- Boy
If you were a boy, would you be a boy with a record playing in your head
If you were a boy, would you would you be a boy with a gun and an issue to be resolved
If you were a boy, would you be a boy with a pen and paper and something to say
If you were a boy, would your face be made of rock or of china
If you were a boy, would you carry pockets full of fists or of white noise
If you were a boy, would you be a boy with a pen and paper and something to say
- cracks
The one that I am
Is better than the one that I was so
Can we meet again right now? (Can we meet again?)
The thing you used to do (The thing you)
Can you try it one more time
And I will be appropriately surprised
The cracks along the pavement
- Give Up
Fall asleep
Like I did long ago
Don't strive
Oh how you're making me tired
I know it could change
For the better
But that would take an effort
- Humming
Part 1, this is what it sounds like
When skies are still clear
Lesson learned, you can’t go back I fear
If you liked it here, you have to do the whole thing over
There’s a deep humming in my ears
It’s your voice that’s been talking to me for years
And I’m trying so hard to listen whether there’s
- Quiet
Ask love, love if it finds me this time, to be kinder, kinder for just a little while
And I’m tired of seeing your teeth shine, through the night
and I’m tired of being docile and quiet
Maybe if I was more of a woman and less of a child,
Love would find me more easily and let life grow wild
I get so angry in my head but my body can’t react
I get so lonely in my head but it all remains unsaid
- ribcages
You and your darkness
Oh how I tire of this
We could have been anything
Before we got old
And our heads too heavy to hold
You wolfed it all down
With what right, with what right
- Shades Of Grey
Let my heart beat in somebody else’s chest
So it won’t break my own skin
Let my mind think somebody else’s thoughts
So I don’t have to think my own
I keep asking and asking myself the same questions
Waiting to see if the same answers still apply
And if it’s painful it’s painful I will not learn my lesson
- Sleep
Sleep, I just wanna lay down
In this garden I was trying to tell the roots from weeds
And the deeper I dug, the more it looked like home to me
And this harsh winter I had my covers thrown
Time could not kill off the seeds that time had sown
In this forest I was trying to climb the highest trees
And the higher I climb the less I could break free
- Still
I am the singer not the song don't you know
I belong to no one except to my mother's womb
One day, one day I'll let this go, but for now it's standing still
One day, one day I'll let this go, but for now it's standing still
You belittle me, you belittle me till I'm cut down to size so can fit
I get so dizzy I get so dizzy from clenching my fist
- The Spy
All grown up in mud coloured trench coats
They looked world-weary through glasses the size of
Globes
Time turned slower then
And you were one of them
But with a hint of delicacy
You wore a periwinkle shirt to tea
- Thumb
Underneath the struggle, there is still a peace Underneath the fire, new earth for the new trees Oh and all the lawyers, the liars and the thieves Their hands around my neck all feel the same to me
Underneath your thumb, there’s still a heart that’s beating And no matter how you hold me you cannot keep me from breathing Underneath your thumb, there’s still a heart that’s beating And no matter how you crush me, you cannot make me bleed
There’s still a bed to sleep in, there’s still some wood to hold And if you take my name, I’ll sing it to the walls I traded in my love for just one promise to keep You broke it with one finger, didn’t even use your hands for it
Underneath your thumb, there’s still a heart that’s beating And no matter how you hold me you cannot keep me from breathing Underneath your thumb, there’s still a heart that’s beating And no matter how you crush me, you cannot make me bleed
- unfold
I don’t like what I have
I want more than that
As soon as I lay my weapons down
I pick ‘em up again
I hope it unfolds
before it blows up