Bright Leaves

I don't like

The way you're treating me

Warm winter rain

I found my keys

Under the snow

An empty page glowing

Alone for days

Behind a quiet door

Sitting in a drift

Us in a car

Arguing I'd forgive

But I always forget

Which side I'm on

I never change

You never change

It's my fault

There's no decision

Sometimes I'm just a hole

For you to get in

I never change

You never change

Somehow we're bright leaves

You and I beneath the old snow

Being set free by the winter rain

And I know it'll never change

You never change

You never change

You never change

You never change

You never change

You're never gonna change

You're never gonna change

You never change

You never change

You never change

You never change

You never change

You're never gonna change

You're never gonna change

Before Us

I'm surprised staring at the knives

Lying silent in the drawer

I hear the front door ring in my guitar

Empty up against the wall

Alone with the people who have come before

Alone with the people who have come before

Alone with the people who have come before us

I'm high for the people who have come before

I'm high for the people who have come before

I'm high for the people who have come before us

I remember when wars would end

Remember when wars would end?

Now when something's dead

Now when something's dead

We try to kill it again

Alone with the people who have come before

Alone with the people who have come before

Alone with the people who have come before us

One and a Half Stars

I wish

Too much

For you

To care

Goldfish

I won

At the fair

Meet the mother

Can't complain

There is

No mother

Like pain

I'm left with only my desire to change

So what

I stay

In bed

All day

I can't

Escape

My domain

Two stories high

In bed

All day

I can't

Escape

My domain

You mean

Too much

To me

I'm angry

I could need

So much

I'm worried

About the way

We're all living

And this

Is my

Love song

I'm left with only my desire to change

So if

I stay

In bed

All day

I won't

Escape

My domain

Two stories high in bed all day

I can't escape my domain

I can't escape my domain

I won't escape my domain

Quiet Amplifier

I wish your world was mine

I wish your world was mine

Prayers run along the wires

Honey, no train's going to come

I have waited my whole life

I've tried in my way to love everyone

I wish your world was mine

I wish your world was mine

I have a quiet amplifier

Silence seems more true

Every guitar is denied

I've tried in my way to love you

I wish your world was mine

I wish your world was mine

I wouldn't mind feeling fine

I wish your world was mine

If only your world was mine

If only your world was mine

Shy little stars must shine

Shy little flower on the vine

Everyone Hides

If you're telling yourself a story

Where the secrets twist like vines

And you know where the bodies are buried

But you can't remember where you buried the mines

Oh no one denies

Everyone hides

Oh oh, everyone hides

If you're selling yourself on a tale

Where the details drift with time

Where the point gets lost in the telling

And the telling was the point all the while

Deep inside

Everyone hides

Oh oh, some of the time

If you're selling yourself on a vision

A dream of who you are

An idea of how it should be

And a wish upon a star

Remember...

Remember...

It can't be denied

Oh oh everyone hides...

Oh no one denies

Everyone hides

Oh oh, everyone hides

Oh oh

Oh oh

Oh oh

White Wooden Cross

A white wooden cross by the side of the road

One someone lost that I did not know

What would I do?

What would I do?

If a white wooden cross meant that I'd lost you.

I asked myself how would I let go?

And a thought appeared like a morning dew

And my blood ran cold

My blood ran cold

As these sad ideas passed through

Tell me no lies

Tell me no lies

Is it stranger to live?

Is it stranger to die?

What would I do?

What would I do?

If a white wooden cross meant that I'd lost you

Tell me no lies

Tell me no lies

Is it stranger to live?

Is it stranger to be alive?

For all the people that I am not

And all their prayers and all their thoughts

There's so much more out there

Than here where I stand

I blow my horn for the whole band

Citizens

Giant lights

Birdless skies

Throw me on the role

Wound tight

Nerves fried

Darling the killer you know

White lies

white lies

white lies

white lies

Women and men

Citizens

Carry your own cross

Careless

Careless

You are the albatross

White lies

White lies

White lies

While lies

Pine box

Stop the clocks

Why can't both be true

High time

High crimes

Medals for you to salute

White lies x 14

We Were Lucky

All I saw from where I stood

The sun was smiling down on us

We were lucky that's for sure

I was yours

Now all I see from where I'm from

Empty auditorium

We were lucky that's for sure

I was yours

And you didn't mind

Being mine

There was a pop in my ear

As I left the atmosphere

Dragging behind my mind

It's too late

Don't say it

Don't say...

All I saw from where I stood

Three long mountains and a wood

I'm lucky that's for sure

I'm yours

And you didn't mind being mine

Love Is Everywhere (Beware)

So tangled in the wild

Seeing myself as something more mean

Out in the country

Sadness wants me

Further away from the scene

Right now right now love is everywhere

Right now right now love is everywhere

Where the sunlight grabs the lake

It's frozen in the flames

Beneath the sleeping town

With the riots raining down

It's all yours now

It's all for you

Right now right now love is everywhere

Right now right now love is everywhere

So many things I do

I can't explain to you

Right now right now love is everywhere

Right now I'm frightened how

Love is here

Beware

Our love is everywhere

Hold Me Anyway

So

You might not give a dam

I'm like a hologram

Light is all I am

Time is nothing I can keep

It's the same as when I sleep

If time is just to kill

Then I will

Overflowing like a crowd

I'm freaking the fuck out

I'll try to do my best

I guess

High in an old dead tree

That plastic bag is me

That's where I want to be

Are we all in love just because?

No! I think it's poetry and magic

Something too big to have a name

And when you get it right it's still tragic

And when you die who's to blame?

Did you think everything

Would be okay?

Are we all in love just because?

No! I think it's poetry and magic

Something too big to have a name

And when you get it right it's still tragic

And when you die who's to blame?

Did you think everything

Would be okay?

No! I think it's poetry and magic

Something too big to have a name

And when you get it right it's still tragic

And when you die who's to blame?

Do you think, everything

Will be, okay

Okay

An Empty Corner

Eight tiny lines of cocaine

Left on a copy machine

In an empty corner of a dream

My sleep could not complete

There are sirens in the birds

And you and I are too far apart

And my eyes need a shave

What else can go wrong?

Now that I'm not longed for

Wild life seems wrong

Won't care

Won't stare

You've got family out there

The silver black boot

That cracked my front tooth

Is a new kind of truth

I'm getting used to

Come back lonely

How sad if only

I don't believe you don't care

You've got family out there

Where the power lines are down

Whipping sparks around

Like angels touching down

I see you there

How sad

If only

Don't believe you don't care

You've got family out there

You've got family out there