Jukebox The Ghost

My hope was just in season and that's the truth of it As I looked up at the clouds and called them by what I did Naming the stars after the shapes that they saw there Light up the moon with our mouths and shouted once again Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, a...

And after rearranging the furniture you slept alone You awoke to find the war was finally done You rubbed your eyes and squinted at the sun Which was brighter and hotter and better lit up The earth like a birthday cake You were amazed you were still livin...

I go outside Ask the air if it would like to hide Take a deep breath Walk inside my prize In my lungs I still feel young But my body won't play along I'm thinking this must not be where we belong And the world Split in two from the throng Of every l...

No one knows Why you save All your lows For the days Well you were quite The love interest last night Last night Ohhh And it's all for love Yeah, it's all for love Alright You've spent many nights Sleeping Face down again For fear For fear...

Once in your life you find her Someone that turns your heart around And next thing you know you're closing down the town Wake up and it's still with you Even though you left her way across town Wondering to yourself, "Hey, what've I found?" When you get...

He was a songwriter Writing songs about a girl She was a ghostwriter Lying to the world In deep anticipation Of the day that she had written And by her own admission She'd be picked up, kissed and twirled He was a fearful boy Watchful of the earth W...

There's a dead man hanging, slumped over the steering wheel Of an interstate runaway bursting into flames And the devil was gently breathing Sleeping face-down in my apartment And like all his friends I'm growing tired of his games And there's a homeless...

You can do what you want just seize the day What you're doing tomorrow's gonna come your way Don't you ever consider giving up You will find, oh oh oh It's a beautiful life, oh oh oh oh It's a beautiful life, oh oh oh oh It's a beautiful life, oh oh oh oh I j...

And you were carrying A lot of weight upon your shoulders Shrugging it off like It don't even matter And I was caught holding the door For an old bowlegged stranger And he looked at me like I ain't done him a favor But oh And you were walking down...

Maybe it was just the sleeping pills When I went to bed last night Maybe I just never made it home What if this all has been a tiny, tiny hole inside my heart Leaking very very, very very slowly? And if you're dead How do you know if you are really dead...

With devils on our side What's the use of lying? The truth itself will speak Volumes when we're dying We spoke to ourselves when All was bathed in silence We spoke to ourselves with The lies that lay beside us We kissed on the mouth then All was bat...

(Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh) 'Cause I'm the ghost of your past and mine slowly combine. And I am the one with whom your memories you can reside, Come back at any time. And I am the one who you can call at any time Where are you? Where am I? When are we gonna es...

You've got your guards and they've got their guns They're overworked and you've never ever won a thing In your life I've got my dreams and I've got my sleep And I've a promise to build it's gonna keep these visions of an empire At peace 'Cause my heart...

You were never a soldier You were never a prize You were never a song in my eyes Yeah, you were childhood Twisted and disguised Oh, I am drowning In a world that's always been dry You're the sun I never see rise Yeah, it is midnight but my day Only...

Launching themselves into space They gazed at the wrinkles on God's face And He followed them down He was surprised by what he found Lights and towers that touched the sky Submarines and machines that attempted to fly He said, "You all look the same fr...

It seems like I can do no wrong for your eyes Sing the wrong lines to my own song, you don't mind Make it up as we go All the words we don't know Even when I'm a drunken mess, you don't care Still like me better than the rest I swear, I don't understand...

In this country at any given time There are two million empty houses And one of them once was mine There were twelve million spirits drifting In twelve million empty rooms Waving their ghostly arms at the stars And howling sad songs by the light of a cr...

So you say you've never been in love? That you don't even know what that means. You thought you did but now that it's over you think, can't even be half of the real thing And as time goes on and on I can feel my heart growing colder and colder But then I...

I think that I would like to invite everyone i've known dead or alive to a street where we can be, totally free They will come in droves Wearing their hearts on their sleeve but oh! How good it felt to have them worn just like they should. Everybody her...

When you were locked up in your room alone Neglecting even just to touch the phone Salty tears rolling down your cheeks Like they had many times before Did you fear that every time you speak Would be the very final word that creeps Between your teeth an...

Jump into that water and see for yourself Take a deep breath and hold it in, hold it in She's got a secret and she wants to tell But I made a promise to hold it in, hold it in Baby I'm in love and maybe it's not to tell Only thing that I can do is hold...

If all the world's a stage then you're my favorite actress If all of life's a game I sure could use the practice I wouldn't call this a love song You want me pounding on the church door singing from the streetlight Oh it's the kind of love that doesn't...

When you hold yourself to me I think I'll go down in flames Wouldn't ask you to join me 'Cause that would be insane, it you could warm your hands Yeah and stake out your place right here next to me They will come from miles away 'Cause it's cold outsid...

Seems like many years ago It's strange how you can never know who's Going to stay with you and who will leave Do you remember me? Do you remember me? We walk through the park at night Gazing up at all the satellites (Lights) in the city made it hard to...

Starts with a phone call I asked if you'd been crying and you denied it but I could tell just from your breathing that's how it all starts that's how it all starts As for the mending I think we shouldn't even bother Let's make it simple let's make it...

The face in the moon I can see it in the water too I can see it just the same as you But I can't be there with you Sleepy eyelids I can write a song for you I can buy you roses too But I can't be there with you Water leads to water Water leads to ri...

She recognizes the voice on the phone But she can't recall his face She hears knocking on her door at night But he never leaves a trace She's had seven thousand nights with the very same scene Repeated again and again in her dreams: A muffled scream, an...

Oh, my mistletoe called me up on the phone Tried her best to explain to the hearts that she had known That though they'd misbehaved, she'd known it all along No need to feel ashamed, we didn't do nothing wrong And she said, "I wanted you to know I believ...

Your heart's breaking in me Like I ain't been broke before And it feels good It feels good, we should do this more. I can't see your ears no more I fell in love with you when your hair was still short But now you've gone and matured And I think someda...

I've never known why It's a crime to say you're not fine But I've never been quite alright Though I will admit that time Yes, time is on my side Then we think to start it Let's go home to where the heart is So when you feel left out Oh, go have a sho...

Don't you find it curious how we can disagree, How two of us in one place can see two different things? Don't you find it strange how we never coincide? Such a massive heartbreak, neither of us survived Spring turns into summer turns to fall You have cha...

I don't want you to feel broken I just want you to feel good Let's put away all those past indiscretions Let it go, do you think you could? I just want you to feel happy I just want you to be glad So that every time you wake up You're not thinking of s...

Expensive tickets to a crowded place Someone who you can't relate to calls your name Fires up the after party much too late The DJ finished spinning all the songs you hate And the people that you love are always hating on the people that you love Everyon...

Yes I can, no I can't Yes I can, no I can't Yes I can, no I can't Yes I can, I swear to it That's just how my brain works Yes it is, no it isn't Yes it is, no it isn't Yes it is, no it isn't Yes it is, I know that I know it sounds absurd but We fir...

Her turn signal blinked to the east Towards the long wooden pier that hangs over the beach She took off her dress and she walked towards the sea And thought, maybe it could sweep away me His engine turned off with the keys As he ran towards her He fel...

Isn't every day exactly what we make? Mistakes, mistakes And often are the same thing We'll make the same mistakes Let's get to know them then Let's get to know them then So let us create What we need each other to be And I'll be what you need For me...

I want it I need it I want somebody I want it I need it I want your eyes to turn I need it I want it I want somebody Baby Now this is my turn I don't want any more doors Cause I'm walkin' on string They only slam any more Like w...

You never saw me, You never did, Though, I tried and tried and tried to get you to notice I think I'll always love you I just might Oh, I think I'm gonna love you until the day that I die I want to get you over, by my side When you're next to me baby,...

He was struck by static to the heart Shot by an appendage from a television tube And knowing what it meant to be showered with sound He became a believer, he became a believer And now he's slamming down chords And leading a crowd, ten-thousand strong The...

My heart has been my teacher and I've learned quite a lot Listened while I could and tried not to get caught In the boom badum, badum, badum, badum My heart is bound in the leather like the book you sent I filled it with words and I'll pen them again Dri...

Walkin' through the heavy light The streets are empty And you don't feel right And ya didn't wanna let yourself down So don't be scared to get up There's a thousand voices sayin' The time is now So let go You're on your own There's something waiting...

Maybe the sky isn't falling, Maybe it's all in my head. Maybe the world isn't dangling off the edge. But the feelings the same, In fact it feels like a trap, Set by someone who wants for my heart to collapse. So can we take a moment and stop? Cause I...

Oh, here's to new mornings, to new evenings Pack your bags babe and we are leaving Don't you say no cause I know that you want to go, oh believe me Out west babe, out west with rest We'll go fast and we'll go faster yet Don't you worry, I've been there be...

Some walk quiet and some walk loud Sometimes people yell but they don't know what they're yellin' about I've said things I didn't mean but I'd already said them out loud Forgive me if you can find out how You could rise or you could sink Some get filled...

As fireworks burst over the land I could've sworn I felt the influence of an unseen hand The ghost of someone else's dream A forgotten god stopping by to survey the scene And the lights were complicated and so we all just Prayed to the spirits above and...

Everything under the sun Is getting burned Everything under the moon Is gonna sleep And I think that one day soon It's all gonna Big bags of blood bore by inference, big bags of water Sticks too tightly after Seems likes packaging are hurtling throug...

I should shut my mouth when I'm not addressed I should go to bed lonely unless It's next to you 'Cause no one else will do this year I should turn the voices in my head down I should take the subway into downtown More often than I do To send myself to...

The truth, the undeniable truth, That a few days ago I didn't think that I could have seen this through. But then you, undeniable you, You came to me like a dream and you changed me through and through. Because I, I was broken good, Never thought that I c...

How much can you fit under your skin? How much can you fit under your skin? I wish you were dead babe, I wish you were dead, I can fit too, I can fit two... I can fit two people under my skin, I can fit two people under my skin, And I will prove it if y...

Victoria approached me with a fire in her eyes And I swear and I swear I was burning alive And now you're crying wolf out to the moon Yeah, is anybody there Or am I just as scared as you? And now you've given me a mission to do I've got to rearrange the...

What do you see When you're lit up next to me But you feel so far And it's all so strange That you never saw the change You just felt something go missing in the dark I wanna write you a letter I wanna write you a song I wanna make it better I wanna...

It starts with a flash and a blast of Plaster and glass as an earthquake Came floodin' through my living room The sky was black with thinkin' As it began to sink, I thought of you And as the smoke came floodin' in beneath the doorway I saw Satan shakin...