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On Fire | 2012 View the Lyrics- 1. New Mistakes
- 2. Steal Your Sunshine
- 3. Bitter Honey
- 4. Didja Hear Me Stutter?
- 5. On Fire
- 6. One Way to Die
- 7. Get Away
- 8. Today Was the Day
- 1. Primetime
- 2. Can't Buy a Hero
- 3. Open Season
- 4. Enilyse
- 5. Interstellar Valentine
- 6. Ordinary Crime
- 7. Mamacita
- 8. Only on the Outside
- 9. Hollow You
- 10. After the Fall
- 11. Having it All
- 1. Back Down
- 2. Do Yourself a Favor
- 3. Seven Days
- 4. Make Me
- 1. Money or Time
- 2. Gottagetouttahere
- 3. Red Letter Day
- 4. Liquid
- 5. Five Seventeen
- 6. Never Going Back
- 7. Ms. Fortune
- 8. Stormy
- 9. Count Me Out
- 10. Get Up Get Up
- 11. Last Hurrah
- 12. New Gets Old
- 13. Danny Partridge
On Fire | 2012
1. New Mistakes
This is the last time I hope it takes
I want to make new mistakes
The last time tonight
You had it wrapped around your finger
A bad habit come back to sting you
Tell me, why now, tell me right now, why now?
Do we have to go through this again?
You gotta ride 'til you get sucked under
Face up under heavy water
To the sky, you're shaking and looking at the sky
So far away from making land
And getting out again, this is the
2. Steal Your Sunshine
Just close your eyes, open your mind, I'm gonna put on a show
I crossed a line, it's what I do with everybody I know
As your lids go down and the fireworks start
The grand scheme clears and you see your part
You get the big joke, but you can't explain
You're so high up 'cause the world's so plain below
I'll get inside you even if I have to make a new hole
A little drip and then a swallow, now you're ready to roll
As you go lights out your reflection fades
Distortion comes on the edge of a blade
You get the big joke, but you can't explain
You're so far gone, and you weren't that sane before
It's not love when it's only me you're thinking of
It's not fair, but it's true
My dark finds a way back into you
Fallen so hard
Fallen so low
How much lower can you go?
'til you're back home
Not so alone
Waking up so brittle, shaking, sniffing round for more
3. Bitter Honey
Once you get to know me better will you want to go?
I better get out of Dodge, I'll never live this one down
I put my money on my mouth and let them both run out
Maybe a better man could find a way to tell her
But she won't understand, no matter how I sell it
She'll think I turned my back when I was turning right back around
For one more bout
You let your bitter honey drip in the cup of my love
Sometimes we gotta hit the bottom before we can get back up
Maybe a second chance is one too many for you
'Cause if you give an inch, the miles are long before you
Come back to yourself and know that you're the girl I'm dreaming of
One more time
You don't like it but you feel it
You tear it open so you can reseal it
You've got questions you keep asking
You tear me open like you wanna be a bad girl
I think you wanna be a bad girl (bad girl)
But you're the best I ever had, girl (bad girl)
You tear me open like a rag doll (bad girl)
I tear you open like I'm, I'm tearing off
Once you get to know me better will you want to go
Or will you let me love you better than I did before?
4. Didja Hear Me stutter?
Knock me down, and s-scatter my stuff
I-I won't put up a fight
Got smart, but I don't got the tough
Cuz' I let this game go on for too long
You've held a gun to my pride
But now enough is enough
The bigger they are
The farther they crawl
From the back of the bus
To the front of the hall
One shot, down, you know you had it comin'
So safe inside, when you're with the in-crowd
But when you walk the outside
They're fast to push you around
One more time and I'm gonna go off
A lightning-right to the head
And all the fear will be gone
The bigger they are
The harder they fall
I'll put that chin to the test,
For once and for all
One shot, down, you know you had it comin'
I've tried to reason with you, I've tried to beg
Big man, big push, your bet-my money, great big mistake
Blood and bruises seem so fun, worn on someone else's face
I didn't ask to be caught in this fight
But the look on your face when you ate that right
Was worth all the pain just so I could see the light
Now when you see me walking by
You best look away, and step aside
I'm burnin' a fuse and now I won't think twice
5. On Fire
You want to have but not to hold
To shake your shape out of this mold, oh promises
And so you tell a little lie
Enough to make it through another night
You're gonna take all you can get
And we are all just your little pets, oh promises
It's just the way that you get by
They pick you up; it gives you such a rise
There's no love lost here
She don't even understand what you're talking about
And she don't care
And you're wrong to stay away
Oh, if that chick don't wanna know then forget her
'Cause this ain't no Thin Lizzy, man
6. One Way to Die
You can tie me down to the railroad tracks
Ride off slow, never once look back
Or you can stake me down to a hill in the sun
Let the heat and the fire ants get the job done
Any way you want to honey, I don't really mind
'Cause there's a million ways to kill somebody
But there's only one way to die
There's only one way to die
You could send me overseas with a gun
Then turn your back when I got back home
And you can leave me out on the street every night
Long days on my feet with a cup and a sign
Now, everyone's responsible for walking their own line
And there's a million ways to kill somebody
But there's only one way to die
There's only one way to die
And you can call me up in the dead of the night
To tell me things have been wrong for awhile
Yeah, you didn't mean to lead me on so long
You don't know that you want what I want any more
Well I hear the tears in your voice, honey, but my eyes are bone dry
'Cause there's a million ways to kill somebody
But there's only one way to die
There's only one way to die
7. Get Away
Hanging on when the music's gone
Holding on a line that doesn't save anyone
Waiting around, around, around
Making a sound that wears you down
Open the door, you're running out
And chasing the dawn
A temporary face
A night alone
The road you crossed today
Just brings you home
You gotta get away
You gotta get away
Cause in the light of day
You can turn this thing around
Looking back to when it all was new
And every conversation meant something to you
Trading the later for the now
Winning a few and losing out
Drowning inside the same old crowd
And fading from view
You gotta get away
You gotta get away
Cause in the light of day
You can turn this thing around
Sometimes you look out on the life you're creating
Sometimes you want to burn it down
Temptation riding on your shoulder and waiting
To feel like you just pulled into town
8. Today Was the Day
Everybody thinks about changing the world
But nobody thinks of changing their mind
You never could be that unreasonable
So now you're looking for a place to hide
Spending your lonely hours in your lonely room
Waiting to hit it hard at the stroke of noon
Tomorrow just like yesterday
Everybody wants to take it for all it's worth
But nobody wants to pay the price
She knocked you over just like you deserve
'Cause you've been laying in the place you lied
But in a month or two you'll be on again
Half lovers and half dead end friends
But you've got your TV to tune it out
It's so much easier than living out loud
And your cold coffee washes down
That today was the day, and you didn't do anything at all
Today was the day and you didn't do anything at all
Stuck on the ground with your head in the clouds
Going nowhere 'til your vision clears
You've got to run if you want to find out
Just how far it is from there to here
Telling yourself that we've had way too much of you
Spending your lonely life in your lonely room
You could begin to make a change
Primetime | 2011
1. Primetime If you want me to carry your weight
You're gonna have to pay the freight
'cause I don't need any other friends
More people checking up on where I've been
If you want me to take you there
You better learn to treat me well
I'll never ask any more of you
So you keep checking up on how I do
My love is conditional
If you want me to make you safe
Then buckle down and roll my way
You're always looking for an easy out
But there is one, and only one escape
My love is conditional
Tears in your wake, you never look around
'cause tears at your wake, you won't be looking down
2. Can't Buy a Hero
Take another hit from your radio
One long drag 'cause you gotta go and leave it
Swimming upstream in the office pool
Some are drowning, some are underwater breathing, but
You're the one waiting for the end of the day, and
You're the one staring down the front of your face
At everyone around you running in place
Chasing their tails 'cause they're only in it for gain
But you are not for sale
Outside the box in your cubicle
Talking to your clock, but all it has to say is:"tick, tick, tick"
Oh, you're going crazy waiting out this day, 'cause
All your friends tell you that you're going places
Everyone around you is running in place
Chasing their tails, every one of them on the take
But you are not for sale
How long can your bear to go on?
So far from what you thought you wanted
Well how long, how long, how long
Can you keep waiting by the door
Holding out for something more?
3. Open Season
Give me all the skinny, I'll put it all together
On a dirty rag and spread it around
It's all right, 'cause it's always open season
When they're people that you read about
(Go give it a shot) She's anyone you want to know
(Go give it a shot) She's anyone you want to know
Bye bye, so long
Nobody said she wouldn't come to harm
Now never you mind if you haven't got a penny
You can make yourself the toast of town
Crack shot, put a bullet in your camera
And take a reputation down
(Go give it a shot) and never, never let her go
(Go give it a shot) when she's anyone you want to know
Bye bye, farewell
To get the goods you gotta give her hell
Break her down into light waves
They'll soak it up, 'cause she's the new front page
Bleeding into the headlines
And dripping down through the sewer grate
Right down, strip it right down to the bone
Right down to it
Right down, strip it right down to the bone
Right down, do it
4. Enilyse
I've been on a holiday
Always looking to catch a break
I never think I can make it all alone
It doesn't matter what I said before
'Cause right now I'm not too sure
And you should not wait 'til I'm full grown
I've taken all I can take
Said everything that there was to say
Now I just can't stay here anymore
And I really don't mind, because it really doesn't matter
Where the pieces fall when your illusions are shattered on the floor
As the credits finally roll
I was digging through all my darkest days
Looking for pearls to take your breath away
But now my broken promises are coming home to you in spades, oh
5. Interstellar Valentine
At the observation tower one night
We stumbled onto something so clear and bright
In a sector where we never looked before
And this time we know for sure
It's an interstellar valentine
An electric heart from light years down the line
But light years don't matter to us anymore
You show me everything you are
Transmitting all your hopes and dreams into the lonely ether
Crank up the navigation interface
To home in on your signal at a breakneck pace
Through reruns to primetime as we get close
You show me everything you are
You think you're ready but you're not
'Cause no matter what you've done while wrapped around your sun
It's just another island in a great big ocean
For now your invitation has been declined
CelebrealiTV has made you blind
We'll check back in a thousand years or so
'Cause I know what's on your mind
6. Ordinary Crime
Take a midnight ride to the next in line
On a spree of ordinary crime
It's another job, double overtime (double overtime)
Open up a vein, get a pen and write down your extraordinary life
Riding a lamb to the slaughter
Where will I be when I get there?
A tragicomic story
But take a look at all the things you leave behind
Chasing an extraordinary life
For a better time in a better place (and a better crime)
Anniversaries and birthdays go by
As you fade from sight and fall from grace
You're all talk, and it's understood
That you run from the ones who do you good
You can lie or you can explain
But you're never gonna wash away that stain
And you can hide what you're feeling down inside
Or let it out and go for a ride
Come on, let it out and go for a ride
Come on, let it out and go for a ride
7. Mamacita
It's a long way back from you, my dear
Who can say when we'll be in the clear?
I know you're playing a twisted game
And I want out
I train my eyes on a distant plain
Sunshine beyond the wind and the rain
But a broken road full of rocks and bones
Keeps knocking me down
I was alone in my head last night when I heard
Your friends walk by with a careless word
Well I thought you were my girl with a golden glow
But I checked around, found out everybody knows
When I call you out, you were laughing and breezy
'Cause you think it's funny, to you this is easy
You step on me to get your traction
And change my name to piece of the action
You changed my name to piece of the action, because
You've got to have all of the attention
8. Only on the Outside
In a time of tears, she came to me to say
She was free and clear today
In a time of tears she said goodbye
In the light of Grace, she came to me to say
That I was going to be okay
In the light of Grace, she came and went away
I'm not down, 'cause I don't need her from now on out
Nothing is ever easy
In the time it takes to come awake
She sent a girl to start me on my way
In the wintertime, sweet and bitter
Because I thought I was free forever
Now I know it's all temporary
Clouds reining me in, washing me out
Nothing is ever easy
9. Hollow You
She's got hearts to play
She knows all your names
You hang around too long
You're cut down in waves
One two three four five
Six seven eight nine
I'll give you a number once I figure out your type
'Cause in the end there's just one
Thing that it comes down to
You fade into the blue when you
Follow me down, I'll hollow you out
Load the magazine
Full of teenage dreams
Barrel to the temple
At breakneck speed
One two three four five
Six seven eight nine
I'll give you a number
When I figure out your type
'Cause in the end there's just one
Thing that it comes down to
You fade into the blue, oh when you
Follow me down, I'll hollow you out
10. After the Fall
You don't have to say
That I'm waiting my life away
For a train that won't come this way
They're words unspoken
But I've heard them tell
Tall tales of life out on the trail
Gold promises and dreams to sell
That's where I'm headin'
When you gonna make it, face it
The limelight's all in your head
Through the door
Close to forever and yet so far
The stage is set, and I can hear the roar
But the crowd is changin'
One day I'm gonna have to face it
The limelight's all in my head
Help, I've lost my way
Burned all my time
Can't help from fallin' down
Ruling the darkness, alone in my mind
It's all I have now
11. Having it All
Open eyes or closed, it's all one and the same
Dress and find the door before the day breaks
No matter what her friends all say about you
You're going to find a way to make it out
But don't lose track of the debt
Now you're so lonely, lonely
But that's what you wanted to be
On the other side of free
You sure can tell a story
You almost made yourself believe
That something this good should be easy
She throws a rope, and everybody tells her she's insane
'Cause each time before you left her hanging
Her shattered heart in flight from her intuition
How come it's always right?
Sneaking up, waking up on herself
Don't act so lonely, lonely
You got what you were looking for
Now you're crashing on your friends' floors
This is not just a story
This is real, nothing less or more
And now you're learning one thing that's for sure
Rock Pony | 2010
1. Back Down
You tell me I should learn my place
I never listen too well
More than my fair share of space
I take to hear you tell
But you're so easy over
You say you're game, but then you're not
For one more shot
You tell me I don't understand
The way the world really goes
You cut me down by "lending a hand"
You think that I don't know
What you're really about
You're gonna hate me to the end
'Cause I don't bend, but you
It don't make a lick of difference to me
2. Do Yourself a Favor
I don't worry enough, but I don't care
'Cause you worry enough for both of us
This can't go on
I'm leavin' you, Lurline
So do yourself a favor, yeah? (You ought to know better)
Listen to your common sense (I'm dragging you down)
You're the one that gets away
All sunny and bright
I'm tired of working forty just to keep you and the kid
Then knocking drugstores over for cigarettes and speed
This can't go on, oh no
I'm leavin' you, Lurline
And when you want to track me down (Don't even think about it)
Listen to your common sense (I'm dragging you down)
You're the one that gets away
All sunny and bright
With six months back rent due
Jerry wants us out before tonight
But if you barter on your back
He might let you have a little more time
I'm too cold, then I'm too hot
I've got the sick shakes, I need my shot
I was a good man, but now I'm not
3. Seven Days
You're gettin' through to a billion eyes
But you only see by candle light
Give them good reason to stay in line
Where the Holy Ghost don't pass them by
True believers are never hard to find
Through the fear of being left behind
Goes down easier if you don't think twice
Just hold your nose and close your eyes
In seven days, all becomes
In seven days, all belongs
In seven days, we're all below
The players change, but the play remains
The same as in the Roman reign
And that's a shame, but that's the way it goes
Till we wake up, you smell like roses
In seven days, in seven days all belongs
In seven days, in seven days all become
In seven days I'll be spendin' money on a tithe
In seven days, we're all below
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4. Make Me
They could have been incredible
He called her unacceptable
It was all she could do to keep on trying
They're grounded; they could have been flying
High above the everyday for a while
Sometimes love is impossible
The obstacles impassable
We're seven times down, eight times up and climbing
You heard me say it, but you deny it
You're deep inside a corner of your mind
Far away from the everyday of time
So make me feel like flying
Make me feel like falling
Make me remember
Sensational, invisible
They told her it was terminal
It was all she could do to keep on trying
She's grounded, soon she will be flying
Color Machine | 2009
1. Money or Time
He'd been gone for eighteen hours
No explanation why
She said, you can't just come back home
And climb on top of me
I'm not just for taking orders
You don't see me, but you're not blind
It's just too bad, cause she's all woman, baby
He didn't answer, but one is going through his mind:
Dinner untouched on the table
Two empty bottles of wine
She tries her best to understand
'Cause she's high fidelity
She knows he does it for her
But as the years go by
She wonders more and more if she chose right
There is an answer slowly growing in her mind
Another day, another way, another kind
Another daze, another phase you leave behind
2. Gottagetoutahere
I gotta gotta get out
I gotta gotta get out
I gotta get out, gottagetoutahere
Anything you want, you better take it now
I gotta get out (gottagetoutahere)
Anything you need, you're gonna make me bleed
I gotta get out (gottagetoutahere)
Before my head implodes
Before my tongue unloads
And I say something that I can't take back
And you'll use it down the road
We keep hitting a wall, so you can take it all
I gotta get out (gottagetoutahere)
Anything you need, you're gonna make me bleed
I gotta get out (gottagetout)
But you keep declaring war
Just like you've done before
And I keep saying that I won't be back
And then coming 'round for more
So bring it down
And disassemble
'Cause I will have no more from you this whole night long
We're on the road
Of good intentions
And we both know where that road goes
3. Red Letter Day
I hope this letter helps you to understand.
I woke up feeling the best I ever have
I got the weight of indecision off my back
Now there's just one thing left, and that's which way to fly
It makes me laugh until I cry
Hang me out to dry
Hit the drink, swim toward the lights out
The ending only happens once
By noon I'm ready as I'm gonna ever get
To go looking for something I have not found just yet
As I'm picturing your shocked and empty stare
Too late to tell me that you care
Blow it off the top
Take a fall with a sudden stop
Red letter day, I'm going home
4. Liquid
To get her motor turning over
You found a key, twisted it and drove her
Far away to look for cover
'Cause you don't share with any others
Now she's a taker, but you're no giver
So you hold back 'til she delivers
And when it's over you're forsaken
Thought you owned her, you were mistaken
To keep yourself from going under
You found another to feed the hunger
She will not see her disaster
'Til you get what you went after
Now you're the taker and you're the winner
And she is no longer a beginner
But all the while you can't help thinking
About the one that set you to sinking
'Cause they're all fair game
5. Five Seventeen
Ears open wide, you can hear the strains
Of a night in the cold Cascades
Fireflies lighting up the lake
It's a quiet clean and bone-dry breeze
The frosted hill high above those trees
Down to their last 517
It's a lonely place cut out of time
Out here there's no need to unwind
We got no white man history
But now I don't have time for too many questions
I don't much care for company
'Cause this is my last 517
6. Never Going Back
So you're never going back
I can make a dime every time
Someone like you talks like that
But getting out of town, getting on track
Isn't so easy when there's loose ends to be tied
Well it took so long and I've come this far for you
So the last thing I want to tell you is the truth, because
So you say you'll never crack
Give me three hours
I can make you pour your heart out just like that
Meet me 'round back
When you get off
We can go driving, 'cause you look fit to be tied
7. Ms. Fortune
She wants to pick a bone
She told me not to leave her alone
I tried to end it on the telephone
She wouldn't listen to me
She keeps calling, calling
I've gotta take a break
But when she left she didn't go away
There's always just a little more to pay
When you get it for free
I didn't mean it. it happened accidentally
You pulled me off my scheme
I've never been so pleased
But I'm really hoping that we break
It's all a big mistake
I didn't wanna get too close to you
But you've come around too much too soon
I can't help it you're more than incidental to me
8. Stormy
So this is a lonely end
He won't be callin' again
I'd cry with you baby, but I know that you'll get better soon
On your feet in just another week or two
Everyone's heart gets sore
It's happened to mine, now it's yours
Just don't let it take the best in you, save your tender care away
Even when you're grown it oughtta stay
One day ten years from now
You'll run into him downtown
He forgot you were so pretty, 'cause he hasn't seen you in an age
You'll say you're just home for the holidays
And as you wave goodbye
He watches you leave with a sigh
For a momentary silence baby you're the one that got away
But it will be ten years too late
I know who you are, you're stormy in love
The rain falls hard, and the sun breaks out
You're feeling old for somebody so very young
It's only natural
9. Count Me Out
You really drive me to distraction
Your hands are firmly on the wheel
Another day we take no action
Another void we didn't fill
You really show me your intentions
You wear them out upon your sleeve
It makes me feel like I'm defenseless
It don't matter if I stay or leave
If I do and you don't, would you put me down?
If I don't and you do, would you count me out?
If I don't, please don't count me out
You're really wearing out my patience
You want to cry to me again
You make me feel like I want to hit the pavement
But I can't seem to pick a lane
Because I really wanna tell you that I love you so
I really wanna tell you that I love you so
I really wanna tell you that I.
To tell you that I.
I wanna tell you
10. Get Up Get Up
Stop your work and you learn to play
It's not hard
You just let go and put it down
That's such an ordinary face
You're wearing today
Get up get up, whatever you gotta do
You don't have to be a star
Wherever you gotta go
Whenever I'm trying to change my mind change my ways
It's not far to go, they always bring me around
He likes puzzles, and she likes mazes
Their joy is contagious
We never listen for long
'Cause it's only a song
But you can carry it home if you like it
Well do you like it?
11. Last Hurrah
Some people get a longer fuse
Some people's shoulders are big enough for the abuse
They never say what you can't hear
But when they go they're gone for good, now it's no use
Some people stay up half the night
Worried awake because they're trying to set things right
That doesn't sound a lot like you
But if it ever was, you never did come through
You're losing me to life out there
I'll see you tonight out there
Consider this your last hurrah
But when they go you're on a string, they cut you loose
12. New Gets Old
They're not the kinda things that hang around
You keep 'em coming so I don't come down
I know you had your reasons
But I don't need them anymore, 'cause time is wasting
To see one like it is to see them all
It has a season, has a rise and fall
The bells and bumpers differ
But the game is still the same, and you're out of change
Looking out your window
13. Danny Partridge
Danny Partridge is on TV
But Danny Partridge is not like me
But we take the reins and ride the trail together
I hear Roller Coaster and it tips me off a steep edge
And the scene rolls back into the middle distance
We're both in vain and medicating each other
Induce a haze, hide from the pain
And it will go on and on and on without you
And all of the lights will align on the screen of the sky
Like they're doing on my TV
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