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Maybe Next Year!!
04:39
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I’ve been growing so disillusioned
With people and the choices that they make
It seems like no one knows a goddamn thing
About anyone or anything at all
So I’ll hide under the covers
Wait for summer to roll around
Maybe next year this will all get better
I’ll stop sitting around waiting for something to happen
Maybe next year I’ll take the world by storm
Lately I’ve been getting so disheartened
Feels like I’m gonna die alone
Here in this cramped apartment
No music can impress me
No song can inspire me
No video game will make me smile again
So I’ll hide under the covers
Wait for next summer to roll around
Maybe next year this will all get better and I’ll stop sitting around waiting for something to happen
Maybe next year I can take the world by storm
Maybe next year I can tour with my band
See the whole damn world from the back of a van
Finally get married to the girl I love
Well Maybe next year…Maybe next year
I’ve been staying up late watching TV shows
But all they do is piss me off
Does anyone have any bright ideas
On how to shut this engine down
All I want is a voice in my head
To explain to me how to be optimistic
So I can get on with my life and make my mark
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I've been setting off landmines in the caverns of my mind
Trying to find gold amongst the rocks and dirt and dust
Such a pointless excavation if you ask me
But no one ever does
Everyone keeps telling me there's no way out
Just keep your head up on your shoulers
And your ears pressed to the ground
Listen for the soft footsteps of change...
We'll I've been dying for the right to choose
Between living with myself or dying without you
This is what it all comes down to
I'll be crawling out of bed at 5 A.M
Making just enough cash to get me through the week
I'll be sitting in class from nine to three
Doing just enough work to get me by
This is my life
And it's ending one paycheck at a time
I thought I found god in an empty broken bottle
But he keeps dissappearing
Before I get the chance to speak
Anymore it feels like when I'm getting close to something
The ground just collapses underneath my feet
My life is going way too fast
So bring on those soft footsteps of change
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3. |
Shipping Out
03:46
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Shipping Out
Well led me into the desert to drink from the cup
So we would never have to grow old
And you convinced me I was more
Than just some worn out actor
In the back lot of some abandoned studio
There was always something I couldn’t understand
Till you put a sail on my heart
And sent it out into the ocean
Well everyone says without us
You’ll sink down down down
But we’re pulling in the anchor
And it won’t be long now
Everyone says without us
You’ll sink down down down
Still we packed up all our bags, we’re shipping out
You reached into my brain
And pulled out all of the ideas
I was saving for a rainy day
Spontaneous or not this is everything we needed
Let’s face it girl everybody needs a change
How was I to ever understand?
That you were the sail, I was the mast,
And we’d slip our bodies into the ocean
From the coast we hear them screaming
You’ll sink down down down
But we’re getting further
And the engine drowns them out
From the coast we hear them screaming
You’ll sink down down down
We packed up all our bags we’re shipping out
You were the one that made me understand
That you were the sail, I was the mast
We slipped our bodies into the ocean
Maybe without them we’ll sink down down down
But the ocean is quiet and there is not a soul around
Maybe without them we’ll sink down down down
But if we sink we sink together now
Well you led me through the desert
to drink from the sea
So I can finally know what’s to come for you and me
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Well I've got scars on my hands and knees
And I got a woman I don't know how to please
And all those bills piling up on the floor
I don't know if I can take anymore
An empty classroom and some empty desk chairs
I guess that's where I'm headed
If my singing don't go nowhere
But I don't know if I can make these children understand
That once you're a mouse I can't make you a man
When you look at me why don't you look me in the eye
Color ain't something you wear on your skin
It's something you wear in your mind
I may be white but we all bleed the same blood
For our brothers who died before their babies were born
Well there's an awful lot of wicked in the world
Women with bullets on their tongues
Men cheating on their girls
Sometimes I don't always do like I should
Sometimes you gotta get livin'
While the livin' is good
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Texas Tea
03:47
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Lately I’ve been feeling so uninspired
The sun doesn’t shine in my soul anymore
And the soil of my heart
Has rocks the size of boulders
And the places of my youth
Are all cracked and filled with holes
But I heard a song once ask
Where does the innocence go
I never knew what that meant, but I think I do now
I feel like burning all these houses
Watching the smoke drift towards the sky
Dumping oil in these rivers
Black mixed with blue and white
But when the grass is all burned up
It will leave me nowhere left to lay
I used to be the one that started fires
But now I’m just water to the flame
These trees have turned from torches to skeletons
In just a matter of seconds
Just a matter of days
And winter has its bony hand on my shoulder
Saying I’ll be back for you
I’m just right around the corner
But the grass was never greener
The air was never cleaner
These words are never more true
Than they are right now
I’ve got an unwritten page
For every word I wish I said
And an unfinished song to go along with it
I don’t know if you call this living or habit
But I bet it’s gonna kill me in the end
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Call me crazy call me anything but honest
Because I’ve been lying through my teeth for so long now
I’ve been posing as a poet standing up there with the best
But I’m out chasing after sunsets
With my head stuck in the clouds
This sheet of white is killing me It’s just like a disease
I’ve seen doctor after doctor but they can’t seem to find the cure
So I’ll hide behind these books cause they’re the only thing I know
And cause these dead men tell the tales
I only wish that I could dream up on my own
Well I’ve been sleeping a little sounder up till know
And I’ve seen a lot of things that made me shut my mouth
I raise my hand up towards the tiles, and slowly put it down and said
Nothing, nothing, at all
I’ve got a dollar in my pocket and it’s not much
But maybe it can buy me some peace of mind this time
These words are never gonna catch on, and they are
Anything but golden but sometimes that’s all you have to let you know
There’s still hope for us to find our way back home
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