We were kids we played with matches
When we grew up we started bands
We skipped school but played the dances
And when we started making fans...
We blew off college
Toured the country in a van
Now sometimes at the grocery store
The people say they knew me back when
We were teenage rockstars
Made our hometown proud
When we were teenage rockstars
We taught ourselves to play
And we played loud
We signed a deal and made some records
Sold out shows and married young
The money came, we started fighting
We partied hard and had our fun
We blew off deadlines
And forgot to call our friends
Now sometimes at the shopping mall
The people say they knew me back when
We were teenage rockstars
Made our fathers proud
When we were teenage rockstars
We taught ourselves to play
And we played loud
And now I sit at this piano
I watch my daughter in the yard
I think about those days in high school
My best friend playing his guitar
In my parents living room where all of this began
And when I leave the shows these days
The people say they knew me back when
We were teenage rockstars
So young and so strung out
When we were teenage rockstars
We taught ourselves to play
We took the stage, and we played loud
Upside Down Flowers
On the razor's edge
At the first sign of light
The car was packed
While the house was quiet
My sister slept
As we started the drive
To california where itās warmer
āgonna start a new life
Iām āgonna miss Ohio
But this time
Weāre āgonna get it right
Station wagon tires flying
Katieās counting crows
Through the tears in her blues
State lines and capitals
Go rushing
By as Iām trying to find
A station on the radio
Everythingās āgonna be better on the west coast
And the days moved fast
On the northern plans
I read the maps as the prairie grass moved
In the wind like waves
And we canāt look back
Some men you just canāt save
We had our reasons for leaving
Itās better this way
Iām āgonna miss Ohio but Iām not
āgonna miss the rain
Station wagon tires flying
Katieās counting crows
Through the tears in her blues
State lines and capitals
Go rushing
By as Iām trying to find
A station on the radio
Everythingās āgonna be better on the west coast
Better than the mess that we left back home
In Ohio
Goodbye blue house
Goodbye red door
Abandoned worlds where we would drink on weekends
Thereās magnets pulling from the ocean floor
I canāt forget
The way you looked when we were leaving
Station wagon tires flying
Katieās counting crows
Through the tears in her blues
State lines and capitals
Go rushing
By as Iām trying to find
A station on the radio
Everythingās āgonna be better on the west coast
Better than the mess we left back home
In Ohio
Dumb fuck kid celebrities
Talking heads and T.V. screens
Tell me what to do Iām freaking out
Dr. cure my new disease
Fill up my prescription please
Take a knee the emperorās a clown
Oh my god I think they poisoned the water
Just need a place to raise my daughter
Letās buy a private island
Get high and keep on driving
Letās try some time and patience
Iām āgonna take you on a blue vacation
Closet-cased and paranoid
Slingshot armies fill the void
Watch the news or lay out in the sun
Teach me how to twist and shout
Stay at home or face the crowd
I tried doing both but lets just run
Oh my god I think Iām āgonna go crazy
Theyāre picking sides but Iām just too lazy
Letās buy a private island
Get high and keep on driving
Letās try some time and patience
Iām āgonna take you on a blue vacation
Is it me or is this room spinning?
I canāt seem to turn it off
Is it me or is this room spinning?
Someone tell me when it stops
I guess what you give
Is what youāve got
Get high and keep on driving
Letās try some time and patience
Iām āgonna take you on a blue vacation
He brought her flowers on a Monday
Tuesday they spent all day in bed
Wednesday it rained
And Thursday was a river
Of the kind of words
She wished he hadnāt said
He left her on a Friday
Here Saturday was shot
The bells in the cathedral rang on Sunday
But Monday flowers were all she got
He loved her
Then he loved her not
Some girls fall in love for money
Some girls are happy on their own
Some girls just want a man to hold them in their arms
Some girls go out at night
Some girls like staying home
He brought her flowers on a Monday
Tuesday they kept the curtains closed
Wednesday it rained
And Thursday was a river
Pulling petals down
From a single rose
He left her on a Friday
Here Saturday was shot
The bells in the cathedral rang on Sunday
But Monday flowers were all she got
He loved her
Then he loved her not
She woke up brave on Monday
To an empty window box
By Friday she was ready for the weekend
Monday flowers she forgot
She loved him
Then she loved him not
She loved him
Then she loved him not
I bought an old black limousine
Packed my suit and pawned the last of our precious metal
And my blue eyes never looked so green
Iāve got a debt to pay and a date with the devil
Iāve got mouths to feed
Iāve gotta get level
Oh Las Vegas Iām
Running out of time
and my youth is all but ashes
If I donāt make church by nine
Iāll be praying on the drive
Passed the lake as fake as a showgirlās lashes
That Iām āgonna turn our luck around
Iām āgonna take this town
Iām āgonna walk these flooded streets like a king with my umbrella out
And the paper rain pouring down
I rented a room at the desert queen
I shaved my face, I comb my hair and I check the weather
And I see clouds where the mountains see
The valley floor where the neon soars like a hand to heaven
Iāve got work to do
Rollinā them sevens
Oh Las Vegas Iām
Running out of time
and my youth is all but ashes
If I donāt make church by nine
Iāll be praying on the drive
Passed the lake as fake as a showgirlās lashes
That Iām āgonna turn our luck around
Iām āgonna take this town
Iām āgonna walk these flooded streets like a king with my umbrella out
And the paper rain pouring down
Gotta stack on the line and a stack behind
Rolling like a wave on a moonlit night
money on the four money on the eight
Paying down the marker ācause the bank wonāt wait
Iām āgonna turn our luck around
Iām āgonna take this town
Iām gonna walk these flooded streets like a king with my umbrella out
Iām āgonna turn our luck around
Iām āgonna make you so proud
Iām gonna walk these flooded streets like a king with my umbrella out
And the paper rain pouring down
3 Sleep tight
I will come to your defense
Whatever road youāre taking
Tonight
I know nothingās making sense
But Iāll guard the room you wake in
Close your eyes
follow the sound of my voice
My voice
āCause Iām āgonna sing
You are the boat Iām the ocean that rocks you to sleep
Youāre the balloon Iām the ballast attached to the string
If youāre into deep
Or you climb to high
On this wild
This wild ride
Sleep tight
There are dreams you have not dreamed
And doors to worlds unopened
Donāt fight
Some questions arenāt worth answering
Some hearts that break arenāt broken
Close your eyes
follow the sound of my voice
My voice
āCause Iām āgonna sing
You are the boat Iām the ocean that rocks you to sleep
Youāre the balloon Iām the ballast attached to the string
If youāre into deep
Or you climb to high
On this wild
This wild ride
Donāt know what youāll find
On this wild ride
Sleep tight
I will come to your defense
Whatever road youāre taking
Tonight
I know nothingās making sense
But Iāll guard the room you wake in
Close your eyes
follow the sound of my voice
My voice
āCause Iām āgonna sing
You are the boat Iām the ocean that rocks you to sleep
Youāre the balloon Iām the ballast attached to the string
If youāre into deep
Or you climb to high
On this wild
This wild ride
Sleep tight
There are dreams you have not dreamed
And doors to worlds unopened
Donāt fight
Some questions arenāt worth answering
Some hearts that break arenāt broken
Close your eyes
follow the sound of my voice
My voice
āCause Iām āgonna sing
You are the boat Iām the ocean that rocks you to sleep
Youāre the balloon Iām the ballast attached to the string
If youāre into deep
Or you climb to high
On this wild
This wild ride
Donāt know what youāll find
On this wild ride
Jami was a good friend
Back when we were kids and my father got sick
We would hang out on the weekends
In her house by the cathedral where all the good people
Got dressed up on a Sunday
To go and spill their secrets no matter who the preacher was
We used to find that funny
But itās easy when youāre young not realize that youāre lucky
When the last of your friends are gone
You learn a whole lot about hanging on
But if you crash and nobody sees
Just remember there will always be
A room for you in my house in the trees
Aaron was a good friend
We were in our twenties, we drove across the country
Then moved into the canyon
And he looked after the business the year that I got sick
Then we went off in different directions
Kept in touch but it never was the same
I never got to thank him
But I wrote it in a letter
Iām sure I""ll send it someday
When the last of your friends are gone
You learn a whole lot about hanging on
But if you crash and nobody sees
Just remember there will always be
A room for you in my house in the trees
I am a lucky man
I have been so many places
When I dream it seems Iām chasing
A bittersweet memory
When the last of your friends are gone
You learn a whole lot about hanging on
But if you crash and nobody sees
Just remember there will always be
A room for you in my house in the trees
She does her best
Thinking in the morning
She barely sleeps
But that donāt bother her
Penelope
The whole world drives you crazy
But not half as crazy as you drive the world
She reads her books
And goes out every evening
She ran away
When she was just a girl
Penelope
The whole world drives you crazy
But not half as crazy as you drive the world
And she loves riding on her bicycle
Through the middle of town when the whole townās asleep
And sheās not wearing anything
But a tattoo of a wedding ring
From another life but that life was blur
Penelope
The whole world drives you crazy
But not half as crazy as you drive the world
Today Iām sleeping in
Iāll wake up with the world on fire
And Iāll listen to music instead of the news
āCause I have been here before
Chasing dreams you can get so tired
Too tired to tell the dreams coming true
I got careless
I pushed you away to live for the day
But tonight I canāt bear this
Iām breaking free
But what good is free if I cannot share it
With you
A cloud on the sun in a sky so blue
I was careless
So careless with you
if I could do this again
Every chord, every note, every page
Every song that I sing I would sing them for you
So I will steady my pen
Write these words from your busted bird cage
And Iāll watch the world pass from the bars you broke through
I got careless
I pushed you away to live for the day
But tonight I canāt bear this
Iām breaking free
But what good is free if I cannot share it
With you
A cloud on the sun in a sky so blue
I was careless
So careless with you
When the gold of daylight breaks
Feel the sunshine on my face
Will you take me back
Even after all of my mistakes?
I got careless
I pushed you away to live for the day
But tonight I canāt bear this
Iām breaking free
But what good is free if I cannot share it
With you
A cloud on the sun in a sky so blue
I was careless
So careless with you
Lamps and tables
Books and chairs
Spinning fans and silverware
Coffee maker
Cups and glasses
Nosy neighbors
Whisper Passing
Everything must go
You know I tried
Everything must go
I know itās hard to say goodbye
Frames and pictures
Hand me downs
Trucker caps and a wedding gown
Vinyl albums
Record player
Boxes marked handle with care
Everything must go
You know I tried
Everything must go
I know itās hard to say goodbye
But it donāt matter
As long as youāre mine
Let go, letās fly
Everything must go
I know itās hard to say goodbye
But it donāt matter
As long as youāre mine
Our home is
The road, the sky
Everything must go
Let go, letās fly
Everything must go
