Make Do And Mend

I remember when we were so young like new sheets on the bed. Felt the cool touch of love like it begins, just like it's never going to end. I could see the light coming off us. Like old stars in the night there was only so much shining we could do before o...

Maybe baby we're just tired and I don't really feel lonely by your side. So low whispered in your ear, "Hold me closely while I'm here." Pale Moon I'd turn the tides for you if I still thought you'd notice if I do. Maybe baby we're just tired and when you...

What were you waiting for? The desert's not getting any smaller, We're not getting any younger, So hand me a gun, It's on, It's war. I've let the last few years Slip through my fingertips like sand, But with Connecticut a million miles away You can't...

They called you on your bluff. Your good intentions weren't ever good enough to keep their minds from making up. Is it alright if I don't come out tonight and we let the old rules turn their pages for a while? I'm like a match that won't light, I toe a li...

I've been waiting for the words to clear my throat, And I've been waiting for my fingertips to fret forgotten notes. There is so much here that I don't know, And they've been staring at the clouds above my head praying for snow What if everything that yo...

In the dream that awakened me, you had come and taken me to a sea of stars. The cat stood in the flowers two ears above. And the ground that was under me was holding me so wonderfully on a bed of leaves and you were there with me, we were free. And e...

It happened again I got lost some way back to my own doorstep You could say that I've let myself Fall victim to the static in my head I think it's probably a safe bet That I've been trying hard to forget That no matter the words I say This confusion is...

Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying 'Tis you 'tis you must go and I must bide But come ye back when summer's in the meadow Or when the valley's hushed and...

Take me somewhere where the summer never ends, And we count the seasons by the corners of your bed. Today the dog sleeps in and we dress ourselves in blankets once again. 'Cause there's a list of plan that I've been meaning to make But every day is just a pro...

Oh, shake me down; I'm the son of a never-ending doubt. Love, please hang around, Because I'm the kind of wreck you read about And I'm sinking now. I'm finding new ways to burn, Disassemble, Disappear like a half-woke dream. These days I barely remin...

For answers, address your questions to the mirror because I'm losing it. Failure has grown to feel just like a standard that we never set. When is "Enough now." enough? When do you admit that you're done? Because god only knows what they'll say about me...

Maybe we lost our place and all I need to say is, "Come and find me like an old crease in the page." I'm figuring it's too late, but I'll ask you just the same what it pays to keep yourself so far away. You keep yourself so far away. Don't be long, do...

Place your bets, They've been dealing you a fixed deck over and over. Came and went, Are the days when your heart can't break if your back is turned. Simple, sad, and slow, Hum the first bar and leave me alone. Leave me alone. If there's more to this life tha...

There is a light that never goes out, but try as I might, I can't seem to find it now. I promised I'd be true come high water or hell. I told you that I'd hold you through student loans and dry spells, but sometimes promises they don't mean nothing. But...

Measure the moments by the almost and the came close, by the "What the fucks?" and the "I don't knows" because soon they're going to notice the space between us starting to show. We played the songs with all the wrong notes, played 'em too slow to the empt...

I watched the fireworks explode, and from your shoulders I could see a different world. No lies, no hate, no fear, no pain, just flashes of blue and yellow flame. I smiled, you smiled, but smiles can fade. How am I a product of this man? I’ve watc...

Tonight I set out on a journey from behind your ears and your neck down along the sharp curves of your spine. I hear you whispering like a seashell that is trying to keep the ocean in, tucked in the sand dunes of your skin. No matter how hard that...

I spent my night sweating through my clothes, and screaming 'til my throat ached like burning coals. Still it’s not right now that everything I know gets caught between the gnashing teeth of the hype machine. And so it goes… I’ve never felt...

When they ask me whether you mean more to me than moving pictures on a T.V. screen am I supposed to say that I was young when you left and you don’t keep in touch these days, or that the bottle had its say and took you away? I wonder if you know your...

On a day, when I'm feeling incomplete, buried in my bedsheets. Can't pretend, that no matter how I bend, I'm not the square peg in my circle of friends. I'll take whatever comforts I can get. I couldn't tell you what it's like to not feel separate,...

Is this a bad time? For a while there you were fine. Turn out the lights on a dark night of the mind. Are you afraid to be the weak link in the chain? Oh, it's so hardtop gauge Are you the savior or the plague? Yeah! Comfort me, you keep your distance like a...

The memories are sweet like summer in the overhanging trees when the sun shined slightly slower through the leaves. Now you're still here with me except the song is only slightly out of key. Can't remember all the words or what they mean. I caught you loo...

For all intensive purposes I'm dead. The alarm clock sets my fate and tonight this place means nothing. Just concrete walls dressed in photographs of people I've never met. These are the things you think about when you can't get to bed. But I've heard...

You know the drill, it's been a hard time for a long time. I wish there was something I could do to make this alright, soon you'll be fine. I've made share of bad mistakes, but this bad luck's gotta break sometime. No matter what destroys your life, I...

We let the years pass and shatter us like glass. We let our ships crash against the banks of our regret. It’s not that I can’t grasp all of the things we let collapse, I just wonder what’s the sense in looking back 'Cause I don’t think there’s somethin...

It's about time now that you find out your egos a coffin, so lie down. It's about time now that you put your pride away, 'Cause there's something about how the words sound when they're coming out of your own mouth That make you wonder what you think this weigh...

I spent my night sweating through my clothes, and screaming 'til my throat ached like burning coals. Still it’s not right now that everything I know gets caught between the gnashing teeth of the hype machine. End measured mile End measured mile There...

I’ve been following the steam trail of her breath on these winter streets, running from an early death. And she’s everything I need, want, and can’t have. She’s the foreign life I’ve desperately been clawing at. I'm clawing at. Countless time upon co...

I climb the wooden stairs to my apartment in the city with dark brown molding and white walls. I search my bank account for traces of the forty-hour weeks I’ve been working since last fall. Give me a list of alarms to set, I’ll tuck myself into bed...

I heard you circling overhead calling out for for something, something dear but somehow out of reach. There was a sadness in the way you were ready, steady, searching. Was it something you lost or something you couldn't see? I said, "It's a feeling so fam...

Well I drove by the cemetery wondering, who will write our eulogies? 'Cause I’ve been having some trouble lately believing god is more than winter whistling in these trees. And I’ve been counting my blessings carefully wondering, who will come to sat...

Nights like these feel too big for me On this endless stretch of apartment sheets But still the chains of the snowless streets sing to me. And it seems to be That every night for at least the last few weeks You hold me close and my heart admits defeat. And wit...

What ever happened to the first summer we ran away? Hearing our hearts pound on 95 Southbound. We never saw a snow angel's half-chance in hell we'd be betrayed by the sound. It's taken so long for me to come back around. What ever happened to the first s...

I don’t believe in anything worth fighting for, worth dying for. I don’t believe the clouds are hiding much more than a reason to downpour. So what would you do if you were me? Give up, forget, and go back to sleep. And I believe that heaven is like he...

Does it eat you up thinking way too hard or not enough? Waiting on a change that never comes, as if the way it's been could be enough. Does it kill you now to love her like the floor boards of a house? Ignore the things that creep and crawl around and let t...

Somebody already wrote the book on defeat so far be it from me to think I'm reinventing anything. If life's a list of mistakes and all the ends I can't make meet then read them to me. You are something next to nothing, and I'll hold you like a lock set hol...

We're all living just to find our latest loss, So cut your anchor loose and swim your way across. And when the day gives way to dusk and the circle closes 'round, Fold your hands across my heart and hold me down. It was around this time of year when we first...

There must be perfect words for feeling alone around the people that love you. They hide their concern, and keep their mouths shut while they watch you come unglued. “You are their oldest son! They raised you better to be healthy and strong!” I haven’t f...

There's a kid I used to know his heart exploded one day after school when we were walking home. My mother told me son that boys heart was so full up with love that it just gave out there wasn't enough room. But I heard he wrote a love song for a girl h...

What does it mean when it doesn't shine like it did when we were 18? You were the trees that kept the pouring rain from falling down on me. And I know that it got cold, But I hung everything I owned along your limbs. Now my spit's dried to the pavement, And m...

Do you think that you mean it more When the words run like thieves from your door And you promise yourself that one day it will be alright like it did before? Do you still thank your lucky stars? Count your blessings and shuffle your cards, 'Cause the lights i...

I heard you coming in clear all of last year just like a hundred calling bells, but I fought like hell just to disbelieve my ears. Because life's cruelest trick is to forget that permanence is something that won't stick, and the end will draw you in just l...

Well I’ve been wading in your waves up to my chin, sinking slowly deeper as the waves roll in. Losing sight of land, I’m wondering, “How’d I ever trick myself to get back in?” Believe me, there’s no harder thing in this life than believing that happin...

I never thought it could be so hard We knew the words but who knew they'd reach so far Now we watch as the pages turn and chapters end to tear a childhood apart. I never thought it could end this way growing up getting older every day. You'll find these...

We were kids on that sylvan street where you lived. There were fears, but they were never ours for those years. Like your Grandpa’s car broken down by your front door stairs, we were never meant to move, life couldn’t touch us there. Do your hands shak...

I don’t know who you are, and it’s too hard to keep pretending that you’re more than the mark of an old scar that doesn’t hurt anymore. And I’ve grown numb of the fear that everything I’ve done was being controlled by the father, by the son, by t...

Believe me when I say that there will always be cold days, but the grass is only greener here if you plant it that way. So you can lock yourself away, give up, forget, go back to sleep, or you can realize that there is so much more to life than yeste...

The sun is coming up in the Monday sky, and I could toss and turn until these sheets caught fire. It’s an eight-semester game of chance in this lonely room with these empty hands; eight AM is the last thing on my mind. But I, I can count the ways...