The Glass Passenger

You gotta swim
Swim for your life
Swim for the music
That saves you
When you’re not so sure you’ll survive
You gotta swim
Swim when it hurts
The whole world is watching
You haven’t come this far
To fall off the earth
The currents will pull you
Away from your love
Just keep your head above

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
Crack in the armor
I swim for brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I’m not giving in
I swim

You gotta swim
Through nights that wont end
Swim for your families
Your lovers, your sisters
And brothers and friends
Yeah you gotta swim
Through wars without cause
Swim for the lost politicians
Who don’t see their greed is a flaw
The currents will pull us
Away from our love
Just keep your head above

I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
Crack in the armor ya
I swim for brighter days
Despite of the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I’m not giving in
I’m not giving in
I swim

You gotta swim
Swim in the dark
There’s no shame in drifting
Feel the tide shifting and wait for the spark
Yeah you gotta swim
Don’t let yourself sink
Just find the horizon
I promise you it’s not as far as you think
The currents will drag us away from our love

Just keep your head above
Just keep your head above
Swim
Just keep your head above
Swim, swim
Just keep your head above
Swim

You see I got this American Love
A brand new planet in the solar system
I'll kiss her neck but I just can’t look her in the eye
You leave for college at the turn of autumn
I spent the winter diving to the bottom
I'll kiss your neck but I just can’t look you in the eye
yeaaahh

Big hearts big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking
(big hearts are for breaking)
Big hearts big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking

You see I got this critical conscience
A brand new black hole in the solar system
I dig my grave but I just cant stand to step inside

And when they find out they’ll sound every siren
Break the door down to find the baby crying
You thought I knew its just not right to tell a lie

Big hearts big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking
(big hearts are for breaking)
Big hearts big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking

Now there’s no turning back
In the face of the sweat we share
There’s nowhere to run
We were so unprepared
It’s a new heart attack
Brand new bricks on my back
But don’t say a word or they might find us there

You see I got this American love
A hidden planet in the solar system
But keep your eyes shut I just can't stand to say goodbye

Big hearts big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking
(big hearts are for breaking)
Big hearts big hearts
Big hearts are for breaking

It was last night
At our empty warehouse party
And there in the black light
I could see the tattoos glowing on your body

She said to meet her there
Beside the power station
And she said she’d let me stare
If the chemicals don’t keep her waiting

Well I’m always coming down from the night before where I left you
I’m always coming down, but I’m doing my best to get caught
I’m always coming down from the night before well I bet you
To hear what gets you off
What gets you off?
What gets you off?
Yeah, what gets you off?

Well I’m always coming down from the night before where I left you
I’m always coming down, but I’m doing my best to get caught
We’re always coming down from the night before well I bet you
To hear what gets you off
What gets you off?
What gets you off?

There is no world wrapping me up
I’ve got a view from the valley
Living well but we’re dying young
To bankrupt a blue sky

I saw the post office from the book
On my way to the west side
Going broke but I’m feeling good
I brought my girl to keep me with it

She’s a suicide blonde
Dyed by her own hand
Suicide blonde
She’s part of the big plan
She’s part of the big plan

Got a job at the DMV
And a call from my father
Got my news from the CNN
Like sheep to the slaughter

Watched the planes landing from the roof
Of my treehouse in Burbank
I had that dream I was taking off
I brought my girl to keep me with it

She’s a suicide blonde.
Dyed by her own hand
Suicide blonde
Part of the big plan
She’s part of the big plan

I got a girl, got a girl, got a girl
To keep me with it
Got a girl, got a girl, got a girl
To keep me with it
Got a girl, got a girl, got a girl
Gotta keep me with it
She’s a suicide blonde

Dyed by her own hand
Suicide blonde
She’s part of the big plan
She’s part of the big plan, yeah

She’s part of the big plan

(and I don't need nothing just drive)
She’s part of the big plan…

It started feeling like October
I got stranded on the road
You know where to find me
Anytime you want me Annie
Annie, use your telescope

So they made my life into a movie
As if I could forget those years
But I know where the time’s gone
Just not where my mind’s been wandering
Annie, use your telescope

Your telescope
Annie, use your telescope

When it’s late, don’t stop looking
Where my eyes turn to glass
When it’s late, don’t stop
Annie, I will make it.

Hello? Is there anybody out there?
Hello? I’m only getting farther from earth

It started feeling like October
Annie, use your telescope
Telescope

When it’s late, don’t stop looking
(Annie, use your telescope)
Where my eyes turn to glass
When it’s late, don’t stop
(Annie, use your telescope)
Annie, I will make it back

When it’s late, don’t stop looking
(Annie, use your telescope)
Where my eyes turn to glass
When it’s late, don’t stop
Annie, I will make it
(your telescope)
Annie, I will make it
(your telescope)
Annie, I will make it

Annie, I will make it

She walks to the mailbox each morning at nine
Every day she begins she’s always one day behind
At least when it comes to the mail

She sits on the balcony paying the bills
No letters just ashing her cigarettes onto the sill
Every breath a little more pale

And the hill’s still left to climb
Is just so

High
And I’m so
Tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on
Fire
It’s just so
High
And I’m so
Tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on

He sits in his basement from midnight ’til four
Painting pictures that nobody sees from his days in the war
Canvases bathed in bright red, red
He heats up the shower, he paces the hall
He’ll scrub for an hour or more but he won’t get it all
The paint in his fingernail beds

The hill’s still left to climb
Is just so

High
And I’m so
Tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on
Fire
It’s just so
High
And I’m so
Tired
Come on look up at the bloodshot sky
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on

We wait in valleys while the clouds come in
We see no shadows, ’cause a shadow’s all there is
And we climb,
And we climb

But it’s just so
High
And I’m so
Tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on
Fire
It’s just so
High
And I’m so
Tired
Come on look up at the bloodshot sky
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on
Fire

I wukkgive you this confession
I am taking you with me
Where we can contemplate our chemistry

And your eyes were lined with questions
With the blood rushing the waves
To take this feeling with us to our graves
To our graves

I get the feeling we’re so misdirected
I get the feeling we have lost control
Tune in I’ll turn you to the new religion
We’re dropping out into the so unknown
The so unknown, yeah.

And we won’t wake up on Sunday
So I’m building us a church
Where we can sleep in
With the gods at work

And our friends will write us letters
They’ll never understand why we don’t call
We’re hiding out until the empire falls
Let it fall

I get the feeling we’re so misdirected
I get the feeling we have lost control
Tune I’ll turn you to the new religion
We’re dropping out into the so unknown

If we have lost control,
We’re drifting slow
Into the so unknown

If we have lost control,
We’re drifting slow
And so we drop out

And I’ll give you this confession,
I am taking you with me.

I get the feeling we’re so misdirected
I get the feeling we have lost control
Tune in I’ll turn you to the new religion
We’re dropping out into the so unknown

I get the feeling we got disconnected
I get the feeling we have lost control
Til then I’ll turn you to the new religion
We’re dropping out into the so unknown

The so unknown, yeah
The so unknown
The so unknown, yeah

These hammers and strings
Been following me around
From a box filled garage
To the dark punk rock clubs
Of 1000 American crowds
And my friend calls me up
She says, “how have you been?”
I say, “dear I’ve been well,
Yeah the money’s come in
But I miss you like hell
I still hear you in this
Old piano, yeah.”
She says, “Andy, I know
That we don’t talk as much
But I still hear your ghost
In these old punk rock clubs
Come on, write me a song
Give me something to trust
Just promise you won’t let it be
Just the keys that you touch.”

Give me something to believe in
A breath from the breathing
So write it down
I don’t think that I’ll close my eyes
‘Cause lately I’m not dreaming
So what’s the point in sleeping?
It’s just that at night
I’ve got nowhere to hide
So I'll write you a lullaby
A lullaby

These hammers and strings
Been following me around
Behind passenger vans
Through the snow, dirt, and sands
Of 1000 American towns
And my friend calls me up
With her heart heavy still
She says, “Andy, the doctors
Prescribed me the pills.
But I know I’m not crazy.
I just lost my will.
So why am I, why am I
Taking them still?”

I need something to believe in
A breath from the breathing
So write it down,
I don’t think that I’ll close my eyes
‘Cause lately I’m not dreaming
So what’s the point in sleeping?
It’s just that at night,
I’ve got nowhere to hide

To the sleepless, this is my reply:
I will write you a lullaby,
A lullaby.

Give me something to believe in
So write it down,
I don’t think that I’ll close my eyes
‘Cause lately I’m not dreaming
So what’s the point in sleeping?
It’s just that at night
I’ve got nowhere to hide

To the sleepless, this is my reply:
I’ll write you a lullaby
A lullaby, a lullaby, a lullaby.

There’s a lot that I don’t know
There’s a lot that I’m still learning
When I think I’m letting go
I find my body it’s still burning

And you hold me down
And you got me living in the past
Come on and pick me up
Somebody clear the wreckage from the blast

Yeah I’m alive
But I don’t need a witness
To know that I survive
I’m not looking for forgiveness
Yeah I just need light
I need light in the dark
As I search for the resolution

And the bars are finally closed
So I try living in the moment
But the moment it just froze
And I felt sick and so alone

I could hear the sound
Of your voice still ringing in my ear
I’m going underground
But you’ll find me anywhere I fear

Yeah I’m alive
But I don’t need a witness
To know that I survive
I’m not looking for forgiveness
Yeah I just need light
I need light in the dark
As I search for the resolution
I need light in the dark
As I search for the resolution

The resolution (it's a long road back from hell)
The resolution (some stories I will never tell)

(annie, I'm almost home)

And you hold me down
Yeah you hold me down

Yeah I’m alive
But I don’t need a witness
To know that I survive
I’m not looking for forgiveness

Yeah I’m alive
But I don’t a witness
To know that I survive
I’m not looking for forgiveness
Yeah I just need light
I need light in the dark
As I search for the resolution
I need light in the dark
As I search for the resolution

I need light
I need light
(Light the dark as I search for the resolution)
Resolution
(Light in the dark as I search for the resolution)
Resolution
(Light in the dark as I search for the resolution)

I'm looking for a sign
My spirit’s faded
She holds on like a vine
Patterns in traffic
That sound just like my heart
Race in the dark
In time to catch you.
No one should let you
Go wandering off into the night
You’re not an orphan.

I keep waiting for my breath
To come back never
So take what I have left
Patterns in traffic
That pulse just like my heart
Racing the dark
In time to catch you
No one should let you
Go wandering off into the night
You’re not an orphan
Right there to catch you
I won’t forget you
but now you’re wandering to the night
But you’re no orphan
You’re not an orphan

I never thought the day would come
(you’re not an orphan)
They tell me that you’ve finally run
(you’re not an orphan)
I guess you always said you would someday
(you’re not an orphan)

I never thought the day would come
(you’re not an orphan)
They tell me that you’ve finally run
(you’re not an orphan)
I guess you always said you would someday
(you’re not an orphan)

I’m caught
Somewhere in between
Alive
And living a dream.
No peace
Just clicking machines
In the quiet of compazine
The walls caved in on me

And she sings
My bird dressed in white
And she stings
My arm in the night
I lay still
Still I’m ready to fight
Have my lungs
But you can’t take my sight
The walls caved in
Tonight.

And out here
I watch the sun circle the earth
The marrows collide in rebirth
In God’s glory praise
The spirit calls out from the caves
The walls fell and there I lay
Saved.

The walls are caving in
As far as I can see
The walls are caving in
The doors got locked for sure
There’s no one here but me

Beat my body like a rag doll
you stuck your needles in my hip
Said ‘we’re not gonna lie
Son, you just might die
Get you on that morphine drip, drip'

The walls are caving in
As far as I can see
The walls are caving in
The doors got locked for sure
There’s no one here but me

I fought a war to walk a gang plank
Into a life I left behind
Windows leading to the past
Think it’s time I broke some glass
Get this history off my mind

And what if we were buried forever
Like the past never happened
And time did not exist for us at all?
I still think we’d still be traveling together
Through all kinds of weather
Everything’s a piece of everyone

As far as I can see
The walls are caving in
Doors got locked for sure
But I see these doors have keys

Walls are caving in
As far as I can see
The walls are caving in
The doors got locked for sure
There’s no one here but me
There’s no one here but me
No one here but me, yeah.
There’s no one here but me
No one here but me

I called Jesus but he didn’t check his phone today,
Oh, there’s my summer girl
I’ve been wanting her
I hear she’s got a boyfriend
Thought I could leave her for a season but it just got cold
Yeah, it’s a lonely hour in my cellphone tower,
Broken down transmission.

But I’m gonna take you to my boxcar on the beach
And I’m gonna hang the sun above your bed
And soak your hair in bleach

You’ll be missed Miss California
You’ll be kissed by only me
When they can’t find you you’ll turn into a mystery
but you’re no mystery to me, Miss California

I called Jesus but he heard I hurt his little girl, yeah,
with my reckless stare, I’ve been so unfair
Misplacing my affections
She had a reason not to take me back into her care
Oh, I’m just a stray dog now, I can beg or bow
Just give me some direction.

But I’m gonna take you to the mansion where I hide
and I’m gonna paint a diamond on your hand
And you will be my bride
You’ll be missed Miss California
You’ll be kissed by only me
When they can’t find you you’ll turn into a mystery
But you’re no mystery to me, Miss California
Miss California
I’ll be around, I’ll be around.

You’ll be missed Miss California.
You’ll be kissed by only me.
When they can’t find you you’ll turn into a mystery
But not to me.

You’ll be missed Miss California
We’ll be married in the rain
When they can’t find you I’m sure I’ll be the one they blame
But they can’t prove anything
Miss California
Miss California
I’ll be around