i don’t think you really know
all the ways your live could go
i know it’s not my place to say
but don’t give yourself away
nicole
your laughter is addictive
it’s a drug that only you can give
guys are lined up to be your clown
but we’ll only let you down
what if what you think is love is only a tragic game?
what if what you’re after is more than a last name?
keep looking…
and you’re beautiful you know
lie down and we’ll tell you so
words are a cheap disguise
don’t listen to our lies
you died somewhere overe dallas
the sky was so clear that day
as we wept it hid itself
behind a mournful gray
so now we pick up the pieces
will they help us understand?
you were born to fly
in death, never to land
as the sun dips to kiss the west
and the east slides into shadow
we here who are left
wonder why you had to go
sure you can beat me, you’re bigger and stronger
sure you can find me, i hide – you wait longer
and will quick bolts from ominous skies
you can send me to pay for each one of my lies
sure you can show yourself in this place
in order i’d have to fall dead on my face
you can be the king, make me behave
with one word you can make me your slave
but are you lonely
without me?
sure i can scream at empty blue skies
beg for a sign with tears in my eyes
like a child not getting his way
i can try to hurt you with the words i say
i can laugh at what i’ve done
wasted all night waiting for the sun
but could i learn to live with the feeling
like i’m broken with no hope of healing
she finally found a reason to dig out her magazines
every scrap that she has saved since she turned 14
now the last 10 years are narrowed to 10 days
to put a check by the only plan she’s made
all her friends are coming so i guess i won’t be there
i still think i love her; not enough to show i care
i won’t see the dress or have to shake his hand
i won’t kiss her cheek, leave her lips for another man
she’ll end up unhappy
in some run down trailer park
and i will be the memory
she clings to in the dark
the articles she’s read tell her how to love
he says he’ll stay even when push comes to shove
if he lays a hand on her i hope she runs away
my door is always open – if she wanted she could stay
but for now she’s gonna
find a borrowed blue
and tell herself her dreams are coming true
i’m out for proof that you still care
i’d settle for knowing that you’re there
i wish you’d send a sign
i don’t want to doubt you
so i guess my faith is so weak
i must beg you to speak
all you offer me are words
i’ve never really heard you
if you’re everything they say you are
you know the secrets of my heart
the things i mean but cannot say
thank God you never run away
am i too smart to believe
you’re a possibility?
are my eyes so blind to see
what you’ve done for me?
if you made me i’d obey
i would be a fearful slave
but i’d never choose to
love you
i’m noah
except it never did rain
i wasted my time on the ark
locked inside it everyday
i only hope when the sky goes dark
friends say i’m not helping anything
by refrusing to move on
but i lose more than a girl
if i admit that i was wrong
and hope does not get weaker when it should
and love is never fair
all the time i spent building this
disappears into dry air
could i find a reason to hate her?
blame for a broken heart
no, she never did anything to me
and i think that’s the worst part
you believed in happy endings
all the movies say it’s true
and once upon a time
she’ll fall in love with you
you never were the one she wanted
you tried to be someone she’d need
you wrote the perfect letters
you realize now she’ll never read
what will you write about now?
there’s nothing left for you
hope is nowhere to be found
all the movies said
won’t come true.
i hate my life, i hope it never changes
pause it here and we’ll call it even
i don’t wanna watch another love leaving
it’ll be better. someday i’ll look back
and wonder why i was so afraid
to leave the mess
leave the mess i have made
i’ve become complacent
such a disappointment
how much can i take?
how much can i take?
before i break
kiss me
like you don’t believe in history
like all the times before meant nothing
next to just one more
i told you
i told you i needed you
tell me i will never fail
and there’s some truth in fairy tales
but i don’t wanna listen to the radio
i don’t want to fight
i don’t want you to go
stay right here, we can make it
and if you don’t love me anymore
fake it.
you make me
you make me dream of daring schemes
i do not
expect to win half the battles i begin
it’s over
except for the leaving and the crying
but i said
i said ‘always’ and i was not lying
but i don’t wanna listen to the radio
i don’t want to fight
i don’t want you to go
stay right here, we can make it
and if you don’t love me anymore
fake it.
oh my dear amanda
they’re sending me to war
and no one can remind me
what we’re fighting for
do you get these letters?
i don’t get your replies
i fear i may not write again
today i might die
i’m not good with a rifle
i’ve never swung a sword
i only hope it is the same
with the men i’m marching toward
we have to take that city
our they say our homes will fall
a man can’t choose the day he dies
only answer when it calls
oh amanda i’ll return
until then i hope you pray
for my life, for my soul
if i don’t survive the day
i must go, the battle’s starting
i can hear the cannon’s sound
but darling, if you get this letter
i mailed it from that town