Bleed American
I’m not alone because the TV’s on, yeah
I’m not crazy because I take the right pills every day and rest
Clean your conscience
Clear your thoughts with speyside
With your grain
Salt sweat sugar on the asphalt
Our hearts littering the topsoil
Tune in
And we can get the last call
Sign up
It’s the picket line or the parade
Our lives
Our coal
I bled the greed from my arm
Won’t they give it a rest now?
Now? Now? Now?
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A Praise Chorus
Are you going to live your life wondering
Standing in the back, looking around?
Are you going to waste your time thinking
How you’ve grown up
How you missed out?
Things are never going to be the way you want
Where’s it going to get you acting serious?
Things are never going to be quite what you want
Even at twenty-five you got to start sometime
Are you going to live your life standing in the back looking around?
Are you going to waste your time?
Got to make a move or you'll miss out
Someone is going to ask you what it’s all about
Stick around nostalgia wont let you down
Someone is going to ask you what it’s all about
What are you going to have to say for yourself??
I’m on my feet
I’m on the floor
I’m good to go
So come on Davey, sing me something that I know
Want to always feel like part of this was mine
Want to fall in love tonight
Here, tonight
Crimson and clovers, over and over
Our house in the middle of the street
Why did we ever meet?
Starting our rocking little fantasy
Don’t tell me don’t lets start
Why did we ever part?
Kick start my rock and rolling heart
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The Middle
Hey, don’t write yourself off yet
It’s only in your head you feel left out or looked down on
Just try your best
Try everything you can
And don’t worry what they tell themselves when you’re away
Hey, you know they’re all the same
You know you’re doing better on your own so don’t buy in
Live right now
Just be yourself
It doesn’t matter if that’s good enough for someone else
It just takes some time
Little girl, you’re in the middle of the ride
Everything everything will be just fine
Everything everything will be all right
Do your best do everything you can
Don’t you worry what their bitter hearts are going to say
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Your House
When you’re on, I swear you’re on
You rip my heart right out, you rip my heart right out
I think the whole room can hear me clear my throat
Rip my heart right out, rip my heart right out
Then out of nowhere you put me right back there
Rip my heart right out, you rip my heart right out
We know what happens when we get to your house
Rip my heart right out, rip my heart right out
I throw away everything I’ve written you
Anything
Just keep my mind off it
Thinking how I had you once
No, I can’t forget that
Sometimes I wish I could lose you again
You’re winning me over with everything you say
You rip my heart right out, rip my heart
When I let you closer
I only want you closer
You rip my heart right out
If you still care at all don’t go tell me now
If you love me at all please don’t tell me now
If you love me at all
Don’t call
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Sweetness
If you’re listening
Sing it back
String from you tether unwinds
Up and outwards but only to bind
I was spinning free with a little sweet and simple numbing me
Are you listening?
Sing it back
So tell me what do I need when the words lose their meaning
Stumble until you crawl
Sinking into sweet uncertainty
Are you listening?
If you’re listening
Sing it back
I’m still running away
I wont play your hide and seek game
What a dizzy dance
This sweetness will not be concerned with me
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Hear You Hear Me
There’s no one in town I know
You gave us someplace to go
I never said thank you for that
Thought I might get one more chance
What would you think of me now?
So lucky, so strong, so proud
Never said thank you for that
Now I’ll never have a chance
If you were with me tonight
I’d sing to you just one more time
A song for a heart so big god wouldn’t let it live
May angels lead you in
Hear you me my friends
On sleepless roads the sleepless go
May angels lead you in
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If You Don’t, Don’t
What’s wrong baby?
Don’t they treat you like they should?
Did you take them for it
Or every penny that you could?
We once walked out on the beach and once I almost touched your hand
O, how I dreamed to finally say such things
Then only to pretend
Don’t you know I’m thinking?
Driving 405 past midnight
You know I miss you(don’t you know that I miss you?)
Ninth and Ash on a Tuesday night
I would write to you from museum mile
Toast to you:
Your whisper
Your smile
Up the stairs at the Weatherford
A ghost each place I hide
I left you waiting
At the least could we be friends?
Should have never started
Ain’t that the way it always ends?
On my life I’ll try today
There’s so much I’ve felt I should say but
Even if your heart would listen I doubt I could explain
So here we are now
A sip of wine
A sip of water
Someday maybe
Maybe someday we’ll be smarter
And I’m sorry that I’m such a mess
I drank all my money could get,
Took everything that you had and never loved you back
If you don’t know why’d you say so?
Would you mean this please if it happens?
If you don’t know why’d you say so?
Won’t you get your story straight?
If you don’t know, honey why’d you just say so?
I need this now more than I ever did
If you don’t know,
Well honey,
Then you don’t
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Get It Faster
I don’t care what you do
I’m getting out
No, nothing ever shames me
Don’t want a think from you
I’m going out
I don’t care if you’re angry
I should have thought things through
I’m holding out but not getting an answer
I want to do right by you
But I’m finding out cheating get it faster
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Cautioners
The time I would spend with pictures I would not send
I watched you go from left to right
I followed you all night across my blinds
Making my peace
Making it with distance
Maybe that’s a big mistake
You know I’m thinking of you
I miss you
You’ll change your mind come Monday
And turn your back on me
Take your steps away with hesitance
Take your steps away from me
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The Authority Song
It’s how the hustle goes:
See what the jukebox knows
Put my last quarter on
I play “Authority Song”
The DJ never has it:
J A M C, automatic
If those were Roy’s headphones
You bet he’d play “What Goes On”
I’m here
That means something doesn’t it?
Wont you dance with me a little bit?
You don’t notice
I guess the music is too loud
Honesty or mystery?
Tell me, I’m not scared anymore
Say anything you want
Already I’m not scared anymore
Want something else?
Just tell me
Honesty or mystery?
Tell me, I’m not scared anymore
I got no secret purpose
I don’t seem obvious, do I?
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My Sundown
I see it around me
I see it in everything:
I could be so much more than this
I said my goodbyes
This is my sundown
I’m going to be so much more than this
I need you to show me the way from crazy
I want to be so much more than this
With one hand high you’ll show them your progress
You’ll take your time
But no one cares
Lovely time, tinsel shine
Goodbye, I’ll be fine
Good good bye
Good good night
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