- Anxious and Worrying
Anxious and worrying,
So you spend your whole life hurrying,
For something better, than what you knew before
And always knowing you are you
And you are gonna even up the score
Is that what you're always fightin' for?
And it's a long way back-
- Bad Ideas
I want to be a dinosaur, a fossil of times come before.
Extinction seems bleak, but I shudder to think of not knowing when my time has come.
And I hope when it comes that I know.
Well they busted the block in ’65 and we scattered like ash far and wide
To these places we made as if molded from clay, too thick for the roots to survive
And the rules of the game from when we were young get more faded and faded with time
- Bikes and Bridges
Bikes and Bridges
even columbus looks better on the back seat of a bike and all my fears get
washed away in a stream of blinking lights and the concrete strip below seems
less like a noose and more like a tie that binds or at least a tourniquet. it’s
been such a hard season and the bridges we burned might be all we had to keep
us from drowning. but at least we had this time; and i’d like to think we’re
better off for it. i’ll remember this. sometimes broken things make the best
- Call It a Comeback
They say it’s all in the wrist.
You give more than you take.
Those hours borrowed from sick days have been taken away.
You’ve been at it for too long.
Worn out car and tape by judas priest,
It’s hard to find a sense of meaning waiting here in your parking space.
You’re no single story,
- Calling Old Friends
Those roads that stretch ahead of us, the roads that led us here; singing traditional renditions of the songs we sang last year. And though these times have made us stronger, the outcome's no more clear.
Calling old friends to make sure they're real, talking, talking just to feel that sense of home you lost when you left last year. Distance is just numbers on a dashboard, hours thinking about nothing but the transmission stutter you fear.
I remember what you whispered in my ear, and all the things we tried so hard to never have to hear, like "kids tighten up, start saving for the golden years." Well, hey, that picture it fades day by day and the outcome's not so clear.
Don't think I'll see you around this winter, and my tongue's stuck full of splinters; 'cause I'm embarrassed to admit what I've been thinking. Well, hope keeps some afloat, but for me it's no life boat. The tighter I hold on the deeper down I'm sinking.
- Can't Stop, Won't Stop
We watch the doves that nest on front porch roofs by day,
But they can't stop the beatings of last night.
We wear black so that we don't forget on Thursday,
But out of love we feel we must attack on Friday.
But they can't stop what we can't stop I fear.
And they won't stop what we won't stop.
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
- Hairpool
I'll tell you in street intersections
'Cause they give you a place to go
Give meanings to lines on maps
And tell you how you're gonna to get home
Now I'm back here in the Midwest
Where everything's familiar and sincere
And everything's external
Nothing just happened to you here
- Road Sign Always Look Better Looking Over Your Shoulder
he says he's tired of working overtime and troubles weighing on his mind in class. he said he'd like to pack his bags and run away, and never look back. he says this life of mine's like doing time for crimes that i didn't commit. he says if life is just a game, i'm on the losing team - and i just want to quit.
she says we can take this weekend, drive out past city limits, keep on driving just as far as we can go. and maybe when we get back, things will seem a little better, things will work out in a way we couldn't know...
she says we can take this weekend, drive out past city limits, keep on driving just as far as we can go. and we can take this weekend, and make it last forever, deal the shackles of our lives a breaking blow. because to run away is victory, a tank of gas is freedom, and a starry night and open road is hope. we can take my fast car, or maybe just close our eyes, and when we open them the world we want ... can be the world we know.
- Road Signs Always Look Better
He said he's tired of working overtime and troubles weighing on his mind in class.
He said he'd like to pack his bags and run away, and never look back.
He said this life of mine's like doing time for crimes that I didn't commit.
And if life is just a game I'm on the losing team, and I just want to quit.
And she said we can take this weekend, drive out past city limits, keep on driving just as far as we can go.
And maybe when we get back, things will seem a little better, things will work out in a way we couldn't know.
A way we couldn't know.
- sweet dudes and sweet ladies
tomorrow might be the day I die
so I want, or rather must, confide
all these things I did, or did not,
try to hide.
well, if boys are boys and
girls are girls.
then boys and girls
are sometimes confused
- You Are Loved
And as the story unfolds over time, things we once knew they do dissolve into the sky.
She swears she sees a brand new constellation every time somebody we know dies, it is no consolation prize but we’ll remember you.
So to get good sleep at night, silence the oracles, they’re singing from inside.
Nobody really wants to know the future, we just want to hear “you’ll be alright”
and we’ll be alright.
These days they will find us learning that we had it all wrong;
but these days they will find us unashamed because we were learning all along, and the radio plays a familiar song.