song lyrics

This Time Around

I don’t know how we got here
Or the day of the week
The only thing that I’m certain about
Is that we need to leave

Point us in the right direction
Where to from here?
Point us in the right direction
Please
We need you this time around

It’s just water under bridges
We can swim our way out
We can make it to the other side
Unless of course we drown

Point us in the right direction
Where to from here?
Point us in the right direction
Please
We need you this time around

Wishful thinking
Through joyful tears
A hopeful grin from ear to ear

That feeling, euphoric
Seems so far out of reach
It’s been staring us right in the face
But that’s something they just don’t teach

Point us in the right direction
Where to from here?
Point us in the right direction
Please
We need you this time around

Green Light

You got old all of a sudden
Living large in the past
You're exactly like your old man was
Who knew that youth would never last?

It’s hard to plan beyond tomorrow
When did the days speed up so fast?
You can’t keep up with the world anymore
Who knew that youth would never last?

Don’t wait for the green light
Don’t wait and see
Run towards the sunlight
Run home to me

You had your chance and you missed it
Too busy living every day
Running around like you ain’t gonna die
The best plans unravel anyway

Don’t wait for the green light
Don’t wait and see
Run towards the sunlight
Run home to me

Open doors close eventually

Don’t wait for the green light
Don’t wait and see
Run towards the sunlight
Run home to me

I WAS WRONG

It was my way or the highway. Your opinion mattered slightly. And you exist for me.
As I held on to you tightly. Carried on, high almighty. Please come on back to me.
I was wrong.

I was useless I couldn’t see, 6 feet clear in front of me. I couldn’t even hold the door.
Little things that couldn’t wait, but for you I’d hesitate. Blurring the dream. I was wrong.

Let me make it up to you, one day at a time, those shallow words I’ve spoken, they’re not mine, anymore.

You should just go, I’ve been unfair, go on, go, escape now, be free.

How much more could you really take?
You didn’t fall, you didn’t break. Scared to death to leave. I’ll make it up to you, they say. The words mean nothing, they fall away. Like a cliff into the sea. I was wrong

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LITTLE TOWN

I’m going home where I’m meant to be
Where the air is clear and my lungs can breath
I’m going home, shut the gate behind me

I’m going home to stars in the sky
Friendly neighbors, community tight
I’m going home, everything feels just right

The sun comes up
And the sun goes down
And the moon shines bright over Little Town

I’m going home, leave the past behind
I searched so hard, little did I find
I’m going home, forever, for all time

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I’m going home, been away too long
Been chasing something but that’s long gone
I’m going home t’where my heart, my soul belongs

The sun comes up
And the sun goes down

The sun comes up
And the sun goes down
And the moon shines bright over Little Town
Little Town

ECHO

You know somebody who
Knows somebody who
Pushes hard against the flow
You know somebody who
Knows somebody who
Lacks a clear direction home

When the troubled water’s deep
Tilt your head back and don’t let go
Hold your breath, hold on to me
You’re not alone
I think I hear an echo in here

The world is tiny
No point in hiding
Behind the fables in your head
Like a rabbit, frightened
Your shivers, heightened
Soon given up for dead

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Boiling in the water
But it’s freezing

A bolt of lightening
Nothing but poor timing
Grey skies, blue day
If you told me Friday
We’d be gone by Sunday
Leaves Saturday in the way

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SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER

Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, every single song on the radio brings you down. Get a little sunshine on your face, pack a little bag, hit the highway out of town. Smoke a few cigarettes, sip a little gin, get a taste of the free world on your tongue. Put a smile on your face, hold up your chin, shake hands with danger.

And who knows? So the weeks roll into months. Who knows, where we’re going to this time.

Jumping around like a fish out of water, take a deep breath, settle down, you’ve been found. Time to figure out now who you want to be, there’s a change blowing in on the breeze, new in town.

I know you’re trying to forget but everybody bleeds, there's songs on the radio about love and loss right now. Put a smile on your face, hold up you chin, shake hands with danger.

I know a place where we can go. The answer is yes to every no. And it’s not far from here.

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THE OUTSIDE

He took a bite but he wasn’t thinking. He used his time inside to think things through, to renew. He read a book inside for the first time. Never really pushed his poor IQ. He did that too.

Everyday he was breaking out. Scaling the razor wire. Without an inch of doubt he broke through. Free to the outside.

He got out just in time for the weekend. Forgot about the friends he once knew, If only they did too. He was shot in the back on a Tuesday, Looking up to a sky of blanket blue. He smiled, he knew.

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free

Through sweet dreams I found you and I'll never ever lose you again. I don't want to wake up to find the straight line is bent.  So tell me everything I need to hear. Surely the sky ain't falling in. We're surrounded by too much beauty for this to be the end. Take a look around you. You're alive and you're here. You cry out for the little things. Realise that you are rich.

You are free

You've always had food in your belly. Power on and off @ the switch. The water runs crystal clear from the tap, on demand when your fingers are clicked.

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Climbing trees before they hit the ground. Shoot the past before it can't be found. You've got it easy.

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LOOK FOR ME

Travelling a million miles an hour, trying to keep up with you. You know I, can't fight this feeling, there's no blood but I'm bleeding out.

Don't hold me down. Keep my head above the water. So high face down on the ground. Come look for me, come look for me.

Lately I've been feeling inside out. How do I know that I'm alive? Do I throw myself from a building? Coked up to the ceiling, How?

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You've only got yourself to beat. Still so young, so please.

I don't see your face here anymore. So I play your voice back on the line. Everyday that I'm breathing, wasted, daydreaming of you.

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WHERE WE STARTED FROM

Let’s take time now for each other. Let’s take time now to heal. Let’s take time for you and some time for me. Let’s take time for the things that we truly believe in. Let’s go back to where we started from.

When you’re up you fly through the buildings. When you’re up you float on the sea. When you’re down everything is never enough. It’s never enough with nothing real to believe in. Lets go back to where we started from.

There’s a price you pay for the freedom. A price to exist, just to be. There’s a line to be drawn deep into the sand. A line to be crossed eventually. Let’s go back to where we started from

There’s no rhyme or reason. Who’s in charge anyway?There’s no rhyme or reason.So get busy living for it's living that you can't replace.

Verse 1

CODE RED

I thought I'd have something to say by now, but I don't. I thought i'd be exactly who I dreamed I'd be, by now, a joke. I need some air in my lungs to breath. I've got my hand in the air, save me.

I'm drowning, It's peaceful, underwater. I'm drowning, code red, rescue, no, don't bother.

There's something not right about the way things are, right now, I know. Go left, go right, go up, go down, just go, go, go. I need some air in my lungs to breath. I've got my hand in the air, save me.

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GET OUT NOW

Feeling like nothing ever happens in the end. Dealing with feelings that don’t feel like your friend. Where’s your friends?

Digging holes big enough to jump in that barely leaves your head above ground. Digging holes big enough to jump in. It’s time for you to get out now.

Reeling, like you’ve never reeled before. Bleeding, you’re bleeding like a casualty of war. You’re blown away.

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I will tell you something to eliminate your fear. One day you will wake up new and make it out of here.

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THE NEW DAY

I don’t know why I feel this way. I’m stuck in this place, I don’t know what to say. When you ask me why I feel this way, With a smile on my face “Everything’s ok”

The morning will come. Tomorrow will be here soon. The morning will come. Tomorrow will be here soon. Please hang on for the new day.

I keep to myself. Alone all the time. I think to myself it’s safer to hide, away from the world, Away from my wife, that I haven’t yet met, for I’m too bloody shy.

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In the here and now, we still save a seat for you. It’s different now, but we still expect a knock upon the door.

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HAPPILY

You're slowly breathing but no ones believing that you're even around. You're hanging on to dreams but nothing's as it seems as long as you're safe and sound. It's time to break free.

Live in the here and now. Time wins eventually. Live in the here and now, happily.

You gotta look straight ahead and keep your soul fed, let go of living so proud. There's danger up ahead but paradise has said you can stay the night. It's time to break free.

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It's you. Every time.

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Into Tomorrow

I'll pull myself together, get back on top, turn to the sunshine, more of it than not. I won't let you down.

Just a lonesome traveler who refuses to stop. He's got nothing to show for it, but he don't realise what he's got. I won't let you down.

There's always a mountain in front of me. Two steps forward, I cannot see. Inside a shell, nothing, hollow. Carry me from today into tomorrow.

Every chance is the last one. You keep telling me, stop! I'll get it done in good time, I'll get it done when the weight is light. I won't let you down.

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Verse one.

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THE WIND SHAKES THE TREES

Your red is my blue. Your too many is my too few. You see, when the wind shakes the trees, The whistle of the breeze, brings the world to its knees and tells me everything’s alright.

Your old is my new. Wait so long and over too soon for me. When the wind shakes the trees, the whistle of the breeze, brings the world to its knees and tells me everything’s alright.

Maybe it’s time To turn a new leaf over.

When you caught it, I threw with everything that I had and it’s true. You see, when the wind shakes the trees the whistle of the breeze, brings the world to its knees and tells me everything’s alright.

HOLD ON

Lets live like there is no tomorrow for us to rely on, no net under tight rope, lets live. Lets give everything we have away to those who need it, the desperate, ill treated, betrayed.

Hold on, hold on, hold on to me.

There's a bridge, an offer to cross, to follow and you won't believe it, a new way of seeing the way.

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When this life is pulling you down beneath the water. Float to the top of the ocean and breath.

So you believe that you'll always be here tomorrow but history defeats it so get on and live it today.

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Smith Street turnoff

Chasing my tail, on constant repeat, the weather’s not bad but I don’t think this city’s for me. We could sail away and watch the city fall down, like dominoes, in the distance, caught on the breeze. I’m turning this thing around, so lost in this town.

Way back in my day when the pace was slow. When the sunshine slept, it was safe to go wherever your feet would lead you, and your friends were strong enough to carry you home.

I should have known when I pulled into town, I took the Smith Street turnoff all the way to the sea. I just couldn’t see it I must’ve been blind, this used to be paradise, apparently.

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The traffic sits at a standstill all across town. Plastic bits on the beaches, golden brown.

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LEAVING

God damn it was cold in that room. I couldn’t wait outside. Holding hands, I watched you breathing, losing track of time. Help me understand this. Lets talk before you leave. Help me understand, this can’t be happening to me.

It looks like you’re leaving (repeat)

It looks like you’re leaving this world, oh no.

Everyday is night without you on the other end of the line. No one left to keep me dreaming, one line at a time. Help me understand this. Lets talk before you leave. Help me understand, this can’t be happening to me.

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Put it down to one of those days, what can you say to turn things around? The broken will break, the spirit will take flight without a sound.

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THE WORLD FALLS ONTO ME

What is the meaning of this all? A city full of buildings designed to fall. What is the meaning of this all? Time to stop leaning and stand tall.

Is everyone leaving now? I just need one last chance. Don’t let me fall please heaven help me. Is everyone leaving now? I just need one last chance. For if I fall, the world falls onto me.

There’s got to be more to this town than shallow feelings and let downs. Pack your bags, lets get out.

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In the here and now. A history so proud. But it’s lies to me.

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FRIEND OF MINE

Sometimes you leave. Sometimes you stay. Sometimes you give. Sometimes you take. Sometimes you’re early. Sometimes you’re late. Sometimes you’re average. Mostly great.

And you’ll always be a friend of mine.

Sometimes you’re green. Sometimes you’re broke. Sometimes you breath. Sometimes you choke. Sometimes you climb. Sometimes you fall. I’ve seen you run. I’ve seen you crawl.

But you’ll always be a friend of mine.

Wherever you go you’re on my mind. Wherever I am, I look to find you there.

Sometimes you see. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you sink. Sometimes you float. Sometimes it hurts. Sometimes the pain. Gives in to sleep. To take it away

You’ll always be a friend of mine.

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Sometimes you drink. Sometimes you smoke. Sometimes it’s weed. Mostly it’s coke.

You’ll always be a friend of mine

COME DOWN

Take me by the hand. Let me lead you from this place we’re in. Like a city built from sand. With the water rising we can’t win. To truly understand, for a mile try walking in these shoes. There’s beauty up ahead. If we can make it, we can’t lose

So let’s just take a moment here. Let’s just take a moment here alright.

Come on down (repeat)

Take a break from the top of the world

Come down

The sky is leaking, black.  I thought we lived here in the sunshine state. How can we live like that? More give, less take

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HOME

Take this time as the only time you have. Lift your disguise, still hiding but no good at that. Looking back over your shoulder, you should have known that every word you said out of line cut right to the bone.

You’re so used to getting your way. It’s not too late to turn your back on this town and come home.

I think your folks were right, you’re great at turning good to bad. You light these fires but they burn out, did you know that? You tend to get carried away, you fall to the ground. Maybe you’re a better person with no one around

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I know you well, we get on famously. I know you well but it’s not meant to be.

Have you ever thought of packing your bags up and leaving town? The good life is lost and waiting to be found. I really do think that a break will be great for you, and every single person around you will benefit too

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OLD AND GREY

I’ll take a little time for myself to get over you now that you are gone. Your body moved on but your soul has an arm around my shoulder until I am old and grey. You and I we knew what lay around the corner. Like a king, you battled on. The summer was freezing, it was cold, I felt I aged a thousand years, If only you grew old and grey.

And who will notice when you’re gone? Your life wrapped up in a eulogy. Lets get drunk and sing some songs, for you in your memory.

I’ve been wearing your shoes, they’re too big for my feet but I move along. I’m heading in your direction now in hope that you’ll meet me when I am old and grey.

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Life continues as it was, like we never skipper a beat, disrespectful, wrong? But that’s the way it is you know, one day you were born  and you will die one day.

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THE FOUR FIFTEEN

We are strangers to these streets, with our heads bowed at our feet. Blistered by the pavement, the summer heat still feels cold. It’s been so long now, though it seems, like yesterday when our dreams crumbled down the mountain, the summer breeze carried us home.

Lets leave now. We’ve got time to make the four fifteen. Lets leave now. We can land on our feet again.

No one even knows us here today. The truth will rise, find its own way. Eventually if we stay our cover will blow.

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There’s no more time to think about the little things that went wrong. Just get on board, be quick, and don’t forget now where you’re from

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COUNT ON THE DAYS

If I’m not hungry all the time, I’m tired, so I sleep.
The sunshine on my back feels nice as I chase butterflies, I leap

And the days roll into each other
The pace of this life, it suits my nature
For how long?

Can we count on the days?
Can we count on the days?
Can we count on the days?
To show us the way home

I trust that you’ll look out for me
For I can’t help myself
From early days locked in a cage
I guess I’ve done pretty well

And the days roll into each other
The pace of this life, it suits my nature
For how long?

Can we count on the days?
Can we count on the days?
Can we count on the days?
To show us the way home

Best not explore beyond the fence line
Under the moon, I’ll save my nine lives
A scratch behind the ear
Curled on your lap and I disappear

And the days roll into each other
The pace of this life, it suits my nature
For how long?

Can we count on the days?
Can we count on the days?
Can we count on the days?
To show us the way home