The Waxbills

Love Song

Can you feel the sings of me
Can you feel the signs of me
You can take this not forsake this
Look inside your dreams

Raw to the bone shivering cold
Nothing left standing everyone is alone
Look inside your dreams

Where has the fire gone
Where has the fire gone

Can you feel the signs of me
Can you feel the signs of me
My heart in a cage, who do we blame
I’ll stand strong if you stand strong

This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not love
This is not love

You don't own me I don't own you
If you don’t know me how can I show you

This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song

Hard To Lose

When they fall they don’t blow away
Bleed the blue and the sky turns grey
You’re not the you of yesterday
What’d you do how’d you let yourself fade away

Sometimes when the chips are down
Gotta bury those thoughts straight into the ground
All aside you’re not a lie
Don’t blame me it was the other guy

Oh my friends please what’s the deal
What possesses one to steal
A mind like yours is a gift to use
Right or wrong for you to choose

Got caught up and couldn’t be saved
Hope and help never got in your way
Slow down the rides gotta stop
Better get in line now before you lose your spot

No one told you sorry no one showed you
Maybe long ago I could have warned you of this day
Lost every trusting friend still your name we all defend
I am empty and feel used friends like mine are hard to lose
Friends like mine are hard to lose
Friends like mine are hard to lose
Friends like mine are hard to lose

Alabama

Come clean Alabama come clean
Alabama come clean
Come clean Alabama come clean
Alabama come clean

You don't have to keep your guard up all the time
When I tell you everything will be just fine
Sitting on the window pane she's cryin'

You don't have to let your work get in the way
When I tell you everything will be okay

And on the edge of the night you say to me

Come clean Alabama come clean
Alabama come clean
Come clean Alabama come clean
Alabama come clean

Let's get married
We can drive to L.A.
I'll fill up the car
So we can leave right away
I feel like the king
Do you Do you feel like a queen
Alabama won't you please come clean

I can get your stuff back right away
Tell me where it is you used to stay
We'll make that sick minded brother pay

I can do your dirty work I don't mind
Leave this life of yours behind
Just please come back inside

Come clean Alabama come clean
Alabama come clean
Come clean Alabama come clean
Alabama come clean

Broken Girl

What’s the matter
I’m torn and tattered she said
Bruised and battered
And left out in the cold

Come here than you
I will defend you
Til the end your heart is mine to hold

Steps back and catches her breath
Eyes unwilling, emotionless
Takes off into the night
Sleeping with friends just ain’t her style

This love will not be torn apart again
These words will never reach your ears again

Running fast
She’s free at last
Not looking back
But got no place to go

Time defeats her
Seasons beat her
Conscience eats her
Losing all control

Breaks down and can’t understand
How the world ever got the upper hand
We can start right where we left off
You can try all you want but the trust is lost

This love will not be torn apart again
This hand will never feel your touch again
These words will never reach your ears again
This love will not be torn apart again

Valentine

In a world so far away
At the dawn of yesterday
You were carved out of my eyes
With your tricks and your pocket sleeves
With your wit as thick as a midnight thieve
You believing all your lies

You floating by like you’ve never been caught
And you’ve never been down
Dance around in the poison rain
You whisper something but no one cares to ever listen
To the words of a jaded brain

Valentine

You wisp and you kick up the sand
While the world spins around in your hand
Well here’s your chance to shine
Your friends are no friends of mine
We can leave they’d all be just fine
They just take up all my time

Too proud you could never back down
But it’s never too late to turn it all around
Wash your hands from the poison rain
Shout it out let it out I’m right here and I might listen
To your reasons of the minds you play

Valentine

Floating on a cloud together
Through the lightening and the thunder
Somewhere out there is a blue sky
So take your seat and hold on tight

Valentine

Rollercoaster Man

If I fall down again
Would you still be my friend
Through the thick and the thin
Feeling down I feel great again

Rollercoaster man

Don’t think about me I’ll be fine
I’m not quite there but I can’t decide
Living out a dream that isn’t even mine
Feel so tired maybe I should drive

Rollercoaster man
Can’t you see we have a master plan

If I fall down again
Would you still be my friend
Through the thick and the thin
Feeling down I feel great again

Rollercoaster man
Can’t you see we have a master plan
You’re off your track and out of your mind again
Rollercoaster man

Chasing Rainbows

Lonely days are gone
So you’re moving on
Been fighting the good fight now for way too long

So without good-bye
Left no sign
There is something peculiar about a face that bears no smile

I want to shake things up
I want to bring you back but you too far gone

Did you enjoy the time you spent here
While you were chasing rainbows

Some dreams they just don’t come true
No matter how close you follow

But if you take the path less traveled
I think you’ll often find
You’re going to slip the tricks unraveled
You’re going to miss the signs

I wanna take you and shake you up
I wanna drown whatever makes you this way
You sit all alone and don’t say a word
And your eyes are so misleading
Like an abstract photograph
Talk in rhymes with sort lived meaning
You go you’re gone
And you never let on
Believe your delusions
So you know you can't be wrong

I wanna put back all these little pieces in place
I wanna reach out and pull you back down but you’re gone

Alone in the rain
I cant fight this off and take the blame
Give up your choice
If you don’t speak up and make some noise
Countless friends around
The whole world’s not trying to keep you down
Too late for you now
But the next one will get through some how

I know it I know
It has got to be this way
I know it I know
It has got to be this way

Taste

There is something on my mind
There’s a girl who drains me dry
Went away
Came back today
Looking for something to satisfy

Can I get another
Just a little taste
Can I get another
Pretty little face

Baby I got nothing left
Money’s gone and all been spent
Said that’s fine
That’s alright
As long as there’s enough to get me through the night

Can I get another
Just a little taste
Can I get another
Pretty little face

She’s alive
She’s alive
Dancing with those bedroom eyes
Went away
Came back today
Looking for something to satisfy

Can I get another
Just a little taste
Can I get another
Pretty little face

High Street

Mad dog teeth dripping blood and skin
Lyin’ like a lover living out in sin
Street baby one eye lazy hitchin’ on a ride
Following her demons leaving dreaming to the other guy

Got a soul with demands she can’t understand
Eyes like fire with a delicate hand

She says I got those days where I just don’t know
The summertime when the sun beats low
Spent my money on a bus ride home
Knock 3 times and come alone
But when you leave
You better believe I’m gonna let you go

You can’t hide behind that disguise
I’ll put the fire out in your eyes
Light a smoke, take a seat
Tell the truth and don’t lie to me
She’s livin’ life on High street
Feelin’ fine with a buzz like a bee
Broken heels and a staggered walk
Conversations with herself she talk

She’s flyin’
She’s on High
Flyin’ high
She’s flying

She says I got those days where I just don’t know
The summertime when the sun beats low
Spent my money on a bus ride home
Knock 3 times and come alone
But when you leave
You better believe I’m gonna let you go

Shut You Down

Don’t know what it was or how it made time stand still
Something in my sights, looking hard but I just can’t tell
How days like these seem to come and go as they please
Build me up just to leave me all alone

Don’t know how to read these lines they just don’t seem clear
I can rub my eyes all I want but it won’t disappear
Got a feeling so strong that it must keep moving on
Like the morning sun you come and then you're gone

Head shakes with the question on my mind
(Don’t have time don’t have time)
Heart break I fell my vital signs
(Are way out of line, way out of line)
Maybe there’s a meaning in this something I just can’t find
But it just won’t let me shut you down tonight

Oh my ghost will lead me when I sleep
Count the lives I’ve lived before me
And if the stars want to keep me awake
I know there’s nothing my soul cannot take

My World

What to do when they push you through
So you can make it in better time
Got to be something so much better
Mirror speaks with the lines and streaks
And your face is showing age
The look in your eye is so much older

But there can’t be words that can be worse
Then when they fill your head with the devil’s verse
If there’s one for them you know there’s one for you
It’s all messed up but life is too
Life is too

You’re going to make it
You’re going to make it
You’re going to make it
In my world

I’ll fight when the time is right
But I know that it’s not now
Got to be something so much better
You’re a dream that always seems
To slip into my day
But you could be something so much bigger

But you can’t rely on the other guy
No matter how hard you want or how hard you try
At the end of the day it’s all up to you
When they pull you out or they push you through
They’re gonna push you through

You’re going to make it
You’re going to make it
You’re going to make it
In my world

Devil's Choir

I am so sick of all the jealousy pretending and the hate
Time is much to short here to not appreciate
But now you just sit there and you’re crying all alone
Your words ring in my head there’s nothing left so I am gone

I can’t hear you but I’m listening
Tell me is there something that I’m missing
Frozen mind and a head on fire
Two wrong notes in the angel’s choir

Kiss me diss me you’ll never miss me I’d like to think the same
Been down so many times before I’ll never go there again
Now you see that I’m just me No hero from a story book
Try and I try to forget your smile And all the love you took

I’m not scared but I’m shivering
You don’t get the way I’m living
Frozen spine and a head on fire
Singing perfect pitch in the devil’s choir
Singing perfect pitch in the devil’s choir
Singing perfect pitch in the devil’s choir

The Way It Goes

I’m a man I’m a man of words though often misunderstood
Run away run away from things I’m not so sure I should
Believe that this is real
Cause it’s not the way it really feels
Like a dream where I can't fly
Hit the ground but never die
Always seem to wake up just in time

Though I’d really like you to know
Just how far this train can really go
Arriving at the turnstile just a little bit too slow
It’s the way it goes

Tell me things tell me things please do
That I will understand
Stick around stick around for a while just as long as I can
But please try not to bore me
Or tell me that you really adore me
I’m sorry but for this I have no time

Though I’d really like you to stay
It makes no difference here now anyway
Now that all the games have all been played I know
It’s just the way it goes

I’m all alone all alone
Waiting for my chance to go
Leave me here leave me here
I just want to stay right here alone

Just the way it goes
I’m all alone
It’s the way it goes
It’s the way it goes

Take It

Come on sunshine show your face again
Standing in the rain I’m soaking wet
Feel the cold shiver down to my bone
Just a lost soul walking down the middle of the road
Ain’t got a hope ain’t got a home
Just a lost soul running down the middle of the lonely road

Take it
If you want it
Once you got it
You’ll never break it
If you want it
You got to take it
You got to own it
If you want to make it

Look out storm clouds I will bring the light
Drying up the rain let my soul shine
Feel the scold burning down to the bone
Just a lost soul walking down the middle of the road
Ain’t got a hope aint got a home
Just a lost soul running down the middle of the lonely road

Take it
If you want it
Once you got it
You’ll never break it
If you want it
You got to take it
You got to own it
If you want to make it

Empty Arms Again

From my heart I feel you slip away
The sun is shining but I have seen a better day
All your words they’re spinning around my head
Even the ones that were all left unsaid again

And I wanted to be the better man
I wanted to be the better one
But on left me hung on a line again
Ya you left me hung and

I can’t wait and I can’t win
Swinging empty arms again
Pull me out just to push me in
Swinging empty arms again

Push and pull and take is all you do
Everything you’ve done it’s all about you
But I won’t hold my head and walk away
Not before these words that I just have to say

That I wanted to be the better man
I wanted to be the better one
But you left me hung on a line again
You left me hung and

I can’t wait and I can’t win
Swinging empty arms again
Pull me out just to let me in
Swinging empty arms again
Swinging empty arms again

I want something back
Won’t you give me something back
I want something back
Won’t you give me something

I can’t wait and I can’t win
Swinging empty arms again
Pull me out just to let me in
Swinging empty arms again
Swinging empty arms again
Swinging empty arms again
Swinging empty arms again

Carry Me

Sit alone and wonder while the rain comes down
Sit alone and wonder will my brain come down
Think of what you said
Think of what you did
And it’s all just bottled up and it’s rolling around my head
It feels just like the day I was born

Through the rolling thunder I see a break in the clouds
Through the rolling thunder I see your face in the clouds
And it’s looking down at me with a sullen face
Frustration bottled up now I’m ready to fall from grace
It feels just like the day I was born

Carry me away...

The News

All around me everything is grey
Everywhere the people act so strange

There’s a certain unease in the air tonight
Something ain’t feeling right
A certain unease in the air tonight
Something ain’t feeling right

Everywhere the people act so strange

Crowds come swarming without warning
One by one they fall
Broken silence turn to violence
One by one they fall

I feel like I’ve been here before
I feel like I’ve been here before

Miss This

Give me something
Give me something to go on
On the surface
I’m a serpent with lamb’s clothes on
Find a reason
If there’s a reason to care
But don’t go looking
Don’t go looking cause I won’t be there

But if you want me to I will wait it out with you
And if you’re left afraid remember what your mother said

Miss this
Do you miss this kiss this
Do you miss this mess and all the rest
I’ll be what you want me to be

I need time
I need room to grow
Give me something that I can take
Nice and slow
I’m a reason
I’m a reason to try
I’m a wonder
I’m a wonder you don’t ask why
But if there’s something on your mind
Let it out let it out don’t have to hide

Miss this
Do you miss this kiss this
Do you miss this mess and all the rest
I’ll be what you want me to be
Miss this
Do you miss this kiss this
Do you miss this mess and all the rest
I’ll be what you want me to be

Finally Gone

Is it the colour
Is it the smell
Is it the way you look so pretty on my shelf

You’ve got your reasons
I don’t understand
You buzz around I smack you down with my hand

Though I don’t mean to hurt you
I’m sure there’s no suffering
I’m not sure you feel
But there just always seems to be one more to kill

You make me feel dirty
As clean as I am
In my space and in my place and in my head

You fly away
Just as fast as you can
Hiding from a fate you can’t disband

You can hide all night
You won’t get burned
You’ll just get your turn
You keep coming back for more you never learn

You’re finally dead
You’re finally gone
Looks like you weren’t so tough here all along

Can’t say I miss you
And I’m not gonna lie
I never want to see another fruit fly

Though it hurts to kill anything
Even something so small
I hope I got you all
Keep coming back for more you just don’t learn

This Town

I walk alone, along the cobbled stone
I Don’t mind the rain, the sun will shine again

On come the street lights
Dark faces they highlight
Your ghost it follows me wherever I go
Haunting my footsteps
Stand by the doorstep
Waiting for something but nothing will change

I came alive in this town
I felt you die in this town
I’m not alone, but I’m miles away from home
I missed my ride, and it’s colder and dark outside

Peer through the window
You’re standing there solo
Singing your heart out to the Saturday crowd
Dead dreams of grandeur
A cold night in November
I follow the moon and the drift of the clouds

My shadow is your ghost in this town
I was the one you knew the most in this town

I love what you’ve got
You’re everything I’m not
Your body may rest but your spirit will not
Never go away
I’ll never let you down
I won’t take one step from this place that you’re bound

This town

With Eyes That Never Lie

Oh won’t you tell me
She’s biting her lip
I’m losing my mind
Got something to say
Keep it all inside
Won’t you tell me

Oh won’t you show me
Crawling up in her sleeve
I’m out on my own
And disagree
Hanging up on the phone
Won’t you show me

Your eyes they never lie
Tell me what is it you hide
Won’t you tell me
Your voice is crackling
Show me all and everything
Won’t you show me

Oh won’t you help me
I’m down on my luck
She’s on top of her game
And sending me signs
To deliver the pain
Won’t you help me

What does it mean to you
When you never say what you never do
Help me if you can
Please help me understand you
Won’t you help me