WithoutWings::Swim

Believe
The day god closed her eyes my mother says she felt twenty angels that came through the window and helped him to fly my sisters wept and I stepped further from faith the most beautiful sky turned to grey but hey - the memories seem real it�s been years since I�ve prayed still insisting that I don�t want to feel like you feel I set it all on fire and watched the walls collapse I stand alone and tired now I want it back and even if everyone is a liar I don�t want to be within this silent choir I want to believe in something I want to believe in something When I close my eyes will they come for me will you not believe that I I�ve learned how to fly will I still be singing somewhere in heaven I wonder if angels can cry I hope they come for me I hope I see something I hope that I walk into the white light walk into the white light I set it all on fire and watched the walls collapse I stand alone and tired now I want it back even if everyone is a liar I don�t want to be within this silent choir I want to believe In something in something I want to believe to believe in something I said I I set it all on fire and watched the walls collapse I stand alone and tired now I want it back and even if everyone is a liar I don�t want to be within this silent choir I want to believe I want to believe in something I want to believe in something I want to believe in something but god closed her eyes I want to believe in something I want to believe in something I want to believe in something but god closed her eyes I want to believe in something I want to believe in something I want to believe in something but god closed her eyes we all want to believe in something I want to believe in something
Normal Life
I stood under ohio's skies I could see the open fields for miles I thought "what the hell am I doing back here again?" but now I'm trying to reassemble the things I kept and the pictures fade but I hope to resurrect the things that kept me sane back then in the backyard playing on the swingset dark green shoes off you can get your feet wet mom and dad sat quiet in the sunroom sundown, big moon, big sky. now I just want to live a normal life get a fast car and a pretty wife we could have children of our own settle down here until they're grown we could buy a house out on the beach and just die there, out of reach do you want to live do you want to live do you want to live a normal life with me live a normal life with me for years I cursed these dead end streets no where to go, no one to meet we only talked about the crazy woman down the road but everything makes much more sense now someday I'll have my own house I'll make enough to make it easier to pay the phone bill in the backyard playing on the swingset dark green shoes off you can get your feet wet my wife and i will sit quiet in the sunroom sundown, big moon, big sky. I just want to live a normal life get a fast car and a pretty wife we could have children of our own settle down here until they're grown we could buy a house out on the beach and just die there, out of reach do you want to live do you want to live do you want to live a normal life I'll watch the kids until you get home 4:58 and you're on the phone coming back from work on friday wide-awake in the american dream I'll make the bed, you feed the cat could it really be as simple as that? (yeah) do you want to live do you want to live do you want to live a normal life with me do you want to live a normal life with me now I just want to live a normal life get a fast car and a pretty wife we could have children of our own settle down here until they're grown I just want to live a normal life get a fast car and a pretty wife we could have children of our own settle down here until they're grown we could buy a house out on the beach and just die there, out of reach do you want to live do you want to live do you want to live a normal life do you want to live do you want to live do you want to live a normal life do you want to live do you want to live a normal life with me?
Girlfriend
Room 421 an airport hotel I know I should be sleeping but it�s too soon to tell if I�ll fly out tomorrow if I�ll see her tomorrow I hope that I will. no place like alone and no sound like my own voice fading into this quiet december night but I�m doing alright I �ll make a phone call or two Could I get some room service please? send the maid in to see about a few things I need "Do you think you could bring me my girlfriend and a bottle of wine bring me a future just make sure it�s mine will you open the window but leave out the cold could you make a phone call to Jesus to clean up my soul" Miles from my own bed further from content I guess I should get used to this still rain on the runway but I�m doing okay I �ve got cigarettes to kiss "Could I get some room service please? I �m down on my knees I �m only here for tonight �cause they fucked up my flight serenading the wall and I thought I should call you to ask for it all for it all for it all Remember to Bring me my girlfriend and a bottle of wine bring me a future make sure it�s mine will you open the window but leave out the cold could you make a phone call to jesus to clean up my soul." Dial seven for a savior "is this soul keeping please... could you put me through to jesus I �ll pay your long-distance fees" he said "hello and god bless you. there�s a bible in the drawer." I said "that�s wonderful sir. but I don�t read it anymore" I don�t read it any more... Bring me my girlfriend and a bottle of wine bring me a future make sure it�s mine will you open the window but leave out the cold could you make a phone call to jesus to clean up my soul" bring me my girlfriend and a bottle of wine bring me a future just make sure it�s mine will you open the window but leave out the cold could you make a phone call to Jesus to clean up my soul" yeah could you bring me my girlfriend yeah bring me a smile Room 421 a cleveland hotel I know I should be sleeping but it�s too soon to tell if I�ll fly out tomorrow if I�ll see her tomorrow I hope that I will.
Bed of Ashes
Do you hear those distant voices and sounds through the flames the deafening drone of these clanking machines in the lights it�s the same we're trying to free the sculpture from the stone we'll take the rhythm from the throne if the radio is dying listen to me won't you listen to me I don�t want to lie in a bed of ashes I don�t want to burn in a midnight sun I don�t want to know if the system crashes I don�t want to go if it�s just begun I don�t want to lie in a bed of ashes I don't want to burn in the midnight sun in the midnight sun I scream like a madman in the morning no one heard a thing I had hoped for a more effective warning no one felt the sting someone's savior never saved take it away 'till there's nothing left to say the radio is dying listen to me won't you listen to me I don�t want to lie in a bed of ashes I don�t want to burn in a midnight sun i don�t want to know if the system crashes I don�t want to go if it�s just begun I don�t want to lie in a bed of ashes I don�t want to burn in the midnight sun in the midnight sun Dancing like a child will we feel at all or just smile in another pretty prison the wires frayed and broken free it's loud as hell but I don't want to listen is existentialism so desperate? condition may seem painful but it won't last I just march, march sometimes I get the last laugh Machines and dreams to make the choices for you machines and dreams I won't go out like that machines and dreams to make the choices for your machines and dreams-- I won't go out I don�t want to lie in a bed of ashes I don�t want to burn in the midnight sun I don�t want to know if the system crashes I don�t want to go if it�s just begun I don�t want to lie in a bed of ashes I don�t want to burn in a midnight sun I don�t want to know if the system crashes I don't want to go i don't want to go I don't want to lie I don't want to go I don't want to lie I don't want to go
Champagne
I want to dream you a beautiful dream. I want to hold you in the dark it would seem that no one sees me like you do no one moves the way you move and I can't see anything else I want to take you now. Honestly, you're killing me. And we're drinking cheap champagne alone in my room drinking your name, you wear my favorite perfume cheap champagne the flowers in bloom drinking your name champagne. Champagne If I was stronger I would take down the moon we could hang it up in the corner of your bedroom and if at night you could not sleep you could watch it shine like counting sheep and only I'll know where the moon has gone. I want to take you now. Honestly, your killing me. We're drinking cheap champagne alone in my room drinking your name, you wear my favorite perfume cheap champagne the flowers in bloom drinking your name champagne. Sitting on the floor of a spinning room the morning sun won't be coming too soon it's the way you look in that dress there's nothing I can taste that compares to you and nothing I can say that's quite as true as the gift you are. I confess... That I... I... I want to dream you a beautiful dream. I want to hold you in the dark it would seem that no one sees me like you do no one moves the way you move and I can't see anything else Champagne with you in my room drinking your name, you wear my favorite perfume cheap champagne the flowers in bloom drinking your name champagne. cheap champagne with you in my room drinking your name, you wear my favorite perfume champagne the flowers in bloom drinking your name champagne. Champagne
New Black Car
Waiting tables at your restaurant job an old man reads the paper in the booth where I stop to say hello when I�m in town to ask a friend if you�re around. And I think about those summer nights we never slept we didn't mind and I felt so alive and happy just sitting on the porch and swinging back and forth now everything seems so distant But I promise I�m not too far when you�re alone in your brand new car driving your new black car into the rain Are you listening to the radio are you driving down a city road are you alone in your new black car I imagine you there. I�m sitting by the window here the morning birds will reappear and I feel empty our songs are on the radio you call me up but I have to go and I�m sorry angel. I �m sorry. but I�ll call you right back I swear. you think I�ve left you there alone with an empty chair but I whisper your name Are you listening to the radio are you driving down a city road are you alone in your new black car I imagine you there. are you listening to the radio are you driving down a city road are you alone in your new black car the wind in your hair Are you tired of watching the rain hit the glass all alone but aware of the places we've passed together we were singing along to the songs are you now? are you now? I'm thinking of you in your college town are you thinking of me as you're driving around are you listening to me? are you listening? Are you listening to the radio are you driving down a city road are you alone in your new black car I imagine you there. are you listening to the radio are you driving down a winding road are you alone in your new black car the wind in your hair alone in your new black car I imagine you there driving your new black car the wind in your hair Are you listening to the radio are you listening to the radio are you listening to the radio are you listening to the radio
Start Again
1,2,1,2,3 Go! Woo She said "is anything wrong?" and I tried to look away she said I think we should put it down where secrets lay I think we finally know that this won't fill the space it's over, it's nothing, it's now the heaviest silence erased, hey hey If you love me fucking let me go. I will begin to turn it around try to start again and watch it come down I will begin to turn it around try to start again and watch it come down Come down woo come down She said "I'll take you home" I packed up my things I knew I couldn't handle the words and the deep regret they bring I think we finally know that this won't fill the space it's over it's nothing it's now it was more than we could face, hey hey. If you love me fucking let me go. I will begin to turn it around try to start again and watch it come down I will begin to turn it around try to start again and watch it come down Come down come woo come down Come down Start again start again start again Why do I find myself here again you disappeared with no last words I tried to keep you near. but like he who stood before the open sea, you rose your god damn hands and fucking parted me. but I can start again. I can try again. I can always break but I can never bend. you could lie again never to find again. it was your mistake but I will start again I will begin to turn it around try to start again and watch it come down I will begin to turn it around try to start again and watch it come down I... I... I... will start again Woo come down.
Without Wings
I remember when I only cried when I fell down everything was either black or white but it's gray now Iremember when I learned of love and the way she sings like the hurt and the sting when they're tearing off your wings and they won't tell you why but you'll never learn to fly and if you feel like i do then you've seen it too I've seen angels Iknow time changes almost everything I've seen angels without wings without wings I remember when the sun fell down across a perfect sky we lit the candles but they all burnt out and it was a long night I remember when I learned of death and the weight of time and the weight of time I remember when I only cried when I fell down every now and then I still feel like I'm on the cold ground looking up at all the things I've lost taking comfort in the things I've found in the things i've found like the hurt and the sting when they're tearing off your wings and they won't tell you why but you'll never learn to fly and if you feel like i do then you've seen it too I've seen angels I know time changes almost everything I've seen angels I've seen angels like the hurt and the sting when they're tearing off your wings and they won't tell you why but you'll never learn to fly and if you feel like I do then you've seen it too I've seen angels Iknow time changes almost everything I've seen angels I've seen angels without without without without wings without without without wings without without without wings without ... without wings
Meteor Flower
Meteor flower you settled in my life shine among the cut-out stars and fireflies singing careful songs across a technicolor night signals stronger pass between our silver satellites I think I want to fly away with you but for now I'm afraid, I'll hold you close it's all I can do. Write our names across the galaxy meteor flower I'll hold the stars above your life I'll be your sweet or sour I could be right there in your perfect stare I'll be your every hour write our names across the galaxy meteor flower Meteor flower you settled in my night flashing bright among a field of fireflies dreaming careful dreams that everyone thought wouldn't last spinning spider webs around the dying stars we pass I think I want to fly away with you but for now i'm afraid, I'll hold you close it's all I can do. Write our names across the galaxy meteor flower I'll hold the stars above your life I'll be your sweet or sour I could be right there in your perfect stare I'll be your every hour write our names across the galaxy In your whisper I get lost on a stormy sea I'm tossed around 'till nothing else is right it was a million miles of empty space before I found a warmer place orbiting a home up in your sky up in your sky Write our names across the galaxy meteor flower I'll hold the stars above your life I'll be your sweet or sour Icould be right there in your perfect stare I'll be your every hour write our names across the galaxy I could hold the stars above your life I'll be your sweet or sour we could write our names across the galaxy. Write our names across we could write our names across we could write our names across the galaxy meteor flower meteor meteor flower meteor meteor flower we could write our names across the galaxy
And Gomorra
I could feel from miles away the time you spent and the games you played in his eyes and his name upon your tongue but I kept walking Through the pain and the desert sand through the night as you took his hand I found a way to remind you how it was to remind you how it was So long ago so long ago yeah Let's walk away from the valley there's no life in here anymore let's pack our hopes and our dreams away and just walk through that door Now we're marching miles until the sky will rest until we're free, and we're safe unless you turn around to see it all fall no we can't look back She said "I know" I know she said I know I know she said I know she said I know she said I know that we can't look back Now our burning city lighting up the night now our burning god takes away our sight all those fallen angels came a little late our forgotten god never hesitates hesitates Trust in me trust in me I will give you life take my hand take my hand I will clean your eyes trust in me trust in me I will give you life close your eyes close your eyes from Gomorra's skies From Gomorra's skies She said "I know" she said I know she I know that we can't look back. no we can't look she said I know no we we can't look back Now our burning city lighting up the night now our burning god takes away our sight all those fallen angels came a little late our forgotten god never hesitates Trust in me trust in me I will give you life take my hand take my hand I will clean your eyes trust in me trust in me I will give you life close your eyes close your eyes from Gomorra's skies From Gomorra's skies Trust in me trust in me I will give you life
Anything But Beautiful
Awaken to a world devoid of hope and faith I don't want to look anymore I turn it off but it won't go away. the pain of a high school end the rest in a young suicide the media drawing in an escape from a young girl's life from a young girl's life. And we're falling further every day now our tallest towers sway I�m holding on in this world of decay and I�ve realized that this is anything but beautiful anything but beautiful this is anything but beautiful anything but beautiful. Awaken to a day the fear in the eyes of a boy the cold of a hospital stay where a child is a cancer�s toy and if the angel for the lord is the angel with the sword I don�t believe that anymore I just don't believe that still holding on for a chance to be strong Falling further every day now our tallest towers sway I �m holding on in this world of decay and I�ve realized this is anything but beautiful anything but beautiful this is anything but beautiful anything but beautiful. Somebody hold my eyes closed somebody make the snow and the rain one step from the fall don�t you know looking for heaven but the light never came somebody keep my head turned give me a soul for a piece of the wire I came for a god but it all burned down in the fire Falling further everyday now our deepest oceans dry we�re holding on in this world of decay I've realized open your eyes this is anything but beautiful this is anything but beautiful anything but beautiful a world anything but beautiful anything but anything but anything but beautiful anything but anything but beautiful anything but anything but beautiful anything but beautiful
Washed Away
There was blue green clay on the banks that day as we left the world behind it was upstream then like it's upstream now in this livelong outside there's a trestle across the water like my hands across that year for a moment the green was mine And our footsteps worn from years of rain and it held my hand like it holds my name and my childhood born and the difference the water washed away the water washed away I'm bruised and red from the pain of rock stepping stones until I fall and daggers when I land a roman candle in my hand was a weapon to the outside and I walked in my father's wake I prayed to a god to take the endlessness of those shores And our footseps worn from years of rain and he held my hand he still holds my name and my childhood born and the difference We let the water wash away the water washed away The water washed away the water washed away the water washed away the water took it all all away Those sacred trails by the waterside left to other souls(soles) without love or hate they're bleeding the everything they're soiling the brilliant green and I'm drowning for the water's sake our footsteps worn from years of rain and he held my hand and I still hold his name and my childhood born and the difference I let the water wash away The water washed away Let the water wash away I let the water wash away The water washed away Washed it all The water washed it all away I let the water wash away I let the water wash away The water washed away away Water washed it all away washed it all away away The water washed away the water washed away the water washed away take it all away all away There was blue green clay on the banks that day as we left the world behind