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Named

You took off in the pouring rain
I looked back and then did the same
I remember you asking what's in a name
Well all the same, it's understandable
You still defy believable 

I have another way to get to you
You know I always do
I don't have to emphasize at all
 
You have another thing in mind 
All the time
But you can't let it go
You still defy believable

Driving Club

I took a seat by the back of the room
And I know somehow we'll get a way back home but whatever
Geoff tunes an old guitar and asks me what to do
Can you drive the car?
And I can tell you never thought about it
We've got an easy way out if you wanna ride home
But if you wanna dance by the side of the road...

When nothing else can go wrong
What am I supposed to do?
I've got a shoestring holding the mic to the end of the boom
So i can remember how it used to be, how it used to go and how we'd always know
That by the end of the night I'm sold
I've got a tell-all tale that always fits the mold
So I can remember how it used to be before you

No matter where we are
We can take a trip and hit the bottle together
If you've got an old guitar and nowhere else to go
We can take the car, or no
Stop before we're home or wherever
Follow back the tire tracks in the snow

By the side of the road
Obscured by the car events we miss unfold
We're stuck out of gas and I look like an ass I'm told
So when you remember how it used to be
Leave out me

This is a toast to all of the boys
And all of the girls who entered the room
This is the verse I wanted to use
This is an action I wanted to choose
This is the time, this is the place
This is the flag at the end of the race
I just hope if I see you face to face

Magic Start

I know it's getting out of hand
Is this what you wanted, to blow it away?
I have somebody in between
Who will take this if you know what I mean

I was walking in the early afternoon
I thought I saw your body but I stopped to soon
I have another in between
And I will take it if you stay or you leave

You're out of touch to embellish the fate
Of an entire generation that comes with the waves
I have an hour and a day
To take this and blow it away
I was waiting in the middle of the night
You know when you're not moving
You know when you're right
I have an hour and a day
To take this and blow it away

Is this what you wanted?

Assembly

And from the outside
I'd like to get this through
I didn't mean to cut you off
But never mind the view
When you are supposed to see a key above the door
With a note that you were there, some sort of signal that you cared
But you go on and I don't know if it's going to carry on
When you're supposed to leave a common courtesy
Not the broken chair you left out by the floor
Please don't lock the doors

Can you remember?
I'm not surprised
I can see you looking for the lines between the lines
When you're supposed to see the bigger gallery
Of the sum of all the parts between the site of you and me
But we go on and I don't know if it's going to turn around
When you're supposed to leave a common courtesy
Not an empty word you left behind once more
Please don't lock the doors

It justifies the purpose of it
We never let the feelings go
It leads the chase than flies above it
I need to let you know, so I can let this go
All of the words you've shown are hollared in the hall
Assembly of the chorus stops

You think you took me by surprise
But you don't want to judge about it
And when you realize
Now we don't want to talk about it
And if you really want to know
Just how it goes from poem to prose
Why do you go alone?
Why do you walk so slowly?

Close Fight

Instead you have to know
Another column ascends to a row
This is the part where we have to survive by breathing the flames. 

You don't have to follow through
You don't have to follow suit
Day in day out every day
Limelight close fight every day

A Subtle Reminder

I suppose you never listen
But I digress a million times
You suppose I always listen
But as you leave I am always wishing
That you'll arrive on standby
The feeling as you close your eyes
Where are you, where am I?
It escalates and the tide is rising soon. 

We like to sleep alone
We like to follow home
The progress from the year gone by
The tales that we've all spun dry
I have the final say
You paused in a thoughtful way
Consider while deciding whether
Never thought we'd be together soon

As a subtle reminder of "that's how it goes"
I'm attempting to pull off the impossible, so
According to plan I take both of your hands
My mind draws a blank but my body still understands
The throes of ecstasy
Down on your knees we can hardly breathe
It ain't like you never chose to take off your clothes
You can have your reprieve
It's so hard to believe this soon

This is
The fallout
Fall back
The call out
We were
Sold out
It's still
Cold out
Fall in
Fall out
You always were my summer assault

Eight Count / Flipside

You jumped the gun I turn the lights down low
But this is a false alarm
I choose to fall you choose to grow
Man I miss you all the time
Is it a hit or a miss for us to play in kind?
We wash ashore or overboard
But you arose, still seemed bored
Man i miss you all the time
Missing the count as you're breaking the mount in time

Today tomorrow next or yesteryear
This is a false alarm
You stopped the clock but checked my arm
We had issues all the time
Where is a light?
Am i right?
Can i stop on a dime?
You stopped the clock but checked my arm
We had words but stopped too late
Man i still miss you all the time
Missing the count as you're breaking the mount inline

Burke's Song

I hide my eyes but i still see
All the pain in your life and your uncertanties
Now that you're gone I know for sure
You won't feel any pain no more

I close my eyes and try to sleep
Get free from these things in life that often torture me
You walked alone down by the shore
You don't need anything


And when you're not around
I know the only thing I'm looking for
We hang to dry for years
Then plan to start the next one
A small discomfort to enjoy the trip
Unfortunate slip
I don't feel anything
anymore, anymore

Swing

As we cleaned out the floors
And my apology is nothing less than yours
We hatched a plan, I cast the stone
But now you tell me that I'm on my own

Before I close the door
I turn around and look at things once more
I see the shadow of the guy I used to be
The life I used to lead

A sight that I won't soon forget
I saw it coming but not just yet
The last time that I heard you sing
As you sleep, I watch you swing

In The Winter

I'm subdued, but so are you
You jump the gun I turn the lights down low
And so you know, what seems impossible
Can prove anything just to see you through
It's taking all your time up
But still you do
Gain is resized
Nothing left to lose
You can't prove anything
Until you do

Is it a one night
A slow burn
I might
I just learned
Now it's your turn
To set things loose again

You walk the line when it's too close to choose
Everybody sees but it's still no use
As the winter goes
Life I suppose
Everybody knows we're not close to June

Checking In

The weather's calm before the storm
But you're just checking in
When it rains you check again
And I stop and let you in
We're giving up so easily
You give a trite apology

It didn't happen the way I meant
By next year we'll all be spent
At last, at least, checking in

You can hear it spilling through the roof above the hall
Enough soak the walls
But then it's summer after all     
You're moving on so easily
You give a trite apology

It didn't happen the way i meant  
By next year we'll all be spent
At best, at most, checking in

I'm always missing something
New and old ideas keep me company
And how do you think I deal with change?
I'm sitting by, sitting in, once again

Works In Progress

you pick up the phone and see it's me again
i try and start a war from the receiving end

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