Will we ever talk again the way we used to? Is it time to have our last words tattooed? Does your mom still ask if I'm doing alright? Do the songs we used to sing keep you up at night? The ones that go "ooooh" Not not missing you I'll keep justifying the reasons I let you go And the version of myself I pretend to know Until another life where I decide to stay It's better this way Guess we were meant to be, just not to last And to your next girl, I'll be just a part of your past Still, will you think of me and all the good? 'Cuz I'll play our song when I pass your neighborhood All you'll hear is "ooooh" Tired of missing you I'll keep justifying the reasons we're both better off And I'll tell my friends that our spark just happened to get lost And when my sister asks how you're doing again these days It's better this way A shout for help Turned into a whisper What I'd do to hear you say "I still miss her" I'll continue to be misunderstood But if I could go back, I would I know we'll never talk again the way we used to Still I want to waste some ink on a tattoo

There's a box up on the top shelf I moved out of reach so many years ago Filled with letters, filled with postcards All the pieces of a time I used to know I wonder if I took it down now Would I find the things I'd hidden there inside? Maybe I would find the ocean A wave would rise and I'd be taken by the tide They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me There's some ruins in the backyard Someone built them there before we came around We don't know what they were made for We don't know what else is buried in the ground Maybe if we tried to listen Read the writing, learned the music to the songs We might find what we've been missing We might see what has been right there all along They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me I saw a stranger on the front page I heard voices saying he had done the crime I saw a stranger on the sidewalk I heard voices saying walk the other side I saw a screaming politician My own voice said he was right and they were wrong I saw my lover in the kitchen My own voice was saying I can't stay for long They're not gone, they're not dead They're still living in my head Some I know, some I've never seen And I don't know where I'm led By what's living in my head When I walk, I know what bends my knee It has to be the ghosts in me

It hits you when you least expect You wake up, your life's a wreck No one told you hit the deck, incoming No one told you hit the deck It starts falling from the sky Eighty tons and eight miles wide It does no good to go inside It keeps coming It does no good to go inside But you are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air Time it moves in a straight line And every corner here is blind The world it can be so unkind, it keeps spinning There's no stopping to unwind If every breath we take's a risk And every step is a near miss How do we go on like this? We keep running How do we go on like this? You are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air It is everyone, not you So stop asking what'd you do We are travelling in twos It's stunning We are travelling with you You are still a friend of mine Even if we have not spoken I have looked into your eyes Through the laughter and the smoke And I will curse the skies for you If it's all that I can do Maybe somehow I'll be there When you come up for air When you come up for air

Sarah she can't fall in love She says I'm out of time It's getting so much harder to begin There's been so many calls here Nothing's coming across the line I'm all alone, all alone without a friend Henry he kept moving on He went from town to town He'd pack it up, try his luck again The houses he was building Never quite got off the ground He's all alone, all alone without a friend I don't know which man I'd like to be Tell me could you love a man like me When I started down this road I had one stop in mind Now I can't count the places that I've been I know I turned a corner But I must have missed the sign I'm all alone, all alone without a friend Once I was a welder Once a singer in a band A rich man with all the money I could spend One day I burned the costumes And I tore up all the plans All alone, all alone without a friend There's no other man I'd like to be Tell me could you love a man like me I might not be the man you thought you'd see Tell me could you love a man like me The skies are never empty And the lights are always on The streets go on forever without end There's someone always coming And there's someone who is gone All alone, all alone without a friend All alone, all alone without a friend

You hung your hat behind the door And it's still there, like it was before You don't live here anymore You hung your hat behind the door You used to rule with an iron hand You were the final word, you were the promised land Now you hold no keys, and you have no plan You used to rule with an iron hand We're made of strings, we're made of clay The nearest star is a long, long way They say you're coming back some day We're made of strings, we're made of clay I still talk to you sometimes And it seems strange after all this time Were you real? Were you in my mind? I still talk to you sometimes We're made of strings, we're made of clay The nearest star is a long, long way We might make it there some day We're made of strings, we're made of clay We're made of strings, we're made of clay

I've never been the bad guy, never thought I would Always took the high road, did the things I should Then they kicked me when I was down Now I'm turning this train around They taught me a lesson, they taught me twice There's only one ending for the one who's nice They said it's all gonna be just fine Then they walked out with what was mine Oooh, oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh, oooh I tried to stand up, I put out my neck I turned around there was no one else on deck I said the captain has run away I heard we'll all be the captain some day And I've been alive a long time And the load it gets heavy and high It gets hard to put your heart on the line Lord I tried, lord I tried, lord I tried I've never been the bad guy, but I played the fool All the kings and queens they're not playing by the rules When there's no hand left out for you You will learn what your hands can do Gonna change my language, gonna change my skin This one'll be concrete now no one's getting in You might not recognize my face There's a bad man in my place Oooh, oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh, oooh Give me my black hat, give me my gun I've never been the bad guy, now let's have some fun There might be blood left on the floor But I'll get what I came here for And I've been alive a long time And the load it gets heavy and high It gets hard to put your heart on the line Lord I tried, lord I tried, lord I tried

You know I'm gonna make some mistakes I've proven that I've got what it takes I won't say the words that you need to hear I won't see the part that's perfectly clear But if you take a look at my face You'll know my heart is in the right place You can tell me if I get out of line You can tell me if I'm too hard to find And every time, every time, I will do all I can every time You're living in the wind and the rain You don't mind that there is no window pane Some days when I'm along for the ride You forget that I am there by your side I never find it hard to forgive I've been guilty of the thing that you did I don't need for you to suffer and crawl I don't need for you to say much at all If every time, every time, You will do all you can every time We don't have to shout We'll work it all out We don't have to turn our whole world upside down We're just a part of this human race We're all falling down all over the place All the stars that we don't know how to read All the ways we find to make ourselves bleed I don't know how we got on this train For you and I the view is the same And nobody gets to choose where they are And nobody gets to go very far So every time, every time, We should do all we can Every time, every time We should do all we can Every time, every time We should do all we can every time