1. Just Rock 'n' Roll

You can never tell me I shouldn't walk away. It's foolish to assume that I'll be coming back another day. You were never right and I was never wrong. Does truth lie in sincerity of another sullen song? Cause you were right then I should have been the one to release it, it's coming back to tease me but I was just born and you're pride was too strong. Can you change it? Are you willing to face it? You can tell your story and coat it any way but you will never change who you trying to play. Now your friends are falling out, they know you just don't care they know you never did. Because they say always the first one is never as good as the next. Hey, it's just rock and roll even though you might think you lost it all. Cause the times they are a changin and who can predict what's next? Hey, you lost control even though you might have thought you had it all and hey, it's just rock and roll and I'll never change I love it just the same. I'll never change because I love it just the same. Gosh I wish I could hate you the rest of my life. Gosh I wish I could hate you for the rest of my nothing would make me happier.

2. Direction

Run away when you are down, pick up the pace cause you fear the sound of mistakes that are getting closer every time. Keep on trying to escape your problems, problems keep on catching you. You should try to turn the other way - escape your lies. You run with no direction, can you find direction now? Say when you'll ever change. I'm hoping that you wont stay but I doubt it will come, I doubt you will change, I doubt that you want to anyway. Time is catching up to you. Time is catching up, you don't know what to do. Can you find direction now? You run with no direction.

3. Recluse

I've heard advice that anger soon subsides and you go on with your life and gain new insight but inside I'm thinking that just wont suffice. 'Cause I'm sure I'd like to take it back and kill it at the start. Yeah we're going far yeah it's from the heart. Yeah we're taking care of every single one of us. Who do you trust? If we could be recluse and I could inflict a lifetime of abuse, anywhere, I'd be killing you my, anger still persists and it will not desist until I manifest, on you. It will not desist until i manifest. Wouldn't it be swell to test how thin I wear when I remember you.

4. Another Boy

Have you found the person that you want to spend your life with? or do you want? Do you want another . . . You can't proscribe affection because you're scared to live about it do you want another boy? Can't erase the other one so we waste each other. Character lies in intent do you want another boy?

5. Let Go

I know you'll never lose what's lost inside you. You're burning down the bridges you've crossed and you're still around so nothing's certain. Just let go we deserve it if I could chose to start it over I'd exercise more discretion the lies are abound and nothing's certain. Do you have good intentions? Come on let go of those affectations. You don't fool anyone. Come on let go if you want to take on. The years won't say what happened to you. What gains have you earned what friends have you trampled over? When you're around nothing's certain. Just let go we deserve it. Come on and let go, come on and let go.

6. No Place Feels Like Home

Regrets are worthless, they misconstrue the past in sight and sound and as lines recede no one speaks a word of his lust a word of dreams that've been left to rust. The tv's on and everyone stays calm. As time has passed no one understands and to say the least the years have been unfair. I wanted to tell you I miss it. I just wanted to let you know the last year has helped me grow. I want to take you on the road, where we'll go i'll never know. Will you come along? It's easier when no place feels like home. I said I want out, I want to take you out of this and go to California 'cause I want to take you on a ride. I'll set things right, I know the direction in which to go. I'll set things right and say goodnight.

7. Such A Person

This isn't about you or the life she's lead through you. Just every passing day leaves me wondering what is really true. Expecting to find you sleeping soundly. Through and through sadness comes misplaced and ends are means by which to uncover truth. Happiness will come when you are with the one who can take you to places you never were, but always knew. I'm coming for the ride and you say it's too safe inside. You cannot realize it's taking time i'm taking it in stride. I'm sure it's safer inside, you just can't realize but you're such a person. Wake up every morning, every morning with her name in your head. You can survive but you say i'm not half what I wish I was. So much back then there is no end and no room for pretend feeling. Only this I cannot fathom it, there's no escape from uncertain fate. There is no excuse, why did this happen to you? Can our lives be made up from what's been left in time? You're feeling time crushing at the spine and you're tired and i'm tired we're so tired. Yeah you're tired inside. You just can't realize what's wrong or what it's like to be something on you've come a long way and I know everything feels gone. Will you see this through or will you say it's through? Everything seems so gone to you.

8. We Bring Us Down

If I shut my eyes, i'd never see you. The lies would vanish too. I'd have to squint to find truth what's right? The weight is huge to reach conclusions where were you when conscience called what a mess we're in now. Pulling out would be twice as hard than to live it all down. Bring us down.

9. Knew it all Along

You can say I knew it all along, that you were all I wanted to know. The pain has made you grow strong the scars inside have made you beautiful. Stop breathing for me you said it's your right to shun dependence and you shun and you're scared to accept someone to share your regrets. When you're aching you go it alone. When you want to you take what you need to make you whole. I know it's not easy, I know I can't feel through what you have been and trust don't come easy 'cause to trust is to depend and who wants to give up that part of them? You know you can have it if you want to. I'll find you unrelated, cultivated when you wake up incubated in me you're free to leave. If you knew it all along.

10. Come On

Step outside and listen. As you cut through the tension, the world is crumbling down around you. It's found you. When you woke up yesterday there was nothing left for me to say to you because you wanted me to be true. When all you feel is pain and somehow things have changed, i'll be coming, i'm coming home to you. When I forgot to call, you knew it all it was coming down on you. Will you still be waiting? that's something I can't ask you to be. Will you be still waiting? Yeah waiting for me, i'm waiting for and when you leave it all and you finally fall. I'll be coming down with you, i'm waiting for you. Something is wrong but I just can't put my finger on it, you never listened and you'll never listen. Now you know what i'm about. Is that sufficient? You never listened and you'll never listen. Now do you hear the words I say? It hurts when you talk that way, you say you'll listen cause you'd like to live together lives, but come on, you could have any other boy to take my place and hold when you're feeling all alone. How can you say that i'm supposed to stay when you talk on to me that way? Oh come on, now I cant see what i'm supposed to be but if you trust me it might turn out ok - it might what you gonna say? Soon i'm coming back, soon you wont be missing the days you never listened. I know I never lied so I wont leave out the pain 'cause you wanted me to be true.

11. Resting Sound

She's rising and i'm sinking. I'm losing sleep, she's resting sound in bed with such variety. I'm driving and she's finding that she'll survive when i'm long gone. Do I stay in your mind at least? There's so much time and nowhere left to go. She's overcompensating for what she can never let go of. There's so much time and nowhere left to go. Am I just an escape for time to pass through? She's lying and i'm thinking she's trying to forget it all. A memory of the past i'll be. I'm buying that she's trying. The threat is clear and growing strong. I dream to have such clarity, it's all i'm thinking about. I guess i'll figure it out i'll think i'll drink to each new lesson. Ignore the passing of days eventually i'll fade and in the end it's just a lesson.

12. Frayed Ends

You are the last one who can recognize his friends and nothing ever changes. You're always exchanging peace of mind for everything. You want everything. You want it all. I can see it in your eyes. I can see right through you, there's nothing to you. You conjure lies and you'll surround yourself with everyone who says what you need to feel all right everyone who speaks the words that make you perpetually contrived they say what you want to hear say what you want to hear what you want to why can't you be strong?

Midtown Lyrics