Miss Connection (She Said)

Standing seemingly still while the world turns around
Collecting the grains that I'm given
Waiting for the tasteless tide to change
And reveal the castle I'm building

And I'm standing here out on the front line
Every step I take an inch at a time
Under friendly fire and enemy mines
Trying to win the hearts and minds

I know, I know sometimes I lose it and
I go, I go too far to prove it my
Ego, ego will take a bruising yeah

Can you sum it all up in a paragraph
That was written back when you loved me?
Don't leave it to hang as an epitaph
She said as she looked up above me

I know, I know sometimes I lose it and
I go, I go too far to prove it my
Ego, ego will take a bruising and I'm
Too low, too low to be amusing
She said, she said I need to change it in
My head, my head to re-arrange and I
Wanted, wanted that sweet saviour and I
Needed, needed some good behaviour

She said she said etc...




Left Out In The Cold

This time I waste
You leave just when I get the taste
No choice in dreams
My voice says rarely what it means
If I stepped up to the ledge
Would I fly or drown
I'm falling up and falling down
Left out in the cold

I keep old skin
Some days I think I might need to slip in
And be what you need
No doubt but you always sow the seed
If I begged forgiveness now
You never would forget
The things that brought me to you now
And leave me in the cold, the cold

If I bared my soul
I just feel that I would lose control
It don't mean I don't care
It just seems some things that I can't share
But I pledge forever now
I wear it on my sleeve
We'd make those non-believers bow
And through green eyes they'd see
I'd do what my pain will allow
To keep us from the cold, the cold, the cold



Lost Without you

You can leave if you want to
That's what everybody else seems to do
All I ever did was love you
It wasn't enough to see this through
And I never saw it come
When you did what you did (woh -oh!)
I always thought you were the one
Was I just being stupid?

Light a candle in the evening
A little light to guide your way
Find another to believe in
Somebody else to teach a new song to play
'cause we've heard it all before
And it starts to lose the meaning (woh-oh!)
I just need a little more
To keep my heart beating

Lost without you don't know which way to go
A lifetime of tickets but keep missing the boat
Walking through the city like an automaton
I need someone to show me where it is I belong

Will I find the silver lining
Through the clouds I see where the sun once shone?
And as Jake will keep reminding
My reward is coming to me when I'm gone

Lost without you don't know which way to go
A lifetime of tickets but keep missing the boat
Walking through the city like an automaton
I need someone to show me where it is I belong

Feeling lost without you
Feeling lost without you
Feeling lost without you
Feeling lost without yoooooooooooooooooooowwww!!!!


Same Old Silence

Given choice between the two, I'll always take the red over your favourite blue
I say I won't but I do, my soul a perfect rock eroded just for you

Given life until we grew, do you ever wish that all we thought back then was true
Open wide and into view, that kind of sense never made much sense from you

Same old the same old silence, same old the same old violence
We never asked those questions, we never learned our lessons

 well come on!


Fly On The Windscreen

I followed your reactions, I swallowed satisfactions until I puked
A gracious victor, another diamond headress for you

I came here for forgiveness, I wanted some deliverence from the fire
The broken contract, the destruction of my past life

My legs are aching from running 'round in circles
The toll it's taking as I crash into the hurdles
All this time - under weight of pressure unseen
All this time - just a fly on the windscreen
All this time - being cool is effortless
All this - we're a beautiful mess

Of all the things unholy, this union never came together once
The strength to stop it, to pull the worm out from my insides

My legs are aching from running 'round in circles
The toll it's taking as I crash into the hurdles
All this time - under weight of pressure unseen
All this time - just a fly on the windscreen
All this time - being cool is effortless
All this time- we're a beautiful mess
All this time - wearing red as a sign of respect
All this - lest we forget

All this time - under weight of pressure unseen
All this time - just a fly on the windscreen
All this time - being cool is effortless
All this time- we're a beautiful mess
All this time - wearing red as a sign of respect
All this time - lest we forget
All this time - once before but never again
All this - now it all ends


The Badge I Lost

Throw the leaves into the wind, see them fall and then begin
Build a plan in life and concrete, stand in awe as it all caves in
The faith I lost across the sea has just got to be there

We invent ourselves for others, judge us not upon our deeds but on our needs
Once bending sapling tree grows harder with time and is choked by weeds but it still bleeds
The badge I lost upon the beach has just got to be there

In Eldon Park I've seen what life can do, and I don't want to
Lose my heart and be a part of that luckless crew that
Sits behind to pine for better days without the haze and
I want to thank myself for being me

I always thought it was that it was just because I wanted more than I could get
And no it's fair Lady Luck was never there to cast a spell or wider net

And I want it today


All Gone Away

I am an obelisk an artefact an ancient block of stone
An object to be worked a project for the sculptresses of life
The days will chip away the tools of time will etch in one more line
Genetics handed down I'm sanded down until I'm nearly

All gone away - I slip and slide going over on both sides
All gone away - I get in line giving it one more try

Just like a mountain this erosion will take decades just to see
Caldera smoking hot I will erupt when rubbed against my faults
I'm under pressure and I'm stuck between the rock and normal life
A sleeping giant or a snoring boy I give until I'm

All gone away - I slip and slide going over on both sides
All gone away - I get in line giving it one more try

And can anyone say who is better than who
With the luck that we have in the things that we do
And by defining success by your own happiness
You can circumvent the misery they take to their chest
And I'm saying these words but do I really believe
That a sunny disposition hides the hurt up my sleeve
But my regular prayer goes to heaven knows where
Is there anybody out there is there anybody there


Love Song

Down in Cooper's field the night we finally got together nothing seemed real
We wrote a pact we'd both remember, we signed our names in burning embers
So here's the love song, the one I said I'd always write you
How does it feel? Seven summers gone forever, now we love alone together

Write a full confession of how it was that we were parted, with a fluid seal
I went from that first impression to a naked decompression
Tell another secret of how and why we never could be, I could never heal
A kiss for the dear departed, join the choir of the broken hearted

Time rolls up to find you - you gotta let it lay
Put the past behind you - you gotta let it lay
And the hurt reminds you - you gotta let it lay
Now you know it's time to...

Outside at New Year's I finally had you where I wanted, now this was real
I wondered if I had what it takes for making love or making mistakes
You gotta carpe diem 'cause fortune always favours the brave
Out in the field you know you gotta stand for something or you'll fall for anything


Hell Is For Masons

Burn up in mourning, another day and I know what you go through
Turn up Fair Warning, the soundtrack of that day that still haunts you
I am a human, I gotta name and it hurts when you say it wrong
I am that man, the one you blame and you will for so very long

Screaming so loud, your face out in the crowd
It still hurts 'cause you're proud, it's what you live for
Nothing left to say, it's been a year now to the day
The hurt will go away, you've got to give more

Time now to forget, another day easier to get through
Yesterday you wept, now dry your tears with the thought of someone new
I am that man but I'm the same when you're singing a different song
I am that man, the one you blame and you will for so very long

Burn up in torment, another day that you're putting yourself through
You think you knew how it went, how the world and his wife they all hated you
I am that man, I feel your pain but you're getting it all so wrong
I am that man, the one who stayed and I did for so very long


Come Inside

Come inside and take the weight, a sip of something to chill you out
Polish up those broken heart strings, get 'em out and play me a brand new song
Come inside and get away from everything that brings you down
Don't look back just stoop to conquer, ask yourself who has never been wrong

All this time that you're thinking you're no one
Come inside and give it a rest son
Dig down deep in this situation
Come inside for your inspiration now

Come inside and detonate, a welcome warm just like the sun
Tears all dry in nanoseconds, everyone knows who you are
Come inside and flagellate, beat you're back for grief you've caused
Put yourself in place of others, only then you can earn that scar

Come inside and celebrate, acronyms and DNA
Revel in your roots and culture, shine a light on where we belong
Come inside and demonstrate, by example lead the crowd
Show me something I believe in, and it's you that is just who you are


Trading Viruses

Try to level off your head from a pill, want me close up in your bed, yeah I will
Waste the day through stifled sleeping, it's ok if you start weeping
Any day I'll be sweeping you to my hill

Close your eyes release the pressure
Come inside and you know I'll rest you

Turn around give your back to me
Let's go down where no one can see
Hit the light midnight promises
Wake alright trading viruses

I wanna go to all those places you've been, I wanna go see all those things you have seen
Do you think about your future, buy that dress 'cause I think it suits you
I wanna be the king and have you my queen

I wanna level off my head from this thrill, I wanna close up in my shell, yeah I will
Waste away through pleasure seeking, fill the hole just to stop the leaking
Come away we can be the strays frozen still


When The Lights Go Out

When the lights go out I see things all so clearer
And without a doubt the darkness makes it all so deeper

Tell a lie just to save the passion now
Wonder why I just never can make out
When the lights go out

You can't see me rise, inch by inch I'm coming nearer
And behind your eyes I can't get past the two way mirror

And you're out of sight, you tell me everything show nothing
And in the broad daylight you can't diguise the blatant loathing

You lie
You lie there and give a little
You love
You love me to give a little

Give a little


Underline

Always live for the music
Somedays I just want to lose it
Trying to be honest
Dying to fulfill my promise

Bad smiles a brave face and good shoes
You add miles collecting the bad news
Writing just what we believe in
Sighting the ships as they're leaving

I will pray, pray for ever
We can stay, stay together
Come what may and come whatever
We can play from our hearts and our minds

Underline just who we are
This underlines just who we are

Floating with no direction
Doting in soft recollection
Climbing the rope to don't know where
Timing, I'll know when I get there

Underline just who we are
This underlines just who we are
Underline put a line right under who we are


Straight Lines

Scratch the surface then ink it black, tattoo'd in death this myth turns into fact
No holy water can wash away the feelings that I'm feeling here today
So I'll take the page at which you stopped
No noughts to knot this crippling cross

Our concentration will fade away, when mixed with others ink this black turns grey
Does a little colour weaken our lines or does it make our mark here more defined
So I'll take my quill and with it full I'll write your sign so beautiful

And keep drawing those straight lines
Just keep drawing those straight lines
It's how we deal with what we feel, we shut ourselves inside
And keep drawing those straight lines

And so it's written to memory, this intersection stands for you and me
No flowing water, try as I might, with Litmus red I weep in black and white
So I celebrate the day we crossed and I'll curse the way your lines were lost

And keep drawing those straight lines
Just keep drawing those straight lines
It's how we deal with what we feel, we shut ourselves inside
And keep drawing those straight lines

Until the ink runs dry