Lyrics

• Broken Pieces
  
• Down
  
• For the Better
  
• Fine Alone
  
• If I Care
  
• No One and Me
  
• On a Wire
  
• One More Day
  
• Please Forgive Me
  
• The Plan
  
• Tommy's Song
  
• Volition
  

Broken Pieces
Why you gotta cry
Make me wanna die
Bring me down from up high
Fine, I really don’t mind
But you’re gonna find
That I’m really too kind

Chorus:
I don’t want you now
I needed you years ago
And I don’t need you picking up the broken pieces

You, you put me through
What you want to
But I won’t be untrue
I know you can see
Right through me
To the other side

You make me die when you cry
Stay here with me for all of time
It makes me cry when we die
Stay here with me, in my arms, for all of time
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Down
Standing in the dark
It gets hard to see
One can lose his mark
So shed some light on me

Chorus:
Hold me down
Hold me please
I’m on the ground
Hold me

Life can be so unkind
That you feel the need to stray
Slow or you might find
That you have lost your way

I can’t see
I can’t breathe
I can’t be
Hold me please

We all know that it’s hard
But don’t you worry, dear
Don’t think you’re on your own
For you we all are here
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For the Better
Well I suppose it’s gonna take
One day at a time
Years and years ‘til I find
Where is my piece of mind?
And I know that you can’t understand
But I hear her saying that I can
And what am I gonna do without your hand
There to guide me?

Chorus:
Well if you must go
I want you to know
My heart will truly be with you forever
But I guess this is it for us
Sometimes it’s for the better

This doesn’t make sense at all
How could you be so hurt by something that’s so small?
And you’ve made it through this long, hard haul
But now you will fall
And I always thought that you could pull yourself together
But you’re not faking that you’re aching so bad
Still you wonder why I linger so on all that we’ve had…
And why does this make me so mad?

Sometimes it’s for the better
Well if this is the better, then better isn’t better after all
Some days you like the pain
Well I can read your mind and I don’t like what I see
It’s time for you to get in line, or get out of mine
And let me move on

Pick up and move on
And look for someone else to love
I’ve got to find someone who’ll make me forget all about you
So no one will ever be enough
Your expectations, they exceed me
When you concede to me
That, after all, you must leave me
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Fine Alone
The story ends the same way it came to be
Long before it ever began
Show me I’m wrong, tell me I’ll heal with time
Because I can’t forgive this crime

Chorus:
This choice is hard, alright, when you’re not what you seem
So I’ll sleep alone tonight when I dream
I’ll be fine alone

Illusions of love do wonders for confidence
But push comes to shove and she straddles the fence
Decisions are tough, “but loneliness worse,” you’d say
“Life can be rough, that way”

In the end everything will be fine
The branches that pain can be pruned
And with the grapes we can make sweet wine
And time will heal the wounds
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If I Care
I’m plain
My favorite color is mud
My veins
Are flowing with brown blood
Dull but not disgusting
Still, indifference brings no friend
Rusting
Destined to be alone in the end
But I don’t know

Chorus:
If I care

I’m drab
Drown you in monotony
Not sad
But that won’t stop you from praying for me
You say I could be so much better
If I’d just try a little harder
But I don’t even know anymore

Can’t you see
Piercing eyes will skew and color me
Don’t look now, love
I can’t stand to be seen this way
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No One and Me
I save my pennies for the days like this
There’s something about this rain that I’m not gonna miss
Trapped inside with my tee shirt tucked into my jeans
With nothing to eat, no drink, and no one to please
No one to please

The dog is sound asleep on my foot
A puddle on the floor from when she shook
And then the knock, the knock on my door
Here comes some company, someone that I can bore

Chorus:
Got the whitest carpet to cheer me up
But I’m just staring at the bottom of my coffee cup
Got the bright white screen to make me happy
But there’s something about this rain

I save my pennies for the days like this
There’s something about this rain that I think I just might miss
Trapped inside with my tee shirt tucked into my jeans
With nothing to eat, no drink, and sure don’t got nobody to have to please
No one and me
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On a Wire
I had a dream I was high on a wire
I was walking alone
Sky was dark, air was cold, it was raining
I was soaked to the bone

Straightjacket’s tight and my muscles are aching
Struggle’s wearing me down
Beautiful siren, I yearn just to touch you
For I’m in love with your song

You don’t know but I’m right here inside you
Deep and dark in your mind
You can’t see but I’m right here beside you
I will protect you at night
No, you won’t leave my sight

I have a dream you are high on a wire
But you are not alone
Sky is dark, air is cold, and it’s raining
But I’m in you, warm your bones

You wouldn’t ask but I’m here to protect you
You, my love, draw me near
You don’t hear as I whisper of longing
Just feel the breath on your ear
But I will always be here
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One More Day
Mother, can you hear your children crying
Did you know that they are not at home?
Sister, can't you see your brother dying
Can’t you tell that he’s dying alone?
You give all you got, but then you don’t pay attention
When your love is sprawled out bleeding on the floor
If you could stop for just one minute and open up your eyes
You’d see your daughter’s growing up to be a whore

Your young girl goes to school in the morning
Don’t you wish you could see her off?
She comes home in the afternoon to an empty house
There’s no one there to help her soothe her cough
Your mind’s become so blocked up with thoughts of dirty dollar bills
That you forgot to share a little love
Have a fight, buy her off with a little jewelry
Well that’s nice, but all she wants is a hug

Listen to the voices that are calling your name
Try to hear exactly what they’re saying
“Mama, are you coming home tonight?
'Cuz I can’t wait to see you for one more day.”

You spend your whole life fighting tooth and nail
It’s what you think you’ve gotta do
But in the end, to no avail
‘Cuz what does it do for you?
What does it really do?

Listen to the voices that are crying your name
Try to hear exactly what they’re saying:
“Daddy, are you coming home tonight?
Cuz I can’t wait to be here with you playing.”

Listen to the voices that are calling your name
I can hear exactly what they’re saying
They’re asking, “Mama are you coming home tonight?
‘Cuz I can’t wait to see you for one more day.”
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Please Forgive Me
If my neighbor turns to strike me
You say to show the other cheek
I know in those words there’s salvation
But in the end my will is weak

And if my friend he turns against me
I should forgive I must forget
But the temptation is for vengeance
And I will have mine if not yet

Chorus:
So please forgive me, I am not worthy of your love
So reach down from heaven, 'cuz I sure could use a little shove
Some day I long to do so much more than just enough
But right now, I am not worthy of your love

And when my own time comes for sacrifice
I will refuse to wear this thorny crown
My wretchedness will all but lead the way
And I will only let you down

Chorus:
Please forgive me, I am not worthy of your love
So reach down from heaven, 'cuz I sure could use a little shove
Some day I long to do more than barely just enough
But right now, I am not worthy of your love

Can you hear me
I’m crying here
I can not live this
Can you see me
I’m dying here
For your forgiveness

So please forgive me, I am not worthy of your love
Pray up toward the heavens, ‘cuz God knows I need a little shove
My will is weakened, yeah I’m tryin’ hard, but it’s not enough
So, just say the word and I shall be healed, ‘cuz I am not worthy of your love
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The Plan
You will take me out
Treat me like no one else is around
We’ll flirt over coffee
And I will hang all over you

We’ll talk about the future
How I can’t wait ‘til you meet my friends
Then we’ll walk out together like it’s been us forever
And I’ll say, “Hey, I’d love to do this again.”

Chorus:
But do not show me affection
Don’t try to express how you feel
You’ll hide that you need me if you want to be here with me

Your will’s obsolete
A romancer albeit discreet
So by the end of the night
I’ll have you aching, wanting, weak

I’ll concede you a hug
But that’s as far as we go
There’ll be nothing misheard, ‘cuz I won’t say a word
But obviously,

Now, don’t get me wrong
I applaud you taking the chance
And I suppose my lip-biting glance
Was just misdirection
But it got your attention

So not show me affection
Don’t try to express how you feel
You’ll hide that you need me if you want to be here with me
Yeah unless you like rejection
I do not want to know how you feel, so don’t think this is real
You will just leave me be to stay here with me
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Tommy's Song
I could reach up into the sky
And trace your name through the clouds
But you won’t even read it

You say you’ve seen enough of me
And you think we’ve reached the end
Well I’m just getting started

You can run away from me
You can ignore me when I call
But I won’t let you go

You can tell all your friends
That you don’t love me anymore
But I won’t let you, no I will not let you go

Chorus:
So stop joking around
You know we’re meant to be
And from now on,
I’d like you not to be so mean to me
You’re just dragging us down

You can move to another country
Get a new name and change your face
But I won’t let you go

‘Cuz I know sooner or later
You would come crawling back to me
So I’ll save some time for you, and I won’t let you go

Don’t say that you’re scared of me
‘Cuz nobody likes a tease
And I know you think you’re being funny
But it really cuts me deep when you duck out the back door when I come over

So stop your messing around
You know we’re meant to be
And just this one time
I’d like you not to be so mean to me
So stop joking around
No need to call the police
And for the last time,
Why can’t you understand what you mean to me
Yeah, you’re dragging us down
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Volition
Am I searching for a cause? I am not running
Is tomorrow what it was? For I am gunning for it
I don’t pretend to know the way

Chorus:
But don’t call me lost
I am not alone
Don’t say I’m gone
Cuz I feel right at home

I am breathing foreign air; a mystery is sewn
I will solve what will not bare; chasing truths untold
So, are you the undertow, or will you let go?

Why so scared of my volition?
Your eyes are numb, wasted and bare
Have a little vision
See for yourself, there’s nothing here to keep me
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