1. |
Begging To Fall
03:17
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I’m running out of room
Out of ways to bend the truth
And I’m testing the limits of
My will to give this up
But I’m still afraid to say to much
I need you here while I sort me out
So I’ll keep you in the dark for now
Get the courage up to say goodbye
Ain’t it brave, the way I lie to you
While I ignite the room?
This house was begging to fall
Waiting for the wrecking ball
Now we stand on open ground
While you wonder why I tore it down
And I’m trying to explain myself
Wishing I was somewhere else far from here
I’ve been wishing that for years
This house was begging to fall
Waiting for the wrecking ball
I’ve got no ground left to break
Got no foundation to lay into
I’ve got some building to do
I never wanted to make a love to leave it
I never meant to pretend my way through you
Nobody told me I’d really have to mean it
To believe it, too
This house was begging to fall
Waiting for the wrecking ball
This house was begging to fall
Waiting for the wrecking ball
I’ve got no ground left to break
Got no foundation to lay into
I’ve got some building to do
I’ve got some building to do
I’ve got some building to do
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2. |
Cars Don't Run Forever
03:03
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At an empty pier not far from here
Floats a bottle on its side in the morning tide
There’s an open gate by the driveway
And a mailbox full of envelopes with my name
Taking more than I can hold
And I’m through the door for open road
On a freeway drive
I am free and I’m alive
Can’t believe the things I thought I knew
Or how much thirty-eight looks just like twenty-two
I tell myself I found my own way out
But the road that I call open here runs right by my old house
Same old ride can’t help me now
But I keep on driving anyhow
On a freeway drive
I am free and I’m alive
But cars don’t run forever
And the rain is never far behind
I’m always losing ground
Racing no one ’til the road runs out
Ever tired and far from home
Never lonely, just alone
On a freeway drive
I am free and I’m alive
But cars don’t run forever
And the rain is never far behind
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3. |
Reckless Kind of Love
03:42
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Well you move so quick and reckless
For my next trick I will get this off my mind
And you left me sick and breathless
All my wit went to shit
I’m a mess as you wave goodbye
And I can’t go home
‘Cause you’re in my phone and I
Gotta act like I’m grown sometimes
So I put it down
’Til I hear the sound of you ringing through my mind
And I’d like to say I was cautious
That I played it smart with my heart but not this time
And now looking back
All I can do is laugh
‘Cause I had no chance
We’ve been hand in hand since the first dance
Like a morning cup of coffee
Like the rising sun on a dusty hardwood floor
You can chase the shadows off of me
You can break through the haze of a sleepless night before
And I’m safely home
In the place I’ve grown to trust
And the light you shine
Is a sacred kind of love
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4. |
She (You)
02:49
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You come in light of day before a stone-faced crowd
To cave my head in right in front of everyone
You crawl up into me and turn my organs out
And leave me there to bleed out in the sun
You don’t care how I’m doing, ‘cause you're doing fine
And others' troubles only slow you down
But you’ve got a way of making me pay
For the shovel while you put me in the ground
I move to shake it off, I try to scrape it off
But it clings to me like sweat on satin sheets
And while I stumble through my day and try to tear my skin away
You’re caked under my fingernails, the more I claw the worse it feels
When they ask how I’m doing, I say “doing fine”
I’m smiling while I fight the need to scream
‘Cause you’ve got a thing for making me sing
While I beg you for the guillotine
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5. |
Run Amy Run
04:11
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Born alone into the darkness
Of the forest on the outer edge of town
Where you learn to raid the tool sheds
Taking only what you’d need to build a house
Night after night, by firelight
You sweat and strain until the walls are done
Safe inside, you bar the door for the arrival of the wolf
But in your loneliness you open when he comes
Run, Amy, run
Don’t look back and don’t trust anyone
Run, Amy, run
Amy run
So you learn to love your captor
You prefer him to the rocky forest floor
But as the town builds up around you
You begin to think you’re meant for something more
Day by day you find the strength
To believe that you can make it on your own
Safe outside you shield your eyes against the blinding daylight sky
And you start to cry because the wolf is all you’ve known
Run, Amy, run
Don’t look back and don’t trust anyone
Run, Amy, run
Amy run
Year after year, in the rearview mirror
That tiny house seems even smaller than before
But in the silence of your bed you hear him echo in your head
In your dreams the wolf is always at the door
Run, Amy, run
Don’t look back and don’t trust anyone
Run, Amy, run
Amy run
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6. |
Hideout
03:32
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Don’t you just love it when I fall?
Ain’t it funny how I stumble?
You’d sell my soul to watch it burn
You know you always did complain
You’d say I needed to be humbled
Now it seems you’ve got your way
Your hands are clean, enjoy the pain
From my hideout I hear the rain
You have the high ground
But I remember when we stood together
They held you down, or so you say
Inflicted wounds suffered by you alone
And they’re the reason that you turned out this way
So hold against me all your shame
Cast your demons on my face
Make conversation competition
Turn every walk into a goddamned race
You can’t just hide out from all the rain
Give up the high ground
Ain’t it better when we’re standing together?
Round and round and round we go
Along these walkways we’ve worn deep and low
Is there still time to change our minds
And walk a better line?
We can’t just hide out from all the rain
Forget the high ground
Ain’t it better when we’re standing together?
We can’t just hide out from all the rain
Forget the high ground
Ain’t it better when we’re standing together?
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7. |
On And On
04:47
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I lived in a world of invention
I had no intent on intention
My life is all behind me now
I am only the role that
I played putting the holes in
These walls, you call
I have no fight left
On and on
The ghost of what I’ve done
Won’t leave me alone
It goes on and on
She pleads with eyes that can’t see me
We bleed from the lies I’ve been keeping
Words tear through the walls
Truth hits, we fall
On and on
The ghost of what I’ve done
Won’t leave me alone
It goes on and on
I know what you’ll say
I’m the only one digging this grave
But if I had one more day
I’d only fill it with the same mistakes
The same mistakes
The same mistakes
The same mistakes
She stares, stares right through me
No tears for the years I’m undoing
Who cries for the one
Holding the gun?
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8. |
Time Gone By
04:37
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I watch the day wake up
Dark sky yawns on empty roads
That stretch before the sun
I sit alone and come undone
I hear the ocean bloom
And crash upon the shore
Daylight ducks behind the stars
I sit alone and fall apart
Wondering what might have been
If I hadn’t won your heart
All my time would be all mine
I could hone being alone into an art
I sit and drink all day
Remembering a time now long gone by
You hadn’t come into my life
I sit alone and cry
Wondering what might have been
If I could have made you stay
I rewind it in my mind
I’m perfecting regret while I waste away
I sit and drink all day
Remembering a time now long gone by
You hadn’t come into my life
I sit alone and cry
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Joshua Taylor San Diego, California
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