Somewhere in the Night
I walk through streets at night
Until I get outside my mind
Out of breath I never felt so blind
Trapped inside a life
I never wanted for myself
Scared to death I'm running out of time
When it rains and falls down all around you
Do you feel as lonely as I do
Finding Cinderella is not so easy these days
When the shoe don't fit
And you don't know where to go
I come home late at night
These same four walls condemn me
The thought of you still gives me hope
It keeps me hangin onto something I can't see
When my life turns and walks away without me
When I close my eyes
Your still faceless and at other times
Just another same old disguise
Had too many days like these
I pray for the day
I touch your face with my open eyes
So when it rains let each drop remind you
I'll be searchin' til the moment that I find you
Somewhere in the night
A Simple Act of Kindness
I never used to talk until I started drinkin'
When I drank I talk too much
Spent half my life searching for a reason
To throw away that crutch
I bet you didn't know we talk about things
That I don't tell anyone else
It's as though through loving you
I found a way to love myself
So I sat down and wrote this for you
Just everyone could see
Why the most beautiful girl in town
Is more than beautiful to me
Because I used to look into the mirror you know
And I never liked what I'd see
Until the woman in you
Made me the man I wanted to be
Accidents Will Happen
If you could only read my mind
I'd hope this movie ends just right
Like all those drugstore novels seem to do
Fallen deep within myself
Searching for the fontanelle
I've seen too many things I could not tell you
In visions without alibis
I see you in velvet skies
In shapeless forms some moving some just there
In through out doors in my head
Mother nature wets the bed
Sometimes I wonder just how we got this far
Underneath the surface
Yesterday's emotions
Hover like ghosts behind my eyes
The picture is out of focus
Does anybody ever really notice
All the things we see but never realize
It's 4:30 in the morning
Downtown wide awake
Accidents will happen don't tell me it's too late
Intersections
In the morning I fall out of myself
I keep my head in a jar on the shelf
Skeleton hand bottle of gin
I don't feel right unless I'm out of my skin
Run to stand still at the same old stair
Reaching out for something that isn't there
I fall down I bruise too much
Give it all away and lose too much
Thieves are in this temple again
Emptiness is a creeping assassin
Cut yourself in the madding crowd
Don't ever let them hear you cry out loud
I feel it on my fingers it's just out of reach
I slowly feel the noose tighten round each
Outside my door is a hostile witness
They think it's not their fault if it's none of their business
Some people live while others pretend
I get so tired of only breathing in
All throughout these strangest days
In crowded intersections I walk lost highways
Shallow Water
Why are you so negative does he spend all his time with his friends?
When he lied to your face did you just go along and pretend?
Do you lie awake at night reaching out for a love that's nothing but a ghost?
I heard he let you down I heard he left you when you needed him most
You ask who I am as I tell you these things that I do
I'm every man you stepped on just to get to the one that stepped on you
You could've been my everything or his nothing at all
When you walk through shallow water hey laugh when you fall
Your day's gonna come just like they always do
When you cry over me the way I cried over you
Wrapped In You
Didn't I really try to make it happen?
Everybody knows that life ain't fair
If I'm the man you need then I'm not the one you want
No matter what I do you just don't see me there
Today I saw you at the station
I would've cried but I got nothing left
If all I think about is you loving somebody
Then I'm no good for anybody else
You'll move on and you'll forget about me
Me I hope that I can do the same
Someday in the month of may we'll pass on the street
I'll pretend I don't remember your name
I can't go on this way I'm dying on this road
I'm not angry but I'm letting go
You just don't want me there's nothing I can do
Who's gonna love me if I'm all wrapped up in you
New
Lately i've felt so out of touch
Twilight is gone my eyes are burning
I don't sleep cuz I think too much
All I know is that my feet are hurting
In my bed tossing and turning
Like a child restless but learning
Don't look back to me as your climbing
Today is the day I'm through with rewinding
Lately I've been thinkin about tomorrow
Everything that i've been living for
When your dreams become bigger than your memories
Yesterday don't matter anymore
As I stood inside the light of what I know as true
All the monsters in my life were nothing more than the avenue
Yesterday I was old
Today I never felt so new
