There's a boy with his head pressed up to the window Of a bus headed out of town His breath on the glass, he draws with his finger Map of the roads they
Isa likes brandy and the way it hits her lips She's a rock 'n' roll survivor with pendulum hips She's got deep brown eyes That've seen it all Working
Oh, well, the world never seemed bigger Than the summer of '98 Living out in the suburbs Plotting my escape I grew my hair to my shoulder Formed a band
Looking through the photos you find in my drawer Laughing so hard, you're rolling around on the floor At all the bad haircuts and smoking cigarettes A
Well, he used to be somebody and now he's someone else Took apart his old life, left it on the shelf Sick of being someone he did not admire Took up all
You sat with the man Threw it all away And you dream of the bows They fall away And you hope that you won't See it falling again And you'll sing, day
She looks out her window And the stars don't feel that far away She watches the wind blow Blowing all her problems away But then she'll ask As she cleans
Time can make more rubble out of dreams than anything In a quiet neighborhood where she's living without wings There's eyes behind the curtains and there
Well, I'm just waiting for my chance to come Just a silhouette against the rising sun Watch the water, watch the sky Count the days as they go by I'm
Hold my hand as I'm lowered And please don't see me as a coward For death, I do not forsake thee Though your dark stare is always upon me Well, I fell
Well, I have nothing, I have no one I've been so quickly set free And I love nothing, I love no one Are words that you whisper in my mind to someone I
It's the first day of spring And my life is starting over again Well the trees grow, the river flows And it's water will wash away my sin For I do believe
Well, it's four in the morning, things are getting heavy And we both know that it's over but we're both not ready And you're talking like a stranger so
If you gotta run, run from hope If you gotta run, run from hope If you gotta run, run from hope If you gotta run, run from hope I know I'll never be
Last night I slept with a stranger for the first time since you've gone Regretfully lying naked I reflect on what I've done Her leg still forced in between
I will only let you down I will only let you down But my door is always open Yeah, my door is always open Well, I don't think that I ever loved you But
Oh, when I look to the shape of my heart It's separated only by scars that cut in and cut out Oh, and leave me without Oh, a heart that functions at all
Well, I know my death will not come Till I breathe all the air out my lungs Till my final tune is sung That all is fleeting, yeah, but all is good And
