Better Things

Everywhere you go no matter who you see she's still enticing
She's going to toy with your heart just like a boy on a string
Cause it's exciting

And now you're dying here
You should know why

You're only walking backwards when all you have is right in front of you
Yah it's difficult, sometimes impossible but it's the only thing you can do

It's time to leave it here, go somewhere else
But I don't blame you; you want to keep it here all for yourself

It's not as perfect as you think, so trade it in for better things
You doing so much for yourself so leave her tricks for someone else
To deal with, we're all in the same boat sinking, sinking, sinking
But it's not going down; no we're not going down

It's time to leave it here
No I don't care what they think
I'm going to leave her here for better things

QUIET REVOLUTION

I walk these lonely streets
Night after night
Don't need no company
Cuz I ain't feeling right
Maybe she was mad at me
Or was she mad at the world
All I know is I'm alone
And I miss that girl

I'm having a quiet revolution
Inside my head
And there's no way to kill the pain
No use trying to raise the dead
Here in my confusion
I seek absolution
In my quiet revolution

I should be moving on
Set myself free
But I can't let go of her
And she won't let go of me
Maybe someday the sun will shine
And clouds will disappear
Until that day has come and gone)
I'll still be here

Having a quiet revolution
Inside my head
And there's no way to kill the pain
No use trying to raise the dead
Here in my confusion
I seek absolution

A BETTER WAY

Everything I knew is now a question in my mind
I'm watching pieces of me fade away
All my points of view are from another place and time
My dreams have come and gone, but that's okay

I think I can see a better way for me
Maybe I can get it right this time
Nothing is for sure, but that's okay for me
I'll be fine, yeah I'll be fine

Where are all the heroes that I thought could save the day
A comic book of friends that didn't last
Maybe I'll do better if I turn and walk away
Leaving clouds of trouble in the past

I think I can see a better way for me
Maybe I can get it right this time
Nothing is for sure, but that's okay for me
I'll be fine, yeah I'll be fine

They say I'll fall on my face
Well I might stumble, that's okay
But I think I have found a better way

I think I can see a better way for me
Maybe I can get it right this time
Nothing is for sure, but that's okay for me
I'll be fine, yeah I'll be fine

I think I can see a better way for me
Maybe I can get it right this time
Nothing is for sure, but that's okay for me
I'll be fine, yeah I'll be fine

Window Shopping

I'm gonna stay up past two
And mend the cracks in the room
With anything that fills the space
Cause I don't wanna leave here for anyone

Maybe I'll go Window Shopping instead
Cause I don't wanna spend a dime
No I won't let them take me for everything

Cause if there's one thing that I've learned
These partitions tend to give
And always come caving in over me

So when the plaster crumbles
And the cracks reopen
I can take my leave
Without an exit strategy

Someday I'll change
I know all this will change
I could only go so long
Loneliness is bound to catch up with me

Until then I'll wait
Learn from all my mistakes
Drawing from a new design
Where everything in right were it's supposed to be

So when the plaster crumbles
And the cracks reopen
I can take my leave
Without an exit strategy x2

If there's one thing that I've learned
These partitions tend to give
And they always come caving in over me
But I've built it from the ground so who knows

When the plaster crumbles
And the cracks reopen
I can take my leave
Without an exit strategy x2

Protege

I'm getting scared of your attitude
Your dissimilated intentions are letting themselves free
So they can make their way towards me
And watch how they circle my every move
Like demons that sit on your shoulder
And tell you what to do
And now I owe it all to you

Yah you were my Protege
And I took you on
But I had faith in you for far too long
For you to let me down

You've manifested my darkest dreams
And left my a cumbersome burden
That made its way past you
Just like it always seems to do

You're so resilient I frightens me
Or maybe I'm jealous that you
Never seem to feel a thing
I want to make my self believe

Yah you were my Protege
And I took you on
But I had faith in you for far too long
Find a new identity
No its not that hard
When you've got everyone around you
To tell you who you are
And now I'm going down down and down and down
You're not going with me

My Albatross

I didn't see it no I didn't even open the door
I just walked on by too quick to recognize
Since then I've concluded that I'm legally blind
I don't wanna trust my own eyes

And if and when I choose to see
I'll be facing the responsibility
Of knowing but not divulging

Such a clever fraud but where's your camouflage
There goes your legacy, here comes my albatross

I'll never tell, no I wouldn't even fancy the thought
I'll just let it slide who knows how many times
My god its a miracle we've even survived
Under the gravity of your lies

And if I had the nerve to squeal
It'd induce in you a monstrous upheaval
And it'd consume us all oh no

Such a clever fraud but where's your camouflage
There goes your legacy here comes my albatross
You're not a clever fraud without your camouflage
There goes your legacy here comes my albatross

And if and when I choose to see
I'll be facing the responsibility
Of knowing but not divulging

And if I had the nerve to squeal
It'd induce in you a monstrous upheaval
And it'd consume us all oh no

Is this the legacy that you wanna leave
Tell me why I should believe
What they've taught me to believe
You're not a clever fraud
Without your camouflage
There goes your legacy
Here comes my albatross

Familiar Feeling

I've had this picture of her
Etched on the inside of my skull
And she keeps on staring back at me
Through some enchanted portal

And no change could ease my longing
No words could sway my schemes
Every diversion feels like wasted time on lesser things

And you all wanna shoot me down
Shoot me down before I run with it

This familiar feeling
Yah its one in a million
You say its ridiculous
I say it could be too

I've had to keep this image
Of her so brash and cold
You'd think she's already deceased
That way I'd let her go

But no ghost has been so lively
No apparition's ever made
Someone so green with envy
That they'd make the same mistake

And you all wanna shoot me down
Shoot me down before I run with it

This familiar feeling
Yah its one in a million
How's it ridiculous if its coming true
Like a case reopen, for further consideration
I had the lifelong sentence but the facts were skewed

You all wanna shoot me down, shoot me down before I run with it x4

This familiar feeling
Yah its one in a million
Tell me how its ridiculous I said it
Tell me how its ridiculous I said it
Oh its a case reopen
For further consideration
You say its ridiculous I say it could be too

HAPPY LIFE

I got a house in the country
Three cars in the stall
My girlfriend she loves me
Yeah she's no trouble at all
But I, I ain't satisfied, no

Got lots of money in my pocket
Everything's goin' right
I know I really can't complain
'Cuz my future's looking bright
But I....'m never satisfied

Is there something wrong with me?
Maybe something's wrong with me
There must be something wrong with me
To feel the way I do

Everyone wants to live a happy life
Everyone wants to live, yeah a happy life
Everyone wants to live a life
Where nothing comes and goes too fast
The good times always last and last and last

I hang out with the best crowd
Hang between the lines
People ask me how I am
I say I'm doin' fine
But I, I ain't satisfied, no no

Is there something wrong with me?
Maybe something's wrong with me
There must be something wrong with me
To feel the way I do

Everyone wants to live a happy life
Everyone wants to live, yeah a happy life
Everyone wants to live a life
Where nothing comes and goes too fast
The good times always last and last and last

Na, na, na, na
A Happy Life
Na, na, na, yeah
A Happy Life
Oooo
Yeah, a happy, happy life

Everyone wants to live a happy life
Everyone needs to live a happy life
Everyone wants to live a life
Where nothing comes and goes too fast
The good times always last and last

Something To Believe In

How do you know
When there's something missing
Where do you look
When you don't know what you're looking for
I don't know why I even try to fill this empty feeling
I need a sign to help me find the open door
Because I know there must be more
Chorus:
I'm searching for something to believe in
I'm dreaming everything that's lost will be found
I'm searching for something to believe in
And someday I'll find my way and turn this all around
Ohhh ohhh ohhh
When is it time
To move ahead or give it up
Why do I care
Is it everything they say it is
Inside my mind the more I try
The world is so confusing
I need a sign to help me find the way it is
Because I know there must be more
Chorus
Ohhh ohhh ohhh

Prasoid

Seven in the morning, on a Monday
I've been up since Sunday Evening
Everybody's drinking caffeine
Reading papers, braving freeways
But I can't say the same for me
And everyone keeps hinting that I'm damned if I do change
I'll be washing windows for a living
Soon enough they say
For now that's good enough for me

I said, escape with me to places I've been
Inside my head
And we'll stray, well beyond the paths that they've laid
And find out way

I'll tell you how it happened just a year or so ago
She told me on a Sunday evening
I was up till Monday's dawn
It's never been the same for me
The catalyst is missing, this experiments a bust
And all the scientists are guessing
But their estimation's wrong
They'll never find a cure for me

I said, escape with me to places I've been
Inside my head
And we'll stray, well beyond the paths that they've laid
And with it erase our fondest memories
I can't remember the last time I felt like doing anything

Each day, every day yields the same result for me

I find the one who wants the same things I want
To clear a way for me
Who's not afraid to leave it all behind just once
And take a chance on me

I'M SORRY

We live in a little room in a little house
In a small town
And that's alright with me
But what holds me up just holds you back
'Cause you see a bigger world
That's full of possibilities
I didn't mean to play it safe
And rain on your parade

I was wrong, you were right
I can see the other side
Didn't mean to start a fight, I'm sorry

I was tired, half asleep
When you shared your dreams with me
And if it seems I don't believe. I'm sorry

You say the walls are closing in and you can't breathe
It's sink or swim
You need to spread your wings
Well I'm afraid of what you see, the way you think
That things could be
And what tomorrow brings
Sometimes when I think too much
I fall out of touch

I was wrong, you were right
I can see the other side
Didn't mean to start a fight, I'm sorry

I was tired, half asleep
When you shared your dreams with me
And if it seems I don't believe, I'm sorry
Yeah I'm sorry

I'm like a deer caught in the headlights
When the future looks so bright

You say the walls are closing in and you can't breathe
It's sink or swim
You need to spread your wings

I was wrong, you were right
I can see the other side
Didn't mean to start a fight, I'm sorry

I was tired, half asleep
When you shared your dreams with me
And if it seems I don't believe, I'm sorry

I was wrong, you were right
I can see the other side
Didn't mean to start a fight, I'm sorry

I was tired, half asleep
When you shared your dreams with me
And if it seems I don't believe
I'm sorry, yeah I'm sorry

I was tired, half asleep
When you shared your dreams with me
I was wrong, you were right, I'm sorry

We live in a little room in a little house
In a small town

I used to walk so tall
Laughing and running straight at the sun
I liked the burn
I used to think so small
I sowed the wild and grew from a child
Just to learn

I could lie forever, sleep through my season in the sun
I feel the ticking of the clocks and
I won't miss my time at all

You used to think so small
Doubting the ones who brought you here
Until you learned
Now you stand so tall
Laughing and running next to the sun
You hug the turns

I could lie forever, sleep through my season in the sun
Hope you shatter every record
I will miss you most of all
Lie forever, sleep through 'til my season ends
I will miss you, I will miss you

Time to breathe it out
I can see what is here, a shipwrecked memory
There's no one to throw me a line
And it's alright if you're the last I ever see

Light and weightless now
The old ship is sinking, can't go around and around
I was drowning in the tears, I'd floated through the years
And somehow, this river runs home tonight

Too weak from holding on, gonna float awhile
You've already thrown me a line
To a shoreline I could never leave

Light and weightless now
The old ship is sinking, can't go around and around
I was drowning in the tears, I'd floated through the years
And somehow, this river runs home tonight

Light and weightless now
The old ship is sinking, can't go around and around
I was drowning in the tears, I'd floated through the years
And somehow, this river runs home tonight

Light and weightless now
The old ship is sinking, can't go around and around
I was drowning in the tears, I'd floated through the years
And somehow, this river runs home tonight

SEE IT

Colors fade to black and white
Don't give up without a fight
Now it's let the games begin
May the best man win

Feel like both my hands are tied
So wrapped up inside the lies
Thought I knew how it would be
But it went differently
I woke up today and saw the truth
But I still feel so confused

THE WAY YOU SEE IT
IS NOT THE WAY I SEE IT ANYMORE
BUT I KEEP DREAMING
SOMEDAY WE'LL BOTH SEE IT LIKE BEFORE
IT'S SO MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU AND ME
BUT WE DON'T SEE IT

Running barefoot through the grass
We cut ourselves on broken glass
You hurt me and I hurt you
It's what we're going through

When our days were warm and bright
Everything we did was right
But now the sky is full of clouds
And I'm full of doubt
And I can't see the way to choose
'Cuz either way we lose

THE WAY YOU SEE IT
IS NOT THE WAY I SEE IT ANYMORE
BUT I KEEP DREAMING
SOMEDAY WE'LL BOTH SEE IT LIKE BEFORE
IT'S SO MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU AND ME
BUT WE DON'T SEE IT, WE DON'T SEE IT
(WE DON'T SEE IT, NO WE DON'T SEE IT)

Feel like both my hands are tied
So wrapped up inside the lies
Thought I knew how it would be
But it went differently
I woke up today and saw the truth
But I still feel so confused

THE WAY YOU SEE IT
IS NOT THE WAY I SEE IT ANYMORE
BUT I KEEP DREAMING
SOMEDAY WE'LL BOTH SEE IT LIKE BEFORE
THE WAY YOU SEE IT
IS NOT THE WAY I SEE IT ANYMORE
BUT I KEEP DREAMING
SOMEDAY WE'LL BOTH SEE IT LIKE BEFORE
IT'S SO MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU AND ME
AND AS FAR AS I CAN SEE
WE DON'T SEE IT
WE DON'T SEE IT (Tag)

Lowest light, highest of speed
How you spend your time
Don't like my speed
Simply lost your mind

Moving faster still
And now we're

Behind the wheel
She's loving him madly
And at her heels
He's driving her gladly
Away from here now

Let me drown faith into you
Wouldn't you
Let me pound faith into you
Shouldn't you

Moving faster still
And now we're

Behind the wheel
She's loving him madly
And at her heels
He's driving her gladly
Away from here now

Away from here
Away from here

I'm on guard
Every hour, every day
Then you came along
And let the cat out of the bag
And now I find myself
In the thick of this
Fending off your wicked ways
And I pray

Let me be
Let me be
Let me be good
Oh I've tried
I've tried but I don't think I'll ever get the hang of it

My feet to the fire
My head is a mess
You turned loose my desire
And put my heart to the test
And now I find myself
In the thick of this
Face to face with your wicked ways
And I pray

I try to douse this fire
And you just fan the flames
I'm a goner for sure at this rate

Train Wreck

Sitting still on this sad song uncomfortable ride
Is pain enough to make the out of place passenger try
To jump the train while it still moves, still moves

Every mile down this one was street is a bust
No where to go but back around again
I keep on looking for a u-turn, u-turn

It controls the air flow
That feeds our soul
And nothing else no

Breath in, believe in
Something else
Not someone

Giving in to the sole end of being a crutch
Scares me enough about the sad place I'm being dragged
It's time to stand up on your own feet, own feet

Every discussion is a sad song heated exchange
Ringing in circles in my ears now I'm certain to quit
It should happen in the first place first place

It controls the air flow
That feeds our soul
And nothing else no

Breath in, believe in
Something else
Not someone

It can't be what you want
No we'll never be
It won't be what you want no, want no
We'll never be what you want no, want no x2

Sunset Terrace

Does anyone know the place
Where trouble ends and love begins?
She used to take me there somehow
Does anyone understand
How much I need her here with me?
It's too late, she's gone away
To Sunset Terrace now

Under a paper moon
A blackbird sings out of tune
As wolves dance around the room
She signs the will, she takes a pill
And she smiles.

She always tried to find
The pleasure trapped inside my pain
From her every kiss felt like a vow
I never understood
Why she'd want any part of me
It's too late, she's gone away
To Sunset Terrace now

Under the plastic sun
A carnival has begun
When rain scorches everyone
It's a perfect day
Your head and heart melt away

Under electric stars
Songs play a black guitar
Adrift in a junkyard car
You're all alone
Hang up the phone now and drive.

Does anyone know the place
Where trouble ends and love begins
She used to take me there somehow
Does anyone understand
How much I need her here with me?
It's too late, she's gone away
To Sunset Terrace now

BLAME

She says, nothing ever matters
I know, everything she wants is locked up tight
Behind a lonely heart where she hides

She said, her dreams were never shattered
I see, broken glass scattered out
Across the road and she is walking through lies

Sometimes love is ignorant
And blindness is its best defense

I try to keep her warm inside my overcoat
'Cause she keeps getting caught, caught out in the rain
Someday if she succeeds in pushing me away
There will be no one else left to blame
No one left to blame

She cries, everyone is guilty
I swear, nothing ever came from thinking
That the world owes you a better way of life

I've tried, not to feel pity
But I know, living in the city's hard on
Lonely souls that barely scrape by to survive

Sometimes love is ignorant
And blindness is its best defense

I try to keep her warm inside my overcoat
'Cause she keeps getting caught, caught out in the rain
Someday if she succeeds in pushing me away
There will be no one else left to blame
No one left to blame

Na, na, na, na...

Sometimes love is ignorant
And blindness is its best defense

I try to keep her warm inside my overcoat
'Cause she keeps getting caught, caught out in the rain
Someday if she succeeds in pushing me away
There will be no one else left to blame
No one left to blame

WORLDS APART

Sometimes it seems there's nothing in common
Sometimes it seems we can't work it out
The walls are up – the lines are down
What can we do to turn this love around

CHORUS:
Two people – worlds apart
Hw can we turn this wrong to right
One love drifting worlds apart
You and I – we're like Venus and Mars tonight

Am I just looking for a reason to leave you
Are you looking for an easy way out
Are we headed for a head-on collision
Can someone tell me what's love all about

CHORUS

When the night comes down – and she's not around
Do you throw it all away
Don't you know by now, like the stars above
This love is here to stay

CHORUS

OVER FROM THE START

There's nothing left to keep me here
Nothing left to feel
A shattered memory fills this room
A pain that never heals
I wish that I could take it back
But how was I to know
Tomorrow gives no promises
There's nothing here to hold and it's over
Yeah it's over

CHORUS:
Now my world's been torn apart
Was it over from the start (over)
Alone I believed
Aren't you glad you're not me?
In the end we went too far
It was over from the start
Alone is when I bleed
Aren't you glad you're not me -
It's over --
It was over from the start

Why are things the way they are
I just don't understand
The past is rushing through my life
I'm left with empty hands
The silence here is deafening
There's no place that I can go
I wish I could have seen it coming
I guess you never know when it's over -- yeah it's over

CHORUS

Just hold on, hold on -- How was I to know
Just hold on, hold on -- It was over long ago
Just hold on, hold on -- I hate this place since you've been gone
Just hold on, hold on

CHORUS

NEVER FORGET

I remember your eyes as I'm telling myself
That without you I'll never survive these cold nights
Watching rain crashing down through the window today
I was holding you close in my mind

How you silenced the good, always numb, always sad
Hanging words out to dry as you drowned all our plans
In a river that's torrid and tortured with pain
It was blind luck I got out alive

But I know we're given what we give
And I know that someday I will forgive... But

Never forget what time it was
I'll never forget the way we touched
Never forget how dreams get crushed
I always will remember to never forget
Never forget

Did I lose who I was, did I find who I am
As I dig through the trash that has cluttered my life
I'm not angry, I'm scared, I can't sleep here alone
Being right sometimes comes at a price

But I know we're given what we give
And I know that someday I will forgive... But

Never forget what time it was
I'll never forget the way we touched
Never forget how dreams get crushed
I always will remember to never forget
Never forget

I'll never forget what time it was
I'll never forget the way we touched
Never forget how dreams get crushed
I always will remember, I always will remember
I always will remember to never forget
Never forget
Never forget
Never forget

IS IT TOO LATE

Some words are better left unsaid it's said
But in this case that's not true
No one can ever really change the past
Or the way I treated you
Some words might've changed things, that now I can't undo
Hey, can you hear me, I'm trying to get through, but...

Is it too late
Is it too late to tell you
Is it too late
Is it too late to say.... what I

Wanted to tell you for a long time now
How much I always cared, and yet
My pride and fear got the best of me, somehow
I just managed to forget
When I came across the words, I lost them, now I've found them again
Will you understand now what I should've said then

Is it too late
Is it too late to tell you
Is it too late
Is it too late to tell you
Is it too late
Is it too late to tell you

Solo

Some words might've changed things, that now I can't undo
Hey, can you hear me, I'm trying to get through,
I've tried everything I could to say it's for the best
I stand here holding nothing, just these words are left

Is it too late
Is it too late to tell you
Is it too late
Is it too late to tell you
Is it too late
Is it too late to tell you