Yourself Or Someone Like You
Mad Season
Yourself Or Someone Like YouReal WorldI wonder what it's like to know that I make the rain I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on everyone and you can come see them when I'm...done, when I'm done I wonder what it's like to be a super hero I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown from some other planet, I get this funky high on yellow sun boy I bet my friends will all be...stunned, they're stunned (chorus) straight up, what did you hope to learn about here if I were someone else, would this all fall apart strange, where were you, when we started this gig, I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me I wonder what it's like to be the head honcho I wonder what I'd do if they all did just what I said I'd shout out an order, I think we're out of this man get me some boy don't make me wanna change my...tone, my tone (chorus) please don't change, please don't break the only thing that seems to work at all is you please don't change, at all from me to you, and you to me (chorus) 
Long Daythe second shelf, the note she wrote that I can't bring myself to throw away and also reach she said for no one else but you, cuz you won't turn away when someone else is gone I'm sorry 'bout the attitude I need to give when I'm with you but no one else would take this shit from me and I'm so terrified of no one else but me I'm here all the time I won't go away it's me, yeah I can't get myself to go away it's me, and I can't get myself to go away oh God shouldn't feel this way (chorus) reach down your hand in your pocket pull out some hope for me it's been a long day, always ain't that right and no Lord your hand won't stop it just keep you trembling it's been a long day, always ain't that right well I'm surprised that you'd believe in any thing that comes from me I didn't hear from you or from someone else and you're so set in life man, a pisser they're waiting too damn bad you get so far so fast so what, so long (chorus) it's me, yeah and I can't get myself to go away it's me, yeah and I can't get myself to go away oh God I shouldn't feel this way (chorus)
3 A.M.She's always worried about things like that She says it's gonna end and it might as well be my fault And she only sleeps when it's raining And she screams and her voice is straining She says baby It's 3 am I must be lonely When she says baby Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes Says the rain's gonna wash away I believe it She's got a little bit of something, God it's better than nothing And in her color portrait world she believes that she's got it all She swears the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to And she only sleeps when it's raining And she screams and her voice is straining She says baby It's 3 am I must be lonely When she says baby Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes Says the rain's gonna wash away I believe it She believes that life is made up of all that you're used to And the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days, and days She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway But outside it's stopped raining She says baby It's 3 am I must be lonely When she says baby Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes Says the rain's gonna wash away I believe it (chorus)
PushI'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in and I don't know if I've ever been really loved by a hand that's touched me, well I feel like something's gonna give and I'm a little bit angry, well this ain't over, no not here, not while I still need you around you don't owe me, we might change yeah we just might feel good (chorus) I wanna push you around, I will, I will I wanna push you down, I will, I will I wanna take you for granted, I wanna take you for granted I will she said I don't know why you ever would lie to me like I'm a little untrusting when I think that the truth is gonna hurt ya and I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me you couldn't stand to be near me when my face don't seem to want to shine cuz it's a little bit dirty well don't just stand there, say nice things to me I've been cheated I've been wronged, and you you don't know me, I can't change I won't do anything at all (chorus) oh but don't bowl me over just wait a minute well it kinda fell apart, things get so crazy, crazy don't rush this baby, don't rush this baby (chorus)
Girl Like Thatbut I'm running scared is all I hang on everything about you you think I'd settle down cuz I'm older but I roll with the changes is all I'm same old trailer trash in new shoes she gets sad when there's nothing going on she says it makes her feel damn worthless (chorus 1) well you got to think with a girl like that any love at all, is better than nothing it's better than nothing I put my hands around your shoulder you're saying you're scared is all I think I know too much about you you think this life would make me colder I'd give in to the alcohol I put my loving arms around you, child you knew damn well there was nothing going on is that what makes you feel damn worthless (chorus 2) well you got to think with a girl like that any love is better than nothing it's better than nothing you got to think, with a girl like that any love at all, is better than nothing it's better than nothing yeah she drags you down and she pulls you up she pulls you up says that she's sorry now but it's not enough to pull you up she's sorry I wake up quick just like I want to yeah but I stay out much too late you think this life can get a bit unkind but she stays down till the worth is gone and pulls you up, she pulls you up, she pulls you up and over, over (chorus 2) (chorus 1)
Back 2 Goodyou just stand there I could say so much but I don't go there cuz I don't want to I was thinking if you were lonely maybe we could leave here and no one would know at least not to the point that we would think so everyone here, knows everyone here is thinking about somebody else it's best if we all keep it under our heads I couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way I do but I'm lonely now, and I don't know how to get it back to good this don't mean that, you own me this ain't no good, in fact it's phony as hell but things worked out just like you wanted too if you see me out you don't know me try to turn your head, try to give me some room to figure out just what I'm going to do and everyone here, hates everyone here for doing just like they do it's best if we all keep this quiet instead and I couldn't tell, why everyone here was doing me like they do but I'm sorry now, and I don't know how to get it back to good everyone here, is wondering what it's like to be with somebody else everyone here's to blame, everyone here gets caught up in the pleasure of the pain, everyone hides shades of shame, but looking inside we're the same, we're the same and we're all grown now, but we don't know how to get it back to good everyone here, knows everyone here is thinking 'bout somebody else it's best if we all keep this under our heads I couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way I do but it's over now, and I don't know how, it's over now there's no getting back to good
Damndon't it make you wanna think damn this cold girl well I know she wanna make you scream, damn what's the matter girl don't you think I'm good enough this old heart's had a whole lot a breakin' down she's got all these reasons in her head (chorus 1) all that time she knew if I lied you can bet she will she's taking her time 'til I thought I would die and I can't sit still things got turned 'round don't know where I started from, damn I can't eat, can't sleep could have been a bigger man, damn oh what's the matter girl well don't you think I'm bright enough this old man had hard time getting here you can leave your number at the door (chorus 1) (chorus 2) and there's nothing at all yeah there's nothing at all well there's nothing at all to make her change her mind this old house been quiet since you went away, damn mixed up fixed out don't forget who got you here, damn what's the matter world well don't you see I opened up this whole part been played by another man I pulled out the reason card instead (chorus 1) (chorus 2) says she can find the things that make up a life I bet she will she stays behind, I could stay here all night I could stay here until until there's nothing at all yeah there's nothing at all well there's nothing at all to make her change her mind
Arguehe says anything to keep her by him she takes what she gets, and she never did flinch so over, and over, well anyone with any mind would think that's all she gets (chorus) if you want you can get to know me well we get along so we shouldn't argue and I don't know, said I don't know all these feelings cloud up my reasoning cloud up my reasoning I know, but I still believe in ignorance as my best defense so go on, wreck me funny how I carry on, and not be taken over will not roll over on anyone, cuz anyone would stand up on my side (chorus) you know it's funny how sometimes, it don't work out like you want to no you never get nothing at all then she tells you that it's nothing at all then she tells you that it's over, boy don't you hate it when it's over I guess something just got lost, and it deeply saddens me so over, and over anyone, who's anyone (chorus)
Kodyhe tapped his feet, to the humming of the highway he watched the light shine down on the broken glass and thought I don't got no reasons, yet there it is and there it was it was clear to all of us we kept this hat of broken dreams and we pulled them out, when we needed them around (chorus) so please hand me the bottle, I think I'm lonely now and please give me direction, I think the hurt set in and I don't feel nothing there's a squeak hinge down on the back gate it lets us know if he comes around I don't sleep that good anyway if you've never heard the silence, it's a God awful sound (chorus) I don't feel nothing, no I don't feel nothing there's nothing to feel good about here don't much get down to the avenue I could drive, but it takes so much to get there don't get off on all the broken glass, the cadillac scene, well I've seen a lot of good things die and I'm in an over emotional way (chorus)
Bustedshe knows the party makes me nervous in this stage we can't get hurt don't try to understand me we're too cool to be alone but, not too crazy to get busted I found out one life ain't enough I need another soul to feed on I'm the flame I can't get burnt I'm wholly understated I found silence in this space an on and off again attraction I need such amazing grace heaven sweep me away (chorus) love don't change, don't come around here don't wear my heart on your sleeve like a high school letter don't strain, cuz nothing ever comes from it and the people we've become, well they've never been the people who we are I strap on one horse and prayed for luck I dug another hole to bleed I know exactly how this works I need a new feel dirty I don't need you crowding up my space I just want to get inside you you can't blame the heart you save giving something away (chorus) I dreamed that the world was crumbling down we sat on my back porch and watched it I dreamed that the buildings all fell down we sat on my back porch and watched it in my head I heard the sound like fifteen strangers dancing but oh how I want you to know me oh how I want you to know me oh how I wish I was somebody else, baby oh how I wish you could own me (chorus)
Shamepast yourself forget the light, things look dirty when it's on funny how it comes to pass, that all the good slips away and there's no one around you can remember being good to you (chorus 1) shame, shouldn't try you, couldn't step by you and open up more shame, shame, shame what we lost here is something better left alone second steps have been forgotten, will you tell me how they go set yourself, situate, like a fool try again there's no one around you can remember being good, for you so (chorus 2) shame, shouldn't try you, couldn't step by you, and open up more shame, shame, shame shame, shouldn't try you, couldn't step by you and open up more shame, shame, shame we never thought we'd get so troubled we could never think that much it should never get this bad so let the wind blow ya, across a big floor but there's no one around who can tell us what we're here for funny in a certain light, how we all look the same and there's no one in life you can remember ever stood for you, so
Hangshe packs her things and she goes she leaves the pictures hanging on the wall, she burns all her notes amd she knows, she's been here too few years to feel this old he smokes his cigarette, he stays outside 'till it's gone if anybody ever had a heart, he wouldn't be alone he knows, she's been here too few years, to be gone and we always say, it would be good to go away, someday but if there's nothing there to make things change if it's the same for you I'll just hang the trouble understand, is she got reasons he don't funny how he couldn't see at all, 'til she grabbed up her coat and she goes, she's been here too few years to take it all in stride but still it's much too long, to let hurt go (you let her go) and we always say, it would be good to go away, someday but if there's nothing there to make things change if it's the same for you I'll just hang the same for you I'll always hang well I always say, it would be good to go away but if things don't work out like we think and there's nothing there to ease this ache but if there's nothing there to make things change if it's the same for you, I'll just hang
Mad SeasonAngryOut from behind the bitter ache You're hangin on the memory You need most You still want love Love's oh so smooth And delicate But not without affection Not at all This better wish Then it wouldn't get better Then you see that You just get angrier (chorus) And it's good That I'm not Angry And I need to be over Well I, I'm not Angry Anymore Cry, you cry Run, you run love When you love Well now represent the ashes That you leave behind So instead of wishing The road had a shoulder Man you see that You're just thinkin overtime And you're blind (chorus 2) And it's good That I'm not Angry And I need to be over Well I, I'm not Angry Anymore And it's draggin me under Well I, I'm not Angry, Angry, yeah, yeah I'm not angry Yeah, there's never been enough It gets inside And it tears you up And I'm not angry And I've never been above it You see through me Don't you? Yeah (chorus) (chorus 2)
Black & White PeopleIs anybody missing a dream One more hard head And I'm just there to reach my height It's a lonely life Is anybody out there the same It's not over Cuz this here's fate And it's bound to be a powerful thing chorus If it's only the weak Can we talk about it It's gonna be something creepy Just nursing this ghost of a chance Of affection and romance In a technicolor dream Of black and white people One boy headstrong Takes some medication just to play He's pushed down so hard You can hear him start to sink It's one last round of petty conversation You pour over here You won't go down like this Just roll on over And lay down till it's more than you can take chorus REPEAT FIRST VERSE chorus
CrutchOne step away from down Well I don't wanna be the crutch One step away from Then I feel like hell So come here lover And I can be a love machine And I can be your friend Ain't no shame Feel strong for me lover Make a real true color Come end to end God damn, Change of pace Think you got a piece Of my heart on your face It's a shame To let it waste How will it taste? How will it taste? Break it down Make it simple Cuz you know damn well That I'm a simple man All these things go changin Like the weather And they stay that way Till the weather man says We're down Gone to waste Think there's gonna be A piece of that smile On your face How bout that? Give you a race There ain't no two ways about it, no (chorus) Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah) One step away from down Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah) One step away from down, down, down Bring it on then And use a lover Like a cigarette The way lovers do Well this sweet song Messed up so It goes on and on It makes you want to Move around the room In circles Everybody wants to be Try to find my place among the Map with all the men You've been through Dig a little deeper And you'll realize All I'm buildin up Or tearin down Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah) One step away from down Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah) One step away from down, down, down All you needed was a crutch (yeah, yeah) Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah) One step away from down Well I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah) One step away from down, down, down Well I can never be your crutch (yeah, yeah) Well I can break you down I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah) I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah) No, I don't wanna be the crutch (yeah, yeah)
Last Beautiful GirlLike everything else this was This too shall pass And all of the words we said We can't take back Now every fool in town Will find out by now I can't replace All of the wasted days The memory of your face I can't help thinkin Maybe if we ever Could have kept it all together Where would we be? A thousand lost forevers And you never would give me Here's what I'm thinkin (chorus) It won't be the first Heart that you break You won't be the last beautiful girl The one that you wrecked Won't take you back If you were the last beautiful girl In the world So tell me one more time How you're sorry about The way this all went down You needed to find your space You needed to still be friends You needed me to Call you if I ever Couldn't keep it all together You comfort me You tell me bout the river And the promises I never should have made Here's what I'm thinking (chorus) It's over now It's gone aground Cuz you're everyone else's girl And it seems to me You'll always be Everyone else's girl This will all fall down Like everything in the world This too must end And all of the words we said We can't take back (chorus 2x) The last beautiful girl In the world
If You're GoneI think you're already gone I think I'm finally scared now You think I'm weak I think you're wrong I think you're already leaving Feels like your hand is on the door I thought this place was an empire Now I'm relaxed I can't be sure And I think you're so mean I think we should try I think I could need This in my life And I think I'm scared I think too much I know it's wrong, I know it's a problem But I'm feelin (chorus) If you're gone Maybe it's time to come home There's an awful lot of breathing room But I can hardly move If you're gone Baby, you need to come home, come home There's a little bit of something in me And everything in you I bet you're hard to get over I bet the moon just won't shine I bet my hands I can stay here I bet you need More than you mind And I think you're so mean I think we should try I think I could need This in my life And I think I'm just scared That I know too much I can't relate That's a problem But I'm feelin (chorus) I think you're so mean I think we should try I think I could need This in my life And I think I'm scared Do I talk too much? I know it's wrong, It's a problem, But I'm feelin If you're gone Maybe it's time to come home There's an awful lot of breathing room But I can hardly move If you're gone Baby, you need to come home, come home There's a little bit of something in me And everything in you Something in you
Mad SeasonBut I know it won't last for long And I know I've been guessing But I could have been guessing wrong You don't know me now I kinda thought that you should somehow But that whole mad season Gets you down Well I feel stupid But it's something that comes and goes And I feel like I'm changin But it's funny how no one knows We don't talk about The little things we do without When that whole mad season Comes around Why ya gotta stand there Lookin like the answer now? It seems to me You come around (chorus) I need you now Do you think you can cope? You figured me out That I'm lost and I'm hopeless I'm bleedin and broken Though I've never spoken I come undone In this mad season I feel stupid But I think I've been catchin on I feel ugly But I know I still turn you on You've grown colder now Torn apart and turned around But that whole mad season Knock you down So why you gonna stand there? Are ya gonna help me out? We need to be Together now I need you now In this mad season (chorus) And now I'm cryin Is that what you want? And I'm trying To live my life on my own But I won't know The times I do believe I am strong Just someone tell me why, why, why Do I, I, I Feel stupid? And I come undone Well I come undone I need you now Do you think you can cope? You figured me out That I'm lost and I'm hopeless I'm beedin and broken Though I've never spoken Well I need you now Do you think you can cope? You figured me out I'm a child and I'm hopeless I'm bleedin and broken Though I've never spoken I come undone I come undone In this mad season In this mad season It's been a mad season It's been a mad season
Rest StopAnd she slams on the breaks She said I tried to be, but I'm not And could you please collect your things Well, I don't wanna be cold I don't wanna be cruel But I gotta find more than What's happenin with you So if you'd open up my door (chorus) She said, While you were sleeping Well I was listening to the radio And wondering what your dreaming when It came to mind that I didn't care So I thought, hell if it's over Then I had better end it quick Or would lose my nerve Are you listenin, Can you hear me? Just three miles from the rest stop And my mouth's too dry to reach it Light was shining from the radio And I could barely see her face But she knew all the words That I never had said She knew the crumpled up promise Of a broken down man As I opened up my door (chorus) Can you hear me? You just don't love to love like I love While you were sleeping Well I was listening to the radio And wondering what you're dreaming when It came to mind that I didn't care So I thought hell if it's over Then I had better end it quick Or I could lose all my nerve Are you listening? Can you hear me? Oh, can you hear me?
The BurnLeavin but I couldn't even get out of bed I'm hangin cuz I couldn't get a ride outta town Now anyone who Really wanted me to be down Come down I though about Singin but I couldn't remember all of the words Breakin but I couldn't get the pieces apart Laughin but I didn't know what the joke was about And now I'm down (chorus) And I wonder How I never got the burn And if I'm never gonna learn How lonely people make A life One strain at a time I forgot about Everything and everyone I needed before Tryin to get a handle on a reason to shine Pickin up the pieces that have fallen behind Takes time (chorus) Still shine Don't wanna be lonely (chorus) All this time I wonder How I never got the burn And if I'm never gonna learn How lonely people make A life One strain at a time Still shine
BentPick me up and dust me off If I get too tired to make it Be my breath so I can walk If I need some of your love again Give me more than I can stand When my smile gets old and faded Wait around I'll smile again Shouldn't be so complicated Just hold me and then Just hold me again chorus: Can you help me I'm bent I'm so scared that I'll never Get put back together Keep breaking me in And this is how we will live With you and me bent If I couldn't sleep could you sleep Could you paint me better off Could you sympathize with my needs I know you think I need a lot I started out clean but I'm jaded Just falling Just breaking the skin chorus Start bending me It's never enough Till I feel all your pieces Start bending me Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in Shouldn't be so complicated Just touch me and then Just touch me again chorus Without understanding Hell, I'll go there again Can you help me I'm bent I'm so scared that I'll never Get put back together Yeah, you're breaking me in And this is how we will live With you and me bent
Bed Of LiesIn this bed of lies So toss me out And turn in And they'll be no rest For these tired eyes I'm markin it down To learn it I am I don't think that I could take Another empty morning I don't think that I could fake Another hollow smile But it's not enough Just to be lonely I don't think that I could take Another talk about it And just like me, You've got needs And they're only A whisper away And we'll softly surrender To these lies That we've tendered away (chorus) But I would not sleep In this bed of lies So toss me out And turn in And they'll be no rest For these tired eyes I'm markin it down To learn it I'm markin it down To learn it Cuz I can Don't wanna be the one to Turn the whole thing over Don't wanna be somewhere Where I just don't belong But it's not enough just to be sorry Don't you think I feel the darkness Closing in? I tried to be More than me And I gave until It all went away And we'll only surrender To worst part Of these winters That we've made (chorus) I am All that I'll ever be For you But God help me I need this I would not sleep In this bed of lies So toss me out And turn in And they'll be no rest For these tired eyes I'm markin it down To learn it I'm markin it down To learn it Cuz I can
LeaveHow you make your face just like a wall How you take your heart and turn it off How I turn my head and you lose it all And it's unnerving How one move just puts me by myself There you go just trusting someone else Now I know I put us both through hell I'm not sayin That there was nothing wrong I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me And I'm not sayin We ever had the right to hold on I just didn't wanna let you get away from me (chorus) But if that's how it's gonna leave Straight out from underneath Then we'll see who's sorry now And if that's how it's gonna stand Well you know you've been dependent on The one you're leavin now The one you're leavin out It's aggravating How you threw me on And then tore me out How your good intentions turned out The way you needed time to sort it out And I'm not saying There was nothing wrong I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me I'm not saying We ever had the right to hold on I just couldn't let you get away from me (chorus) And I'm not saying There was nothing wrong I didn't think you'd ever get tired of me But if that's how you're gonna leave Straight out from underneath Then we'll see who's sorry now And if that's how it's gonna stand Well you know you've been dependent on The one you're leavin now Tell me is that how it's gonna end When you know you've been dependent on The one you're leavin now The one you're leavin out I'm the one you're leavin now The one you're leavin out
StopI'm weaker than I used to be I wear my heart out on my sleeve Whoa, and I forget the rest of me Yes, there's times I've been afraid And there's no harm in that, I pray Cuz I'm more frightened everyday Someone will take the hope I have away (chorus 1) But you gotta get up to get off sometimes You gotta get up to get off sometimes You gotta get up to get off sometimes You gotta get up to get off sometimes I know You gotta get up to get off sometimes You gotta get up to get off sometimes You gotta get up to get off sometimes I know All the times I've given in Ya picked me like a second skin One by one I will begin To wear you on the days I'm feelin thin (chorus 1) (chorus 2) You better stop, stop, stop, stop Usin me up You better stop Cuz I've had enough And I'm ready to Poke at the reasons That keep me here Walk in the rain You know nothing You're never gonna change Good God, Need a little love while You'll find What you think you're gonna be child (chorus 2)
You Won't Be MineAround the world And see what you get From your mind Write your soul down Word for word You see who's your friend And who is kind Well it's almost like a disease And I know soon you will be (chorus) Oh but you'll be over the lights And you'll be strong You'll be rich And love And you will carry on But no, no, no, oh no You won't be mine Take your straight line For a curve Make it stretch The same old line Then try to find If it was worth What you spent Why you built it for The way you're feelin now It's almost like bein free But I know soon you will be (chorus) Take yourself out to the curb Sit and wait Fool for life And it's almost like a disease But I know soon you will be (chorus)
You & I & I (bonus track)Well, things came down hard But you couldn't wait here Well all I ever think about is myself Well anyone else Well they get strung out But I get high, high, high... (Chorus 1) But it's something you'd better get straight I don't got no room in my life It's up the anchor set it straight (Chorus 2) Stop, well I, I don't want to thank you Honey, I don't think so You'd better stop, well try, And if there's a distance here between us It's you and I and I Yeah, well it's a shame You pander to me Come on stroke on my ego Well I've just never been dumped before here by anyone else And what doesn't kill you It makes you linger And it makes you wonder, yeah For goodness sake have you ever been asleep Thinking one thing, I'd be here What doesn't kill you, doesn't stay (Chorus 2) (Chorus 1) (Chorus 2) (Chorus 2)
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