Song Lyrics: Slow Down

With scenes of my life running by too fast

And everything seeming not to last

Growing up here is such a sudden blast

I want it to slow down

Slow down, slow down,

I don’t ache to see tomorrow’s sun

I don’t want to be forgotten

I don’t think I’ll be the one

Who celebrates every birthday

Slow down, slow down

No early, mid or late for me thanks

I’ll just take it with unloving grace

Not disappear without a trace

Crush the candles beneath my feet

Hold on to youth with hands still as sweet

As the innocence of children’s belief

I want it to slow down

Slow down, slow down

I don’t ache to see tomorrow’s sun

I don’t want to be forgotten

I don’t think I’ll be the one

Who celebrates every birthday

Slow down, slow down

I don’t wanna be married yet

Children filling my life with debt

Eyes looking at me as though I’m dead

Slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down

I don’t wanna be married yet

Children filling my life with debt

Eyes looking at me as though I’m dead

Slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down

Lyrics of sort: Godless Hymn

Take your time don’t rush yourself

Take the time to take the right path

See the truth before you’re grey

If there was a god, he’d say

What have you done?

He’d ask the questions of us

That we would ask of him

What was it that we

Forgot to sing in our hymns?

Ask yourself the questions you’d ask

Ask yourself those questions and see

That you have the answers all along

That today this god doesn’t belong, here

Where has he gone?

He’d ask us what’s happened

To our international faith

Well where has he been

Since the world started to shake?

Be strong, be united

See the world undivided

Have faith instead in the kind of man

That needs no great beyond

Who sees no great beyond.

Song Lyrics: Strangers

Take the bus today

see the strangers sitting down

their faces washed with sorrow

as the sorrow turns around

their frowns turn upside down

we can see who we should follow

Chorus

We are always looking at strangers

looking for the signs of danger

looking for the latest lover

waiting for the one

who will look into our eyes

see the lies

in the light of the sun

as the truth we try to hide

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We stand now at the turning point

it could be time to disappoint

let ourselves go or leave.

We must find our heart’s home

see what the stranger’s shown

take a leap and believe.

Chorus

Wake Up Now: Song Lyrics

Wake up now, take my foot out of my mouth
wake up now, take my foot out of my mouth
I was sorry, I was sorry for the things that I said
I was sorry, I still owe you more than myself in your bed

Wake up now, open the curtains to the sunlight
wake up now, open the window and breathe the sunlight
I was taken, I was taken in the middle of the night
When I returned, when I returned you couldn't stand the sight, of me

When there was time to say
everything that we needed to say
you didn't have the words
all you needed to say was stay

Go to sleep now, go to sleep and never wake up
go to sleep, go to sleep and never wake up, now
I am driving, driving in the middle of the night
with the stereo loud, I finally found the courage to fight, for me

When there was time to say
everything that we needed to say
I didn't have your heart
and I didnt want to stay

When there was time to say
everything that we needed to say
it was too late for us
there was nothing left for us to say
no reason for me to stay
no reason for me to stay

Go to sleep now, go to sleep and when you wake
go to sleep now, go to sleep and when you wake
see the light through the open window
as it falls upon your face
stare into space, stare into space and see

Running For Our Lives: Song Lyrics

Standing on corners with the microphone
Watching the cars pass the cornerstone
Hatching plans high on ritilin
Waiting for the limousines to let us in

(waiting, we are) repeat

Asking the questions our fathers asked
Forcing our mothers to give up the task
Standing on corners with our mouths full
Watching the cars break our skulls

(waiting, we are) repeat

Holding out for something more
Spending money like we weren’t poor
Drinking til we see those lights
Chasing us down the alleys tonight

(waiting, we are) repeat

Taking it now in the middle of the night
When you’re asleep in your fortress
We’ll be knocking at your doors
Taking your mind by force, then

Running for our lives
Outta this place
Running for our lives
Outta this place
Gotta get outta this place
(we’ve infected this place)
(infected you)

Running, we are
Running for our lives now
(We are) running for our lives now
(We are) running for our lives now

More Than I Am: Song Lyrics

Verses

When I look at you
I see reflections of myself mirrored in our lakes
And though I know I’m missing the genes of love’s arms race
I’m evolving under you
Into the vaguest of human shapes

Your bed may be great
But in truth it’s nothing without you in it
And though I know my life ain’t perfect
Like a drought in a lake state
It may be less without you in it

I see so much in your smile
Our potential in how you reserve time for me
And though I know I must reel my meanderings in
The elastic’s stretched a mile
I still find myself falling


Chorus

You make me more than I am
You are the light in the dark of my restless sleep
When the waves of my heart are buried deep
You make me more than I am
More than I am

When the world’s knocking me with its battering ram
And it’s hard for me to give a damn
You make me more than I am
More than I am