1. I Walk Alone

Don’t want to be an island anymore
So tired of bridging these waters
Just to watch them burn down again
With no one to meet me at the other end

It’s so rare that I am understood
Well, I cherish the ones who could
They chose to sail away
‘Cause I’m not easy to love

But this doesn’t feel so new
I never felt like you

‘Cause I walk alone (repeat)

My heart is worn like a prune
From soaking in such solitude
Every moment used to lead me to you
Now they lead away

This doesn’t feel so new
I never felt like you

‘Cause I walk alone (repeat)

I’m no good if I can’t love, if I can’t love
And I’m no good if I can’t be alone
So I break my own heart (repeat)

Don’t want to be a shadow anymore
Lingering behind closed doors
Following the light of another life
Was not my goal

But this doesn’t feel so new
I never felt like you

‘Cause I walk alone (repeat)

2. Mistake (Disregarded)

Could never feel bad for you
Cause you were always the one who made me cry
Then I met you alone in a dark room
With fresh stars twinkling red on your thighs

You woke up with nothing inside
To pull you from between those black sheets
Where they thought for sure you would die
A casualty left casually aside

And you get Sunday ‘til Monday to ease that pain
You get Sunday ‘til Monday, to make it okay

A mistake found stained T-shirts
In a closet you asked me to clean out
On top of a blue Bic razor
Disregarded with a counterfeit smile

Did no one ask you what went wrong?
When you were carving letters into your arm
Mapping out your distress in a tattoo
Made permanent for other reasons
Permanent for other reasons

And you get Sunday ‘til Monday to ease that pain
And I am sorry, so sorry I couldn’t help you ease that pain
You get Sunday ‘til Monday to make it okay
And I am sorry, so sorry I couldn’t help you find another way

Could never feel bad for you, no
Cause you were always the one who made me cry

3. Caroline

Caroline, Caroline
You weren’t the last thing on my mind but you were close
A call in the night, so unpredictable
Brings this year to a close

And these things take some time
To understand
But then you fall, fall apart on me

We live in a city of borrowed hearts
And corrupted minds
You got yours from a veteran soldier
I don’t know where I got mine

And these things take some time
To understand
But it took us so, so damn long
Oh boy…

Everything is far and long gone by
I stole that line
From a man much wiser than I
To explain how or why

These things take some time
To understand
But it took you

So damn long to lament… (repeat)

Caroline, Caroline
You weren’t the last thing on my mind
But you were close.

4. Treading Water

Don’t remember the day my heart suddenly had nothing to say
like a pink seashell where the sounds of emotion dissipate
this little leaky valve is hemorrhaging hope into the streets
and I’m just not comfortable with the world knowing all my dreams

You can’t be the only thing keeping me afloat
If I’ve been treading water this long, just leave me alone

Too many tails I’ve chased, I spin myself ‘round and around
Keeping comfortable, a quick transition back into my old self
Too many lies I’ve told to keep the world at bay
Too many souls I’ve sold to touch the stars in a time of need

You can’t be the only thing keeping me afloat
If I’ve been treading water this long, just leave me alone
You can’t be the only thing keeping me awake
If I’ve been hearing voices this long, I must have lost my way

It’d be better to swim than to drop sail and sink
But I have no destination or place to leave
Don’t know where I’ll go, don’t know where I’ll drop my feet
But I would rather be drowning and know you’re free

You can’t be the only thing keeping me afloat
If I’ve been treading water this long, I gotta make it on my own
You can’t be the only thing keeping me awake
If I’ve been hearing voices this long, I gotta find my own way, away

5. Play with Fire

Play with fire and you might get burned
But you are playing with the devil
So you’re bound to get hurt, alright
But if that’s alright, then alright

To the marrow, she’s as light as a feather
She doesn’t feel a thing
Not even if you let her, alright
But if that’s alright, then alright

The truth don’t seem so simple now
Can’t hold a flame to her anyhow

She wants to be bad, she doesn’t want to be good
But she doesn’t leave a victim misunderstood
It isn’t black and it isn’t white
There are no red warnings and no flashing lights
So don’t you analyze…

The truth don’t seem so simple now
Can’t hold a flame to her anyhow
If you’re not sure what you’re looking for
It’s best not to mess with a woman who knows

So if you just let this slide
Then you’re telling her that it’s alright, right, right
To just lie, lie, lie… its all she needs
To keep you content in her fantasy
If that’s alright, then alright
If that’s alright then…
Go on and quench her thirst
You know its only getting hotter here on planet earth
But if that’s alright, then alright
The devil has done you right…

6. Microphone

It is hello and then goodbye
And the absorption of colors in between
Until you fall back towards the sky…

I feel your absence like a guitar
With no strings to make me sing
Find your pulse, make it mine
Keep it strong and carry on

Like the microphone to your heart
I will let them know just who you were

Ooh, something individual
Known inside, barely shown to the world
Leaving so much love behind

I miss you the most when I’m alone
Turn off the light to be with your ghost
You keep me awake and help me write this song
Help me sing it out

Like the microphone to your heart
I will let them know just who you were

Ooh, something individual
Known inside, barely shown to the world
Leaving so much love behind

Am I crazy? I don’t know, I thought I saw you…

Like the microphone to your heart
I will become who you are

Ooh, something individual
Known inside, barely shown to the world
Leaving so much love behind…

7. Not the One

We’ve both had our problems
but I’m not trying to lead you astray
and our hearts are growing silent
but I can’t stand to see yours this way

It used to sing, it used to cry, it used to be
Something resembling life, so I’ve gotta let you be

Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one for you, woah
Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one, not the one, not the one

I wish my skin were cellophane
so you could see the pain that I’m in
but I’m too deep in denial now
to let you know my love is at an end

But I would rather you be free than you be tied to me
like an anchor to a ship, so honey just let it sink

Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one for you, woah
Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one, not the one, not the one
Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one for you, woah
Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one, not the one, not the one

Did you know that fate made
such careless mistakes?
I guess, it must happen all the time
‘cause this is my fourth true love
but I’m not about to give it up
‘cause someone messed up upstairs

But I would rather you be free than you be tied to me
like an anchor to a ship, so honey just, let it sink,

Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one for you, woah
Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one, not the one, not the one
Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one for you, woah
Ooh ooh ooh, I’m not the one, not the one, not the one

8. Back from Dark

You left a mark inside of me
It’ll take more than water to wash it clean
Your wrongful words inside my head
That echo forever and ever there

But now I’ll always know
That it’s a long fall from where we go

My heart breaks slow
Didn’t even know
That it was broken in the first place
Didn’t notice ‘til it was too late

The flesh is worn in the same old place
With no nerves left to feel the pain
Hold a flame to my callous heart
It’ll take more than fire to bleed apart

But now I’ll always know
That it’s a long fall from where we go

My heart breaks slow
Didn’t even know
That it was broken in the first place
Didn’t notice ‘til it was too late

Heart of gold turned black as stone
All of my light once white as bone
Has left me for some distant place
How will I ever find my way back from dark?

My heart breaks slow
Didn’t even know
That it was broken in the first place
Didn’t notice ‘til it was too late

9. Stone-Dry

I will be a bleeding heart where yours is missing
You don’t know all the tears that you have been missing
That fell from my eyes, from my eyes
While yours remain dry, stone-dry

If people can’t change for you
They don’t know you at all

I am not a wall for you to throw your fists against
You don’t see all the bruises beneath my skin
Where the pain never subsides, never subsides
Keeps me awake at night, sleepless nights

If people can’t change for you
They don’t know you at all
And if people can’t change for love
Then they don’t know how to love at all

Every bone and every muscle exhausted
From the weight of all the troubles in my head
“Leave some, some for me, some for me,” she said
“Leave some, some for me, some for me,” she said

If people can’t change for you
They must not know you at all
And if people can’t change for love
Then they don’t know how
And we don’t know how
We don’t know how to love at all

10. Proof

I’m leaving you now
I can’t stop you from bringing me down
I’ve got a couple okay friends
They gonna help me out until I mend

But the irony is someday you’ll say
You wanted proof
You wanted proof
You wanted proof
But I was right there

I’m taking all this pain
I will take what was good and change my name
I don’t want no one to recognize me
I’m going to vanish like the breeze
You keep your money, yah, you can have these songs
Keep what’s left cause you can’t have my heart

The irony is someday you’ll say
You wanted proof
You wanted proof
You wanted proof
But I was right there

I’m leaving you now
I can’t keep you from bringing me down
I’ve got a few okay friends
They gonna help me out until I mend
But you keep your money, yah, you can have these songs
You can’t have my heart, cause it’s moving on

The irony is someday you’ll say
You wanted proof
You wanted proof
That I loved you
But I was right there

11. Yellow

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah they were all yellow

I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow

So then I took my turn
Oh what a thing to have done
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know, you know I love you so
You know I love you so

I swam across
I jumped across for you
Oh what a thing to do
Cause you were all yellow

I drew a line
I drew a line for you
Oh what a thing to do
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know, for you I bleed myself dry
For you I bleed myself

But its true, look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you
And all the things you do