You let me down all the time
Let me down all the time
You
You let me down all the time
I forgive you
You don’t have to stay
You don’t have to stay
I won’t keep you
You don’t have to wave
You don’t have to wave goodbye
You left me down on my knees
You left me down on my knees
Yeah you
You left me down on my knees
I forgive you
You don’t have to lie
You don’t have to lie
I won’t keep you
You don’t have to say
You don’t have to say goodbye
You let me down all the time
You left me down on my knees
You let me down all the time
get out alive
you know what you gotta do
get out alive
call them but no one's there
look up into the air
they're everywhere you can see
they're people like you and me
devils who comb the streets
looking for crooked beats
watch how they move their feet
watch how they move their feet
get out alive
devils who know control
dealt with a broken nose
but they don't pick the fights
they don't dim the lights
what you're saying you're gonna see
what you're giving is what you get
but you don't know it yet
you don't know it yet
get out alive
As lust is to love
A buzzard to a dove
Step out of the rain into a flood
As lust is to love
A penny in a well
Wishes bound to fail
Pouring out of every single sentimental cell
As found is to lost
Feathers to the frost
I pray your saints and statues can forgive you for it all
Broken as the bread
Like all humankind
You cannot blame the victim for the gallows in her mind
Gallows in her mind
Sentimental queens
Do we all do?
Do we die to please?
Our sentimental queens
As lust is to love
A buzzard to a dove
Step out of the rain into a flood
A penny in a well
You’re standing accused
On the Ten-O-Clock News
A Jury of your peers
Say you’re rotten
You’re cold and unfeeling
Should of never been born
You look like somebody who’s guilty
Darling ain’t no use in crying
Or getting the lawyer on the phone
Drum up some nerve for better or worse
Cause in here, you get what you deserve
Nothing just
‘Bout a justice game
Put a human being
Into a nightmare
He can never wake up
She can never come clean
‘Til you sell to the tabloids
Darling ain’t no use in crying
Or getting your Congressman on the phone
Trickle into Tennesee make a new start
I’m a half-pint bleeder with a swollen heart
I’ll be out raging dark ‘til dawn
Can we meet up later let me sing you songs
I’m a flower and a faker and a shining seed
But I gotta dig into the ground I need
We can sing at the moon and yell at the stars
And pretend we’re better than we think we are
We don’t grow if we don’t know who we are
We don’t see what we miss when we’re closer than this
This Distance
Would you choose me if I chose you
I’ll be your Gram if you’d be Emmylou
We can light the sky
At 463
It’s just you and me for a while
Always yesterday
In my vacant town
And when she’s around I’m away
Main Street it’s so plain to see
You can follow me chasing her
Department stores of glass
Mannequins in gray
The people made of clay you pass
Automotive men
Sweating gasoline
Bleeding Valvoline from their veins
Main Street it’s so plain to see
You can follow me chasing her all around
Main Street it’s so plain to see
You can follow me chasing her up and down it
Solo
I will carve your name
In the starving rock
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Ahhhahhhhahhhahhha
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
And we don’t wait any longer
Ahhhahhhhahhhahhha
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Ahhhahhhhahhhahhha
And we don’t wait any longer
Ahhhahhhhahhhahhha
I thought I knew
What smiling faces mean
The grass is always green
I thought I knew
Tears never shed
Blood never bled
Answers to the questions
I thought I knew
Who is our leader
When we’re following the blind
Wading in this river wasting time
The wars they’d have us fight
Following faded signs
Forbidden ties that bind us
To the limits of our minds
You’re still a child
Though time’s a ticking fast
I’d try to make it last
If I were you
Walk with your love
And wear it like a badge
Shine it up and bask
In the glory of the sun
Hey man I heard that if you’re out for number one
The guys down at the station use ink inside the gun
I’ll strike the match but my soul won’t be for sale
I’ll write you dudes another one the check is in the mail
Aren’t we all just sinners
Cause you know we ain’t ever been saints
But that’s how it is
We we’re never good friends in the first place, yeah
It all go down
It all goes down
How it all goes down
In the contract
All of this bickering keeps ringing on inside
I keep deciding to forget you
Better ways to spend the days than counting up the red
Look at the time you spend in a life
Are you awake or sleeping?
Making sense out of so many sounds
How much have you been missing?
Listen
People attack you from too many sides
Leave you afraid of sinking
There is a love that’s deeper than us
And it doesn’t have to question
Listen
Is your love something true to me?
If you love something let it be
I can hear you when you talk to me
If I listen
Listen
Look at the time you spend in a life
Are you awake or sleeping?
Making sense out of so many sounds
How much have you been missing?
Listen
I want time
To stand still
You give my heart
Such a thrill
I work so hard
To keep you mine
So you know by now
My love is kind
I never want it to end
Never want it to end
Never want it to end
I never want it to end
Never want it to end
Never want it to end
I want time
To get going
When you’re ready for me
I get caught on the street
The pace is slowing
It’s like Murphy’s law
For some spoiled men
Get a taste of some
Want it all instead
I never want it to end
Never want it to end
Never want it to end
I never want it to end
Never want it to end
too much red wine
am i justifying
what it is i want
too much escape
not enough facing
what it is i need
in a song for a bedroom wall
i thought i could break your fall
with a song for a bedroom wall
yeah i thought i could break your fall
too much caffeine
now i gotta screen the calls
i spent too much time
lying in the same room
to figure out who i am
in a song for a bedroom wall
i thought i could break your fall
with a song for a bedroom wall
yeah i thought i could break your fall
everything seems so perfect
and calm
in a four-walled womb