| LIFE BETWEEN NOWHERES: THE LYRICS NIGHTMARES AND COFFEE Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson Verse 1: Would you please forgive me it is not always this bad But this last week has been the worst that I have ever had The evenings felt like mornings from the days that came before Last time that I checked there were still pieces on the floor Of my room, need to move I know It always feels like summer tries to kill me every year And winter brings me down so much I barely know I'm here But no one really talks to me so why should I still care Last time that I checked there were still pieces everywhere I can't sleep, digging deep a hole Chorus: Where we could run back to Tell each other how we barely made it through And there is nothing in this world I'd rather do Than share nightmares and coffee for two with you, whoa Verse 2: A letter from my mother and she said that things were bad A month after my birthday I got this year's check from Dad My classes are all useless cause I've heard it all before They say the dog has cancer it will cost a thousand more Or he'll be put to sleep, wish that could be me instead Went out to a show and I spent half the night in line The singer was melodramatic and the drummer kept no time My records are all scratching now the way they never have Thought that I was happy it was only delayed sad It's all such a waste, wish there was a place to go Chorus Bridge: What'll we do if it gets better? What'll we do when there's nothing left to mourn? What'll we do if this gets better? If it won't we can always hope there will always be a place for you and me Last Chorus Whoa (4x) MAYBE YOU'RE THE ONE Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson Verse 1: The night that I met you after I left In my room at home I handed off To your memory five times And I couldn't come, no I couldn't come I couldn't come still I can't Chorus: Maybe you're the one, maybe you're the one Maybe you are Verse 2: The night that I met you after we talked You completely subsumed every single thought In my big fat stupid head Thought I could be alone now I can't be alone Thought I could be alone now I can't Chorus Verse 3: The night that I met you I couldn't sleep Pulled my eyes shut closed but they wouldn't keep All I saw was your sweet face And I didn't mind, no I didn't mind No I didn't mind, how could I? Chorus(2x) Maybe you are GIRL ON TIME Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson We don't even try to hide there's nothing in our lives Such good girl and boy we only share our toys The rain that came and went stand in wet cement I see you far away give a pathetic wave Chorus: We get an F for effort, a D maybe for style The lack of something better that lasts more than a while Practice makes me nervous of all that I should say Meet me early morning out of the way though there's something I can't find but you're always the girl on time Lend you mine if you will yours and we won't be that much more When our endings always rust while our vinyl gathers dust Chorus COLLEGE NEWSPAPER ROMANCE Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson It was a Friday, you said your name could rhyme with niece Bakery line-up, talked out the menu piece by piece Had a good time, should have asked if you needed a ride We shared a paper at the overpriced cafe Talked about movies still had so much left to say When I had to leave, so how was your New Year's Eve? Chorus: I saw you, I saw you somewhere sometime in my life I'd like to see you again before they turn out the lights Chemistry classroom, I'm at the sink you just walk by Wanting to tell you, all of the things inside my mind That we could do, only if you were wanting too You were so pretty in your long black curly hair Smiled at each other at the pizza place in market square I was with friends. How about a drink or something? Chorus I'd love the chance to tell you where I've been all your life How I need you to save me. Buying flowers for myself isn't right Chorus BABY (YOU SHOULD BE) Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson Chorus: Baby, you should be somebody's baby and maybe just maybe That someone could be me Verse 1: Since I met you I just lie awake at night, afraid to sleep or dream And I wonder just what would it be like, if you were here with me Chorus Verse 2: Since I met you I've been losing hope I never thought I had And I wonder if you could cope, would it be so bad? Chorus Bridge: Though I know that you don't need me and I'm pretty sure that you don't care And if I stood in your doorway you wouldn't see me there Verse 3: Since I've met you I can't sleep at all, thinking nights away Would you pick up the phone if I made the call, and I hope you might say New Chorus: Baby, you should be somebody's baby and maybe just maybe You're the baby for me WHERE THE PARTY IS Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson Verse 1: The drunk and pretty girls stumble down the street in their stocking feet And as I walk past they look at me and laugh even if it's two thirty a.m. Just another night in my hollow life Verse 2: The Christian kids flock by, shout at me some words on their way to church It's all dust and noise from all the girls and boys, it can't get any worse But I won't be surprised if tomorrow I wake up blind Chorus: Is it just me or does it seem everybody knows where the party is but me? I have no clue, what can I do except keep walking through these streets? Verse 3: The girl stands at the door, beautiful and sick, pretty fading quick Smokes a cigarette without consequence as my hope inflicts Maybe it's the cold, but I am far too old to feel like this Chorus Bridge: Sit here alone and tossed No one gave directions now I'm lost How can I get across Chorus MOSTLY SHY Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson How unlucky can you be to be perfect for me? It's not your fault As we hide out in the hall leaning up against the wall An easy time Tell me how you're mostly shy when not drunk out of your mind You still seem fine Pretty okay with just one just like me but I'm no fun Still this feels all right Sorry that this happened that I even came at all Wish that I was smart enough to know I don't belong If there was something right to say I'd only get it wrong All along Here I am so sober and dumb Your words make sense though you think they make none While I try to hide my face from your eyes You look at me like you found a way inside So we walk back to your room in the quiet of the dark And run into the fools that tear our peace apart After all these little lines I start to feel alone But you noticed I was gone before I could really go How unlucky can you be to be perfect for me? HEAVY DOWN Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson Verse 1: There's no way to get around it No arms could reach around this Hope to starve through tomorrow Breaking promises today Verse 2: Grown too used to this silence Try to smile not to mind it Harder not to realize it Forgotten how it feels to fit Pre-chorus: Or even if I wanted to, but what's a boy to do It's not fair to want you Verse 3: Sometimes I want to push that toaster into the bath And maybe forget that I ever learned to swim Pre-chorus: If I couldn't who would care they wouldn't find it there When they don't see this now Somehow Chorus: Heavy Down like the sound of my life Never perfection but threw it away Heavy Down easy find and never leave Born with something in the way Heavy Down something worse than not at all Repeating tomorrow as today Verse 4: There's a reason for this hiding making up for all the lying Just admit this isn't trying So it's falling into full again Pre-chorus: Meant to be the easy say but there's no one else to blame For letting all it was turn into this Chorus There's no way to get around it (Heavy Down) No arms could ever reach around this (Heavy Down) 2x FALLING OVER SORRY Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson How many times have I tried for a reason? Just for something to show you that I'm here All choked up on this silence for so many seasons When you're around it's like I disappear Maybe it's all up to me but why say anything When nothing is so easy Seems every morning I'm waking up guilty You would be sickened if you knew that I exist Maybe it's weird my idea what love is If you pump my stomach I'll wrap your wrists But we'll never get that far when it takes too much To be near where you are So I'm Chorus: Falling over sorry as I fall all over you And there's nothing getting better every day I follow through And in my life it happens every time I would say I'm sorry but I can't apologize it's true cause I can't even seem to talk to you Just tripping up for a chance to be chosen Desperation for me is nothing new Wouldn't believe how long I've been frozen Grabbing for pieces of things that never do Counting blood stains on the ground Would she see me if she only looked down As I'm Chorus Almost a call But standing up tall Really only leaves me further to fall Chorus WASTED TOWN Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson Living in a wasted town where one way hills only go down the sky is black and the grass is brown in a wasted town Living in a wasted town where strung out kings all pawn their crowns Streets that only lead around in a wasted town While the kids get high, rotting trees fall hard And the pregnant girls wave in passing cars Living in a wasted town where fish can only dream to drown Drunk-tank's full of suicidal clowns in a wasted town Living in a wasted town where hope is in the lost and found Mommy buys the kids a round in a wasted town Where the water turns to beer from wine And the sun wants out of having to shine Living in a wasted town where queens drive regal trucks around Taking drugs to make the drugs go down in a wasted town Living in a wasted town where coughing is the only sound Wasted then and it's wasted now this wasted town Living in a wasted town where all the clocks have not been wound Want to leave but don't know how in a wasted town Far too wasted to get out To get out of this wasted town FOR NO ONE ELSE Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson So this is how it rots in the sunshine lately, cutting fingers up and breaking old bones Always nothing to do here lately, except smashing windows and kicking out stones But don't get caught with your hand in the shot cause it'll only look like you're faking Don't push me back just to see what can last when everything that was is always fading Chorus 1: Why did you have to go and leave me here alone with no one but myself? Why did you have to leave? I'm bleeding in the streets for no one else Open up to a punch-drunk morning, leave your sorry on the answer machine With my head halfway out of boring, running into all these memories So have your fun but the time will come when there will be nobody left to hold you But I'll be here, shaking with fear of everything outside my bedroom Chorus 1 Again And if you find after all this time that you can't make it through December I'll be there if you still care, waiting for you to remember New Chorus: Why did you ever go and leave me here alone where everything's not much? When you make it home you won't be alone, I'll be there to pick you up And no one else but you ALL THAT IS LEFT Lyrics and Music by Tim A. Thompson �Copyright 2000 Tim A. Thompson Is it easier to say that we meant it all this way Everything is as we dreamed So it seems it's all arrived made it through another night Without breaking up in two Maybe this is best taking what we find Dead at twenty six safe in bed by nine Are we old enough to know what to do and where to go Since free time is overlong Something worse to be for sure than whatever we almost were Now there's nothing to decide Wrapped up all these things closet-hid away Tomorrow could be bad but so could have today If evil should prevail I will be with you If true love only fails I will be with you If life should only pale I will be with you Even if it's true enough That all that's left is us And when the autumn fades I will be with you When nothing kills the pain I will be with you When nothing still remains I will be with you It can never be too much When all that's left is us All that's left is us |