Again those voices talk to me Trying to manipulate me Wish it would end before I'm giving in to them Two faces, one name Zero empathy for this disarray Cut my head off to see the misery within All these lies in my mind I'm never good enough All this time I keep saying I'm never good enough All these lies in my mind And I'm not giving a fuck Wishing it would stop Before I give it up I fight To end my crooked mind I'm tired of everything that's weighing up my life I tried To bend to please you right I'm tired of this shit to make you satisfied Adapt, reject Take it out of my head Is this my voice or is this somebody else? The only suspect that I see is myself Behind the masquerade I fell victim to my own delusion Is this my voice or is this somebody else? I fight To end my crooked mind I'm tired of everything that's weighing up my life I tried To bend to please you right I'm tired of this shit to make you satisfied Cut my head off to see the misery taking the best of me

When we were young and indifferent, we could not have known This world will chew you up and spit you out on your own I know it hurts It hurts me too, just to watch you sinking I can't help thinking Was there something holding you back? Was the weight of the world on your back So long, you're sick of the gravity? Is there someone telling you no? Do you wander with nowhere to go? What are you waiting, oh, what are you waiting for? I'm reaching out, please take my hand The water's getting higher and I can't understand Why I can't pull you in Do you even care? Do you even want me there? We are the victims just like our parents taught us to be Roots planted firmly, but we fell so far from the tree And still we cling to the past with an iron grip As we all fall fast asleep Dreaming of security The chance to redefine The years we've wasted Living on borrowed time My will is spent I used the very last drop Trying to keep my head on straight enough I know it hurts It hurts to feel it all slip right past you I just want to ask you Was there something holding you back? Have you had to cover your tracks So long, you lost your identity? Is there something dragging you down? Crippled under the weight of the crown What are you waiting, oh, what are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? I'm reaching out please take my hand The water's getting higher and I can't understand Why I can't pull you in Do you even care? Do you even want me there? For all of our differences I always said I'd be there if you should come undone It took all I had in me Do you even care? Do you even want me there? Do you even want me there? There are ghosts in every window And they'll follow you back home But if you stay a moment I can tell you all I know Of how these times have changed us How they bring us to our knees How they send us down the crooked path Divide us temporarily I'm reaching out, please take my hand The water's getting higher and I can't understand Why I can't pull you in Do you even care? Do you even want me there? I said I'm sorry, I swear I'll do better I never thought we'd have to carry this weight together This is contagion, a plague that I bear And it kills me to say that I really need you here

Can I pull you apart? And stretch your soul? Time spent in the dark Is what makes us whole I know you're scared, honey Sometimes it's dark, honey I know there's something more to say But I don't know Just step into the darkness with me (Yeah) (Uh) (Yeah) Can I show you the part I've been working on? Time pulls us apart But it makes me strong I know you're scared, honey Sometimes I'm gone, honey I know there's something you want to say Yes, I know Just step into the darkness with me (Uh) (Yeah) (Uh) (Uh) (Uh) (Yeah) (Uh) (Yeah) (Uh)

Well, Grace she's gone, she's a half-written poem She went out for cigarettes and never came home And I swallowed the sun and screamed and wailed Straight down to the dirt so I could find her trail Spread out across the Great Divide Well, I just came to talk, Saint Valentine I never pictured you living here with the rats and the vines Ain't that my old heart hanging out on your lines You're all fucked up, Saint Valentine Now I circle the bars on the promenade While the girls in the glass, they're just throwing me shade And I'm saving my coins up for Jingling Jane She's out plucking strings in the pouring rain See I'm all crooked feet, Saint Valentine I've circled this map till it caught on fire Now Grace she's left you just skin and bone Well, you hang up your hat, but you can't call it home You've tried and you've tried, but you can't call it home You're the loneliest one, Saint Valentine You're the loneliest one, Saint Valentine You're all fucked up, Saint Valentine

Summer days were just a magazine A magazine A magazine Cutting grass for gasoline For gasoline So I can see you soon Fall swooned Left me drunk in a field Dandelion wine for a year And I packed up the dust Of all that I owned Handkerchief hung from a pole I rolled out the day that the apples fell

Slept high up in the Rockies Set my clock for Californ-i-ey-aye And I dreamed up somethin' special to give that ocean Man, she cuffs me anyway So I'm banking on Virginia To keep me calm and clear and straight Just like clock work seems to tell us With every passing storm there's just a harder hail So light my way, Virginia May I can't sit still, just pace across this hallway We spent all this time Just trading crimes While the tune-smith packed a lunch He's headed down the coastline There's a loneliness thats blowin' Well I heard it from the radio man He's been locked up in the belfry Listening close to a string upon a can Me, I'm sailin' on to that savior She's a pilgrim living on the modern time And ever since I found her magic Now every car or cloud that passes is a sign Light my way, Virginia May I can't sit still just pace across this hallway We spent all this time Just trading crimes And I'm saving all my sleep for another life I'm saving all my sleep for another life And I'm saving all my sleep for another life

I woke you up with poetry and stones The ragged and the bones Strewn around the room I recall another hazy May Take a round in the ring Gone hungry for the win Heres the part I just lose everything I cracked a spark just to hear you sing Sing I took it out The papers and the trash Old among the cans This golden love gone bad Shined it up Aiming at the sun Just a light year from us Hop a cab ride and we're off And all the ravens came along to play The simple notes you sang just went astray Everything was up, its coming down Everything was up, its coming down Coming down

The night fell with bicycle bells, the dark had wooden teeth Oh we broke on up to hill country, the air was thin and sweet Lord, the air was thin and sweet She held onto my coat that night, like a kid lost in her sleeves Oh we warmed the ground, we hushed our sound We slept on walking feet Lord, we slept on walking feet Oh Darlin, pardon me Can you help me remember When we were all flying free We were dust from our bodies And we were flicker and flame, yeah we burned till the morning Darlin, pardon me Off in the night, you can hear 'em bright, The Sirens of the Sea Oh and city birds and alley girls, they all just sing for free Oh they all just sing for free Oh Darlin, pardon me But do I look familiar When we were just larkspur and leaves We were strung through the tether And we were all silver and stone We were the lust of the miners Darlin, pardon me That sky glowed all calico like phosphor in the sea To the ground we fall, she owns us all Kings and boys and beast Kings and boys and beast Oh Darlin, pardon me But do I look familiar When we were just flying free And we burned from a freight train And we were some flicker of truth in the smile of a salesman And we were all buried jewels 'neath the grass in the suburbs And we were all living proof Oh Darlin, pardon me

August clown's a saint And I just figured out why I've been walking through the sand With just you on my mind And all that's left of the summer sky Is the moment you're flying by There's things a boy can never tell Know you by your hands too well (2x) Damn you from this wretched boy You've stolen more than sleep and joy An' I'm goin' back where I belong Where the time is right and straight and slow Going back where I belong Just to watch them thistles grow August skin's left golden brown And I've seen too much of this lonely town Too much thinking walking 'round Too much talking August clown (2x) Damn you from this wretched boy You've stolen more than sleep and joy I'm going back where I belong Where the time is straight and right and slow Going back where I belong Just to watch them thistles grow...