Already Gone

I feel like I am standing still

And the rest of the world is moving on

I hide my eyes behind a smile

Homesick for a place I’ve never been

Where did the time go

I don’t feel that old

I’m afraid that

I’m waiting

 For a train to come that’s already gone

It’s getting hard to hold the line

Or is the line the one that’s holding me

Follow the tracks back down the road

I’ve gone so far to get nowhere

Where did the time go

I don’t feel that old

I’m afraid that

I’m waiting

For a train to come that’s already gone

The clock won’t bear my burden now

It didn’t take long for time to leave

A puppet caught up in his strings

But if I don’t look I’ll never find me

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You Wont Cry Alone

Sad eyed Cinderella

Don’t worry cause midnight is still far away

But stay on your toes

Ballerina

You’ve got to keep on dancing

Even when your song won’t play

But baby if you feel like crying

Sometimes it just takes a tear

I’ll be here to hold you so you can let go

I promise you won’t cry alone

Blue eyes I’m here when you’re hurting

Bruised and uncertain from life’s sticks and stones

Don’t be afraid

I’ll share your burden

No matter where you are you’re never too far from home

Cause baby if you feel like crying

Sometimes it just takes a tear

I’ll be here to hold you so you can let go

I promise you won’t cry alone

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You Can’t Call Me Baby

You can say we have history but now that’s just the past

You can say it meant nothing I guess I meant less than that

You can say you still love me but we both know the truth

You can say that you’re sorry but there’s one thing you can’t do

You can’t call me baby anymore

Just because I let you once before

Leave me what’s mine and take what’s yours

But you can’t call me baby anymore

Do I look like I’m lonely do you see tears in these eyes

Well you must be crazy to think I need you tonight

But there was a time when you were my girl

And all that I needed was to hear that four letter word

But you can’t call me baby anymore

Just cause I let you once before

Leave me what’s mine and take what’s yours

But you can’t call me baby anymore

All I want is a little happiness, a little tenderness,

someone to hold and kiss, every night

Is it too much to ask for honesty, someone to believe,

who will always be right by my side

You can’t call me baby anymore

Just because I let you once before

Leave me what’s mine and take what’s yours

But you can’t call me baby anymore

The Wrecking Ball

They boarded up windows

Put up no trespassing signs

Too far gone to be saved

A condemned mistake

Just a room full of empty space

Bring on the wrecking ball

Knock down the whispers that live inside these walls

Bring on the wrecking ball

Nothing can fall when everything is torn down

A symphony of destruction

The sound of my martyred memories

The ceiling on the floor

Can’t hold me anymore

Just a lock on a broken door

Bring on the wrecking ball

Knock down the whispers that live inside these walls

Bring on the wrecking ball

Nothing can fall when everything is torn down

Bring on the wrecking ball

Knock down the whispers that live inside these walls

Bring on the wrecking ball

Nothing can fall when everything is torn down

Nothing can fall when everything is torn down

Nothing can hurt me when everything is torn down

When all the walls have fallen

I’ll finally stand tall

Over the hole in the ground

Where our love used to be

Ready to rebuild again

Slow The World Down

Everybody’s in a hurry

Caught up in keeping up with things that don’t matter at all

Searching for short cuts

To speed things up as if life is not fast enough

What happened to the front porch

Passing the day with a wave to all the cars as they pass

Time stops for no one

We’ve got one thing in common and its that we’re not growing young

So let’s unplug the clocks not let another minute pass

Help me find a way to stop this life from moving so fast

Won’t you come and slow the world down

Slow the world down

Slow the world down with me

Don’t think about tomorrow

I make a toast to just enjoy the taste of today

Cause life is such a short song

We’ve got to dance to the beat of the second hand slowly counting down

Let’s unplug the clocks not let another minute pass

Help me find a way to stop this life from moving so fast

Won’t you come and slow the world down

Slow the world down

Slow the world down with me

I’ll take the quiet of the country or the sand of the beach

A place where telephone lines don’t reach

Far from the city lights that steal the stars from the night sky

And high rise shadows that block out the sunlight

Where the sand castle is safe cause the tide is always low

And there’s always time and it always runs slow

Nothing at All

I am young, I am old

I am everything I’ve been told

I am a shepherd, I am a sheep

I am a lion too scared to sleep

I

Am

Not

With you

I am whisper, I am a scream

I’m the regret, waking from a dream

I am fiction, I am sincere

I am sadness with a smile’s veneer

I

Am

Not

With you

I am concrete I am glass

I am the present lost in the past

I’m adored I am alone

I am an orphan in my home

I am broken I am whole

I’m in love I’m letting go

Absolution and a sin

But in the end

I want to be something

In the end

I want to be something

You make me something

Night and Day

Day and night, night and day

Day and night, night and day

I try to find the words to say

That I will love you, I will love you night and day

No promises no guarantees

No one knows where this may lead

But now I can not see my life

Without you as my wife

Day and night, night and day

Day and night, night and day

I try to find the words to say

That I will love you, I will love you night and day

Baby let’s go run and hide

When the door closes we can lock the world outside

And you can take your lipstick off

Your kiss will still be just as soft

It’s not your makeup that makes you beautiful to me

Please believe these words are true

Practiced a hundred times in my empty room

Will you take this ring and my foolishness

Take my last name and wear it like your favorite dress

Day and night, night and day

Day and night, night and day

I have dreamed of our wedding day

The taste of tear drops as you say

That you will love me, you will love me night and day

In Love With A Lie

I want to run 

But can’t take my foot off the break

Your love feels like

A pillow pressed to my face

Caught in the thought of you

Held by the promise you made

Falling apart as it breaks

I’m on my knees

Cause I can’t stand alone

The mind can’t change

What the heart controls

My love has left me here blinded

And my love has locked all the doors

But I believe the truth will set me free

To say goodbye

That I’m in love with lie

I understand

But there’s nothing I can do

Even though it burns me

I’m drawn to the flame in you

I know that I’ll take you back

A second chance for me to make

All of the same mistakes

I’m on my knees

Cause I can’t stand alone

The mind can’t change

What the heart controls

My love has left me here blinded

And my love has locked all the doors

But I believe the truth will set me free

To say goodbye

Cause I’m in love with a lie

The truth will set me free

The truth will set me free

Heaven Down A Dead End Road

Driving 100 miles an hour down a dead end road

With Johnny and June singing “Jackson” on the radio

Got a cigarette burning in my left hand

I always say I’m not smoker, but I guess I am

And another exit passes in the pouring rain

It’s a two lane road and I’m running the wrong way

With my foot on the gas and no place to go

I hear my father’s voice saying take it slow

Because boy you can’t, get to Heaven down a dead end road

I’m a pretty bad person but a really good fool

Watching life pass me by from an old bar stool

Just lost all my money in a game of pool

Well I hurt like the Devil and look like Hell

I’m a little lost if you can’t tell

And another exit passes in the pouring rain

It’s a two lane road and I’m running the wrong way

With my foot on the gas and no place to go

I hear my father’s voice saying take it slow

Because boy you can’t, get to Heaven down a dead end road

Who is this inside my skin

Got to find myself again

Before I make it to the end

Of this two lane road in the pouring rain

Before I run out of chances to change my ways

With my foot and the gas and no place to go

I hear my father’s voice saying take it slow

Cause boy you can’t, get to Heaven down a dead end road

Goodbye June

Goodbye June

I’m walking away

I have grown older

Tomorrow won’t let me stay

No more marks on the wall

I’m as tall as I’m going to get

But I’m not scared of the darkness anymore

Or the monsters under my bed

Because summer’s not over

We’re just halfway

And as the days grow longer

The nights stay further away

I’m no longer a child afraid to change

And I will be alright I’ll see you next year

Goodbye June

Memories packed up in boxes

A boy with a lifetime to go

Time may take but it teaches

How much we don’t really know

Summer’s not over

We’re just halfway

And as the days grow longer

The nights stay further away

I’m no longer a child afraid to change

And I will be alright I’ll see you next year

Goodbye June

I’ll trace my branches

Back to your roots

And when the winter time takes me

December will feel like June

From The Inside Out

Stomp your feet

Shake the ground

It is time to wake up

Throw your stones

Ripple the water

One day your waves will reach the shore

Stop looking in from the outside

Release your heart

With tears and laughter

Because love’s no good locked inside

Stop looking in from the outside

Stop looking in from the outside

Looking

In from the outside

You can’t see

We’re falling apart

From the inside out

Don’t close your eyes it’s time to wake up

Don’t close your eyes

Looking

In from the outside

You can’t see

We’re falling apart

From the inside out

Stomp your feet

Shake the ground

It is time to wake up

Fall In Love Again

Every time I see you smiling face

It makes me fall in love all over again

Why did I say goodbye before

I’ve opened up and closed so many doors

What if my left turn had ended up right

Would you be here with me tonight

As I look back, I’m glad I did not know

What I thought was love, was fear of alone

Cause I found strength in falling apart

Sometimes an end is another chance to start

Every time I see your smiling face

It takes me to the place where we began

Every time I feel your arms around me

It makes me fall in love all over again

You’re so good for me

I’m right where I’m supposed to be

And now I see how good love can be

Without a doubt I know that tears will fall

I am cracked but gratefully flawed

Our failures are not hard to see

I believe they’re the best part of me

Every time I see your smiling face

It takes me to the place where we began

Every time I feel your arms around me

It makes me fall in love all over again