Heroes

When I think heroes, I think capes

Chasing villains stopping trains

Half incredible Half insane

Uh huh

What if superman, he couldn't fly

And spiderman, he couldn’t climb

What if they’re just like you and I

Uh huh

 

I don’t wanna meet me my heroes

I just want to be a face in the crowd

If I ever met my heroes

They might let me down

 

I like to keep em way up high

Out of my reach and in my mind

They’re shooting stars and saving lives

Don’t know what’s real and what’s made up

Get too close, it’s close enough

I can look but I can’t touch

And that’s fine

Uh huh

 

I don’t wanna meet me my heroes

I just want to be a face in the crowd

If I ever met my heroes

They might let me down

Let me down

I don’t wanna meet me my heroes

I just wanna leave em up the in the clouds

If I ever met my heroes

They might let me down

 

New Madrid

Been so long since I’ve felt something

Touch of wind eyes full of tears

There’s a silence yet I hear the low humming

And a heart that hasn’t moved in years

 

New Madrid

Remember

When we made the Mississippi River

Run backwards

Sleeping faultline

Shifting pieces

Pretending we can’t feel

The rift between us

Don’t talk about it

New Madrid

 

There was fire

Burning after midnight

But the smoke took the light away

All the bells that used to sound

You and I don’t hear them now

And the ground we tread will bury us some day

 

New Madrid

Remember when we made the Mississippi River

Run backwards

Sleeping faultline

Shifting pieces

Pretending we can’t feel

The rift between us

Don’t talk about it

New Madrid

 

New Madrid

Remember when we made the Mississippi River

Run backwards

Sleeping faultline

Shifting pieces

Pretending we can’t feel

The rift between us

Love is tragic

It’s gonna happen

New Madrid

 

Pins And Needles

Give it up, Don’t try

Is what I tell myself

But it’s like running away

From rain in the desert

Stumbled up, Blacked out

don’t know how hard I fell

I’ve been crawling to you ever since

We’ve been together

 

I’m working overtime

following close behind

You’ve my number, My thunder

And it’s your thumb that I’m under

I’m sinking in your sand

You’ve got the upper hand

I’ve got you on cloud nine

you’ve got me on

Pins and needles

 

Digging my own grave

Every time you walk that way

You bury me with your lack

Of good intentions

Honey you got me

Begging, Hurting on my knees

It’s the kind of pain that I can’t lose

For the winning

 

I’m working overtime

following close behind

You’ve my number, My thunder

And it’s your thumb that I’m under

I’m sinking in your sand

You’ve got the upper hand

I’ve got you on cloud nine

But you’ve got me on

Pins and needles

 

Self-respect there’s nothing left

But it’s where I want to be

I’m enamored by the hammer

laying down on me

 

Lake Air

There’s always one

You can never forget

Of all the night you’ve had

It overshadows

All the rest

There’s a certain cold

Plays on your skin

And you remember the feeling of being

Higher than you’ve ever have been

 

We were silhouettes

Ghosts in the rain

And we almost froze

Where we left our clothes

By the water bank

Every single word

Felt like a dare

When you kissed my lips

I breathed you in

And kept you there

Lake air

 

There’s a certain sound

When the world disappears

And your heart is beating so hard

It’s all you can hear

I still dream of you in secret

I still see you on the shore

You're out there giving me something

That I don’t get anymore

 

We were silhouettes

Ghosts in the rain

And we almost froze

Where we left our clothes

By the water bank

Every single word

Felt like a dare

When you kissed my lips

I breathed you in

And kept you there

Lake air

 

Hardest Part About Business

Money runs deep where the talk is cheap

When the secretary's sleeping with the boss again

He doesn't know it but in less than a week he's

Gonna be laid off from the government

Knowledge is key but if your like me

You wish you didn't know the truth

Damned if you do

Fired if you don't

And dead if they think it's you

 

Please hold for the executive drinking

There's an operator getting busy

With the new guy who's always singing

At the annual office parties

Well hear no evil but you're gonna see

It's better if you work alone

Because the hardest part about business

Is minding your own

 

Curiosity automatically makes you

Guilty as the cat hanging out the bag

You try to ignore it but the more

You plead the 5th the more they're gonna

Stab ya in the back

You can't win but if you join them

It's what your gonna turn into

A tall tale recruiter spreading the rumors

Till they turn around and pin it on you

 

Please hold for the executive drinking

There's an operator getting busy

With the new guy who's always singing

At the annual office parties

Well hear no evil but you're gonna see

It's better if you work alone

Because the hardest part about business

Is minding your own

 

Somebody said that someone saw

Somebody doing something so secretive

But the best thing about being left in the dark

Is ya don't have to worry about keeping it in

 

Banshee

Moonlight between the pines

Footsteps walking behind

Following too close for comfort

Dressed in her ivory

Lace hanging from her sleeve

Tattered and torn by a lover

 

Alone on her wedding day

1878

Same bells ringing thru the church

Blue eyes and auburn hair

She thought he was standing there

Cause mine's a dead ringer for hers

 

Banshee

Please leave my lover alone

Banshee

Please don't take him cause yours is dead and gone

 

Mine is the hand he takes

But she wants him anyway

Seal it off with a kiss

But little does she know

That mine is not a ghost

That they buried her heart with

 

Banshee

Please leave my lover alone

Banshee

Please don't take him cause yours is dead and gone

 

As he lays next to me

He sees you in his dreams

Lingering over the bed

But legend has been told

If you wanna kill a ghost

You gotta send them back to the dead

 

Banshee

Please leave my lover alone

Banshee

Please don't take him cause yours is dead and gone

 

Banshee

If you don't let us rest in peace

I'll leave you running

Like a banshee

 

Radio Silence

 

There used to be a time 

We were two of a kind 

When anything was wrong  

We’d talk about it 

You’d open up to me 

Heart on your sleeve 

Till shadows overshadowed you 

 

I tried to reach you through the growing static 

I tried to replicate the fading magic 

Did everything to keep the signal from dying 

All I got was radio silence 

  

It’s like it all went south 

When there was nothing wrong 

The way you disappeared 

Came out of nowhere 

I wasn’t ready for 

The way you shut the door 

And left me standing in the frame 

  

I tried to reach you through the growing static 

I tried to replicate the fading magic 

Did everything to keep the signal from dying 

All I got was radio silence 

 

I waited through the storm 

Thinking that you were coming 

Coming back to me 

Alarms that used to warn 

Me that you weren’t calling 

Never called for me 

 

I tried to reach you through the growing static 

I tried to replicate the fading magic 

Did everything to keep the signal from dying 

All I got was radio silence 

I tried to tell you that it’s gonna get better 

I tried to put the pieces back together 

Did everything to keep the signal from dying 

All I got was radio silence 

 

Heart Condition

You know that love is a fire

By the heat that it gives

It elevates your desire

Till it crashes again

You've got me down to a science

Chemically I react

The only form of alliance

Is your knife in my back

 

Ooooo

I'm coming down with heart condition

Ooooo

The pulse is fading by my own volition

No cure no pill to take

(it's the bitter pill to take)

Oh it's killing me to leave

And killing me to stay

 

I don’t know how to recover

From the lows and highs

Its always one or the other

A Pulse or a flatline

 

Ooooo

I'm coming down with heart condition

Ooooo

The pulse is fading by my own volition

No cure no pill to take

(it's the bitter pill to take)

Oh it's killing me to leave

And killing me to stay

 

Pinwheel

Time changed

I used to have a slo-mo wristwatch

Never felt the pressure of the tick tock

What’s cool what’s not

You came

Into my line of sight stealing my attention

You’re the ghost that’s revving up the engine

Stirring up tension

I love it and hate it

 

Pinwheel

My head’s spinning

Tilting all the world in a colorful collision

Pinwheel

Visions always blurry

Everything’s a wash

Like pictures in a hurry

I’m turning like a record when you play me

Got a propeller for a heart here lately

Pinwheel

I was stuck for a minute

Now I can’t stand still like I did in the beginning

 

Wishing

Catching all the smoke from the candles

Carried all my dreams by the handle

Heavy as anvil

Then they all showed up

 

Maybe I’m a 10 cent amusement

And maybe I’m a weapon and you don’t wanna use it

 

Pinwheel

My head’s spinning

Tilting all the world in a colorful collision

Pinwheel

Visions always blurry

Everything’s a wash

Like pictures in a hurry

I’m turning like a record when you play me

Got a propeller for a heart here lately

Pinwheel

Tell me if you meant it

I can’t stand still like I did in the beginning

 

It Takes One To Know One

Ask for forgiveness

Never permission

Live life it’s gonna kill you anyway

Beggars can’t be choosers

But I beg to differ

I chose to beg for the love this pain could make

 

All together separate

Baby if you’re desperate

I’m the absolute

Full Disclosure

Never a poser

As long as I can

Fake it with you

 

It takes one to know one

And nobody else can see 

It takes one to know one

The way that you know me

 

My ears burning

Your wheels turning

I can hear all the thoughts

You say about me

Just by appearance

They can’t tell the difference

You and me and all our personalities

 

So Confrontational

Totally relatable

Swinging in and out of your moods

But I am guilty

Of the same insanity

Maybe that’s why I’m crazy

For you

 

It takes one to know one

And nobody else can see 

It takes one to know one

The way that you know me

 

Last Resort

When you’re wandering

Lost in your own land

I’ll clear a long road

That you can follow

Lead you to right where I am

 

When you’re troubled

Down with discontent

Save me for later

One in the chamber

Heaven ain’t done with you yet

No heaven ain’t done with you

 

When the Darkest hour don’t bring the morning

And it’s Do or Die caught in a storm

The when shelters you build

Fall without warning

I’ll be your Last resort

 

In desperation

Please remember me

When hell burns brighter

I’ll put out the fire

That burn into bad memories

 

When the Darkest hour don’t bring the morning

And it’s Do or Die caught in a storm

The when shelters you build

Fall without warning

I’ll be your Last resort

 

 When you’re wandering

Lost in your own land

In my affections

You’ll find direction

And never feel lonely again

 

When the Darkest hour don’t bring the morning

And it’s Do or Die caught in a storm

The when shelters you build

Fall without warning

I’ll be your Last resort