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And I watched the Atlantic Ocean rise to meet New York,
And everyone involved got way too scare that life is way too short,
And we all sang songs about things we'd take back,
If given the chance,
And I'd never seen the sky a sadder shade of gray,
And I thought about the words I told you,
And others I forgot to say,
So just tell me that you'll hold my hand,
We'll stand together here in New York sand
'Cause we're all just chasin' red ballons,
As our sky falls to the ground,
And the ocean rises up,
And you refuse to make a sound,
And everybody falls,
And it slices into beats,
Except for you and me,
We've got Promises to keep,
Here on Lucky Street,
So Many faces that I hoped to soon forget,
They're all just pushin' and kickin' and screamin',
In a panicked mournful fit,
They're all fitting for just North of here,
But you're just South and baby I'm so Scared,
'Cause we're all just chasin' red ballons,
As our sky falls to the ground,
And the ocean rises up,
And you refuse to make a sound,
And everybody falls,
And it slices into beats,
Except for you and me,
We've got Promises to keep,
Here on Lucky Street,
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And this is my last remaining filter on my last remaining words
It's leaving the taste of something bitter on my tongue
I'm leaving a letter full of reasons along with a line that starts to blur
Into a page that says you faded way too young
Cause you're leaving something short of innocent
I'm still thinking of the times we should of spent
It's as if this form of treason crawled up deep inside your head
And left you notes on how to keep your insides dead
If I had any other heart if any other piece spoke louder
If I had any other hands I wouldn't need the voice to tell
The world about the coward that refuses to stand and claim the blood on your hands
If I had any other heart beside my own we might have left you cold
I'm handed a book about instructions on when I should know to go
And tracing my fingers down the binding I get cold
Cause I've been this awful shade of lonely since your reasons left the room
And I'd see everything get warmer if you decide to follow suit
If I could paint the town with all your good intent
I'd leave these walls as red as my eyes could have been
While picking comfort for my Father for a place to rest his head
Well Tallahassee will stay gray outside instead
If I had any other heart if any other piece spoke louder
If I had any other hands I wouldn't need the voice to tell
The world about the coward that refuses to stand and claim the blood on your hands
If I had any other heart beside my own we might have left you cold
If I were king of the world and I could build you a day
I'd smile just to rip it all away
I would to blaze a memory in your head that screams about regret
If I had any other heart if any other piece spoke louder
If I had any other hands I wouldn't need the voice to tell
The world about the coward that refuses to stand and claim the blood on your hands
If I had any other heart beside my own we might have left you cold
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Don't take another day away from me
Cause I don't got many as it stands
Here on the rooftop screaming like the world stopped
Another cigarette for both of us hold my hand
I'll take us both to the top of the world if I can
Cause mama it's ok, tonight I'm going to sing with Elvis
And we will sing, a couple songs just for your ears so sing along and hey
If I go down in the quicksand don't grab my hand
Just play me as loud as you can
Cause tonight I singing with
And daddy's sitting in the corner with Cash when Mr. Moon picks up the beat
I hear the sound of someone warming the Strat while they wait for me
And Freddie says that I can stay, that I don't have to be afraid this time
The angels filling up the place and Carly's walking she's the first in line
Cause mama it's ok, tonight I'm going to sing with Elvis
And we will sing, a couple songs just for your ears so sing along and hey
If I go down in the quicksand don't grab my hand
Just play me as loud as you can
Cause tonight I singing with
Remember the days we thought we were golden and that all these nights were ours
Remember my face, remember the rooftops
Do you remember the stage, when all of it's broken not to show your favorite scars
A smile on your face, we'll count only our stars
Cause mama it's OK, tonight I'm going to sing with Elvis
And we will sing, a couple songs just for your ears so sing along and hey
If I go down in the quicksand don't grab my hand
Just play me as loud as you can
Cause tonight I singing with
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Can you breathe, does it hurt
What's it like when you can see it coming when it takes all that you got just to speak
Can you hear every word as the morning comes and is all transforming
Would it make the slightest difference if you could see
And you wanna get out of here
Cause you don't have the strength to stay
And lost and confused you leave with the atmosphere
It's all we can do, It's all we can do
It's the mark and the scar
It's this all consuming act of silence as we walk out to the room in a daze
It's the sound of the car and the way the road will make the most sense
If we'd ever just quite figure out what it's saying
It's the back of the blade it's the dull but painful ache
Can it hurt, can it save
Cause you wanna get out of here
And you don't have the strength to stay
And lost and confused you leave with the atmosphere
It's all we can do to live and to long for yesterday
And when it takes all we have left to breathe
And everything we have inside to speak
You can't find the nerve when all you want is to bleed
Can we say that we're safe
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Hands down I swear
That I came so prepared to be here by myself
And I'd be just fine
But most of all the time
You're with me on my mind
It's why i stay so cold
And asked you, please don't go
And you were turning off the lights so he could sing to you
Because you want him to
I think he wants you too
And as for me, I spend a night a darker shade of blue
And dance with the thought of you
At least until we find
A song that we can sing to
And heads stay, tails drown
Alone but in this town
Oh my God, how I'd love to tear it down
Cause I've been thinking about tragedy
And how I spend my company
Unkept to keep me seamlessly in tact
In spite of everything
And you were turning off the lights so he could sing to you
Because you want him to
I think he wants you too
And as for me, I spend a night a darker shade of blue
And dance with the thought of you
At least until we find
A song that we can sing to
You came with lipstick and some bruises and another's arms
and left my world a little darker
and left my heart a little harder
Well you keep the ring
Turns out it never makes your fingers warm
And in the hour of my falling
Were you there? And did you fall as well as I?
And you were turning off the lights so he could sing to you
Because you want him to
I think he wants you too
And as for me, I spend a night a darker shade of blue
And dance with the thought of you
At least until we find...
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I paint you pictures all night long
And tell you tales of our every song
And let you know that you're the reason why I'm home
Or I could quote a page of poetry
Show you all you mean to me
And we'd go falling somewhere faster
Knowing we don't want to ever fall at all
Just don't think that this will be easy
Saying that you love me
Lying tongues are clumsy
And don't speak when one more word would kill me
Saying that you love me
Lying tongues are clumsy
But who am I to say
That every breath we take
Won't be another pointless kiss
We gave away
When what we love we burn
Is from the ashes we all yearn
To be the phoenix that rises up from the flames
And don't think that this will be easy
Saying that you love me
Lying tongues are clumsy
And don't speak
When one more word would kill me
Saying that you love me proves
Lying tongues are clumsy
Don't think that this will be easy
Saying that you love me
Lying tongues are clumsy
And don't speak when one more word would kill me
Saying that you love me
When lying tongues are clumsy
I paint you pictures all night long
And tell you tales how every song
And let you know that you're the reason why I'm home
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You put yourself onto the cross
And build your wounds to cover spite
So I can't be the man that martyrs you tonight
Cause we're all paying heavy costs
So leave your speeches with your soapbox
We might be patient but we're still lost
Spitting blood and bleeding all of us
Just look what you've become
Will you answer now to the found and to the hopeless
And if I could leave this place a memory locked up with my darkest secrets
I'd be alright it's what we need but especially me
So cover sins in rhythms beating tell the ones who once retreated
We killed the beast we're all home free
If home is where they wanna be
Count this emotion as a scar
Just a healed but dark reminder
A long and steady marker of the holes you dug in me
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Let's get to the point and all take our tongues out
And not show off our scars not leave here with doubts that
Things in life well they could've been easier
And let's make sure we fought for all that we leave with
And lessons we're taught make sure we believe them
And promises kept all turn into secrets we'll keep to our graves
Get down on your knees when
You feel sure the path ahead is about to end
You can never stop or you don't exist
If you've walked your shoes away
Then just stop here awhile and just sit here with me and just
Hold On
Tell me we'll hold on
To today
To tonight
To the morning
And just hold on
Tell me we'll hold on
Cause you feel
Cause you breathe
Cause when hurting
We are worth it
We can hold on
And we've all seen the road
That we all walked to get here
It's lined with the stones that we cast in our youth
May they glow like a coal
And keep passion inside us
Reminding though young and in love we're all fools
But the time that we spent
In arms and in longing
Can rewrite the pages our fathers left here
From a passage of hope and an act of conviction
To letters unsigned and unsent out of fear
You're so sure the path ahead is about to end
Will you throw this all away
Or keep pace with a stride that stays even with mine
And we'll
Tell me we'll hold on
Tell me we'll hold on
Cause you feel
Cause you breathe
Cause when hurting
We are worth it
We can hold on
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You don't have to be so scared
You don't have to leave tonight
I've just got to hold on tight
For one hell of a ride
And we lost it all just now
To the nights that left you out
So we'll let this go somehow
But you're gunna be proud
And I just needed you to pick me up
Like you did when we were younger
When the lightning and the thunder
Had me clinging to your heart
For someone
To lift me up
When I'm down and I'm forgotten
You'll forever be my father
And I'll be saving tears in jars for this one
How can I fit all these words
Into such a simple verse
It's the last time that we'll speak
So listen to me please
And I just needed you to pick me up
Like you did when we were younger
When the lightning and the thunder
Had me clinging to your heart
For someone
To lift me up
When I'm down and I'm forgotten
You'll forever be my father
And I'll be saving tears in jars for this one
Did you know that you're my heart
And it hurts to be apart
And this cut it hurts so deep
So sing me to sleep
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And lips that bring the softest kiss
That brush your fingertips
As you think about the way you hope she thinks about your days
That you don't find the words to say
Just why you'd rather close your eyes
Then feel her as her sighs take you way to far away and bring you closer to the break
And then you lay there wide awake
Cause if you could you'd start it over it's a game it's one you can't refuse to play
She's like a drug you can't get over never conscious never sober
So you pray and pray and pray
So fight fight cause you're fighting for your life
Somebody call a medic she just went automatic
Hands up like you're reaching for the sky praying for a heartbeat
You try to find another sound
That takes you to the ground
To pull your head out of the clouds
A breathe to bring you down
And let the court become the clown
Cause if you could you'd start it over it's a game it's one you can't refuse to play
She's like a drug you can't get over never conscious never sober
So you pray and you pray and you pray
There's a dream with a girl
And she catches my eye as she dances and swirls
I wake up in a sweat and I try to remember her face but forget
The feel of her skin the weight on my chest
The taste of her lips I've been dreaming of since don't wake up
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And as it gets dark in this house of hallways
And no corridor leads to the stairs
With still wet black paint on all the windows
We got no clocks cause time don't care here
So tell me your name young noble stranger
And tell me just what we're doing here
Have you painted walls with all the answers
Have you hidden doors with all our fears
Cause the soul's rock hard but the heart's trapped underneath
And the weight of it all gets enough just to crush the best out of you and me
But I swear that there's someone who cares here enough to set us free
And if the world don't turn just enough to bring her honest
Then I guess we're better off forgotten
The walls stay too thin in this house of hallways
They let through the echoes and the stares
And they'll bleed bright red with scribbled riddles
Scratched out of their panels by angered air
Cause God knows I've made all my own choices
And if I drown alone it's cause I choose
To spend my time drinking in the stairwells
When we've both got way too much to prove
What he said is
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Today a daughter will hug her father and ask whens Jesus coming back
He wonders should he even bother with the words
Cause all he got her in the world was just a box filled with regret
It played a song that sang redemption in the verse
See since the day the sunshine left it left its marks on both his wrists
And pulled the center of his heart out by a noose
See without the sun you just can't grow into the height that you belong
You stay on the ground to die with way to much to prove
And so lets all keep singing the same song
Keep singing if your wrong
Oh and chins up its all gonna clear up
There's a place where we belong
I see a couple at a diner just there for coffee and a talk
Seems like they've been there for forever when the talk began to stop
And I watched for hours from the corner and they continued down the block
To try to pinpoint every second when my heart began to stop
And so lets all keep singing the same song
Keep singing if your wrong
Oh God and chins up its all gonna clear up
There's a place where we belong
You see the sky can't be this gray forever
Just fill your head with something clever
And clear your throat and scream into the fog
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Just a list of things I'd do if I could fly
Oh I'd fly straight to the moon to bring the sands back here to you
And we'd make castles where we'd spend our days and rooms to last eternities
And perfect cracks get fixed with ease
And if it falls apart fast soon, then we plan
We'll plan for something else
Doesn't matter if it's raining or it's dark
You'll be my something else
The only else cared for
You are
And if I break for one more thing it would be time
Just a second I could pause, just one more minute I'd exhaust
'Cause on the list of everything I need
There's air, but first, there's you and me
There's love, and love you're everything
'Cause I've had dreams where we collected all the clocks
And put them all to bed
Because here inside this moment there is us
There need be nothing else
This is something I've wished for
If I had to walk the earth a thousand times
I'd do it 'cause I love you
Because if you said I had to
I would know it to be true
And I would spend every night under the stars
To memorize the patterns both our heartbeats would make
It might stop me from shakin'
And the truth is,
I've been shameless
And I've been grateful for this one chance
For our first dance
And you are
You are
You are
You are
You are the one
If I had to walk the earth a thousand times
I'd do it 'cause I love you
Because if you said I had to
I would know it to be true
And I would spend every night under the stars
To memorize the patterns both our heartbeats would make
It might stop me from shakin'
And the truth is
I've been shameless
And I've been grateful for this one chance
For our first dance
And you are
You are
You are
You are
You are the one
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You don't have to be so scared
You don't have to leave tonight
I've just got to hold on tight
For one hell of a ride
And we lost it all just now
To the nights that left you out
So we'll let this go somehow
But you're gunna be proud
And I just needed you to pick me up
Like you did when we were younger
When the lightning and the thunder
Had me clinging to your heart
For someone
To lift me up
When I'm down and I'm forgotten
You'll forever be my father
And I'll be saving tears in jars for this one
How can I fit all these words
Into such a simple verse
It's the last time that we'll speak
So listen to me please
And I just needed you to pick me up
Like you did when we were younger
When the lightning and the thunder
Had me clinging to your heart
For someone
To lift me up
When I'm down and I'm forgotten
You'll forever be my father
And I'll be saving tears in jars for this one
Did you know that you're my heart
And it hurts to be apart
And this cut it hurts so deep
So sing me to sleep
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