1. |
World Full Of Lovers
03:13
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Well I chose to be a rover
Untethered, free to roam
No needs or desires
To mind to aside from my own
Another quiet evening
Another night alone
Oh another night wondering
If maybe I waited to long
To open up the door
And let love stumble in
Would I even know
How to make it feel welcome again?
I was wondering alone
Through a world full of lovers
Wonderin' if I'd ever find a love of my own
It'd be years since I'd been driven
I sat out through the cold
Oh, faded and rusted
My shine had been
Dulled by the sun
But then you came along
And found my curb appeal
You buffed out the scratches
And polished the chrome
On the wheels
I was wandering alone
Through a world full of lovers
Wondering if I'd ever find
A love of my own
Oh I can't believe your blue eyes
Could see me as they do
I can't believe
I found a love so true
You saved me from the woe
I'd accepted as my fate
I guess good things really do
Come to those who wait
I was doomed to be a rover
Untethered, left to roam
No needs or desires
To mind aside from my own
So many quiet evenings
So many nights alone
So many nights wondering
If maybe I waited too long
But I opened up the door
And let love stumble in
You made it so easy
To make it feel welcome again
I was wandering alone
Through a world full of lovers
Then you came along
And gave me a love of my own
I was wandering alone
Through a world full of lovers
Then you came along
And gave me a love of my own
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I watched your love run empty
When you walked out long ago
Oh what a foolish thought
My draw could ever show
Another love gone unrequited
Like the time and time before
Trying to renovate my mind
Collect my heart from off the floor
Fed up with feeling heartache
I started building up a wall
Between myself and callow hopes
I'd ever find someone to hold
And after all I feel accustomed
To being happy on my own
I willed my heart to
Wake from dreaming
And callous into stone
I'm sorry if I led you down
A one way road of love
Never knew I had the means
To break a heart
Well you came back like a revenant
Spinning yarns of times of old
And of the qualms you carried round
From sweeping our love out the door
So we gave it another go 'round
It was clear how you adored
My every charm my every flaw
You thought our love was one accord
But I had spent to long perusing
How to lust for life alone
And now my mind
Just couldn't find
How reuniting could adorn
I'm sorry if I led you down
A one way road of love
Never knew I had the means
To break a heart
I spent my days just hoping
For a way to see a life
Where I could tell you dear
I'd love you til I died
I couldn't shake the whim
Of how convenient it would be
To find communion
In the one who's loving me
Well girl I know that I was selfish
I couldn't see how I'd become
The very thing I built a wall
To protect me from
Well you deserve someone
Who loves you
Baby just the way you are
And while it pains my heart to say
Girl it just ain't me
I'm sorry if I led you down
A one way road of love
Never knew I had the means
To break a heart
To break a heart
To break a heart
Whoa, whoa, to break a heart
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3. |
Once You Leave
06:57
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Your eyes had their fill
Of the city lights
Your head is more honed
For the dark country roads
Again you have grown
Unamused with life
Time to move on
Down the road down the road
Once again you've gone
And dug yourself a new rut
Buried with all the pain
That you felt before
It won't be long once you leave
You'll come to find your fears
Have found a way to follow
And it won't be long once you leave
Baby darlin'
Til the excitement over your new life
Ebbs to routine
You think things can change
If you just run away forever
But you'll be cryin', cryin' once again
Well you've built yourself up
An addiction
To clearing your card
And starting again
There's no need to feel fault
When you've got a reason
To not quite have your life
All sorted out
Steal to every edge
Of the world and start it over
But what you find in the mirror
Will never change
It won't be long once you leave
You'll come to find your fears
Have found a way to follow
And it won't be long once you leave
Baby darlin'
Til the excitement over your new life
Ebbs to routine
You think things can change
If you just run away forever
But you'll be cryin', cryin' once again
Is it change that you want
Or that old familiar feeling
Of the way that you felt
When you dreamed of what life could be
Swimming in the lies
Of the fantasies you're livin'
Just pretending to be all the things
You wish you could be
It won't be long once you leave
You'll come to find your fears
Have found a way to follow
And it won't be long once you leave
Baby darlin'
Til the excitement over your new life
Ebbs to routine
You think things can change
If you just run away forever
But you'll be cryin', cryin' once again
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4. |
I'm Not The One
02:41
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Oh I'm not the one
To tarry around when it's over
And I'm not the one
To cower away from despair
If you feel that your search isn't over
Darling, I will not stand in your way
I'll never be the one
To be your regret in the wait
Well I'm not the one
To atone guilt you feel for my dolor
Oh Oh, And I'm not the one
To bury my head in the sand
Don't lay your head down on my shoulder
Pondering lovers you let get away
No I'll never be the one
To let you shrug off your disgrace
Betrothed by my love's
Short trigger finger and yet
You doubt my ambition
To fight for us
And all that we had
But all that we had
You set fire and burned into ash
And scattered up into the clouds
On winds of change
What we had was just a charade
Oh Oh
Well I'm not the one
To pretend things will change
When you're older
Oh Oh and I'm not the one
To write off your wiles
As a phase
I don't want the love you have left over
From your dalliances lingering at bay
I'll never be the one
To dig up dead love from the grave
Oh Oh
Never dig up dead love from the grave
Oh Oh Oh
Oh Oh Oh
Never dig up dead love from the grave
Oh whoa
Oh Oh whoa
Never dig up dead love from the grave
No I'm not the one
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5. |
All I Need Is You
05:16
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Waiting on the day
When I can find a way
To tell you all I feel for you
How can I explain
You're everything I need
To get me through
It seemed that I'd been born
To walk the world alone
Watching other lovers' dreams come true
But now I'm trying to find a way
I'm trying to find a way
It'd take a million years
For me to say
Everything I'd give for
One more night with you
All the diamons all the pearls
And all the gold
I would hand over the world
I would sell my soul
Baby all I need is you
I'd come to surmise
I'd never need to find
The words I wanna say to you
My heart in disarray
Restored by solace you've imbued
I thought that I'd been born
To walk the world alone
Watching other lovers' dreams come true
But now I'm trying to find a way
Ooh, I'm trying to find a way
It'd take a million years
For me to say
Everything I'd give for
One more night with you
All the diamonds all the pearls
And all the gold
I would hand over the world
I would sell my soul
Baby all I need is you
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6. |
Hard For Me To Say
04:20
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You made your mind up long ago
To live you life with no
Indulgence left behind
But now the years are taking toll
And all the spoils you've collected are
Becoming too much weight
Well it's hard for me to say
When I know what makes you smile
Is everything that makes you fall away
But I hope it's not too late
For you to finally see the light
And the damage that you've done
Can't be erased
Along the way you lost control
Your dividends of decadence
Are fading fast with time
You've realized you're getting old
And now you're trying
To trade old memories
For a chance to make some more
Well it's hard for me to say
When I know what makes you smile
Is everything that makes you fall away
But I hope it's not too late
When you finally see the light
And the damage that you've done
Can't be erased
When you were young
The future felt like just a game
A game you mocked
While you set it ablaze
Numb yourself with selfish ways
While loved ones feel the pain
Watching what they love
Go up in flames
Well it's hard for me to say
When I know what makes you smile
Is everything that makes you fall away
But I hope it's not too late
When you finally see the light
And the damage that you've done
Can't be erased
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Commence the day's familiar haze
That's set in since you've gone
How do lonely days pile up so fast
When each one seems so long?
You tell me love still burns
But you're concerned
Soon we'll be read our last rites
I'm begging til then
Baby don't turn out the lights
Lying in the sunlight
That beams in between the blinds
Til the darkness trickles in
To steadily flood my bleary mind
You're afraid the sun
Will never come
Again to halt the night
I'm begging til then
Baby don't turn out the lights
I think back on my glory days
When hope shone down upon me
It seemed all of the world
Was at my beck and call
But now it's been so long
Since I've felt the warmth
Of someone's arms around me
Oh I really don't
Remember what it's like
Mine my mind for reasons why
I'd side my sheets to rise
With the pillow whispering in my ear
My hopes are only lies
Well the sky may fall
One day and pall
The world to its demise
I'm begging til then
Baby don't turn out the lights
I think back on my glory days
When hope shone down upon me
It seemed all of the world
Was at my beck and call
But now it's been so long
Since I've felt the warmth
Of someone's arms around me
Oh I really don't
Remember what it's like
You'd think that time
Would give us signs
To portend to the end
But I guess there is no sting
Until the bee pierces the skin
Well the earth ain't quakin'
And I don't hear no
Trumpets in the sky
I'm begging til then
Baby don't turn out the lights
I'm begging til then
Baby don't turn out the lights
I'm begging til then
Baby don't turn out the lights
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8. |
Save My Love
05:22
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The night that I met you
You had eyes for the one I was with
I should have known that's how
Things would always be
You called and you wanted
To see what the night had to sell
Stories and laughs and drinks
Passed as we shut down the well
Cigarettes and rum until dawn
As we swung and we
Watched the sun rise
Taken aback by my
First glimpse of light in your eyes
Keep me on the back burner
'Case your confidence
Might need a jump
Not your kind of lover
But you love how it feels to be loved
Flattered by ardor
Absorbing the praise
While you blush
Said the friendship we share
Is much greater than some silly lust
But I'd rather you hated me
Than to love me as only a friend
Pathetic, not already
Putting this chase to an end
If I looked like somebody else
Do ya think that maybe
Then you could love me?
If I just liked how ya looked
And thought nothing more of you
Would I be the one in you arms?
Or is it just who I am inside
You think you could get enough of?
Save it my dear,
I know that I'm worthy of love
And tonight you're feeling lonely
Oh you could use some
Company for a while
But I think I'd like to stay home
And watch the rain
Laughing by myself, girl, once again
And all this time
That I've been feelin'
Sorry for myself
I should have realized
That I don't stand a chance
And nothing I can do or say
Will ever make you love me
So I guess I'll save my love
For someone else
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9. |
Down And Lonely
04:14
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Burn the bridges down
On every path you ever traveled
Rip the rug from under
Every bond you forged along the way
Treating every friendship
Like it was a business
What can they do for you
That you could use
To boost your bottom line?
And nobody else can know
What's slithering through your head
They'd run before
You get what you need
Shut the lights out
Don't let em see the lies
Keep 'em calm
And crawling back for more
Groom 'em slowly
Til they're cozy in your sights
Then make your move
In for the throat
When will you ever learn
The reason you're feeling down
And lonely?
You see other people's love
As an affront against you
How could they have chosen them
When they could've chosen you?
Nothing is worth having
Til someone already has it
The fuel won't turn your engine
'Less it's siphoned from
Somebody's tank
And nobody else can know
What's slithering through your head
They'd run before
You get what you need
Shut the lights out
Don't let them see your lies
Keep 'em calm
And crawling back for more
Groom 'em slowly
Til they're cozy in your sights
Then make your move
In for the throat
When will you ever learn
The reason you're feeling down
And lonely?
You're scared that the world will see
The wretch that you've come to be
Artfully plotting every act
Of false spontaneity
Preying behind your smile
But never showing your teeth
Shut the lights out
Don't let 'em see the lies
Keep 'em calm
And crawling back for more
Groom 'em slowly
Til they're cozy in your sights
Then make your move
In for the throat
When will you ever learn
The reason you're feeling down
And lonely?
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10. |
Road To Nowhere
05:23
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So life hasn't gone
The way I thought it would
When I was young
I stare at the wall
That's built up from the ground
I'm sleeping on
And not long ago
I thought I had it all
It seemed so close
Now I'm broke and alone
Without a proper place
To call my home
I lie awake and I wonder
Just how I got on this road to nowhere
Failure is knocking at my door
Will I let it in?
Dreams come to pass
I start to realize
What I've become
And I'm still a child
Taking far too long
To become a man
Now life is a contest
Bitter with old friends
With more than I
I don't want luxury
I just want a life to call my own
So I
Can show my eyes
I lie awake and I wonder
Just how I got on this road to nowhere
Failure is knocking at my door
Will I let it in?
I lie awake and I wonder
Just how I got on this road to nowhere
Failure is knocking at my door
Will I let it in?
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11. |
The Last Lonely Man
05:03
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It's happening again
Oh I'm letting love
Slip through my fingers
Foolin' myself to believe my lies
Locking the doors
Pushing away anything that needs me
Conceiting how callous I am inside
Why am I so worried
Things will change
And break apart
When I'm so troubled
By the way things are?
When will I give up
My silly pride
In being hard to love?
Hard to love
Hard to love
Well everyone I know
Is running off
To attend to love
Leaving me just a memory
Of days gone by
As years keep rolling past
I'm thinking
I'm gonna be the last
Lonely man, lonely man
Struggling to buy
The thought anyone could really love me
By the time I begin their well's run dry
Will I ever find
A way to be loved the way I used to
Or have I fantasized for far too long?
You ask me if I think
I'll ever have a change of heart
Can I be fixed or am I too far gone?
Well if you're still around
Come summertime
I'll maybe know by then
If I'll abide, If I'll abide
Well everyone I know
Is running off
To attend to love
Leaving me just a memory
Of days gone by
As years keep rolling past I'm thinking
I'm gonna be the last
Lonely man, lonely man
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12. |
Into The Fire
05:24
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Open my eyes to the morning
Repeat that same old vow
Today will be the day
I get myself in line
But later when the evening comes
Discretion starts to wane
And maybe tomorrow'd
Be a better time to change
Locking out the shame
With the key that opened the door
When it came around
And knocked the night before
I don't know why
I keep running back into the fire
Frightened to lose the trappings
I've been trying to leave behind
Never one to walk the rope
Without a net below
But baby I'm tryin'
Maybe it's cause I am lonely
Or maybe the revelry
Or maybe the comfort
Of knowing what needs fixed
But every time I think I've made
My break and I am free
The siren keeps comin' back
To sing her song to me
Locking out the shame
With the key that opened the door
When it came around
And knocked the night before
I don't know why
I keep running back into the fire
Frightened to lose the trappings
I've been trying to leave behind
Never one to walk the rope
Without a new below
But baby I'm tryin'
Lord I'm tryin'
Seeking asylum inside
Of a prison cell
Telling myself
That it's time to be free
But I've cried wolf far
Too many times
To believe a word that I say
How do I regain
My faith in me?
Oh I don't know why
I keep running back into the fire
Frightened to lose the trappings
I've been trying to leave behind
Never one to walk the rope
Without a net below
But baby I'm tryin'
Lord I'm tryin'
Open my eyes to the morning
Repeat that same old vow
Today will be the day
I get myself in line
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