I saw somebody just like you in the park
She was smiling at someone
It finally hit me, walking away
You might could love someone else too

Can I see how we painted the magic
the way you could forget your manners
when you were alone with a man

I have to accept change
Like nature accepts the way it lives and dies
I have to watch out now
It’s laying all about

Can I see how we used to walk
like goose bumps through a forest
of hair standing on our arms

It’s like sleeping in the broom closet
No window and the darkness, so dark
As if the sun was never born
And taking pictures the only flash in its place

Can I see how I won your love
inside the eyes that wouldn’t let me go
until you realized it was true

The ocean deep is a quieter place to die
Or next to the stars in the sky
White sands and telescopes say leave us be
Our troubles now so far away
We want more time to love
But now it’s gone

Maybe along side a highway I drove everyday
Cars driving by not knowing what to say
Listening to songs that remind
Of a girl like you
I’ll take your memory with me
It’s how I will stay strong

People are going to keep talking, life goes on
Still I’m surrounded by inspiration
Every ghost, a story to tell
We will share waiting our turn
And when he looks my way
I will admit I did you wrong

Somebody said we weren’t right for each other
Why waste time on one another
But I thought if it didn’t matter
I should wait anyway
And while my love only grew
Still I didn’t know how to belong

But I never did die, the way I walk tells me so
Waves, cars and stars, what do they know?
They will never change like I can
It’s not a funeral but a wedding
The sounds you hear now
Are someone else’s song

Walk on alone
All alone
My sad eyed friend
Where you can find yourself again

Clouds that always seemed to follow
Don’t know upon which door to knock
You finally moved on, to where sunny skies called
Shadows on the beach forgot how to spoil your day

Walk on alone
All alone
My sad eyed friend
You need to forget where you’ve been

Four days alone and that was enough
A lifetime of troubles buried under the dunes
High tide rescue, pushing them all away
Leaving behind a glistening footprint canvas

Walk on alone
All alone
My sad eyed friend
I’ll join you when you say when

It’s only ten minutes each day
Not exactly, who keeps count
But it’s always too fast for me
The changing colors of the sky
It’s always dark beneath my feet
That’s the part that lasts too long
Still there’s tomorrow’s sleepy eyes

Even broken glass reflects
Our nature exists, scarred as it is
Still the grand gesture must be made
And if you think it’s all too much
Then tell me why you sleep at night
What turns you on anymore
If not your dreams talking to you

The distance between us, it seems
Is as far as the sun is from me
I can accept my place, it’s beautiful
How can I say anything different?
I don’t know where to begin
If I’m not in my knowing, so small
How would I know your worth to me?

I wonder if I am the one to make you cry
Is that the moment that I made you feel
Is it the memory that you want to forget
I wanted you to laugh out loud
And whisper my name like a shell
When you stop pretending with me
We can live the stories I can only make up

It seems I have to win her over at least twice a week
She said it was because she was only a part of my life
She said her life was about counting disappointments
For some reason she wants it all when it comes to me

These days there’s too much for us to think about
It would be so much easier, staring at an open range
Just being happy together, a slow wind dream
Why are we so far apart when our hearts are not

She thinks that sometimes I’m just on the make
A sometimes lover who knows how to talk forever
But I never said that, I only think inside my dreams
It’s no secret but she said drinking only makes waves

I have a plant I think about before I open the door
It’s the only one I own, red and green in the winter
I divert rivers and move the sun for it to live on
I would for you but you won’t wait by the window

She can sing a song, drive a truck, paint still life
Spin on a dance floor, but she drifts in her mind
She’s all these things, but really it’s only me
My dreams know the only truth is inside you

Getting away with it
It's only for those without a conscience
When things happen to people
Sometimes they don't know why
Even when they do
But isn't that it
Something happened
Somebody was involved
I try to keep my ears open
There's so much suffering
We can only see one way to live
The choices we make are so permanent
It's not right
Life is not a song
That's only how it felt in four minutes
Living it is like a painting
You couldn't sleep and still you're sad
You thought about it for weeks
You didn't even know it
Now we see what you tried to say
But who really knows you?

I thought I’d been to hell and back
But I went one more time just to be sure
There’s more than one face on the devil
And more than one fire without any cure

I might have seen you there once or twice
We can’t get along but we like the same place
If we’re gonna’ be miserable why not together?
It’s too hard to fight then sit down to say grace

I saw both of you down there
Maybe you lost your way
Maybe I made you that way
I never belonged
Not even for a day
But I loved you once

The fire was so loud
We couldn’t hear each other
Trippin’ on our mistakes
Never knowing the weather

I know how hard love can be when it’s wrong
We made a conversation that couldn’t stay calm
It was almost as if we met window shopping
Mannequin clothes aren't in style very long

I saw myself down there
I know I lost my way
Love doesn’t act that way
I tried to belong
For more than a day
But I only loved you once