- A Year In Review
I learned a lot this year.
Confrontation is something I no longer fear.
I’m sick of spilling my guts out on this page.
So I’ll say it right now to your face.
I won’t hold back from saying things I want to.
I can’t, I can’t let it build up inside.
I won’t hold back saying things I need to.
I’ve held this in for so long and wasted time.
- anywhere but home
Somewhere between St. Paul and Sioux City, Jake fell asleep at the wheel, I woke up to the rumble strips and then it all became so real: that there's no one at home waiting for me and there's nothing that i miss at all, it may be because of the life that I choose but when you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose. And I wonder what it will be like when I get back home. Will my friends still drink in my garage or will she ever pick up her phone? I don't want to read the same book again, just hit the gas get on the road and never let this end. I'd rather play three chords to three kids, than spend one more day there, complaining about my dead end job not getting me anywhere, and it's more than just a tour, more than just these songs, its the feeling of know that this is, this is everything we've got(don't let it go). Its ten p.m. in Washington and the show just let out. I'm in some dirty bathroom stall just trying to cool down. Nate's outside loading the van, smoking a cigarette that he found in a trash can, Marco just got kicked for twenty bucks in gas. Jake's at the front door begging for change. We've got make this money last. I'd rather play three chords to three kids, than spend one more day there, complaining about my dead end job not getting me anywhere, and it's more than just a tour, more than just these songs, its the feeling of know that this is, this is everything we've got. And there's no place that I'd rather be than stuck in this van with you three. DON'T LET IT GO
- Fade Away
If you have a minute just sit down and listen
I'm not trying to put you in your place
It's just lately I've been thinking
About inside am I too different
If I could calculate time and space
When I start to reminisce
All my signals just get mixed and I
- harbor water
I thought I was content with her the day that I left town. But the snow falling down in Philadelphia is proving me wrong. Shes got my heartbeat racing and I can't stop singing. Shes got my heart in the palm of her hand and I can't find any of my friends. Shes got my heart in the palm of her and and I don't care if I ever find my friends. And I'd drink dirty harbor water just to see if this could go farther. So we sit staring at each other, lets make this night last forever, and I don't want to go back home(home!), same damn town, same toll road. And I am freezing cold(cold!) without your hand to hold. She had my heart in the palm of her hand, I hope that I see her again. She had my heart in the palm of her hand, but I drove home alone in the end.
- I Hope He Kills You
I wont say “I hope your happy with him”. I promised myself this year I would tell the truth. I’ll pretend my heart’s not breaking. It’s taking everything I have not to call you back. I hope he breaks you down. The next time you call, I won’t be around.
No one ever made me feel like you did and now I’m struggling to feel anything at all. It may sound mean like I’m not understanding. I understand it all too well and I hope that you fall.
You’re always on the wrong end of the turnpike. I want to choke myself to death with the phone line. “Go your own way and I’ll be with you”, ( FSF - Wearing Thin ) but nothing that you ever say could make me hate you.
Don’t want to laugh last, I don’t want to say “ I told you so”. I want you to call me back and say “I love you”, because I’ve got nowhere to go. These nights spent alone without you are dragging me down.
Though I know that this seems bitter, Its how I get through these nights without you. I hope that this doesn’t come out wrong but I’d do anything to make you feel on top of the world, and I’ll still be here just like I have always been.
- Long October
Counting Crows on the radio
Ten o'clock, late drive home
It's cold and I'm freezing
And it's going to be a long October
And I don't have reason to believe in much of anything
Alright
Bouncing Souls on my speaker phone
Hartford, walking all alone
- My Own Captain
There's nothing left for me in this sleeping town,
I'm leaving tonight and I wont see you around.
I'll run run until my tires go bald,
clock me out and ignore my calls.
I know that you think I'm sinking,
the trench I'm digging is growing deep.
But I would rather inhale dirt and water,
than let roots grow beneath my feet.
- porch light
(Verse)
Waiting for my wake up call on
I know it's not coming
I'm teaching from a row of circles
Though my mind's been running
(Verse)
Since I walked out you know that
- Scream Goodbye
You only say “I love you” when you’ve had too much to drink.
To be completely honest, I could care less if I sink.
I won’t fall asleep without wishing you’d disintegrate.
This bed is like an early grave and I am sinking deep into the dirt.
Scream goodbye, at the top of my lungs tonight.
You’re a fake and you’re a liar.
Scream goodbye, at the top of my lungs tonight.
- She Blinded Me With Science
Is it better to get caught up in a [?] of a situation
Take time, make sure that you want to hear this
To hear this
Everytime I look her in the eyes
I see you, I see you
[?] and pretend
[?]
- Stay With Me
What a way for the year to end
You finally drove me home
I made up some poor excuse
So you would take the back roads
You dropped me off at my house
And then I watched you crawl away
As I whispered softly
- Swallowing Knives
You say it's time for me to give in
And forgive and forget those awful things you did
You say it's time for me to grow up
To know my age and act it, bury the hatchet now
I've spent some time
These past few nights
Alone in my head with an ax to grind
- Two Weeks
Two weeks in,
I got this feeling that I could not stand you.
I've struck this out through all your night terrors
Your Mother's front porch when you threw your bags down
(the whole town could see us)
What did you think was going to happen?
- Where I Belong
What the hell was I thinking?
That I'd be alright by upping and leaving
What the hell was I thinking?
I bailed out on all of the songs I believed in
Searching for the answer to where I went wrong
Finally found it was me all along
And here I found clarity inside of this melody