Mad Season

If You're Gone

Working through the pain. Trying to find your last love (or has it already passed you by)

You look at me with doubt in your eyes,
Wondering if we're just another love in disguise.
Honey, I can feel the weight of your fears,
But every tear we’ve shed has brought us here.
They say every love’s a gamble, a roll of the dice,
And I know there's a chance we’ll pay the price.
But what if this time, we play it right?
What if tomorrow shines brighter than tonight?

Oh, do you think we’re gonna last?
Honey, every heart's been broken in the past.
But hell, don’t we all wish for a love that’s true?
We can dance with dreams, paint the day anew.
Oh, do you think this is all there is?
Every broken road leads to a final bliss.
So love yourself through the scars and the pain,
‘Cause you never know your last love 'til it reigns.

Every romantic tale is a winding road,
Lessons learned are heavy as a load.
You ask if this will be our final stand,
Well, I'll tell you honey, I’ll take your hand.
Through storms and silence, through laughter and cries,
Together we’ll weather the lows and highs.
As wrong as we were, I loved her still,
Like sipping on whiskey, or climbing a hill.

Oh, do you think we’re gonna last?
Honey, every heart's been broken in the past.
But hell, don’t we all wish for a love that’s true?
We can dance with dreams, paint the day anew.
Oh, do you think this is all there is?
Every broken road leads to a final bliss.
So love yourself through the scars and the pain,
‘Cause you never know your last love 'til it reigns.

But we gotta believe, though it’s tough to see,
This could be the start of something so free.
Moments can change like the tide in the sea,
As long as we’re together, it’s you and me.
We’ll write our own story with each passing day,
Finding the magic in every old cliché.
So hold on tight, let’s take this chance,
With a heart full of hope, let’s join in the dance.

So here’s to the journey, the heartache, the thrill,
With every sweet whisper, let’s love still.
As wrong as we were, here’s what I know,
It’s loving and living that helps us to grow.


Until it's the Last

The Way We Hold On by Tony Gibbs
All rights reserved © ℗ 2025 Tony Gibbs

It’s been a while since that wild first ride,
Since your feet on my dash, since our hearts couldn’t hide.
Now the shoes by the door look a lot like home,
And the life that we built doesn’t feel like a loan.
Coffee cups and calendars,
All the little everyday whispers—
Funny how the smallest things
Become the ones you treasure.

And when the world gets loud outside,
You’re still the quiet place I find—

It’s in the way we hold on,
Soft but strong, steady and long,
How the years turn hard times into songs.
Love ain’t fireworks or perfect lines,
It’s the promise kept a thousand times.
Baby, we’ve come so far,
And I’m still fallin’, still in awe—
Of the way we hold on.

We’ve had nights with too much silence,
We’ve had days when we fell apart.
But every time we lost direction,
You still reached for my hand in the dark.
We learned that love is patient,
More honest than we knew—
It’s sayin’ “I’m not leaving”
Even when the sky turns blue to blue.

And every time my fear kicks in,
You’re there to let the light back in—

It’s in the way we hold on,
Soft but strong, steady and long,
How the years turn hard times into songs.
Love ain’t fireworks or perfect lines,
It’s the promise kept a thousand times.
Baby, we’ve come so far,
And I’m still fallin’, still in awe—
Of the way we hold on.

Maybe love was made for seasons—
Storms and summers, doubts and reasons.
But you’re the place I always land,
My steady heart, my second chance.
And even when the years grow tall,
You’re the one I trust through it all.

It’s in the way we hold on,
In the way we choose to stay when the night feels long.
How forgiveness turns the past to dawn.
Love’s not easy, but it’s ours—
A little fragile, mostly stars.
Baby, even when we’re old and gone,
I’ll still be grateful, still be strong—
For the way we hold on.

Part 6: The Way We Hold On (duet)

Smallville Volume 2

You And Me

North

Overjoyed

More Than You Think You Are

All I Need

Greatest Hits Volume One - The Singles

Let Love In

Our Song

Cradlesong

Mockingbird

Someday

Formed in Florida, Matchbox Twenty entered the world with a blockbuster -- 1996's YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU. The debut set spawned five hit singles -- "Push," "3 am," "Real World," "Long Day" and "Back 2 Good" and snagged an RIAA Diamond Award certification for U.S. sales exceeding more than 12 million to date. Thomas also raised the band's profile by co-writing and singing on Santana's Grammy Award-winning 1999 smash "Smooth." Matchbox Twenty maintained the momentum with MAD SEASON in 2000 and "MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE in 2002, both of which went multi-platinum and continued to spit out hits such as "Bent," "Unwell," "If You're Gone," "Bright Lights" and "Disease."

But after three albums of hard work and equally hard touring, Matchbox Twenty was ready for a break. Thomas released a pair of Top 5 solo albums which contained several #1 singles, Doucette worked with his band The Break and Repair Method and wrote film music, while Cook led the New Left. The hiatus not only renewed Matchbox Twenty as a band but also seasoned the individual members even further as they came back together for 2007's EXILE ON MAINSTREAM, a greatest hits collection that sported six inspired new tracks which were co-written by the band for the first time ever and included their biggest selling single to date “How Far We’ve Come”. 

In addition to more than 30 million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty has also earned countless accolades, including five Grammy nominations, four American Music Award nods, the 2004 People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Musical Group, and they were named “Best New Band” in the 1997 Rolling Stone Readers Poll.

After EXILE ON MAINSTREAM's Top 5 success, Matchbox Twenty continued the collaborative process as it headed towards NORTH. The romantic "Overjoyed," according to both Thomas and Doucette, was "the first time we felt like we had something special”. Kyle Cook took lead vocals on the incredible ballad "The Way," which he and Doucette penned together. "She's So Mean," meanwhile, represents a "storytelling exercise" during which Thomas, Doucette and Cook sat around a microphone free styling lyrics that they eventually sculpted into the cautionary tale about a hard-to-handle woman who Doucette promises bears no similarity to anyone in the group members' real lives. Listening deeper to NORTH reveals even more different nuances, approaches and feels because of the group-writing dynamic.
 
"Matchbox Twenty is pretty all-encompassing," Doucette says. "Once it gets rolling, we just devote all our time and energy to that. I can speak for everybody on this; it's the thing we hold the most dear because it's the thing we built the longest, so we want to give it its due. We don't make records that often anymore, so when we do we want to devote our time and energy to not only doing it; but also bringing that music to the fans."

Overjoyed

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