Lyric-a-Day.fm • Page 7

When I was young death chewed me up
And I was swallowed by a world that I don't feel a part of anymore

 

I was solid gold
I was in the fight
I was coming back from what seemed like a ruin
I couldn't see you coming so far
I just turn around and there you are

 

Though you're making noise,
Just can't hear your voice,
They're on a dizzy ride and you're cold sober

Why can't you believe what I say is true,
Everything I'm saying, Lord, I heard it first from you

Heard your news report,
You know you're falling short,
Pretty soon won't trust you for the weather

 

Cause I just wrote a letter
A confession down the ladder
That things could be so much better
Through follow the leader
I met her and then another end
And usually a grudge
But I loved so much
The way we touched and psuedo-kissed
Oh I already miss you singing like this
Over the phone
Every now and every then I tend to pretend
I'm not alone

 

So don't move an inch
Don't move a single second
Until the shade behind your thoughts is not confused
Cause I felt your itch
I know the scent as well as any
Clotting your garden of paint or pollen
Brick in your mortar, petals to soak in
On the cracks, thicker or finer
Milk in your water, black in your primer
Wood in your brush, now I am your cloth
Whatever you want, the best is upon us
Its a finicky muse
With only potential
To choose

 

The city of angels is lonely at night
Keep myself alive by candlelight
Say she can't love you like I do
Look me in the eyes and say it's true
I ask myself is this love at all
When I need you most you let me fall
I'm always here at the side of your stage
Let you live your life, pretend I'm okay

 

I'll tell you one thing
We ain't gonna change much
The sun still rises
Even with the pain

I'll tell you one thing
We ain't gonna change love
The sun still rises
Even through the rain

 

Small wheel turn by the fire and rod
Big wheel turn by the grace of God
Everytime that wheel turn round
bound to cover just a little more ground

The wheel is turning
and you can't slow down
You can't let go
and you can't hold on
You can't go back
and you can't stand still
If the thunder don't get you
then the lightning will

Won't you try just a little bit harder
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?
Won't you try just a little bit harder?
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?

 

The line's getting deeper, but what do you know?

 

Dust is everywhere. Sweep.

Parquet Courts - Dust

 

You know me
Or you think you do
You just can't seem to see
I've been waiting all this time to be
Something I can't define
So let's cause a scene
Clap our hands and stomp our feet
Or something
I've just gotta get myself over me

 

the pain it turns to razor burns
you grow and then suddenly don't

 

One last desperate plea. One last verse to sing.
One last laugh track to accompany the comedy.
Have I been losing it completely? Losing sanity?
Or has it been fabricated, fashioned by the worst of me?
I know I knocked the table over because I watched the jar break
and I’ve been trying to repair it every single stupid day
But won’t the cracks still show no matter how well it’s assembled
can I ever just decide to let it die and let you go?

 

And as I arrived I thought I saw you leaving,
Carrying your shoes,
Decided that once again I was just dreaming,
Of bumping into you.

Now it's three in the morning,
And I'm trying to change your mind,
Left you multiple missed calls
And to my message you reply.
Why'd you only call me when you're high?

 

When every other kid on the block has a shotgun
I've never known the difference between the toys and the real ones
When every other kid on the block has a problem
I'm just one I'm just one

 

With my grandmother's ring
I went down on one knee
and the subsequent catastrophe
has since haunted me
like a fiberglass ghost in the attic

"Fox's Dream of the Log Flume" - mewithoutYou

 

God damn the people who left you in pain
God damn the father without face, without name
And god damn the lovers who never showed up
And god damn the wounds that show how deep a word can cut

Before you were born someone kicked in the door
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
You are not wanted here, stay back where you belong

 

Make it quick, please don't wait, let me in through heaven's gate. Oh the joy, I will see my love

 

For years we've fought the night
With pale and ghostly flames
Some still dream of light,
Say the sun will rise again
But we kill our needs for alms
With cool and measured crime
We learn to drift and palm
From our hearts and from our minds
But let us not be faithless,
For you will meet our needs
Thy good and gracious word
Is a lamp unto our feet

 

I wish you'd walk in again
Imagine if you just did I'd fill you in on the things you missed
Oh sleepless knight, a grown up man dressed in white
Who I thought might just save your life
But he couldn't, so you died

 

Caught in the eye of a hurricane
Slowly waving goodbye like a pageant parade
So sick of this town pulling me down
My mother says I should come back home but
Can't find the way cause the way is gone
So if I pray am I just sending words into outer space?

 

Sunday morning, Father's Day
The first without my dad
As I look into my little boy's eyes
It takes all I have
Not to break down right in front of him when he smiles at me
You don't become a man
Until you lose your dad, you see

"Father's Day" - Butch Walker

 

If the sky becomes all smoke and fire burns
Before my lungs give up, I take it in
Breath becomes like tax and punishment
I'll try to say the things worth holding in

 

I can still stand if you lend a hand to brace me

 

Across a different bridge today
Over the river and down Broadway
Feels so good to have you here
Some of you will be dead next year
I see your destinies above you
Like angels who don't love you
Let them kiss you and hold you tight
As long as the money's right

God bless all my old friends
And god bless me too, why pretend?
Feast when you can
And dream when theres nothing to feast on