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Riding Bikes with Drew
01:38
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You try, tell me what I mean
I will, never coming clean
I have been here for so long
In this place you'll never be
I'll tell you the things you know
And I'll tell you what you want to hear
If I tell you the things that you want to hear
Then you'll never let me go
If I just tell you the things that you want to hear
You'll never leave me alone
Don't want to be there when you die
Because when you look into my eyes
You're gonna see the truth inside
You're gonna say that I lied
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The Thin Line
04:27
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Well you and me, we're the same now
Only I'm further in the box not ready to walk
So far out like you
I'm scared to death of that it means if i do
Is the man in the moon the man you're worshiping now
You talk an awful lot about the things that you doubt
You say the man at the top of the stair pushed you down
Oh that fall, was it hard when you hit the ground
You and me we're the same now
Only I'm shading what you're yelling out
Yelling "how dare you"
I'm scared to death of what that means for you too
Well I heard there's a small sad piece of shame
Trying to level your honesty against his name
Now thin and dangerous the line beautifully drawn between
All the sad things you say and how I think the very same thing
I don't know if my branches deserve to be cursed
Like you say that they should in your song and verse
I rather favour the leaves that when they fall to the dirt
Can curse the options they lost and bless the things that they learned
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Floundering
03:59
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I can't stop time and I can't let things be
Someday I'll find you and you'll understand me
Because I've been round the block and there is only one thing
That I know for sure and that's I'm floundering
Do I just love you cause you love me back?
Or, do I love you cause there's something there?
Cause, I can't tell you what I feel for you?
Cause, I don't know
Meanwhile, in the real world
I get a call from the passing of time
And she says
"Don't repeat, just keep things sweet, set doubts to the side"
I tell her "I can't trust you, and I can't trust my mind"
Cause, I been knowing, cause you treat me so dear
And cause you're always down to say the things I'm fixing to hear
But, that don't help my mind to go clear so
I don't know
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5. |
Bye Bye Balboa
04:01
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Awe, you and I were kin
And, we shared so many things
And, I know I was bad I committed so much sin
But I thought I was righteous and did so much to please
And I know I'm a fool I'm never one to win so
Bye Bye Balboa, you and me
I loved you like a person, inseparable until
We fought and fought and made each other ill
I made many mistakes, you're not one to forgive
And, I knew my time was up when you weren't there for me
And there's so many words I could say
But I made my bed and in it I must lay
And I'm sorry for all the shitty shiity ways
I dealt with things cause now I've got to to say
On a date for one, I'll take you to the Cliff House by the sea
All those feelings they were raw, can't stop them spilling out of me
And I do not have the words to end this section yet so...
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6. |
Santa Rosa Transit Mall
03:42
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7. |
Unpretty
03:16
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I wish could tie you up in my shoes
Make you feel unpretty too
I was told I was beautiful
But what does that mean to you
Look into the mirror who's inside there
The one with the long hair
Same old me again today
My outsides look cool
My insides are blue
Every time I think I'm through
It's because of you
I've tried different ways
But it's all the same
At the end of the day
I have myself to blame
I'm just trippin'
Never insecure until I met you
Now I'm bein' stupid
I used to be so cute to me
Just a little bit skinny
Why do I look to all these things
To keep you happy
Maybe get rid of you and then I'll get back to me
You can buy your hair if it won't grow
You can fix your nose if he says so
You can buy all the make up that M.A.C. can make
But if you can't look inside you
Find out who am I too
Be in the position to make me feel...
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8. |
Sheffield
02:51
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You’re a good man but you struggle sometimes
To suppress, the fears about yourself that you hide
And it manifests in ways that draw a circle around your soul
And you couldn’t say and wouldn’t want to even if you knew how
So try to mask the shame
For what it’s worth, balanced out, there’s not much to be gained
Cause if you knew how, and spoke of perceived sin
There’s no guarantee that anyone’d be listening
You speak in ciphers born of catastrophic cyclones in your mind
It don’t work and it don’t convey anything besides
Veiled frustration at reality but that’s so hard to find
When you try, you can’t, you won’t, you never will decide what
What that really is, you’re back, back, and forth and forth
Never catching it
When you decide what, what that really is
I don’t wanna be there when you find out this is it
And you try say "please don’t", never wanted to know
And I try say "please don’t", you decide which way things’ll go
If you knew how, to try to mask the shame
For what it’s worth, balanced out, there’s not much to be gained
Cause if you knew how, and spoke of perceived sin
There’s no guarantee that anyone’d be listening
And you try say please don’t, never wanted to know
And I try say please don’t, you decide which way things’ll go
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Reasoning
03:25
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I think of you at odds with your life
And I think of you, and your plight
But I know, you won't say
“How much can I take?”
Reasoning it away
"How much can I take?"
I must say now that you’ve, taken flight
You let everyone, bask, in your light
And I know, you will be, eternally free
But I won't, ever say, so long
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I can't stop time and I can't let things be
Someday I'll find you and you'll understand me
Because I've been round the block and there is only one thing
That I know for sure and that's I'm floundering
Do I just love you cause you love me back?
Or, do I love you cause there's something there?
Cause, I can't tell you what I feel for you?
Cause, I don't know
Meanwhile, in the real world
I get a call from the passing of time
And she says
"Don't repeat, just keep things sweet, set doubts to the side"
I tell her "I can't trust you, and I can't trust my mind"
Cause, I been knowing, cause you treat me so dear
And cause you're always down to say the things I'm fixing to hear
But, that don't help my mind to go clear so
I don't know
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