Big Wreck

It falls out like a thousand ways Of my mouth and how I behave You never see the both of us In the same locations A stone's throw from a basket case So how'd you navigate this run around I'll keep anything from getting out Yeah just one more wake up ca...

So how do you beg for what's your own Pick the pieces, lick the wounds Stoke the fire, fan the flame Squeeze the clouds, until it rains Would you champion the cause 'Til you find out what you've lost Who do you dare to call your own And where's the plac...

So how do you beg for what's your own Pick the pieces, lick the wounds Stoke the fire, fan the flame Squeeze the clouds, until it rains Would you champion the cause 'Til you find out what you've lost Who do you dare to call your own And where's the plac...

So could you be tempted out of the hive Get some bang for your buck and feel really alive Could you see past the hills behind your place A brand new life and a brand new face Step right up baby if you dare You can leave your bags by the back stair Just l...

One last cup of starlight Before I wake and start my day A past so filled with promise Before I lost, I lost my way Ah that's ok, and I'm alright I guess I'll be lost again For one more night Ooh and that's alright, I'm ok I'll wear the albatross...

So we were on our way home On the right bus I just want to ask the driver If it's not too much fuss To drop me at the old lady's And pick me up tomorrow If you could, If you could It's all by design To keep me from losing my mind Well I was on my wa...

Settling into another day Of bickering and complaints We both know I'm not perfect But neither of us are saints And by the way Where were you last night when I called? Well it always turns out simple An innocence in love And before you know it's bac...

They say you'll go to hell If you get baked The things we know so well Are never faked I've walked some different lines And they're on loan And after all I've heard I miss her moan Your life is not your own You're just hanging out in flesh and bon...

I raise a fire with you Wasting time with you When all the things are fine Undertold You raise a fire with me After I found some free When all the things seem good On your side Cause after all Nothing's big and small And you're waste your time On m...

So now she's on her way Home from work alone for dinner You close the door to the microwave Underneath that phone that just won't ring Sittin on the bus Stare a hole right through the floor Listening to the squeaky door Open and close at a stop that's...

So all surrounded By the things I thought I'd put away And all surrounded By the things I thought I'd put away And there's a pile in the closet That's where I threw some yesterday Maybe under the rug That's where I swept some the other day So the mess...

If I take your side The truth will divide What I can't decide Is which half is mine I'll put off this fight For one more day It's so hard to keep Those images at bay But I will bend 'Till I break And I'll break down again All the tricks I've tried...

I guess it's out of respect for you That I let my words always get the best of me And it's out of respect for you I'm going to let you go I'm going to watch you be a star from the back of my mind So I'm going roll and I'm going fill up my time 'Cause...

When the light that shines turns bloody red It'll distort halos in my head I hate my hate Oh When the ones you love turn leave and go It'll distort all the things you know I hate my hate Oh Stay with me, you'll understand I can't hold you, 'cause I've...

You would be my one bad thing Never when you tried I let the fire burn out again And then inside So let my tears be realized Before my eyes are turned And every lie I've tried before Won't work no more I've learned Drowning or bathing I've found out...

Break off a little piece of happiness No body gets hurt more or less Whatever it takes to get you through The night is gonna have to do Under the weight of daily bread You'd rather wake to cake instead Would you believe a photograph Was all it took and...

Every now and then I can feel this feeling Hooking up to back when Theres a difference Can tell the difference Between history and regret It's the same old world Where we grew up And there's no one To blame for why We're all screwed up You can...

When the lights are low We notice down below How it glows brightly And all we've washed away Now comes out to play With me But this is a farce If it's not in my own words And I fight for a moment of rest Just for that second we're sure we're alive...

So I don’t have it all together When was your first clue What ever happened to The part of me that used to do? I’m standing by the water’s edge And leaning forward I could use your hand I’ll never ask again But just this once Could you pretend, oh...

I wish you'd call in, you're getting ripe on the vine So (royal cunning?), you're just wasting your time again How's your 40, yeah? You're really diggin' in now So guess who wrote me? As it turns out he was right Said you can quote me She got plenty to...

Let 'em out Let 'em out of the cage And ease the pain So you do what you will Do what you will With the blames and my remains This world becomes a light When all else fails I won't Even though it isn't right Have you ever been surprised Hit the br...

There's no more to be lost that you can't find There's no right to be wrong if you ain't right And all my wishes one day will be true I don't mind dying and then I just think of you When you're like the sky and I'm like the ground And nobody's right right...

So you hate me if I'm open But you love me when I'm closed I used to be outspoken Only on the phone Used to keep my letters Underneath your bed Underneath you dress was Someone else's head If once was enough for you That's alright If you can keep i...

In the post storm winds As the ending now begins We knew we'd fall apart With a best friend burned And diminishing returns You know you went too far Well, all I'd needed was An non cold shoulder Found and never thawed One more day just fades away...

So faint the walls behind me now I know where they stand I know the way home Outrun the storm above our heads Every other day I know the way home And if the stars all align And my hands were untied If these ghosts let me go I would set fire to them...

Got my head in the girl Got my head in the girl Got my head in the girl So when I look back upon it now Remember how I used to feel so proud 'Cause there never was a power shift or struggle And we would lay naked on my couch And my head was up in the g...

Those glances ricochet off everybody else But they're sticking to me like glue And if the situation ever was to change Who's to say what the hell I'd do The conversation's never had one That's what a background's for I need to keep my head together I...

Hey mama, hear me hollerin' Hey mama, watch me pray [?] you out in the backyard Hung out high in a tree Yeah that was me Hey mama, watch me stumble Hey mama, hear me cry Empty house on the hillside Empty boat on the sea Yeah that was me That was me...

So there's one more wound to cauterize And there's one more fix behind the eyes Here's hopin' it cuts me down to size Is it imagination or jealousy? My intuition failing me? I'm gonna throw up from so much pride! As an idiot smiles And comments on yo...

Cities crumble into forests The black tops crack and float away Change your mind and inhale And every now and then it's broken We'll fix it all up in the end Change your mind and inhale We all want to get away And walk that country mile If we're all...

Make love by the window With the toffs Before you can jump I'll push you off And I'm knee deep with no sleep at all When you're on my shoulder I'm knee deep and I can't sleep it off Clench my fists Bite my lip 'Til it goes away And all this blood A...

So when she lays down it'll be With me Lord, she'll lay down with me And when she walks out it'll be On me Lord, she'll walk out on me When she kneeling it'll be For me Lord, she's kneeling for me And if I need you to be secure It's cause I'm not...

As I sift and drift through bullshit That plagues from day to day Would you ever really notice that I've gone away I'm over the wall Over the hill Over at your place I'm over the safety Over the phone calls Over the rage What a mistake When you've...

Hell, if I didn't play it wrong That was the worst of me Who are you to judge your bygone It never followed me Oh, the smell, you wear it well Is counterfeit Dig and dig and dig a hole Until you fit You never want to hang out Down in the dark with m...

All the things I can say when I'm half asleep They always seem so real Up until morning With my defenses down it's hard to run Familiar streets are closed The meaning of morning I can shift I can lie I'll do whatever you want I really got this good G...

All those wires that froze a man They can't keep up with me If you hide in broken-promise-land You can't get too close, ya see Off and running through the backdoor Off and running through the fields As long as I can find the way home Too often I run fo...

Love, the final straw Keep me sifting through my words to find my thoughts You were more than my whole world, its all too real As I'm falling through the halls inside your heart That I could no longer fill Every little piece you take from me I can always...

Fairweather friends A season ends And your conscience lends All your lies a hand Cause you're a star And you'll go far You stand in the flame Just to make a name You glance at the ceiling Buy another round Lonely but for feeling I can hang around...

Well there's this man of the world Who gets all the girls And does what he wants to I was in his employ Since I was a boy Was the orders that I outgrew The only thing I have to figure out Is how can I take everything And cut him out Give me the rest...

So while they satisfy Their want to ink a deal A world of status Finds a home, oh no With all the stories New and old We're thinking This is all a dream But as we woke we found a Jones Where you been? Well, the higher I go There are more rules to...

So I always get nostalgic with that song But in my room it's forced It has to be in some car across the street And I always catch the back of your head in a crowd Just don't turn around It's never you and you'll ruin those memories And those photos are...

So I make you happy And I make you sick Forget the traffic I'm used to all of it It's no fair to say I'm only taking what I need Don't feel so snappy I don't give a shit Forgive the traffic I'm used to all of it It's no fair to say I'm only takin...

Wake up, wonder why I still feel the need When all's well, we're through the hell Two floors on Grace Street Oh, once I was of the mind The sun would never shine But stories, they write themselves When you're with someone else I held the sword and pe...

A pretty little memory fades away Nobody ever takes notice Grandfather clocks and the wrist watch will Never be on your side I'm sure I've killed more than my share of it And still the moments take away If I could go back in time What would I change o...

Down here under the lighthouse Upstairs, I see for miles Keep my name under the white out Just let me miss you all the while Now, I sit here with your letter It’s pushin hard on my brain You think they should shrink it (Babe) baby, I think that’s insan...

All the lies and all the kisses And all the naive things he disses Are gone now watch them fade out It's not too hard to hang with losers As opposed to fakers And used to model debutantes and boozers Oh are you ever going to bleed? Oh will you surrende...

Only the very young And the very beautiful Can be so aloof Hanging out with the boys All swagger and poise I don't even care What other people are there I just stare and stare and stare I see your shadow in the swimming pool I see your face in the...

So you watch me float around For two weeks straight And the things you love will drown With the things I hate Oh well It's only for a while Until I get things right Just let me dream all day And stay up all night I know what your saying When you're...

Oh mark my words In between the lines In every little piece Of the stories entwined I always told my side my way Oh there's no more room In the packet of wolves They wouldn't let me in So the mission was afoot They showed us all we were without Th...

Well you can set em up And knock em down One by one You can tell your friends about it How we had some fun I'll tell you why Yeah you caught my eye Everybody's talking about there's one In every crowd I've never been the type of guy Who's singing it...

When the flash flood comes a risin' She's got something on us all. She's the perfect fall-behind, She's like alcohol. I say you don't even know, you don't even know I say you don't even know, oh baby you don't know Hoo hoo hoooo Hoo hoo hoooo Hoo ho...

Summer swells to a close Your skin still kinda glows Even at night It's just a couple of moments to get past And one or two the moments that never lasted That's alright I said remember how sticky you used to get Rolling, swimming in each other's sweat...