The postman delivered A "past due" bill notice The alarm clock rang two hours late The garbage man left all the trash On the sidewalk And the hinges fell off of the gate And this morning at breakfast I spilled all the coffee And I opened the door on my knee But the last thing I needed The first thing this morning Was to have you walk out on me Last night you came home late And I knew you'd been drinking By that old mellow look on your face I thought, "It don't matter Because it's the holiday season" And you fill such a big empty space But then I laid down beside you And I wanted your loving Because your love makes my life complete But the last thing I needed The first thing this morning Was to have you walk out on me So excuse me for looking Like my world just ended And excuse me for looking Like I just lost my best friend And excuse me for loving And being forgiving So just go on if you want to be free But the last thing I needed The first thing this morning Was to have you walk out on me But the last thing I needed The first thing this morning Was to have you walk out on me

Once I had my heros, Once I had my dreams. But all of that has changed now, The truth begins again. The truth is not that comfortable, no. Mother taught us patience, The virtues of restraint. Father taught us boundries, Of knowledge we must goal. I'm trying to protect my unity. That's when I reach for my revolver. That's when it all gets blown away. That's when I reach for my revolver. The spirit passes by this way. A friend of mine once told me, His one and only aim. To build a giant castle, And in it sign his name. Sign it with complete community. That's when I reach for my revolver. That's when it all gets blown away. That's when I reach for my revolver. Her spirit passes by this way. Now that the sky is empty, And that is nothing new. Instead they look upon us when they tell me, That we're nothing. That's when I reach for my revolver. That's when it all gets blown away. That's when I reach for my revolver. A spirit passes by this way. That's when I reach for my revolver. That's when it all gets blown away. That's when I reach for my revolver. The spirit passes by this way.

Baby love, sometimes it's hard for me to tell you what I'm thinking of So I try to find a way that I can show you love What you mean to me It's not enough to give you everything that you were ever dreaming of I could never find a way that I could pay you love For all the things you do 'Cause when my life gets crazy The only one who comforts me is you, is you When I'm feeling all alone When I'm searching for someone I can run to I reach for you When I need a hand to hold Or a place where I can feel what love can do I reach for you Needing you is something that I've really gotten used to I can't imagine being here with no one else No one but you What I found is it doesn't get much better than when you're around Having you is all I really need when I get down You pull me through 'Cause when my life gets crazy The only one who comforts me is you When I'm feeling all alone When I'm searching for someone I can run to I reach for you When I need a hand to hold Or a place where I can feel what love can do I reach for you 'Cause when my life gets crazy The only one who comforts me is you When I'm feeling all alone When I'm searching for someone I can run to I reach for you When I need a hand to hold Or a place where I can feel what love can do I reach for you When I'm feeling all alone When I'm searching for someone I can run to I reach for you When I need a hand to hold Or a place where I can feel what love can do I reach for you When I'm feeling all alone When I'm searching for someone I can run to I reach for you By icing sugar

Once I had my heroes Once I had my dreams But all of that is changed now They've turned things inside out The truth is not that comfortable, no And mother taught us patience The virtues of restraint And father taught us boundaries Beyond which we must go To find the secrets promised us, yeah That's when I reach for my revolver That's when it all gets blown away That's when I reach for my revolver The spirit fights to find its way A friend of mine once told me His one and only aim To build a giant castle And in it sign his name Cry and whispers sing in muted pain That's when I reach for my revolver That's when it all gets blown away That's when I reach for my revolver The spirit fights to find its way Tonight the sky is empty But that is nothing new Its dead eyes look upon us And they tell me we're nothing but slaves That's when I reach for my revolver (...but slaves) That's when I reach for my revolver That's when I reach for my revolver That's when I reach for my revolver That's when I reach for my revolver That's when I reach for my revolver

Why they say the sky is the limit When I've seen the footprints on the moon Why they say the sky is the limit When I've seen the footprints on the moon And I know the sky might be high But baby it ain't really that high And I know that mars might be far But baby it ain't really that far Let's reach for the stars Reach for the stars Let's reach for the stars Reach for the stars Let's reach for the stars Reach for the stars Let's reach for the stars (Let me see your hands up) Can't nobody hold us back They can't hold us down They can't keep us back Tiers to the ground Told your people that we don't mess around When we're trying out Please don't turn this down We will turn it up Louder than it was before Like the lion at the jungle, you can hear us roar When I lie hear, it's like a sonic blaster Flying just like nasa, out of space master Hands up, reach for the stars Hands up, get 'em up high Hands up, if you really feel alive Live it up, live it up Why they say the sky is the limit When I've seen the footprints on the moon Why they say the sky is the limit When I've seen the footprints on the moon And I know the sky might be high But baby it ain't really that high And I know that mars might be far But baby it ain't really that far Let's reach for the stars Reach for the stars Let's reach for the stars Reach for the stars Let's reach for the stars Reach for the stars Let's reach for the stars (Let me see your hands up)

You sat as still as one at the dinner table With nothin' to say after grace You were hard as one 'cause you had to be Yeah, the oldest ones turn out that way And if I had me one for every time you let me down I'd build a wall I guess I did Yeah, you taught me all about Which ones sank, and which ones skipped But there's throwin' ones And rollin' ones And gettin' us to open up Was like gettin' blood from one The steppin' kind The steady kind The "Hey, I've got your back ones" You can stand behind I'm just now findin' out, now that you're gone We were cut from the same stone I sway like you When I get nervous I'm shy like you But most folks couldn't tell I get the same shade of red as you did When I'm angry I'm red right now 'cause I'm mad as hell At the throwin' ones The rollin' ones And gettin' us to open up Was like gettin' blood from one The steppin' kind The steady kind The "Hey, I've got your back ones" You can stand behind I'm just now findin' out, now that you're gone We were cut from the same stone Yeah, there's a lot of things That should be written in one But your name Ain't one of 'em So I carry one And it's a heavy one I'm just now findin' out, now that you're gone We were cut from the same stone The same stone

I traced it back to a couple months before I was born I must've heard my momma tell my daddy That she was tired, 'cause babies make you tired, but Deep down, she was just unhappy I think my father did the best that he could do He rarely made it to the dinner table Said, "He was working late", but he was working late Fogging up the windows of an '89 Sable I, I learned to cry Quietly, I learned to pray Silently, inside a house where the Devil played And I, hate that it runs in my blood I hate how easy it comes I wish I learned how to love the same way, I Learn to Lie I learned to sing to Carole King on the radio Learned to shoot on a little Red Ryder I can drive a stick, and in a pinch I can pop a bottle with a cigarette lighter I learned to cry Quietly, I learned to pray Silently, inside a house where the Devil played And I, hate that it runs in my blood I hate how easy it comes I wish I learned how to love the same way, I Learn to Lie And I, I learned to say things I don't mean Like, stay, when I want you to leave And when you don't come home or call And I swear I don't mind I hate that I know how it's done When a moment just like this one comes I just go numb and play dumb and look you in the eye And lie Oh, and lie