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We were parked out by the launch pad
It was midnight
We were talking in the cold
Telling secrets under starlight
With the blue light of the cop cars
Getting close
We were climbing through the branches
Of a tree when time went missing
We were mapping avalanches and
Collapsing solar systems
Lying on the hood of your car
We thought we could fly
To the planets and stars
It was stunning
Lying on the hood of your car
A scaffold of lights
A world that was ours
The engine running
Lying on the hood of your car
You said this town’s too small to dream in
But if we never leave
We’ll never know
I said “there’s nothing here for me and
You’re the pilot I believe in
Time to go”
Nowhere but we made it so far
Lying on the hood of your car
We thought we could fly
To the planets and stars
It was stunning
Lying on the hood of your car
A scaffold lights
A world that was ours
The engine running
Lying on the hood of your car
With our backs against the windshield
And our hearts beating like thunder
We lay separate but connected
By the spell that we were under
Lying on the hood of your car
On the hood of your car
Lying on the hood of your call
We thought we could fly
To the planets and stars
It was stunning
Lying on the hood of your car
A scaffold of lights
A world that was ours
The engine running
Lying on the hood of your car
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2. |
Skywriting
02:59
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Slingshot days are gone
Time’s a thief, but you’re still young
Gut punch, mountain climb
Fell in love when you lost your mind
Long night, broke machine
Tangled tape and tangled dreams
Echo bedroom wall
Can anyone hear my voice at all?
I feel I’m disappearing in the clouds
I wanna risk it all
I’m not afraid to fly or fall down trying
If nothing lasts that long
I wanna spend my days and my nights and my whole life
Skywriting
Skywriting
Slow dive tidal wave
Broke my heart your secret’s safe
Shot down silhouette
Shadow hasn’t left me yet
Forgiveness isn’t given if you don’t feel some regret
I feel I'm disappearing in the clouds
I wanna risk it all
I’m not afraid to fly or fall down trying
If nothing lasts that long
I wanna spend my days and my nights and my whole life
Skywriting
Skywriting
I wanna ride under the three quarter moon with you
We can’t wait any longer
Forever’s never too soon
I wanna risk it all
I’m not afraid to fly or fall down trying
If nothing lasts that long
I wanna spend my days and my nights and my whole life
Skywriting
Skywriting
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3. |
Stars
04:30
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We were holed up in the corner of a cowboy bar
When you asked me to dance
I couldn’t answer
But I met you on the floor and we left in a fight
In the cab back home
All I could think about was second chances
And we have skirted lines and endings
We have flirted with disaster
Your were there in the beginning
I’ll be there for what comes after
The stars that fell for you
Left holes in my roof
The stars that fell for you
They fell for you and I’m falling too
I was looking for a lighter in a bedside drawer
Found a picture and a pack of matches
From another lifetime
Ya I’m missing the parade but I’m done with the war
There’s a hole in this sweater
You told me that you’re gonna patch up
And we have skirted fires and flood planes
We have flirted with disaster
I was there in the beginning
When you were swinging from the rafters
The stars that fell for you
Left holes in my roof
The stars that fell for you
They fell for you and I’m falling too
A world without color is a world without you
The stars that fell for you
Left holes in my roof
The stars that fell for you
They fell for you and I’m falling too
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4. |
Submarine
03:21
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Swimming through midtown
There were cars in the trees
Boats in the bowery
Trains in the sea
Sharks on the sidewalk
Coming for me
I’m missing you now
But I’m learning to breathe
Without you
Without you
Zombies on Broadway
It rained underground
Alphabet city
And you’re not around
The bus stop in Brooklyn
Where I’m freaking out
You’re the ghost in the room
Where I’m living now
Without you
Without you
It’s like the world is underwater with the lights out
With the lights out
It’s like I’m living, like I’m living in a submarine
Submarine
And I’m in too deep
Sand on the staircase
Holes in my jeans
I rode an umbrella
From Harlem to Queens
When up in The Arcade
The astronaut hides
Everything’s changing
Guess I’ve gotta try
Without you
Without you
It’s like the world is underwater with the lights out
With the lights out
It’s like I’m living, like I’m living in a submarine
Submarine
And I’m in too deep
It’s like the world is underwater with the lights out
With the lights out
It’s like I’m living, like I’m living in a submarine
Submarine
And I’m in too deep
I’m in too deep
Bedford and 6th Street
Scarlet and gray
The colors of morning
The bruise that won’t fade
Without you
It’s like the world is underwater with the lights out
With the lights out
It’s like I’m living, like I’m living in a submarine
Submarine
And I’m in too deep
It’s like the world is underwater with the lights out
With the lights out
It’s like I’m living, like I’m living in a submarine
Submarine
And I’m in too deep
Submarine
I’m in too deep
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5. |
Built to Last
03:35
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I don’t wanna do this anymore
Don’t think that I can live like this forever
Sleepless nights on the engine roar
Just to wake up in a fight
Maybe when we’re brave
We’ll cut the cord
I’ll move south to Argentina
Chase around some ballerina
And you’ll marry a man who treats you right
The more I think it’s less like courage
To run when hopeless days will pass
You’re still everything I wanted
We were built to last
I saw you there on the mezzanine
Freckled cheeks all wisdom teeth
And dimples
Crater ends to downturned lip
Landing lights till those latchkey kid’s come home
We were so much younger then
Sometimes I miss the innocence
Of summer
I see the way you look at me
And wonder if the thoughts you read are mine
Saying I don’t wanna do this anymore
Don’t think that I can live like this forever
Sleepless nights on the engine roar
Just to wake up in a fight
Maybe when we’re brave
We’ll cut the cord, yeah
I’ll move south to Argentina
Chase around some ballerina
You’ll marry a man who treats you right
The more I think it’s less like courage
To run when hopeless days will pass
You’re still everything I wanted
We were built to last
You’re still everything I wanted
We were built to last
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6. |
New Friends
03:27
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You were taking the train up to Portland
‘Cause you said you hate flying alone
I was writing your name out in surf wax
On a washing machine at the fluff 'n fold
So I made up your bed in the guest room
Hoping you’d come back and stay
And I let in the light
Bouncing off of your bike
Collecting dust in the driveway
I don’t wanna lose you again
I don’t wanna have to make new friends
But I just can’t seem to get my shit together
I don’t wanna waste my time
Looking for a new partner in crime
Can we start over again?
I don’t wanna make new friends
I wish I could listen to metal
And all of your favorite bands
But I promise I will try to pay all the bills
And water all of your house plants
I don’t wanna lose you again
I don’t wanna have to make new friends
But I just can’t seem to get my shit together
I don’t wanna waste my time
Looking for a new partner in crime
Can we start over again?
I don’t wanna make new friends
I used to think that I would be alone forever
I start to wonder as you slip away
I don’t wanna lose you again
I don’t wanna have to make new friends
But I just can’t seem to get my shit together
I don’t wanna waste my time
Looking for a new partner in crime
Can we start over again?
I don’t wanna make new friends
Can we start over again?
I don’t wanna make new friends
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7. |
Little Disaster
04:02
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Stuck on the highway, eleven AM
I am driving through LA in traffic again
I thought I was a writer but lately
I feel like a hack
They called me a hero
But I was a sinner
I drank before lunch
And I took drugs with dinner
Then burned every bridge that I crossed
On the long journey back
Oh, I won’t lie
When I was young and high
Crossing the distance flying
Got me there faster
You can stare at the runway lights
Dreaming of days in flight
But don’t you go crashland twice
You little disaster
I passed the apartment at Sunset and Vine
Where I lived with my friends
And we smoked ourselves blind
It’s crazy how time can turn chaos and crime into magic
Today I’ll make music
Drive home to the beach
Kiss my daughter goodnight
As she’s falling asleep
I live with this hunger
But everything I need
I have it
Oh, I won’t lie
When I was young and high
Crossing the distance flying
Got me there faster
You can stare at the runway lights
Dreaming of days in flight
But don’t you go crashland twice
You little disaster
I was tilting at the wind
I was running in circles
So hard catching your breath
If you never slow down
Oh, I won’t lie
When I was young and high
Crossing the distance flying
Got me there faster
You can stare at the runway lights
Dreaming of days in flight
But don’t you go crashland twice
You little disaster
Stuck on the highway, eleven AM
I am driving through LA in traffic again
It’s crazy how time can turn chaos and crime into magic
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8. |
Last Rites
03:12
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(All right, are we in?)
I wanna take you out
I wanna take you on
I wanna drive this car
Until the stars are gone
I wanna hear your voice
On that country wind
Fill up my lungs with fire and leather
Your salt water and skin
I don’t know where we end and time begins
I knew you in a past life
I think that we traveled together
In another century
Don’t bother with our last rites
You waste your breath
We’ll live forever
You plus time plus me
Infinity
I’m not afraid to live
I’m not afraid to die
Every hand you hold
One day will wave goodbye
But you and me we roar
Down a separate track
And when my body does release me
For you I will be back
Climbing through that cosmic zodiac
I knew you in a past life
I think that we traveled together
In another century
Don’t bother with our last rites
You waste your breath
We’ll live forever
You plus time plus me
Infinity
I knew you in a past life
I think that we traveled together
In another century
Don’t bother with our last rites
You waste your breath
We’ll live forever
You plus time plus me
Infinity
Infinity
Don’t bother with our last rites
You waste your breath
We’ll live forever
You plus time plus me
Infinity
Infinity
You plus time plus me
Infinity
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9. |
VHS
03:11
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It’s the sound the night makes when you can’t fall asleep
It’s the things that you see in your mind before dreaming
The streets and the alleys where you played as a kid
It’s the days you didn’t listen
A film with frames missing
VHS videotape repeating
Repeating
Capsized
Coming up for air in your green eyes
In between the dream and the moonlight
You’re the one to keep
Keep me in the bright now
Truth hides
Underneath the water where the time slides
I don’t need to dream
The past is history
Future’s a mystery
You’re the one to keep
Keep me in the bright now
It’s the days like a razor that you learn to forgive
It’s the nights with no danger when you finally believe that
Where you came from doesn’t have to be where you live
It was harder before
You taught me to ignore
That VHS videotape repeating
Capsized
Coming up for air in your green eyes
In between the dream and the moonlight
You’re the one to keep
Keep me in the bright now
Truth hides
Underneath the water where the time slides
I don’t need to dream
The past is history
Future’s a mystery
You’re the one to keep
Keep me in the bright now
With you I don’t have to be
Living in a memory
With you I don’t have to be
Living in a memory
Capsized
Coming up for air in your green eyes
In between the dream and the moonlight
You’re the one to keep
Keep me in the bright now
Truth hides
Underneath the water where the time slides
I don’t need to dream
The past is history
Future’s a mystery
You’re the one to keep
Keep me in the bright now
(With you I don’t have to be
Living in a memory)
Keep me in the bright now
(With you I don’t have to be
Living in a memory)
Keep me in the bright now
(With you I don’t have to be
Living in a memory)
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10. |
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The clouds hung over Georgia
Like a widowed brand new bride
The air was cursed with spring in bloom
So you just stayed inside
When you ran here from New Jersey
You were no more than a child
Your father was a criminal
He stole your mother’s smile
The things nobody tells you when you’re young
That the day’s can leave you wanting
And that the past can be a haunted house of mirrors
Nobody tells you when you’re young
That the cops cannot be trusted
That some hearts like cars just rust out in the rain for years
Nobody tells you when you’re young
And Athens was a ghost town
When they rang your wedding bells
And you moved into that little house
Outside of Wintersville
And those first years, they were perfect
Yeah, you had a little girl
Everything they never gave to you
You swore you’d give to her
The things nobody tells you when you’re young
That love is complicated
And that some days you’ll think
You’ve made it just to lose
Nobody tells you when you’re young
That time is not a straight track
It’s a forest with no map
You’re walking with no shoes
Nobody tells you when you’re young
Now you’re a little older
And you feigned captivity
No, they never boxed you in
But it’s still hard to believe
The things nobody tells you when you’re young
How some friends will become strangers
And that there is no greater
Danger than to live in fear
Nobody tells you when you’re young
‘Cause a rebel heart won’t listen
But to grow you must go missing
Just don’t disappear
The wisdom’s in the living
Not the years
Nobody tells you when you’re young
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11. |
Smoke & Ribbons
03:32
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I felt the summer on my hand
Through the window
I think I knew it right then
I would never let you go
And everything we lost
And everything we won
Find your street of gold
And drive it when you’re young
Everything we break
Every breath in my lungs
Hey now, we’ll go on living
After all the smoke and ribbons
Can’t fight the time
It’s marching on
And hey now, it’s all forgiven
Good luck and bad decisions
I’ll write the words if you sing along
If you sing along
I can feel you in my heart
Like an ocean
I let you drive my car
I’m never looking back again
And everything I have
No I would never need
As long as you are here
As long as you can see
That even when I’m hiding
Yeah I still believe
That hey now, we’ll go on living
After all the smoke and ribbons
Can’t fight the time
It’s marching on
Hey now, it’s all forgiven
Good luck and bad decisions
I’ll write the words if you sing along
If you sing along
I can feel you in my heart
Like an ocean
I can feel you in my heart
Like a wave
Hey now, we’ll go on living
After all the smoke and ribbons
Can’t fight the time
It’s marching on
Hey now, it’s all forgiven
Good luck and bad decisions
I’ll write the words if you sing along
If you sing along
With the windows down
We watch the road erased
With the windows down
We watch the road erased
With the windows down
We watch the road erased
With the windows down
And hey now, we’ll go on living
After all the smoke and ribbons
Can’t fight the time
It’s marching on
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