Our Lady Peace

I walked around my good intentions and found that there were none I blame my father for the wasted years we hardly talked I never thought I would forget this hate then a phone call made me realize I'm wrong If I don't make it known that I've loved you...

Suddenly something I'm not You're something that you bought Was it something I said, my friend A little girl are you tripping on this Are you tripping all over it You better come up for air Story about a girl My Story about the world My A...

Fell asleep today North Ontario Woke up far away A place I didn’t know A woman smiled at me She said welcome to my home Life is different here she says now Camouflage with gold She said hey leave a light on for me Hey, leave the light on for...

A suburban man at my door But I don't think I'll let him in He wants discipline, discipline, control over the way I live He wants the best for me Old school philosophy But I can't turn my back on him And he's a part of me Buy me anything But I...

You, looked at me as you walked in the room Like the red sea, you split me open Somehow I knew these wings were stolen All you did was save my life Tried to run but I couldn’t move Well I paid for these concrete shoes Like a singer that sings the blues...

Skies like angels turn to rust We hide inside our pickup trucks Thoughts heavy like aeroplanes Come crashing down and burst in flames Memories, I'd cash them in for peace of mind and some discipline No turning back I'm starting to mend A fortunate man...

Looks like the Holy Ghost is gone Now your afraid of yourself Over your shoulder you have to watch Heaven fall into hell Looks like your boat's about to sink So it's time to prepare Even the angels are losing sleep And the sidewalks are bare It's like...

You're a little bit shy A little too quiet You're the mixed up girl That everybody leaves behind A little bit weird A little too bright But you just might be That little bomb at their side They'll pull your hair They'll leave you wide-eyed But did a...

You, you’re me I’m the lock, you’re the key You’re the air, the air I breathe. But tonight I’m choking You are my life You are my life You, you’re the sea I’m the waves crashing I'm the ground The ground under your feet I’m a liar, a thief...

Your life has been so hard It's been dried up angels that can't keep guard I'm trying to reach your hand But I'm on fire I never planned to fade... away Stay with me Stop pretending when they say that you're nothing Are you sad? Are you holding yourse...

I know a girl, got a long snake moan A fever in her head and a restless soul I got a feeling that the church don't know What the church don't know, the church don't mind We all work on borrowed time Girl, you run as fast as you can Don't give up, we'll...

And Sara thinks she's died here once before she's crazy a pop-up book of flowers from grade 4 are driving her insane no-one knows why she's sad tonight no-one can help her find crying, she couldn't afford the view crying, these automatic flowers won'...

I've never seen your breath before but I'm disgusted by the thought of waiting anymore If I look up in your eyes will you notice me or notice it or fade into this accident I don't want to find the big dumb rocket on your mind its mostly you & most...

Lately I can't breathe Waiting they're chasing me No one listens but i'm ok with it Only I wonder why If only my hands weren't tied The world's a blister But i'm ok with it What if I was there What if I was scared I'm waiting for... They're at my...

It’s time for forgiveness It’s time for relief It’s time that we’ve wasted And it’s time that we need It’s time for decision It’s time to be brave It’s the time of your life Don’t let it slip away Boy You’ll be running but can’t get anywhere Don’t...

A little white house It's everything we dreamed about I wanted you to know I'm hanging up my ego We shouldn't have to fight Or worry about the bills tonight I wanted you to know I want to be your shadow The mystery's gone So bring back the s...

Tired & jaded this road is unsafe have you been there but time is on your side you're too stubborn to wait are you listening they want you to know they want you to stay but its too much to take so you're running away it's more than I can bear...

You know you're not a strong man and you're just about to cry hang on it's all right you worry about the future the sign said "Yoga class for cats" it's okay... the dynamite is waiting they bankrupted the sky you're frustrated by the cracks in the p...

Throw away the radio suitcase keeps you awake hide the telephone, the telephone, telephone in case you realize that sometimes is just not okay you level off,you level off,you level off but its not all right now you need to understand there's nothing...

Take all your pills and divide them By colour & size Take all your problems and advise them That everything's fine Since you ran away you've been beating Your habits to death But if you were to stay would you feel them This white happiness Nobody...

Dear prudence, won't you come out to play dear prudence, greet the brand new day the sun is up, the sky is blue it's beautiful and so are you dear prudence won't you come out and play? dear prudence open up your eyes dear prudence see the sunny skies th...

The telephone is ringing, disconnect the line the tension is building but I'm alright the stars are colliding, so you might as well let me go the television is burning because I set it on fire the wheels they keep turning, but i'm fine what about the que...

So you feel that stain of dried up discussions without weight It's that feeling you will not have to destroy It's that feeling that you will not have to ignore the dirty walls So you've been plagued, but is everything okay I cannot bear the shallow word...

I crawled out from the pain of yesterday I crawled to you and I said all the things that you said to say Have I said enough Do you like it yeah e yeah Do you like it yeah e yeah I know why you're playin' these dirty games They're killing me and I kno...

Can’t get out of bed Straighten up my head I swear this is goodbye I feel like lying here I feel like dying here And only you can save me tonight I felt this girl spin and crash The end of the world shouldn’t come so fast Don’t stop sucking me in Ma...

A mother sets the dinner table Son crashes to the pavement, yeah A father workin' just to make ends We spend our lives to try and make sense, of it. But I, I feel the love, I feel the power It comes to me in the darkest hour And I, I wanna feel it again...

Every time I think of you I feel the coldest chill I think about your great escape An artist with expert skills It's painful when you're not around But it's bound to change You're the ghost Empty are these hands You're the ghost There's no turning back No tur...

Eternal life is now on my trail got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail while all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games there's a flaming red horizon that screams our names and as your fantasies are broken in two did you really...

I'm not waiting for the answers On a Sunday afternoon I'm just too drunk to remember Why I always slip through The drugs and fake ambition Have been helping me to hide But it's the endless television That has kept me inside Where does it stop? Where...

Hang me up to dry with your clothes Drink away the fear in my bones Save me from this ugly landfill Sun will scare away this winter chill We love before we hate And bend before we break We talk before were mum And walk before we'll run Find our way ho...

Fire in the hen house Protests in the deep south It's Shangri-La in reverse Time to call the wet nurse Markets on the rebound Riots in the ghost towns Dirty little secrets Always change and change and change Accelerate, must accelerate Hesitate, must...

Last time I talked to you You were lonely and out of place You were looking down on me Lost out in space We laid underneath the stars Strung out and feeling brave I watched the red orange glow I watched you float away Down here in the atmosphere Garb...

I confess Everyone is overweight And I'm obsessed Talking is just masturbating Without the mess Addiction leaves you sad today & unimpressed I can't remember all the names because Everyone you meet today Is just so fucking lame Bored again by ha...

I'm looking for a sign that I can't see The good the bad is somewhere in between These warning signs, and the servant grinds, me down The kids are building fires by their homes The smoke is sending signals out in code These safety suits, these parachutes...

Over there well he's wondering is Oskar there is Oskar all right was never cool not allowed to fit he never knew what he liked over there he's the rubberman a rubber dress with Betty Page eyes was never cool he'll never settle down he's not allowed to...

Hope climbs atop of the piano reaching out towards the warmth of the sun some man tries to ask her down but now maybe that's where she belongs my god she said, i'm the sunflower who wants my god he said, this woman is gone into the dark is there anyb...

I walked around my good intentions And found that there were none I blame my father for the wasted years We hardly talked I never thought I would forget this hate Then a phone call made me realize I'm wrong And if I don't make it Know that I've loved y...

I could be your greatest accident I could be the blood on your fingertips Nothing's wrong Nothing to regret Just want to breathe you in If this is it I could be your greatest confidant And I could be the head laying on your breast Just want to breath...

So, you've made up your mind You're tired of trying Time to be scared And you wanted to fly You can't close your eyes Time to beware But if you believe in the world I'm calling And if you belong in the world I saw And if you believe in the world I'm c...

Well it's good to know that you'll be okay I've been waiting for this And I'll be there to sit While you pray no one's blaming me I'm not supposed to wait When they open up your heart... I have been good I understood Like a machine they'll fix you fro...

Oh, Johnny wishes he was famous Spends his time alone in the basement With Lennon and Cobain and A guitar and a stereo And while he wishes he could escape this But it all seems so contagious Not to be yourself and faceless In a song that has no s...

Oh, Johnny wünscht er wäre berühmt Verbringt seine Zeit alleine im Keller Mit Lennon und Cobain und einer Gitarre und einer Stereoanlage Und während er wünscht, er könnte diesem entfliehen Aber alles scheint so ansteckend Nicht du selbst zu sein und ind...

Goodbye, the future's sold out There's no use screaming Who thought we'd ever get this far Tonight, your faith has come down To money & a TV Psychics who've never been to Mars And nazis breast feeding I know you must be upset I can't find meaning...

Can you see her standing there trying to find anywhere there are flowers in her hand but she doesn't know why offered is advice to you but all you do is fake it mother, she's only yours tonight and she never cries mother, I know there is hurt inside Julia...

Hey what do you see It's not me, not me Why won't you share It's not fair There's a bicycle show Where the bicycles float And I wouldn't of cared I won't be the one who bothers you I won't be the one who lets you down Now that you're there You're no...

How many times have you been pushed around? Was anybody there? Does anybody care? How many time have your friends let you down? Was anybody there? Did anybody stare? How many time have your friends let you down? Just open up your heart Just open up yo...

Mother, will you think of me in your prayers? This 21st century is a mess Oh you can try and fix it But it breaks Oh you can try and love it But it hates Oh it hates This is for everything we had It's the good and it's the bad It's the state of love...

I'm here to wear you out I'm here to watch you hide Nothing to figure out I'm here to watch you die Running away from the breast of Your busy giant healing machine Nobody left in line Noone to make you shine Hanging on to the backs of opinions You're...

I can be anything that you want me to be A punching bag, a piece of string, oh That reminds you not to think I found the note down in your car And its not your fault it gets this hard Gets this hard Hold your head high Don’t look down I’m by your sid...

I gave up on you. And your exercise And the world that I knew Then, I fell back on you. Cause I need more time And I need an excuse I'm a thief, a liar An angel in the fire I'm a king, a drug The push that comes to shove I'm a freak, a star I'm eve...

You feel the love You feel the past It's all the things you thought you had Oh, I woke up in hell today I woke up depressed and drained But that's ok cause I promised not to hurt you again Apparantly I'm to blame But apparantly I've been framed My me...

Makin' plans for your escape Get between all the ricochets Assume positions in the sky Fly away with the butterflies Rest your head in Pacific grove Lose yourself down in Mexico Wanna taste of the monkey brains Take a bite man, don't be shy They're coming aft...

Are you there, and is it comfortable? did you want to escape, try to escape the population? the pressure is deceiving, and for you particularly should we let a young man die? let him die if he wants to? I can't live here anymore it's hard when you reach...

All you people can feel it waiting innocence and love, wrapped in the arms of the burning neon I feel it, I feel it it's so entertaining and so wonderful it magically calls for you big neon crossing show me the way save my soul today don't you worry a...

She said it's quiet, in the shadow of the sun. She looks tired, the life that's come undone. She turns, turns, turns, turns. She likes hockey, and summers by the lake. We're not talkin' because of my mistakes. I burn, burn, burn, burn. If you walk out...

Lying on the bed I say Everybody feels this way But anybody else, and me And are you worried about the way you know You're worried about your fancy clothes But anybody else, believe Not afraid I'm not alone I'm just hanging on way too long Let me out...

It's nothing you can say Nothing you can do Nothing in between You know the truth Nothing left to face It's nothing left to lose Nothing takes your place When they say You’re not that strong You’re not that weak It's not your fault And when...

Take these plastic people Read their lips, now let it linger Is there anything that makes them sound Sincere? Tightly hold your hand Take a deep breath, give them the finger Are you worried that your thoughts are not quite clear? (twich) Overlooked, un...

You don't understand and you don't try and see the white is too dull we need the reds and the greens you're big time now on new york tv a prime time fool for everyone to see can't see a heaven is the sky isn't clear you can't change a mind if it do...

Comes a time when you get turned around, and Life itself just wears you out, but You keep getting ready for the big parade Ah you shine your shoes and you fake a smile Salute the players with that famous style, cause Keepin' up has kept you in chains I was th...

Waiting by the telephone Breathing through a giant rubber hose God only knows Photographs of you and me Pictures of the friends you used to know Where did they go? And don't take my picture down And don't erase everything that we had Don't think I let...

We live , we die I don't know the reasons we ask why We hate , we push Recent tests show we all are Misunderstood Somethings seizing You know you lost your mind You know we all need saving She found you late last night You feel the madness growing Y...

Take death, for example: a great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. we make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider it's intrusion a tragic event. yet we find it hard to live without it. death gives meaning to our lives. it gives imp...

See the light in the distance Ten seconds from sleep If you blink you could miss it Voluntarily If it's home that you're missing Better call the police Hopelessly lost at sea The holes we dig to survive Like rabbits we run Gonna join the resistance...

I picked you up, I held you out. I love you. I love you. I placed you down, I held my breath. I wonder. Yeah, I wonder. What'd I do? You're not around. It's a fall. I've got to tell you, That this wall, was not ment for you. I see sides all, sides all...

You haven't seen the world outside for days You sleep, you hope, you wait Imagination disappears And all the dreams you have you save Confrontation like a mirror They try to take your mind away I don't know, but I believe in yesterday And what it means...

How do you feel? How do you hate? How do you wake up with The smile that's on your face? Out on the moon If I was an astronaut Could I get back to you? I'm out of my head I'm out of excuses so I'm staring at The bed, and it's you, it's you...

So you fucked this up again it's time for you to leave you never had many friends and you thought this was all right you're rushing to meditate you should eat but probably wait you never thought of yourself why are you shaking why are you right when...

Last time I talked to you You were lonely and out of place You were looking down on me, lost out in space Laid underneath the stars Strung out on feeling brave I watched the red orange glow I watched it float away Down here in the atmosphere Garbage an...

Today's a reason for living Today's the blood from a stone Today's a light from a candle Helping us to find our way home Today we carry each other Today the past is a freak Today's a time for forgiveness You were never that good to me (Welcom...

I let go of the world that was holding a passenger that could not fly in search of souls souls in search of something let it go let it slide when i find out what went on i'll bring it back it won't be easy they won't believe how a man he could drown...

I'm teething on the answers you're saving How are you going to make me understand I'm dreaming while you're stealing babies How are you going to help me sleep again How should i say "I'm so sorry" How should I pray to know that we're alive Eve stands al...

Do you worry that you're not liked how long till you break you're happy cause you smile but how much can you fake an ordinary boy an ordinary name but ordinary's just not good enough today alone I'm thinking why is superman dead is it in my head we'l...

I've read the bible, i've read Dylan, i'm reading people now because it is much more chilling i sit on a satellite with the stars made of gold there's life through that hollow lens i know supersatellite i watch the traffic, i find the seeds there's...

Hopelessly a man starts to feed your day once he was there you never looked back how did you think that his words might just fade away he seemed harmless enough so you let him in and now you'll pay i can't see him but he's stalking my thoughts how does i...

Alone in a crowd, a missin' planet You crash to the ground, You never planned that, It just happened this way. It happened this way. The starts in your eyes, If you believe in death you're certain to die. If you believe in love you're always alive. You...

Caught you knocking at my cellar door love you baby can i have some more? oh... the damage done i hit the city and i lost my band watched the needle take another man gone gone, the damage done ow... oh my my my... sing the song because i love the man k...

Help yourself if you know why you came cause if you need help she says... there's something I've got saved this is not what you wanted these candy coated fakes this is not what you wanted this is pain anacin, we're stumbling again it's the story of a...

She builds her own satellite From an old rusted chair She leaves this old world behind And the things that she cares Maybe she's gone But it won't be for long What do I know? Maybe she's found What we all dream about What do I know? She's beautiful...

I see the world on a string It’s hanging from a wire It gets tangled up and spun around Like the truth inside a liar Sometimes you wanna get high And sometimes you run and hide Cause it eats you up and spits you out It swallows you alive When I’m down...

I don't want to understand this horror There's a weight in your eyes I can't admit Everybody ends up here in bottles But the name tag's the last thing you wanted As the world explodes We fall out of it And we can't let go Because this will not go away...

I checked my pulse, said all my prayers Walked a thousand miles, haven't gotten anywhere The table's set, change is gonna come I'm a patient man, but it's been too long I'm waiting for something to happen yeah I'm waiting for something to happen I'm on that...

Listen to the colour of your dreams... turn off your mind, relax and float downstream then it's not dying, then it's not dying lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void and it is shining, it is shining now you may see the meaning of within it is being...

Can't believe she fell the silence was unnerving the crowd began to yell was the thought of her returning so you never knew him well but you know what you've been seeing these images of guilt and the concrete in her hair so far these lions still need...

Maybe they'll come back again maybe they're all gone one day you'll find me sending their message strong under your feet the city falls down so far the ground is sky we're under zenith again, it's healthy if not for long leave a little room for us to bre...

Hit the ground, Weighed down again You walked out But I'm sure you're my friend It must have been good This can't be for good Everyone's ... Is everyone ok I waited But I must be too dumb to be proud Because I waited, I waited Woke to sounds I p...

I used to wanna dream I used to wanna scream at the top of my lungs Like a diamond in a ring Or the song you love to sing The shine is gone Walking in circles Circles Walking in circles Walking in Walking in I used to wanna run I used to wanna cli...

There's no holding me back I'm not driven by fear I'm just driven by anger And you're under attack I'm just climbing up slowly I'm the one and only the tease the way the lie Stumble in your mind The fear, the hope inside They hit here! But whatever you need '...

Hey you, Have you felt like this before? You got style, But 'aint got soul. Are you happy now? Are you happy? Tonight, Did punk rock get it right? Is there no future in sight? Oh, Is it different now? Is it different? Come on, Come on, come on...

She says it's cold And she says the sky's about to fall How do you know? Well she says the writing's on the wall Everything I made, I somehow broke Every word I say, I think I stole I can't explain But I won't give up the ghost She looks like an angel Talks...

You said love is a disease Restless in it's company Like a river to the sea Is where you run You say that all the birds have flown The heart and entity turn to stone There is comfort in this great unknown And all that you've known And all that you've...

Ooh hoo Ooh hoo Are you dissapointed? And have we destroyed it I But I've been stomping down this long and winding road And these times are changin And it's complicated I I don't wanna know And I Don't ask why anymore And I Don't ask why anymore,...

I can feel the knives in my back, in my sides As my body slowly fades Can you reach into time? Bring me back here alive? Set the ocean's tides straight One by one we fall asleep like passengers in window seats I know I should go but I stay One by one w...

It's just the two of us A silver cross And some strength that you won't believe See I'm not your friend And I won't pretend That I've come here for peace Well I'm not afraid I'm gonna make you pay I'm gonna wipe that smile off your face And this is w...

Look at me the unbeliever, Tragic underachiever Keep running from the voice inside my head The days are getting longer Headache a little stronger Carry that cross To feel like I exist I'll follow you through the dark These horses will lead us to sta...