Riding the crosstown
I see my breath on the window, form a cloud
Next to me, a seat that is vacant
But just for a moment, before you sit down
You turn to a crossword
Back of a magazine you had found
Can you lend me a pen? Help with these questions?
See some are so simple, but some are profound
Oh how I wish id had one
I wish I had the answers too
You just smile and say it’s alright dear
None of us do
Ask where you’re going
see if it’s someplace I could be going soon
Don’t you have a plan?
A future that’s written?
Oh, somewhere that you’re moving to ?
Oh how I wish I had one
I wish I had the answers too
You just smile and say its alright dear
None of us do
None of us do
None of us do
None of us
None of us
None of us do
Have the answers
Have the answers
None of us
None of us
None of us do
Have the answers
Have the answers
But riding the crosstown
I see my breath on the window, form a cloud
Next to me, a seat that is vacant
But just for a moment
Just for a moment
I might get married
I might get sober
I will get older that's for sure
I might move out west
I might say that with my chest
Still standing with one foot in the door
Pretty good for a bad year
Pretty bad for a good one though
I got used to the summer and it snowed
I'm too young for this back hurt
Too old for the checkout girl
Think ill check out from this world and go
Back home
I start to wonder
I play with numbers
How many breaths I've left to take
I'm still uncertain
But at least I'm working
Working towards what, ah who's to say
Pretty good for a bad year
Pretty bad for a good one though
Same view from a different window
If it’s all a cycle
It’ll just be a whilе
Til my smile returns and I’m at back home
Back homе
If it's all a cycle
It'll just be a while
Back home
Back home
If it's all a cycle
It'll just be a while
Back home
Back home
The bartender won't give me her number
I think is cause I asked what the cheapest drink was
And that may be her boyfriend outside
She holds his helmet while he kickstarts the ignition
Fuck, man, something's missing
Drinking’s great but I’m drowning in submission
To feelings I been feeling for a while now
They’re burning rubber, I'm burning out
Nothing left to do but stare at the neon
Check my phone and avoid conversation
But once jukebox finally finds a good song
I can't hear it past the roar of his engine
Fuck, man, something's missing
Drinking’s great but I’m drowning in submission
To feelings I been feeling for a while now
They’re burning rubber, I'm burning out
Fuck, man something's missing
Is that a piston or my head that’s hissing
They're going bout a-hundred by now
But I'm the one headed for a breakdown
Beauty
Centerfold
Though I’m no holy ghost I'm worthy of praises
Yet you’ll write
Paragraphs
Like epitaphs to bury me nameless
But, when you see
Her and me
I think you’re view is just through stained glass
Do you take
The chance to reflect
Before judgment and scriptures forming
Scriptures forming
And she’s beautiful too
And she’s beautiful too
And she’s beautiful too
And she’s beautiful too
And she’s beautiful too
And she’s beautiful too
And she’s beautiful too
I was a broken winged blue bird
You had an empty shoebox
I was back to flying high before I knew it
I must a not have seen the glass
What it was you’d been looking past
I could only shatter your reflection
And suddenly, it’s me that needs mending
Suddenly, I demand repair
your gentle heart distracts from what your mind wants
For the chance to see me fly away up there
I was a lonesome greyhound dog
Hanging by your front lawn
Panting wild in the August sun
With saucer full of water
A name and collar
I became someone to someone
And suddenly I don’t need to run
Suddenly it's me who's in repair
your gentle heart distracts from what your mind wants
Just imagine if you weren’t standing there
Just imagine if you weren’t standing there
Some mornings, I feel you in the cold tile beneath my bare feet In the vacant ends of my bed, in the cold wind, in the absence of heat Some days I remember your dagger earrings and I smile How I should have seen them as a sign As I’m dizzy, cut wide In a pool of blood and mud and mire If it wasn't for hindsight I'd be blind Wouldnt I? Wouldn't I? If it wasn't for hindsight I'd be blind Wouldn’t I? Wouldn't I?
Some nights I stay out past the sunset just to see my breath To know that I’m still here to know there’s a purpose for my chest Some days I remember your dagger earrings and I smile How I should have seen them as a sign How they glistened in the light How I haven’t seen them for a while If it wasn't for hindsight I'd be blind Wouldn't I? Wouldn't I? If it wasn't for hindsight I'd be blind Wouldn't I? Wouldn't I? Wouldn’t I just love to get you back Make this hurt less Wouldn’t eye for an eye not make us wiser at that Only blinder in fact
We got into it, one night
Big fight Don't remember the reason I had ran out of words to say And you walked away Sure you were winning But as you did You lost your balance And fell flat on your face You were so mad I couldn’t help but laugh I thought it was the funniest thing watch you tumble, like thunder As you tried storming away watch you tumble like thunder As you tried storming away said something smart As I got out of your car And took your smile with me The weather was bad And when I tried to get back in You’d locked up the whole machine I was so mad
You couldn’t help but laugh You thought it was the funniest thing To take my dry wit And drench it In the middle of pouring rain take my dry wit And drench it In the middle of the pouring rain We’ll fight and such But kiss and make up I adore every moment you bring It all stems from love And caring too much Ride the changes from winter to spring We’re just so glad we can’t help but laugh We think it’s the funniest thing
How storm clouds pass But you and me last go together like thunder and rain How storm clouds pass But you and me last go together like thunder and rainWe got into it, one night Big fight Don't remember the reason I had ran out of words to say And you walked away Sure you were winning
But as you did You lost your balance And fell flat on your face You were so mad I couldn’t help but laugh I thought it was the funniest thing watch you tumble, like thunder As you tried storming away watch you tumble like thunder As you tried storming away said something smart As I got out of your car And took your smile with me The weather was bad And when I tried to get back in You’d locked up the whole machine I was so mad You couldn’t help but laugh You thought it was the funniest thing To take my dry wit And drench it In the middle of pouring rain take my dry wit And drench it In the middle of the pouring rain We’ll fight and such But kiss and make up I adore every moment you bring It all stems from love And caring too much Ride the changes from winter to spring We’re just so glad
we can’t help but laugh We think it’s the funniest thing How storm clouds pass But you and me last go together like thunder and rain How storm clouds pass But you and me last go together like thunder and rain
Come meet me on Astor We’ll make fun the NYU kids Who came here from Ohio But never been north of 25th You and I been here most our lives So we can talk a little shit
Bout all these new faces and the changes that come with em You are My only constant You're a flicker of light, the Empire State in the dark You are My only constant You’re a good heart Or landmark, love
Come meet me on Bleeker
Our favorite record store closed down But I ain't complaining It's either swim or else you drown The needle falls The vinyl turns Another year goes round
You can see It clear From Union Square In the movement of the clouds You are My only constant You're a flicker of light, the Empire State in the dark You are My only constant A kind heart A landmark, love Down on the lower east Some teens make fun of you For that flower you wear in your hair While they've got on jeans and beanies It's like 85 degrees So we laugh And never leave We never leave We never leave
There is beauty then there’s Grace
Seldom seen in the very same place
Beauty hangs in the upscale bars
Gracie drifts with her head in the stars
Gracie drifts with her head in the stars
But they say Grace won't make change
Won't arrive by just saying her name
Though beauty sure casts a spell
Gracie sings like a clear chapel bell
Gracie sings like a clear chapel bеll
Amazing
Grace, she
Moves likе a hymnal
A gospel, A truth
There is beauty then there’s Grace
When I was younger I saw them the same
Now beauty lies bout her age
Gracie's planning her own birthday
Gracie's planning her own birthday
Amazing
Grace, she
Moves like a hymnal
A gospel, a truth
Amazing
Gracie
Beauty's in the eye but my eyes are on you
Beauty's in the eye but my eyes are on you, Gracie
The coldest months end in ember
A fire burned out when we were together
Left me to face this honest winter
The coldest months, end in ember
The friction Isn’t helping
My hands feel any better
Blankets, jackets
Can’t withstand the weather
So even in the spring's first light
I can still see your breath
Lingering, where you left
So if the frost may break
It still feels like Groundhog Day
6 more weeks of winter
The broken heat inside of my car
Makes it hard to get very far
Gears stick, won’t shift, engine's rusted
But the broken heat, is relentless
The friction
Isn’t helping
My hands feel any better
Blankets, jackets
Can’t withstand the weather
So even in the spring's first light
I can still see your breath
Lingering, where you left
So if the frost may break
It still feels like Groundhog Day
6 more weeks of winter
Maybe I, maybe I will see my shadow
Maybe I, mabye I don't know
Maybe I, maybe I will see my shadow
Maybe I, maybe I don't know
I don't know
Heard you went to find Jesus
In rest stop in Phoenix
Smoked American Spirits
To calm yours down
We used to kiss like some sinners
Saying "God hates a quitter"
You went holy ghost
Put the bottle right back down
I heard you went to Santa Barbara
Just tryna get farther from the gray
Oh but how do you find beauty in the blue skies
When every day’s the same?
I have no dirt on my knees
So I've no faith that ill see you again
As a lover or a friend
But you'll need more than a Bible
Or hymn with a high note
If you're really to repent
Or mend this mess
I heard you went and found a new man
A Christian born on the Fourth of July
On what a precedent to set
To always expect explosions in the sky
Well I still wish you the best
Cause I know on your shoulders
There’s an angel on the left side
A devil on the polar
We all have afflictions
But I think it’s fiction
That you couldn’t see the good in me
Oh you couldn't see
(preacher)
Isn't it great to be in church?
I'll tell a little story I don't want to take up to much time
Faith and repent are kinda synonymous, you can't repent without faith
(Preach!)
(Amen)
I praise God!
And if you don't know what the theme is already well you've been asleep...
Well I haven’t heard much from you
I think about that while I walk in the night
Wondering how it's even possible
To see different stars in the same sky
Driving rain, pouring hearts out to each other
Wiper blades, cut the sound of a silent lover
Shouldn’t drink, shouldn’t smoke in your parent's chevy
Weight of all this overthinking, sure gets heavy
Wait, do you see me as escape?
You just rolling with the punches, babe?
Am I a memory hanging 'round?
Am I home to you
Or just your hometown?
Emotion sick from sitting still, in strip mall parking
Movie stores since closed down, the dog stopped barking
I'd go too, I'd go soon, love, this job ain't paying
Am I the anchoring your sea, or reason you're sinking?
Wait, do you see me as escape?
You just rolling with the high tide, babe?
Am I a mеmory hanging 'round?
Am I home to you
Or just your hometown?
Oh I’ll wait, do you see me as еscape?
You just rolling with the punches, babe?
Am I a memory hanging 'round?
Am I home to you
Or just your hometown?
Friction fights every shift in the motor honey
I tell you to take a hint, you don't find it funny
I see your eyes in
The last light off the lake
A "no swimming" sign
Stares at your smiling face
Hazy horizons
I see them clear from this place
Standing by shorelines
An ebbing and flowing of stakes
And I usually know the shallow ends
Backyard pools with high school friends
I'm scared as hell when I can't see the bottom
You’re telling me, you just dive in?
Oh the deeper
The deeper the water
Oh the farther
That we go the farther
To no surprise, I stay on the surface
You call me nervous
Here in your touch
Tell me now which way is up?
All of this pressure
Ears pop, hearts on the fritz
Decompression sickness
Tell me is this all worth the risk?
Oh the deeper
The deeper the water
Oh the farther
That we go the farther
Oh the deeper
The deeper the water
Oh the pressure babe
The pressure gets stronger
Stronger
Stronger
We’ve been treading on
We’ve been treading on
We’ve been treading water
We’ve been treading on
We’ve been treading on
We’ve been treading water
We’ve been treading on
We’ve been treading on
We’ve been treading water
People tread on
People tread on
Afraid to take it farther
I see your eyes in
The last light off the lake
A no swimming sign
Stares at your smiling face
People tread on
People tread on
Afraid to take it farther
We could take it farther
So much farther babe
The deeper, deeper the water
On my way
I'm goin’ to, Ohio you should come along
Rode my bike a few miles today
And miles back home
But you know me
I won’t be
Gone for too long
I would dive into depths unknown
If you would stay
Stayed up all night playing songs of old
Some we sang to
Some we danced away
Now it's getting late
I should go I should go I should go, baby
I can hear my train a-comin'
Getting louder or am i just going, crazy
Is it cold now?
Or, just never like this in June
I would dive into depths unknown
If you would stay
Stayed up all night playing songs of old
Some we sang to and some we danced away
Some we danced away
Some we danced away
I know by now you’re tirеd and the soles of your shoes havе worn thin
But I know by now that you end where I begin
You end where I begin
Some we danced away
I would dive into depths unknown
If you would stay
Stayed up all night playing songs of old
Some we sang to and some we danced away
I am not much of a traveler
Never strayed far from home
Never picnic'd by the Eiffel Tower
Or walked the streets of Rome
I can’t name
The seven wonders of the earth
But I know one has to be her
Just the sound of her voice
Could bring me around the world
So her kiss is a stamp on my passport
People say I'm missing out on
The mountains of Madrid
Or the soft sands of the Sahara
That bring me off the grid
I can’t name
The seven wonders of thе Earth
But I know one has to be her
And just thе sound of her voice
Could bring me around the world
So her kiss is a stamp on my passport
I can’t name
The seven wonders of the Earth
But I know one has to be her
Just the sound of her voice
Could bring me around the world
So her kiss is a stamp on my passport
I can’t name
The seven wonders of the Earth
But I know one has to be her
And just the sound of her voice
Could bring me around the world
So her kiss is a stamp
Her kiss is a stamp on my passport
Somewhere in my brain
There’s a pretty red train comin’
To take me down the line
My blood stains the cane
Til Sunday’s refrain
Comes as sweet as cherry wine
Somewhere in my chest
There's a pretty red dress
Hanging from a clothespin
As sure as an alibi
My lips start to rust
The wind starts to gust
Saying everything but their goodbyes
Saying everything but their goodbyes
Somewhere though it’s blurred
There’s a pretty red bird
Flying high against cerulean skies again
And it looks like that sky blushed
It looks like I’ve had enough of seeing me
In everything but your eyes
I worked for my calluses
I worked on my temperaments
I still can’t close the distance
I reap just what I sow
I’m paid just what I’m owed
But the day breaks only my spirit
Without you here, yet
When you aren't here, yet
Somewhere in my brain
There's a pretty red train
Coming to take me, down the line
Me without you is like the sea without blue
Crashing to the dunes In a colorless frame
Winter ceases crowds and it's just me now
Alone with my thoughts and the sound of the waves coming
I can see the tide coming
Could I see our time running out?
I can see the tide coming, now
Out in the clear the boardwalk and the pier
Appears from the hold of the clouds
It's usually such a bright light
Filled with all the nightlife
But I'm afraid it's just an idea now
I’m afraid we’re just an idea now
Me without you is like the sea without blue
Crashing to the dunes In a colorless frame
Winter ceases crowds and it's just me now
Alone with my thoughts and the sound of the waves
I can see the tide coming
But could I see our time running out?
I can see the tide coming now
Coming now
It’s all monochrome
All lost its tone
Its beautiful hue
Beautiful you
It’s all monochrome
All lost its tone
It’s all lost
I lost it
I lost it all
I can see the tide coming
Could I see our time running?
I can see the tide coming
Could I see our time
Comb your hair, wash it clean soon we'll be leaving We're in the car, it's cold you've got my jacket 'round your sleeves your eyes are tired but love, you're smiling like it's Christmas Eve I carry you inside, end of the night We’re fast asleep In South Georgia I catch your eyes through blades of grass You're faking your interest and well I begin to laugh Do you love someone? Do you love someone? Like I do? Like I do? You look like Sunday mass with the dress to the backs of your knees in a recurring dream I ask you to marry me Under the shade Of a willow tree Of a willow tree In South Georgia I catch your eyes through blades of grass You're faking your interest and well I begin to laugh Do you love someone?
Do you love someone? Like I do? Like I do? In South Georgia I catch your eyes through blades of grass You're faking your interest and well I begin to laugh Do you love someone? Do you love someone? Like I do? Like I do?
In a conversation, I had with the moon
I ask does she think of me, in the way that I still do?
Cause when she is gone, in the brightness of day
I can still see her here when skies are clear
A faint circle of gray
And I still feel you pulling me close, hallelujah
Saved by a beautiful moon, bella luna
I tried to give you space but you seemed worlds away
Into the night air, greets me like an old friend
And we go out drinking
It seems, it seems I’m on the mend
So I stumble outside, for a breath and a break
Just to see you standing there
Like you had never left in the first place
And I know that you’re here all along but this cycle
It’s like you depart seconds after arrival
You wax and you wane and I just wish you would stay the same
And I even would beg to the stars for your presence
But even they’d burn out by the time they get this
I’m rambling on again, need to say goodnight instead
Need to say goodnight instead
Only attraction in your town of 10,000
Is a monument which sits upon the highest hill
We take a drive up
And when the skies are kind enough
See for miles and miles to the state lines, so clear
But you hate it, call it ironic
"Best thing to do here's the view of what's beyond it
And it's a great trap if you’re a tourist
But I’ve been stuck here for years this boredom”
You even laugh at the price of admission
Say “If you squint you can see all you're missing
“So tell me what brings you from the city?
I've seen pictures of all the buildings"
At the gift-shop, towards the very top
They sell paper gliders, look like old fighter planes
I send mine flying out
It almost looks real now
Before it crashes down into the bay
You even laugh that I fact bought one
Say "maybe ours are together at the bottom
Drifting out somewhere deep in the current
Here’s to wishing we‘d made it further”
