1. |
Grand Companion
05:50
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He’s got an ache that won’t go away
Just a lonely cowboy and the sun burns so hot
Very few surprises, waiting for the rains to come
Cause they redirect the water to Cali-for-ni-ay
He’ll just keep tumbling from town to town without emotion
Perpetual motion will blow the blues away
Every new bar gives another girl another story
It’s never boring, but it all adds up loneliness
At the end of the day...
Chorus —
I was his Grand companion
Filling up a canyon in a sprawling desert life
I spread to fill the space up
In a place where nothing can grow up without love, nothing grows without love.
Bridge —
I have seen the void inside his heart
Like a glacier it moves so slow and runs so deep
It scares me when I try to sleep / From a distance, I can hear it creaking...
Digital tourists take photos of me in various poses for the women’s magazines
I lie and smile there, I’ll probably die there
From the dehydration, or the heat
Chorus & Outro
Nobody can grow without love.
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2. |
The Story So Far
04:06
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The songs that she was singing
Were the songs I used to sin
Reminding me how I stopped singing them when you left me
Like all our friends who then took sides and I never saw again
But I’m not listening to their voices anymore
Not anymore
Chorus—
That was just part of the story
That was just part of the story so far.
The ache on your face as we lay
together and you couldn’t get it up
We’d drifted so far away from sure
The music had wrecked us, and left us stranded
Clinging to each other’s arms
But I’m not your life preserver any more
Chorus—
It took this long to realise you were poisoning me
Line upon line, stacked so high
Till it came tumbling down
Tumbling down, we all fall down
I’d read the same page over and over
Not taking any of it in
They were your words, your fantasy baby
But its fiction
So we’d all sit around in a circle
Glorifying our pain, until the enemy was out of control
You can tell it that way, call it like you see it
But I’m not playing that game no more
I’m not playing any games any more
I’m not playing your games any more
Cause that was just…
Chorus—
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3. |
A Little Birdie
05:01
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A little birdie told me
Said she saw you drinking on your own
Crying into your wine and wondering why it all went wrong
Where are your friends?
Where has your love gone?
Why you gotta make it so hard?
Chain-smoke to try and get you sober
Working over 70 hours
But you’ve got nothing to show for it
Where are your friends?
Where has your love gone?
Did you think she’d look to find you, slumped over the bar?
Did she leave you behind when you said you couldn’t walk that far?
Did you forget to call when she was waiting all alone?
Did you pray for forgiveness?
Did you pray for forgiveness?
Did you pray for forgiveness?
Or, did you forget to pray?
Every time you deny the truth
Your make her into a liar
When the sky is blue
You call it green just to pick a fight
Where are your friends?
Where has your love gone?
There’s only so many times
You can kick a girl when she’s down
Until she cannot stand
She’s lost the will to stick around
Like all your friends
That’s why your love’s gone.
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4. |
Fade Into the Sun
05:10
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Yesterday was meant to be our anniversary
Now all that remains is a sour taste
Sorry, we couldn‘t make it that far
When you’re healing from a broken leg or arm
It seems to take so long
To heal what we have broken
I dreamt I’d been invited to a party thrown by your new love
To celebrate the expectation of your first child
I blame the wintertime
Exhausted and sleep deprived
All emotions rush to the surface
Like exposed electrical wires
Then I finally cracked the code
Of why I get buried under the snow
The more seasons that unfold, the more I fear the cold
It felt so strange, to hear your ‘Happy Birthday’
Did all the love we have, simply evaporate?
At our friends wedding
You just stared out into space
Shuffled your feet, talked of your travels
Turned, and walked away
Now that I’ve moved on
I don’t question what went wrong
As the bitterness turns (repeated)
As the bitterness turns to sweetness and then fades into the sun…
Peach, nectarine sweet summer
So far removed from waking up dead in the wintertime.
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5. |
No Man's Land
04:36
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Her heart belongs to no man
As it beats inside her breast
It won’t be sold to anyone
For a thousand pounds of flesh
In this world, in this world
Her tongue it speaks for no man
As it lies inside her mouth
She won’t be told to hold it
Or soften their angry shouts
In this world, in this world, in this world
Her hands they work for no man
As they batten down the hatches
Preparing to sail for no man’s land
With no fixed abode
She will wander through this world alone
Her songs are sung to no man
As they wait inside her head
No amount of pain can make her say
The things that can’t be said
In this world, In this world, In this world
Her hands they work for no man
As they batten down the hatches
Preparing to sail for no man’s land
With no fixed abode
She will wander through this world alone
Alone
Alone.
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6. |
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7. |
Prayer for A Miracle
05:44
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Chorus—Dear God I pray, for a miracle today
That I may be as loving as I can
May I realise, the joy that’s in your eyes
And live in every moment without question
When I woke somebody had poured concrete in my throat
I couldn’t move my legs to get up, stand up, rise up
Lungs too heavy to breathe, eyes too sorry to see
That they’d been killing everything around me
Newspaper headlines say / They’ve finally found a way to save the world
But the problem with that plan / Is they’re only talking ‘bout money Blips on a computer screen
Don’t mean anything, anything to me
Pre-Chorus—Am I asking too much?
Is it too much to ask?
Chorus—
I can’t count the times I’d read of fresh disasters over breakfast
Thinking there was nothing I could do
About the pain in this world and the suffering
Just because they tell me, that’s the way it was
But, they don’t know the beautiful things we do
Does it have to be a crisis just to constitute news?
I refuse to buy into their lies
And choose to celebrate the goodness in this life
Pre-Chorus—
Chorus—
Outro—
It’s not too late for us my love (repeat)
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8. |
White Satin Dress
03:51
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Wear your cutest white satin dress
What you’ve got underneath is anybody’s guess
Buy their finest bottle of wine / And see if you can find
See if you can find / Someone to love
You’ve been waiting for water from a barren well
Hoping someday it would come when time had cast his spell
The other creatures living here seem to survive
But how do they keep from crying?
You've gotta try and keep from crying.
And...
Wear your cutest white satin dress
What you've got underneath is anybody's guess
Buy their finest bottle of wine
And see if you can find
Someone to love
You stand unassisted and tie your own shoes
But you cannot live without the things he's been stealing from you
So you're calling all the angels and praying every night
For God to deliver you
And this is what she said to you...
Wear your cutest white satin dress
What you've got underneath is anybody's guess
Buy their finest bottle of wine
And go on out to find
Someone to love
Someone to love you
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9. |
Held Like a Baby
05:53
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We’ve been sleeping for a million years
Our arms have not been open to receive
But if I wake, late at night
You could be there to ease the fright, and I could be
Held like a baby
Touched so gently
Held like a baby in your arms
Morning comes and there’s still no relief
It gets impossible to practice what I preach
Mummy can’t always kiss it better for you
Who’s looking after her if she’s always looking after you?
She’s got to be… Held like a baby
Touched so gently
She could be held like a baby in your arms
I try to be indifferent / Never showing my softer side
Pretending I don’t even care about you
There’d be no reason to cry
It wouldn’t hurt me when you lied
It couldn’t hurt me when you lied
We break so easily
With just one thought, just one word or just one deed
So please try to be tender with me
You never know when you might want to be
Held like a baby
Touched so gently
Held like a baby in my arms
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10. |
Tug O' War
04:59
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He’d start the song in the wrong key, deliberately to destabilise
Tries to make everyone love him, by acting the fool, and playing for laughs The more you pull him to you
The stronger he’ll try to pull away
How will you know what he’d freely give
If you keep pulling this way?
He would have to weave between the mines, remove the mirrors, hide the knives
To get some peace
She paid all of his bills and took her little pills to get happy
The more she pulls him to her
The stronger he tries to pull away
How will she know what he’d freely give
If she keeps pulling this way?
I can just picture a big tug of war
With each side pointlessly pulling more and more
Both vying for a knot in the middle
Recruiting everyone into their struggle
You can imagine just what would happen
If suddenly one side let go
Of the one thing that holds them together
I guess that’s why they don’t
When you kiss me you cling so painfully tight
If you release me, I promise that I won’t bite
But the more you pull me to you
The stronger I’ll try to pull away
How will you know what I’d freely give
If you keep pulling this way?
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11. |
Safe and Sound
05:45
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A hand to reach for to be reassured
A shoulder to cry on
Ground to rest on, when hope falls away under your feet
The gaze you're lost in
The invisible thread that lifts you up
A thought of connection, the words you reflect on - could be mine
You could be mine
Chorus - Take one heart and feed it with love
Inspiration be your blood
Wish upon a shooting star
Lets you know that you are
Safe and sound
Safe and sound
Do the thoughts that surround you bring you peace?
Will the night light guide you back to me?
Strength you borrow when your body's spent
Arms that catch you
Calm that blankets you when you sleep
The flame you're drawn to
You make the load lighter
Stars are brighter where you are
So much to give, and we always will
It's the offer of a miracle
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12. |
Easier Said Than Done
03:15
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I got so sick, there’s no telling where I was
For all I know, it could be four in the morning and you’re still in love with me
I made so many promises, impossible to keep
I said that I’d get sober and told you that you were the only one
But that’s easier said than done
You stopped counting, many years ago
The alibis and lying to people I said I didn’t know
You stopped calling me the night I hurt you bad
I don’t remember anything / I thought we were just having fun
But that’s easier said than done
Chorus— How do you hold someone responsible
If they don’t know what’s going on?
Apologise till you’re blue in the face
But you haven’t got a clue what you’ve done wrong
You don’t know what you’re doing wrong
When I woke up, in a stranger’s bed
Bruises on my body and rocks inside my head
Laughing as I walk outside then crying in the sun
I got to change 'cause I'm too ashamed of what I've become
But that's easier said than done
Chorus -
I can't imagine where we'd be today
If my fear and failures hadn't pushed you away
It used to be a game played by all of us
Now it's down to one
I wish that this addiction had never begun
But that's easier said than done
Easier said than done
They say a change is gonna come but that's easier said than done
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13. |
Petty Cash
03:34
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Can’t you see you’re a lucky girl ?
You look at all the ‘haves’ and think you’re a ‘have not’
Blind to the beauty in this life
Cause you only listen to people who prove you to be right
Chorus— In your eyes, it’s either in the red or it’s in the black
You’ve been hypnotised by the petty cash
You say that you don’t like them because of their privilege
You were born to suffer
You were born to live on the razor’s edge
I’ve lived under that knife too long and nobody cuts you free
The only reason the grass looks greener is your jealousy
Chorus—
Bridge— If I saw things your way
All I value could get washed away
I’d be left clinging, to all the dues I feel I’ve got to pay and pay and pay and pay and pay
It feels like they’re rubbing your face into everything you lack
Lapping up their liberty like domesticated cats
Rough little tongues get into every single crack
Keeping it clean and making it seem like paradise
Chorus -
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14. |
Such A Waste
05:49
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Wine leans towards an empty glass
As I scatter faith across the floor
I refused to believe what was going on
Couldn’t see the graffiti on the wall
When I opened my eyes, I wasn’t awake
I’d lost all sensitivity
We’d grown so hardened to each other
‘Til you put us out of our misery
Put us out of our misery
Chorus—We were living without breathing
Eating without the taste
We were sleeping but not dreaming
And that is such a waste
Such a waste
Lost inside each other's arms
We'd lost all sense of gravity
Lost for words and unable to say
That is yours, but this belongs to me
So when it came time to separate
And unravel each and every thread
Stitch by stitch we realised
We'd become just like the walking dead
Just like the walking dead
We were...
Chorus -
Driving up to my mother's house
Along metal roads with wooden fences
A kingfisher sits high on his sticks as he watches the dust settle back down
Trees shivering naked
I left the city to its own life
Shed my skin and begin to let you fly
Free from my mind
Standing outside the apartment
Finally able to cope
A glass lies at my feet
Half full of fear, half full of hope
You will always be so dear to me
And I will hold you close in my heart
So many possibilities now we're broken
Broken open for a brand new start
No longer...
Chorus -
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15. |
Walking to the Museum
05:10
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16. |
Another Goodbye
05:07
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Another goodbye to add to the collection
Another ten green bottles of tears
A tour bus idles in front of the museum
And I’m on the outside looking in
Always on the outside looking in
If I had a brain I’d be finding solutions
If I had a shell I’d be tucked inside
Not stuck to the flypaper walls of this city
Squid ink stained by another goodbye
Another goodbye Chorus—I can’t see for the rain in front of me
But in my heart it’s crystal clear
There is one love I am true to
Though many offer the comfort of
Many words with open arms
Empty words
Empty arms
One day shy of a month without drinking
Why is everybody else sorted but me?
I need an email screener, a lover, a house cleaner, a manager and some personal security
To keep stalkers at bay
And clear away the time to organize
Piles of clutter by my bed
And the chaos in my home
I just can't stand to be left
I just can't stand to be left
'Cause I just can't stand to be left
Alone
Chorus -
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