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Now when you say you wanna slow down Does it mean you wanna slow dance Maybe you just want a little extra time to focus On our romance What do you mean I got it backwards? You know we're gonna be forever Why are you telling me goodbye? Ain't you gonna s...

Man you really know how to get someone down Everything was fine until you came around I’ve been chasing after dreamers in the clouds But after all wasn’t I the one who said To keep your feet on the ground? Man you really brought me back down Hold o...

I wanna go someplace Where everybody wins 'Cause I've lost all my friends Since they got brand new eyes They don't look at me the same It's anyone's guess where I went wrong Now I'm the only one Who's thinking back Seven years ago Seven years in the...

I don't mean to run But every time you come around I feel more alive Than ever And I guess it's too much Maybe we're too young And I don't even know what's real But I know I've never Wanted anything so bad I've never wanted anyone so bad If I let y...

I don't mind, Letting you down easy, but just give it time If it don't hurt now well just wait, just wait a while You're not the big fish in the pond no more You are what they're feeding on So what are you gonna do When the world don't orbit around you?...

Think of me when you're out, when you're out there I'll beg you nice from my knees And when the world treats you way too fairly Well it's a shame I'm a dream All I wanted was you All I wanted was you I think I'll pace my apartment a few times And fall...

We've tried so hard to understand, but we can't. We held the world out in our hands and you ran away. It takes some time to let you go and it shows. Cause all we know is falling, it falls. Remember how, cause I know that we won't forget at all. Now we...

Why do you care what people think? Are you hooked up to their leash? You know, anklebiters Ate up your personality Try to remember how it felt To just make up your own steps And let anklebiters Chew up and spit out someone else And fall in love with y...

And if you're listening, I miss you. And if you hear me now, I need you. Where did you go, 'cause you're not gone. Everyone knows there's something's wrong. The wires are cut, and I'm alone I know we're getting closer. I know you're coming back for me t...

So what if I don't have a lot to talk about? I'll shut my mouth and keep it locked until it counts And what if I don't ever want to leave my house? Stay on the couch while all my friends are going out Alone You should be alone Yeah, you should be alone...

Oh no, I just keep on falling (Back to the same old!) Where's hope when misery comes crawling (Oh my wa-ay!) With your faith, you'll trigger a landslide (victory) And kill off this common sense of mine It takes acquired minds to taste to taste to tast...

So your father told you once, that you were his princess. But you won’t see the castle, you cannot find your prince. Now you’ve grown a lot and your dresses don’t fit right. Daddy’s not a hero he stole your chariot. So here you are in pieces, tryin...

I climb, I slip, I fall Reaching for your hands But I lay here all alone Sweating all your blood If I could find out how To make you listen now Because I'm starving for you here With my undying love And I, I will Breathe for love tomorrow Cause there's no ho...

Oh, she lives in a fairy tale, Somewhere too far for us to find. Forgotten the taste and smell Of a world, that she's left behind. It's all about the exposure the lens. I told her the angles were all wrong, Now she's ripping wings off of butterflies. K...

She lives in a fairy tale Somewhere too far for us to find Forgotten the taste and smell Of the world that she's left behind It's all about the exposure the lens I told her The angles were all wrong now She's ripping wings off of butterflies Wit...

So this is how it goes Well I, I would have never known And if it ends today Well, I'll still say that you shine brighter than anyone Now I think we're taking this too far Don't you know that it's not this hard? Well, it's not this hard But if you take...

Careful I settled down a twisted up frown disguised as a smile. Well, you would've never known I had it all, but not what I wanted 'cause hope for me was a place uncharted and overgrown. You'd make your way in I'd resist you just like this: "You can...

I can't think of getting old It only makes me want to die And I can't think of who I was 'Cause it just makes me want to cry, cry, cry Can't look back, can't look too far ahead I got the point, I got the message I'm just a little bit caught in the middl...

Take this time to realize That's you always shut your eyes In the midst of trial And everything is always right (And I think that it's time).. This battle must be won (But you pushed it aside)... Pushed it aside Pretend that it's gone This circle ne...

Please speak softly, for they will hear us And they'll find out why we don't trust them Speak up dear cause I cannot hear you I need to know why we don't trust them Explain to me this conspiracy against me And tell me how I've lost my power Where can I...

I got a lot to say to you Yeah, I got a lot to say I noticed your eyes are always glued to me Keeping them here And it makes no sense at all They taped over your mouth Scribbled out the truth with their lies Your little spies They taped over your mout...

Living in a city of sleepless people Who all know their limits and won't go too far outside the lines Cause they're out of their minds I wanna get out and build my own home On a street where reality is not much different from dreams I've had A dream is al...

How can I decide what’s right? When you’re clouding up my mind I can’t win your losing fight All the time Nor can I ever own what’s mine When you’re always taking sides But you won't take away my pride No, not this time Not this time How did we get h...

Close your eyes and make believe This is where you want to be Forgetting all the memories, Try to forget love cause love's forgotten me Well hey, hey baby, it's never too late pretty soon you won't remember a thing And I'll be distant, the stars reminisci...

I think we have an emergency I think we have an emergency If you thought I'd leave, then you were wrong Cause I won't stop holding on So are you listening? So are you watching me? If you thought I'd leave, then you were wrong Cause I won't stop holdi...

I've got a life out there somewhere, it's waiting Lined with palmtrees and only new faces If I could look past the present and get there Well baby it's worth a shot Just enough time to plan an escape route I put my map on the wall in the basement Not qui...

These fears come rushing in when I enter here Another layer on my back A blazing fire where our glances meet The largest feeling towering over me Faces in disguise Not a trace of desire I long to take you to a secret place Where we could lay aside our...

I love making you believe What you get is what you see But I'm so fake happy I feel so fake happy And I bet everybody here Is just as insincere We're all so fake happy And I know fake happy I been doing a good job of makin' 'em think I'm quite alrigh...

Been through the wringer a couple times I came out callous and cruel And my two friends know this very well Because they went through it too The three of us were initiates We had to learn how to deal And when we spotted a second chance We had to learn...

We still live in the same town, well, don't we? But I don't see you around anymore. I go to all the same places, not even a trace of you.. Your days are numbered at 24. And I'm getting bored waiting around for you, We're not getting any younger, and...

I'm sitting in a room, Made up of only big white walls and in the halls There's people looking through The window in the door, they know exactly what we're here for. Don't look up Just let them think There's no place else You'd rather be. You're alwa...

Just talk yourself up And tear yourself down You've hit your one wall Now find a way around Well what's the problem? You've got a lot of nerve So what'd you think I would say? No you can't run away, no you can't run away So what did you think I would...

You hurt me bad this time, no coming back And I cry 'till I couldn't cry, another heart attack If I lay on the floor, maybe I'll wake up And I don't pick up when you call 'Cause your voice is a gun Every word is a bullet hole Shot a hole in the sun If I...

You hurt me bad this time No coming back And I cried 'till I couldn't cry Another heart attack If I lay on the floor, maybe I'll wake up And I don't pick up when you call 'Cause your voice is a gun Every word is a bullet hole Shot a hole in the sun If...

And when we get home, I know we won't be home at all This place we live, it is not where we belong And I miss who we were in the town that we could call our own Going back to get away after everything has changed 'Could you remind me of a time when we were so...

I'm writing the future, I'm writing it out, loud. We don't talk about the past, We don't talk about the past now. So, I'm writing the future, I'm leaving a key here. Something won't always be missing, You won't always feel emptier. Ah-ah, mm-mm, Ah-...

I told 'em all where to stick it I left town with a dime to my name Said I'm done with all of my fake friends Self-righteous pawns in a losing game Got my band and a light that won't go out Been burning since the day I was born So I cry just little then...

Strange how we found ourselves exactly where we left off I know you're shaking my hand like it is the first time Are we alright? Are you recounting all my faults? And are you racking your brain just to find them all? Could it be that I've changed or did y...

Somehow everything's gonna fall right into place, If we only had a way to make it all fall faster everyday. If only time flew like a dove, Will God make it fly faster than I'm falling in love. This time we're not giving up, Let's make it last forever, S...

All that I want Is to wake up fine Tell me that I’m alright That I ain’t gonna die All that I want Is a hole in the ground You can tell me when it’s alright For me to come out HARD TIMES Gonna make you wonder why you even try HARD TIMES Gonna take...

There, is not a single word, In the whole world That could describe the hurt, The dullest knife just sawing back and forth, And ripping though the softest skin there ever was How were you to know? Oh how were you to know? And I, I hate to see your hea...

There's no one in town I know You gave us some place to go I never said thank you for that 'thought I might get one more chance What would you think of me now? So lucky, so strong, so proud I never said thank you for that Now I'll never have a chance May ang...

I feel happy, I feel sad, I feel like running through the walls I'm overjoyed, I'm undecided, I don't know who I am Well maybe I'm not perfect, at least I'm working on it 22 is like the worst idea that I have ever had It's too much pain, it's too much fre...

Hello, hello, is anyone home? Hello, hello, just pick up the phone. I opened up my life to you, I've told you everything I knew. You listen so closely too, You listen so close, when love was just a way out. But you're going deaf now, yeah, you've turn...

And here we go again, with all the things we said, and not a minute spent, to think that we'd regret, so we just take it back these words and hold our breath. Forget the things we swore we meant. I'll write you just to let you know that I'm alright. C...

Down to you You're pushing and pulling me down to you But I don't know what I... Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself From saying something that I should have never thought Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself From saying something t...

Standing here like I'm supposed to say something Don't hold your breath, I never said I'd save you, honey And I don't want your money If I was you I'd run from me or rip me open You'll see you're not the only one who's hopeless Be sure to put your faith i...

If I'm a bad person, you don't like me Well, I guess I'll make my own way It's a circle, a mean cycle I can't excite you anymore Where's your gavel? Your jury? What's my offense this time? You're not a judge but if you're gonna judge me Sentence me to...

Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die Yesterday I got so old It made me want to cry Go on go on Just walk away Go on go on Your choice is made Go on go on And disappear Go on go on Away from here And I know I was wrong When I said it was...

You escaped like a runaway train Off the tracks and down again And my heart's beating like a steam boat tugging All your burdens on my shoulders And in the mourning, I'll rise In the mourning, I'll let you die In the mourning all my worries And now th...

Now I can move on to facing, Big girl problems, No more high school drama, Graduated with honors. And I'm drinkin' coffee while I, Read the paper, I've been savin' money, eatin', Only Top Ramen. Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh. Now I get a holiday, Wherever I g...

I’m not angry anymore Well, sometimes I am I don’t think badly of you Well, sometimes I do It depends on the day The extend of all my worthless rage I’m not angry anymore I’m not bitter anymore I’m syrupy sweet I rot your teeth down to the core If...

Let ‘em have their time Sit back and let ‘em shine Let ‘em rise and rise 'Cause one day they’re gonna fall Let ‘em soak in the sun Sit back and let ‘em have their fun Let ‘em spill their guts 'Cause one day they’re gonna slip on ‘em Well I could be an...

So your father told you once That you were his princess You won't see the castle You cannot find your prince And now you've grown a lot And your dresses don't fit right Your daddy's not a hero He stole your chariot So here you are in pieces Trying t...

Verse 1: I slipped down the stairs Tripped over your fragile ego I slipped the whole way Right into the web you'd woven Chorus: And you never said That you meant to save some one Somebody just like me And you never told me You wanted to love some one Somebody...

I don't even know myself at all I thought I would be happy by now The more I try to push it I realize – gotta let go of control Gotta let it happen Gotta let it happen Gotta let it happen So let it happen It's just a spark But it's enough to keep me...

Pink Flowers in her body Bubble gown floats I see you and you loved me Our gaze met This is more than a novel To me this is forever This sit is for you, it just did You were mad I was sad We went out, we always did She wanted to be alone At times, we don't u...

What a shame we all became such fragile, broken things. A memory remains just a tiny spark. I give it all my oxygen, to let the flames begin. So let the flames begin. Oh, glory. Oh, glory. This is how we'll dance when, When they try to take us down....

Maybe, if my heart stops beating, it wont hurt this much And never will i have to answer again to anyone Please don't get me wrong Because i'll never let this go, but i can't find the words to tell you I don't want to be alone but now i feel like i do...

Where to go I had no idea 26.10 was the price to pay A messed up kid with no ideals at all I thought those 26.10 I shouldn't give'em away I remember this young guy died and I took his part He got far too many stitches on his pretty face Long time to see but...

Things are looking up, oh finally! I thought I'd never see the day When you'd smile at me We always pull through Oh when we try I'm always wrong but You're never right. You're never right! Honestly, can you believe We cross the world while it's asle...

Well I won't be the one to disappoint you, anymore And I know I said all this so that you heard it all before The trick is getting you to think that all this is your idea And that it is everything you've ever wanted out of here Love's not a competition, b...

This is from This is from This is from Matilda Just like Johnny Flynn said, 'the breath I've taken and the one I must' to go on. Put the grenade pin in your hand, so you understand who's boss. My defeat sleeps top to toe with her success. Oh this...

I've gone for too long living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I When this memory fades I'm gonna make sure it's replaced With chances taken Hope embraced And have I told you I'm not going cause I've been w...

I'm in the business of misery, Let's take it from the top. She's got a body like an hourglass it's ticking like a clock. It's a matter of time before we all run out, When I thought he was mine she caught him by the mouth. I waited eight long months, She...

1, 2, 3, 4 I am going away for a while But I'll be back, don't try and follow me Cause I'll return as soon as possible See I'm tryin' to find my place It might not be here where I feel safe We all learn to make mistakes, And run from them From them...

You were my conscience, so solid Now you're like water And we started drowning Not like we'd sink any further But I let my heart go It's somewhere down at the bottom But I'll get a new one And come back for the hope that you've stolen I'll stop the wh...

I am finding out, that maybe I was wrong, that I've fallen down and I can't do this alone. Stay with me, this is what I need, please. Sing us a song and we'll sing it back to you. We could sing our own, but what would it be without you? I am nothing no...

[Originally by Foo Fighters] Too alarming now to talk it out Take your pictures down and shake it out Truth or consequence, say it aloud Use that evidence, race it around There goes my hero Watch him as he goes There goes my hero He's ordinary Don'...

You're my number one You're my golden star I look at earth from here Still you don't seem so far But you will never know (you will never know) Oh, you will never know oh oh oh oh oooooh oh oh Oh I will never admit that I oh oh oh oh oooooh oh oh Oh...

How can they say there is one way when it's the opposite? And how can they know the end of the story before I tell it? 'Cause when I walk your feet, they fall to the same beat Or maybe we're from two different worlds, but we got our own language We talk t...

Maybe if my heart stops beating It won't hurt this much And never will I have to answer Again to anyone Please don't get me wrong Because I'll never let this go But I can't find the words to tell you I don't want to be alone But now I feel like I don't know...

These old letters from years ago I felt it was leading to a [...] When I wrote this [...] I may have been finally able to address how it feels Another brick-red room Another black-top town Another misspelled band burning their own houses down Another...

(Don't try to take this from me Don't try to take this from me Now-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow) (x2) Feels like I'm waking from the dead And everyone's been waiting on me. 'Least now I'll never have to wonder what it's like To sleep a year away. But were we indestru...

Father Oh Father Oh Father Oh Father Father, Well I am ready Won't you let it begin? Cause I am here now, I want to dance in the mighty palm of your hand.  

Oh star fall down on me Let me make a wish upon you Hold on, let me think Think of what I'm wishing for Wait, don't go away. Just not yet. Cause I thought, I had it. But I forget. And I won't let you fall away, From me. You will never fade. And I...

I asked for love. I asked for mercy. I asked for patience. but you're already all of these things. I asked for love. I asked for mercy. I asked for patience. but you're already all of these things. I asked for love. I asked for mercy. I asked for patience. b...

Like the moon we borrow our light, I am nothing but a shadow in the night, If you let me I'll catch fire, To let your glory and mercy shine 

What a shame, what a shame we all remain Such fragile, broken things A beauty half betrayed Butterflies with punctured wings Still there are darkened places Deep in my heart Where once was blazing light, now There's a tiny spark Oh glory Come and find...

Listen Seein' you got ritualistic Cleansin' my soul of addiction for now 'Cause I'm fallin' apart, yeah Tension Between us just like picket fences You got issues that I won't mention for now 'Cause we're fallin' apart Passionate from miles away Passi...

Hey Mr. Common Sense Won't you let me break this fence down? Oh God, I'm sinking in Right back into my sins My sins Ohhh... Ohh Oh Hey Mr. Common Sense Won't you let me break this fence down? Oh God, I'm sinking in Right back into my sins My sins Ohhh... O...

I can't make my own decisions Or make any with precision. Well maybe you should tie me up, So I don't go where you don't want me. You say that I've been changin' That I'm not just simply agin'. yeah, How can that be logical? Just keep on cramming ideas...

As if the first cut wasn’t deep enough I dove in again cause I’m not into giving up Coulda got the same rush from any lover’s touch But why get used to something new Cause no one breaks my heart like you When you kiss me I wish we Could see what h...

Tell me where our time went And if it was time well spent Just don't let me fall asleep Feeling empty again Cause I fear I might break and I fear I can't take it Tonight I'll lie awake feeling empty I can feel the pressure It's getting closer now We're bette...

It's really hard, I can't cry in your arms, 'cause you're not here. It's not your fault, and if it was, I wouldn't care. My heart is bigger than the distance in between us, I know it cause I feel it beating. So strong, it'll knock you down. So strong...

The grass wasn't green enough here After watering it with my tears I'm not sure where you went Nowwe are, just past tense The snakes, they are slithering in Chasing me to my end I Can't say where that is I'm running again Oh, when I get there it won'...

Don’t come looking for me Cause I’ll be right here with the words you said I’m looking for the words to say You know what you did, you know And how can anybody Forget the promise that you made? Cause this is how the promise breaks I always knew you'd fa...

Low key no pressure Just hang with me and my weather Low key no pressure Just hang with me and my weather Rose-colored boy I hear you makin all that noise About the world you want to see And I’m so annoyed Cause I just killed off what was left O...

I am so much more Than this dirty whore you see in me You are just the same But you never blame yourself for anything Darling, I told you once before That I'm a sinner (sinner) Darling, I told you once before That I'm a liar, cheater, not a friend Oh those w...

your lies are bleeding through your teeth your eyes, the only one thing in me your promises never really meant a thing but they float from your lips so easily stay, stay, stay, stay, stay away from me stay, stay, stay, stay away stay, stay, stay, stay away fr...

Can't count the years on one hand That we've been together I need the other one to hold you. Make you feel, make you feel better. It's not a walk in the park To love each other. But when our fingers interlock, Can't deny, can't deny, you're worth it!...

You say the sweetest things and I Can't keep my heart from singing along to the sound of your song My stupid feet keep moving to this 4/4 beat, I'm in time with you Whoa, to this 4/4 beat I would die for you (die for you) (Someone stop this) I've gone to...

[Originally by Failure] I heard you driving in my car Then in a frozen bar And I claimed I didn't care for you But your verse got trapped inside my head Over and over again You played yourself to death in me I thought I'd drop you easily But that was...

I can't believe the news today Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away How long, how long must we sing this song? How long, how long? Tonight, we can be as one tonight Broken bottles under children's feet And bodies strewn across the dead end stre...

Meet me here beneath the burning skies Where the ocean comes and takes us from all of our lies You never said that you were coming back I have waited although I have found the place you hide What keeps you so far away? We can swim in silence You can pull me un...

I can’t call you a stranger But I can’t call you I know you think that I erased you You may hate me but I can’t hate you And I won’t replace you Tell me how to feel about you now? Tell me how to feel about you now? Oh oh let me know Do I suffoc...

Maybe it’s been years Since I genuinely smiled And maybe it’s been years Since I wanted to be a part of anything Well, lately I’ve been good You know, I’ve actually been great Man, I even laughed a little today Oh, it's so strange, it's so strange Te...

I used to be so quick, so clever I used to know myself much better Anyone can see that this is only permanent Temporary, it never hurts to try And it's all a game I know we'll stay the same But repetition ends in failure And every time I see it in your eyes W...

No sir, well I don't wanna be the blame, not anymore. It's your turn, so take a seat we're settling the final score. And why do we like to hurt, so much? I can't decide You have made it harder just to go on And why, all the possibilities where I was wron...

When I was younger I saw my daddy cry And curse at the wind Broke his own heart And I watched As he tried to reassemble it And my mom swore that She would never let herself forget And that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love If...

Take this time to realize That you always shut your eyes In the midst of trial And everything is always right (and I think that it's time) this battle must be won (but you pushed it aside) Pushed it aside Pretend that it's gone This circle never ends And it's...

There's an empty room At the end of the hall And it's begging to Swallow you whole Each step you take Makes it easier to Fall on your face Each tear you fake Makes it easier to See straight through you, now [Chorus:] And you're so hateful sometimes Throwing...

For all I know The best is over and the worst is yet to come Is it enough? To keep on hoping when the rest have given up? And they go I hate to say I told you so But they love to say they told me so I hate to say I told you so They love to say they to...

I scraped my knees while I was praying And found a demon in my safest haven, seems like It's getting harder to believe in anything Than just to get lost in all my selfish thoughts I wanna know what it'd be like To find perfection in my pride To see noth...

I Climb, I Slip, I Fall Reaching for your hands But I lay here all alone Sweating all your blood If I could find out how To make you listen now Because I'm starving for you here With my undying love and I ....I will Breathe for love tomorrow Cause there's no...

I've been roaming around always lookin down at all I see. Painted faces fill the places I can't reach. You know that I could use somebody You know that I could use somebody Someone like you And all you know and how you speak Countless lovers undercover of the...

I am outside And I've been waiting for the sun With my wide eyes I've seen worlds that don't belong My mouth is dry with words I cannot verbalize Tell me why we live like this Keep me safe inside Your arms like towers Tower over me Yeah Cause we a...

And when it rains, On this side of town it touches, everything. Just say it again and mean it. We don't miss a thing. You made yourself a bed At the bottom of the blackest hole (blackest hole) And convinced yourself that It's not the reason you don't se...

where the lines overlap give me attention, i need it now too much distance, to measure it out, out loud tracing patterns across a personal map and making pictures where the lines overlap where the lines overlap no one is as lucky as us we’re not at...

I've hoped for change, it gets better everyday I've hoped for change, but still I feel the same There's something wrong, cause everybody knows That we can do this on our own And we've got everybody singing Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa We've got everybody singing W...

You've come to tell me something, you say I ought to know That he don't love me anymore and I'll have to let him go You say you're gonna take him, oh, but, I don't think you can 'Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man Women like you they're a dime a doze...