Staring at half a globe, counting all the places I haven't been. I'm feeling so lazy these days, but I've got chlorine on my skin. They say I'll get away some day, but I can't define the meaning of the word. Repetition takes its toll and come to find we're worn and tattered. Writing a chorus and a verse seems so mundane. Because when today is over the next is not the same. I've yet to see your face during these summer days. The sun is out for much too long, leaving us in a haze. I'm still settling down, you see, there are bags still unpacked. Drowning in a sea of memories and the trinkets turned to trash. Writing a chorus and a verse seems so mundane. Because when today is over the next is not the same. No matter how hard we try we cannot bring them back. The feelings of forgotten days that we now seem to lack. There are sheets on the line, drying in the breeze. Who do they belong to if they don't belong to me? On the road in the middle of the night when the traffic lights flash red. The world is sleeping sound, but I am awake in my bed.

The leaves leave the sidewalk stained With copies of their fallen remains Your smile has done the same To the insides of my eyelids My bones, they ache from the cold Your bones ache from getting old They splinter till our bodies fold And we pick each other up off the floor Let’s go out to California And visit the ones we used to love We’ll roam the interstate tonight Drive until the dark turns to light When the trees are bare and the sky is blue The sun is shining down over me and you Our wheels keep on turning in opposite directions Slowly spinning away from what is true There’s a worn and faded square on the back pocket of your jeans Where your wallet rests in between Roaming the interstate at night We drive until the dark turns to light

Type it in Give me what I need Show me data on the screen While the pages go unseen For years, collecting dust in this place Rows and rows, where I go To lose my face, Sell my soul To no longer sleep in an empty bed Wake up with blood on the sheets And a mouth that’s red Be quiet now They’re trying to concentrate On their futures Do you have what it takes? Be honest with yourself when you leave, Let the smokestacks guide you back and you will never be free To no longer sleep in an empty bed Wake up with blood on the sheets And a mouth that's red Loosen your grip, it's okay to smile I know you've been down, But you'll be okay, even if it takes awhile Be quiet now They're trying to concentrate On their futures Do you have what it takes?

Tell me what is reasonable, please For I've been in the clouds Lost in thoughts of what could be Absent from the now And it seems I've been so blind To all the colors changing They've already turned and fallen While I've been rearranging Tell me that you love me, please Or is it just in my head? I've got this bad habit of being optimistic You've filled my heart with lead And it seems I've been so blind To all the colors changing They've already turned and fallen While I've been rearranging I am rearranging

Let’s go sit by the water Wipe the tear from the lens Before it dries My eyes Are too big for my heart Burned again, my friend, if only I could get what I want Twenty years without Oh, I have been so lonely Staring at our shoes My voice, my courage fail to function Only wind And the leaves have nothing to lose I hope you heard it In my silence Nothing and everything changed At once And I am the culprit

I got up this morning before the sun, Because, like Springsteen said, “We can make it if we run.” But all that runnin’ will have to wait another day, 'Cause I gotta go to work now to earn my pay I’m going to a harbor town on the Fourth of July Lay out on the sand and watch the waves pass by Out on the water in the midday sunlight Return the next morning to continue the fight In a few years I will know what I want We’re all waiting patiently for the things we long to flaunt, And they say “patience is virtue” but I say that’s a lie It’s just another excuse for letting the time pass by So I'm going to a harbor town on the Fourth of July Lay out on the sand and watch the waves pass by Out on the water in the midday sunlight Return the next morning to continue the fight I keep falling in love with things that are not mine History repeats itself, but I ignore the signs Four stories above behind historic doors We come together often although I am not yours I'm going to a harbor town on the Fourth of July Lay out on the sand and watch the waves pass by Out on the water in the midday sunlight Return the next morning to continue the fight

You’re the one with the dark hair With speckles of grey near your temples I see empires in your eyes when you speak There are rings around fingers forgotten Until we wake up in the morning To another weather forecast that’s nothing but bleak We sleep next to radiators with the television on Old movies provide comfort of a time long gone We sleep next to radiators with our eyes shut tight Fighting off our demons in the middle of the night I’ve got metal in my bones I am an artificial being I see love songs in your teeth when you smile The scars we hide under clothing Represent things hard to explain But we could analyze them nonetheless, for awhile Don’t give up We can make it, we can make it Don’t give up We can make it, we can make it We sleep next to radiators with the television on Old movies provide comfort of a time long gone We sleep next to radiators with our eyes shut tight Fighting off our demons in the middle of the night

There is a place where power lines cover fields of green Cutting through the tree line with lines so clean Hill over hill on one hundred degree days Creating a never-ending maze I chase them in my sleep, always in dreams, While we fall for the ideas in every song we sing And we ran through the sprinklers in the black summer night Ran until our bodies took flight, took flight There is a field where fireflies illuminate the air Only for seconds, like they’re never even there You went to grab one, to put it in a jar But it flew out of reach, away from where you are I chase them in my sleep, always in dreams While we fall for the ideas in every song we sing And we ran through the sprinklers in the black summer night Ran until our bodies took flight, took flight

I crossed the overpass today and I'm never going back felt the cars go by underneath and now I'm never going back If the birds fly south for winter, then why can't you and I? Why can't you and I? I crossed the overpass today I pedaled up that hill with all the strength that I had broke out into the open air and now I'm never going back If the birds fly south for winter, then why can't you and I? Why can't you and I? all the buildings remind me of you the empty rooms and the silent halls there's nothing I can do I'm hearing you through the walls you crossed the overpass today I hope someday you come back to take me away from this college town I'm never going back If the birds fly south for winter, then why can't you and I? Why can't you and I? I crossed the overpass today

Oh, I can feel it in the air I can see it there in the early hours Something hanging over me It’s a sadness I just can’t shake And now it’s been a year We circle back to old conversations It’s a redundancy I just can’t bear But it’s just the way it goes I suppose When the leaves change We sit amongst strangers And ride up the street In a town that does no good I see you on the street With your sleek corporate haircut Blank expression on your face A feeling in your gut Oh, I can feel it in the air I can see it there in early hours Something hanging over me It's a sadness I just can't shake But I think that you can help Don't you see? You can light the fire The fire in me