Switchfoot - Oh! Gravity lyrics
- Oh! Gravity
- American Dream
- Dirty Second Hands
- Awakening
- Circles
- Amateur Lovers
- Faust, Midas And Myself
- Head Over Heels (In This Life)
- Yesterdays
- Burn Out Bright
- 4:12
- Let Your Love Be Strong
Oh! Gravity
There's a fracture in the color bar
In the backseat of a parked car
By the liquor store where the streetlight
Keep you company 'til the next night
In the same town, there's the same scar
In the same glow of the liquor store
By the freeway, where the headlight
Keep her company 'til the next night
Oh! Gravity.
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Sons of my enemies,
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
In the back room of the Pentagon
There's a thin man with a line drawn
With a red jaw and a red bite
Watch the headline on the next night
Why this tragedy?
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity.
Why can't we seem to pull it together?
In the fallout, the fallout
We found out the hype won't get you through
We're connected, connected
I meant it, the hype won't get you through
Oh! Gravity.
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity.
Why can't we seem to pull it together?
La la la la la...
Let's pull it together.
American Dream
When success is equated with excess
The ambition for excess wrecks us
When top of the mind becomes the bottom line
When success is equated with excess
If you’re time ain’t be nothing for money
I start to feel really bad for you honey
Maybe honey put you’re money where your mouth’s been running
If you’re time ain’t be nothing but money
I want out of this machine
It doesn’t feel like freedom
(chorus)
This ain’t my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I’m tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
When success is equated with excess
When we’re fighting for the beamer, the lexus
As the heart and soul breathing the company goals
Where success is equated with excess
I want out of this machine
It doesn’t feel like freedom
(chorus)
Cause baby’s always talkin ‘bout a ring
And talk has always been the cheapest thing
Is it true would you do what I want you to
If I show up with the right amount of bling?
Like a puppet on a monetary string
Maybe we’ve been caught singing
red, white, blue, and green
But that ain’t my America,
That ain’t my American dream
(chorus)
Dirty Second Hands
Please don’t be so naive
You know you’re not fooling anyone
You’re not as tough as you think
With dirty second hands, dirty second hands
Can’t get nothing for free
It becomes so predictable
You start fighting to breathe
The dirty second hands, dirty second hands
(chorus)
Here’s the face of everything that breaks you down
Now you face the face of everything that breaks you down
With an army of me
We invent our own enemies
Man versus machine
And the dirty second hands, the dirty second hands
In the land of the free
And the home of the remedy
The old clock is a thief
With dirty second hands, dirty second hands
(chorus)
Are you really as tough as you think
You blink and you’re over the brink
You bleed but the blood runs pink
With dirty second hands, dirty second hands
You’re not quite as tough as you thought
You bought the American rot
The very seed that you thought you shot
With dirty second hands, dirty second hands
You might be right, the fight might be right
Inside you the blind leading the lied-to, tonight
Maybe you bind you with dirty second hands
(chorus)
Awakening
(Yeah) [x4]
Yeah!
Face down with the LA curbside endings
And the ones and zeros
Downtown was the perfect place to hide
The first star that I saw last night was a headlight
Of a man-made sky but
Man-made never made our dreams collide,
Collide
Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and the pain
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition
You've been talking in your sleep about a dream
We're awakening
Yeah
Last week saw me living for nothing but deadlines
With my deadbeat sky but
This town doesn't look the same tonight
These dreams started singing to me out of nowhere
And in all my life I
Don't know that I ever felt so alive
Alive
Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and the pain
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition
But you've been talking in your sleep about a dream
We're awakening
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to know that my heart's still beating
It's beating
I'm bleeding
I want to wake up kicking and screaming (I want to wake up)
I want to live like I know what I'm leaving (I want to wake up)
I want to know that my heart's still beating (I want to wake up)
It's beating
It's beating
It's beating
I'm bleeding
Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and the pain
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition
But you've been talk - talking in your sleep about a dream
We're awakening
Dream
We're awakening
Yeah
(Yeah) [x4]
Circles
Another day
Another sunrise
Another factory call
Another night
Another sunset
Another freefall
Am I alive?
Am I on purpose?
Within the weakness
Within the weakness
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
Another day
Another lifetime
Another engine stalls
Another line
Another freeway
Another freefall
Am I alive?
Am I on purpose?
Within the weakness
Within the weakness
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
In circles, in circles
I’ve lost all that I wanted to leave
I’ve lost all that I wanted to be
Don’t believe that there’s nothing this true
Don’t believe in this modern machine
The modern machine
Circles
Spinning, Spinning
In circles, in circles
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
In circles, in circles
Amateur Lovers
Everyone I know
Needs love like drugs
Like a common cold
We could never shrug
My baby and me
We’re missing the same stuff
We’ve all got a disease
Deficiency of love
Every day we still try
Every night we still cry
Driving home on the 805
We don’t know what we’re doing
We do it again
We’re just amateur lovers
With amateur friends
I can tell you what you’re thinking now
Before you think that you can settle down
We don’t know what we’re doing
Let’s do it again
You tried to play it down
But it never stuck
I tried to bail this town
I’m getting no such luck
When nobody’s around
I keep my eyes on the clock
There ain’t a cure I’ve found
In all my times around this block
Everyday we still try
Every night we still cry
Driving home on the 405
We don’t know what we’re doing
We do it again
We’re just amateur lovers
With amateur friends
I can tell you what you’re thinking now
Before you think it you can settle down
We don’t know what we’re doing
Let’s do it again
We don’t know what we’re doing
Let’s do it again
We’re just amateur lovers
With amateur friends
I can tell you what you’re thinking now
Before you think it you can settle down
Our lovin’ isn’t gonna burn us out
We don’t know what we’re doing
Let’s do it again
Professional
Faust, Midas And Myself
This one's about a dream
I had last night
How an old man tracked me home
And stepped inside
Put his foot inside the door
And gave a crooked smile
Something in his eyes
Something in his laugh
Something in his voice
That made my skin crawl off
Said I've seen you here before
I know your name
How you could have your pick
Of pretty things
You could have it all
Everything at once
Everything you've seen
Everything you'll need
Everything you've ever had in fantasies
You've one life
You've one life
You've one life left to lead
You have one life
You have one life
You've life left to lead
I woke up from my dream
As a golden man
With a girl I've never seen
With Golden skin
I jumped up to my feet
She asked me what was wrong
I began to scream
I don't think this is me
Is this just a dream
Or really happening?
You've one life
You've one life
You've one life left to lead
You've one life
You've one life
One life left to lead
What direction?
What direction?
I'm splitting up
I'm splitting up
This is my personal disaffection!
What direction?
What direction?
What direction now?
I looked outside the glass
At golden shores
Golden ships and masts
With golden cords
As my reflection passed
I hated what I saw
The Golden eyes were dead
A thought passed through my head
A heart that's made of gold can't really beat at all
I wanted to wake up again
I wanted to wake up again
Without a touch of gold
Without a touch of gold
What direction?
What direction?
What direction?
What direction?
What direction?
What direction?
What direction?
Life begins at the intersection
What direction?
What direction?
What direction now?
I woke up as before
But the gold was gone
My wife was at the door
With a night robe on
My heart beat once or twice
And life flooded my veins
Everything had changed
My lungs had found their voice
And what was once routine
Was now the perfect joy
You've one life
You've one life
One life left to lead
You've one life
You've one life
One life left to lead
Head Over Heels (In This Life)
Head over here and take me
Head over heels and aching
When I told you I was yours,
I was yours
In this life you're the one place I call home
In this life you're the feeling I belong
In this life you're the flower and the thorn
You’re everything that's fair in love and war
I'm coming down like a gun shot
In all these battles that I've fought
You're the mark I'm aiming for
I was yours
In this life you're the one place I call home
In this life you're the feeling I belong
In this life you're the flower and the thorn
You're everything that's fair in love and war
Head over heels
Head over heels
In this life I'm stubborn to the core
In this life I've been burning after more
We both know what these open arms are for
You're everything that's fair
In this life you're my only one
In this life you're my only one
In this life you're my only one
In this life you're my only one
In this life you're the one place I call home
In this life you're the feeling I belong
In this life you're the flower and the thorn
You're everything that's fair in love and war
Yesterdays
Flowers cut and brought inside
Black cars in a single line
Your family in suits and ties
And you’re free
The ache I feel inside
Is where the life has left your eyes
I’m alone for our last goodbye
But you’re free
I remember you like yesterday
Yesterday
I still can’t believe you’re gone
Oh I remember you like yesterday
Yesterday
And until I’m with you, I'll carry on
Adrift on your ocean floor
I feel weightless numb and sore
A part of you and me is torn
You’re free
I woke from a dream last night
I dreamt that you were by my side
Reminding me I still had life
In me
I remember you like yesterday
Yesterday
I still can’t believe you’re gone
Oh I remember you like yesterday
Yesterday
And until I’m with you, I'll carry on
I’ll carry on, I’ll carry on
Every lament is a love song
Yesterday, yesterday
I still can’t believe you’re gone
Every lament is a love song
Yesterday, yesterday
So long my friend, so long
Burn Out Bright
Does it have to start with a broken heart
Broken dreams and bleeding parts
We were young and the world was clear
But young ambitions disappear
I swore it would never come to this
The average, the obvious
I’m still discontented down here
I’m still discontented
If we only got one try
If we’ve only got one life
If time was never on our side
Then before I die
I want to burn out bright
A spark ignites
In time and space
Limping through this human race
You bite and claw your way back home
But you’re running the wrong way
The future is a question mark
Of kerosene and electric sparks
There’s still fire in you yet
Yeah there’s still fire in you!
If we only got one try
If we’ve only got one life
If time was never on our side
Before I die I want to burn out bright
I keep cleaning up the mess I’ve made
I keep cleaning up the mess I’ve made
I won't run away
I can’t sleep in the bed I’ve made
I can’t sleep in the bed I’ve made
If we only got one try
If we’ve only got one life
If time was never on our side
Before I die I want to burn out bright
4:12
You’ve been having trouble staying asleep
You been waking up at 4:12
You roll the voices over in your head
And you try to put them neatly on the shelf
You watch the sun rise
Saw the darkness had no choice before the dawn
With your own eyes
And then you broke out laughing from a yawn
I’m so sorry I’ve been so down
I started doubting things could ever turn around
And I began to believe that all we are is material
It’s nonsensical
So you walk outside and everything’s new
You’re looking at the world with new eyes
As if you’d never seen the sky before this blue
As if you’ve never seen the sky in your whole life
And then the phone rings
As it turns out you are already late
And now you’re wondering
Is peace just a temporary state?
Waiting tables and parking cars
You’ve been selling cell phones at the shopping mall
And you began to believe that all we are is material
It’s nonsensical
I’m so sorry I’ve been so down
I started doubting things could ever turn around
But I still can’t believe that all we are
And that all of our dreams are nothing more than material
Souls aren’t built of stone, sticks, and bones
Souls aren’t built of stone
Souls aren’t built of stone, sticks, and bones
Let Your Love Be Strong
In this world of news, I've found nothing new
I've found nothing pure
Maybe I'm just idealistic to assume that truth
Could be fact and form
That love could be a verb
Maybe I'm just a little misinformed
As the dead moon rises, and the freeways sigh
Let the trains watch over the tides and the mist
Spinning circles in our skies tonight
Let the trucks roll in from Los Angeles
Maybe our stars are unanimously tired
(chorus)
Let your love be strong, and I don't care what goes down
Let your love be strong enough to weather through the thunder cloud
Fury and thunder clap like stealing the fire from your eyes
All of my world hanging on your love
Let the wars begin, let my strength wear thin
Let my fingers crack, let my world fall apart
Train the monkeys on my back to fight
Let it start tonight
When my world explodes, when my stars touch the ground
Falling down like broken satellites
(chorus)
All of my world resting on your love