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Speak To Hear - Lyrics

 

Below The Damage - Lyrics

Speak To Hear Lyrics

Every Time
Every time I close my eyes / I see you standing in the hall / Hanging pictures on the wall / Of my mind / Every time I start to snore / I see you picking up the pieces / Of our love that fell / On the floor / When I remember / When I remember you / When I remember you again again... / Every time I cast away / I see you out on the ocean / Unaffected by the motion of the waves / Every time I start to roll / I see you flying down the road / Driving your old Camaro / Chorus / I'm the master of time and space / I close my eyes I can see your face / I'll never lose you again again / Chorus

Don't Go There
Fighting words never hurt so bad / As you slamming that door with the keys in your hand / I know you hate when I tell you what to do / Tonight I hope you're hearing me 'cuz it's what I need from you / So don't say that / Don't see her / Tell me you're hearing me / Don't do this / Don't leave me / Please don't go there / I know I can a little more than what you need / And I tend to forget to let go of the little things / They say love is blind but I never believed / It's not always sweet or kind but it's what you get from me / Chorus / She may make you feel good when you turn out the lights / But can she hold you up on the worst of your nights / You once told me my love could fill the sea / It could set you fire, it could set you free / Chorus

Speak To Hear
Waves of fear flow from the tv / Angry voices sounding off / Now everyone's laying blame / It's become a one up game / And we're all getting caught / Do we speak to hear us talking / Loving the sound of our own voice / If we could just communicate / We could try to find a better way / Do we really have a choice / Bruised and battered by the sound bites / Twenty four seven takes its toll / Fault and lies go down so easy / They just need you to swallow / Chorus / The Battle Lines are drawn / And I can't tell which side I'm on / Distorting all the facts / Can't go forward, can't go back / No ones asking what I believe / The just want me to agree / No everyone’s so extreme and there’s no room in-between / Can't my choices be for me / Chorus

For You
This won't be the of me / I'm not gonna fall apart / And I won't stop hanging my heart on the brightest star / You're running on empty / Where ever you are / It's nights like these I need you close but baby you're so far / Cuz I'm alone tonight / And I'm not gonna give up this fight / And I'll wait for you / If it's the last thing I do / This bed is so lonely / Still made up on your side / Been waiting on the phone to ring to help cover this divide / You tell me you miss me / I try not to cry / Don't ask me if I'm doing all right 'cuz baby I'll just lie / Chorus / And I can be strong as long as you're gone / I just need to know you're coming home / Chorus

My Winter
My sky is not gray / The sun is shining like on any other sunny day / I am not here / I have slipped away but never fall, never fear / Will you be there in my winter / Will you be there in my fall / Will you hold me in your arms / When I have to stand alone / In my winter / I don't sleep much anymore / I just walk around in circles, pace the floor / The whiskey don't help / Empty bottles, tell the stories I'm afraid to tell / Chorus / I learn a little more about you each and every day / I fall in love all over and over and over again / I don't know your face / Or the names I could remember only yesterday / I shed my regrets / Birthdays and Saturdays, I can't remember, I forget / Chorus

Only One
You shared a dance and you wanted more / But it wasn't the dance you had bargained for / You gave her your fortune in pennies and time / While she poisoned your heart, your soul and your mind / I'll be the only one / I'll be the only one / I'll be the only one / Gonna love you when she's done / Addiction starts with the hint of desire / Til it makes you insane trying to get higher / Bible says 'to thine own self be true'/ Cause she don't give a damn for you / Chorus / You can hear her call – in the back of your mind / Losing yourself – in the world unkind / She'll pull you apart – a little at a time / With every piece of your heart she's breaking mine / Chorus | Who's gonna love you when she's done

Please
Please / I don't want to talk about this now / Can't we just lay down / Let this night fade away / I'm begging / We don't need to fight this whole night thru / There’s too much damage we could do / Just give it one more day / Cause I don't see the writing on the wall / You know I’m not riding for a fall / Cause I made myself a promise / And I aim to see it through / Baby...if it's the last thing I do / Please / There can be a thousand miles between / What I say and what I mean / Don't let that space divide it / Somehow / I wish you could see through my eyes / We wear a beautiful disguise / I need you by my side / Chorus / Maybe it's too late to make this right / You can just end this all tonight / Maybe we can finally close that door / But baby, I’m begging you for more / Please / Lets let the sunrise take away / All the pain we found today / Let's leave this all behind us / Tomorrow / We can start again just like were new / We'll make love like we used to do / One touch will remind us / Chorus

Lucky That Way
There's a black cat crossing my path today./ A broken mirror in a picture frame / My favorite shirt got a coffee stain/ I guess that's how it goes / Life will take you where it wants you to go / You can lay low or go with the flow / But I'll be fighting til my dying day / I guess I'm lucky / Ran out of hot water in the shower / Was late to work by at least an hour / I didn't pay the bill, they cut off my power / Guess that's how it goes / Life will take you where it wants you to go / You can lay low or go with the flow / But I'll be fighting til my dying day / I guess I'm lucky / Lucky That Way / Lucky that way / I'm guess I'm lucky / Lucky that way / Walked in to a clear window pane / Lost my shoes in the pouring rain / Lovin' you is all that keeps me sane / I guess that's how it goes / Life will take you where it wants you to go / You can lay low or go with the flow / But I'll be fighting til my dying day / I guess I'm lucky / I thank my stars / Night and day / I know that / I'm lucky that way / Chorus

Answering Machine
I called you on the telephone / Just to hear your voice go on / And to hear the lie you’d tell to me / That you were not home at all / leave a message and you’d call / but that was the same lie as before / Once again I’m bein’ lied to / Once again I’ve tried to / Get past your answering machine / Once again I’m bein’ lied to / Once again I’ve tried to / Get past your answering machine / So I grabbed myself another beer / And sat down on the couch right there / Started to plan and make a scheme / If I called you 10 times a day / And every time you were away / That’s how I'd know that you screen / Chorus / We used to talk til half past late / At least until our last date / When you lit me up, like a cigarette / I wish I could make you forget / I called again the other day / I think you answered by mistake / The way words quivered in your voice / You told me that you’d had enough / And I should just knock off that stuff/ Besides, my machine is full / Chorus / I’m tired of bein’ lied to / I’m finally gettin’ wise to / The lies on your answering machine

Alone
The clock on the wall says it's 5 a.m. / As she hears the lock she knows he's drunk again / The closing door shakes the air / Under her breath, she says a prayer / Alone / She takes one more shot / Alone / And now she’s not / Alone / The light at his back hides his face / He calls her name, but she’s miles away / Hides her head and pretends to sleep / She closes her eyes and she begins to weep / Chorus / You get what you need is on the radio / What you need was gone long ago / We don’t know who’s left to forgive / the lies you know, the lies you live / He checks his watch says it’s 5 a.m. / As he turns the lock, he knows she's drunk again / When the truth becomes a ghost / This empty glass leaves them both / Chorus / She takes one more shot / Alone / One More Shot

Quitting Kind
Night is slowly fading at Billy's Corner Bar / Penny's tired, her feet are hurtin' / She's ready to leave / She's been serving tables since she was just sixteen / Keeps her tips in a mason jar along with dreams and memories / She fell in love with the farmer's son / The boy who played guitar in the band / The kid from college came and stole her away until she met a business man / One by one, she loved and laughed / Always hoping to find / The kind of love that would last forever / Not the quitting kind / Penny left town at twenty / Promise ring on her hand / A shiny car and a brand new start on the Arm of someone new / All she wanted was to be a momma with a man she loved by her side / But dreams fell through like they always do, another lesson in life / Chorus / Penny lost her heart for the last time / When she came back to town / In his bar filling her mason jar / Time Slows Down / Billy's watching Penny clear tables in the kerosene light / Still picks his guitar in the back of the bar when no one is around / The laugh line on her face remind her of long ago summer nights / He still writes his love songs to Penny / 'Cuz he ain't the quitting kind / Chorus

Below The Damage Lyrics

Paper Bags
She’s surrounded by, paper bags on the bedroom floor / Remnants of a time, she can’t forget a love she can’t ignore / She blinks back her tears, artifacts from a love gone by / She don’t have no regrets, but still she wonders why, She wonders why / So here it is / She’s at the end / She don’t really want to say goodbye / But somehow along the way / She just lost the will to try / When things got out of hand / When words were left unsaid / Sometimes he’d ignore her / And sometimes she just bled / And so it goes… she takes her paper bags / And she’s gone / He feels so empty in this place, god it used to feel so warm / The empty drawers and naked frames, scream what have you done? what have you done? / He runs his fingers through his hair, his heart hurts at the sight / As one by one, the paper bags, disappear into the night / Out of his life / So here it is / He’s at the end / He don’t really want to say goodbye / But somehow along the way / He just lost the will to try / When things got out of hand / When words were left unsaid / Sometimes he’d ignore her / And sometimes she just bled / And so it goes… she takes her paper bags / And she’s gone / And he knows, she would’ve stayed, All he had to do was ask her to / And she thinks, they could be friends but some things are just to hard to do / So here it is / They’re at the end / They don’t really want to say goodbye / But somehow along the way / They just lost the will to try / When things got out of hand / When words were left unsaid / Sometimes he’d ignore her / And sometimes she just bled / And so it goes… she takes her paper bags / And she’s gone

Leave Tonight
This time, this night / You swore it would be different / You said I could be elegant / Tonight, Your my / Stealing little parts you try / Taking them to satisfy / Ooh Ooh / And one of us must leave tonight / One of us must find a way / One of us must leave tonight / One of us must find a way / But I’m holding on to you / You said, mislead / It became so obvious / You never really cared for us / Alone, I’ve known / That this was really dieing / I’ve had enough with trying / Repeat Chorus / I adore, You more / Somewhere between the truth and lies / Staring up at sunless skies / I’m blind, I see / Darkness stained my skin again / Finally I’m on the mend / Repeat Chorus

All Right By Me
Now I’ve been lost / and there’s things I’ve found / Ain’t it funny that it takes so long to figure ‘em out, to figure ‘em out / I’ve seen hell / I found Jesus / He was counting his pennies in the bottom of a wishing well, I wished him well / Somehow I’ve found these things - I never knew they were gone / and life never turns out quite the way I thought it would be / But it’s all right by me, it’s all right by me yeah eh yeah / An I’m still young / But I’ve found some wisdom / It was spoken by an angel singing in a smoky bar, shinin’ like a star / And I’ve been cold / And I’ve found passion / Burning like the mid-day sun, kissing my skin, light me from within / Repeat Chorus / And I’ve been blind / And I’ve found the truth / It was hiding beneath the fear and the jealousy, deep inside of me / I’ve known fear / But I’ve found love / And I know everything else lies somewhere in between, in the mean / Repeat Chorus / I said it’s alright by me, it’s alright by me, yeah eh yeah

Original Sin
Her voice like wine leaves an aftertaste / She’ll pull you in her fall from grace / With eyes so bright, she can’t hide their flame / Just one touch, you’ll never be the same / She’ll try you out, just for a taste / She’ll throw you away, just to waste / Look you in the eye and drink from your veins / Even holy water can’t wash her stain / Because she’s got you under her control / And she’ll never let you go / No matter how you try / And you know / You can’t forget her sound / No one can turn her down / Cause she don’t hold it in, she’s the original sin / She’ll be your reason, she’ll be your crime / She’ll make you cross every line / She’ll hold you up just to tear you down / She’ll be the water in which you drown / Repeat Chorus / She’ll leave you hanging on a thread / She’ll cut you off just to hear you beg / She knows no boundaries, she knows no rules / She’ll break you down til you’re her fool / Repeat Chorus

Below The Damage
I have stood on this edge far too often / I have searched for wings to give me flight / I have looked into the sun as it sets into the west / And closed my eyes to the blinding light / And then it beats you out, My love comes crashing down / It’s what I gave to you / It’s what I took from you / It’s what I gave to you / It’s what I took from you / Fast cars and faster women / And the one that brought me to my knees / I can still hear the music as I’m closing the door / And I can still hear the words you said to me / Repeat Chorus / I’m sitting below the damage / Standing up in dark / I’m sitting below the damage / Courage fills my heart / It was the fourth day of July / I was somewhere between blue and gray / Fireworks and picnics and blankets in the grass / Summer ended for me that day / Repeat Chorus

Better Off Alone
Why are you so sad he said / You’re the one who said goodbye / I told him that it wasn’t me / It was just my foolish pride / Cause bein’ wrong can hurt so bad / It can tear you up inside / But lovin’ you was so easy to do / I can’t believe it was all a lie / But if loving you means letting go / I guess I got that right / Cause I can’t be in love alone / I just can’t fight that fight / And to know that love was one-sided / Well that’s the final blow / So when it’s just me at the end of the day / I think I’m better off, I’m better off alone / Sometimes what feels wrong is right / It just takes time to see / And looking back is never the same / Once your finally free / Cause love can be so villainous / Love can be so cruel / It can make you feel so alive / It can drown you like a fool / Repeat Chorus / Then he looked at me with eyes that knew / I was over him by far / Cause time can mend a broken heart / But it always… leaves the scars / Repeat Chorus

Truth Is
I would tell you the truth / But for now I need to lie / Cause the life we once knew / Is still too heavy on my mind / So I’ll say I’m happy for you / And for now that’s how it is / But the moment that you walk away / I’ll be so sad again / Cause the truth is / I thought we were forever / And the truth is / I don’t know why I’m here / And the truth is / I would’ve left you never / And the truth is / Now my world is so unclear / You tell me about your new love / And about your new life / And you’ll never see the pain / As you tell me about your wife / The thing is I don’t want you back / I’m over this regret / But I can’t seem to find a way / To let you go just yet / Repeat Chorus / I’m trying to move on now / I’m not doing very well / But the point is that I’m trying / To get me out of this hell. / Repeat Chorus

Just For One Day
An outraged lover assumes your rage / Shadows fade and hesitate / Your heart is slipping away from me / Then you turn and lie to me / A meter of your tolerance / A little taste my innocence / Standing naked before the storm / A glance from you would keep me warm / it’s hard to get through these days of ours / my heart’s filled with words and scars / Just for one day / All to myself / I wouldn’t have to share your love / With anyone else / My heart / What can I say / Wouldn’t it be nice / Just for one day / Inject me with your heartbreak / Like a drug within my veins / My skin awaits your gentle touch / But you betray me too much / Repeat Chorus

Shine (Giving It Up)
So many things, that I wanna say / So much time, falling away / The person I am, who I wanna be / Giving it up, the old me / And you, shine / And you, shine / Giving it up, the one that I was / Loving the one, I have become / Learning to jump, learning to fly / Giving it up, living the lie / And you, shine / And you, shine / Living a lie has set me free / I’m learning to love, I don’t wanna leave / I’m sticking this time, taking the fall / Giving it up, loving it all / Hoping for more, wanting for less / Willing the change, hating the stress / Knowing what’s wrong, doing what’s right / Letting it go, choosing the fight / And you, shine / And you, shine / Giving it up, the one that I was / Loving the one, I have become / Learning to laugh, learning to fly / Giving it up, living the lie / And you, shine / And you, shine / Living a lie, has set me free / I’m learning to love, I don’t wanna leave / I’m sticking this time, taking the fall / Giving it up, loving it all / And you, shine / And you, shine

Kiss Me Goodbye
For the first time / I can see forever / Trapped inside my prison / No longer together / It was after midnight / Raining in my soul / Finding your comfort / I’m no longer whole / This world has passed me by, my love / Our love has held me high / And now that I have to fly / Just whisper and kiss me goodbye / Clinging to a thread / Stop myself from falling / Essence of my being / Trapped behind a wall / Yesterday is gone away / The truth we can’t deny / Lay down your memories / I’ll be standing by / Keep looking for an answer / But there’s no reason why / Wipe the tears from your eye / Just whisper and kiss me goodbye / And pain fills my heart / It’s tearing me apart / From dust to dirt / In both of us I find the hurt / I can’t be your savior / But I have been your friend / Hold me in your heart / Until the end / Don’t look at me with sadness / Don’t look at me with pain / Just know I’m moving on and / I will see you again / And my heart is not sure / But always by your side / And when our souls collide / Just whisper and kiss me goodbye

Catch Me If You Can
I’m standing on the edge of the world / And I feel like falling / Cause gravity can’t hold me back no more / There’s something strange in the air / And I feel like crying / For reasons that I don’t even know / That’s when you catch my eye and smile / You see I’m falling, I’m falling, I’m falling, / Catch me if you can / I’m standing on the edge of the world / And I feel like falling / Cause I know I’ve never felt this way before / You’re looking at me / And suddenly I’m laughing / For reasons that I don’t even know / That’s when you say my name and smile / You see I’m falling, I’m falling, I’m falling, / Catch me if you can / I’m standing on the edge of the world / And I feel like falling / Cause here you are standing right next to me / Then you take my hand / And I feel like trying / Because you make me want to believe / That’s when you kiss my cheek and smile / You see I’m falling, I’m falling, I’m falling, / Catch me if you can / I’m standing on the edge of the world and I feel like falling

The Next Time You Dance
Standing in the glow / As your approaching light unfolds / Calm washes over me / You kiss me with your eyes / The next time you dance / Now and forever with you / The next time you dance / And for the rest of your life / I want to dance with you / Summer flowers grew / They bring me through the night with you / Decisions rewrite my life / Standing here at your side / The white of your winter / Blinds me to all but your love / The songs of a lifetime / Will play forever more, my love / Repeat Chorus / From my unseen youth / You and me, a powerful truth / Your love is so simple / Your love is so pure / Repeat Chorus

Happy Hour
Sipping on my homemade wine / Making music in my head / I’m laughing at myself / As I’m lounging in my bed / So many things to do / So much time to think / The only thing I need / Is to pour another drink / Cause I’m spending my time / Sipping my wine / Lying in bed / Waiting for the stars to shine / And I guess it’s true / I’m coming unglued / But just for today / Cause tomorrow, I’ll be okay / My wine tastes so fine / I’m getting lost in here / I can’t feel my feet / And my nose disappeared / The sun is setting soon / As I’m seeing the flowers / To the clock hanging on the wall / You know it’s always happy hour / Repeat Chorus / It’s happy hour / It’s Always happy hour / Happy hour / Happy hour