I Need My Girl (The National)

And don't mind me, I'm hard of hearing  
I didn't hear when he said it was you  
But now your face — it is my vision  
Think I'd be blind if not for you  
Sometimes I think I'd be blind if not for you  

He said you weren't one much for feelings  
I won't pretend I understand your point of view  
For my heart's more ruled than ruling  
Sometimes I wish that wasn't true  
There are times that I wish that wasn't true  

I don't know when we'll next be meeting  
Though we've made plans, I guess they've always fallen through  
You said you'd come to hear me playing  
I wrote this song to play for you  
You know, I wrote this song to play for you  

And why the hell did you talk to me?  
Did you take the phone or did he hand it to you?  
And maybe you're just being friendly —  
From what I know, that sounds like you  
From all the things I know, that sounds like you  

You're so alive, I feel like dyin'  
My words are not enough to carry me through  
My brain is stalled but for the pieces  
that I hate, but then there's you  
The pieces that I hate, but then there's you  

Please don't cry, no time for crying  
though lonely nights chill like wind, to the bone  
I'm sure that I won't keep from crying  
I don't want to die alone  
Oh God I don't want to die alone

No Time For Cryin'

Feels like it's been ten years
  since I could feel enough to cry
  but you, you wouldn't know that feeling, would you?
It seems I'm nearin' twenty five
  and I got a few more till I die
  believe me, that's much more than I’m deserving

well the last ten years are gone
  and all my memories are faded long
  and what's the good of time you can't remember?
and every girl I'd loved is getting hitched
  and I'm just trying to keep my shit
  I'd hoped, I'd prayed that I'd be married

you told me you weren't sure how I'd survived,
  you weren't sure I was alive,
  I guess, my friend, that I got lucky
and maybe God's not punted on me yet,
  despite my hopes that He'd forget
  despite my prayers that He would kill me

and now I've got tears rolling down my cheek,
  reminding me that I am weak
  no girl will love a boy can't stop from crying
so goodnight world, I'll see you soon,
  and goodnight stars and farewell moon,
  I'll see you next when I am twenty-five.

Twenty-Five

There's a light out there a-shinin', baby
It don't shine for me
And someone's heart's a-wantin', baby
It don't want for me
It don't want for me

And there ain't no sense in fightin', baby
Things'll be the way they'll be
And you can kick and scream and cry, baby
Things will be the way they'll be
Things will be the way they'll be
 
It's a long old road you're walkin', baby
It ain't too long for me
And I will love you till the ending, baby
When we'll see what we will see
We will see what we will see

Chicago II (Demo 2)

Wind off the lakes was nice and cool this morning
I held your hand in mine as we walked down the street
Right to that coffee shop by the traffic crossing
the little place where you'd suggested that we eat

We walked inside, my heart was full and singing
You could not know the sort of fool that I'd become
You held the door for some young couple passing
I know you know that they don't do that where I'm from

We took a seat, you noticed I was smiling
You asked me what had brought this smile upon my face
I looked away and told you it was nothing
I could not tell you I was stricken by your grace

We talked a while as we both drank our coffee
You said you'd not seen me this happy in a while
I shrugged and muttered something stupid, surely
I cannot help from being happy when you smile

Wind off the lakes was nice and cool this morning
The sun shone bright, I felt its warmth upon my skin
Right in that coffee shop by the traffic crossing
I looked and you and felt my life begin again

One Morning In A Coffee Shop By The Traffic Crossing

Acoustic cover of Blind Guardian's "Mirror Mirror."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNGCvI9dpZY

Mirror Mirror (Blind Guardian, Acoustic cover)

How was it with your hopes up?
Did they shimmer like her hair does in the light?
And how was it with your dreams up?
Now that they have died and gone away without a fight?

And how was it when you saw her?
Did your heart soar and your stomach writhe inside?
And how were her eyes a-meetin'?
Were they green or blue, as grass or as the skies?

Remember so you don't start hoping

No one will ever love you
And no one will ever care
No one will ever love you
And no one will ever care

It snowed again this blackened morning
Everyone is still asleep with warming dreams
And I hope the cold this morning
Opens up old wounds and blood pools at the seams

'Cause I am hoping for your heartache
And I hope that pain sustains you like your wine and bread
I want you alive and bleedin'
After everyone you love is gone or dead

Remember so you don't start hoping

No one will ever love you
And no one will ever care
No one will ever love you
And no one will ever care

No One Will Ever Love You

it’s quiet now, wee hours of the morning
I didn’t think you’d be awake
no matter though, you’ve no need for sleeping
and nothing happens by mistake

I’m sure you know that they will not miss you
they wish they’d never seen your face
no matter how you fought and you struggled
you lost the fight and lost the race

and wipe away those tears you are weeping
the world is better with you gone
the air unbreathed, the food uneaten
even the earth you tread upon

and even if they cry for your passing
soon you’ll be forgotten too
if any soul deserves to be dying
not one deserves it more than you

and it won’t hurt, will hurt just a moment
silence that screaming in your head
be quiet now, there’s no time for waiting
they will be happy when you’re dead

12/18/16

NoahLange

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