People and Things

She's a black cat hanging 'round my doorstep
I'll need all day tomorrow to recover from today
I was boxing with my shadow at a stoplight
When the clocks changed, yeah
It was midnight I was mixed up
When she called to drag the lake

I think I'm running short on inspiration
She's running long on borrowed time
We break with speed
That girl can read my racing thoughts
She asks the questions,
I take the floor, she takes her shots
Taught her a lesson about a forced confession
We break with speed
That girl can read my racing thoughts

My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts

So I'll try to keep her steady now
But steady's not her strong suit
I was raised going to church
But couldn't practice what they preached
And so I'm hiring a DJ for the
Eve of our destruction, yeah
It was midnight I was mixed up when
She found me on the beach

I think I'm running low on inspiration
She's running long on borrowed time
We break with speed
That girl can read my racing thoughts
She asks the questions
I take the floor, she takes her shots
Taught her a lesson about a forced confession
We break with speed
That girl can read my racing thoughts

My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts

I think I'm running short on inspiration,
She's running long on borrowed time
We break with speed,
That girl can read my racing thoughts
She asks the questions
I take the floor, she takes her shots
Taught her a lesson about a forced confession
We break with speed
That girl can read my racing thoughts

My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts
My racing thoughts

(She can read my, she can read my,
She can read my racing thoughts)

Whoa, oh
(She can read my, she can read my,
She can read my racing thoughts)

Whoa, oh
(She can read my, she can read my,
She can read my racing thoughts)

I've been running such a long time
I've been hiding from the truth
I've been battered, been broken, been buried
Now I'm death proof, death proof

And I've been known to take a big chance
But I can't waste another shot at redemption
Oh, I'm ready don't let me go passing
Through the wrong hands, wrong hands
My confidence is in crisis mode
Your fingertips well they know the code

Release me and take another piece of me
And there won't be another left
C'mon release me, release me take another piece of me
And there won't be another left unless you let go
Unless you let go

I've been waiting for the sun to shine
Another winter ends, the winter's starting over
We met beside a land mine waiting for the wind to blow

Now I'm in trouble with these friends of mine
A change was in my blood, I lost my sense of direction
I dragged us to the bright light, life is like a TV show
My fuse is set, I'm pressing go
Your match is lit but it's burning slow

Release me and take another piece of me
And there won't be another left
C'mon release me, release me take another piece of me
And there won't be another left unless you let go

I'll be nothing but sand falling down
Through your fingers to the ground below
Through your fingers to the ground below

Yeah I've been running, I've been running
I've been running such a long time

Release me and take another piece of me
And there won't be another left
Try to believe me, release me take another piece of me
And there won't be another left unless you let go

Unless you let go

Run around the spiral it's our choice now,
Up or down, days can seem so long
Holy ghost, I'm living with your voice now
But tonight, I'm sleeping with my television on
Come tomorrow they're be hell to pay and clouds across the sun

You were right I've always been a sinner
You were right I wasted all your time
You said it all, "We drank to much at dinner."
So tonight I'm sleeping with my television on
Come tomorrow they'll be hell to pay and clouds across the sun

You and I baby we're a broken record
Turn around we're making sound but only for the noise
And what if I could live like this, but not forever
And what if you could move the needle to a more forgiving song
And what if this, was never really broken all along
But for tonight, I'm sleeping with my television on

I'm sleeping with my TV on
Yeah I don't mind sleeping, not when there's flash and burn
Your colors dance beneath my bedroom door
Yeah I don't mind sleeping with my TV on

With my TV on
With my TV on
With my TV on
With my TV on, yeah

Come tomorrow
You're signaling the silence till the dawn

Snow on the ground in Tennessee
North came South at the tops of the trees
Another long winter trying to fight this freeze
Waiting but the cold's got a hold on me

Hold on me
Hold on to me

Amy I, I never felt this kind of cold before
Amy I, I may never feel this way again
I never felt this kind of cold

So give me a cloud there's so much at stake
Decided to walk, there was ice on the lake
Though I never worry 'cause it never breaks
Though I hear it cracking under my weight
Another long winter trying to fight this freeze
Waiting but the cold's got a hold on me

Hold on to me
So hold on to me

Amy, I, I never felt this kind of cold before
And Amy I, may never feel this way again
Feel this way again

Amy, I, I can hear your bare feet on my bedroom floor
But Amy I never felt this kind of cold
Never felt this kind of hold on me
Never felt this kind of cold on me
Never felt this Amy, I, never felt this Amy

Amy, I, I never felt this kind of cold before
Amy, I, may never feel this way again
Feel this way again

Amy, I, I hear your bare feet on my bedroom floor
But your not here anymore
And Amy, I never felt this kind of cold

And keep your eyes on the road on the glass passenger
And I sing for a traveling band
Where I'll be tomorrow 'cause God only knows
It seems there's a science in hand
But I'll finish the shows when I land

I said hey, hey, hey
We're all gonna die
Hey hey hey
We're all gonna die
We're all gonna die someday

And New England turned gray found the old TLA
From the lands of my Polaroid camera
Labeled proud in New York's shows sold out
I noticed a change in the weather
It's gettin' cold could you hand me my sweater, yeah

And I said hey, hey, hey
We're all gonna die
Hey, hey, hey
We're all gonna die
We're all gonna die someday
Someday

So keep your eyes on the road on the glass passenger
I've return to scene of crime
With my bus and my band I'm taking a stand
So sleep with me just one more time

I said hey, hey, hey
We're all gonna die
Hey hey hey
We're all gonna die, yeah

Hey, hey, hey, we're all gonna die
We're all gonna die
Someday, someday

We are just these people happy, tangled lives
We are only chemical and skin
Barely strapped in for this air conditioned drive
We are tired of waiting and still we stand in line
Yea, this is all addition by subtraction
A simple chain reaction of the mind

Yeah, we are just these people running around
And I am in no hurry to figure it out
We are just like oceans running aground in search of water
In search of water

We are just these people, such tragic little things
You take a girlfriend to a drug deal
Fall in love and now she wears a diamond ring
We are tired of waiting, all bandages and strings
Hold you together and keep you up enough
You drift in no direction so it seems

That we are just these people running around
And I am in no hurry to figure it out
We are just like oceans running aground in search of water
In search of water, in search of water

People living on the edge would never come, in search of water
People standing and watching people run, in search of water
Just watching people run

Yeah we are just these people running around
And there's no need to worry we'll figure it out
We are just these people running
People running around in search of water
Just watching people run

Amelia Jean, be a good little soldier
I drove to Richmond with your love in my back
Chasing trains won't stop you getting older
Amelia Jean, wait for me by the tracks

Drove eighty-four to the grave of Buddy Holly
I'm out the sunroof and full of Texas wind
Amelia Jean, is it warm back home in LA?
I'll write you when I know where to begin

Whoa, Amelia,
(I can feel you when the wind dies down)
I can feel you
(I can feel you when the wind dies down)
In my bones

Amelia Jean, you're such a brave little solider
I drove to Nashville when your sister called, concerned
Some people stay, some are born to run away
Amelia Jean, I'm sure you'll get your turn

Whoa, Amelia,
(I can feel you when the wind dies down)
I can feel you
(I can feel you when the wind dies down)
Whoa, Amelia,
(I can feel you when the wind dies down)
I can feel you, I can feel you, in my bones

Amelia Jean, you went and married a solider
I swear I never meant to leave you in the rain
So I'll come back to take the weight off your shoulder
Amelia Jean, come on, let's chase the train
Come on

Whoa, Amelia,
(I can feel you when the wind dies down)
I can feel you
(I can feel you when the wind dies down)
Whoa, Amelia,
(I can feel you when the wind dies down)
I can feel you, I can feel you,
In my, in my bones

I tore up like your baby blue jeans
I was stepping through a fog
Under pressure, but I'm feeling weightless
Can't let heaven's pin-striped shooting
Leave you carrying across
Across the desert when you're feeling faithless
After all, this haze is only temporary
Laughter falls on deaf ears in the auditorium

Stories stacked up so tall
And you don't talk me down
You'll talk me through
Bright lights on platform fire
I'm a man on a wire
You're here for the view

Scattered in the mist, I'm moving
It's getting hard for you to watch
You're under pressure when I'm feeling weightless
Up where tensions aren't computing
Where I've never fallen off
I guess I'd like to think your worry's wasted
Worry is wasted on me
After all, this haze may not be temporary
I heard you call
In the back row of the auditorium

Stories stacked up so tall
And you don't talk me down
You'll talk me through
yeah you talk me through
Bright lights on platform fire
on now, you're here for the view
I'm a man on a wire
You're here for the view

So tell me what you think
When you see me there
And tell me what you see
When the smoke is clear

Tore up like your baby blue jeans
I was stepping through a fog
Stories stacked up so tall
And you don't talk me down
You'll talk me through
Yeah, just like you always do
Bright lights on platform fire
I'm a man on a wire
You're here for the view
I'm a man on a wire
You're here for the view

Bright lights on platform fire
I'm a man on a wire
You'll talk me through

This might hurt
Come back to earth, come back to earth
We don't mean to drag you down
Thin air, slingshot
You always find somewhere to wander off
When I need you around

So you went to the last song and
You say it was your only friend

But I won't hold you hostage
And I won't set you free
I'll always leave the lights on
And you'll return to me
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
I won't hold you

Pain will cease
All things will pass
And this is gonna pass, pass
I'm just trying to keep you calm
Oh in the face of all your dreams
They might soon slip away
And miss you when they're gone
And we waited for the cab outside
I offer you a place to hide

But I won't hold you hostage
And I won't set you free
I'll always leave the lights on
And you'll return to me
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage

This might hurt
Come back to earth,
Come back to earth yeah

I won't hold you hostage
And I won't set you free
I'll always leave the lights on
And you'll return to me
No I don't want your ransom
Just say you'll never leave
Just say you'll never leave
I'll always leave the lights on
And you'll return to me
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
I won't hold you

One, two, three, four

I write you from this grounded airplane
I wonder how you've been and where you are
A letter to the one who slipped away
A letter for the things that never start

Oh my imagination running wild
Guess I've missed you from the day that we first met
Crazy, this fascination makes a sound like a twister in my mind
The restless dream we left behind I never will forget

It's funny how the words we never say
Can turn into the only thoughts we know
But Austin's just so very far away
And I cannot believe I let you go

Oh my imagination's running wild
Guess I've missed you from the day that we first met
Crazy, this fascination makes a sound like a twister in my mind
The restless dream we left behind I never will forget

This restless dream

And so I called you from the darkness of my room
You'll never be a memory, now you're a restless dream
A restless dream

And so I write to this address that I don't know
You said you had to leave and we lost track
So if you hear this on the radio
I've said it now and there's no turning back

Oh my imagination running wild
Guess I've missed you from the day that we first met
Crazy, this fascination makes the sound like a twister in my mind
The restless dream we left behind I never will forget

You learn to run, you learn to race
Through life's unforgiving pace
These lines we're tracing to the truth
And stepping over endless cracks
I navigate these crooked paths
But all my roads lead back to you

And who are we to argue fate
And who is time to make us wait
I'm standing here with nothing left to prove

And we're still coming home
A thread through the unknown
Yeah, all the lines we cast into forever
Got tangled like some wreckage in the road
A road we walked alone but all the time
That's passed held us together
And all the lines we cast will bring us home
It's a long way but I'm coming home

And all the time I kept the score
I never grasped what love was for
You, you always gave me what I need
To know it's true and still
I strive to break the bonds and raise the sky
You tear the soil from the sea

But who am I to argue fate
Nd who are you to walk away
I'm standing here with nothing left to prove

And we're still coming home
A thread through the unknown
All the lines we cast into forever
Got tangled like some wreckage in the road
A road we walked alone
But all the time that's passed held us together
And all the lines we cast will bring us home
It's a long way but I'm coming home to you

And who are we to argue fate
And who am I to think this way
I'm standing here with nothing left to lose

And we're still coming home,
A thread through the unknown
Yeah, all the lines we cast into forever
Will come back when the weather hits the road
The road we walked alone
But all the time that's passed held us together
And all the lines we cast will bring us home
It's a long way but I'm coming home

You learn to run
You learn to race through life's unforgiving pace
These lines we're tracing to the truth

No man is an island
No man is a fool
When he finds himself a woman
And she helps him carry through
The days can leave you hungry
And the nights can leave you cold

No man is an island
When a woman's his to hold

Love can bring you riches
Love can give you pain
Love can dig you ditches
Get your wheels stuck in the rain
As long as your heart's beating
It should never beat alone

No man is an island
When a woman is his home

I've been wandering the highway for days
Caught up in drunken displays
Love can be cruel
But I'm not an island I've got you

No man is an island
I've been wandering the highway for days
Caught up in drunken displays
Love can be cruel
But I'm not an island I've got you

No man is an island
And no man is a fool
When he finds himself a woman
And she helps carry him through
Sometimes he is weary
Sometimes he is lost

No man is an island
When a woman's what he's got
No man is an island
'Cause a woman's what he needs.

She's reading in the bedroom
The dog is in the yard
And I just got back from traveling hard

I've been ten days gone
I've been ten days gone 'cross the sea
With my girl in a house in the trees
I love her she knows
But sometimes my love goes
'Cross the sea

Paulette is in the garden
It's the first day of the fall
Lately I'm not getting no sleep at all
She said stay till you're strong
Soon you'll be gone
'Cross the sea

With your girl in a house in the trees
I love her she knows
But sometimes my love goes
'Cross the sea
The sea
The sea
The sea

I went to meet the boatman
He was smoking on his pipe
He said son you look ready
To travel tonight
I think he's right

Soon I'll be gone 'cross the sea
With my girl in a house in the trees
I love her she knows
But sometimes my love goes
'Cross the sea
Because she knows in the oceans I'm free
And it makes her so sad
But she never gets mad when I leave

Wake up it's Monday afternoon
We're still in bed
Oh what to do?
You call your friends but can't get through
And I write songs
To sing for you

Sometimes we're stuck
Most times we're drifting
Most times we're drifting
But tonight let's move

Think fast we're young
Remember when the spotlight cracks
We're dancing with a gun
Your hands will shake
Just take another shot in the dark
Don't keep your safety on
Fast as it comes it's gone
But we're not through dancing
Dancing with a gun

It's five o'clock the sidewalks fill
A world so ready
To break our will
You stand surrounded quite a crowd
Your eyes protecting
A scream so loud
Some looks could kill but yours they shout
Come on let's shout

Think fast we're young
Remember when the spotlight cracks
We're dancing with a gun
Your hands will shake
Just take another shot in the dark
Don't keep your safety on
Fast as it comes it's gone
But we're not through dancing
Dancing with a gun

You got to think fast
Think fast we're young
Remember when the spotlight cracks
You're dancing with a gun
Your hands are shaking
Just take another shot in the dark
A shot in the dark now

Think fast we're young
Remember when the spotlight cracks
We're dancing with a gun
Your hands will shake
Just take another shot in the dark
Don't keep your safety on
Fast as it comes it's gone
But we're not through dancing
Dancing with a gun

She's reading in the bedroom
The dog is in the yard
And I just got back from traveling hard

I've been ten days gone
I've been ten days gone 'cross the sea
With my girl in a house in the trees
I love her she knows
But sometimes my love goes
'Cross the sea

Paulette is in the garden
It's the first day of the fall
Lately I'm not getting no sleep at all
She said stay till you're strong
Soon you'll be gone
'Cross the sea

With your girl in a house in the trees
I love her she knows
But sometimes my love goes
'Cross the sea
The sea
The sea
The sea

I went to meet the boatman
He was smoking on his pipe
He said son you look ready
To travel tonight
I think he's right

Soon I'll be gone 'cross the sea
With my girl in a house in the trees
I love her she knows
But sometimes my love goes
'Cross the sea
Because she knows in the oceans I'm free
And it makes her so sad
But she never gets mad when I leave

When you left here this morning, you were a broken bird
You said you can't turn out the fire
You can't turn out a fire
Your senses were widened
Your smile was hiding what you want nobody to see
Broken bird, now you're free

When you called from the pay phone
You were a paper doll
Said I couldn't tear you up easy
As weak as you were and as strong as I was

You think I'm stronger
I think you're wrong, girl
It's not easy to give you away
Still you call just to say

Just to say you were broken (just a terrible pair of wings)
You were broken (just a terrible pair of wings)
You were broken
You were a broken bird

Yeah, you knew when you met me
That I was razor blade
In these halls of bad memories
I'll do what it takes just to cut 'em all loose
Cause that's where I found you
That's where I found you
To a rocket headed straight for the moon
Where I will meet you soon

I could tell you were broken (just a terrible pair of wings)
Stranded in motion (just a terrible pair of wings)
You were broken
You were a broken bird

And you asked me for the world
All I gave you was the falling sky
Yeah, you asked me for the world
All you needed as place to fly
Yeah, you asked me for the world
And I couldn't give you the world

Cause you were broken (just a terrible pair of wings)
Left your heart open (just a terrible pair of wings)
You were broken
You were a broken bird
A broken bird
You were broken (just a terrible pair of wings)
Stranded in motion (just a terrible pair of wings)
You were broken
You were a broken bird