You reminded me of my doubts and you picked me up before you let me down I am strugglin' but I'm not sufferin' I am strugglin' But I've been through worse than this and I've got better things to fill my time oh, I've got my friends and we're doing fine We are singin' cause we used to it We are singin' cause we're used to this

Scot Thompson - music, lyrics, performance, recording, mixing, mastering

I need to put my past to rest.
I need to get over this.
It's been nagging and pulling
twisting and turning
It's so damn perverted
I let go of nothing.

I hold on to everything forever
I never let my mind rest

This is what it sounds like
to remember everything
and not being able
to do a fucking thing

This is how it feels to search
endlessly
for someone half as cute
for someone decent and someone true

I hold on to everything forever
I never let my mind rest
I hold on to everything forever
I never let my thoughts pass 

Is there anybody out there
who won't cheat?
Is there anybody out there
who won't leave?
Is there anybody out there
a little like me?
Is there anybody out there
that might mean something to me?

she says:

Can you tell me what it is that you need to be happy?

Can you tell me how hard it's been growing alone?

You're always looking for something new to smoke, and somebody to drink with...

Well, I finally see your game, and I'd rather sit at home.

Cause what you want, you don't need.
and how you feel, is oh-so-empty...

I say:

Take me back to the place where we let go

Show me that smile that stretches from Willmar for miles

Can you get you foot off of my back
Standing tall, forgetting what you lack
It's been said, I've never really known anyone
I just get caught up when I'm chasing new, young love

but darling, what you want, you don't need
and how you feel, is oh-so-empty...

Can't go outside so lock the doors Can't face the world out there no more She says I'm 'dwelling on the past' This final shot will be our last When that day comes, and we trade rings back, I hope that it's the day I get my life on track Quit wishing things weren't the way they are Quit whining and boring my friends at the bar There's gotta be something better to write about There's gotta be someone better to work it out When that day comes, and we trade rings back, I hope that it's the day I get my life on track

I've got nothing to do
But sit and wait for someone new
I can't help but think I'll be alone
until I move to somewhere unknown

Well I take a breath and count the time
I feel my life's on stand-by
while I wait for you

Who she is, I may never know
but i'll sit and think and ponder
just trying to get through
Tonight...

The darkness of the night suits me just fine
I walk the streets, thinkin' of how I've tried
to hang on to clearer states of mind
but there's a calling to find out where she hides

Well I take a breath and count the time
I feel my life's on stand-by
while I wait for you

Who she is, I may never know
but I'll sit and think and ponder
just trying to get through
Tonight...

Everything is upside down
I drove myself to a mountain town
Hiding from the fact
that we wouldn't make it
(we couldn't fake it)

but then I tell myself
If i look hard enough
I can find someone that makes 
it look like I never wanted you
makes it look like I never needed you
makes it look like...
I never pined
over you...

Candle light, it makes me feel inside
that there will be no other by my side
that ever compares to the way
you lit my fire
(that'll take me higher)

but then I tell myself
If i look hard enough
I can find someone that makes 
it look like I never wanted you
makes it look like I never needed you
makes it look like...
I never pined
over you...

Sippin' on schnapps 
and cigarettes
Grass and shots 
then more regrets
These machines don't work for me
They only keep you in my memory

it's the twisting of our tongues
the passion in our hips
it's the flames in our eyes
that makes me wish i could forget


it's been a year since any human contact
and since i've lost my mind
i've spent my time
sleeping and dreaming of awful things


like the time that you drown
i stood in the kitchen
with my voice so loud
screaming about how i couldn't save you
playing my heart like i meant to
telling the world that there was nothing i could do


i sang,

"My love was washed away,
i was there,
I saw everything.
the water filled her lungs
as i reached out and screamed
but she sank to the bottom
and i had to escape."

it's been a year since my last human contact
and since i've lost my mind
i've spent my time
sleeping and dreaming of awful things


like the time that i caught you
i barely recognized you
i was sleeping in a house 
full of long lost friends
you were reading stories
helping us all fall asleep
but when the house was finally silent
you laid next to me and sang


she sang,
"you left me for the mountains
you left me here waiting
if you stay, you'll go crazy
but if you leave, we'll never be
everything we said 
we said
we wanted to be"

it's the twisting our our tongues
the passion in our hips
it's the flames in our eyes
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