Matt Costa

I've been waiting, pacing along the halls ever since you left here
I've been cleaning, scrubbing the plates and weeding out the garden dear
I can't fall asleep to your mystery slowly blowing from the shore
I have not failed to be what you'd expect of me
Swallowing glass just to stay pure

All the birds are heading down south but you're staying up north you say
I've got jackets blankets and sheets, its going to be a cold december

It could be warm you see, a statue next to me
Swimming away from the ice and snow
Could I have failed to see the signs in front of me
Warning and flashing symbols, subtle and simple I couldn't see
I couldn't see

If only time could slow down
maybe I could come up

It's such a cold december
It's such a cold december
It's so cold

I can't fall asleep to your mystery slowly blowing from the shore
I have not failed to be what you'd expect of me
Swallowing glass just to stay pure

Summers come and summer has gone
Your christmas cards can't comfort me
You've found new friends and tied all the ends
It's freezing in the loneliest winter

It could be warm you see, a statue next to me
Swimming away from the ice and snow
Could I have failed to see the signs in front of me
Warning and flashing symbols, subtle and simple I couldnt see
I couldnt see

If only time could slow down, then maybe I could come up
It's such a cold december
It's such a cold december
It's so cold

Astair your glare is killing me
Astair in skies of blue
The Signs you wear are making me
So confused

But the mountains and the trees
Are they just what you need
Or are they less than what
you'd expect to see

And if you're leaving well come
Give me reason why i let you down
Before you turn around now now
Before you turn around

Astair you're there and I'm still here
I swear i'm so confused
The signs you wear are making me
Feel like i'm the one to lose

But the canyons and the seas
Are they just what you need
Or are they less than what
you'd expect to see

And if you're leaving well come
Give me reasong why i let you down
Before you turn around now, now

Before you turn around

But the mountains and the trees
Are they what you perceive
Or are they less than what
You'd expect to see

And if you're leaving well come
Give me reasin why i let you down
Before you turn around now, now
Before you turn around

I'm waiting in the pines
I'm waiting in the forest
Pilon at my side
The treasure lies before us

And so we started walking
We knew they couldn't harm us
And how the wind is crying
When misty morning dawn breaks

We'll walk back to the flats
With gallons in our hands

We're walking in the fields
We're working on the farms
We do just like our fathers
How can they take that from us?

And so we started driving
We had no choice to leave this
The bowl was left behind us
For Hooverville's before us

Three hundred thousand
Bodies who can't rest

Sweet Thursday is calling me back up to Monterey
Up to Monterey

So I started driving
And left my home behind me
The row there kept reminding
Of pages in your writing

Sweet Thursday is calling me back up to Monterey
Up to Monterey

Sunshine
I'd really like to tell you
Oh my sunshine
Even though your skies are blue
You're drying up my bed
How can I get any rest now?
Sha la la la la la la la

Someday
You will get the best of me
Oh someday
Probably when I'm old and grey
I'm lying in my bed
And I will soon be put to rest now
Sha la la la la la la la

Sunshine
I'd really like to tell you
Oh my sunshine
Even though your skies are blue
You're drying up my bed
How can I get any rest now?
Sha la la la la la la la

Someday
You will get the best of me
Oh someday
Probably when I'm old and grey
I'm lying in my bed
And I will soon be put to rest now

I'm lying in my bed
And I will soon be put to rest now (Ooh ooh) [x2]
Sha la la la la la la la

With an upwind facing starboard
I was unsure of where to go
The salt burns my skin
And your eyes were cold as the ocean
This is our day today
Won't you find the way back to these arms

And we're bound for where we started
With a down wind course through the harbor
At sunset I was sorry
That this was our day today
This is our day today

Why can't you find the way
Won't you find the way back to these arms

Are we bound for where we started
'Cause the start is where we're bound to end up
The start is where we're bound
And we're bound to end up where the start's at

And when twilight turned darkness
I was unsure of where to go
The salt burns my skin
And your eyes were cold as the ocean
This is our day today
Can you find the way back to these arms
This is our day today
Won't you find the way back to these arms

You gave me your word, then you took your word back
Where once I had faith now all I see is black
Black seeing black
I gave you up rather than giving in
Where once there was virtue, it's fallen to sin
Black seeing black

You gave me your word
Then you flew like a bird
Never looking back
You can run, you can try
But you won't get away this time

You played me for a fool, in your heart you had deceit
I made you up inside my mind, when finally you I meet
You had turned black turning black
I never could have seen how you'd shoot that 44
You hit me right below the shoulder, I fell to the floor
I'm on my back, on my back

You shot me with your gun
Then you run, run, run, run
Never looking back
You can run into the street
My tire tracks you will soon meet
And if you run into the woods
I'll chop you down just like a tree

I rolled into town from years spent in my sleep
The word that the people held was that your price is cheap
Your price is cheap, price is cheap
The house with the red light on and fancy decor
You built your new life hastily so now I find you poor
I find you poor, find you poor

The sheriff found you out
There is guaranteed no doubt
You ain't coming back
We watched you catch a railroad car
That didn't get you very far
And when you finally met your match
We watched you kiss the railroad tracks

Black seeing black

My sweet rose
Ss the two of us grow
I want you to know that nothing's quite as bad
As it seems when you're so sad
So remember my rose, remember my rose

My sweet rose
I'd like to say
I'd like to say no one always gets their way
And no one always thinks the same
My rose, remember my rose

When the seasons change
And the sky turns grey
When the leaves turn brown
I'll be around

My sweet rose
As the two of us change
I want you to know that nothing stays the same
But you and I, we will remain
My rose, remember my rose

When the seasons change
And the sky turns grey
When the leaves turn brown
I'll be around

I want you to know that nothing stays the same
But you and I, we will remain
My rose, remember my rose

We have got no dough at all
Got a jar full of pennies
That dont amount to any
Thing thing thing

These are the melodies
With simple harmonies we sing
We sing of the hardship life brings
It brings it brings it brings it brings

These are the songs that we sing
We sing
These are the songs that I sing
We sing
These are the songs that we sing
We sing
These are the songs that I sing
To make the day better

And we have got no home at all
Travel like the gypsies living off of any
Thing thing thing

These are the melodies
With simple harmonies we sing
We sing of the hardship life brings
It brings it brings it brings it brings

These are the songs that we sing
We sing
These are the songs that I sing
We sing
These are the songs that we sing
We sing
These are the songs that I sing
To make the day better

We sing we sing we sing we sing

These are the songs that we sing
We sing
These are the songs that I sing
We sing
These are the songs that we sing
We sing
These are the songs that I sing
To make the day better

Can, can you spare some conversation
Can, can you spare some conversation

I need a yellow taxi cab today
I need your taxi cab to take me away
I need a yellow taxi cab today
So take us, driver, take us far away

I need someone like you
Someone to see me through

People looking happy
While sadly I wait for my taxi

She was standing next to me
I looked alone she took me home
In her arms I laid my head
She listened to everything I said

I need someone like you
Someone to talk to

I need a yellow taxi cab today
I need your taxi cab to take me away
I need a yellow taxi cab today
So take us driver take us far away

I need someone like you
Someone to see me through

Can, can you spare some conversation
Can, can you spare some conversation

I'm standing out here all alone
I need someone to take me home
She was standing next to me
There's room for you and room for me

I need someone like you
Someone to talk to

And we shared some conversation
And we shared some conversation

Rats they run across the field, crows rest in the tree
Barking madly at each other
Standing from the rooftop i scream "Won't you bark for me?"
As you turn your back and fly away

Caught on the fence you've left behind
Dive into an empty pool, I've tried
Oh I've tried
Oh I tried writing with nothing in return

When the wind freed me from the roots that tied me down
Now I need them back for comforting
Carvings that we left in branches scarred up on this tree
Lingering are thoughts you left with me

Calling the phone that you ignore
Slowly walking backwards from your door
Oh I've tried
Now we are done fighting, it's time that you return

Candle lit small light inside your window that I see
Hoping that the light still shines for me
Standing on the curbside I scream "Please come back!"
As you turn your back and fly away

Groundhogs digging with their claws
Burying their loves with dirty paws
Oh I've tried
There's no igniting, my head is in the dirt

I would shine just like a million suns if you'd just love me baby
I'll be in your life again so baby, baby just say maybe

Now here I come
To dance around the sun
I've been oh so blue
Stuck behind the moon
Now let me in
Back where we begin
And let me hold you like the way
I used to do

All the stars point me to you and lately they just drive me crazy
A universe can be so cruel so baby, baby be my lady

Now here I come
To dance around the sun
I've been oh so blue
Stuck behind the moon
Now let me in
Back where we begin
And let me hold you like the way
I used to do

I would shine just like a million suns if you'd just love me baby
I'll be in your life again so baby, baby just say maybe

Now here I come
To dance around the sun
I've been oh so blue
Stuck behind the moon
Now let me in
Back where we begin
And let me hold you like the way

Now let me hold you like the way...
Now let me hold you like the way...
Now let me hold you like the way...

I used to do
I used to do
I used to do
I used to do

Early in the morning clouds are dropping on my head
Remind me the things last night I should have left unsaid
So please forgive the words I use, my mind it tends to run
Away with the small ideas, I know I'm not the only one

So dear, oh dear
My head it tends to stray away sometimes I cant see clear
Oh dear, oh dear
In spite of all the things I said, I always want you near

Sometimes it rains, sometimes it pours
Sometimes I'm not that sure
But anytime you look at me
Your thoughts I cant ignore
The second hand would pass us by
Should one of us had blinked
But in a minute realize that true love always waits

My dear, oh dear
My head it tends to stray away, sometimes I cant see clear
Oh dear, oh dear
In spite of all the things I said, I always want you near

Early in the morning clouds are dropping on my head
Remind me the things last night I should have left unsaid
So please forgive the words I use my mind it tends to run
Away with the small ideas I know I'm not the only one

Float down stream, rivers of dreams
Float down stream, catch your wings
Heavens high, so you fly
Catch your dreams in the sky

But the glaciers have frozen your feet
I can't wait for eternity
And so you watched me wash away
But maybe we'll catch up someday
Maybe well catch up someday

Sun sinks out of view
Stars they shine changing hue

But bright lights have blinded your sights
They cant adjust when day turns to night
And so you watched me wash away
But maybe well catch up someday

The castles we built were so tall
They only left us further to fall
And still I see them far away
But maybe we'll come back someday
Maybe we'll come back someday

Float down stream, rivers of dreams
Float down stream, catch your wings

The castles we built were so tall
They only left us further to fall
And still I see them far away
Maybe well come back someday

The castles we built were so tall
They only left us further to fall
And still I see them far away
As I watch them wash away
Wash away...
Wash away...
Wash away...
Wash away...

Oh Mr. Pit--oh Mr. Pit--
Mr. Pitiful, who let you down?
Who let you down, who let you down?

You still don't believe, you don't believe
You don't believe, and your grievances show
When your soap box unfolds

But please, come down
From that cloud your sitting on
I don't expect you to admit that you were wrong
Just wanna know how you've been
And don't make me feel bad that we're still friends
Mulling it over in my bed
I hope that you see through your picket
I hope that you see through your big yard and white picket fence

To make amends
And still be friends
Still be my friend

So where did you go, where did you go?
Where did you go, while I was out?
While I was out, while I was out?

Well, I don't believe, I don't believe
I don't believe everything I see
And if you don't like the movie, then quit acting

But please, come down
From that cloud your sitting on
I don't expect you to admit that you were wrong
Just wanna know how you've been
And don't make me feel bad that we're still friends
Mulling it over in my bed
I hope that you see through your picket
I hope that you see through your big yard and white picket fence

To make amends
And still be friends
Still be friends
Still be my friend
Still be my friend
Still be my friend

You were right, I was up all night
Thinking about you
Dreamed I choked on your kaleidoscope
Now you still look deadly

My fatal flower how the tigers all laughed
As I ran along the well worn paths

Sapphire eye looks down on my lilacs
Down on my lilacs, down on my lilacs
Down on me, down on me, down on

Insincere as we rolled for years in turning barrels
I washed my hands in the lake
As you blew it all away with roman candles
So take your fever, let me wallow alone
The callus on your eyes have grown

Sapphire eye looks down on my lilacs
Down on my lilacs, down on my lilacs
Down on me, down on me, down on

And your faults have me stoned
Paying rent to your ghost
Torn up by a frightened little girl

I thought that you were right
So I was up all night thinking about you
I thought that you were right, you were right
You were right, you were

You were right, and I was up all night
Thinking about you
And I couldn't speak
Covered with bees you flew above me
Figured it all out, I think you've had enough time
I've had long enough to change my mind

And a sapphire eye looks down on my lilacs
Down on my lilacs, down on my lilacs
Down on me, down on me, down on

And your faults have me stone
Paying rent to your ghost
Torn up by a frightened little girl
I thought that you were right
And I was up all night thinking about you

You were right, so I was up all night
Thinking about you
I thought you were right, you were right
You were right, you were

Burnt trees on a snowy pass
All my friends are far behind
I'm stuck with you tonight
But I'd be better alone

So come on wheels take me far away
Where I don't have debts to pay
I can't count on yesterday to find the way home

I know it happens all the time
But they don't have my back
So I'm never looking back

Plumes of smoke rise high above
Burned bridges lost in luck
I guess it's all because
They're found on the fault

On sandy ground
Foundations can't be found
And all the stones of change were thrown in my face

I know it happens all the time
I heard them talk behind my back
So I'm never looking back

I know it happens all the time
I heard them talk behind my back
So I'm never looking back

Skin's turning green, eyes are turning yellow
The Doctor stays rich because I'm a sickly fellow
Got the hypochondriac blues
I need your medicine to soothe
Creams and pills they've got nothing on you

Well call me the Doctor and give me the cure
Easily obsess on an open sore
Doctor, Doctor, can't get no relief
This losing sleep is misery
Won't you come and rescue me?

Doctor, Doctor

Spent the last week in my bed started feeling symptoms
My psychiatrist fills me up with a new prescription
Tell me where I went wrong
It felt too good for too long
Honey you got the remedy for me

Well Doctor Doctor can't get no relief
And this losing sleep is misery

Well call me the Doctor and give me the cure
Easily obsess on an open sore
I don't want to be sick no more

Doctor, Doctor

My heart's made of glass, mama don't you break it
I knew that I made a mistake when I let you take it
Now this pain is only for you
I need your medicine to soothe
Creams and pills they've got nothing on you

Well call me the Doctor and give me the cure
But come back mama I'm feeling withdrawal
Please take my emergency call

How long must I wait held up in depression?
I tried to erase my past, to make a good impression
But my broken horn's lost the tune
And only shattered mirrors fill my room
Fell for you and only got me down

Well Doctor Doctor come give me the cure
Easily obsess on an open sore
Doctor Doctor can't get no relief
This losing sleep is misery
Won't you come and rescue me?

Doctor, Doctor

Vienna can you hear me? Lazing on the afternoon Cathedral bells A ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing Ringing the sound Winter can't ignore her Spring will bring her back to blossoms Summer bring her back to me now Bring her, bring her, bring her, bring her Bring her to me Shoulder to shoulder Be back in a month I told her Wishing well I wish I, wish I, wish I, wish I Wish her with me Vienna was machst du? I'm running through the streets of Zurich Calling all the trains in Europe To bring her, bring her, bring her, bring her Bring her to me Anything I got to do Anything I got to do now Anything I go to do to be Back with happy Mondays Sleeping in on Sundays Just bring her, bring her, bring her, bring her Bring her to me Bring her, bring her, bring her, bring her Bring her to me Vienna can you hear me? Lazing on the afternoon Cathedral bells A ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing Ringing the sound Winter can't ignore her Spring will bring her back to blossoms And summer bring her back to me now Bring her, bring her, bring her, bring her Bring her to me Anything I got to do Anything I got to do now Anything I go to do to be Back with happy Mondays Sleeping in on Sundays Just bring her, bring her, bring her, bring her Bring her to me Bring her, bring her, bring her, bring her Bring her to me

Your surprises wear disguises
All of your truths masquerade around on Hallow's Eve
So I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces

So impressed by you undressing
Did you take his hand aside from love?
The truth would break me in two

I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces

This is the voice that's scared to hear those names
So this is the void we'll leave a hole in space

I'll take it kindly if you'd blind me
Holding inside the thoughts I have inquisitively wondering

I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces

But this is the voice that's scared to hear those names
So this is the void we'll leave a hole in space

I'll never know what you show to unfamiliar faces

I've heard the story, I'm sure he held you down
Forced you to do things while I'm not around
But you lied, yeah you lied
But I've got cigarette eyes

Feel uneasy, I think of you less
My mind is so restless and I'm feeling depressed
Oh my, oh my, to see you with that spy
You lie, but I know cause I've got cigarette eyes

Out in the country I'm sure no one could tell
You held a victim under your spell
So go hide, well go hide
But I've got cigarette eyes

I feel uneasy, I think of you less
My mind is so restless and I'm feeling obsessed
Oh my, oh my, to see you with that spy
You lied, but I know cause I've got cigarette eyes

So you've got yourself a bright young girl
One who lies with you in bed
When she tells you that she likes the weather
Don't believe a word that she says no more

Out in the country I'm sure no one could tell
You held a victim under your spell
So go hide, well go hide
But I've got cigarette eyes

I feel uneasy, I think of you less
My mind is so restless and I'm feeling depressed
Oh my, oh my, to see you with that spy
You lied, but I know cause I've got cigarette eyes

If I wait long enough someone might come out
If I tried I could be somebody else

So I follow false prophets walking down my street
To keep, keep me busy so soundly I sleep
But it's all in the downfall of me, all in the downfall

Don't bury my feet so I can't run
I'll be your martyr in bells
Well I've walked in your steps and held my breath
Until your words reached the air

Then I lied with the poets face first in the street
When the world cast it's shadow I became it's sheep
But it's all in the downfall of me, all in the downfall

So I follow false prophets walking down my street
To keep, keep me busy so soundly I sleep
I lied with the poets face first in the street
When the world cast it's shadow I became it's sheep

But it's all been the downfall, it's all been the downfall
It's all been the downfall of me
All in the downfall

I talk with my friend over the phone,
I'm scared to say things I don't know and be wrong,
And words always sound much better coming out of someone else
But put it in a song and know that we can get along

I'm trying to lose, lose my mind
When it's gone I'll tell you where it went
About the extent of it's stay
Strum a few chords and use my voice
And make this song with the hopes that you'd play along, along
<i>[whistling]</i>

And look at the ones before me
Some say I waste my time
But normal life seems so boring,
So trying to lose my mind

Well I met a girl,
She didnt like my song
She told me that old songs are better
She played me her favorite records
This is how I repayed her
I said it's okay to some but I hope that you can sing alone alone

And look at the ones before me
Some say I waste my time
But normal life seems so boring so im trying to lose my mind.

Behind the mountains where the Cuckoo sings
They tried to mine a miner for his golden veins
But a guy gets lonely and a guy gets sick
Evil woman you're bound to make a mess of it

She laid me down in her golden sheets
Lord save me, Lord I was knee deep
Well a hundred soldiers and a thousand men
Couldn't drag me down but I'm back on my knees again

Wanna leave, wanna go
That woman is a devil yes I know

But i know more than you think I do
You got a hole in your face where I can see through you
Well holy me, you've got devils in your sleeves
With the bull in your court you're bound
To make a mess of me

Wanna leave, wanna go
That woman is a devil yes I know

I must confess this blood in my chest
I've made a great mistake so cruel
One, two, three there's an owl on me
I'm searching for the way it used to be
Why don't you give yourself to me, I
I've got a deal for you
But Ph yes I've a lot to confess,
Drowning far away from home
Tied to a heart of stone

Darling my days are so bleak
Pretending that you're still alive,
Lonely nights, this mariner cries
He's drowning in desperate tides, because

This solitary mindset has left me cursed in fame
But oh death I would give my last breath
Drowning far away from home

My sinking heart of stone
Oh death can I breathe my last breath
Yes yes I'd like to confess

Because this solitary mindset has left me cursed with fate
But oh death
Can't breathe my last breath
Drowning far away from home
Stuck with my heart of stone

Well Miss Magnolia
You just can't keep, keep me to yourself
You know I've been here way to long
You had me working all day long
No I'm not cut out and I won't be found to make a man for you,
No, no

La na na na
La na na na
<i>[X11]</i>

Well if you see her, make sure you tell, tell her that I'm gone
To find a land beyond where I'll be free
The riverboat and me
A rolling stone, but by and by I'll find me home

La na na na
La na na na
<i>[X6]</i>

I wrote a letter in the mail it said:
"A steed don't need a mare Dearest Magnolia"
Well put flowers on the grave, and may the headstone read:
"We could get along but we never did belong"

Well Miss Magnolia
You just can't keep, keep me to yourself
You know I've been here way to long
You had me working all day long
No I'm not cut out and I won't be found to make a man for you
No, no

La na na na
La na na na
<i>[X11]</i>