Sunlight starts It starts to skate across the ceiling We're in your room, melting away The shapes they make They make you feel like you are dreaming Remember when life was a game You said One night, so high Fucked up until the morning light One night, so high Take, take me back home Where the skies still ring on We can turn back time Let the bad blood lie Take, take me back home A wide-eyed boy Slowly going through the motions With all our friends we made on our own Temptations Turn my head and crack it open My mind's a mess, I'm out of control You said One night, so high Fucked up until the morning light One night, so high Take, take me back home Where the skies still ring on We can turn back time Let the bad blood lie Take, take me back home (Take me back, take me back home Take me back, take me back home) Take, take me back home Where the skies still ring on We can turn back time Let the bad blood lie Take, take me back home

I'm walking around With you all night And now I'm tired Of walking around Can I take you home Tonight? So I don't have to be alone Again tonight Can I take you home? So I won't be alone... I'm sorry For the things I have not done To you tonight When I take you I worry For this may be a dumb Thing to do Can I take you home? Can I take you home? So I won't be alone Again tonight I'm tired I don't know what I'm doing With you tonight When I take you home I'm scared there's something I might ruin Between you and I I'm sorry For the things I have not done To you tonight When I take you I worry For this may be a dumb Thing to do Can I take you home? Can I take you home? So I won't be alone Again tonight Can I take you home? Can I take you home? So I won't be alone Can I take you home? So I won't be alone Again tonight

Hey there honey, in your cut up jeans Whatcha drinkin' I was thinkin' you could save a sip for me I've been lookin' cross the party all night long At you movin' your hips with your pretty lips singin' along to a country song Climb on up here with me In my truck cause if we Don't go ridin' around I'm gonna run my battery down so If you're ready to roll girl, just let me know girl I don't know who brought you here and he left you alone But he ain't worth the time you're spendin' Textin' him on the phone girl It's time to move on girl, I got a radio and a shotgun seat And it's gettin' late It's time for me to take you home girl It's alright if you live way out I got enough gas to take you all over this town yeah When we pull in the drive, I'll walk you up to the door I'm a good guy girl, I'll settle for a kiss on the porch unless you want one more Now he ain't payin' no attention Don't know what he's missin' So baby what do ya say Why don't you just walk this way When you're ready to roll girl Just let me know girl I don't know who brought you here and he left you alone But he ain't worth the time you're spending textin' him on the phone It's time to move on girl I got a radio and a shotgun seat And it's getting late It's time to take you home girl Come on let's go girl So when you're ready to roll girl We can take it nice and slow girl Might even find a place to park Sit there and watch the stars Put on a show girl Hey I don't know girl I got a radio and a shotgun seat And it's getting late It's time for me to take you home girl You can be my home girl

There's a box up on the top shelf I moved out of reach so many years ago Filled with letters, filled with postcards All the pieces of a time I used to know I wonder if I took it down now Would I find the things I'd hidden there inside? Maybe I would find the ocean A wave would rise and I'd be taken by the tide They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me There's some ruins in the backyard Someone built them there before we came around We don't know what they were made for We don't know what else is buried in the ground Maybe if we tried to listen Read the writing, learned the music to the songs We might find what we've been missing We might see what has been right there all along They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me I saw a stranger on the front page I heard voices saying he had done the crime I saw a stranger on the sidewalk I heard voices saying walk the other side I saw a screaming politician My own voice said he was right and they were wrong I saw my lover in the kitchen My own voice was saying I can't stay for long They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me

It hits you when you least expect You wake up, your life's a wreck No one told you hit the deck, incoming No one told you hit the deck It starts falling from the sky Eighty tons and eight miles wide It does no good to go inside It keeps coming It does no good to go inside But you are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air Time it moves in a straight line And every corner here is blind The world it can be so unkind, it keeps spinning There's no stopping to unwind If every breath we take's a risk And every step is a near miss How do we go on like this? We keep running How do we go on like this? You are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air It is everyone, not you So stop asking what'd you do We are travelling in twos It's stunning We are travelling with you You are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air When you come up for air

Say that we're through Since you've been gone, you don't feel blue Say we should part We've come too far to know where to start But I see the wind in the trees And the sound is so far away So please don't say, it's better this way Say it's not right We just don't work, and god knows we tried Say I was wrong Now you can see it was me all along But I read this chapter again The same one I read yesterday So please don't say, it's better this way I know we're back here again The same place we find ourselves in I'm not pretending that everything's fine I have no words of my own To unsow the seeds we have sown All I am asking is baby be kind Say that it's gone I should let go, try to move on Say that it's true You couldn't wait, you found someone new But I cannot tell you a lie My heart, it breaks every day So please don't say it's better this way So please don't say it's better this way

Sarah she can't fall in love She says I'm out of time It's getting so much harder to begin There's been so many calls here Nothing's coming across the line I'm all alone, all alone without a friend Henry he kept moving on He went from town to town He'd pack it up, try his luck again The houses he was building Never quite got off the ground He's all alone, all alone without a friend I don't know which man I'd like to be Tell me could you love a man like me When I started down this road I had one stop in mind Now I can't count the places that I've been I know I turned a corner But I must have missed the sign I'm all alone, all alone without a friend Once I was a welder Once a singer in a band A rich man with all the money I could spend One day I burned the costumes And I tore up all the plans All alone, all alone without a friend There's no other man I'd like to be Tell me could you love a man like me I might not be the man you thought you'd see Tell me could you love a man like me The skies are never empty And the lights are always on The streets go on forever without end There's someone always coming And there's someone who is gone All alone, all alone without a friend All alone, all alone without a friend

You hung your hat behind the door And it's still there, like it was before You don't live here anymore You hung your hat behind the door You used to rule with an iron hand You were the final word, you were the promised land Now you hold no keys, and you have no plan You used to rule with an iron hand We're made of strings, we're made of clay The nearest star is a long, long way They say you're coming back some day We're made of strings, we're made of clay I still talk to you sometimes And it seems strange after all this time Were you real? Were you in my mind? I still talk to you sometimes We're made of strings, we're made of clay The nearest star is a long, long way We might make it there some day We're made of strings, we're made of clay We're made of strings, we're made of clay

I've never been the bad guy, never thought I would Always took the high road, did the things I should Then they kicked me when I was down Now I'm turning this train around They taught me a lesson, they taught me twice There's only one ending for the one who's nice They said it's all gonna be just fine Then they walked out with what was mine Oooh, oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh, oooh I tried to stand up, I put out my neck I turned around there was no one else on deck I said the captain has run away I heard we'll all be the captain some day And I've been alive a long time And the load it gets heavy and high It gets hard to put your heart on the line Lord I tried, lord I tried, lord I tried I've never been the bad guy, but I played the fool All the kings and queens they're not playing by the rules When there's no hand left out for you You will learn what your hands can do Gonna change my language, gonna change my skin This one'll be concrete now no one's getting in You might not recognize my face There's a bad man in my place Oooh, oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh, oooh Give me my black hat, give me my gun I've never been the bad guy, now let's have some fun There might be blood left on the floor But I'll get what I came here for And I've been alive a long time And the load it gets heavy and high It gets hard to put your heart on the line Lord I tried, lord I tried, lord I tried