audio by album lucid dream

I want to tell you in my sleep that you inspire me
I want to paint you in a corner-colored gray
I want to argue make up over Kool-Aid
I want to meet you there and make you feel the same

What you do to me makes me think am I just one
What you do to me

You got a lot of things going on
Am I just one

I want to wake up with the dog at the doorjamb
I want to take you there and make sure you get home
It’s all fine if you divvy up give it up
Does this environment make you feel at home?

What you do to me makes me think am I just one
What you do to me makes me think

Expensive restaurants and cheap hotels
You can forget ‘til it makes no sense
Black black nights and promise rings
You can never get your mind back

Back to the way it was

When you were daylight for me
When the sky was so black you couldn’t see
Such a tiny star caught in a great big sea
You were daylight for me

Digital alarm clocks that crawl inside my ears
It’s a cold day in any city
Seems shit is hitting a big fan in the sky
And the war is only beginning

You’re still afraid of the dark

But you were daylight for me
When the sky was so black you couldn’t see

No more light so get used to the dark
Spend some time with the hurt that’s in your heart
Been sitting here many times before
You don’t need the key when you’ve broken down the door

But is it love and happiness
Or another hopeless little accident

Love can be too hard on your brain
Let it close your eyes for you and you’ll never see the same
Put a scar on your heart
It’s hard to change
Scar on your heart

You stayed clear for a number of years
You don’t face the facts and you never face your fears
If you fill your head up with history

I Wouldn’t Do That To You

Looking at the soft skin of yesterday’s light fall upon you
Rising up off the pillowy haze that we gaze through
It’s a song that I sing because I have to
I make a choice to raise my voice
But you’re hard to refuse

I wouldn’t do that to you
I wouldn’t do that to you
I couldn’t drag it out
You couldn’t settle me down
I wouldn’t do that to you

Peel off the yellowing pages of memories in black and white
When love was just a sweet idea we could lie beside
And it’s a price that we pay because we want to

Warsaw in winter
Flowery graves
Can you still hear them
Whisper your name
Afraid of the cold spots
Caught in the tree tops
Love is a dogfight
You’re losing your shelf life

I can’t crawl out of this space
Hours fade without a trace

All of you listening
To forfeited years
Forget what they taught you
Open your ears
All of the great ones
Asleep with the warm guns
Love is a dog bite
You’re losing your shelf life

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I’ll take a walk I shouldn’t take
I’ll try to speak like a friend
Or a man who’s had to much to drink
Or who’s not afraid to sink in

I’ll take my time up the stairs
Dangerously nice atmosphere
I shouldn’t stay here but I’ll have to see
While I’m living life for me dear

I’m feeling so outside

You make me think
You make me weak
You challenge me with love and you’re right
When you say that I don’t give you enough
‘Cause I save you for Virginia

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Virginia is for lovers

Fiction almost always made more sense to me
Snowflakes are the souls you’d never save
Faith is not a habit forming vice you bet
Luck is when you’re glad it never came

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When you get tired of kicking stones
Those broken bones will lead the way home
So many same days beginning to breathe strange
And have you the right to complain at all

Figured out there would be doubt it brought you here
Watch the time and slowly climb the stairs
Truth is just a word for what you want to believe
Facts are off-white politics are gray

When you get tired of kicking stones

Slow days
Like the grind was made to break you
But there’s a love that’s waiting at home
And it’s cold outside
But the wind can never break you
‘Cause the heart inside
Is warm enough to keep from feeling down
When you’re around

And we’ll all be well dressed tonight
And you know you feel all right
‘Cause you got love you got love you got love

It seems as though
Her heart could overtake you
But you’re still finding your own
You can’t sleep sometimes
You get so tired of dreaming
And you’re strung so high
You lie awake to overanalyze blue skies

Mother Madam

Now’s the time to break these chains
Now’s the time to pack these things alone
You’re a big girl in the same small town
Pick yourself up off the ground

Mother madam

It’s another sticky corporate afternoon
With all the simpletons out there on the moon
Now’s the time to break these chains
Now’s the time to pack these things alone

We wouldn’t leave here without you
We wouldn’t be here without you

Mother madam

Don’t get carried away so soon

Mom I couldn’t find you
You were lost outer space
Mom I would invite you to escape

I’m still thinking about Monday
Speaking in tongues with your eyes
You’re talking in your sleep about someday
Someday could be happening tonight

Don’t you know that I want you
But silence is a safer sound
Don’t you know that I like you
But love keeps pushing me down

Don’t be too hard on yourself
Don’t look too far ahead
Don’t be alarmed or appalled when you fall
It’s only love

Dreams keep flashing up old fears
Where fiction is stranger than the truth
I can’t tell if it’s my wishing well
But I was getting used to lying with you

Sunbathing

We smiled and smoked and hid away there
We talked of all our different lives
And I must have spoken a million words there
And these words I read across your skies
Your eyes

You were glossy eyed nostalgic
And I was broken down amazed
And we sat stoned from all the logic
‘Cause you knew that I was still afraid
And frayed

And you won’t believe me I can never make sense
Let’s catch a plane and never regret
It’s not that I want you but can you believe it
We just caught the sun bathing

And I leaned back against your shoulder

You can speak your mind
You can take it back once you say it
Darling it can’t be that bad
It can’t be that bad

You can cross the street
Holding out your hand to another thief
But they don’t bring you back
They don’t bring you back

You can swing that sleepy song
You can swim along in a lucid dream

You can take your time
You can thank the sun once you see it
Darling it don’t look like rain
It don’t look like rain

We can’t comprehend why we all are here
So we might as well enjoy it while we can
Enjoy it while we can

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