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Captain

All the lines are frozen
Turn the world into an ocean

You
You will be my captain

The system has been broken
All the doors are flying open

You
You
You will be my only reason
You will be my getting even

You will be my engine
Be my guilt and my religion
You

Your estimated velocity
I don’t care I just wanna run away with you
Your rocket ship technology
I don’t care I just wanna run
Run away with you

- - -

Fingerprints

Hanging in the closet
is the dress I wore the last time
That I saw you on the last day of July

Could’ve been would’ve been should’ve known better
Shoved it inside and said I’d deal with this later
Pages and pieces of letters that I started to write,
Piled up high and I just want it out of my sight

Walked down Columbus took out a dime made a wish
Then I set the bridge on fire and destroyed the evidence
Now I wait for the rain to come wash the fingerprints
That you left on my face in my heart in my veins

Looking through the closet
I left the truth around here somewhere
Buried underneath these things that I don’t need

Tripped over the past so I crammed it in the corner
Shoved it in the entryway and hid it in the shower
Room full of boxes full of pieces of a broken dream
House full of ghosts and I hope they know it’s time to leave

Walked down Columbus took out a dime made a wish
Then I set the bridge on fire and destroyed the evidence
Now I wait for the rain to come wash the fingerprints
That you left on my face in my heart in my veins

Off the window and the door and the ceiling and the floor
From my Summer and my Fall and the picture on the wall
Off the records and the books off of everywhere I look
From the bottles and the tears and my twenty-second year
Off the ribbons and the sheets and the sidewalk and the streets
Off the diamonds and the threats imperfection and regrets
Off the records and the books off of everywhere I look

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Midwestern Hurricane

I loved a madman once
I loved a felon once
I did it just because

He was a dirty thief
but he was good to me
And he was into me

And we all got carried away
by a Midwestern hurricane

We all got carried away
by a Midwestern hurricane

He went to Catholic school
He had a swimming pool
and I'm not a fool

Pounding in his chest
Caught cheating on his test
Got put on house arrest

And if there’s no such thing and if it can’t be done
and if they would not sing and if there’s no such song
And if I did not ask then he did not say
he started driving fast he got carried away
and I would not ask and so he did not say

And we all got carried away

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Under the Table

Last night I was out of my head
I’m sorry for the attitude and what I said
I was a little bit drunk when I called you up
I've been doing things that I was ashamed of

Running out of money if that’s what it takes
and I get the credit for the rookie mistakes
and he just stands by and he makes me cry
like this is what dreams are made of
Like no one’s gonna see us holding hands under the table
Baby take a shot
As we stand here sweating in the parking lot

Anyway you’re really not my type
I usually prefer the more responsible kind
When they just give it up, do whatever I want
there’s nothing that I’m really afraid of

You can’t explain because you don’t understand
And I don’t wanna talk about it ever again
You either couldn’t play nice, gave me bad advice
or had me doing things that I was ashamed of
Like no one has a clue what’s going on under the table
Then baby say my name
Cause I’m one step up in your stupid game

Who tore my shirt who told my secret
There’s rug burn on my back
And your knees are blue and black
And you come back
To get your earrings and your camera
And your coffee pot, burning hot

- - -

Another Living Room

Another living room
eyes all over me
We could get in trouble
but I love the way you look at me
Another stereo
waiting for permission
Started playing Cadillac Walk
would it shut me up and get me to listen

And I
I think maybe we were lovers in a former life

You could be my gateway
I could be your therapy
I could be your trouble
I can feel it all over me

Another night another living room another hand
is slowly thumbing through his impressive collection
Call it curiousity what's he gonna play for me now
Another beer another bar another difficult choice
he threw his coat over my shoulders and he lowered his voice
and said I didn't mean to scare you
I only want to keep you warm

And I
I think maybe we were lovers in a former life

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The Air Around You

I am defeated love
and you're the reason why
Somehow completed by
the violet in your eyes

All the birds
singing songs about you
And I just can't wait to breathe
the air around you

The air around you

I am descending now
I've nowhere else to land
Somehow the ending is
to sink into your sand

These are the words
I would write about you
That I just can't wait to breathe
the air around you

The air around you

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Flash

Thank you Richard
I’m melting like butter
I'm walking on water
I feel like your daughter
And I followed the directions but it wasn’t enough
I just feel a little anti-social in a crowded world

Took off for Mexico and all of its colors
Que viva la Raza y viva the lovers
and I’m staring at the ocean but it isn’t enough
Show me a folk-singing pot-smoking hippie in a material world

One day he told me it’s all in the details
and I should pay attention and everything’s for sale
Tempting situation but it wasn’t enough
I tried to save you but I couldn’t afford it
you said 'welcome to the corporate world'
Yeah
Open up your wallet baby

Show it to me do your thing
show it off bling bling then I’m gonna rock your world

I wasn’t thinking straight if anyone should ask
I was blinded by the flash and the cold hard cash
and the tempting situation but it wasn’t enough
so you can keep your dinner and your fancy vacation
and your Red Carpet Club

Yeah
Open up your wallet baby
show me what’s inside
buy yourself some brand new toys
to keep you occupied

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Water Signs

If I was brave
I’d call you and say
Baby get ready
I’m coming to Colorado

Wish you were here
Wish I could disappear
If I only could
I’d be resting my ears

And oh
you had to leave me alone

So everything’s fine
Most of the time
Been dealing with egos
more fragile than mine

Unusual dreams
the usual things
Rip out my heart before clipping my wings

And oh
you had to leave me alone

I’ll be on the ground when you fall from the sky
Everything will change boy
you will always be mine
Both of us are water signs maybe that’s why

Maybe that’s why

- - -

Girls Like Us

Everybody wants my love
Nobody can get enough
When I wear some fuck me pumps
Look at me I’m all grown up

Everybody turns their head
When I wear my lips all red
If you ever break my heart
Daddy said he’d break your neck

Cause girls like us don’t come around everyday
Girls like us don’t come around everyday

Baby why’d you take so long
Turn your little flashlight on

Baby tell me where you’ve been
Daddy says you can’t come in

_ _ _

Real Life Cowboy

The sun shines bigger and brighter on a real life cowboy’s house
Cover me in whiskey and kisses from a real life cowboy’s mouth

He’s like climbing a mountain and collapsing at the very top
He’s like an Indian summer and an unexpected afternoon off

But all I ever really wanted
was to know what you wanted

I’ve seen a lot of handsome faces but their stories were never as good
And nobody could get me to dance the way the real life cowboy could

So everyday I fell a little bit harder for his real life cowboy charms
and every night I slept like a baby in the real life cowboy’s arms

Whatever whatever
whatever it was
nobody does it like a cowboy does

I used to wonder what was on his mind
but when I asked him he was totally speechless

I sold my tickets for a moment in time
and spent the money on a moment of weakness

But all I ever really wanted
Was to know what you wanted

All I ever really wanted was to know what you wanted

- - -

Ann Marie

Too late she got away now you'll never know
it hurt like hell but you didn’t let it show

Fill your suitcase up with pride
searching for another place to hide

Nobody to talk to but yourself and her memory
But Ann Marie explained it all in her poetry

Too late she got away you can't catch her now
It looks like this time she won’t turn around

Fill your suitcase up with shame
take a trip to nowhere take the blame

Much too much to keep within your grasp
she found her liberty
Cry cry cry behind your mask
and your dignity
But Ann Marie explained it all in her poetry

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10 East Ontario

I took a bath
put on your robe
I read your magazines
I used your phone

Looked through your photographs
and drank your wine
Moved all your stuff over
made room for mine

Took a handful of change
from your jar
I’m gonna need it when I drive your car

But I won’t question your good intentions
I don’t intend to ask you any more questions

I hope you sleep good tonight

I come home
the kitchen’s clean
I love your movies
and your great big screen
I fell asleep
in your favorite chair
Then I walked around a while
in my underwear

At 3 am
I turned on all your lights
and I snuck into your bedroom
in the middle of the night
Returning from a party
with your high class friends
And writing all about it
with your forty-dollar pen

But I won’t question your good intentions
I don’t intend to ask you any more questions
I was only a breath away

I was at the bottom
Take me to the top
Got yourself a little disaster

I don't mind at all
You can listen through the wall
I know what you're actually after

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Sundays

Sorry that I gave you all my Sundays
Oblivious and blind believing everything you said

All the things I never knew I wanted
Chasing me and charming me and sleeping in my bed

And I’m sorry that I gave you all my Sundays
Sunday’s never gonna be the same

Carelessly I drew my own conclusions
Missing pretty chances I was waiting for your call

Foolishly seduced by our illusions
The one who fit so perfectly did not exist at all

So I’m sorry that I gave you all my Sundays
Sunday’s never gonna be the same

Let you wrap your promises around me
Suffocating, choking me in ways I can’t explain

Made you love the little things about me
The very things you loved in me are the things you took away

So I’m sorry that I left you in the morning
But morning’s never would’ve been the same

And I’m sorry that I gave you all my Sundays
Sunday’s never gonna be the same