Intertwined

Verse 1:
What ever happened to, my friend
The year and a half that we had spent
Making plans of what we hoped that we could turn out to be
Just another place in life
And someone stopped and took the time
To get to know the new kid
Then they drove off waving back to me

Chorus:
But it's all Intertwined
All the threads that come to be
Colors fall out of line
In a woven tapestry
And the blanket that gets sewn
That keeps me safe and warm that covers me

Verse 2:
It's easy to misunderstand
It's all a part of one big plan
As soon as you think you're turning right
Something yanks the wheel the other way
A change direction you don't see
Happens unexpectedly
Now you're lost out in the dark
Hoping you can break out of the gray

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Bridge:
Sometimes you look too closely
You search and can not identify
But stand back and you will see
The picture that has been there all the time

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Falling Into You

Verse 1:
Here I am again tonight
Awake and lying in my bed
With thoughts of inadequacy
Slowly running through my head
And when I be the best of me
When I give it all I can
I still end up short again

Chorus:
I can't make it on my own
No matter who I am
Cause I am not that strong
When the waves are crashing in
I can't make it on my own
There's nothing I can do
Cause every time I lean on myself
I always end up falling into You
I'm falling into You

Verse 2:
Behind the wheel I justify
All the reasons that I've failed
What I could have done so differently
To all the ships already sailed
And when I'm forced to face the truth
No matter how much I've tried
I finally start to realize

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Bridge
I'm falling into You
When the storm is coming and the rain's pouring down
I'm falling into You
When the earth is shaking and I'm thrown to the ground
I'm falling into You
When the fire is burning everything around me
I'm falling into You
When the smoke is cleared and I can finally see

Ready, Fire, Aim

Verse 1:
I have a tendency to jump the gun
Quick decisions made too soon
I get tripped up, unfocused, on the run
It's getting late, so much to do
Somehow it doesn't quite work out
When it could be so much better now

Chorus:
If I could rest in, wait on His timing
I know that He would just blow it away
But I end up going without even knowing
When I should trust Him enough to remain
But it's ready, fire, aim

Verse 2:
I'm having trouble trying to overcome
A world that's moving oh so fast
With instantaneous expectations
The satisfaction doesn't last
Somehow I just end up stressed out
When it could be so much better now

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Bridge:
I get so tired
of running ahead but falling behind
If I could sit back
and let the rest of the mess unwind

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Run Away

Verse 1:
She looks through the curtains and
So tired of hurting when
The lights in the drive come shining in
Telling her she needs to find a place
Go numb and avoid the sting
The scars from a given ring
That used to mean something
But now, it's just another fall from grace

Chorus:
She wants to run away and never look back
Find a stretch of highway and ride it 'til the sun fades into black
Maybe she'll come back in his dreams
She'd rather roll on solo cause nothing is the way it used to be

Verse 2:
She's late to meet her friends
More makeup on her skin
To cover the evidence
Smiling as she tries to hide the pain
As the drops fall to the floor
No excuses anymore
With a suitcase by the door
They tell her that she's not the one to blame

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One Eye Open

Verse 1:
Bags are packed and I'm headed out to the west coast
Kids and headphones in the back seat
With miles and miles to go
it won't be long 'til we're through El Paso
I start to think about those memories
We used to sing out loud to the radio
and talk for days about nothing at all
Playing games on the road like ABC well did she know that
I spied someone so beautiful

Chorus 1:
But I'm driving now with one eye open
To fool my mind so that I can't see
No one's there cause she's not next to me

Verse 2:
Take a stroll down past the neighbor's house
and make a left at the end of my street
A wave to friends I know
with the smell of grass that's just been mowed and
a flash of my past comes back to me
This is where we used to run around
with baby strollers and bike seats
Riding sleds in the snow, played hide-n-seek well did she know that
I slowed down just so she'd catch me

Chorus 2:
But I'm walking now with one eye open
To fool my mind so that I can't see
No one's there cause she's not next to me

Bridge:
And how long will it take
Before I can look all around me
and not feel that half is gone
To know I'm whole again

Chorus 3:
Just breathe in now with one eye open
To fool my mind so that I can't see
No one's there cause she's not next to me

Sign

Verse 1:
All alone, is how I found you
Alone, in a crowded cafe
Alone, is how I was feeling
The thought crosses my mind as you look the other way
I see your face on my pillow
I see your shadow cross my room
I see your eyes cut back to me
The deepest surrender drowning in a sea of blue

Chorus:
Right now I'm waiting for a sign
So tell me it's alright
Let me know what's on your mind
Show me a sign

Verse 2:
Now faith has brought you to me
and faith has opened up the door

and faith will write the story
and take you to places that you've never been before
I wonder if you feel the same way
and I wonder just what you will do
so I wander in your direction
Hands start to glisten as I step in front of you

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Bridge:
Just a little sign, maybe a smile
I could sit down and we could talk for awhile
But only you know, so let me in

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Better Day

Verse 1:
He sits all alone with his back on a wall
Holes in his shoes and a small black cloth
that he uses to hide his face from the pain
of a cold winter night and himself from the shame
Unrest, unsure, unclean, unstable
Contrary to what they believe, he's incapable
He fits the mold that they think they should see
Blind to what he could really be

Chorus
He's somebody's brother and somebody's son
Somebody's best friend when he was a young man
A dream and a plan that he can replay
He looks for tomorrow to find a better day

Verse 2:
He wanders along down an empty back street
and eats off the food they discard as complete
He searches for some way to just survive
He's thankful to angels that keep him alive
Distressed, dismissed, disdain, displaced
Their words easily spoken, but he can't erase
No one from nowhere convinced that is true
Might change their mind if they really knew

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For What It's Worth

Verse 1:
There's something happening here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

Chorus 1:
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

Verse 2:
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking' their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

Chorus 2:
It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

Verse 3:
What a field day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly saying, "hooray for our side"

Chorus 3:
It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

Verse 4:
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the man comes and takes you away

Chorus 4:
We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?
We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?
We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?
We better stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

Movie Line Mikey

Verse 1:
Next door to me lives a friend of mine
He sleeps all day and stays up watching movies all night
So obsessed, every thought is from the big screen
Pay attention to his life and you'll see what I mean
He goes by Jeff Spicoli
But his real name is Mike
He was born a poor black child
But he's from Malibu and so very white
Spent his summers out at band camp
But he can't play a note
Says he has a cool bike
And he keeps it in the basement of the Alamo

Chorus
He is Movie Line Mikey
And he stands six-foot five, six-nine with the afro
And he dresses really interestingly
Just like he raided the wardrobe of one Barry Manilow

Verse 2:
He had a steady girl, but she broke it off
He gave his heart, in return she gave him a pen
Now he dates girls from his old high school
They stay the same age no matter how much older he gets
He works as a looper at a golf course
But he's missed nine times
Well I wouldn't say he's missing it
He's been in Aspen where the beer flows like wine
And he studies all the martial arts
The Quart-Of-Blood technique and Rex-Kwon-Do
And he watches all his favorite sports
On ESPN-8 The Ocho

Chorus:
He is Movie Line Mikey
On his iPod he keeps Otis Day and Enrico Palazzo
Smell the Glove is his favorite album that he plays
And he cranks it to 11 when he drives with his head out the window

Bridge:
Just the other day for fun
Took a Red Rider BB gun
And highjacked guards at Wally World
Shot one, but it's just a flesh wound
Jumped in his blue Chevy Nova
Drove with ludicrous speed to a
White Castle to buy a slider
Way too much, they want two dollars
Left when he heard sirens blarring
Called his cousin, Marvin Berry
Picked him up as cops were chasing
Through downtown Chicago racing
Luckily it's Halloween
He dressed like Froderick Frankenstein
He lost them as he blew right passed me
Knew it's him cause he was blasting ...

Buckingham

Verse 1:
Once upon a time there was a little girl
who lived in a village filled with the sun
Ellie was her name and she spent all of her days
bringing her flowers to everyone
Outside the town there roamed an evil beast
with fangs and claws and bloodshot eyes
With scents on the winds, he feeds on the citizens
leaving a path of destruction behind
And so the story goes in Buckingham ...

Verse 2:
Now the guards stand tall protecting those inside
earning the trust of the common man
They raise their swords and declare that there's a war
taking an oath to make a stand
Now what they don't know is the guards love gold
and the beast is willing to compromise

He fills their sacks as they turn their backs
and pretend not to hear the people's cries
And so the story goes in Buckingham ...

Verse 3:
Now Ellie sings a song as she walks a path for home
and stops when she looks up to see his eyes
The smells through his nose as she offers up a rose
are just too much for him to deny
In the distance is the sound of hooves on the ground
as the black knight returns from a battle cry
Through the trails and the mud, he sees the petals and the blood
his little girl is gone and he wants to know why
And the rage crashes down
That's how the story goes in Buckingham
That's how the story goes in Buckingham

Once upon a time there was a little town
peaceful and quiet and filled with the sun

Waiting to Wake Up

Verse 1:
Just found out
Conversation reveals
My world is upside down
Oh, this can't be real
Try to catch my breath
As I fall to the floor
This has to be a dream and I can't take it anymore
So tell me

Chorus:
Am I awake
Cause I keep on falling
I stumble to the ground and lay down bleeding from my skin
Am I awake
Cause I keep on calling
I pray to open up my eyes to my life again

Verse 2:
Another breakdown
Emotion gives in
Dinner table is an altar once again
They look to me
To try and save her
But I am just a man with a plan, I'm no savior
So tell me

Chorus:
Am I awake
Cause I keep on trying
I stand back up just in time to get knocked right back down
Am I awake
I keep on fighting
I dig in deep and prepare myself to go another round

Bridge:
I keep waiting to wake up and leave this far behind
Until then I've got to push through one more time
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