Tag: Songs Against Interest

Flower Thief – Lyrics

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And if there’s flowers that

You really like

In the path you walk

Go (a)head

And pick them where they stand

Until there’s not one left

Out in the desert you said 

You’d always be my friend

And I believe you meant it then

But as soon as it rained

You left me there for dead

And the sky was turning red

And if there’s flowers that

You really like

In the path you walk

Go ahead

And pick them where they stand

Until there’s not one left

Out in the desert you said 

I wouldn’t die like that

And I learned my blood is red

Could you have been someone else 

In stead

Could I have been who you wanted me to be

Dad?

Trapped – Lyrics

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I woke up today and I really wanted to play my guitar

But my fingers wouldn’t move

To the right places, I couldn’t get the right notes out

So I was left with

So much music trapped inside my head

So much music trapped inside my head

So much music trapped inside my head

So much music trapped inside my head

I woke up today I really wanted to see my friends

But all my friends live far away

Also, my car broke down the other day so I can’t  really drive up to see my friends in the city

So i’m just stuck here with

So much loving trapped inside my heart

So much loving trapped inside my heart

So much love trapped inside my heart

So much love trapped inside my heart

Woke up today and I realized I’ve never, ever spoken to god

So I closed my eyes and I thought real hard of all of the things

‘Wish I could change about the world

But even so I,

still got questions trapped inside my soul

I got questions trapped inside my soul

I got questions trapped inside my soul

I got questions trapped inside my soul

Everything that Matters – Lyrics

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I’ve been trying to follow

Father’s footsteps for a while

But they’re old and faded

They’ve been for quite some time

I’m tired of walking

I’ve got blisters on my feet

They’re too big for these shoes 

That I can’t seem to fill

Oh, what if it’s too long?

Oh, what if it’s been done before?

Oh, what if everything that matters,

suddenly just shatters on the floor,

and then it’s gone?

Well then it’s gone

Now tell me where is the fun

In always being right

Why’s there blood on your knuckles

If you don’t give a crap

When every star falls from the sky

And there’s no shoulders left to cry on

Will that finally be our moment?

Oh, what if it’s too long?

Oh, what if it’s been done before?

Oh, what if everything that matters,

suddenly just shatters on the floor,

and then it’s gone?

Well then it’s gone

Fires – Lyrics

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Now that my luggage is all packed

I wonder if it’s half full or half empty

Now I’ve lost count of the people

Who saved my life, I don’t know

Why I did, half the things I did

And if we tend it

Our little house fire

Could burn this entire city

Wouldn’t it be great

And in the ashes

We’ll search for hidden meaning

Hoping we don’t find nothing 

That proves either of us right

Now that my bottles are empty

I wonder if I can still be a runaway

Now I’ve got time to build things

Will I get that feeling that you get

When you build something from scratch

And if we tend it

Our little house fire

Could burn this entire city

Wouldn’t it be great

And in the ashes

We’ll search for hidden meaning

Hoping we don’t find nothing 

That proves either of us right 

Someone Different – Lyrics

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I will try my hardest

And that’s the hardest that I can

To be who I have been for you

To help you be someone different

And I’m sure you’ll be confused

And I won’t hold it against you

But I am taking off 

This rusty armor

Tonight

You will be impatient

And I’ll fake patience for a lifetime

For as long as I can be your friend

There will be a secret hidden

I will not apologize 

I will probably not remember

When you understand

I’ll be someone different

I did not live

Like my parents lived before

Or how their parents did before them

Or their parents before them

I found it hard

To be comfortable in my own skin and

I didn’t find much joy in anything

So you have to be different

The legend goes unchanged

The dirt, the air, the burning

The stale waters of a river, they say

A dust than never settles

Made of all these things you

Can’t be all that different

So when you feel alone one day

I hope you learned to listen

I did not live

Like my parents lived before

Or how their parents did before them

Or their parents before them

I found it hard

To be comfortable in my own skin and

I didn’t find much joy in anything

So you have to be different

Lifeline – Lyrics

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You got home late it was already dark out

You sighed as you often do  

When you take your shoes off by the fireplace

I didn’t want to ask, I stayed quiet

It’s been a rough couple of months for you

But you said, “Hey, there’s something I need to tell you”

So we sat on the balcony floor

And I lit a cigarette

When you told me I was gonna be a dad

I said, “I’ve always wanted a family,

I’ve thought a lot about having a baby”

It’s really strange to think

This is how it starts

The friends, the love, the toys, the parties

Immense adventures, jobs, degrees 

The pain, the wonder, the apathy

A life that comes to be

A whole new series of

The friends, the love, the toys, the parties

Immense adventures, jobs, degrees 

The pain, the wonder, the apathy

So I’ve been weird for a couple of days

Quieter than usual

Looking at things under a different light

And you’ve been really tired

And I’m trying to keep up

Working on being worthy of this lifeline

It’s really strange to think

This is how it starts

The friends, the love, the toys, the parties

Immense adventures, jobs, degrees 

The pain, the wonder, the apathy

A life that comes to be

A whole new series of

The friends, the love, the toys, the parties

Immense adventures, jobs, degrees 

The pain, the wonder, the apathy

Sad and Stoned – Lyrics

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At the deep end of my street

Where dreams and dream killers meet

At the bottom of the slope

Where the fun of falling’s over (yeah it’s over)

Gone means something different

Than it did a few years back

Loss is just another of the ghosts

That you meet at the basement every night

Where you go to fill the holes

Deep inside your soul

Where you go to be

Sad and stoned

Sad and stoned

Sad and stoned

In most of the bars uptown

Where you’re comfortable enough to be

Where the lawyer girls and boys

Shine as brightly as their diamonds after work

I become a spider 

And I catch them

In my web of charm

I will poison 

Their obsession 

With the notion 

Of being something more than this

And I’ll use them and be gone

Leaving just hole

And they’ll go home to be

Sad and stoned

Sad and stoned

Sad and stoned

Third floor of the orange building 

It’s a dirt street you can’t miss it

Where the trash piles up again

A black haired kid totes a .38

Gone means something different 

It means almost nothing at all

We’re all nameless

At the bottom

We’re all faceless 

We just don’t matter anymore

So we need to fill the holes

Of our bodily decor

Where we need to be

Sad and stoned

Sad and stoned

Sad and stoned

Hope – Lyrics

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If I miss another exit

And I just keep driving north

Will I make a clean escape?

Will my spirit leave my body?

If I find out that the memory box

I kept so many years

Is simply full of trash

And I remember almost

Nothing 

Of the good years

Of the people and the places I call home

Is there hope for me?

I have a friend who’s like my brother

He lives near where I work

Just around the block

And I barely ever call him

I went so see him there

Just the other day

And I told him I was fine

But my voice just kept on

Breaking

And I wondered

If he noticed, if he wanted to say something?

If there’s hope for him

I used to talk to Sasha

She’s been homeless half her life

But I haven’t seen her much

Since she told me come this winter  

She’d be skipping town

Cause her health was getting worse

And the one thing that she wanted

Was to go home and see her

Daughter

In Romania

She has grandkids and a nephew that she’s never met

And I hope for her

Something to Say – Lyrics

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Everything’s got something to say 

If you let it

Lines of wood

Lines of skin

Lines I’ve written

The corridor, it’s frigid floor 

The dust that lies hidden 

The scars you don’t remember you had

Tell the most beautiful stories

Everything’s got something to say 

If you let it

Lemonade

The smell of swimming pool water on hair

Running shoes, put away

In the depths of the garage

The most mundane things you can think of

Are everything but

Everything’s got something to say 

if you let it

Baseball hats

Assorted Disney stickers

Chewed up pens, crumpled papers

And string

If you listen closely 

To those rocks

You’ll hear the cities of the past

Lost at Sea – Lyrics

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Lost at sea

Figure this

I’m the lighthouse

And the drunk sailor

This blackened sky

It covers me

And everything on this island

But if the moon 

shines bright enough

Tonight

For me to see

I may just drown

My few regrets

And move on

I want to claw through my ribcage

And pull my heart out

I want to crack my skull open

And rip out the memories of you

Lost at sea

But not to me

It’s all here

And clear, my dear

If I find my way 

To forgiveness 

I will keep the secret hidden

But there’s no sun

No stars to help

Me out from this cell

I may stay here

Forever more

Adrift on dry land

I want to claw through my ribcage

And pull my heart out

I want to crack my skull open

And rip out the memories of you