Guster

Glad you made it Welcome to the farm Who’s your daddy? I’m your daddy now I’m here seeking only what i need In your mind is where ill plant my seed It’s for sure Let me keep you in this place You’ll be better off this way I will keep you warm and safe You’ll b...

He said to only look up He said to never look down Down is where he came from He said to hope for the best and take a load off my chest Soon I could be happy And go all the way up to heaven And go all the way back home (whistles) He thought I might need his he...

I threw away your greatest hits You left them here the day you split Your bass guitar and shaggs CD Well they don't mean that much to me right now I'm going through your things These days, I'm changing all my strings I'm gonna write you a letter I'm gonna writ...

In the backyard In the garden You were always there Digging down where roots would burrow underneath Now the grass is always overgrown And the weeds are choking out the sun Pretty soon they'll come under the door And you don't care In the backyard Since last s...

I know a movie star, I've got her plastered to my wall Just like we're dear old friends, like she already knows me She's perfect as she seems, lifts me right out the Mezzanine I finally fell in love, I'd been waiting forever Four, three, two, one When at the...

When the day will come along and you have been there Find the angels at your feet, prone on the ground there So, come and bury me I'll find mine underneath Don't you see the kingdom? You hold your crown so high Don't know where the angels gone, haven't been th...

I look out of my bedroom window pane Every day, but the view just stays the same I was young I would run straight from this place Come back home and then start it all again I know just what I want, I know just what I need It's a big old house and it's coming...

And you walked out when I asked you to stay As usual you will get your way You closed the door and stumbled down to the street Where you wring your hands And you drag your feet there Where the words can't find you To crawl inside you I'm ringing all the warnin...

One of us won't last the night, between you and me it's no surprise There's two of us, both can't be right Neither will move till it's over I'm the center of attention and the wall's inside my head And no one will ever know it if I keep my mouth shut tight My...

Just one more time he said as he crawls into his own I’m doing fine he said as the tears fall down alone Why must you question me? Do you want your future blown? Look at the sight of him What can he do to show you? Living life for others Shuffle through the da...

Dorothy moves to click her ruby shoes Right in tune with dark side of the moon Someone, someone could tell me Where I belong Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay No more messing around and living underground And new year's resolutions By this time next year I won'...

As I fall asleep, to black and white TV Fly far away, in my recurring dream Each winter drains electricity There are words to say There are songs to sing But I can hardly speak at all Home, I'm on my way to a holiday in real time Float, hold my own weight, sa...

My words confuse you My eyes don’t move a blink Cause it’s easier sometimes Not to be sincere Somehow I make you believe Believe When I speak I cross my fingers Will you know you’ve been deceived? I find a need to be the demon A demon cannot be hurt Honest is...

The secrets that we keep We say them in our sleep and wrestle down our souls if we would speak I watched you board a train in the London rain and waved bye-bye as you slipped out of view Diane We'll make it out together In your dreams when the smile now comes,...

And it’s true he was so young But you are here And the moment clouds your brain You could’ve even saved him That means nothing You could’ve even been there That’s a lie How can you blame him for your life? It’s a mental suicide And it carries you away Dissolve...

We were young, twenty one, all those years ago In came a fascination, everything is under control Full of life, untried, through thickets and through thorns Out came a revelation, everything is out of control Do you feel it? Do you feel it now? Want it,...

All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be like they are Come on baby... Don't fear the Reaper Baby take my hand... Don't fear the Reaper We'll be able to fly... Don't...

Was in the way you put your coffee down There was something on your chest The days keep dragging on and on I got a bag of old regrets You said the whole shebang The crumbly bits Aw, babe, I want much more than this Okay sera, sera, sera, sera Don’t g...

All I want is the world And everything for me You can rattle off your talk All that matters is what I see If you break me down Selfish desire is all you blame Cause desperate times Call for desperate measures And I am not ashamed Oh it took me a long time to c...

You were almost kind, you were almost true Don't let me see that other side of you You have learned in time that you must be cruel I'll have to wait to get the best of you Poison in everything you say Don't you, don't you Wonder what difference does it make E...

Been the crawl of a mountain Been a link in a chain Been scolded for stealing Been told to behave Been reading the forecast Something's coming this way But it's taking forever I'm too tired to maintain that I'm slow Been a scratch on the surface Been a clog...

So come on, love We can make this right If you want love Then come back inside Cause we had love We just let it slide I tried to take your picture; you covered up your eyes Afraid of what I’d see, afraid of what I’d find A Polaroid that won’t come thr...

When you look in the mirror, wish you were somebody else Just a perfect reflection, you and no one else Minutes run into hours, hours run into days You're still waiting for someone who never ever came Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa Never be the same again Fa Fa-Fa Fa...

He smiled to the world But his heart fell below his pain He wanted only arms But he lied to himself again Closing doors and locking locks He looked inside himself Only to find Seeping from his soul Let me fall in two Wide as a river and spread as thin What it...

Everyone here's in trouble Man with the megaphone It's smoke and mirrors And crystal balls And red alerts all because The king who hides behind the pawns I can see what's really going on I can see what's really going on Everyone here's a bubble Merrily floati...

She leans closer to me I give a warning of higher calling Must go over with me We’re not happy in this place we are Get up The countdown will begin Get up Towards devotion Get up Leave everything with them Get up Cause you won’t need anything We’ll...

Please come tempt me you’ve got something good in mind Dropped everything glad to be persuade this time Into the car baby bleed the gas Fast is fast never turning back Oh yeah not scared of that The past has passed and we cannot take it back They want to know...

Absent in the things I’ve done For the real Revelations come to people so slow Frightening Won’t stop now before they’re done Peel their skin Eaten underneath Rotten Rotten Drowning in understanding Swallowed poison keeps them well But watching the others stru...

Here we are inside a novel Waiting for an end We don't know the authors of the book Maybe someone's writing chapters For us while we sleep From a million miles away Stuck without a captain or a chart No one seems to know just who to follow anymore Han...

Say goodbye, lose your friends, make them go, don't need them around Cause it's time, lose your friends, make them go, was never supposed to be like this They were too weak, too prone to break Their needs too deep, their skin too thin By now you took what was...

Not much of this makes sense to me The river leaves run cold and dry But it keeps me from swinging tree to tree And sometimes I'm too scared to even try Hashing through the possibilities They seem as endless as the sky You seek the truth and the quiet b...

Enter a scene that defies description They say to open your mind And take it all inside One click at a time We move through fictions And send our sisters to the sacrifice A cruel conviction Sinister systems keep us satisfied These are hard times I’m...

Nice to see you, Mister Sun You didn’t mean to hurt no one When shooting down your laser guns And sunburns It’s no good when you’re gone Made us happy and warm For a long, long time Come back tomorrow, Mister Sun 'Cause shadows visit everyone They...

Looks like these afternoons of reverie through What's left for me to say? What's left for me to do? Float along and feel the water on my back Try not to sink down to the bottom Hollow my head it echoes like a wooden drum Peel back my skin and make my rib...

On your way to the best years of your life Everyone's banging on their gongs The sooner you leave the sooner you're home Back in Massachusetts To your golden age where they tuck you in at night You didn't see it coming Now who you gonna wave to? This time you'...

I'm awake, you're still sleeping The sun will rise like yesterday Everything that we are now Is everything we can't let go Or its gone forever, far away I hope tomorrow is like today Don't you go away tomorrow I don't think I could handle that You're probably...

We went down to the May parade, mumbled words under my breath There is something I've been meaning to do, I am dying to tell you I've been so damn tired It went down at the May parade, bitter words under my breath There is something I've been dyin to do, I wa...

I looked down and I didn't know what to think Vapor trails from the engine of this plane Shut my eyes and I flew right from this place Made a wish and I blew it all away Then I was alone Then I was alone Right now the sun fills up the sky And waves of color b...

5 a.m., March 16 Jesus on the radio You took a photograph of me on your yellow bucket seat Its too high, its too wide You're so low you don't know To get through, to go around So don't look back There ain't nothing there to see Was once like you Can't say I re...

When we all finally washed ashore It was clear there was no one else around We declared a national holiday A chance to build it from the ground So far away from everyone and everything starts today Keep it together Can we keep it together We're singing a new s...

Standing on a building I am a lightning rod And all these clouds are so familiar Descending from the mountain tops The gods are threatening But I will return an honest soldier Home... Steady on this high-rise Like every lightning rod And all these clouds are...

I was dead sleeping in your bed Floated up from the ground and looked down Then finally I could see completely Heard the angels' song I know what you are I could never tell They sang what you are This far away, you're a miniature to me Are you sorry you almost...

The sun came up, the world began to shake Fault lines exposing all my own mistakes If I could do anything Then this wouldn't be happening It’s been a long time Since I’ve felt courageous Stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up Walking in my sleep never...

I know there is a place A place where I belong Not mistreated or undone And if I find that place I’ll keep my mouth shut Cause I won’t be there alone And if you’re standing there with me I’ll swear it’s a lie and I’ll still believe it Cause I came And I spoke...

Bones are broken and the will is sunk How did everything get so fucked up? Do you want to change your mind? You can always change your mind You and I could quit this scene Build a town and then secede Like an Adam and an Eve 'Cause to the dreamers go the drea...

Into the maze Enter the medicine handed down. Within these veins Bleeding with apathy till it drowns. Am I your charity For you to look so kind? But your aim is not quite clear, It’s better if you leave in quiet. Is this mood frightening? And who are you som...

If in the morning you look up Fake a smile and you sigh Don’t fear the future In the years to come you’ll learn I used to sit and watch the pouring rain I used to wish to be back home again I hadn’t the strength then I hadn’t the chance to reveal it But it’s a...

Sooner or later Everything I have I’ll lose If not for nothing Phasing and fading Only got one chance to prove It’s not for nothing Goddamn, in tune I’m all about it Only got one chance to prove The all in nothing Shot down, detuned Then soon for...

Am I asleep? Is this a dream? Oh my God, what have I done? Anything? At twenty-three, You walked out on me. Oh my God, where have you gone? Anyway? On the ocean, I think I'm taking on water. The storm is on the way, But I will hold on anyway. Te...

I built a time machine I'm going to see the homecoming queen Take her to the Christmas dance Maybe now I'll get in her pants Whatever Back with my high school friends Meeting where the train tracks end Passing round a skinny joint Rolling up to Lookout Point...

There we stand About to fly Peeking down over land Parachute behind What was that moment for Which we live Without a parachute About to dive Find my self convincing Blindly falling faster How easy Know the place I'm leaving And the rest is just gone Oh the a...

Played follow the leader Keeping my steps in time Counting on the wonder ahead I leave the pain behind It's on me It's all mine Go away They're my mistakes They're not your problem Pinned down in this heaven I'll die a thousand times Aware of the damage ahea...

I will dig a hole Save my pennies for a rainy day I will dig a hole Saving pennies for a rainy day I'm not scared I will build a wall Sensing trouble from a mile away I will build a wall Saw it coming from a mile away I'm not scared I'm not scared T...

Ramona, where have you been? I couldn't go to sleep till you came in Ramona, you're Miss Oklahoma and you miss Oklahoma I'll get you what you want There were days when a refrain Would brighten our corner of Hickory Lane When you would sing that song for me Jus...

Doesn't it bring you down So many lights and sounds Call your mom on the telephone Tell her you're coming home Tell her there's not a chance You're ever going to change the world If you want to be free, take a sip of this tea Join the red oyster cult If you dr...

There are ghosts in here They are stuck in the middle Midnight rattling chains Just like fireworks Heading straight for the heavens But explode on the way Wake up, sweetheart Rise and shine There are bones to bury And bones to find This place is coming to lif...

They’ll find it on the stairs Politely placed it there Been so unkind without a hint No warning sign for them Read my apology Their hope of disbelief But no denial changes things No remedy ahead I am not to be martyred I am not to be worshipped I did it not to...

Tonight Where do we go from here? The road to Ruby Falls has reached the end And now we're digging in the sand They're promising that help is on the way Love, confession number one Impossible and sorry And judge, can you look the other way? Some things are be...

Shining like a work of art Hanging on a wall of stars Are you what I think you are? You're my satellite You're riding with me tonight Passenger side, lighting the sky Always the first star that I find You're my satellite Elevator to the moon Whistlin...

Can you remember What the future held A little candy ring In a mystic ocean’s shell They were anesthetized Slowly washed away Left all the poison in The sands in which I played I don’t mind falling down And scraping up my knees Scars and stitches always fade...

Yes I heard all that you had to say That's when it all fell apart Might be hated, but I can't pretend I liked you better before So long, so long, front foot leads the back one Go on and it won't be too soon I'm gone, I'm gone and on to the next one So l...

1945, the year I was born My mother died, but left behind a son You stayed with me Jesus Yes, you showed the way You flew down from Heaven, to steal me away In 1959 two cars collide Nine in the crash and 1 survived You stayed with me Jesus Yes, I test...

We're not sentimental We're just oil-filled machines Trying not to say the things we mean You gotta show us a little love Our big brother tells us That it's something in our genes Pretty soon we'll all be coming clean So start showing a little skin I'm the j...

I've come down with something I'm frozen, tied up, cast in lead It's simple, so says the captain Face forward, move slow, forge ahead I'm earning a reputation My conscience, mistrust and regret Courageous, just like the captain Marching forward with no doubt...

Welcome You're under control And buried like a mole A thousand feet below Waiting We're all that we've got Our reputation's shot A ninety-story fall No one here can make a sound We're all ghosts in this town We are standing in the trenches Of the new undergro...

My, my how things have changed since I have been away It’s the first time but it’s different, I’m afraid Where’s the boy so happy to be near it all? He’s lost in the travels A little part of me so small Cry for me Cry for him Cry for the answer Cry because it’...

There's a message in the skies and in the streets Opportunity, the Amercany dream It's in the radio, it's superstars Are the arteries and veins that feed your heart From the Dairy Queen to the head of the parade In a blink your life could change This c...

It was the darkest day I could tell from the moment you spoke my name Said in a miserable way with every year you've come to regret it We've colored in the lines and followed all the signs Fought a war till the war was over Said you'd never be the kind w...

I closed the door and stepped into the city The city stepped right back to me There's cracks on every sidewalk of this city Like licking lips to swallow me This is a sea of cars on the road Lined up like bottles, shook up, ready to explode With feathers and s...

Two of us riding nowhere Spending someone's hard earned pay You and me Sunday driving Not arriving on our way back home We're on our way back home We're on our way home We're going home Two of us sending postcards Writing letters on my wall You and me burning...

If that's all you will be, you'll be a waste of time You've dreamed a thousand dreams, none seem to stick in your mind Two points for honesty It must make you sad to know that nobody cares at all I want to be where I've never been before I want to be ther...

I caught a piece of the sunshine, put a little hope in me But after the flood raged, there's nothing really left to see But I was not done, or beat, the violence was a source of strength Not everything is always just as it seems What you call love, is jus...

Woke up today to everything grey And all that i saw just kept going on and on Sweep all the pieces under the bed Close all the curtains and cover my head And what you wish for won't come true You aren't surprised love, are you? If this serenade (repeat after...

A gaping wound tells the story of it all A man lost only to find What was left of his mind? With no hope of a scar at all You say, “Go slow” But something’s right behind me I can run away for only so long It will not stop I will come down Oh no Let me find my...

To clear the conscience of who I am I break the silence that keeps it all in I’ve given you everything I wish you knew I did it for me I didn’t do it for you I looked her way with x-ray eyes And she looked like she was not even there Preserving the things that...