Matt Costa

Astair your glare is killing me Astair in skies of blue The signs you wear are making me So confused But the mountains and the trees Are they just what you need Or are they less than what You'd expect to see And if you're leaving well come Give me reason w...

You gave me your word, then you took your word back Where once I had faith now all I see is black Black seeing black I gave you up rather than giving in Where once there was virtue, it's fallen to sin Black seeing black You gave me your word Then you flew lik...

I would shine just like a million suns if you'd just love me baby I'll be in your life again so baby, baby just say maybe Now here I come To dance around the sun I've been oh so blue Stuck behind the moon Now let me in Back where we begin And let me hold you...

There's just one thing There's just one thing That'll torture your soul, the grass will stain your clothes Until the bleeding heart hands you a rose It's a long, long ways It's a long long ways Four letter words can cause you so much pain It's a long long way...

Behind the mountains where the Cuckoo sings They tried to mine a miner for his golden veins But a guy gets lonely and a guy gets sick Evil woman you're bound to make a mess of it She laid me down in her golden sheets Lord save me, Lord I was knee deep Well a...

Can you tell me what I need to know To paint a picture like Picasso? Can you give me the tool that's right And make a masterpiece of my life? Make one simple and make one grand One Michelangelo and one Cezanne Frame the strangeness inside your mind Open the c...

I've heard the story, I'm sure he held you down Forced you to do things while I'm not around But you lied, yeah you lied But I've got cigarette eyes Feel uneasy, I think of you less My mind is so restless and I'm feeling depressed Oh my, oh my, to see you wit...

She was the rain dancing in puddles She was trouble Me, with the games I played was a puzzle But I loved her, it's true Now I know what love can do Once we were young, and lived dangerous But the rains poured down, they started to change us We both gre...

I've been waiting, pacing along the halls ever since you left here I've been cleaning, scrubbing the plates and weeding out the garden dear I can't fall asleep to your mystery slowly blowing from the shore I have not failed to be what you'd expect of me Swallo...

You can count your friends for a little while And you can make them seem like they're all worthwhile Looking at the children and all of them worth Making my decisions based on last minute calls I plea But the devil wouldn't like it if you stabbed him in the...

If I wait long enough someone might come out If I tried I could be somebody else So I follow false prophets walking down my street To keep, keep me busy so soundly I sleep But it's all in the downfall of me, all in the downfall Don't bury my feet so I can't...

Baby ask your man if he would let you come along with me Or would he like that Tell him I won't keep you long As soon as our good times are gone I'll bring you right back We'll drive to the sea And watch the sun come up over the hills and trees Be as good as...

Early November took a drive to the sea Just to hear the waves crash on the night on the beach It was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Hearing them sing We drank coffee in the morning light You read the paper and I put my head in my hands, in my hands, in my han...

Skin's turning green, eyes are turning yellow The Doctor stays rich because I'm a sickly fellow Got the hypochondriac blues I need your medicine to soothe Creams and pills they've got nothing on you Well call me the Doctor and give me the cure Easily obsess o...

Once in a town in a far away place There’s a boy who sits waiting alone Dreams of your town and the people you’re sitting with All of them with you right now Oh why I cry, I don’t know Talking bout people who talk about you Still I can’t see the truth...

In the summertime the sun don't shine In the town we live in I went around but still no sound In the town and all around it's gloomy Doo doo Oh it's rain or shine so make up your mind In the town we live I went around but still no sound In the town and all ar...

We all know that feeling When phantoms and shadows make reality dreary But don't let them conquer you Don't let them shatter you Some say when you disappear, there's a golden cathedral there And all the choir children sing your name And they glue you b...

"Good Times" Baby we're running out of money Honey we're running out of dough I'm turning back to the man that I once was But it was fun to fool them for a while Finally those… good times are coming Those good times are coming Good times are coming… t...

I must confess this blood in my chest I've made a great mistake so cruel One, two, three there's an owl on me I'm searching for the way it used to be Why don't you give yourself to me, I I've got a deal for you But Ph yes I've a lot to confess, Drowning far aw...

Rats they run across the field, crows rest in the tree Barking madly at each other Standing from the rooftop i scream "Won't you bark for me?" As you turn your back and fly away Caught on the fence you've left behind Dive into an empty pool, I've tried Oh I'v...

Come get what you deserve Rolled up in your shirt Yellow's blowin' heat Purple takes a seat So carry it slow To the rattle of your rhythm and bones As the rising slope Pays you back, you will know You are not an idol You will soon find out what you've become...

If you took to me we could steal away Count the stars on the milky way If you took to me I’d roll out the sails Both get in, catch the wind If you took to me I won’t be the ghost that I’ve always been If you took to me If I ramble, well, you’d always have my...

Johnny was a good boy and Johnny was my friend But Johnny had a love for majik that just wouldn't end No, it just wouldn't end Johnny saw a white owl fly over his head And Johnny's sister saw the same thing and now she's dead And now she's dead She put her h...

Laura Lee, Laura Lee, Sits under the chestnut tree. Laura Lee, Laura Lee, Whispers every word she speaks. Dark braided hair, Laura Lee. Laura Lee, Laura Lee, An orphan in the hands of faith. Laura Lee, Laura Lee, Take this cloak and walk with me. Cover your...

You were right, I was up all night Thinking about you Dreamed I choked on your kaleidoscope Now you still look deadly My fatal flower how the tigers all laughed As I ran along the well worn paths Sapphire eye looks down on my lilacs Down on my lilacs, down o...

Loving you's not hard to do We're always gonna make it through You've got my attention, here's my affection for you So bring your green eyes here to me Swimming in a sea of tears Oh they cut right through me, And you were free and clear Now I'm gonna hold you...

When you're so lonely lying in bed Night's closed it's eyes but you can't rest your head Everyone's sleeping all through the house You wish you could dream but forgot to somehow Sing this lullaby to yourself Sing this lullaby to yourself And if you are waiting...

Well Miss Magnolia You just can't keep, keep me to yourself You know I've been here way to long You had me working all day long No I'm not cut out and I won't be found to make a man for you, No, no La na na na La na na na [X11] Well if you see her, make sure...

Far away is the moon Shining down in her room Found you tripping on the stars Making mobile out of parts That you found lying on the ground Hark the birds are singing we`ve been lost and found Far away is the sun Winter you will come With your lily wh...

Oh Mr. Pit, oh Mr. Pit, Mr. Pitiful Who let you down? Who let you down? Who let you down? You still don't believe, you don't believe You don't believe, and your grievances show When your soapbox unfolds But please come down from that cloud you're sitting on...

Burnt trees on a snowy pass All my friends are far behind I'm stuck with you tonight But I'd be better alone So come on wheels take me far away Where I don't have debts to pay I can't count on yesterday to find the way home I know it happens all the time But...

Early in the morning clouds are dropping on my head Remind me the things last night I should have left unsaid So please forgive the words I use, my mind it tends to run Away with the small ideas, I know I'm not the only one So dear, oh dear My head it tends t...

Strangers crash into the night This train's headed for you babe One last song plays on the radio The sun burns the night away In the morning I only wanna see your fear's face I'm not asking to keep you more or longer than you wanna stay The night was like a d...

Acrobatic women dancing Dressed up horses, hands clapping Violins with beating big drums Through comic curtains he runs People laugh at his painted face His cartwheels leave people amazed Walking with the other clowns he paints his skin to face the day No one...

Treat it like a secret, keep it between us Until we get too tired of holding on The truth may try to seek it Keep it, keep it, little secret I can try to hide you Disguise you and remind you to stay inside your little room Deep down inside my pocket The key t...

Flowers are nice, flowers are pretty So I took a ride away from the city Stories I'd heard of mystery and magic Traveling caravans left me enchanted With rivers of sun glow just beyond the plateau I followed them down to the well There are your wishes there a...

I've got a feeling right now but it's so hard to choose Which way to go and what to do All the winners I know were just born to lose Don't know who you can look up to People walking around, they're just gambling fools Place your bets and pay off your dues Some...

Build build a ship for two In the waves she'll get tossed In a wooden ship for two Silver sea we were lost Lost, lost, lost Sturdy sails can't pull us through They were shredded and torn Struck the great whale with my harpoon Drugged us way off our course Th...

We have got no dough at all Got a jar full of pennies That dont amount to any Thing thing thing These are the melodies With simple harmonies we sing We sing of the hardship life brings It brings it brings it brings it brings These are the songs that we sing...

Some live off the land Some grow tired of the old gas lamp And some turn to strangers along the way Some holy tramp on a desert plain Some pour a drink and drown Some long haired innocent swarms the crowd Some give birth to their mother's fiends I'm staring a...

Sunshine I'd really like to tell you Oh my sunshine Even though your skies are blue You're drying up my bed How can I get any rest now? Sha la la la la la la la Someday You will get the best of me Oh someday Probably when I'm old and grey I'm lying in my be...

My sweet rose Ss the two of us grow I want you to know that nothing's quite as bad As it seems when you're so sad So remember my rose, remember my rose My sweet rose I'd like to say I'd like to say no one always gets their way And no one always thinks the sam...

I'm waiting in the pines I'm waiting in the forest Pilon at my side The treasure lies before us And so we started walking We knew they couldn't harm us And how the wind is crying When misty morning dawn breaks We'll walk back to the flats With gallons in our...

Don't talk Don't say nothing I just packed my things And I'm headed for something Where I'm going Well, I don't really know The road is calling So I've got to go Yes the road is calling so ive got to go We bid farewell as the winds blew like hell said we'd me...

I've got a perfect picture stuck in my mind Oh I was falling crooked over the hands of time I don't know what to do with this burning love inside It's like we never met: she's so cold and unkind This is the season when everybody's leaving So go on And break m...

With an upwind facing starboard I wasn't sure of where to go And the salt burns my skin And your eyes were cold as the ocean This is our day today Can't you find a way back To these arms And we're bound for where we started With a downwind course through the...

I talk with my friend over the phone, I'm scared to say things I don't know and be wrong, And words always sound much better coming out of someone else But put it in a song and know that we can get along I'm trying to lose, lose my mind When it's gone I'll te...

Your surprises wear disguises All of your truths masquerade around on Hallow's Eve So I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces So impressed by you undressing Did you take his hand aside from love? The truth would break me in two I'll never know what...

Vienna can you hear me lazing on the afternoon? Cathedral bells are ringing a sound Winter can't ignore her Spring'll bring her back with blossoms Summer bring her back to me now Bring her to me Shoulder to shoulder, be back in a month I told her Wishing well...

Float down stream, rivers of dreams Float down stream, catch your wings Heavens high, so you fly Catch your dreams in the sky But the glaciers have frozen your feet I can't wait for eternity And so you watched me wash away But maybe we'll catch up someday May...

Bottles of reasons I kept in the freezer Now they wont leave me, why won't they leave me alone? And with these old reasons are bottled up feelings I wont be leaving no, won't be leaving alone What is in it? What is in it? To pour myself some more What is in i...

You put a spell on me girl Some kind of southern breeze, and I know what it means I'm not a superstitious man But you're calling me back after being with him You got me feeling strange Pins and pains that I cannot explain I can't explain You must be using wit...

Can, can you spare some conversation Can, can you spare some conversation I need a yellow taxi cab today I need your taxi cab to take me away I need a yellow taxi cab today So take us, driver, take us far away I need someone like you Someone to see me throu...