08 Places To Go, People To Read

09 Untitled

10 Goodnight To This Bar

11 Live Once, Die Twice

Lover giveth, life is in focus, my heart lives in the clouds
I just want to call her, the reasons don't matter, she is my everything today
Stronger than ever, never been better, throwing the weight of the world off my shoulder
Can't wait to see her, tell her i love her, tell her that she makes me better

Lover giveth, her touch is my heaven, I'll die a happier man to have felt it
Dreams of our future, her hand in mine, until the end of time
All day i miss her, just want to kiss her, hear all about her flight
I'll make her so happy, I'll sing her sappy songs, that only she could hear

As the calendar fades still your beauty remains
this perfect picture is you
Over the years, these words you will hear
the verses that ring out "i love you my dear"
Making the memories, we live our lives for
the ones that we both adore
'til the love my lover giveth no more

Lover taketh, eyes out of focus, my heart lies on the ground
I just want to call her, the reasons don't matter, thoughts are my enemies today
Weaker than ever, i'll never get better, the weight of the world is my fault
Wish I could see her, tell her I love her, convince her that I can be better
All day I miss her, just want to kiss her, show her that this isn't right
But I don't make her happy, so i sing this sappy song I know she'll never hear

As the calendar fades, then so will my gaze
the perfect picture of you
In place of my fear lives a song you won't hear
the verses still ring out "I love you, my dear"
Plagued by the memories I don't want anymore
but they hurt too much to ignore
Now that the love my lover giveth is no more

Now I'm left everyday to fake I'm ok
Like you did until you were sure
that the love you gave me is no more.

Lover Giveth,Lover Taketh Away

While you're pulling away, I've been reaching out
You still wear my embrace, the one you woke up with that day
You say that we're just not right, citing parallel lives
While i selfishly took pride in feeling completely intertwined

I'm trying hard to step away
My friends tell me I should find some hate
If it was so easy to feel that way
I could've never loved you anyway

Since you've walked away I've been trapped in the fray
The image of your face that I woke up to that day
Tried to let me down easily, though unexpected and urgently
Left me to my devices - Insecurities and vices

I could be spending all my time at the crime scenes in my mind
About those final few nights that you were never really mine
But i shouldn't have to find synthetic peace of mind
I'll be pathetic for some time, knowing that you're just fine

Never Loved You Anyway

We've run out on objectivity and into subjectivity
Now we're relatively blind
We've come ignoring our integrity, we're standing on the front porch
I should've closed the door on you

There's no cure for what you've done
until you figure out what you want from me, or what you want from anything
No cure for who I've become 
since I've figured out what i want for me, and taken back everything i gave you

There's some trace of passion left in me
Not the same kind of energy that i put in once upon a time
But I still find you amazing, and here i'm left stark raving mad


No Cure

Please don’t lecture me on how much worse things could be
No lessons on the population of the deep blue sea
Hold your flattery on the charm you say I bring
It’s lost on the only one who really means anything to me

I know you mean well and you’re coming from the right place
But I don’t wanna talk and I don’t feel much like listening today

I know it takes two to dance, but only one can lead
Like it takes two to fall in love, but it just takes one to leave
Be optimistic but we both know how this bottle ends up
As empty as these words of wisdom. No pearls, just fluff

I know you mean well and you’re coming from the right place
But I don’t wanna talk and I don’t feel much like listening today

Keep telling me how it’s her loss and that it just wasn’t meant to be
Then why am I still in this cage while she flies free
Crush my heart and hope to die, I know communication is key
The fine line between her being “the one” and being “the one who got away”

I know you mean well and you’re coming from the right place
But I don’t wanna talk and I don’t feel much like listening today
I know your heart is pure and you’re helping in your own way
But I’m all outta talk and I sure don’t feel like listening today.


Broken Record

I got a bad feeling down deep in my soul
It's the only feeling that I really trust anymore

By the time I got the message
I knew something had gone wrong
The more I learn the lesson
I get the sense there's more to come
Can it be imagination
A rogue wave of intuition
I know it can't be that connection that 
I must've dreamed we shared
Just then that grand epiphany
Reminds me that it's not good for me
The triggers that set me off
Just like that movie that we watched

I got a bad feeling down deep in my soul
It's the only feeling that I really trust anymore
I got a demon that just won't let go
A deep, dark delusion disguised as hope

So I put this pen to paper
Like there's some message to be read
But in the end it's just another song that
Can't bring back the dead

I got a bad feeling down deep in my soul
It's the only feeling that I really trust anymore

This is a message with no receiver
This is a truth with no believer
Pitting one way signs
Against the u-turns in my mind

Hope=Delusion

Go On, Be True

If I’m just an accident waiting to happen
Or a prophet for the end of time
Either way seems to me that you’ll be fine
The enjoyment of an era if only just in error
Who knew?  Now the cliché is becoming you

Go on, go on… be true to yourself, go on.
I wouldn’t ask for anything else
So when can I expect some truth to trickle down on me?

Whether nature’s purist selection
Or just random acts of rejection
Either way I think you’re gonna turn out fine
The illusion of evolution
With sprinkled grains of truth
You’ve had your fun, you did the best you could
Gather your demons, pray to your angels
As you wait for the end of the world
But I know there are better ways to be understood

Go on, go on… be true to yourself, go on.
I wouldn’t ask for anything else
So when can I expect some truth to trickle down to me?

So take this, you’ll feel better
The promise of better weather
A laundry list of things that need to change

But go on, go on… be true to yourself,  go on
I wouldn’t ask for anything else… go on
Be true to yourself, go on.  I wouldn’t ask for anything else…
Go on, be true to yourself, go on.


Acoustikmike