Oh what the hell she said
I just can't win for losing
And she lays back down
Man there's so many times
I don't know what I'm doing
Like I don't know now
By the light of the moon
She rubs her eyes
Says it's funny how the night
Can make you blind
I can just imagine
And I don't know what I'm supposed to do
But if she feels bad then i do too
So I let her be
And she says oh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cause I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best but now she can't win it
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down
She sits down and stares into the distance
And it takes all night
And i know i could break her concentration
But it don't feel right
By the light of the moon
She rubs her eyes
Sits down on the bed and starts to cry
And there's something less about her
And I don't know what I'm supposed to do
So I sit down and I cry too
And don't let her see
And she says oh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cause I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best but now she can't win it
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down
She shuts out the night
Tries to close her eyes
If she can find daylight
She'll be alright
She'll be alright
Just not tonight
And she says oh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cause I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried her best but now she can't win it
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down
Oh well oh well
I guess you got it all worked out so far
You adjust your reason
Until you see the light from where you are
But you can never win
You can never lose
That's the worst part
You can only say that what you want
Is where you are
Beautiful girl
Won't you listen to me
Well I tried so hard to give you what you need
And it burned like gasoline
Oh well oh well
It never took a lot to make this hard
Cuz you were so off balance
And I knew all the words to set you off
But you can never win
You can never lose
That's the scorned heart
Then you throw your head back
And you laugh at where we are
Feeling worn down
Like a piece of glass
It doesn't take too much to get yourself to feed your monkey
Tell some white lies, they can swallow them
You don't see just how you got into this situation
Late at night,
late at night you weep for something better than the secrets you keep laying down,
Just lay down here close to me,
and tell me what you want from me.
And I said Hey now,
give me the meltdown,
take it out on me this time around,
oh no it aint over now I can feel the world spinning round and round and round
Hey now,
give me the meltdown,
take it out on me don't let me down,
oh no it aint over now I can feel the world spinning round and round and round.
Wide awake now and your monkey's dead
You're so perfect that you never really need nobody
Put your hands down, you're among your friends
You just take and take and take and take and take and take and
Late at night, late at night
You weep but so no better than the secrets you keep
Stay down, just lay down here close to me
Pretend you're never leaving me.
You can go
You can start all over again
You can try to find a way to make another day go by
You can hide
Hold all your feelings inside
You can try to carry on when all you want to do is cry
[Chorus:]
And maybe someday
We'll figure all this out
Try to put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to make things better now and
Maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow
Someday
Now wait
And try to find another mistake
If you throw it all away then maybe you can change your mind
You can run, oh
And when everything is over and done
You can shine a little light on everything around you
Man it's good to be someone
[Chorus]
And I don't want to wait
I just want to know
I just want to hear you tell me so
Give it to me straight
Tell it to me slow
Cause maybe someday
We'll figure all this out
We'll put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to just feel better now and
Maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow
Someday
[x2]
Cause sometimes we don't really notice
Just how good it can get
So maybe we should start all over
Start all over again
Here we stand
Somewhere in between this moment and the end
Will we bend
Or will we open up and take this whole thing in
Everybody else is smiling
Man, their smiles don't fade
You don't even wonder why
You just don't think that way
Maybe you and me got lost somewhere
We can't move on and we can't stay here
Maybe we've just had enough
Well, maybe we ain't meant for this love
You and me tried everything
But still that mockingbird won't sing
Man this life seems hard enough
Well, maybe we ain't meant for this love
Take my hand
I will lead you through the broken promise land
Yes I can, oh, yes I can
I can be there when you need it
I'll give it all 'til you can't feel it anymore
I don't wanna love you now
If you'll just leave some day
I don't wanna turn around
If you'll just walk away
Hey yeah
Welcome to the real world
Nobody told you it was gonna be hard you said
Hey yeah
I cant believe it
I barely started now I'm falling apart
And its hard
Standing at the crossroads
But having all the answers
Never helped me out, no
Then a boom shake
Helps me awake
I need some coffee, yeah
And maybe a shave and
Its a pretty bad way to start my today
Turn on the radio and what does he say
And the stars
They were shining through the window
You feel a little moon glow kind of like a rainbow
But then a boom shake
Now I'm awake
I think its over but its everyday and
Its a pretty fine mess I'm starting to make
I couldnt tell you I was never afraid
Fire on the mountain
Through the freeze
Save yourself
There's evil
In the garden
But you don't see it
I can tell
[Chorus]
How do you sleep while the city's burning
Where do you go when you can't go home
How do you drink when there's blood in the water
Where do you turn when the world moves on
When the world moves on, on
Fire on the mountain
You can feel it
Against your skin
You're standing
By the river
Let the river
Take you in
How do you sleep while the city's burning
Where do you go when you can't go home
How do you drink when there's blood in the water
Where do you turn when the world moves on
When the world moves on
When the world moves on, on
Yeah
[x2]
Hell, I see smoke out on the horizon
Mama, get your baby, take her down to the water
I view the wind like a promise broken
I see the future but it's getting farther
How do you sleep while the city's burning
Where do you go when you can't go home
How do you drink when there's blood in the water
Where do you turn when the world moves on
When the world moves on, hey
When the world moves on, [x3]
Yeah, oh Yeah, oh yeah world moves on
That world moves on, yeah
You're the best thing I ever knew
You do everything that I cant do
Sometimes I get lost in my blue
Please forgive me if im hard on you
Please forgive me if im hard on you
You and me got so much to prove
You're the only thing that I cant lose
The nights are peaceful here in our room
Please forgive me if im hard on you
Please forgive me if im hard on you
Cuz I didnt mean to be mean when I said all the things I said to you
But maybe the worst is the best I can do
With you
And I never want you to go but I know
I've been moving way too slow
And I fall apart cuz its all that I know
Where you running now baby blue
Please dont let it take me far from you
I've been restless ive been a fool
Please forgive me if im hard on you
Please forgive me if im hard on you
Please forgive me if im hard on you
Please forgive me if im hard on you
I should have never let you go
Always another
I need this more than you will know
But theres always another
A million by ways and highways
And theres always another
Someone else to pay your way
To try to take your innocence
Theres always
Heartbreak
I hold steady
While youre shaking me loose
You keep breaking me down but I still aint over you
I've been living like theres nothing to lose
And I'm telling you now that I still aint over you
I keep your letters by my bed
And theres always another
I hear your voice inside my head
And theres always another
A waste of time
Wasted our days
And theres always another
Someone else to make you suffer
Make you think this whole thing over
I've been sleeping around but I still aint over you
This is not the life I promised you before
I can feel them running chains around our door
I'm coming to the end of what im for
But I will pull myself together I am sure
I will run for you until I start to drop
I will breathe your breath until you tell me to stop
We will see the ending of another sunny day
And well wait at home until the next one drops
Are we all just sitting here
Waiting on the end
Like its only natural
Are we filling spaces
Til we find ourselves again
Like its only natural
Its only natural
This is not the way we wanted this to be
I can feel your doubt inside of me
Were standing on the edge of everything weve ever seen
And everything well never get to be
And when you think its over
It start coming aorund again
Its coming around again
And when you think its figured out
It starts coming around again
Its coming around again
Its coming around again
I think were snowblind
We've had a hard time
And we cant see where we are
Spending our whole lives
Walking the same lines
And it doesnt seem to stop
This is our life
Its all that we get
The days are all numbered
And the nights are all spent
We're losing our focus
It's starting to drag
Were running in circles
And we start to feel bad
But it dont mean that this aint right
We just both need a little more time
You stick in my throat
You melt in my hands
You cause me to wonder
As much as I can
I feel it all over
It's starting to lag
Were spinning our wheels so much
That its hard to turn back
But when the night falls down on this place
I will be the one to hold you when the tears fall down your face
Look at me I'm made of wonderful, wonderful
I'm all easy breath and steady walk, steady walking
But underneath I'm barely moving, no
Its like I'm nothing
All the ways they had to make me smile and then they go and break me
[Chorus]
Wait, I think I feel like hell
Though I can't be myself
And I can't be nobody else but if I could
Would you love me then [x3]
Look at me, I'm made of wonderful, it's terrible
I'm all easy come and easy go
As far as you know
But underneath, man, I'm just killing time
I guess I'm past my prime
and now I'm overrated, overdressed, and overstated
[Chorus]
If I put my hands up, put your hands up
If I fall down
If I lose my place
And I don't know just where I'm supposed to go
If you'll be there when I wake
Would you love me then?
And I come home tired
And I come home late
Everybody wants me
So I give it away
I'm a wanted man [x4]
Would you love me then [x3]
Everybody's got a different story
Everybody wanna give their selves away
But I'm still afraid
If we can stay out of their field of vision
If we can keep ourselves a half a world away
Ah honey we'll be ok
[Chorus]
The world can be so cruel
But I will sing for you
This cradle song
All night long
Everybody's got their own opinion
Everybody's got a place were they belong
Like a favorite song
I don't want to be a faded memory
I don't want to be the ghost that you cant shake
I want to be the real thing
[Chorus]
Yeah all night long
yeah all night long
oh, oh, oh
No one said we were victims honey
No one said we had to keep the things we get
And there ain't no regrets
And all our friends, they moved to Hollywood
But we ain't that desperate yet, oh no
Ain't nothing like the real thing
The world can be so cruel
And let me sing for you
This cradle song
All night long
[Chorus]
This cradle song [x2]
Yeah all night long
Sing it all night long [x2]
Yeah, yeah
All night long
This life
Keeps moving on
And we're going away
Before too long
So tell your friends
Just how ya feel
You better say it loud
For the world to hear
Cuz it's getting late
Time to go
The paper moon
Is fading slow
But the night
Keeps moving on
And it takes you in
It brings you home
While you're watching over
The moments that make up your life
Well it's getting late
Thats the way it is
You can't deny
When it feels like this
And it's strange
What it's bringing out
Youre gonna open up
Cuz you can't stop now
Oh you can't stop onw
Well it's getting late
You don't know how
Youre wide awake
And you're missing out
Get your kicks
While you can
Then you go to work
To pay the man
You say we're better off not knowing,
If we cannot save a life.
Somebody said there's a new day coming,
Yeah but it don't feel right.
And we weigh out these scars,
Because we got no imagination.
And we trade these lives,
For any feeling we can ever know.
[Chorus:]
All I can do is try to make some sense of all this loss,
All I can do is try to live my life,
But I don't want to dance,
I don't want to sing,
I just want to sleep 'til the war is over.
I don't want to lose everything,
I just want to sleep 'til the war is over.
But it ain't over.
You say you judge them by their color,
But what you can't say is why.
Is it too hard to just love one another?
Where do we take this life?
And we weigh out these scars,
They say we got no destination.
And from where we are,
It seems we're never gonna make it home.
[Chorus X2]
All I can do is try to make some sense of all this loss,
All I can do is try to close my eyes
You better wake up,
It's been a long, long time.
You better watch out,
They're gonna steal you blind.
And it's a long way,
No matter where you are.
Well so tell me how we're gonna get that far,
Tell me how we're gonna get that far.
[Chorus:]
Wait, I don't think we can make it
Through this world without some
Faith when everything is falling
Through our hands we must believe.
You better wake up,
We're gonna go back home.
They're gonna love you,
When they see you all alone.
You got a new face,
With the same old scars.
Well so tell me how you're gonna get that far,
Tell me how you're gonna get that far.
Oh just tell me how we're gonna get that far,
Tell me how we're gonna get that far.
Stop turning away, stop turning around.
We must believe.
