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1) With Words As Bright As The Sun hey there blue eyes. i'm not through with you. for 20 years i held my tongue, held it tight. but now it's time to run. gonna not look back for nothing and no one. i'm gonna get lost for good. i'm gonna leave you motionless. with words as bright as the sun. it's like that time last week. when you thought everything was alright. but no one was alright. and i can't help it if you can't look back. so you know you've got the past to thank for the way you act. so don't blame it on me or all the books you've read. it wasn't them who pushed those words through your lips. i can't believe you're still worried about 10 years from now. save existentialism for prom night you're still just a kid. see now you're choking on hello. when i've already said goodbye. don't get caught up in a daydream now. you've been stuck in the dark, 'cause you're still looking for that light. that you'll never find. so don't sell your soul 'cause you believe in ghosts. take a couple days off we'll head out on the road. so you can see a few towns with a whole new face. save forever for the fairytales, 'cause it ain't real. why are you always asking why? reasons are beautiful, but you don't need them to live your life. step out side for an hour or two. just stare at the sky you got nothing better to do. and then you can finally say. you saw something beautiful today. i saw a kid outside last night. he was crying so i asked him why. he said "i don't want to live anymore mom and dad are fighting and me i'm lying to myself again". i said "boy you're only 5 years old you've got a lot to live". he said "boy you're only 20 years old and you've never lived". and we laughed. and we talked about tomorrow. how we hoped eventually we could smile again. then morning came. we were smiling again. look at that. who needs miracles when you've got words as bright as the goddamn sun in the sky. 2) Beautiful Day the sun came and kissed me on the lips. the clouds all ran back home. the weatherman told you to stay inside. it's not like you had anywhere to go. it's a beautiful day. oh what a beautiful day. but somehow i wish it would rain. i called you names so you would sit by me. and eventually you were positioned at my side. i smiled at you 'til you smiled back. you called me lazy while i wrote "you're lovely" on your hand. it's a beautiful day. oh what a beautiful day. but somehow i wish it would rain. so we could dance and sing along to elliott smith. the sky fell and turned black again. we knew it would, it happens seven days a week. we couldn't find the moon for all the clouds. so we supposed it was playing hide and seek. but we couldn't find it. we thought we had lost it. til' we looked across the road, behind the trees. it was smiling at me. and it was smiling at you. so we smiled right back. there's nothing better else to do. it's a beautiful day. oh what a beautiful day. and i don't really wish it would rain anymore. 3) Technicolor Eyes i like saturdays and the rocket summer. blue skies and the morning's air. i like you, you like me. there's something wrong with this picture. let's turn it upside down so we can see. the insecurities caused by the last four years of economic downsizing in the eastern us. i like february along with tilly and the wall. pretty pictures and shirts that are too small. for my child-like figure that you're so in love with. i like the autumn's leaves and bright eyes. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. stands strong in my favorites of all time. along with you and your technicolor eyes. you say johnny cash is your favorite singer. but you've never heard folsom prison blues. how do you expect me to believe you. i was never much on country songs but. someone should really tell you to come home. 'cause it's getting (awfully) late. and your dinner's getting cold. i like simple songs with pretty words. i tried poetry, but it's just no good. the pages get lost, besides i'd much rather sing to you. i love living life with you by my side. you're a smart kid with a beautiful smile. and oh god those technicolor eyes. i like saturdays and the rocket summer. night skies and that lovely stare. i like you, you like me. so lets lock all the doors. there's nothing outside we need to see. 'cause we've got love. yeah we've got a tv we can watch "Friends" all we want. and we can laugh at how i laugh like Ross when i get nervous. and we don't have to worry about tomorrow. because we know it's gonna come. whether we want it to or not. 4) Work Of Art i don't care what they say love. you're a work of art. no one can paint the sky like you. each night i think of new ways to impress you. so you'll stick around. when i was younger i'd stare at clouds. well now i'm older and i still do. and i don't know why, so don't ask me. and i won't ask you. why you hide behind those bookshelves. filled with bibles and world war fairytales. your eyes will tire from the lies your heart desires. so don't play along 'cause they say you'll go to hell. this is your own life, believe what you will. and don't worry when they say you don't understand. 'cause they could never know how it felt. the day you found love and lost it just as easily. you were so young, but so untouchable. 'cause after that you never loved again no oh. it was a waste of time, hearts are for pumping blood. 'til you found that one that smiled back. you thought you'd die alone. now you hold hands, now your mirror's useless. 'cause what their eyes see is all you really need. it's not luck, love or coinicidence that found you. it's what's meant to be. 5) Love Song if i asked you nicely. would you write me a love song? tomorrow's too far. sing it now just in case if i'm gone. you can use my name in it. you can refrence my favorite singers, whatever you'd like. just as long as you sing it just for me. if i told you monday. this time next week i'll be leaving you. would you block the door or open it for me. if i took your picture. would you smile or shy away. you're not much on poetry. but god damn girl i love every word you say. if i asked you politely. would you paint me a starry night. i know it's your favorite van gough painting. i know you know what it looks like. if i begged you lovely. to please come home would you reply. well you asked me nicely. so i wrote you a love song. it's got words and it rhymes. it's got my untuned guitar. i can mention our inside jokes. or how we say goodbye in the backseats of cars. and give irony to my band name. but i'd rather not. i wrote you a love song. it's got two chords and my self learned voice. i'll compare your eyes to stars. and your hands to perfection. just to give you chills. when i sing it to your face. you'll cry and call it lovely. and when i'm done i'll dry your tears . and call you lovely. hey there lovely. 6) Just One Note, Please the streets are wet. the sky is leaking. got 26 miles to home. and me i'm thinking. about the blue behind these dark grey clouds. and how you used to say my name out loud. but now you're all grown up and you've got somewhere else to be. you'd play piano. while i'd rest my eyes. when you got worried. i'd sing you Jackson 5. 'cause it was simple. and you liked the melody. now i'm sitting in this dusty apartment. wishing someone would play some piano for me. sometimes i wonder if you. do you still let me sing to you through your radio? with that record i made for you a few years ago... does it still make you smile? does it still make you wish you were alive? 'cause i know you died the day i said goodbye. why did i say goodbye? i would have never learned the word. if i would have known this is what it feels like to want to die. the sun's shining now. and i'm just walking down broad street. doing my best not to step on the cracks. 'cause i don't want my mom to get hurt because of me. i've already lied enough. so now i'm thinking about tomorrow. and how it's really not worth it if it's not on purpose. and i stop and smile 'cause i'm. lying to myself again. just a kid with too many tshirts and a best friend named justin . yeah we talk a lot of shit. and we can plan a few ben folds songs on our keyboards, but we're not that great, so that's pretty much it. we sing along to Brand New songs, like "Soco Armiretto Lime". and another i don't know the name, but i'm pretty sure it's track 5. i don't need nothing, i'm quite alright. i don't need nothing else, i'm quite alright. we don't need nothing, we're quite alright. we don't need nothing else, we're quite alright. 7) Lucky Lucky Me the college kids are singing love songs on the balcony below me. it's friday night two for one your either loved or you're lonely. it's getting colder you can play it off with a scarf or a sweater. if worse comes to worse you can say that it will only get better. i woke up this morning with hopes that tonight i might find you. lucky lucky me with the smoothness of a tailor i asked your name. you coughed twice then after two more tries you finally heard. smiled real bright like some christmas lights in september. if we weren't in the city i'd ask you to watch the stars with me. but the lights are too bright so we'll just have to pretend. the back porch lamp is lovely, fine, illuminated. we can chase our shadows on the fence or watch the others dance. i woke up this morning hopes that tonight i might be loved. 'cause if your young then you're young and shouldn't have to sleep alone. lucky lucky me with the scarecrow stance. false sense of hope and my blue jean pants. clean white socks with my hands in my pockets i walked your way. you know the rest, you tried your best not to laugh. an innocent kid with a stutter and a love for the past. if you like me clap your hands if you don't just walk away. it's a beautiful night and oh how i hope you'll stay. if we hurry we can catch reruns on channel 2. you've been wanting to leave since you got here. so leaving's just what we'll do. we can get lost on purpose for a little while longer. the sunset's ours then it's home like i promised you. 8) Hand Claps And Loud Sighs well you won't believe in. the words that i'm saying. you lied, and i lied, and you lied, we all lied. it's not like we never said it before. it was just underlined by the absence of our carismatic tongues. tell me what you've done. give me a new name, it won't change a thing. new letters can't make me a new person. but it can make me brave. i can act like i don't care when in really do. sit there with blue eyes. and blue shirt with blue sighs. you're the only one you're the only one you're the only one you're the only one. i wanna be here i wanna be here i wanna be here. so don't tell me to go and don't tell me to go. 'cause i won't. fuck forever. live for now til' whenever. you can blame it on me. but don't blame it on the weather. it's a beautiful day if you ask me. cloudy or not, i'm just glad to know there's a sun. hand claps and loud sighs. big laughs and loud cries. thunderstorms and ugly homes. big kids in little clothes. no need to wonder if the rain's gonna come our way. 9) 32 Ways To Make You Smile you told me 32 ways. to make you smile. i did 31 within the first hour. you stood amazed. in your delighted shoes. bewildered but willing. didn't know what to do. so i grabbed your cold hand. pressed it to my beating heart and said. isn't it neat. how our bodies tick. and we can move our feet. whenever and however we please. you stared blindly while i waited politely. in the doorway by our school. some cars passed and i noticed someone was singing. "us" by regina spektor. you know how i had a crush on her. i know you don't like grey skies. we know our multiplication tables. you got straight a's while i was writing fairytales. and looking out window seals asking why. the sun shine liked my eyes. and kissed my cheek. when it knew i was in love with the moon. and of course with you. well i sped it up. 'cause you don't like slow songs. you're more of the literal kind. yeah you're more like the ocean's waves. you get closer at the end of the day. when you know i can't see your face. when you're sure i'm already lost. love is oh so lovely. but it also comes with a cost. 10) Lost Means Lost collective thoughts collect like rain on your shoulder. this carpet tries too hard for no one to notice. so do i, but not on purpose. and no, i'm not listening. and no, that dream doesn't mean it was true. lost means lost, and i've got no way of getting through to you. of course you call it "ours" all you'd like. but when we hate each other who will take it home? and will be alone when you say it's alright. 'cause you're the only one who will know. and i know, and do you even remember. the color of my eyes. or even what my voice sounds like. well here's a reminder love. to go with those chills down your spine. whatever happened to our silhouttes. side by side in the middle of a park bench? we could sit there all day if the weather permits. but you'd rather stay inside. 'cause you're not much on the sun. you're a sucker for the shade and reruns. and no you don't cross my mind. when her lips keep mine company. it's more like we never were. before i knew what forever was. i thought hope was love. but it turns out, forever's just a word. and will you be alone when you're under the covers. as the sky falls will it be on purpose. or will you say it was just an "accident". you didn't mean to pull that hard. you didn't mean to say those words. well i don't mean to break your heart. when i say goodbye. but i hope it at least hurts . and you said "you can save your "la da da's" for your shitty love songs". well as for me i'll be fine. you just let me know what it's like to be alone. and i'll be singing. yeah i'll keep singing. la da da da da da. 11) The Sky Isn't Listening darling i think it's time we leave. it's really coming down out there. and you are too. from this evening so full of life. so full of friends we never knew we had. we're just a couple of kids. lost in november's kind grasp. yeah it'll come and we'll go. forever never seemed so close. as when you put your hands in my pockets. and said "i'm quite fond of you kid. i think we'll be just fine. You keep the sky, i'll settle for that look in your eyes." and i know it's been a long day. but you're still alive. so you've got nothing to complain about tonight. we can walk if you'd like. or spin in circles i don't care. either way i'm in love with where we're going. and the streetlights that lead us there. will whisper in our ears. sweet nothings about how they wish they we're alive during the daytime. darling i think it's time we believe. the things they said were never true. 'cause look at this, yeah look at me look at you. we wear our flaws like a scarf. and count backwards because we can. there's no need for reasons in the winter seasons (this year). we're all too cold to care. we're all too lost to lie. we're all a little under the weather. we're all living to die. you say too much of a bad thing. can never do one right. i say it's all in bad timing. yeah just turn off the lights. let the moonlight lead the way. sing a song or two, i'd say. it'll clear up soon there's no need. to call it a day. i know i'm not one. to question life and how we live it. but i don't care i'm gonna do it any way. i don't give damn what you have to say. yeah i'll speak as i please. i'll walk on water i don't mind. getting my feet a little wet to prove i'm right. those worries only run so deep. your doubt can't save you from the truth. so caught up in the memory. you don't know what to do. well i'll tell you in a word or two. "give up". it's not worth it to save yourself. you might as well save someone else. and no i'm not talking about death. or god and the other fairytales you love. this is a fucked up place your living in kid. and all you need is love. 12) Sunday In The Summer well they tore down the walls. now we're all fucked up again. i was sitting in the corner. and you were just a shaking your hips. you said "hey there what you doing kid. i know it's getting late so we should get out of here". and then the storms they came. so we opened up the doors and ran. well no one was looking . so you leaned in for a kiss. i never knew you were a sucker. for a sunday in the summer. but it's only november and you want me to come over. and i'm not so sure about tomorrow anymore. well you could run. or look the other way. if you never want to love it again. if you never if you never want to stay. 13) Seeing Is Believing come here. i had a nightmare. the sky had turned black. and you were running through a field alone. without my hand to guide you back home. just wanted to believe. that you were still here. but seeing is believing. and i don't i don't i don't see you dear. where are your helpless coughs in the middle of the night that i love so so much? shower me with the love that you give to your friends. i wanna feel like i'm alive again. just wanna be in the presence of all that is. and all that was, and all that will never be. the distance of your periferey can't save me now. i'm a little more lost than i had planned. but oh well, i'll find a way. to turn yesterday into brilliance. and tomorrow into something significant. so i will be able to find a reason or to to keep breathing. to keep walking on through the roads. that you and i. we drove on that one night on a trip to florida. or georgia or somewhere in the southeast. i don't remember that well. because we were. we were lost. but at least it was together. we were lost. at least it was together. i wanna be lost again. i wanna be lost again. lost with you again. lost in you again. it's getting late. thinking this is it. i'll probably fall asleep. but i'd rather not have anymore nightmares about this. 'cause i can't take this anymore. throw away my sense of caution, my sense of smell. my sense of taste, my sense of sight, my sense of sound. my sense of touch. i don't need them anymore. anymore. 14) Rainy Days And License Plates i'm looking for rainy days and license plates. forget me nots and coastal states. seven dollars and a cough. is all i've got. to my name that i don't know. 'cause no one's told me in a year or so. that the days are worth living. might as well give it all you've got. or just give up. someone said that boy you gotta run. you can't look back there is no sun. it's only a flashlight in the sky. someone's held it up and it turned big. and no one really knows what it is. or how to explain it. keep it simple. keep it nice. keep it lovely. please stay bright. when it comes to brilliant. you're the only one that comes to mind. i've tried my best to leave this place. but i always end up just the same. on a sunday in the middle of another morning's fade. and the nights they're not so good. when your only friends that understood. are in the middle of a state . that's too far to drive. you try your best to see it a different way. well at least i'm still alive. but life it's a word. and me i'm just no good. without my guitar and voice to sing your praise. like how the midnight needs the moonlight. and skyline needs the sun to light the days. i'm hoping for simple songs and melodies. it's ten past two and the swaying trees. just remind me of those highways headed home. to the clarksville skyline. and the air it's just as fine. as it is here in indiana. but the streetsigns just ain't the same. and not as many people know my name. 15) Four Leaf Clover i woke up. the sun was singing. you were still sleeping beside me. you woke up. said nightmares are for dreamers. so why me? why me? i tried my best to believe what you said. i read the books. i went to bed. and i still woke up again. is there some flaw in forever? must be because when we're together. the sky it's bright for a while, then it fades. lucky me i've got three hours left. lucky me i've got this heart in my chest. lucky me i've got this four leaf clover. look at me i can tie my own shoes. look at me i lie just as good as you. whenever i please. so please spare me the consequence. just leave the note on the steps. you don't have to read what you already know. i keep up with time on my blue wristwatch. i keep marking days just to add them up it seems. i'll never win this race. lucky me i've got the rain and the sky. lucky me i've got bob dylan to get me by. when no one else will sing. lucky me i've got these two left feet. lucky me i've got that costume from halloween. that you made for me. look at me i'm growing up real nice. look at me i still have faith that everything that's real is fake. look at me i can make you cry. with these words i wrote one night alone. in my dusty apartment. singers sing just to hear themselves. lovers love to keep pictures on the shelf. well good for them. i hope you'll stay warm through winter. i hear it's gonna be a cold one this year. so wrap up tight. lucky me i've got these light blue sheets. lucky me i've got hope, i've got love. look at me i'll fade away with time. look at me before i decide. to call it a night. 16) I Am You, You Are Me i'm a cloud hovering over the ocean. i'm the sunset that you never notice. i'm your silhouette painted on a tv screen. i am you, you are me. i'm your lungs when you can't breathe. i'm that gust of cold wind that brushes against your sleeves. you could do without me, but you'd rather not. it's an ugly world out there, and i'm pretty much all you've got. i'm a coat that you never wear. except on special occasions year after year. i'm a shoebox you keep under your bed. i've got a couple of folded notes in me, but you can't remember what they said. so what's the point if you'll forget it in a week. if it's blind why believe in love at first sight? just stay inside no one will know. you can leave the lights on all you want. and i hope that you know that i loved you a lot. (why worry if we're gonna be home soon). it wasn't the alcohol talking at four in the morning. (why worry if we're gonna be home soon). it was the boy that you met in the hall years ago. so don't forget me. don't you let me become a photograph. that you maybe look at once every year or so. just to recall the way you let me become a ghost. i said sorry to make you happy. i kissed cuts to dry your tears. i sold my clothes to keep you warm. then you threw me away even after all these years. we spent struggling to pay the rent. now who can i sing with when everything's gone to hell. and i can't remember my own name. and i hope that you know that i loved you a lot. it wasn't the alcohol talking at four in the morning. it was the boy that you met in the hall years ago. so don't forget me. don't you let me become a photograph. that you maybe look at once every year or so. just to recall the way you let me become a ghost. don't wanna be a page. in the past you save in an album you bought from walmart. i'm not alright and don't say that i will be. i loved you, but you didn't love me. 17) Sunset Never Came Home well the east coast died last night. you were wrapped in a blanket by my side. the sunset never came home. well neither did we, reasons are useless so we just drove. the stars don't shine as bright in the city. and they don't shine at all if you close your eyes. so leave them open. leave them willing to see. even if you don't believe. these verses are meaningless. since i don't know sign language. you sure as hell can't hear them. if you never listen. so this can be another for my bedroom walls. 'cause i know they don't mind. well we gave up the street signs. for dirt roads and high fives. virginia lost her nerve. so we left her on the side. of a road in east new york. so she could think about what she'd done. well we would pick her back up. but were never going home again. no that place just doesn't make me smile anymore. and it sure doesn't ever pick me up when i'm about to die. well the east coast died last night. nothing but. arizona and tomorrow on my mind. the sunset never came home. so we did as we pleased, it won't hurt 'em if they don't know. don't trust anyone. no not no one. they lie to save their life. and would rather be on top. this is everyday. yeah we're all free. but sometimes that doesn't mean a thing. so if you're lover. is a liar. tell them no more, set yourself free. and if your daylight. has gone elsewhere. tell it to come back, 'cause this is your life. and you're gonna do as you please. yeah starting tomorrow. the sun will be back. and then you can finally breathe. so take these kind words. use them to dry those tears. 'cause kid you're not a waste. you're a dreamer. so if you're lover. is a liar. tell them no more, set yourself free. and if your daylight. has gone elsewhere. tell it to come back, 'cause this is your life. and you're gonna do as you please. yeah starting tomorrow. the sun will be back. i can promise you that love, yeah i can. and then you can finally breathe again. 18) Come Tomorrow (iTunes Exclusive) the kids are asleep. mom and dad are at the local bar. playing with each others hair. husband turns to wife says. oh what a lovely evening we're having dear. then the ground fell beneath them. as the club poured to the floor. heaven help us we won't lie to ourselves or anyone anymore. i'm awake now. can you blame me for crying out loud? you divorced when i was a baby. now i'm all grown up look at me i'm fine. all my life i was told maybe. maybe one day kid you'll grow up and be alright. well i never i never believed the words they'd leave on the front steps. they seemed so bland and absent of sincerity. so one day i graduated. moved to a town two hours away. i figured maybe the kids would be different here. but it turns out their all the same. when will i ever get this right? or will i ever get this right? when will i ever get this right? or will i ever get this right? oh no i'm alone again. oh well that's the way it is. oh no i'm alone again. oh well guess that's just the way it is. come tomorrow. i'll wake up new. come tomorrow. i'll wake up new. 19) Nightmares (iTunes Exclusive) you woke up in the middle of the floor. you can't fall any farther if you've already hit the bottom. you say the nightmares are getting longer. and you can't help but to notice that you can't breathe anymore. oh no, oh no. if the stars decide to explode. you might as well let them do what they want. because your tiny hands, they're just made of bones. and that won't change much. you woke up in the middle of the floor. you can't fall any farther if you've already hit the bottom. 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