City And Colour

So i cross my heart
and hope to die
before i have
the chance to lie
to you my dear
whom i wish no harm
but i know in the end
this will turn out wrong
see i've been known
to fall in love
but sometimes love
just is not enough
and my heart will stray
before too long
so please forgive me
for when i sing
this song

I've been up for days,
Trying to find a way to write this confession down.
Seems every line I write's amiss,
At least this I'll admit.
For what I've done I am not proud.
But there's no need to pretend,
No need for innocence.
I've got to be honest now.

My verdict has come in,
It says I'm guilty for my sins this time.
I thought I could escape,
But then I finally felt the weight,
Of my crimes.
It's passion. It's not love.
Infatuation never ends up right.
At least I won't be alone tonight.
'Cuz I don't want to be alone tonight.

The prosecution rests,
With convincing evidence.
It seems I've been deceived.
So now I stand alone and wait for the first stone,
To be cast upon me.

My verdict has come in,
It says I'm guilty for my sins this time.
I thought I could escape,
But then I finally felt the weight of my crimes.
It's passion. It's not love.
Infatuation never ends up right.
At least I won't be alone tonight.
'Cuz I don't want to be alone tonight.
If convicted, I will surely do my time.

At least I won't be alone tonight.
'Cuz I don't want to be alone tonight.

Do I have nothing good left to say
Do I need whiskey to start fueling my complaints
People love to drink their troubles away
Sometimes I feel that I'd be better off that way

'Cause maybe then I could sleep at night
I wouldn't lie awake until the morning light
This is something that I'll never control
My nerves will be the death of me, I know

So here's to living life miserable
And here's to all the lovely stories that I've told
Maybe drinking wine will validate my sorrow
Every man needs a muse and mine could be the bottle

Maybe then I could sleep at night
I wouldn't lie awake until the morning light
This is something that I'll never control
My nerves will be the death of me, I know

Finally I could hope for a better day
No longer holding on to all the things that cloud my mind
Maybe then the weight of the world wouldn't seem so heavy
But then again, I'll probably always feel this way

At least I know I'll never sleep at night
I'll always lie awake until the morning light
This is something that I'll never control
My nerves will be the death of me, I know

There's a funeral procession on the highway
traffic screeches to a halt
there's people searching for a better way
to live their lives

johnny lived a good life you'll hear them say
as tears of sadness soak the ground
the reaper crept in, took his breath away
in the middle of the night

We celebrate the lives of the dead
it's like a man's best party
only happens when he dies
we gather round to pay our respects
while their souls are still searching for the light

so please don't come to me on my dying day
just let me go in peace.
with all the things that i forgot to say
racing through my mind

don't you bury me six feet under ground
just burn my body in a box
and let my ashes blow with the wind
out into the night sky

We celebrate the lives of the dead
it's like a man's best party
only happens when he dies
we gather round to pay our respects
while their souls are still searching for the light

searching for the light.

And I awoke
Only to find my lungs empty
And through the night, so it seems I'm not breathing
And now my dreams are nothing like they were meant to be
And I'm breaking down, I think I'm breaking down

And I'm afraid, to sleep because of what haunts me
Such as living with the uncertainty
That I'll never find the words to say which would completely explain
Just how I'm breaking down

Someone come and, someone come and save my life
Maybe I'll sleep when I am dead
But now it's like the night is taking up sides
With all the worries that occupy the back of my mind
Could it be? This misery will suffice

I've become the simple souvenir of someone's kill
Like the sea I'm constantly changing from calm to ill
Madness fills my heart and soul
As if the great divide could swallow me whole
Oh, how I'm breaking down

Someone come and, someone come and save my life
Maybe I'll sleep when I am dead
But now its like the night is taking up sides
With all the worries that occupy the back of my mind
Could it be? This misery will suffice

Someone come and, someone come and save my life (save my life)
Someone come and, someone come and save my life (save my life)
Someone come and, someone come and save my life
Could it be? This misery will suffice

A coma might feel better than this,
attempting to discover where to begin.
You're weighed down, you're full of something.
Of sickness, and desertion.
You're weighed down, you're full of something,
you're underneath it all.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

Hoping a better place is all I need,
with moments of innocence and mystery.
Oh, it's the little things you miss.
Like waking up all alone.
Oh, it's the little things you miss,
when you're underneath it all.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

All your friends seem like enemies
when you're broken down and empty.
All your friends seem like enemies
when you're broken down and empty.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

How much would you bet
that if I tried hard enough
I would spontaneously combust?

I wish I could disappear
and run away from all of my fears.
I think I'm coming undone.

So stay the night.
I promise that I won't bite.
'cause without you there,
I don't think I can close my eyes.

How did I end up this way?
A constant knot in my gut,
tied with uncertainty and with lust.

A classic case, I suppose,
a haunted man who can't outrun his ghosts.
They're in my skin and my bones.

So stay the night.
I promise that I won't bite.
'cause without you there,
I don't think I can close my eyes.

And now I sing.

You need not to climb mountain tops
you need not to cross the sea
you need not to find a cure
for everything that makes you weak

you need not to reach for the stars
when life becomes so dark
and when the wind does blow against the grain
you must follow your heart

you must follow your heart

all your friends have come and gone
and the sun no longer shines
and the happiness for which you long
is washed away like an oceans tide

when all the hard times outweigh the good
and all your words are misunderstood
when the day seems lost from the start
you must follow your heart

you must follow your heart

If you feel you've paid the price
and your wounds should cease to heal
and everything you love in life
spins like a winding wheel

if you should wake to find your abandoned
and the road you traveled leads to a dead end
when death creaps in to play it's part
you must follow your heart.

you must follow your heart.

I wish I
Could do better by
You, 'cause that's what you deserve
You sacrifice
So much of your life
In order for this to work

While I'm off chasing my own dreams
Sailing around the world
Please know that I'm yours to keep
My beautiful girl

And when you cry
A piece of my heart dies
Knowing that I may have been the cause
If you were to leave
Fulfill someone else's dreams
I think I might totally be lost

You don't ask for no diamond rings
No delicate strings of pearls
That's why I wrote this song to sing
My beautiful girl

Oooh...

1, 2
1, 2, 3, 4

I wish I
Could do better by
You, 'cause it's what you deserve
You sacrifice
So much of your life
In order for this to work

While I'm off chasing my own dreams (my own dreams)
And sailing around the world (around the world)
Please know that I'm yours to keep
My beautiful girl

And when you cry
A piece of my heart dies
Knowing that I may have been the cause
If you were to leave
And fulfill someone else's dreams
I think I might totally be lost

But you don't ask for no diamond rings (diamond rings)
No delicate string of pearls (string of pearls)
That's why I wrote this song to sing
My beautiful girl

Ohh...

But you don't ask for no diamond rings (diamond rings)
No delicate string of pearls (string of pearls)
That's why I wrote this song to sing
My beautiful girl

I get so distracted
By some people's reactions
I don't see my own faults
For what they are.

I get so distracted
By some peoples reactions
That I don't see my own faults
For what they are
For what they are

At times so self destructive
With no intent on moulding
But behind this emotion
My sensible heart
My sensible heart

See I'm no king, I wear no crown
But desperate times seem over now
But still I weaken somehow
And it tears me apart
It tears me apart

I hope to learn as time goes by
That I should trust what's deep inside
Burning bright, oh burning bright
My sensible heart
My sensible heart
My sensible heart
My sensible heart.

Ooh...

Love of mine
Won't you lay by my side
And rest your weary eyes
Before we're out of time?

Give me one last kiss
For soon, such distance
Will stretch between our lips
Now the day's losing light

Ooh...

Bring me your love tonight
Bring me your love tonight

Lost at sea
My heartbeat was growing weak
Hoping you'd hear my plea
And come save my life

As the storm grew fierce
An angel was certainly near
I knew there was nothing to fear

Bring me your love tonight
Bring me your love tonight
No, I am not where I belong
Bring me your love tonight

No, I am not where I belong
So shine a light and guide me home
No, I am not where I belong
So shine a light, guide me back home

Ooh...

Please believe in what I say
Cause I'm running out of ways to convey
This lack of faith in myself
That's becoming my own personal hell

Vicious cold now settles in
My bones feel like their breaking through my skin
Well god damn you you're feeding on my loneliness
What an awful way to live, what a way to live

Get me out of this place
Cause I'm stuck in a rut and I can't stomach the taste
My lungs are filling up with dust
I feel bruised and broken with no one left to trust

Vicious cold now settles in
My bones feel like their breaking through my skin
God damn you you're feeding on my loneliness
But I will not let you in, I won't let you in

I don't need to know
Why the oceans blue or how the flowers grow
I don't need to love
Waiting on someone to forgive me for my sins

Like my father before me
I'm a working man a working man

But I don't need to believe in something that won't save my sanity

No I don't need I don't need to know no I don't need to know
I don't need to know I don't need to know

I don't want to live in a world where faces change from day to day
I don't want my life to be
So full of doubt and misery

The years now past without a trace
It's something that I'm learning to embrace
How most black nights are spent awake
Think about how I don't want to live that way

No I don't want to live
I don't want to live

I don't know but I've been told
If you don't believe the devil owns your soul
If this is the truth then to hell I go
Cause I don't need to know

So i cross my heart
and hope to die
before i have
the chance to lie
to you my dear
whom i wish no harm
but i know in the end
this will turn out wrong
see i've been known
to fall in love
but sometimes love
just is not enough
and my heart will stray
before too long
so please forgive me
for when i sing
this song

I've been up for days,
Trying to find a way to write this confession down.
Seems every line I write's amiss,
At least this I'll admit.
For what I've done I am not proud.
But there's no need to pretend,
No need for innocence.
I've got to be honest now.

My verdict has come in,
It says I'm guilty for my sins this time.
I thought I could escape,
But then I finally felt the weight,
Of my crimes.
It's passion. It's not love.
Infatuation never ends up right.
At least I won't be alone tonight.
'Cuz I don't want to be alone tonight.

The prosecution rests,
With convincing evidence.
It seems I've been deceived.
So now I stand alone and wait for the first stone,
To be cast upon me.

My verdict has come in,
It says I'm guilty for my sins this time.
I thought I could escape,
But then I finally felt the weight of my crimes.
It's passion. It's not love.
Infatuation never ends up right.
At least I won't be alone tonight.
'Cuz I don't want to be alone tonight.
If convicted, I will surely do my time.

At least I won't be alone tonight.
'Cuz I don't want to be alone tonight.

Do I have nothing good left to say
Do I need whiskey to start fueling my complaints
People love to drink their troubles away
Sometimes I feel that I'd be better off that way

'Cause maybe then I could sleep at night
I wouldn't lie awake until the morning light
This is something that I'll never control
My nerves will be the death of me, I know

So here's to living life miserable
And here's to all the lovely stories that I've told
Maybe drinking wine will validate my sorrow
Every man needs a muse and mine could be the bottle

Maybe then I could sleep at night
I wouldn't lie awake until the morning light
This is something that I'll never control
My nerves will be the death of me, I know

Finally I could hope for a better day
No longer holding on to all the things that cloud my mind
Maybe then the weight of the world wouldn't seem so heavy
But then again, I'll probably always feel this way

At least I know I'll never sleep at night
I'll always lie awake until the morning light
This is something that I'll never control
My nerves will be the death of me, I know

There's a funeral procession on the highway
traffic screeches to a halt
there's people searching for a better way
to live their lives

johnny lived a good life you'll hear them say
as tears of sadness soak the ground
the reaper crept in, took his breath away
in the middle of the night

We celebrate the lives of the dead
it's like a man's best party
only happens when he dies
we gather round to pay our respects
while their souls are still searching for the light

so please don't come to me on my dying day
just let me go in peace.
with all the things that i forgot to say
racing through my mind

don't you bury me six feet under ground
just burn my body in a box
and let my ashes blow with the wind
out into the night sky

We celebrate the lives of the dead
it's like a man's best party
only happens when he dies
we gather round to pay our respects
while their souls are still searching for the light

searching for the light.

And I awoke
Only to find my lungs empty
And through the night, so it seems I'm not breathing
And now my dreams are nothing like they were meant to be
And I'm breaking down, I think I'm breaking down

And I'm afraid, to sleep because of what haunts me
Such as living with the uncertainty
That I'll never find the words to say which would completely explain
Just how I'm breaking down

Someone come and, someone come and save my life
Maybe I'll sleep when I am dead
But now it's like the night is taking up sides
With all the worries that occupy the back of my mind
Could it be? This misery will suffice

I've become the simple souvenir of someone's kill
Like the sea I'm constantly changing from calm to ill
Madness fills my heart and soul
As if the great divide could swallow me whole
Oh, how I'm breaking down

Someone come and, someone come and save my life
Maybe I'll sleep when I am dead
But now its like the night is taking up sides
With all the worries that occupy the back of my mind
Could it be? This misery will suffice

Someone come and, someone come and save my life (save my life)
Someone come and, someone come and save my life (save my life)
Someone come and, someone come and save my life
Could it be? This misery will suffice

A coma might feel better than this,
attempting to discover where to begin.
You're weighed down, you're full of something.
Of sickness, and desertion.
You're weighed down, you're full of something,
you're underneath it all.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

Hoping a better place is all I need,
with moments of innocence and mystery.
Oh, it's the little things you miss.
Like waking up all alone.
Oh, it's the little things you miss,
when you're underneath it all.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

All your friends seem like enemies
when you're broken down and empty.
All your friends seem like enemies
when you're broken down and empty.

So say goodbye to love,
and hold your head up high.
There's no need to rush
we're all just waiting, waiting to die.

How much would you bet
that if I tried hard enough
I would spontaneously combust?

I wish I could disappear
and run away from all of my fears.
I think I'm coming undone.

So stay the night.
I promise that I won't bite.
'cause without you there,
I don't think I can close my eyes.

How did I end up this way?
A constant knot in my gut,
tied with uncertainty and with lust.

A classic case, I suppose,
a haunted man who can't outrun his ghosts.
They're in my skin and my bones.

So stay the night.
I promise that I won't bite.
'cause without you there,
I don't think I can close my eyes.

And now I sing.

How much would you bet
that if I tried hard enough
I would spontaneously combust?

I wish I could disappear
and run away from all of my fears.
I think I'm coming undone.

So stay the night.
I promise that I won't bite.
'cause without you there,
I don't think I can close my eyes.

How did I end up this way?
A constant knot in my gut,
tied with uncertainty and with lust.

A classic case, I suppose,
a haunted man who can't outrun his ghosts.
They're in my skin and my bones.

So stay the night.
I promise that I won't bite.
'cause without you there,
I don't think I can close my eyes.

And now I sing.

You need not to climb mountain tops
you need not to cross the sea
you need not to find a cure
for everything that makes you weak

you need not to reach for the stars
when life becomes so dark
and when the wind does blow against the grain
you must follow your heart

you must follow your heart

all your friends have come and gone
and the sun no longer shines
and the happiness for which you long
is washed away like an oceans tide

when all the hard times outweigh the good
and all your words are misunderstood
when the day seems lost from the start
you must follow your heart

you must follow your heart

If you feel you've paid the price
and your wounds should cease to heal
and everything you love in life
spins like a winding wheel

if you should wake to find your abandoned
and the road you traveled leads to a dead end
when death creaps in to play it's part
you must follow your heart.

you must follow your heart.

I get so distracted
By some peoples reactions
That I don't see my own faults
For what they are
For what they are

At times so self destructive
With no intent on moulding
But behind this emotion
My sensible heart
My sensible heart

See I'm no king, I wear no crown
But desperate times seem over now
But still I weaken somehow
And it tears me apart
It tears me apart

I hope to learn as time goes by
That I should trust what's deep inside
Burning bright, oh burning bright
My sensible heart
My sensible heart
My sensible heart
My sensible heart.

Ooh...

Love of mine
Won't you lay by my side
And rest your weary eyes
Before we're out of time?

Give me one last kiss
For soon, such distance
Will stretch between our lips
Now the day's losing light

Ooh...

Bring me your love tonight
Bring me your love tonight

Lost at sea
My heartbeat was growing weak
Hoping you'd hear my plea
And come save my life

As the storm grew fierce
An angel was certainly near
I knew there was nothing to fear

Bring me your love tonight
Bring me your love tonight
No, I am not where I belong
Bring me your love tonight

No, I am not where I belong
So shine a light and guide me home
No, I am not where I belong
So shine a light, guide me back home

Ooh...

Please believe in what I say
Cause I'm running out of ways to convey
This lack of faith in myself
That's becoming my own personal hell

Vicious cold now settles in
My bones feel like their breaking through my skin
Well god damn you you're feeding on my loneliness
What an awful way to live, what a way to live

Get me out of this place
Cause I'm stuck in a rut and I can't stomach the taste
My lungs are filling up with dust
I feel bruised and broken with no one left to trust

Vicious cold now settles in
My bones feel like their breaking through my skin
God damn you you're feeding on my loneliness
But I will not let you in, I won't let you in

I don't need to know
Why the oceans blue or how the flowers grow
I don't need to love
Waiting on someone to forgive me for my sins

Like my father before me
I'm a working man a working man

But I don't need to believe in something that won't save my sanity

No I don't need I don't need to know no I don't need to know
I don't need to know I don't need to know

I don't want to live in a world where faces change from day to day
I don't want my life to be
So full of doubt and misery

The years now past without a trace
It's something that I'm learning to embrace
How most black nights are spent awake
Think about how I don't want to live that way

No I don't want to live
I don't want to live

I don't know but I've been told
If you don't believe the devil owns your soul
If this is the truth then to hell I go
Cause I don't need to know

I heard the church bells from afar,
But we found each other in the dark.
And when the smoke does finally pass
We will rise above all the ash.

Cause we're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
At last.

So bright, the flames burned in our hearts,
That we found each other in the dark.
Black beast, out in the wilderness
We are fighting to survive and convalesce.

But we're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
Like the rest.

Through the black soulless water,
And the cold lonely air.
On the rock restless seas,
The vessel in deep disrepair.
And the swans they started singing,
But then oh, rejoice!
I can still hear your voice.

Then I heard the church bells from afar
But we found each other in the dark.

Can you imagine all the homes abandoned and all alone?
With no one left to care for them, wilting in moss.
The paint is peeling off the walls.
The corners are filled up with dust.
Cigarette smoke hangs in the air,
And the grass ain't growing like it did long ago.

Whether a natural disaster ripped it from its foundation
Or an economic tragedy tore apart its family
They're all empty.

The pipes have long since seized.
The windows are all boarded up.
There's no electricity flowing through these lifeless veins.
Cracks are running down the walls
Where picture frames used to hang.
A hint of heartbreak still lingers in the air,
And weeds have choked the breath out of it long ago.

Whether a natural disaster ripped it from its foundation
Or and economic tragedy tore apart its family
They're all empty.
They're all empty.

I fear I'll die from complications, complications due to things that I've left undone
That all my debts will be left unpaid, feel like a cripple without a cane
I'm like a jack of all trades who’s a master of none

Then there's my father he's always looking on the bright side
Saying things like “Son life just ain’t that hard”
He is the grand optimist, I am the world’s poor pessimist
You give him burdens sometimes and he will escape unscarred

I guess I take after my mother, I guess I take after my mother

But I used to be quite resilient, gained no strength from counting the beads on a rosary
And now the wound has begun to turn, another lesson that has gone unlearned
But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy

I guess I take after my mother, I guess I take after my mother
I guess I take after my mother, I guess I take after my mother

What if I can't be all that you need me to be
We've got a good thing going, we have some promises to keep
But my addiction it can be such a detriment
Please believe in this my dear, I am more than penitent

What if everything’s just the way that it will be
Could it be that I am meant to cause you all this grief
My war ships are lying off the coast of your delicate heart
And my aim is steady and true as it's been right from the start

There's a degree of difficulty in dealing with me
From my haunted past comes a daunting task of living through memories.
If we could just hang a mirror on the bedroom wall, stare into the past and forget it all

So when we leave it'll be a quick midnight escape
We'll disconnect ourselves from all of yesterday
I'll dig for water and fashion our very own wishing well
Then we'll throw our coins down hoping to rid of us of this little hell

There's a degree of difficulty in dealing with me
From my haunted past comes a daunting task of living through memories.
If we could just hang a mirror on the bedroom wall, stare into the past and forget it all

Will we get out of this little hell
Will we get out of this little hell
Will we get out of this little hell
Will we get out of this little hell

When she sleeps there is a fever dream, yeah
It brings the night terrors to harm this fragile bird
She speaks in tongues, the words they come undone, yeah
Then with a wayward mind she struggles through the night

All that I can do, is hope she makes it through the night
Through the night

These cold nightmares they make her worse for wear
Lost in the dark, she's got a heavy heart
And when she wakes in her fragile state,
Well, she calls my name hoping that I keep her safe

All that I can do, is hope she makes it through
All that I can do, is hope she makes it through

Through the night
Through the night
Through the night
Through the night

All that I can do, is hope she makes it through
All that I can do, is hope she makes it through
Through the night

You're the Northern Wind
Sending shivers down my spine
You're like fallen leaves
In an autumn night

You're the lullaby
Singing me to sleep
You are the other half
You're like the missing piece

Oh my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
You don't know
What you do to me

You are all four seasons
Rolled into one
You're like the cold December snow
In the warm July sun

I'm the jet black sky
That's just before the rain
Like the mighty current
Pulling you under the waves

Oh my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
You don't know
What you do to me

I'm the darkest hour
Just before the dawn
I'm slowly sinking
Into the the slough of despond

Like an old guitar
Worn out and left behind
I have stories still to tell
Of the healing kind

Oh my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
If I could just find you tonight
If I could just find you tonight
Oh my love

Do do do

O' sister,
What's wrong with your mind?
You used to be, so strong and stable.

My sister, What made you fall from grace?
I'm sorry that I, was not there to catch you.
What have the demons done?
What have the demons done with the luminous light,
That once shined from your eyes?
What makes you feel so alone?
Is it the whispering ghosts, that you fear the most?

But the blackness in your heart won't last forever.
I know it's tearing you apart,
But it's a storm you can weather.

O' sister,
Those lines etched in your hands
They're hardened and rough
Like a road map of sorrow

My sister,
There is a sadness on your face.
You're like a motherless child, whose longing for comfort.

What's running through your veins, that's causing you such pain?
Does it have something to do, with the pills they gave to you?
What is eating at your soul?
Was it the whispering ghost, that left you out in the cold?

But the blackness in your heart, won't, last forever.
I know it's tearing you apart
But it's a storm you can weather.

Oooooh Oooooh Oooooh Oh
O' sister,
My sister.

Come close, lay next to me

Come close, lay next to me
I need to tell you something important

So stay close, remain next to me
I need to feel important

Because it's your eyes I don't believe
And my heart, you will, you will mislead
Do you know the consequence that comes with having such confidence?

Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and walk away from me

So what is this now, you ask of me?
What's makes your pain such an urgency?
Now I want out, so plain to see
Once again my dear, a brand new tragedy

Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and you walk away from me
Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and you walk away from me

Bleeding all the strength from my life
Then you turn and you run away from me
You’re bleeding all the strength from my life
Then you turn and you run away from me

Sorrowing man, look how worn you've become,
You once were Lord of the baron sea
There’s blood on our hands, in this perfect madness,
you're living on borrowed time

Oh how you have lost your way
Oh how you have lost your way

There's no sympathy for we don't know the cure,
Cause what you've got, well it runs too pure
But you've lived and breathed more than any man I know
But you're not done, oh, at least, I hope

Oh how you have lost your way
Oh how you have lost your way
In this life what we have made together
Oh how you have lost your way

Oh how you have lost your way
Oh how you have lost your way

Last night I dreamt that they dropped a bomb
Oh the sea ran dry and the winds had calmed
Skyscrapers fell, they all turned to dust,
Their skeletons of steel were covered in rust

And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared
Oh everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

Colours were drained straight from the sky
And nothing living had survived
The mountains were merely removed from the earth
Silver and gold had lost all its worth

And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared
Oh everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

I woke from the dream in a cold, cold sweat
I was full of doubt and deep regret,
Suddenly it was so clear to me;
There was nothing left in which to believe

And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared
Oh everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

This highway's dark and empty.
Just miles and miles of endless road.
I've got a sickness pounding in my head.
I'm at the mercy of the ghost.

What will it take to live as if I would not another day?
To live without despair, and to be without disdain.
How can I instill such hope, but be left with none of my own?
What if I could sing just one song and it might save somebody's life?

I sought after, after reasons to stay.
I was lost, I was lost.
Then the sky turned black,
And the rains poured down.
I was waiting, waiting to be found. oh, no.

How can I instill such hope, but be left with none of my own?
What if I could sing just one song and it might save somebody's life?

Then I would sing all that I could sing
Cause that is when, when I feel that I'm not just counting time.
Oh when I sing all that I can sing
Maybe just for a moment things would seem all right.
Oh when I sing, oh when I sing
Oh when I sing, oh when I sing

Come close, lay next to me

Come close, lay next to me
I need to tell you something important

So stay close, remain next to me
I need to feel important

Because it's your eyes I don't believe
And my heart, you will, you will mislead
Do you know the consequence that comes with having such confidence?

Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and walk away from me

So what is this now, you ask of me?
What's makes your pain such an urgency?
Now I want out, so plain to see
Once again my dear, a brand new tragedy

Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and you walk away from me
Holding all the weight in my life
Then you turn and you walk away from me

Bleeding all the strength from my life
Then you turn and you run away from me
You’re bleeding all the strength from my life
Then you turn and you run away from me

There is a fire, burning in the ocean
With death black smoke and devil red flames
You can see it, burning from the valley,
Oh you can see it from the high planes

Well they went drillin'
Searching for black gold
To add more dollars to their names
Then one evening so suddenly and violent,
There was an explosion they can’t explain

Now the deep water horizon
Descends down to deaths door
And at the bird’s foot
They’ve lost all hope
Cause oil is a driftin'
For miles and miles
Poisoning the Gulf of Mexico

But what of the eleven
Men at the bottom,
Who sank to
An underwater grave?
And while they were sinking
And their lungs filled with oil,
They must have been screaming,
Screaming to be saved

But what of the eleven
Men at the bottom,
Who sank to
An underwater grave?
And while they were sinking
And their lungs filled with oil,
They must have been screaming,
Screaming to be saved.