Same old

I’ll have the same old, same old
Same old, same old

Maybe I’ll take the world today or maybe I’ll stay in bed
’Cause I don’t have it in me, I don’t have it in me
And what if I were to tell you that the things I hate are things that you like
You’re not listening to me, you’re not listening to me

So I’ll have the same old, same old
The same, the same old, same old

The consolation prize for your dreams can be had for a small fee
The regret is yours for free
A runner up in a one man race
The crown of shit was ours to take, but we got high and showed up late

And we’ve lost the road again
And we’ve lost ourselves again
And we won’t find out who we are until we’re dead
And we’ve lost ourselves again

I’ll have the same, the same, the same old, same old

Drown

Is there any wonder I can’t sleep?
My restless mind won’t leave me alone
Is there any wonder I’m not eating?
It all turns to dust and I can’t breathe

And know that I love you
I know I’ve let you down
I feel like I’m going under
If you love me you’ll just let me
Drown

Is there any hope that you could hear me?
’Cause I can’t seem to make a sound
There’s someone else in here with me
The ashes of your memory float like snowflakes in my head

And know that I love you
I know I’ve let you down
I feel like I’m going under
If you love me you’ll just let me
Drown

I’ll tell them you tried to help me
Like I tried to help myself
I’m having trouble breathing
The world just won’t stop spinning round

Is there any wonder I can’t breathe?

echoes

(Echo out of the silence growing louder and louder)

Fighting with the shadows in my head
Forty days and forty nights I’ve bled
If it’s black and white I paint it red
A missionary preaching to the dead

Echo out of the silence growing louder and louder

Fighting over a paper cup and a plastic crown
Pushed and pulled through thick and thin we’re up and down
In a room with a tamer of lions and a sad, old clown
We’ve left our mark upon this town

Echo out of the silence growing louder and louder

I hold my head
Outside your window, outside your door
I wait instead
For you to come down here and set me free

The sun don’t rise out here
In my fevered dreams you reappear
What would you have me do?
Tell me, what would you have me do?

Echo out of the silence growing louder and louder

I hold my head
Outside your window, outside your door
I wait instead
For you to come down here and set me free
I bled forty days and forty nights for you
Waiting for you down here on my own
Waiting for you down here on my own

Take it slow

Let me show you heaven where the angels are all fools
And the roads are paved with gold
The paths that lead to castles of the rich and of the strong are walked by few
And built by lies

The laws that made this land have told us we can all live free
But the treaties turned to dust before the hand that held the pen

I take it slow
If I’m to show you where to go
I take it slow
The road is cold
My hands are froze
If I’m to find a place to go
I take it slow

And when the rivers run dry
All the money in this world won’t keep your life from running by
And when they string you up high
You’ll have gotten what you earned, you never looked, you never learned

To walk slow
If I’m to show you where to go
I take it slow
The road is cold
My hands are froze
If I’m to find a place to go
I take it slow

When there’s no wolf to cry out
When you must testify
How will you find peace within yourself?

Inside your fortified house
Someday you’ll have to come out
And face the music that you wrote
That you wrote

I take it slow
If I’m to show you where to go
I take it slow
The road is cold
My hands are froze
If I’m to find a place to go
I take it slow

I take it slow
I take it slow
Just like the twisted maple grows
I take it slow

The road is cold
My hands are froze
If I’m to find a place to go
I take it slow

The ballad of greasy pete

I wouldn’t know you from a hole in the ground
Why find yourself when you can lay around?
You volunteer at the bar from 2:00 to 6:00
You warm the stools but no one asks to sit

Your shuffling footsteps echo off the walls
Dealer ripped you off, but you haven’t got the balls
You volunteer at the club from 6:00 to close
You hit on the college girls even though you’re fucking old

This is the ballad of all your hopes and dreams and all your regrets
This is the story of your life
This is the ballad of all of the things that you did and you didn’t forget
This is the story of what you
What you call your life

Liver is traumatized
Self-worth is wallet-sized
Picked your last smoke off the ground

Bloodshot and glassy eyed
Hopes and dreams vaporized
Catch the last bus out of town

You sinner, you sodomite
Bitter and full of spite
How are you even alive?

Smoke the bowl, steal the light
Eat the meal, stay the night
Take what you need to survive

I wonder what you might have been
We could have ruled the world
I’m sorry I never wrote you like I said I would
I’m sorry for it all

This is the ballad of all your hopes and dreams and all your regrets
This is the story of your life
This is the ballad of all of the things that you did and you didn’t forget
This is the story of what you
What you call your life
What you call your life

love no better

Lately I’ve been thinking about what went wrong, and for how long
We sat up late just trying to find the words
I’d leave this place if I thought it would end the pain
But I know it’d just spread it around
Like butter over too much bread, I’m spread too thin
I’m spread too thin

And I know this about myself

Lo and behold, I’m caught in the middle of a fire in the middle of a firing line
No harm, no foul, I’m lost, out of touch, out of mind, out of sight because love is blind
I couldn’t love no more than I loved you
I couldn’t love no better than you

I’ve come to find what I miss the most is most mundane, the ordinary things
The things I’ve learned to do alone
What I see is what I believe, and what I believe isn’t what I need
My mind tells me endlessly, relentlessly
That is you

And I know this about myself

Lo and behold, I’m caught in the middle of a fire in the middle of a firing line
No harm, no foul, I’m lost, out of touch, out of mind, out of sight because love is blind
I couldn’t love no more than I loved you
I couldn’t love no better than you

And I know this about myself

Lo and behold, I’m caught in the middle of a fire in the middle of a firing line
No harm, no foul, I’m lost, out of touch, out of mind, out of sight because love is blind
I couldn’t love no more than I loved you
I couldn’t love no better than you

Murphy’s law

My car was worn out when it was new
A pretty girl sits beside me when she has the flu
My eyes are heavy at the start of the day
My house burned down, well, it was cluttered anyway

I lost my job, I lost my head
My shoe’s untied, my feet are lead
The fish ran away and the cat is dead
I thought I had it bad
Then I met her

The definition of madness isn’t trying again
It’s trying at all
I was watching my step
So I hit a wall

I walk in between the trees
In the forest that you and I grew in my mind
I thought we’d take a trip together
But she left her heart behind

I lost my job, I lost my head
My shoe’s untied, my feet are lead
The fish ran away and the cat is dead
I thought I had it bad
Then I met her

And she never told me why
She never said goobye
Left my love out to dry
She never told me why

I lost my job, I lost my head
My shoe’s untied, my feet are lead
The fish ran away and the cat is dead
I thought I had it bad
Then I met her

Shipwrecked

So I heard you found somebody new
Are you sure there’s nothing more I can do?
I take the time to draw you in close
Then I breathe it out and banish your ghost

You asked me so now I’m gonna tell
I’m living in a one-bedroom hell
I’m shipwrecked in a waterless well
It didn’t look so deep when I fell

I want another version of you
But I’m searching while I’m hidden from view

You asked me so now I’m gonna tell
I’m living in a one-bedroom hell
I’m shipwrecked in a waterless well
It didn’t look so deep when I fell

It’s not our fault what we’ve become
To every day a setting sun
It’s not our fault what we’ve become

You asked me so now I’m gonna tell
I’m living in a one-bedroom hell
I’m shipwrecked in a waterless well
It didn’t look so deep when I fell