Zach Goode covers "When We Were Young" written by Adele Adkins and Tobias Jesso Jr. from the album "25" by Adele

Zach Goode Covers When We Were Young By Adele

I’m an afterthought of an asterisk
The second son of a calculated risk
A Pollock canvas on a blank wall
You don’t know me at all

I am Brooklyn lost in the Cape’s kiss
Annie Hall with a clenched fist
Spiritus after last call
You don’t know me at all

I am the last in a series of firsts
The best of the worst of the worst
A virgin birth at the Town Hall
You don’t know me at all

I am a snow day in a summer town
An airstream trailer that sits broken down
Not even one shot of the four of us on the wall
You don’t know me at all

But sometimes I feel free
There are no ghosts between these walls
There’s only you and me

And some nights end just right
when there’s nothing left to talk about
and I don’t want to fight
and for a moment
it’s all right



Note to Self

It’s finally what they said it’d be
No longer afraid to breathe

This night exists
For you and me
To dance under the moon
And sing out loud like lovers do

I’ve seen the faces
And the desperate things they do
Seen them haunting the same places
Slowly going mad inside
from waking up with fools

Hey tonight, let's leave those fading hearts behind
Watch the sunrise from our bed
It’s alright it’s just the world I thought was mine
Was all inside my head

And there’s room for two instead

Santa Monica

Drifting like a halcyon
In the thinning atmosphere
Distant transmission 
still ringing in your ears

There’s blood inside the wine
But you can still rewind
Those choices you’ve made
The voices that play in the dark

I need you 
to breathe through this
It’s not been decided 
So come out of hiding at once

Whoa 
there’s still two ways to go
But if you burn all your bridges
This road cannot carry 
you home

Whoa 
I know that you’re afraid
Let me save you 
from burning alive 
In this bed that you’ve made
and transmission’s starting to fade

We’re on two separate lines
That may never collide
But parallel destinies influence the tides

The transmission’s starting to fade

Distant Transmission

Sitting on a disappearing star
You know that we are
Spinning alone 
We are
Evolving from stone
Try to believe that we’re still attached to the sun

Drowning in a sea of tranquility
You know we will be 
Sinking alone 
We’ll be
Further from home
Try to believe that we’re still attached to the sun

And after all 
We’re mostly just oxygen	
We’ve been here before
We’re trying to get back to the sun	

We don’t want to admit we’re alone

Try to believe that we're still attached to the sun

Leap Year

Close your eyes
Little girl
Today is gone
But there’s still time
To find your place in the world

Rest your head
Go to sleep
May your dreams of flying
Among the clouds
Be the ones you keep

I see you trying hard to hang on
But you won’t hear the end of this song
It’s all right
You’ll be in my arms by dawn
So close your eyes
Today is gone

One deep breath
To let it go
If the smallest seed
Is watched and loved
A mighty tree will grow


Close Your Eyes

Embrace all your enemies just as though
Their thoughts were your own
Surrender to chaos it’s beautiful
Inside of the storm

Disaster may drop the sky onto you
You’re still as a pond
The river runs over and under you
You’re dry as a bone

For a moment, for a moment 
You feel truly free
For a moment, one moment
You’ve been released

You swallow tornados and understand
The storm’s lonesome moan
The bridges have all collapsed under you
But you’re finally home


How to Imitate Thunder

Where do I fit in?
Between parking stalls and graffiti walls
And music on the chin

If sleeping is a sin
It’s cousins to an evolution 
That babies all begin

And tonight
The daughters of the revolution
Sing to me like sirens in the storm
Tonight
The daughters of the revolution
Sing to me and guide my way back home

There’s lightning in the air
It’s heightened by the glare
But I’m not frightened

There’s blood under the snow
From holy wars and shooting stars
And wounds that never close

Some trees just never grow
So blackened by the hearts of man
And the twisted feet of crows

We’re bursting at the seams
Burning sands and empty hands
We live beyond our means

Across the seven seas
We’re chasing planes and tapping veins
And mortgaging our dreams

Daughters of the Revolution

Rosie she packs her car with what she grabs from her apartment
She can see darkness falling right before her eyes
It’s almost September, and another school year’s close to starting
Time to get out before it all turns red and dies
 
While we’re here
and we’re young
let’s find a place where we belong
The summer streets will move us all along
 
We are free
and our love
moves us only in directions that it should
It’s in our blood

Dylan he shows up moments after Rosie pulls away
He traces the last month on his hand with a blade
He sits on the curb and counts the stars he never got to show her
She never could sit still for very long anyway
 
Fast-forward 15 years to the parking lot of a small town high school
Rosie she stands outside with her son in the shade
It's almost September and another school year’s close to starting
This time of year makes her think of the ones who did not get away

Summer Streets

Suicide pavement
Takes what the sky meant to keep
Overflows
Straight to the basement
Didn’t know this place went so deep
Still it grows
So big
And we’re just too small

What if I slip through the cracks?
What if I never come back?
What if this hand-me-down freeway
Leads only to black?

I will tattoo the wings
Of a crow on my arm
And head home

I overheard talking
In an overgrown garden at noon
Loud and clear it said
“Act like tonight is the last night on earth
‘cause the sun comes too soon”
And it's big
And we’re just so small

I’m going home

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