.jaguar pride. written may 1999. found on "the way we were 1998-1999" split with the simpletons story behind the song
days are moving by its almost time for us to say goodbye i know when that bell rings on tuesday i will lose another friend nows my chance to say the things all year I had never had the strength thinking of all the times we had together next year i may not remember but i know I will keep secret day will come and i will keep it inside until the summer comes for me to cry about how i was dumb
.the brightest stars are airplanes. written june 1999. found on "the way we were 1998-1999" split with the simpletons story behind the song
one year twenty four days since you have left this town. back then i said i didnt care. i never thought my better days would leave along with you deep in my clothes i can still smell your hair. and now i wrote this song everyday since you left and still i cant get this feeling of my chest. it still feels like sixth grade frozen in my head because ive never been the same. now you came back to visit over easter break asked me out to meet your boyfriend damn does he lift weights. youve changed so much but so not at all and ive stayed the same weakened and small. the sad thing isnt that im still hung up its the fact that i cant give up. Im still trying to impress you half a state away and when i write you letters i look over every word i dont know how i should sign. whenever i see a girl i somehow think its you and whenever i make a wish its always about you. whenever im coming your always gone and ive tried so hard to write you this song but itll never be good enough and i pray that youll come running back but i know my time has passed and your gone from this town but youre never far from my heart and so much closer to my dreams.
.the part i was born to play. written october 1999. found on "the way we were 1998-1999" split with the simpletons story behind the song
not a day goes by that i dont start thinking about how things used to be and the thought has crossed my mind things will never end up how they should be do you realize when you walk with me to class the damage that it does the hopes put my head? i cant emphasize enough when you talk to me exclusively the trickery you do manipulative you maybe that kind of crap works back in greenbow, alabama but its not gonna work on me im sick of being strung along forever i will always be girls like you shouldnt be allowed to talk to me. and so the saga ventures on and on god knows how many years that its been going strong maybe this is the part i was born to play on the back of her line waiting for my day that i know wont come searching for lost hope dont give up i say im without lifeboat. ive been waiting all these years for something to happen someone to break im breaking up waiting on you holding out saving seats every days a constant battle ive been waiting all my life im going to die waiting.
.im never washing this hand again. written september 2000. unreleased. story behind the song ((coming soon))
i drove by your old house today and i started to think about us and life and everything and i began to realize that you can never really cherish anything because no matter how hard you try you cant appreciate the last few days so much saturdays stop getting longer and memories start getting stronger your always in my brain and i think it might be me who moves away all the time time zones and zip codes and hemispheres and its so weird to think at one time we were all just here under the same new port richey skies so when you packed up all your things i hope you saved a box for me. sometimes i think that not that far is awfully far enough and if absence makes the heart grow fonder think of how fond i will be of you dont understand how much i think of you and all our plans i guess we outgrew and now it seems visits from you at christmas time will do i thought wed be forever i still remember the last time i saw you i never said goodbye cause i knew that it would be the last time so i just said thanks for everything and watched you drive away ive been sorry since youre gone