Joseph Arthur

I need a dream, I need a bigger dream
Tell me if you know what I mean
I wanna live, I wanna live in your camera
Take a picture of my heart with you

You could have
Evidence to know how I've been bad
Make me sad
Trying to find you in a world that's gone away

I wanna sing, I wanna sing on your radio
So you would know the way I feel
I wanna die, I wanna die on your TV show
And be reborn as something that's real

You could have
Evidence to know how I've been bad
Make me sad
Trying to find you in a world that's gone away
World that's gone away (x4)

Nobody son, I'm on the run under the gun
I'm not having any fun
What have I done, what have I done, what have I done
I don't even know what I've done.

You could have
Evidence to know how I've been bad
Make me sad
Trying to find you in a world that's gone away
World that's gone away (x8)

I picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong
And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy
And being caught in between all you wish for and all you seen
And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in

May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you

I know I would apologize if I could see your eyes
'Cause when you showed me myself I became someone else
But I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need
I picture you fast asleep
A nightmare comes
You can't keep awake

May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you

'Cause if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
If I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
You

I don't know anymore
What it's for
I'm not even sure
If there is anyone who is in the sun
Will you help me to understand
'Cause I been caught in between all I wish for and all I need
Maybe you're not even sure what it's for
Any more than me

May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you

You don't know how you feel
Are you a dream?
Are you for real?
Cause you don't ever slow down
To find what you lost or lose what you found

No one's saying what you need to hear

You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved

It's always hard to admit
Most days you feel like you don't exist
Temptation sneaks past your fists
Until the devil won't let you resist

Oblivion is what you want

But you've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved
You've been loved

What you're gonna do with your life?
What you're gonna do with your life?
What you're gonna do with your life?
What you're gonna do with your life?

You've been loved(all the way)
You've been loved(all the way)
You've been loved(all the way)
You've been loved

I prayed to god from hell
Run like a midnight bell
Dancing naked in these streets
Thought i was jesus christ
As i dug out my eyes
And threw them past the prison gates

So i still can't explain
What i had to do
To try and make it
Since your red lips turned blue

Now i'm a hunted man
Sining the song you sung
Wearing the noose from which you hung
I guess we lost the war
The air i breathed before
Only fill the dead man's lungs

So i still can't explain
What i had to do
To try and make it
Since your red lips turned blue

The devil is the lord
Of this confusing world
Where all the wrong dreams come true
I never needed light
I never felt like i was right
Did not deserve the love i knew

So i still can't explain
What i had to do
To try and make it
Since your red lips turned blue

And where we live is where we hide
'Cause we can't forgive what's inside
We have sweet love (we have sweet love)
We have sweet love (we have sweet love)

In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind

And when we wake up
It's already dark
And I touch your face,
I feel your heart
We have sweet love (we have sweet love)
We have sweet love (we have sweet love)

In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind
In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind
In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind
In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind

I'm up all night
Against my will
My medicine
Won't let me feel
Anything at all

The doctor gave me sleeping pills
And I took one
Then I feel all alone
Sleeping like a stone

And babe
You were the light
But now
You are the dark

But dream about the autumn leaves
And you were one
Falling in the sun
Where are you now?

A tv burns
A hollow room
I cleaned it up
And now I don't know what to do
I'm just lying down

And babe
You were the light
And now
You are the dark

I guess I live
Up in my head
I call you up
But my phone is dead
And now it's too much

The doctor said I need a cure
But what I got
He's not really sure
And I won't say much

And babe
You were the light
And now
You are the dark

And babe
You were the light
And now
You are the dark

In your version of this world
you're everybody's favorite girl
but that don't mean I'll be the victim
of any pain you are inflicting today

I don't know what I should do
I've been so happy bein' unhappy with you
but I just had a revelation
my heart's been dyin' of starvation
and I need ... somebody who will feed me

And if salvation only comes when you fall
ohhhhh Lord - ohh
It's so hard for me to believe
ohhhhh Lord - ohh
I'm still waitin' for you to call
ohhhhh Lord - ohh
Trapped inside my memory
ohhhhh Lord

Pretending to be someone you know nothing about
Oh I wish you were someone I knew nothing about
You're lookin' for any explanation
your words they only find a meaning in between
what's real and what will only ever be your dream

And if salvation only comes when you fall
ohhhhh Lord - oooh
It's so hard for me to believe
ohhhhh Lord - oooh
I'm still waitin for you to call
ohhhhh Lord - oooh
Trapped inside my misery
ohhhhh Lord - oooh

Will salvation only come if I fall
ohhh Lord oooh
Will salvation only come if I fall
ohhh Lord oooh
And will salvation only come if I fall
If I fall

I got a new job
I got a new job
And I don't need your permission
To fade away

I'm right behind you
I'm right behind you
And I don't need your permission
To make my play

On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up (on the way down, on the way down)

On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up (fallin' up, fallin' up)

I'm right inside you
I'm right inside you
And I don't need your permission
To dig your grave

I've got religion
I've got religion
And I don't need your permission
To pray for you

On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up (on the way down, on the way down)

On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up (fallin' up, fallin' up)

On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up (on the way down, on the way down)

On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up
On the way down, you're fallin' up (fallin' up...)

Tell the darkness what you're thinking
Tell the darkness what you see
You got everything you wanted

In the darkness you are naked
In the darkness you are near
You got everything you wanted

Oh the world will never hear your pain
Oh the world will never hear you cry
Fly, the way you fly
Fly, the way you fly
Fly, the way you fly

Couldn't make it up as we go along
I don't have any words to put into your song
Looking through the junkyard of your heart
I need to find an engine for my car

Don't know where you are
Don't know where you are
When I drive
When I drive around the bend
Singing bye bye bye bye...

And though I really tried, I never have been good
And for my missing heart, I carve one out of wood
Now I see the termites crawling into me
After they are finished, I wonder where you'll be

I wonder where you'll be
I wonder where you'll be
When I drive
When I drive around the bend
Singing bye bye bye bye...

You never have been young
You never have been sane
And if you say that you don't care,
In your eyes I see the shame
Looking through the window of your mind
I see your lonely shadow running out of time

Running out of time
Running out of time
When I drive
When I drive around the bend
Singing bye bye bye bye...

I'll be silent in my solitude
Can't fight my smile
Or my gratitude
I'm afraid of what I might do
'Cuz there's no me if there's no me and you

I wish that I could open up your eyes
To feel the sun that burns in your mind

I can't deal with what you have done
Reincarnate I wonder who I might become
Without potential I'm already gone
I could be as fresh as hard bubblegum

I don't have nothing now
I want me some
First some of you
Then some of everyone

Oh darling since you've been away from me
I know how the pins fill
In the bowling alley
They say love is something you feel but never see
When I see you
I finally disagree
I'm just trying to be all that I can be
Without destroying you now
Or joining the army

Your ashes must be blowing everywhere
'Cuz I can seem to feel you
And you're nowhere near
And though you didnt say so
I can tell that you still care
We could have had it all
But then, nothing is fair

I still think about washing your hair
I wish I could wash away all of your despair

We live in a time where we're all gonna fall apart
and chemicals rising up over the sun
A nuclear mind evolution of human heart
Is the creation we're gonna become

Nation of slaves, we all say that
I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't...

Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun

We live in a time where we get fed the same idea
Like junkies addicted to information
and ya go to a new place and you never get anywhere
and I already finished before you begun

Nation of slaves, we all say that
I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't...

Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun

Can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you.....

Your holiness is gone
Sometimes love will make you swear
Until you know where you belong
You'll dream of what you never had

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ...

You can feel the falling leaves
Filling up our vacant lives
When I fall onto my knees
I pray you don't leave me behind

Summertime is over
I don't owe you nothing
When you say you're leaving
I want you to hold on
Summertime is over
I don't owe you nothing

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ...

You see September's sun
Sinking in the autumn sky
If you want me to be gone
I've left already in my mind

Summertime is over
I don't owe you nothing
When you say you're leaving
I want you to hold on
Summertime is over
I don't owe you nothing

We don't know which way we're goin'
Don't know where we are
Find a way out, find a way
Home is somewhere I'm missin'
When I look around
Find a way out, find a way

Hell has no reason to smile
When you're living in an innocent world
You once had a heart like a child
Now it's buried under sadness and guilt

We don't know which way we're goin'
Don't know where we are
Find a way out, find a way
Home is somewhere I'm missin'
When I look around
Find a way out, find a way

Hell has no reason to smile
When you're living in an innocent world
You once had a heart like a child
Now it's buried under sadness and guilt

Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't run away now
Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't run away now (now, oooh ooh ooh......)

Yeah, yeah
I know we're all insane when there's no one else around
Yeah, yeah
I know we're all insane when there's no one else,
and there's no one left you can blame...

In the night I'm on my own
Unglue my mind and burn my telephone

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside inside
I would rather hide

I feel a phantom fly from my fear
(ain't goin' nowhere)
follows the voice I sometimes hear
(ain't goin' nowhere)

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside inside
I would rather hide

Yeah, yeah
I know we're all insane when there's no one else around
Yeah, yeah
I know we're all insane when there's no one else,
and there's no one left you can blame...

I think aliens abducted me
I close my eyes if I want to see

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside inside
I would rather hide

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside inside
I would rather hide

Don't believe in dreams
You are from a machine
Oh don't
You could be in jail

Brainwashing you
They control
Everything that you do
Oh don't
You could be in jail

They say they have the answer
But no one knows a thing
They say they know your way home
Some place you've already been

Don't believe in love
They came
Without any blood
Oh don't
You could be in jail

Take in what you make
Say they will save you
Giving back what you gave
Oh don't
You could be in jail

They say they have the answer
But no one knows a thing
They say they know your way home
Some place you've already been

Don't know why I'm still afraid
If you weren't real I would make you up
now
I wish that I could follow through
I know that your love is true
And deep
As the sea
But right now
Everything you want is wrong,
And right now
All your dreams are waking up,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom,
Where no one lives.

Remember when we first met
And everything was still a bet
In love's game
You would call; I'd call you back
And then I'd leave
A message
On your answering machine

But right now
Everything is turning blue,
And right now
The sun is trying to kill the moon,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom,
Where no one lives

Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom, freedom
Run away
Run away tonight

We're made out of blood and rust
Looking for someone to trust
Without
A fight
I think that you came too soon
You're the honey and the moon
That lights
Up my night


But right now
Everything you want is wrong,
And right now
All your dreams are waking up,
And right now
I wish that I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom
Where no one lives

Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom freedom
Run away
Run away tonight

We got too much time to kill
Like pigeons on my windowsill
We hang around

Ever since I've been with you
You hold me up
All the time I've falling down

But right now
Everything is turning blue,
And right now
The sun is trying to kill the moon,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom
Where no one lives

I don't know where we've been
Could you tell me where we are again?
And Jesus is my only friend
No one else knows who I am

I know I'll never make it on the cross
Spent my days looking for what my daddy lost
He was too proud to have a boss
Sold himself out then he couldn't afford the cost

No one knows how he felt
Hung himself in the county jail
There were those who said he would burn in hell
I don't think they knew him very well

Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son
Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son

Forgive us for what we've done, Lord
Forgive us for what we've done

I don't know were we are
Fearful eyes don't see very far
Drivin' in my daddy's car
Ashtray full of his cigars

Is it real what I see...
His ghost ridin' next to me?
'Till he's gone I won't be free
From the burden of his misery

I know I'll never make it on the cross
Spent my days looking for what my daddy lost
He was too proud to have a boss
Sold himself out then he couldn't afford the cost

All over the neighborhood
Mostly he was misunderstood
In his heart the bad beat the good
Used to be a time I'da killed him if I could

Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son
Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son

Forgive us for what we've done, Lord
Forgive us for what we've done, Lord
Forgive us for what we've done..........

Don't know why I'm still afraid
If you weren't real I would make you up
now
I wish that I could follow through
I know that your love is true
And deep
As the sea
But right now
Everything you want is wrong,
And right now
All your dreams are waking up,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom,
Where no one lives.

Remember when we first met
And everything was still a bet
In love's game
You would call; I'd call you back
And then I'd leave
A message
On your answering machine

But right now
Everything is turning blue,
And right now
The sun is trying to kill the moon,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom,
Where no one lives

Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom, freedom
Run away
Run away tonight

We're made out of blood and rust
Looking for someone to trust
Without
A fight
I think that you came too soon
You're the honey and the moon
That lights
Up my night


But right now
Everything you want is wrong,
And right now
All your dreams are waking up,
And right now
I wish that I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom
Where no one lives

Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom freedom
Run away
Run away tonight

We got too much time to kill
Like pigeons on my windowsill
We hang around

Ever since I've been with you
You hold me up
All the time I've falling down

But right now
Everything is turning blue,
And right now
The sun is trying to kill the moon,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom
Where no one lives

I'm strange
And you're strange
Don't want you to change
No way
Ah ha ha ah

Why can't I explain
Flying to the sun
Without a plane
When you're here
Ah ha ha ah

And don't you worry
'bout me babe
Cuz I'm right here
For you to say
Hope you know
You inspire me
You're a flower
And I'm a bee
I need you
Ah ha ha ah

All this
You do for free
Give me hope
And I can see
You're so true
Ah ha ha ah

And don't you
Worry bout me babe
Cuz I'm right there
For you to say

All the day
All the time
You and I know
You're the waves of my ocean
Here's my ring and my devotion
All the time
All the time
You and I know
You're the waves of my ocean
Here's my ring and my devotion

Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
You're so true
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
You're strange
And I'm strange
Don't want you to change
No way
How can I explain
Flying to the sun
Without a plane
When you're here
Ah ha ha ha

And don't you worry
'bout me babe
Cuz I'm right here
For you to say
Don't you worry
'bout me babe
Cuz I'm right here
For you to say