Face With a View – 2005

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Hello
Chances
Chase Me Away (Girl in the Corner)
Distracted
Traces
My Highway
Sundown
Distracted (Saturn Mix)
If
Girl in the Corner (Chase Me Away)
A Little Love
Paradise

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I can’t walk down a street without thinking of you
Your voice is in everything I do
It’s in the buildings and cars I pass
It’s in the people hand in hand

And it’s cold outside
And it’s too hard to hear
Though I listen sometimes
Just to fight my fear
 
And it’s cold outside
And it’s too hard to hear
Though I listen sometimes
It just don’t come clear
 
Oh I can’t believe its been two years now
Everything has changed no faces in the clouds
In the meantime I have been
Seeking my favourite miracle again
 
Chorus
 
Bridge
 
I cant walk down a street without thinking of you
The choice we made distorts my view
Like ceilings or windows I ask
Why are all these people hand in hand
 
Chorus
 
And it’s cold outside
And it’s too hard to hear
I will wait my turn
For my conscience to clear
 
Come on come on clear

Hello

I got this blue shirt on my back
To head into the city
I got my life on my back
In the Timber of a six-string
 
Don’t worry I won’t look back
On all that I am leaving
What’s ahead
Is so much more appealing
 
Hello
Welcome home
Don’t fight your soul
Hello
Welcome home
Now make yourself a new day
 
Got these few words in my head
As I’m flying past the pigeons
To my room at the top of the world
Where hope is still living
 
Don’t worry I won’t look back
On all that I am leaving
What’s ahead
Is the reason I am living
 
Chorus
 
Alright I am here to stay
Alright I am not yesterday
Alright
 
Got this blue sky on my back
To head into the city
Got my life on track
She smiles as she’s singing
 
Chorus

Chances 

Summer rains fallin’ on you
Drains the summer days
Night falls fallin’ on you
Walls cavin’ in
 
Take you chances and take your time (2x)
 
She breathes right next to you
But you think yesterday
Why why do you feel that way
What did she do to you
 
Chorus

You will  (I will)

Chorus
 
Summer stains fallin’ on you
Pain’s growin’ up
Night calls callin’ on you
You pause and look again
 
Chorus
 
Night calls callin’ on you
But pause and look again
 
You will…

Chase Me Away 

The girl in the corner speaking French
Does she really love you like she said
The girl in the corner smoking a cigarette
Do you really love her like you said
 
There ain’t nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
To chase me away
 
The girl in the corner with the pony tail
Does she think about me does she even care
The girl in the corner surrounded by men
Can she ever really get satisfaction
 
There ain’t nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
To chase me away
 
And maybe if she tried she’d fall in love
And maybe if we tried we’d fall in love
 
The girl in the corner sitting quietly
No one notices her no one but me
The girl in the corner with the long brown hair
Does she really love me does she even care

There ain’t nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
No there ain’t nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
Nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
 
To chase me away
 
To chase me away (4x)

Distracted 

Tomorrow’s just a sunset away
And California’s a couple days
The road is clear I wish my mind was the same
Seems these thoughts can’t be rearranged
 
I’m a little distracted
Running with shadows
A little distracted
Living in windows
 
The wind has learned the way of the sea
But the red clouds the same as it waits for me
The road is clear I wish my thoughts were the same
It seems you just won’t go away
 
Chorus
 
Living in windows
 
Tomorrow’s just a sip away
And California’s burst into flames
What is clear and what is insane
Seem to meet somewhere in your name
 
Chorus
 
I’m a little distracted…

Traces

The snow it doesn't go on forever
Still a midsummer's halo 
The leaves under your feet are you lover
And there's no room for another fall  

The hallways grow larger than the shadows
These faces have all been yours                           
The traces that haunt my pillow                        
Dried leaves and dreams I can't lose         
                                               
Dried leaves and things...

Only you
Only you 
Only you  
Only traces of you      

It never rains forever
Wind flames at your door
Lipstick stains the window
Where you waved goodbye to me
Dried leaves like angel wings
 
Only you
Only you
Only you
Only the traces of you
 
Only you
Only you
Only you
Only the traces of you
 
Oooh oooh oooh (only you)                                   
I still feel the love is all... 

My Highway

I am driving on the highway
I am getting up to speed
I am flying past the people
Who are going slower than me
 
It’s exciting on the highway
I feel my blood flow
In my mirror lives are passing
Lives are too slow
I want the open road
And I wanna see the sun go down
In a town I don’t live in
And I want a change of space
And I gotta fly away
I can fly on my highway
 
When I’m sleeping I am dreaming
I am driving my car
Do not ask me where I am going
I have not passed that sign keep your eyes open
wide
 
Chorus

Though I love to drive
I must be careful
I can’t keep things from happening
But I can try
I want the open road
And I want to count the stars tonight
In a town I don’t live in
I want your pretty face to ride with me aways
Out past the sunset
I’ve got a destiny
My love and curiosity tonight
That’s where I’m going
I know the open road
Won’t let me be alone
It’s it’s it’s friendly
I want your pretty face
To ride with me away
To a town that we’ll live in            My highway…

Sundown

Floating trees masking the subtleties of the crux
Instant tea of graveyard dreams circling never stops
Each new day passes away to rest in its grave and
Rise as flowers 

Oh yeah
Sundown
And her
 
Blue bow skies wrap my eyes in compromise of velvet hours
Footprints of sand across your hand dawn of the stand today
Indigo tans on captured lands the fool's final chant for
Someday

Chorus

Burning away
 
Taste and fly and eyes open to the light
See sight explode and then reload to save the knight 

Chorus

Woo-hoo-hoo!

Rise Up!

Woo-hoo-hoo! 

If

I have a picture in my mind
That has yellowed with time
But your smile still shines through
Like Im right next to you
Like Im right next to you
 
Yeah
 
I don’t know where I belong
I have lost all my dreams
I don’t know if I should love or hate you
I don’t know where I belong
I don’t know what went wrong
 
Yeah
 
If I could open my wings
I could show you things
 
I know that I have lost my place
Thousand faces wash away
I don’t see you
I don’t see you
I don’t know if that’s such bad news
 
Yeah
 
Chorus
 
I cant feel I have walked thru the sun
I've lost everything lost everyone
I cant feel I have walked thru the sun
I've lost everything lost everyone

I have felt everything its hard to sing hard to breathe
I wont give up I’ll still try to fly
These are my wings this is my crime
 
Why do I feel so cold
So cold…

Girl in the Corner 

The girl in the corner speaking French
Does she really love you like she said
The girl in the corner smoking a cigarette
Do you really love her like you said
 
There ain’t nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
To chase me away
 
The girl in the corner with the pony tail
Does she think about me does she even care
The girl in the corner surrounded by men
Can she ever really get satisfaction
 
There ain’t nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
To chase me away
 
And maybe if she tried
And maybe if we tried
 
The girl in the corner sitting quietly
No one notices her no one but me
The girl in the corner with the long brown hair
Think about me think about me
 
There ain’t nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
No there ain’t nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
Nothing you can say
Nothing you can do
 
To chase me away
 
(I’ll never chase you away…)

A Little Love 

Everyday he walks to the window
Looks out over the sleeping world
Everyday he thinks of leaving us all behind
And each time it’s just the luck of the draw that keeps him alive

You already know how far a little love can go
You’ve already seen
You already know how far a little love can go
You’ve already seen it
 
She stands in the mirror and stares back out at herself
What can I do
To blow a little life into these eyes
And she will stay right where she is the rest of the night
 
Chorus
 
Bridge
 
Send
Your smiles with the sun
Everyone’s waiting for a package of hope
This might be the one
 
Chorus
 
Bridge
 
Chorus

Paradise 

Combed thin hair, white shirt, black tie
Sit on your platform and feed me lies
This one’s dry, a little tough, I could use some gravy or mustard please
You know, I’m just not ready for all this raw sushi
 
There’s truth in every pair of eyes
Me and you together in paradise
There’s truth in every pair of eyes
Me and you together in paradise
 
She comes from a home broken in two, a father too bitter, a mother too used
She wants to be alone, she wants to be free, but
she wants someone to be there to see
Forced on her own from backs of blood into the world she tries to love
But it gets so hard it’s getting so hard 

Stand on our own do not lean we’re taught not to waver
But there’s not such thing as a right angle in all of nature
Are we not part of nature?
 
If we’re not part of nature why are we standing in heaven
If we’re not part of nature why must we stand in heaven
And not realize
Open your eyes