Lyrics from: Skin, bones, bruises (2009)

Risk everything

I saw you bury me 6 feet under again It was a dream like the best that I ever had You were lying on your stomach with your head on the grass And that was six feet closer than we’d ever been in the past And I miss those nights When you read my mind But we can’t go back in time I’m too tired to try And you come around here fighting With your eyes blue and crying And I know I said I felt something But I won’t won’t won’t risk everything I wish you hadn’t kissed me goodbye when you got on the train I wish you hadn’t told me you were hoping you could see me again You were afraid of what it meant and it was there on your face And as your train pulled away I was left on my own in disgrace And I miss those nights When you read my mind But we can’t go back in time Because I’m too tired You come around here fighting With your eyes blue and crying And I know I said I felt something But I won’t won’t won’t risk everything No I won’t won’t won’t risk everything

Forgive and forget

I've had the weirdest of days and you keep reappearing You follow me wherever I go You tell the deepest of lies And they keep on repeating I'm learning things I don't want to know I seen you walk in your sleep I can't even imagine the places that you're trying to go I don't expect you to tell me whatever you're thinking It doesn't mean I don't want to know And I'm not afraid to play the games you play You come back around and knock me down again But I'm still alive and I'm never giving in Give me time to forgive and I'll forget Part of me believes that you've got what you wanted You came to see me falling apart Part of me bereaves for the part that you've taken You left it in the dirt and the dark You told me that I could wait But I know you were lying I turned to find you'd gone anyway All the colours we made only fade as they're drying You save me for the end of the day And I'm not ashamed to say that you're to blame You come back around and knock me down again But I'm still alive and I'm never giving in Give me time to forgive and I'll forget Give me time to forgive and I'll forget Forgive and I'll forget Forgive and I'll forget

Paperplane

Paper planes Flying through your window Paper planes Folded just right Paper planes Soaring through your window With messages written inside And if I could have your strength for a minute If I could find your heart and then win it I would have a way to say my name I wouldn’t have to write it on a paper plane If I could hold your hand for a minute If I could write a love song and sing it I would have a way to make you see That Maybe there’s room in your room for me By the way Can you see me through your window By the way I’m just out of sight and I’m making Paper planes That I can throw in through your window I’ve been imagining what you’re feeling inside And if I could have your strength for a minute If I could find your heart and then win it I would have a way to say my name I wouldn’t have to write it on a paper plane If I could hold your hand for a minute If I could write a love song and sing it I would have a way to make you see That Maybe there’s room in your room for me Can you see outside your room tonight From my heart to your room tonight If I could hold your hand now Just for a minute Or two or three Cause you’re the only place that I want to be If I could have your strength for a minute If I could find your heart and then win it I would have a way to say my name I wouldn’t have to write it on a paper plane If I could hold your hand for a minute If I could write a love song and sing it I would have a way to make you see That Maybe there’s room in your room for me

Glowing

 When I see you standing there With those innocent green eyes The way you always stand When I make you cry The way you always stand When I breathe you out The way you always stand You're never in doubt You're still glowing Brighter every day You're still glowing While I just fade away I know you’re going So all I came to say Is I wish that I could shine As bright as you Now you sail away so fast To light up someone else And now I think the moment's passed I'm darker by myself I know I always held you back I hid from who you are But everything was turning black Except for your star You're still glowing Brighter every day You're still glowing While I just fade away I know you’re going So all I came to say Is I wish that I could shine As bright as you Show them who you are So when it gets too dark There will still be time to find you You're still glowing Brighter every day You're still glowing I just fade away I know you’re going So all I came to say Is I wish that I could shine As bright as you Cause there's no-one here who shines the way you do

Love on TV

Turn it on Turn it and you’ll see See me fall Fall in love on TV Every night You’ll be addicted to your screen As I fall Fall in love on TV You’re watching every word I say And I just want to tell her every day That I love her I need her I dream I spend the final scene beside her And so I try to let her know But it’s the end of the show It doesn’t seem fair That the whole world gets to see See me fall fall in love on TV I can’t believe The pictures that she sees As I fall fall in love on TV I dream about her night and day And still I just want the perfect line to say That I love her I need her I dream I spend the final scene beside her And so I try to let her know But it’s the end of the show They run a midnight episode And tell you how she feels But I won’t get to know Until the final scene

Crawling back

I’ll stay home in the same clothes And you can wait for your earthquake I’ll stay home From the skin to the bone I’ll fade and crack Leave my demons alone I want them back When you take off your clothes her face burns black And I’m too hurt I’m too tired I’m too scared to watch you Crawling back So hold tight for the last ride Coming feels like such a cheap prize When you wash me off your stained teeth Does he taste Nice From the skin to the bone I’ll fade and crack Leave my demons alone I want them back When you take off your clothes her face burns black And I’m too hurt I’m too tired I’m too scared to watch you Crawling back The more beautiful you are and the more you pray The more you hurt when you learn your beauty fades The more they tell you that they love you for the girl you are The more you wonder if you’re sleeping in a stolen car

Outside

Show yourself Show yourself to me Can you find us a way to get out of this place Please Take the stand Take the stand and read I would have you read the world to me Why do you wait on the outside and hide from the fire tonight The deeper you burn on the inside the harder I’m ready to fight So tell me I’m holding your hand right I’ll bring you back into the light And this will be just like the first time You crash and burn you crash and burn so hard But I’ll sing to you sweet if you’re falling apart We might be far From the things that we dreamed when our blood was naive But I’ll hold up your head while you’re trying to breathe Why do you wait on the outside and hide from the fire tonight The deeper you burn on the inside the harder I’m ready to fight So tell me I’m holding your hand right I’ll bring you back into the light And this will be just like the first time So you came on your own on the day when it snowed There was no-one to hold in the dark and the cold It only took a moment as you learned how to fly But your wings got burned and afraid of the fire Now you’re afraid of the fire Why do you wait on the outside and hide from the fire tonight The deeper you burn on the inside the harder I’m ready to fight So tell me I’m holding your hand right and we can go back to our lives This will be just like the first time

Never gonna happen

Congratulations I heard you found a new love Congratulations I heard that it’s a true love I’ll be leaving now It’s time to stop believing now They try to tell me How he’s the one that only dreams of you And they try to tell me That I was pain and lies and shame to you So I’ll be leaving now You won’t be here to hear me grieving now And so I wait for you to call I wait for you to come around But I know it’s never gonna happen now I know it’s never gonna happen now Do you ever think of me Do you ever think of how we used to be I used to watch you sleep Was this was this was this what you dreamed They tell me that you’re leaving town Congratulations The word has such a lonely sound I’ve been dreaming now Of holding you to feel you breathing out So I wait for you to call I’ll wait for you to come around But I know it’s never gonna happen now I know it’s never gonna happen now And I wait for you to call I wait for you to come around But I know it’s never gonna happen now I know it’s never gonna happen now And so today I start to fade From your memory

She fell into a hole

This is a sad tale about Somebody who walked away All she did was scream and shout Until her dying day And every time she fell the pain She always used to say That everything is just the same As if this was yesterday She turned around and fell away She fell into a hole she made And I reached out but I could not save Any part of the heart and the soul that she gave She never made an ounce of sense She never told the truth But I never thought her eyes could lie Until she turned them on you And fiction is the world you miss when She says it’s just the blues But that is not the way to live And she’s the living proof She turned around and fell away She fell into a hole she made And I reached out but I could not save Any part of the heart and the soul that she gave And she said I’ll fall into a hole with you

Electricity

I'd like to take tonight for walking And spend an hour in midnight rain I'd like to make the time for holding on to someone But I'm alone again I'd like to take the time for talking There’s still a lot of things to say If only I could choose the way to spend the time That remains I'm ready for the end of life to start I'm ready for memory to stop I'm ready for the electricity to be turned on I never had a lot of time for God but we can say a prayer if you want I'm ready for the electricity to be turned on I felt the blood run through my fingers And watched my colours fade to grey You said you'd show me to paradise I couldn't find the way I spend the final hours writing My final words upon this page The most precious lie that I ever had was time And I gave it away I'm ready for the end of life to start I'm ready for memory to stop I'm ready for the electricity to be turned on I never had a word to say to god but you can say a prayer if you want I'm ready for the electricity to be turned on

Take me home

Well I’m just the same as anyone I get scared of being alone You don’t have to say you love me Hey just take me home I saw you when you walked in here tonight Your eyes were fresh from a lover’s bitter fight So we watch each other drinking all alone Like a long forgotten Juliet and romeo Well I’m just the same as anyone I get scared of being alone You don’t have to say you love me hey Just take me home You can stay until the morning But I’ll understand if you go You don’t have to say you love me hey Just take me home So we wait outside for taxis in the rain I’ve done this before and I know I will again I’ve forgotten how it feels to be alive Maybe you’re the one to bring me back tonight Well I’m just the same as anyone I’m so tired of being alone You don’t have to stay a night and a day Just take me home Take me home

All lyrics copyright Adam Smith 2009 - no stealing!