you go, and I never would have, so I guess that it's a start. Sweet Release I'm waiting for you to tap me on the back but it's hard when you still think about the past. Sweet release I'm waiting for you to fall into my lap, I think I'm ready for my second chance at happiness. So I found a new girl, and she's almost as sweet as you had used to be. She smiles a lot and says pretty things you would have never said to me. I'm seeing now with new eyes your love was never really there, it was just something we pretended to see so we could shed away our fears. Sweet Release I'm waiting for you to tap me on the back but it's hard when you still think about the past. Sweet release I'm waiting for you to fall into my lap, I think I'm ready for my second chance at happiness.

Unreleased Song Lyrics

A Change of Heart

Taking a way through the parking lot with a heart full of hope but still tied in knots. Looking to finally let them go. Cuz there was a time when I felt alive, took everyday in a healthy stride, with every variable unknown. Can you feel your mood changing? Can you see the sun peak through the sky? You can now let go of all those fears you've been hanging onto for all those years. Because everyone feels lost sometimes, but this will be the only chance you get to ressurect the life that you once knew, to get past all the pain that held so true. When you needed it to. Writing more songs about broken hearts when you knew the conclusion before the start. Why do you ever step outside? Because there is still hope buried deep within. You can conjure it up and then soon begin to make yourself see there is more to life. Can you feel your mood changing? Can you see the sun peak through the sky? You can now let go of all those fears you've been hanging onto for all those years. Because everyone feels lost sometimes, but this will be the only chance you get to ressurect the life that you once knew, to get past all the pain that held so true. When you needed it to.

Crutch

I smile with her on the phone, she was right; I could never have done this alone. So much for loving the first time. Her face was sweet but her kisses were cold, still I think it was better than sleeping alone. I just wish that it wasn't the first time. And pull me from this sleepless night with the memory of a love so bright. The kind that only two innocent lovers could share. With a future as cold as silence can be, I will push forward and through this darkness will see there is still life within me. Yes, there is still happiness. With your love like a crutch through the night, "Don't worry baby, just hold tight." You made me feel real for the first time. And days we spent walking through small lively towns, savoring ice cream like it was something only we found. I wish that were love for the first time. And pull me from this sleepless night with the memory of a love so bright. The kind that only two innocent lovers could share. With a future as cold as silence can be, I will push forward and through this darkness will see there is still life within me, and it outweighs the lonliness. And pull me from this sleepless night with the memory of a love so bright. With a future as cold as silence can be, I will push forward and through this darkness will see there is still life within me.

I Can Explain

You feel like you were left out in the cold, but there is more to the story that you have not been told. Give me a chance to explain, I never meant to hurt you. The day I left, I was feeling constrained. You said that you didn't mind, and slowly turned away. There was one time I thought I could make us work but it turned out I wasn't ready to love again, to be hurt again. Give me a chance to explain, I never meant to hurt you.

In the Letter (written with Jonathan Lukens)

Friday evening is coming on too soon and there are many things that I still have to do. Like write you that letter, so I wont forget to remember to stop worrying about you. If I could hold one to one thing from tonight it'd be the smile on your face after we kissed. It makes me wonder where I'm going to, and if this new place is worth giving up all of this. And I'm leaving here on Sunday, just 36 more hours and then I'm never coming back. I've got a girl who sometimes thinks she needs me. I wrote you a letter and left it by the door but there are many things that I still have to say. Checkout time is 11 am, I'll throw some old clothes on and turn the key for my old life in today. I'm leaving here on Sunday, just 36 more hours and then I'm never coming back. I've got a girl who sometimes thinks she needs me. And I cannot sleep at night, without her by my side, this distance is tearing us apart.

Modest Proposal

I hear you calling and I know you're there. There is room in this heart still for you to lie here. Each morning wakes me with something to gain. I am aware of your presence, I just hope I'm not too late. Please hold me closely where others are held. I confide in your kindness and inside you will melt. Even these words I sing now aren't for sure but I believe you are honarable and worth fighting for. I thought you'd never come. So take me sweet angel, hold me up to the light. Fill up my emptiness so I'll sleep well tonight. Come to me quickly and heal all my wounds. This modest proposal, for you I'll attune. I though you'd never come.

Oh Nicole

Oh Nicole you have stolen hearts away from every friend who's heart you have saved from sadness, and gladness has knocked on their doors since you came. There was a time in my life when I needed a friend. You were there from the start and you stayed till the end. Her face I replaced in my mind with the love that you would send. Please don't cry for the guy who has hurt you Nicole. You will learn from mistakes, and you're getting older. Love will be true, you'll see when it falls around you. So hang on through the night, let this light surround you. Oh Nicole you have stolen hearts away from every friend who's heart you have saved from sadness, and gladness has knocked on their doors since you came. I wont leave you alone, I'll be there if you fall. I will honor your kindness and help you through all of the sorrow and tomorrow you'll be smiling again and won't feel small. Please don't cry for the guy who has hurt you Nicole. You will learn from mistakes, and you're getting older. Love will be true, you'll see when it falls around you. So hang on through the night, let this light surround you. Oh Nicole.

Papou

God saw you getting weary, and he did what he thought best. He put his arms around you and said "Here my son, Come and Rest." He opened up His golden gates on that heartbreaking day, and still with arms around you, you gently slipped away. Come and Rest. And it broke our hearts to lose you but you did not go alone. A part of us went with you the day God called you home.

Putyourlovewhereyourmouthis

(Instrumental)

Relearning

Show me the way to your heart and I'll be grateful. Lead me away, safe from harm, and towards angels. Show me the place you go at night when you feel scared. Show me your haven, leave a light on and I'll be there. Because I have been hurt before and even now I cant be sure, if I can learn to trust again. To open up, to seek a friend in you. Even the greatest love comes with pain and seperation and I think I've tasted enough of each to fear sensation. So make me a promise, I'll give my heart up and you'll leave me yours. If you aren't ready, save me the pain dear, and walk out the door. Because I have been hurt before and even now I cant be sure, if I can learn to trust again. To open up, to seek a friend in you. If I listened to your heart tonight, would it answer all my questions? Would it say you're bringing me new life? Would it ask to be a part of mine?

Sibling

All the things you taught me and all the things you've shown me through the years have proven so valuable. I can think of all the times we made lego cities, hung christmas lights 'round the tree; you've always helped me. And I know that we're growing up and we can't be together all the time anymore but every time I see your door wide open I think of where you are right now. And I wish we could fly back to those moments that tapped my shoulder and waved goodbye. I wish we could fly back to those moments when you were mean to me and made me cry.

Take This Time

Remember all those nights trying to contact life when the ones we had were just beginning. There must have been a million times we sat on different sides but we're no longer blind. So let me take this time, to remind you of those gleaming nights we spent up dreaming of what we would become. Let me take this time, so if you should leave tomorrow, underneath the pain and sorrow, I could still be fine. With your memory to guide. Super r.b. fights: to look danger in the eyes with an ally by your side and a heart half filled with pride. Although we've gone our seperate ways with many things, our friendship burns inside. So let me take this time, to remind you of those gleaming nights we spent up dreaming of what we would become. Let me take this time, so if you should leave tomorrow, underneath the pain and sorrow, I could still be fine. With your memory to guide.

Waking up

You wake up in the morning and you feel it all passing you by. But there is more to this summer that you won't realize 'til tonight. When you're dancing with a girl, with the love that you once swore had died. She'll be changing your whole world with the blink of her pretty brown eyes. You've been waiting patiently. You were hoping you'd feel differently once you got your new job. Once you learn how to stop thinking about her constantly. You've been lonely for a year now, just long enough to know it's no fun. And for every happy moment, there is always an unpleasant one. But you're living, and not dying, and there is a girl somewhere waiting to find the passage to your broken heart. She is pretty, and funny, and kind. You've been waiting patiently. You were hoping you'd feel differently once you got your new job. Once you learn how to stop thinking about her constantly.

All I Need Is a Miracle

(originally written by Mike and the Mechanics)

I said "go if you wanna go, stay if you wanna stay." I didn't care if you hung around me, I didn't care if you went away. And I know you were never right. I know I was never wrong. I could never make up my mind, I made it up as I went along. And though I treated you like a child, I'm gonna miss you for the rest of my life. All I need is a miracle, all I need is you. I never had any time, and I never had any call. But I went out of my way just to hurt you. The one I should never hurt at all. I thought I was being cool, yeah, I thought I was being strong. But it's always the same old story: you never know what you have 'til it's gone. If I ever catch up with you, I'm gonna love you for the rest of your life. All I need is a miracle, all I need is you.

Kiss the Bottle

(originally written by Blake Swarzenbach)

It gets lonliest at night. Down at the liquor store, beneath the neon sky: our moonlight. Six a.m. the floor comes alive with lice, the pans dried up so tight with hardened beans. We're Hungry. So I lean on you sometimes just to see you're still there. Your feet can't take the weight of one, much less two, we hit concrete. How were we born into this mess? I know I painted you a prettier picture baby. But we were run out on a rail. Fell from the wagon to the night train. I kissed the bottle, I should've been kissing you. You wake up to an empty night with tears for two. Cigarettes they fill the gaps in our empty days, in our broken teeth. We're jonesing. Say mister can you spare a dime? Some change could make a change, could buy some time, some freedom. Or an ear to hear my story, it's all I've got. My fiction beats the hell out of my truth. A palm upturned burnt blue, don't call it sunburn. You've been shaking on the job, just one drink ahead of your past. There's a white light coming up, you draw the blinds, hoping it'll pass. I kissed the bottle, I should've been kissing you. You wake up to an empty night with tears for two.

With or Without You

(originally written by U2)

See the stone set in your eyes. See the thorn twist in your side. I wait for you. Sleight of hand and twist of fate. On a bed of nails she makes me wait, and I wait without you. With or without you. Through the storm we reach the shore. You give it all but I want more, and I'm waiting for you. With or without you. I can't live with or without you. And you give yourself away. My hands are tied - my body bruised, she's got me with nothing to win and nothing left to lose. And you give yourself away. With or without you. I can't live with or without you.