they say that quitters never win
but i say that quitters never lose
and so i guess it just depends
what pair of eyes you're looking through
the clock is slowly ticking now
i hear it deep beneath the floor
and if you live between the lines
what are you living for?

in the corner this shoegazer
wont complain cause it wont faze her

fools rush in where angels fear to tread

up up and away she flies
all alone in november skies and
i wish i could get that high
but i'm still on the ground
while melting stars and broken hearts
are slowly fading up up and away

she's a jack of all trades but a master of none
and each saturday i still wake up to watch cartoons
and i know the stars in the sky are the same ones you see
still i can't believe that we're so far apart

up up and away

storybook ending

oh dear, what have we here?
looks like we’ve gone and fallen in love again
so near, but yet insincere
i just wanna hold on tight and never let go again

letting me down when she says,
“i don’t care if you fall to pieces”
i know you don’t deserve this
and i know you don’t deserve me

oh hey make believer, hell-bent deceiver
holding forever, you know everything i do
i do, i do
because i do it all for you

oh dear, i honestly fear
that i should’ve succumbed to this wanderlust in the first place
all this rock and roll is exhausting
and there’ll be lots of time for remorsing when i’m

holding you and me in the past tense
treating every moment like it just might be the last time
that you ever see this frowning face again

oh hey make believer, hell-bent deceiver
holding forever, you know everything i do
i do, i do
because i do it all for you
i could hang on a cloud, when you're hanging around
but it feels like this sunshine is bringing me down
what i wouldn't give for just one storybook ending

now i’m a walking time bomb
a living complication
now i’ve hit the bottom
time for detination

i just want to see you
with big smiles and love to
make sure your dreams come true
and i just want to know that
you won't let go and
you never cry for me

for just one storybook ending.

i won't wait for you

i was slowly stoning on a sunday afternoon
and you were fast asleep inside a tightly wove cocoon
and i remember thinking things would never be the same without you
i do

and i'll roll out my own red carpet
i won't wait for you
with situations unresolving
i won't wait for you
and now i've got you second guessing
everything you do
you know that i'll roll out my own red carpet
i won't wait for you
cause you can't follow through

mind is in the gutter and she's had it up to here
and she knows that i'm just saying all the things she wants to hear
with an ever growing feeling that we're growing out of touch
and it's true, we're through

holding on to what i'm losing
i won't wait for you
a last goodbye to soak it all in
i won't wait for you
and when it comes to love and marriage
i'm as lost as you
and she knows i'll roll out my own my red carpet
i won't wait for you
cause you can't follow through

too busy

i don't wanna date another high school girl cause
i don't wanna live inside her high school world cause
i remember watching you across the room just laughing at me
i saw you there just laughing at me

you know i love you baby, you know i need you
maybe we'll fall in love again but you're too busy for me
we say we love each other meanwhile we run for cover
i wanna love you girl, but you're too busy for me

i don't wanna look just like a backstreet boy cause
i don't wanna feel just like a plastic toy and
maybe i will never be the kind of guy you want me to be
i'll never have what you need from me

i don't know where you are and as i sit counting cars
i know a shooting star is still only a falling star

ice princess(why do you lie to me?)

i want to believe you but still i've got this fear that
when we're down and out the clouds will form and you will disappear

and you always told me that you'd never leave me alone
i've gotta know, so tell me

why do you lie to me?
it makes me feel like love is a deadly disease
when everything you do is with intent to deceieve
ice princess tell me why do you lie to me?
ice princess tell me

and you always told me that you'd never leave me alone
you didn't know i was just so dependency prone
you're so compulsive, i hear it in your tone
i should've known, so tell me

why do you lie to me?
you know the things you say make me weak at the knees
when everything i do is just aiming to please
ice princess tell me why do you lie to me?

dream of you

a final glance, my only chance
surrendered to this circumstance
it feels like you're afraid of leaving
and i need to feel like you're ok alone with me
just say, "you're the only star that seems to shine"
smiling but you're never fine

and it's the dream i don't wanna wake from
yeah it's the dream i don't wanna wake from
cause in the dream i don't wanna wake from
i dream of you, i dream of you

you're peace of mind personified
i've somehow come alive inside
and there i was afraid of losing
and you need to know that i awake with smiles
because of you
dreaming, dreaming of the perfect girl
for you i have all the time in the world

i never told you that when i hold you i
never want to let you go
because you make the best of things
i make a mess of things
and so i guess it all works out
no matter where you are, you know i'll never be to far
cause you're the only star that seems to shine
i lied when i said i was fine