David Cook Album

i've got questions for you
you've got answers untrue
i could walk these circles all night long
take a pill and sleep off
everything you can think of
walking all these circles to a song

could you play me something new

so take a minute just to breathe
and think of everything you wanted
and what you got instead
is it a labor just to see
around the left or right over my head
just straight ahead

find a new way to feel right
between this and a fist fight
i can read the circles 'round your eyes
this is life, this is no rhyme
find a beat, find the right time
to organize these circles to a song

could you play me something new

so take a minute just to breathe
and think of everything you wanted
and what you got instead
is it a labor just to see
around the left or right over my head
just straight ahead

so take a minute just to breathe
and think of everything you wanted
and what you got instead

so take a minute just to breathe
and think of everything you wanted
and what you got instead
is it a labor just to see
around the left or right over my head
just straight ahead

are you waiting for something
'cause there's attention in the air
something unresolved
i can smell it in your hair
so step down, look around
you can leave it all behind
and never hear another sound

say you're holding onto someone
that will never show you the same

so don't say a word
that i wouldn't say
crumble it all
and throw it away
we're just wasting time
we're taking up space
so don't say a word
that i wouldn't say to you

are you breathing for nothing
'cause there's a vision in my eye
something unresolved
i swear it feels like this could die
i can see to a degree
a broken back is only something
if you did it saving me
so you're holding onto nothing
and it's showing all over your face

so don't say a word
that i wouldn't say
just crumble it all
and throw it away
we're just wasting time
we're taking up space
so don't say a word
that i wouldn't say to you, to you

so don't say a word
that i wouldn't say
just crumble it all
and throw it away
we're just wasting time
we're taking up space
so don't say a word
that i wouldn't say to you
that i wouldn't say to you
that i wouldn't say to you

we've been here before
we'll be here again
so go on and rest your head
before you lose it again
we're leaning on each other
or at least i can pretend
that we didn't lose it all again

it could have been different
it could have all been saved
and now i'm standing at your front door, singing

when everything's the same and nothing ever changes
will you fall back into me
you see, everything's estranged
a million empty faces
so will you fall back into me

congratulations
you left me a little jaded and rejected
and so i lost it again
you chew me
you throw away
as i continue to pretend
that we didn't lose it all again

i guess it's never different
i guess it's all the same
so now i'm bloodied by my fists clenched, swinging

when everything's the same and nothing ever changes
will you fall back into me
you see, everything's estranged
a million empty faces
so will you fall back into me

i was a name across your lips
it's time to spit me out
i played the game when my heart rips
it's time to hear me out

when everything's the same and nothing ever changes
will you fall into me
you see, everything's estranged
a million empty faces
so will you fall back into me

we're leaning on each other
or at least i can pretend
that we didn't lose it all again

all again
lose it all again

two steps removed from everything i thought i knew
there's no remedy
i see your face in every single thing i do
you've changed me

your laugh, intoxicating
one touch and i'm negating everything around
take me and i'm yours
i only want you anymore
i kiss the ground

if you want to know the truth
you make or break my day
if you want to know the truth
i wouldn't have it any other way

i rest my head from running circles round my mind
on why you let go
no answer to be found
and since there's no rewind
i guess i'll never know
why your answers are devistating
no touch to calm my hating
everyone around
you leave me when i'm yours
'cause you don't want me anymore
i hit the ground, yeah

if you want to know the truth
you make or break my day
if you want to know the truth
i wouldn't have it any other way

if you want to know the truth
you make or break my day
if you want to know the truth
i wouldn't have it any other way

if you want to know the truth
you make or break my day
if you want to know the truth
i wouldn't have it any other way

where did you hide yourself
for these searchlights are growing dim
i know this isn't much to recollect
better now to close this puppet show
and say that it's the end

but for me, could you ready yourself
and hold on for a moment
just for me, could you bury it all
and hold on to this moment

you make me fall forever
with no end in sight
when everything around is broken
could you say that this felt right

you are, for contradiction's sake
everything i remember that i swore i'd forget
your life has served you well
when everyone around has perished from this fire that you've lit
under me

i can ready myself to hold on for a moment
lock and key, try to bury it all
and begin in this moment

you make me fall forever
with no end in sight
when everything around is broken
could you say that this felt right

you make me fall forever
with no end in sight
when everything around is broken
could you say that this felt right

you make me fall forever
with no end in sight
when everything around is broken
could you say that this felt right

say it felt right
say it felt right
say it felt right
say it felt right

i'll see what you want me to see
through rose-colored glasses
i can't see the blood in my hand
now you're over, you're so over
all over my head
i pray to God i find my way back to something familiar
please tear me from this contraband
now it's over, it's so over
it's under my bed

the painting's worn pale
your eyes have started fading
were they ever even really there
nothing to give with everything you take
the cracks in your smile make it impossible
to decipher something legible
your porcelain face and a heart of glass

no time for dependancy
we're going over at lightspeed
no scenery to stimulate
something older, we grow older
but nothing ever seems to change
i pray to God you lose your way
you're something peculiar
on one leg only, i'll still take a stand
i fall over, a tall order
these dolls i need to rearrange

the painting's worn pale
your eyes have started fading
were they ever even really there
nothing to give with everything you take
the cracks in your smile make it impossible
to decipher something legible
your porcelain face and a heart of glass

the painting's worn pale
your eyes have started fading
were they ever even really there
nothing to give with everything you take
the cracks in your smile make it impossible
to decipher something legible
your porcelain face and a heart of glass

a heart of glass, a heart of glass

this countdown to the day of departure is slowly eating away
it's a meltdown
it's a personal torture i never saw coming my way
i try to breathe deep
i try to find sleep
i try holding onto the same old song
just because of a brand new verse

and i found what i always wanted
as she walked away
and i ran aground with this wound untreated
let it wash away

so keep slipping back into me
to try in vain just to pinpoint an answer
i keep tripping on the same damn wire
and no one came tumbling after
call back and reverse
with just this new verse
and i keep holding onto the same tired song
'cause from here it will only get worse

and i found what i always wanted
as she walked away
and i ran aground with this wound untreated
let it wash away

stich me up
and bleed me out
stitch me up
and bleed me out
stitch me up
and bleed me out
stitch me up
and bleed me out

i found what i always wanted
as she walked away
and i ran aground with this wound untreated
let it wash away

i got a happy trigger finger
and i know not to let it linger
this moment is potent
'cause i'm feeling a transition
from the city of tradition
one action, reaction

has it been that long since you opened up your eyes
to look out below
'cause it will hit you when you're not watching
i don't know why you won't let go
so let go

a release of some proportion
the event is set in motion
this white line is defined
so take your hands away from my eyes
'cause you can't escape the sunrise
one action, reaction

has it been that long since you opened up your eyes
to look out below
'cause it will hit you when you're not watching
i don't know why you won't let go
so let go

let it go

has it been that long since you opened up your eyes
to look out below
'cause it will hit you when you're not watching
i don't know why you won't let go
so let go

let go

completely colorblind
these red lights are going unseen
far behind with words
you know they're always unseen
'cause my ears
they bled before
i need to let them heal

she fell out
her broken legs won't let her walk away
from this town that couldn't give a single shit either way
and her fears
they bled before she's convinced that they're real

what are you looking for
are you looking for something more
it's not me, it's not me

lost her way from everything
she swore she knew a friend
run away from start to finish
though it never ends
in her mind
she is blinded by all she sees

close your eyes
just pretend the bullet isn't there
no surprise
no need to pretend that no one really cares
but in her eyes you will find the very best in me

what are you looking for
are you looking for something more
it's not me, it's not me

when did it unwind
are you prepared for what you'll find
it's not me, it's not me

when writing your history
i will always be a footnote
a distant memory
a warning sign of mistakes made
the kind that you learn from

this song is the best of me
taking pills for solemn odium
a better side of me
an open mind for mistakes made
the kind that you burn from

so take this long confession as my price to pay
i've never been the kind to let go
but before you up and walk away
i'm miserable without you, you know
this silver leaves me longing for gold
second places never carry me home (??)
second places never carry me home(??)

this song is so out of key
i'm trying even harder just to even these memories of you
a warning sign of regression
the kind you never learn from

this song is a melody
to show you a little more than a bitter history
an open sky of redemption
the kind you always burn from

so take this long confession as my price to pay
i've never been the kind to let go
but before you up and walk away
i'm miserable without you, you know
this silver leaves me longing for gold
second places never carry me home
second places never carry me home

it never carried me