Kept Me Around - Dowsing

When you sleep, are you dreaming of me? Hurts to say, but I'm always awake If you want me, I'm waiting for you If you call me, I'll pick up No, I shouldn't, but I can't give up with you Kept me crying for so long, my tears have dried When I hear your voice, those tears they come back to mind So don't call me just to tell me You don't love me anymore Still it wrecks me 'cause I was a lover I was a friend Now I'm only just someone you call When it's late enough to forget I was a lover I was a friend Now I'm only just someone you call When it's late enough to forget When you leave, I can't stop my heart hurting Hurts to say I keep thinking you'll stay If you want me, I'll be waiting for you If you call me, I'll pick up No, I shouldn't, but I can't give up with you Kept me crying for so long, my tears have dried When I hear your voice, those tears they come back to mind So don't call me up just to tell me You don't love me anymore Still it wrecks me 'cause I was a lover I was a friend Now I'm only just someone you call When it's late enough to forget I was a lover I was a friend Now I'm only just someone you call When it's late enough to forget I've got your cover, I can't pretend That I'm anything more to you now Someone just hard to forget And after all these tears After all my years of trying I don't wanna hear That nothing meant anything I was a lover I was a friend I was a lover I was your friend I was your lover I was, I was your friend I was your lover I was your friend I was I was your lover, baby I was I was your lover, baby I was I was your friend I was, I was I was your friend

My hands are searching for you My arms are outstretched towards you I feel you on my fingertips My tongue dances behind my lips for you This fire runs in through my being Burning, I'm not used to seeing you I'm alive I'm alive I can feel you all around me Thickening the air I'm breathing Holding on to what I'm feeling Savoring this heart that's healing My hands float up above me And you whisper you love me And I begin to fade Into our secret place The music makes me sway The angels singing say, "We are alone with you" I am alone and they are too with you I'm alive I'm alive I can feel you all around me Thickening the air I'm breathing Holding on to what I'm feeling Savoring this heart that's healing And so I cry (holy) The light is white (holy) And I see you I'm alive (I'm alive) I'm alive (I'm alive) I'm alive I can feel you all around me Thickening the air I'm breathing Holding on to what I'm feeling Savoring this heart that's healing Take my hand, I give it to you Now you own me, all I am You said you would never leave me I believe you, I believe I can feel you all around me Thickening the air I'm breathing Holding on to what I'm feeling Savoring this heart that's healed

Onslaught of feelings My head hits the ceiling Must be from standing up so tall I'll hold my breath until I fall Rearrange, re-orchestrate the feelings that you bought You got me, but I don't think I got you Ghosts play their part Dance over graves Just don't look at me the same Because I can't always change Stop making sense The stories were true I am nothing without you I can't control these legs I think I'll let them flail And black out on the corner of Milwaukee Where the cross streets tend to blur with all the other words I thought I could make the transfer, but nothing ever came There are six different paths I can take Pull my shoulders back and hear them ache Pull back as far as I can Hopefully you'll want me then

It's unfortunate You left me to recount words undocumented The way they were meant will never be Seen as heartfelt and complimentary Because what I heard was honestly the most beautiful things And I'd rather forget than ever meet The expectations you have of me It must be the phrasing Or how I articulate my words That really pisses you off But at least I acknowledge all my faults And I'll stay in midwest states for a while And I'll have to prove myself to all of you And I'll stay in midwest states for a while And I'll have to prove myself to all of you

Punk is dead and all your friends will be soon singlehandedly ousted By the signal boosted youth set to destroy they spewed their venom Into our home and won't let go even When they know the truth (well now we know) They built you up just to tear you down They divided us They only think of you when their suppose to They only think of you when their told to. This is a witch hunt and now you're part of it get dead pick a side In the narrow lens Lick the wound with your tongue tell the Internet What you've done. Make it hurt and remove the sickness from the few. Who'd you cite? What's the source? Show me proof. Who brainwashed you? It's time to wake up and adjust. You're wasted on hate You've wasted away.

Lately safety is not an issue There's more concern over questions left unanswered by You No compromise I'll be alright We'll never understand Everything we had But I'll try Faulty wiring has left me fatigued Can't seem to render situations laid before me You cross my mind From time to time There's fear I can't explain Since you went away But I'll try

Open the door Let a little warmth out I can see my breath And my ankles feel like they're going to collapse From all the stairs that I've been walking up and down Trying to find you, but I never do But now it's back to paperwork and fixing the copier I don't have school tonight So I think I'll be drinking alone to some Replacements songs Don't tell a soul I'd be pleased to meet me too, but I'm all shook down Under the influence of artists not looking for change The timing and structure will all resolve and sound the same