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I Was Almost Home
03:36
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I was almost home when it started pouring
I was way out of line
You were days away from being ready to hear
The hell that was raining down on my mind
I was born to ramble away from home
But conditioned to feel its pull
I started down the unpaved road
As it eats away and away at my soul
I was given strength enough to continue
To see through your jaded eyes
It was blue as the sky beneath them
Where dreams were held just out of reach tonight
I was standing in the darkness
Where I waited so many times
On the edge of town, my darling
When you arrived you shouted out
I want more
What is more if this is everything?
What is more?
What is more if this is everything?
I’m just working
I’m just writing
I’m just waiting for a good time
I’m just staring out a window
Looking for a sign that’ll never come
A beautiful thought came over me
I was happy where I was
But the world had moved on before then
Yeah, well it came too late and it meant too much
I was keeping you at arm’s length
Where I keep everyone else
But this time at least I was pulling you in
Yeah, at least I was reaching out
For so much more
What is more if this is everything?
What is more?
What is more if this is everything?
I’m just working
I’m just writing
I’m just waiting for a good time
I’m just staring out a window
Looking for a sign that’ll never come
I’m just waiting for a good time that’ll never come
I’m just waiting for a good time that’ll never come
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2. |
Two Decades and Change
03:53
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I’m saving up my strength to lift this off my shoulders
But I’m just carrying excuses now
I’m weaker and I’m older
But I swear if I had learned to dance in a way that doesn’t make you laugh
You’d remember my name as something more than some thrown away number
I drag my feet to every party because I’m afraid I might end up going
And facing the impossible responses to questions about what kind of music my band plays
Or what I want to do when I grow up
Grow out of these old skate shoes
Or this old shirt that fits me better now than it did back in grade school
When the world seemed more open to a compromise with my ridiculous dreams
Those doors are quickly closing
Let’s tear these walls down and run away
Let’s tear these walls down and run away
From safe inside it all makes sense
But we’re starved for confidence
Let’s tear these fucking walls down and run away
It’s taken two decades and change to see
We might not fit in with this scene
But maybe that’s what we needed
To realize what we’ve been missing
Let’s tear these walls down and run away
Let’s tear these walls down and run away
Let’s tear these walls down and run away
Let’s tear these walls down and run away
From safe inside it all makes sense
We’re starved for confidence
Let’s tear these fucking walls down and run away
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3. |
Dweller On the Threshold
06:06
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There’s a wave crashing forward where the horizon divides
And the sunlight just passes through
Down on the corner of I can’t wait and I wish I could go back
I wait with my only constant
It’s a box full of dreams I’ve carried since I was child
Since I had nothing to look to
Now I’m opening it here in this moment of denial
‘Cause I just might have something to prove to you
It’s the image of the wind
It’s sound of the light
That haunts you in darkness and speaks loud through the night
You race for the door but you haven’t left your bed
This happened once before and what was it that you said?
I will live for now
I will learn to love somehow
I will live for now
There’s a wave crashing forward where the highway divides
And the sunlight just chooses sides
I will live for now
I will learn to love somehow
I will live for now
I will learn to love somehow
And I will live for now
And I will learn to love somehow
And I will live for now
And I will learn to love somehow
The promise was still miles away
I cashed mine in early, I’m sorry to say
Goodbye everybody
I am leaving you tonight
And I may never return to this place
It’s better than nothing if nothing’s not more than a fire
It’s burning you alive
It’s my only weakness and I’m too young to die
Running in place as the flames lick my face
And the world just crumbles beneath me
It seems like a dangerous thing
The promise was still miles away
I cashed mine in early, I’m sorry to say
Goodbye everybody
I may be fearless in this world
But there are other worlds
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As I walk through this wicked world
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity
And I ask myself, is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?
‘Cause each time I feel like this inside
There’s one thing I want to know
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
As I walk on through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong ones
Who do I trust in?
And where is there harmony?
Sweet harmony
‘Cause each time I feel it slipping away
It just makes me want to cry
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
Where are the strong ones
Who do I trust in?
And where is there harmony?
Sweet harmony
‘Cause each time I feel like this inside
There’s one thing I want to know
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
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5. |
Sugar
01:33
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I awoke in the night with a start as I felt your memory leap from laundry mountain
At the top of my dresser where you used to sleep
Like a queen in the days before your back got too weak
And I came to with no head on my shoulder
No purring discordant white noise machine in my ear
I heard you whisper
That love you held so strong
Carry it with you from now on
You knew the time we had must end
And I’ll miss you, my friend
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