"Together" Lyrics
Atlas
If I wasn’t so selfish I’d let you go
Forget your name delete you from my phone
I’d walk away and never look back
God damn it I’ve never been good at that
I white wash every memory
Like the time you brought home that Christmas tree
Still find the needles underneath the rug
They never tell you sometime it's good to give up
Chorus
But it ain’t sad
It's just a timeline
You get a map in the atlas of my mind
And I’ll I neeeeed
Might be me
V2.
If I wasn’t so needy I’d just go home
Put a record on and learn to be alone
And I’d take care of my best lost self
That sees what’s wrong with everyone else
I lie awake and remember the language swarm
That we spoke to each other
In the torrents of an ice storm
Chorus.
V3.
Give me friends and a buttered heart
Give me calloused hands from working in the yard
Give me all the fear I feel when I stare into space
Give me the courage to finally stay in one place.
Anywhere you want
Wish I had something to give you
But everything I own is a trick
I’m still waiting here to tell you this
But I think it might be a mistake
Walk me out to the alley 2 feet of wind and cold
Never wanted to be so far away from you
Every step like a broken bone
What I say here in the dark
It’s been living in the mountains and caves
of my heart
I’m a dry stave
Waiting to warm the fire of your hearth
Chorus
Take me anywhere
Take me anywhere
You want.
V2.
In the patient part of my breathing
I am all out of breath
There’s a story you used to read me
Where we’d forget about death
Pick me up off the sidewalk
Carry me into the car
It’s everything you could imagine
It's a free and wild new start
Chorus.
Music break
V3.
Lists are all about living
I’m buried up to my neck
I’m still head first here
With all this fear
Hoping you would come back
Brave
How do daredevils get in fast cars
Jump off tall buildings
Waiting for there bones to shatter
To get a cigarette break
Putting something out of its misery
Like it was nothing
That's the kind of courage I can’t even fake
Chorus:
Could you be yourself
Do you need my help
It’s not too late
To be brave
Could you be yourself
Do you need my help
It’s not too late
To beeeee brave
V2.
I can’t understand
Why every crazy plan
Every crazy plan
Comes my way
Here in the spring
you don’t mean a thing
Mean a thing you say
Chorus
Bridge:
I can’t define
Why I cry
When I see the ocean
Hit the shoreline
I get the fuel
To keep moving
Keep mooooving
Together
People still listen to the Indian Ocean
Even though your just at home
Waiting by the phone
For a call from New York
I didn’t realize it would last this long
Didn’t take my time
And every day just moved along
And I called you when I should have just left you alone
Chorus
All I could say is missing someone aint easy
When a whole world cracks you apart
I could die to get back to you
I never tried at anything so hard
V2.
There’s still alarms for the morning
there’s still count downs at the launch site
There’s still a bomb inside and outside
They still think there’s a passage of time
And it's strange that all this currency
was never as current as we thought
Maybe it was just an accident
Or an illusion or a loss
Chorus.
Bridge
After all this time
You were never gone
I came back one day
And you were on the drums
Together we can make it through
Whatever comes
Chorus.
On and On
I don’t want anyone to know me
I don’t want anyone to care
I want to forget where I’m going
I’m feeling for the feeling
Of coming home and finding you are there
Parking in the backyard by the old barn
Waiting for my brother in the dark
The blue screen lighthouse bedroom window
Your life just a monument
And I wish I could have said to you
What I can say in a song
Pre-Chorus
Covered in bees
Wind dirt prairie
We can feel free
Under the dark sea
And its 1 & 2, 3
Then I turn green
Forget and love
Forgive and be
Locked now
We hear hear
We find
We find
If you don’t dream
There’s no seed
Chorus
On and on we go
On and on we go
On and on we go
V2.
I don’t want anyone to know me
I don’t want anyone to care
But sometimes I forget where I’m going
I’m feeling for the feeling
Of coming home and finding you are there
Still waiting out there in the back
Staring at the time and a map
Wondering where we’d go if we can
Wasting time working in boxes
Working... for a ghost of a man
Quicksand
To my very best lost friend
I still love you when I can
Still crawl out of bed at 3am
when you’re locked up
I still hold you in my heart
With a false hope and fresh start
That could surrender this waging war inside you
It was always a false spring
I believe the wind fell on these trees
That the summer wasn’t real
but we were meant to meet
In that ghost June.
Chorus
And if you ain’t comin’
Your leaving
And if you ain’t high then you’re dreamin,
Don’t worry bout these sins tonight
They could happen for a reason
Maybe they happen for a reason
V2.
To my very best lost friend
I’m sorry for what I did
I left you in the dust for a while
And I still thought to call sometimes
But it seemed a little trying
Seemed like every smile be lying
When I kept saying you’d be fine
You’d be fine
Chorus
Bridge
Just hold me back
I can try and save it
I pull and I pull
But I can never pull you out of this quicksand x2
Christmas Everytime
Everywhere you turn
There’s some sort of trap
One false step
You fall down the hatch
When I met you
I was learning to laugh
I was trying to decide if I ever go back
Pre Chorus
It's Christmas every time
You come in
Its secrets in the long lines of your eyes
Chorus
Our love doesn't know the way
Our love doesn’t know the time
It's been years of writing
And hours of driving
But our love’s not easy to define
V2.
I wish I could point a finger
I wish I knew who’s fault it was
That everything I do’s in service to you
It's a long way and hard for the blood
Pre Chorus
Chorus
Bridge
Sing me songs of our hard time
Of every bump in the road
It's been a long heavy load
Trying to make any kind of home
No Doubt
Should’ve went to see her
Even thought I wouldn’t sleep
Should've left that night for the coffin
There’s no stars under 6 feet
Should have taken every moment
said there was to say
Chorus
Should have played played played
Tll my hands when numb
Till the people walked out
Till there was no doubt
This is where I should have been
V2.
Shouldn’t have left that party
Even though it was getting late
Should have drank some extra coffee
And had tired eyes for the day
Should have taken every moment
rang it out like a rag
Chorus
Should have sang sang sang
Till my voice gave in
Till the people walked out
Till there was no doubt
This is where I should have been
Bridge
There’s a way the light hits the Fall front range
Racing against the snow
In mountains of blue whales
And I call you in the morning from the star side motel
Try to tell you you should be here
But I could never say things well.
Chorus
End of Days
Tell me about your plans
For the end of days
I’ll pencil you in
I’ll meet you halfway
I hear that there’ll be fireworks
And a big parade
They’ll be kids down the block
Selling lemonade
And I’ll meet you down there
And we’ll drive around
Past every old spot
Where they kicked us out
And I’ll take a deep breath
And say all there was to say
As we roll past the factory
And down by the lake
(musical break)
Tell me bout your plans
For the end of days
I’m here by the phone
ready for anything
And your muffler cries
As you roll down the hill
Ain’t it nice to know
There’s one thing less to fix
And I’ll meet you outside
With a pack of cigarettes
A bottle of something nice that
I’ve been savin’
And it doesn’t really matter
If we’re smiling or not
When we finally meet God
And when I finally meet God
And recap this planet
I’ll be sure to mention
You made it so I could stand it
Tell me bout your plans for the end of days
I’m here by the phone ready for anything.
Songs For Cleaning Women
Cleaning women don’t take what you think
They don’t care ‘bout your watches or your diamond rings
I just finger a few sleeping pills for a rainy day
Ter, I miss you like hell on the 43 to Berkley
Just remember move everything a little to the left
They’ll think you’re thorough and they won’t judge you after that
You can lay behind the couch read a magazine and smoke
Don’t make friends with cats or kids
They’ll get mad and let you go
Chorus
I put my hand to my mouth when I smile now
And I’m tired of the bargain can someone let me out
Feel the air from the crack in the bus window
And I’m trying to learn
How to cry
Over you
You’ll get a lot of liberated women
Don’t bring dolls for the girls
And take everything they give ya
I reminded you of San Pablo Ave
You reminded me of the Berkley dump
There was so much beauty in our bad luck
Chorus
Cleaning women don’t work for your friends
You’ll learn too much about them
and they’ll never forgive you
But Bob and Linda are different
Cum and blueberry jam on the sheets
Cigarettes in the bathroom
Coke and notes from their daughter Andrea
Plus I can sit on the couch
And stare out the window at our old house
And The 40 Telegraph stop is alive tonight
People lean against the window drinking green cans of Sprite
Harley’s rev their engines, cyclists fly by like a kite
Ter, I don’t want to die at all actually
And I open my eyes and start to weep
Chorus
Love’s Not a Mystery
I forget who I am in English ‘till you call me up
Hear your voice and our history hits me like a Mack truck
The first time we made love when we were adulterers and young
That time in Acapulco with the kids in the sun
And your heroin fits when we moved to the Midwest
When I finally told you I couldn’t take the rest
Chorus
Love’s not a mystery anymore
Love’s not a mystery anymore
Anymore
Well the husband I left you for, he wasn’t all bad
I just curse my brain for being so romantic
Now I’m down here in Mexico by my sisters side
Well you call me up I can always smile
Chorus
And I hang up the phone at a quarter to two
Here your ventilator breathing for you in the room
Life is so messy but it doesn’t seem to matter
Even the best of us say we could have done better
Chorus
Mama
Mama said nothing good ever comes from love
You soak your pillow with tears and smoke two cigarettes at once
And she’d write me all the suicide notes
Least I knew she’d think about me before she’d go
She disowned Laura when she moved to Mexico
Wouldn’t even let her in when she got sick and came home
Chorus
There’s a story God wrote about us before we could even talk
There’s a wind that blows across Texas when they buried you with the stars
And I think about you now in the ground
They put her on a boat when she was just 19
Chain smoked with the captain, laughed and drank gin
She was off then to marry Ed
All the things she could have done if she wasn’t run by men
Chorus
She hated to see us grow and do well
Have a future and get beautiful
It’s sad to say I’m the same way to you
Every action I take is a little jealousy of youth
Chorus
Step
Once I start there’s no end
This booze is like a freight train going off the edge
You wake up with the fear for what you’ve done
Have you hurt your lover have you killed someone
And I end up back in rehab with these guys tonight
Gathered round the TV we’re waiting for the fight
And I always forget how cold it is here
Wrapped up in blankets as the crowd starts to cheer
It’s Leonard vs. Benitez it’s an easy match
Sugar Ray will take it in two seconds flat
Then the rounds go through one and the rounds go through ten
We start praying Benitez will stay in the ring
And something inside me can’t root for a star
Always cheer for the guy they say won’t go far
It’s hard to do any kind of winning
When everything feels like a war of attrition.
They put up the card for round 15
And it’s so quiet the announcers can’t say a thing
Then Sugar Ray mouths “I can’t believe he’s still standing”
Then there’s a 1-2 and the mat meets his knee
And I can see my breath as I whisper
“God please help me”
And I can see my breath as I whisper
“God please help me”
Strays
Go along like the world means nothing then one day it means something
All the connections I had with people I was so high I don’t know if they were real
I fell in love with Bobby when I watched him tame these strays
Mangy and beaten from the wind he feeds him from his hand
You can see the essence of a person in so many ways
Chorus
I don’t know if this is working
I don’t know if I’ll ever get clean
But it’s been nice holding you these last few nights
When they catch us in the morning Bobby says
“I didn’t want to be with Tina you have to understand
I just want to go home to my wife Debbbie and my daughter Debbie Ann”
Those words cut me in two
He made love better to me than most men do
I was happy with him when the moon came up
Maybe that’s why I ravage my body cause I don’t know how to love
Chorus
The dogs are gone for three days and they come back
crying from poison and dying in pain
Bobby puts them out of their mystery
Then I left without thinking back to Albuquerque
Jockey
Skeletons like trees
You meet all the heroes in emergency rooms
Thumbtack in a hat
He falls out of a Cadillac
And I carry him like King Kong down the hall
Chorus
Glory be to me
I’m gonna wake up younger
I’m gonna wake up stronger
But my body says I might be wrong
Broken collar bone and all
He cries for his mother in Spanish
And I stroke his back like a newborn colt in a stall
Chorus