Saves The Day - Can't Slow Down lyrics
- Deciding
- The Choke
- Handsome Boy
- Blindfolded
- Collision
- Three Miles Down
- Always Ten Feet Tall
- Nebraska Bricks
- Seeing It This Way
- Hot Time In Delaware
- Houses And Billboards
- Obsolete
- Sometimes, New Jersey
- Jodie
Deciding
And it's not fair- why do I have to so?
Oh, I feel everything much more
much more than you ever will
and it's too hard when I can't even catch your eye
So I can't send you messages
And at night I dream of reasons I can't let you go
I don't know if it's time to crack through your walls
so thick that I can't see past you
And last summer wasnt enough for me
And now that winter comes
The cold beats harder
And no one is left alone
And I'm offering you me right now - Take me I'm yours
And I wont have it any other way
So don't let fools be carried by what I say
The night keeps lookin' our way
And you're not seein' what I'm missin'
Cause I am missing you
And I think that we should run as fast as we can
into what we dont know
It's time to let me in
Because I feel just fine
The Choke
Don't leave yet
It's still early and I haven't even said a word
And I'm hoping that I might upset you
By saying what I want to
Cause it's not like you don't know I've fallen for you
But it's in my head and that's where you can't see it
and I thought that maybe if I had to
Bite the tips of my fingers
I could stumble over words
And tell you just how far
before I hit the ground
And I'm the type to think of all the wrong things to say
And I will shut myself up
And I'll never come out-
I'll close all my doors and only show you the black spots
Where my eyes once were-
I can say this-
I can say this-
I can Say this-
I can collect myself deep down
And then come out punching
I can collect myself down
And then come out punching
And I'll scream out loud
Handsome Boy
I said, "that boy's handsome"
and a little bit of me wanted to be beautiful.
Carrie said, "It's hard to look in the mirror these days,
when everyone has everything you'd rather be."
There's just something about his smile.
He looks so nice,
I wish I had friends like that
They'd always be there for me,
I wouldn't look bad
Yeah, they wouldn't talk behind my back.
Blindfolded
So now I've made the decision to walk behind you
In the dark, for the rest of my life
And I'll never show my face again
Because it's too scarred and bloody to be enough
And I don't have the right stuff
All I have are empty boxes to carry away your heart
And I think that tonight
I will sneak into your house
And I'll sing songs to wake you up
And I'll take you blindfolded, dancing onto bridges
And you'll say you don't want to be with me
No one ever does
And no one ever thinks of me that way
But I will even drive you home
If you never let me forget about you
And if you promise me that I'm good enough for someone
'Cause I've got to be good enough for you
And someday soon I'll get it right
And then you'll see just how good I can be
So don't ask me about forever because
Right now I'm feeling lost
But there's got to be some place for me because
If there isn't, where will I go?
Will there be some place for me
And will you be there waiting?
When we get there, please catch me
Before I crawl all the way home
But I won't stop until you do
Collision
Three years and now I feel like completeness has set in
'cause it's something to keep time with time
and I know it's not true that I can't keep on like this
'cause I know I feel right
and I don't think I miss a thing
and I remember when I heard that song sing,
If the world doesn't understand, then the world has to learn.
and maybe it's true, but they don't have to
when ten million people all believe in the same thing
How could they be wrong, and what is sometimes?
What's this weight on my head? but I know I feel right,
so how could I be wrong?
and I don't think I miss a thing
and I remember when I heard that song sing,
If the world doesn't understand, then the world has to learn.
and maybe it's true, but they don't have to.
Three Miles Down
Oh great
Here I go again
I'm stuck in this rut
And I'm not sure how to begin
Should i tell you everything?
I'm feeling out of luck
So i won't see you soon
Cause i know its too soon
For you to see me
If this is the last thing you do
Just tell me that it's okay
For me to have these feelings for you
And its normal to want to call you
Oh I'm dialing the phone
Letting it ring for hours
Pretending to hear your voice
Why does my heart always
Beat before yours does?
After a while you can
Make yourself
Believe in almost anything
So I'm making myself believe in you
Always Ten Feet Tall
So I said, "lets forget about these days and
just try to build some solid ground
maybe someday we could stand straight up
with our faces in the wind and
scream to the world"
we were at some boating dock
oh somewhere at the waterfront staring out
across the channel
a steamer blared its horn and
I wished I could say everything right like do
you want to go for a ride?
I looked to your face and saw the sun
reflecting off your skin and I breathed
in water smells
the skyline filled with shipping yards
and factories had me dreaming of
waking up
am I dreaming? is this really me?
because I've never felt so not lonely
and if this could be real right now
then everyday for the rest of my life
I will search for moments full of you
but let's hope tomorrow won't cave in
'cause I'm looking for someone to
change me
and you make me feel so tall
I always want to be this tall 'cause maybe I'll be original
and sometimes things you say
just make me think in different ways
so this is my way of saying
I could be the one who's dragged home at night
away from all my hopeless dreams
you and me will forge some future
because we don't want to be waiting
for something right to go wrong
Nebraska Bricks
And I grew up
on alcoholic evenings
and slow jazz music
to keep my heart beating
because after all that happens
in a dissolving family
the need for a song to sing me to sleep still rings true
and I always knew that there wasn't glue strong enough
to sew these roots together
and now that I've wasted too many years
and I've lost track of where I started
I have to dream at night of who I was and why
after twenty years of marriage
I am what is left and I'd like to go back now
and make myself up
because I'd be a brick so I wouldn't feel
and I'd lift myself up
I'd throw myself at this house
to break windows, smash walls
just to keep time where it was and where it should be.
Seeing It This Way
I never thought I could watch someone come apart from insides to outsides
every day I see strings fall loose
every day I see hope lost-
with all this complicated I can't even get pass the thought of thinking
and wonder whether help or understanding rings truer
and I don't know how to do anything anymore for you
but I know that you should stop this world spinning right this minute
and take a look from something else higher up
and then you could realize just how broken your aim really is
so why don't you ask yourself to show up sometime?
why don't you stand up tall and kick yourself in the mouth
to remember and to get that burn back
and scorch your stomach and bleed that passion lost
and don't forget what picked you up and don't forget to think this time.
Hot Time In Delaware
Ever think we should try to re-establish that connection that we made during last summer's days?
Maybe I should be subtle or maybe I should be more pure
but I think we should talk about what we were going through
and I wonder what it would be like if we had
kept up that aversion and maybe kept listing
all the people that we hated
but isn't it ironic how you still have ideals and I still have nothing?
and now I'm hoping that you'll change so we can see straight some day.
Houses And Billboards
Remember that last Friday before we left for Mexico?
we kissed and nothing seemed to matter like Billie Holiday might sing
and it rained and everything was going to be just fine-
it was like music-
and it makes me sad to know I had gotten into something
that I could not deal with
and I will sit in my room and sleep all day
and think up dreams like I am the cutest kid in school
or I could be crazy and sing about memories-
hey I remember when I sat on those steps watching the moon
chase the sky back until the world seemed like it would explode
and I could picture going up with it
it'd be just how I'd like to go and I'd sing.
Obsolete
Every day seems the same to me
I sit around and think about how alone I feel
then I wind up rather enjoying loneliness
because it's the comfort of being sad-
sometimes it feels so right
and sometimes I'd like to be around no one for ten straight years
but I know this feeling can't bring me places
and I know I'm losing lots of ground
but to keep up means to get up and why does it have to be
the world keeps on changing while I just stay the same?
I feel like being down doesn't mean enough to anyone anymore
and I guess the world has made emotion obsolete
and I don't think I feel the same 'cause after all
who says what happy really means?
Tonight I will redefine everything
and tomorrow I will start in on my better days
and so each their own definition of happiness
but no one ever reaches it so I don't think I'll breathe that way
but happiness is when there's nowhere left to go
because in that state of mind there is no state of self
so how was I supposed to know?
Sometimes, New Jersey
I called you up to see if maybe we could hang,
I told you I was nervous and feeling lonely
I bit my lip, and you were like, "fucking hell yeah."
It made me smile,
I thought of how beautiful the night would be.
I thought maybe we could drive around
talking 'bout your town
or stay at home.
I could win over acting cool,
Real fucking romance.
Jodie
Tonight I'll stay awake long enough,
To stop breathing
And I wonder how long it will take
Before I pass out,
Drunk off night skies.
Lying on hills,
Wet grass below
Blue black above
I will carry all the weights tonight
Cause I keep remembering the day that
You said you might go crazy
If you spent one more minute with me
Well I been thinking about those days and I don't know
Is one more minute going to kill you now?
Stop me before I say too much
So now I've been alone and it's been going
But tomorrow might not come
If I don't let it
So don't forget the mornings that we spent
Deep inside out heads
Staring at blank walls
Cause that's what counts
And I don't know
But I'm trying to let you go
And I can't cut too well
These strings I have around my neck
I'm trying to let you go
I'm trying to let you go
I'm doin this by myself
Now I've been alone and its been going
But tomorrow might not come
If I don't let it so
Don't forget the mornings that we spent
Deep inside out heads
Staring at blank walls
That's what counts
And I don't know
But I'm trying to let you go
And I can't cut too well
These strings I have around my neck
I'm trying to let you go
I'm trying to let you go
I'm doin this by myself
Don't forget we sent
Letters to ourselves
Without words
And it was just to remember
Just to remember
Just to remember
Just to remember those days
That we spent in our heads.