If I Had Just One Wish…

The Weight of Us

I’m coming up to breathe your air
It’s hard to find when you’re not there, it’s not fair

I pulled apart your setting sun
to try and find a better one, but you won

I push and pull the bitter ends
And tear down walls with confidence

You’re coloring outside my lines
And though the rules aren’t well defined…

One day soon I won’t look back on you
I’ll just be passing through on my way
To someplace brighter where my step feels lighter
Without all the weight of who we were

I can’t remember getting smart,
but I know I can shed some art from the scars

So take this chance to listen close and
Raise your glass and make a toast to my ghost

Call up all your brand new friends and
While your old ones make amends

I’ll paint the town a better blue and
Finally get rid of you

Finally Found You

I took to the road just to get away
The while lines all faded to a dirty grey
I listened to all my favorite songs
Wishing you were there to sing along
Wondered if I’d ever learn to say

That I could love you like a queen
I’ve got everything you’d ever need
But I can’t seem to get out of my way

I’ve been looking hard to find
A road that’ll lead me back to the start
When I look into your eyes
I know that I found you
I finally found you

I stopped when I could barely see
My eyes had given up on me
I pulled off and drifted on to sleep
You came and crashed into my dreams
You said that you were waiting for me

To say that I could love you like a queen
I’ve got everything you’d ever need
But I can’t seem to get out of my way

I’ve been looking hard to find
A road that’ll lead me back to the start
When I look into your eyes
I know that I found you
I finally found you

I’d give up everything or get you more–a diamond ring
Just tell me, anything. Just ask it, anything
‘Cause I can’t let you go, no I won’t let you go.

I’ve been looking hard to find
A road that’ll lead me back to the start
When I look into your eyes
I know that I found you
I finally found you

Run

Let’s talk about the good times baby
Let the lies fly and never know the truth

I’ve fallen down a time or two but
Never felt like i’ve had much to prove
Lord knows that I do

The strength of man can’t own up to the
Weight of what we can and couldn’t do it’s up to you

Baby if I run to you
Maybe would you run too?

Calling out to all the lonely
Do you know you’re not the only ones?

Throw off all the covers baby
Show them that you’re not quite over yet
And cast your bet

If only we could round up
all the times we found luck and save them up

Baby if I run to you
Maybe would you run too?

Juliet

Beautiful oh beautiful you’re nothing to me
I should love you so much more, it’s very plain to see
But I’m not looking out and you’re not looking in
So here we go again

I choke on my pride as I get right back on this ride
And call you up so late that I can barely hold my eyes
But I know what I need and you’re eager to please
So here we go again

It’s now a routine to say that we should break clean–maybe just be friends
And if I don’t go baby we can never know where we both could end
And I’ll begin to looking for a new you that’s just how it goes
But I don’t want to have to run I just want to find someone I can call home

And you’ll say that it’s time to say what I really want
And you’ll stay or you’ll go, but either way I’ll be fine
I want a Juliet, I need a can’t live without

Beautiful oh beautiful you’re nothing to me
I should love you so much more, it’s very plain to see
But I’m not looking out and you’re not looking in
So here we go again

It’s now a routine to say that we should break clean–maybe just be friends
And if I don’t go baby we can never know where we both could end
And I’ll begin to looking for a new you that’s just how it goes
But I don’t want to have to run I just want to find someone I can call home

Start Over Again

Take all the time that I know you will need
‘Cause your stars shine so brightly I’d wait a lifetime to see
You tiptoe so lightly around through my veins
When you rush through my heart I can feel the ballet

All of my secrets have fallen to sleep
Right along with my hear that forgot how to beat

I could fall a thousand times over
In your eyes I find an endless horizon
where I could start over
and you could start over
and we could start over again

The wonders of life are tossed on your floor
Scattered ‘round like toy soldiers preparing for war
You pushed through the anger and the hatred I’d find
And went straight on to being so much stronger than I

I know I picked the wrong time to find you,
But with you I find it’s the time that I cling to

I could fall a thousand times over
In your eyes I find an endless horizon
where I could start over
and you could start over
and we could start over again

I dare you to say that you could just runaway
I dare you to look in my eyes and ever say goodbye

The Way Back Home

I take another look inside myself to
try and maybe find a reason
But every time I just get lost in there and
Somehow end up coming undone

Are you with me?

I go back and forth between what I’ve done and what’s to be
Is all my life and all these people chasing something I can’t see
As I find my way back home
As I find my way back home

Every day is like I’m on this highway
No one’s letting me get over
I get dizzy as I miss my turn and
Then the lines start to blur

Are you with me?

I go back and forth between what I’ve done and what’s to be
Is all my life and all these people chasing something I can’t see
As I find my way back home
As I find my way back home

I found the way back home
but I found myself alone
and I sat right down by your ghost
Even though you’re not real
I can hold you I can feel
all the lost days up the coast

On The Other Side

I don’t feel like a sinner
I know I’m not a saint
I’d never start over,
But I don’t want to wait
(and that’s alright)

You never got to tell me
What I wanted to hear
I know you would agree that
We’ll find some time this year
(and that’s alright)

Both of us are breaking down our walls
Through the gaps of bricks we both will crawl
Just to see you there on the other side

I know it’s been confusing
I feel the same way too
I’m not afraid of losing
Now that I’m part of you
(and that’s alright)

A moment to remember
Carved out into the sand
Though it’ll wash away I’ll
Remember with your hands
(and that’s alright)

Both of us are breaking down our walls
Through the gaps of bricks we both will crawl
Just to see you there on the other side

Wanted to Find

I’ve been asleep for so long now my heart’s grown weak
I forgot how it feels the moment you know love is real
Like your chest can’t contain all this passion trying to escape
I don’t know what to do when all I think about is you

So here with you now is the only place I want to know and
It’s crazy I don’t know how, but you turned my whole world upside down
And you’re all I’ve ever wanted

As we hear the sounds of the pent up rain falling to the ground
I forget all my past, I just want this moment now to last
‘cause you light up my life like the candles slow and bright

So here with you now is the only place I want to know and
It’s crazy I don’t know how, but you turned my whole world upside down
And you’re all I’ve ever wanted to find

If you want it gotta get it–can’t give it away
If you want it gotta get it–gotta give it away

Meet Tomorrow

Imagine yourself digging–burying your past
What lies underneath you as you mark it on the map so you will know?
But you’ll never go

Just walk until you’re tired of what your life’s become
Maybe you can’t get too far before your feet go numb, but still you fight
And that’s alright, yeah

So take another look around ‘cause everything will change
Even all the love you found will one day show it’s age
You can try to hold, but child you must grow old
Give today a long goodbye and meet tomorrow

The colors of November give their life to me
the dying leaves are aching as they’re falling from the trees to the ground
without a sound

I find comfort in the quiet but more so when you sing
I never thought that heartache would be something you would bring, but here we are
Can you hear the scars?

So take another look around ‘cause everything will change
Even all the love you found will one day show it’s age
You can try to hold, but child you must grow old
Give today a long goodbye and meet tomorrow

An offering to lovers, friends and family
Though I don’t know what will be I’ll promise you one thing–I’ll always try
‘Til the day I die

So take another look around ‘cause everything will change
Even all the love you found will one day show it’s age
You can try to hold, but child you must grow old
Give today a long goodbye and meet tomorrow

27 Days

The lights all show the city’s sleeping
But I know it’s not too late to call

They say the weak don’t get to go home, but
I might be ready for the fall

You’re taking off now for the weekend
A new life follows right behind

People know I never ask for much help, but
I’m just a boy who’s walking blind

I know it’s not fair to keep it together
If there’s no place to call home

For 27 days
I’ve never seen a sky so grey
And there’s nothing left to say
I know that it’s the only way

The coin is in the air so call it
What path in life you want to take

It won’t be long before I’m gone so baby
It’s just a choice you’ll have to make

I hope all of these sounds that bounce off the ground
Will find their way to you

For 27 days
I’ve never seen a sky so grey
And there’s nothing left to say
I know that it’s the only way

Too many days I’ve let slip by
Too many nights I’ve wasted on
Chasing a dream I never had
And never will

Walk on Through

I wonder if you’re tired. I wonder if you’re up
I try hard to forget, but it’s never been enough

The moon hangs lower than it ever did before
You broke your window when you ran for the door

And it’s too late for you to come and go and to come and go again
You’re too far gone, I thought I told you so

Walk on through, read the signs
Step up to get in line
I thought you knew that you had your time
Now I’ll have mine

You talk us into circles, though I’m sure you’re well aware
I could tell you that I need you, but I would never dare

You’d probably come back here if I only said the word
Isn’t it funny just how the tables turn?

And it’s too late for you to come and go and to come and go again
You’re too far gone, I thought I told you so

Walk on through, read the signs
Step up to get in line
I thought you knew that you had your time
Now I’ll have mine

Dust

While I’m here I want to leave my mark
Want to do my thing before it all goes dark
‘Cause what else could I ever be for?

I’m nothing if I don’t have these
Silly mantra melodies
How else could I find any peace?

All I am and all I’ve known
Is nothing if I get there all alone
Then again that’s how it all started

Just me and these four walls
Singing out words to an empty hall
With an echo

Before I go and turn to dust I’d like to say I love you
Before I go and turn to dust I’d like to say it

While I’m here I want to take a chance
Maybe find true love in a passing glance
And take her in like I never have before

But is she just another line
Waiting for teh final rhyme
I’d like to know how my story ends

But listen back when I’ve gone away
Maybe find some words that you never did say and
Send them out deep into space

You never know, maybe I’ll
Hear you and you’ll start to cry
Without really knowing a reason why

Before I go and turn to dust I’d like to say I love you
Before I go and turn to dust I’d like to say it

When I look back in my final hours
Will I cower at the sight of a could have been or should have been
Or will I smile and slip away?

Before I go and turn to dust I’d like to say I love you
Before I go and turn to dust I’d like to say it