Chipper

Stay away
I'm not a stone
I'm not a step to take
A brake
I'm out of soul
But I'm not a stone yet

Your voice seems so far away
Can't you hear me calling?
Your dreams, they're all wide awake
Can't you hear me moaning?

'Cause you're cold
You're dead, you're a slut
You'd take the joy from the earth
A song, a cry, your whisper
Something to shine me a light
Something that makes me remember
That you're still alive

Love, it comes and goes
It hurts, it makes me wonder
Why I'm under
Light the rings
And break my strings
Make me feel like I'm a real man

Would you let me die?
Are you still alive?

The words are in the book
But I can't read
The feelings in the air
But I can't breathe
A song, your cry, your whisper
Something that shines me a light
Something that makes me remember
That you're still alive
'Cause you're cold
You're dead, you're a slut
You'd take the joy from the earth
A song, your cry, your whisper
Something that shines me a light
Something that makes me remember
That you're still alive

Love, love, love
Love

Are You Still Alive?

We go out at night
With the same people
To the same places
Try to get it right
For the thousandth time
With the same faces
And to think that I'd
Choose you over any of them, girl
But I just know our roads don't cross
The worlds they won't just blossom
The feeling's not mutual
Kinda makes me sad
I bet it makes you glad
To see me like this again,
'Cause I'm just a friend,
'Cause I'm just a friend,
Just a friend

How could I love someone so cold?

Here I go again
Left my coat at the apartment
Winter's fell like:
"Damn, should've bought some coats
When they weren't overpriced yet"
I try to understand
Why I'm doing this
Because you never listen
And you always love to make me look
Like a damn fool, baby

How could I love someone so bold?

Years and years
Years and years have I tried
One hundred times
One hundred times would I die for you baby, yeah

Cigarettes for her and I not to share
'Cause she's always smoking when I'm not there
Again when I find her it's too late
'Cause she's found another man

Cigarettes For Her

Why'd you make it so hard on yourself?
You look for all the signs
You can't read through the lines
You know that

I should make time for myself
I'll work on what's igniting
The past is not exciting
Forget

Maybe some wine will suffice
Or Bacardi, I guess
Far too young, too mindless
To care

I'll figure something out
I'll figure something out

Maybe I'll call you today
Or tomorrow, never
To make up something
I don't want to

I've run out of things to say
Nothing lasts forever
One day you'll remember
Won't you?

I'll figure something out
I'll figure something out

I'll figure something out
I'll figure something out
I'll figure something out
I'll figure something out

Indecision

There's a hatch in your beret
If she snaps it off you're dead
Could I scratch it off instead?
If you can it's in your head

There's a chapel by your feet
There's no laughter in defeat
Do you dream that you're asleep
Holding onto all your sheets?

You can't wake up
You can't break it
You can't get her scent off your skin
Morning takes dawn
Still I'm headstrong
Hiding the frays from my eyes

I've read all the books she read
I've seen all the scars she shed
I bet she lied and broke your head
Are you happy when she's sad?

I can't wake up
You can break it
You can get her stink off your skin
Morning takes dawn
Secret hedgerow

Show me the road there
No blankets, no curtains
No headdress, no red dress
No worries, no address
No fear to smear
The blood and the tears
As it appears
Love off our ears

There are two but there's just one
One to love and one to mourn
You looked sideways and he's gone
In the end, there is no one


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There goes the little boy
With sparkles in his dreams
Keeps falling in love with everything he sees
I know he's a goner for sure
There goes the girl
With the skylight on her hair
Shadows dancing but she doesn't seem to care
I know she'll bring hell when the moon shines

Quite frankly they could be any of you
I'm thinking I don't have the slightest clue
Or do, do, do I?

There goes the girl
With the flowers on her dress
How I'd kill a man for one last caress
Memories in my head
Sat and thought of what went wrong
You only care once you know it is gone
Who did I run away from?

Quite frankly she could be any of you
I'm thinking I don't have the slightest clue
As to whom do I run away from
I'm thanking god brought me here to dance
Even though no one here stands a chance
From poor decision making

Chase, chase, chase, chase me
Move, move, move, move it
Shake, shake, shake, shake it
I don't want to be here too long baby
Chase, chase, chase, chase me
Move, move, move, move it
Shake, shake, shake, shake it
I don't want to be here too long baby

There goes the big boy
With ashes in his dreams
Keeps breaking his heart with everything he sees
I know he's a bummer for sure
There goes the woman
With the skylight on her ends
Fading black hair's frightened colour to it's edge
I know she brought hell once upon a time

Quite frankly I don't know any of you
I'm thinking I don't have the slightest idea
As to where you all have gone
The pointer's spun around a thousand times
Somewhere along it dragged you with the tide
Oh, how I miss it all

South, south, southwest bound
Down, down, way downtown
So, so, so, somehow
How?
How?
It's all gone now
South, south, southwest bound
Down, down, way downtown
So, so, so, somehow
How?
How?
It's all gone now

Chipper

Cris Gehlen