And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow

It’s Just Not Me, It’s Everybody

 

Sitting at this party

Wondering if anyone knows me

Really sees who I am

Oh it’s been so long since I felt really known

 

Fragile in the morning

Can’t hold on to much of anything

With this hole in my hand

I can’t pretend that we always keep what we find

Yes everybody splits apart sometimes

 

Living in the wake of overwhelming changes

We’ve all become strangers

Even to ourselves

We just can’t help

We can’t see from far away

To know that every wave might not be the same

But its all apart of one big thing

 

Oh it’s not just me, it’s not just me

It’s not just me, it’s everybody

 

Mercy is the only

Cure for being so lonely

Has a time ever been more revealing

That the people are hurting

Oh it’s not just me

I guess it’s everybody

Yes we all bleed the same way

 

Oh it’s not just me, it’s not just me

It’s not just me, It’s everybody

 

Oh it’s not just me, it’s not just me

It’s not just me, It’s everybody

 

 

Children of the Empire

 

Lookin’ like some clear skies

Have finally opened up my eyes

Livin’ in a lost time

The dawning of a brand new man

So much blood on our hands

The king and queen of being lonely

Children of the empire see

That we’re all lost

 

Comes a cost walking in the labyrinth without love

How much can you take

And when are you gonna be ok

Gain control of what we made

Instead of being afraid

Children of the empire say

 

That we’re long gone

In that eternal flame

Trying to break away

From the mess we made

Oh we don’t have time anymore to be afraid

 

We tend to live long that’s why so many things go wrong

People selling the young blood

I guess that’s the price you pay

Make desire but no one wins

Won’t the fire burn us in

Before we get a chance to love again

Children understand that they pay for their sins

Seize control of what they made

Before we all fade away

Children of the empire wanna change

 

Cause we’re long gone

In that eternal flame

Trying to break away

From the mess we made

Oh we don’t have time anymore

To be afraid, anymore

 

Children of the empire know

Know that they’re not free

Even though they wanna be free

We know that we’re not free

Even though

We wanna be free

 

 

Grapevine

If a man can’t see his shadow

He can block your sun all day

He can make you small

He has the power to take his love away

Six hours on the grapevine

And I feel kidnapped this time

Cause my baby thinks

He always believes

That he’s, always right

 

But I still think of him at night

And ooh, you know I would

Go back to the camp

With the kerosene lamps in the woods

Ooh when you were mine

And I was yours for a time

 

On the Grapevine

On the Grapevine

 

California’s my body

And your fire runs over me

My car broke down

In an old ghost town right around

Where they got James Dean

Emotional Cowboy

With no hat and no boots

He stayed up all night

Trying to beat up the moon

 

And ooh, you know I would

Go back to the camp

With the kerosene lamps in the woods

Ooh when you were mine

And I was yours for a time

 

On the Grapevine

On the Grapevine

 

Don’t know when I’m gonna see you boy

Oh I’ve been waiting for the time

When I see the light shining across

The freeway late at night

Start to drift over the line

And it hits me for the first time

Now we’re just two cars passing by

On the grapevine

Ooh

 

On the Grapevine

On the Grapevine

On the Grapevine

 

 

God Turn Me Into a Flower

As long as I stand

To face the crowd

To know my name

To know its sound

It’s good to be soft

When they push you down

 

Oh God turn me into a flower

 

It always takes me

It’s such a curse to be so hard

You shatter easily

And can’t pick up all those shards

It’s the curse of losing yourself

When the mirror takes you too far

 

Oh God turn me into a flower

 

You see the reflection

And you want it more than the truth

You yearn to be that dream

You could never get to

‘Cause the person on the other side

Has always just been you

 

Oh God turn me into a flower

 

 

Hearts Aglow

Oh hearts aglow

We don’t know where we’re going

Looking for love

In all the wrong places

We don’t know where our love has gone

 

I was so bored

Take me to the water babe

Show me what it’s like to be yours

‘Cause I was so bored

Take me to the water

I’d give anything to hang

I’ve been without friends

Oh I’ve just been working

For years and I stopped having fun

Oh but baby you’re the only one

Who’ll drive me down to the pier

Take me up on that Ferris wheel

 

Oh hearts aglow, we don’t know

Where we’re going

We just keep

Gettin’ higher, hearts aglow

You can’t control hearts aglow

I’m staring at that black water down below

Knowing I could fall if I let go, hearts aglow

 

Might be the moon

Or the cotton candy or he

Might be a man

Who actually understands me

 

‘Cause it’s been a death march

The whole world is crumbling

Oh baby let’s dance in the sand

‘Cause I’ve been waiting for my life to begin

For someone

To light up my heart again

And in the darkness

I can guide you in

We’re rising over the tide

Up on the Ferris wheel at night

 

Oh hearts aglow, we don’t know

Where we’re going

We just keep

Gettin’ higher, hearts aglow

You can’t control hearts aglow

I’m staring at that black water down below

Knowing I could fall if I let go

 

Rising over the tide

Oh hold me tight

But I’m scared I might fall

Just like the water below

You don’t get to know

If your love has all

Its gonna take

 

Oh hearts aglow

We don’t know where we’re going

Oh hearts aglow

We don’t know where we’re going

 

 

Twin Flame

 

And how I tried

So hard to hide the pain

What bad temper we’re keeping

And so I followed a light

Into the night

And you kept me waiting

In the dark with no place to hide

 

‘Cause we are more than our disguises

We are more than just the pain

And I’m standing here laughing at my shame

 

‘Cause you’re my twin flame

You’re my twin flame

And you got me so cold

When you pull away

 

And now our hours feel

So numbered and small

Holding love for the keeping

Did I do something to wreck it all

 

‘Cause we are more than our disguises

We are more than just the pain

And I’m standing here just callin’ out your name

 

‘Cause you’re my twin flame

You’re my twin flame

And you got me so cold

When you pull away

 

You’re my twin flame

You’re my twin flame

And you got me so cold

When you pull away

 

 

The Worst is Done

 

It’s been a long strange year

Everyone’s sad

They lost what they thought they had

We lost our voices

Can’t keep with all the changes

It’s a different world

And I am a different

I am a different girl

And I got shot down

And I lit up the sky

Before I hit the ground

 

But they say the worst is done

And its time to go out

Pick up where we left off from

They say the worst is done

And its time to find out

What we’ve all become

 

I should’ve stayed

With my family

I shouldn’t have stayed

In my little place

In the world's loneliest city

We’re not meant to be

Our own angels all the time

No one comin’ by

To see if you’re alive

 

But they say the worst is done

And its time to go out

And see everyone

They say the worst is done

But I think it’s only just begun

I hear it from, everyone

We’re all so cracked

After that

 

Got kinda old

It happened to me quickly

Burned down the house

Waiting for someone to save me

From this hall of mirrors

We slept walked through the years

Didn’t think we’d all lean in

To hyper isolation

 

They say the worst is done

And its time to go out

Grab on to someone

They say the worst is done

But I think the worst has yet to come

 

I hear it from, everyone

We’re all so cracked

After that

 

 

A Given Thing

 

Runnin’ from the turning

I swore I could be good enough

It’s a given thing

Sometimes our love is everlasting

It’s a given thing

 

And I want you more, my love

That could be good enough

It’s a given thing

Sometimes we confuse the dream

For one another

We’re just screaming to be closer

To infinity, to love everlasting

 

It’s not a one way street

Sometimes our love is enrapturing

And other times its just unraveling

In front of me

And it feels like we’re burning

Makin’ ashes of our joy

 

But love doesn’t need to destroy

You anymore

Oh I wanna stop the war

Between the broken lovers

It’s not something you gotta earn

From each other

It just comes naturally

It’s there for the taking

It’s a given thing

Our love everlasting

 

Flows out of you

Flows out of me too

And I can’t tell where you end

Oh and where I begin

oh it’s a given, thing

Love everlasting

 

 

 

Titanic Rising

A Lots Gonna Change

 

If I could go back to a time before now

Before I ever fell down

I’d go back to a time when I was just a girl

When I had the whole world

Gently wrapped around me

 

And no good thing could be taken away

If I still believed

That hearts don’t lie

You’re gonna be just fine

 

But hey

A lot’s gonna change in your lifetime

Try to leave it all behind

In your lifetime

 

Born in a century lost to memories

Falling trees

Get off your knees no one can keep you down

If your friends and your family sadly

Don’t stick around

Its high tide you’ll learn to get by

 

Cause you got what it takes

In your lifetime

Try to leave it all behind

In your lifetime

 

Let me change my words

Show me where it hurts

 

Andromeda

 

Andromeda’s a big wide open galaxy

Nothing in it for me

‘cept my heart that’s lazy

Runnin’ from my own life now

I’m really turnin some time

Lookin up to the sky for

Something I may never find

 

Stop calling

It’s time to let me be

If you think you can save me

I dare you to try

 

Lift the heart from the depths

Its fallen to

We all want something new

But can’t seem to follow through

Something’s better than nothing

Or so that I thought

Now I know it’s just one dream

All these others gonna tear me apart

 

Love is calling

It’s time to let it through

Find a love that will make you

I dare you to try

 

Crazy guy

I think this is deep

Think its meant to be

More than anything I can think of

I’m ready to try

 

Treat me right i’m still

A good man’s daughter

Let me in if I break

And be quiet if I shatter

Gettin’ tired of looking

You know that I hate the game

Don’t wanna waste anymore time

You know I been holdin’ out

 

Love is calling

It’s time to give to you

Something you can hold onto

I dare you to try

 

Everyday

 

Wake up baby its gettin’ late now

Fell so hard like I always do

I’m so scared of being alone

Its true its true

I see you everyday

But that’s not enough I got this seeker

Runnin’ along a lonely line

Always trying to make my keeper mine

It gets me everytime

 

And then again I might be fallen down

 

Sailin’ off on my ships to nowhere

Got a lot of things to clear away

Got a lot of years of bad love to make ok

It gets me everyday

 

And then again it might just be me

Then again loves not easy

 

I need a love everyday

I need

 

True love is making a come back

For only half of us the rest just feel bad

Doomed to wonder in the worlds first rodeo

You never let it show

 

The other night I was at a party

Someone sincerely looked at me

And said is this the end of all monogamy

And I said not today

 

Then again, you might be right

Then again sleep the night

 

I need a love everyday

I need

 

Lay down my guy

For a short time

Heart cannot see

My love is blind

Lay down

My guy

 

Something to Believe

 

Drank a lot of coffee today

Got lost in the fray

I gave all I had for a time

Then by some strange design

I gotta case of the empties

The ruler of my world

A lost forgotten pearl

When fire leaves a girl

Too burned to try

My life

Living on the fault line

 

And at night I just lay down and cry

The waters don’t really

Go by me

Give me something I can see

Something bigger and louder

Than the voices in me

Something to believe

 

Didn’t always do it right

Might’ve left the heat on high

Didn’t know I had any left

Thought I finally met my death

Gonna do all I can

To stay away from the quicksand

Gonna do all I can

 

Nobody’s gonna love you the same way

Some of us go astray

I walked so far from them all

Instead of dropping the ball

I seem to carry so many

The colors don’t align

A question of time

I seem to lose what I find

Please give me a sign soon

Really wanna find out the truth

 

And at night I just lay down and cry

The waters don’t really go by me

Give me something I can see

Something bigger and louder than the

Voices in me

Something to believe

Something to believe

 

Movies

 

This is how it feels to be in love

This is life from above

There’s no books anymore

I’m bound to that summer

Big box office hit

Making love to counterfeit

Why did so many

Get a rise out of me

I love the movies

 

Some people feel what some people don’t

Some people-watch until they explode

The meaning of life doesn’t seem to

Shine like that screen

 

Put me in a movie and everyone will know me

You’ll be the star you know you are

 

The movies I watched when I was a kid

The hopes and the dreams

Don’t give credit to the

Real things

I love the movies

 

I know the meaning

I know the story

I know the glory

I love movies

 

I wanna be in my

Own movie

I wanna be

I wanna be

The star of mine

Of my own, my own

 

Mirror Forever

 

No one’s ever gonna give you a trophy

For all the pain and things you’ve been through

No one knows but you

Kinda crazy when you’re looking right through me

There’s something forceful

About your stare

Just say the word and baby

You know that i’ll be there

I’m not scared

 

And I see it so clearly

That we play hard

Yes we love our love

Most of all

 

But the timing’s spent

In this situation circumstance

I’ll see you around

The next time you come to town

I’ll see you around

The next time you call

 

You’re a demon with a scary picture

I’m a dreamer and

You’re a tiger

Got a feeling our romance

Doesn’t stand a chance

Stand a chance to last

You threw me out

Of the garden of eden

You lift me up just

To let me fall hard

Can’t stand being your second best

 

And I see it so clear

We play hard

Yes we love our love

Most of all

But the timing’s spent

It this situation circumstance

I’ll see you around

The next time you come to town

I’ll see you around

The next time you call

Oh baby take a look in the mirror

Oh baby take a look in the mirror

Oh baby take a look in the mirror

Oh baby take a look in the mirror

 

And I see it so clear

We play hard

Yes we love our love

Most of all

But the timing’s spent

In this situation circumstance

I’ll see you around

The next time you come to town

I’ll see you around

I’ll see you around

I’ll see you around

The next time you call

 

Wild Time

 

Look around

There’s nothing left to keep

By the bottles that broke you

From the solace you seek

Didn’t know you were one in a million

Stuck inside the wall

I’m wonderin’ how we ever got here

With no fear we’d fall

 

Taking all of our eyes

Beauty

A machine thats working

 

Runnin’ on a million people tryin’

Don’t cry

Its a wild time

To be alive

 

Turn around it’s time for you

To slowly let these

Changes make you

More holy and true

Otherwise you just made it complicated

For nothing

One in all

A place for us to fall

 

Living in the rising tide

Our light

A feeling that’s moving

 

Runnin on a million people burnin’

Don’t cry

Its a wild time

 

It already happened

Nothing you want to change more

Heaven found

And the lights went down

Everyone’s broken now

And no one knows just how

We could have

All gotten so far

From truth

 

Lost and tangled up in you

Everyone knows

You just did what you had to

Burning much more than ever before

Burning down the door

It’s a wild time

 

Picture Me Better

 

Picture me better

I finally found the time to write you this letter

To the stars and moon for you

And it’s coming back soon

Don’t need no money

When your around

And you’re making me act funny

Can’t help to smile

With those eyes you shine on me

If only you could see

You got it all in spades

Got a lot of dreams and songs to say

And hearts to break

 

Waiting for the call

From beyond

Waiting for something with meaning

To come through soon

 

Picture us better

We finally found

A winter for your sweater

Got a brand new

Big suit of armor, its tough

Since you left i’ve grown so much

 

If I could’ve seen you

Just once more

Tell you how much you’re adored

There’s not point anymore

 

Waiting for the call

From beyond

Waiting for something with meaning

To come through soon

 

Titanic Risen

 

Baby

Dont you know that I love you

Don't you know that I want to

You know I want to become you

Find a reason to believe truth

Some way to know why

You do it to me

You make me

Feel like i'm going crazy

Make me feel my love lazy

Not enough to make you take me

Not enough to know why it's you

 

Victims

We all become the victims

Of a love like symptom

What it really is question

What you really are impressions

Just a wonderful illusion

How long can confusion

Really last for

 

Really last, really last, really last...