Saving Jane Album

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Pat Buzzard, Kris Misevski, and Dak Goodman

It's too late to say you're sorry
You've been gone from here too long
I hope you found what you were missing
Cause I don't miss you here at all

And it's too bad that I'm not crying for you baby,
Don't be sad, cause I've been fine without you lately

I'm saving my breath
I'm saving my tears
I'm saving my life for something
Better than these years
I've lost too much time
Crying over you
Don't look so surprised that I've
Got better things to do
Who's cryin now?

There's so many nights I wasted
I was waiting for your call
Did you think I'd wait forever?
I guess you don't know me at all

And I told you if you left you would regret it
Thinking I would take you back, but you don't get it

There's something you should know
I finally let you go
It had to end somehow
Tell me who's cryin now

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Brian Lovely, Chris Arduser

Filling up my empty days with red wine
Wonder what you think of me?
Lying in the grass alone and wasted
Nothing's how it used to be

I wanna be the first to call and tell you
Yesterday I heard the news
I hear you oughtta be congratulated
So I guess that's what I'll do

I'm so happy for you
I could cry
Yeah, I'm so elated
Cross my heart and hope to die
I don't think about you every night
Before I close my eyes
I'm so happy for you baby,
I could cry.

Listen to the sound of my head pounding
Wish that it was make-believe
Praying for the skies to open up and
Wash away your memory

I can walk around with a pretty face on
Even when I'm black and blue
What's the point in telling everybody
I'm not over you.

I'm so happy for you
I could cry
Yeah, I'm so elated
Cross my heart and hope to die
I don't think about you every night
Before I close my eyes
I'm so happy for you baby,
I could cry.

Cry about the love we used to have
Cry that I won't ever get you back

Filling up my empty days with red wine
Wonder what you think of me?

I'm so happy for you
I could cry
Yeah, I'm so elated
Cross my heart and hope to die
I'm so happy for you
So, so happy for you
I don't think about you every night
Before I close my eyes
I'm so happy for you baby,
I could cry.

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Pat Buzzard, Kris Misevski, Dak Goodman, Jeremy Martin

Small town homecoming queen
She's a star in this scene
There's no way to deny she's lovely
Perfect skin, perfect hair
Perfumed hearts everywhere
Tell myself that inside she's ugly

Maybe I'm just jealous-I can't help but hate her
Secretly I wonder if my boyfriend wants to date her

She is the prom queen, I'm in the marching band
She is a cheerleader, I'm sitting in the stands
She gets the top bunk, I'm sleeping on the floor
She's Miss America
And I'm just the girl next door

Senior class president
She must be heaven sent
She was never the last one standing
A backseat debutante
Everything that you want
Never too harsh or too demanding

Maybe I'll admit it, I'm a little bitter
Everybody loves her, but I just wanna hit her…

Chorus

I don't know why I'm feeling sorry for myself
Spend all my time wishing that I was someone else

Chorus
I get a little bit, she gets a little more
She's Miss America
And I'm just the girl next door

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Pat Buzzard, Kris Misevski, Dak Goodman, and Jeremy
Martin

I guess I've just been lucky all this time
Somehow all my demons came out fine
Took for granted everything He gave
Forgetting He could take it all away

Don't leave me hanging on the edge of what is real
I'm losing sight of all that I'm supposed to feel
Paint it gray, make the monster go away
I'm out of things to say and I can't
Change you anyway

I wish that I could give you everything
Sunlight on the shadows that you bring
No one else can make you see the light
I don't know how to make you feel all right

Chorus

And I don't know why
I didn't ask you for the sky

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Kris Misevski, Pat Buzzard, Jeremy Martin, and Dak
Goodman

In the company of strangers I am less than fine
I am turning into wallpaper before your eyes
Somehow I always end up on the wrong side of this fight
One day I will get it right

And I am not so hollow
I have nothing left for you to borrow
Maybe it's not too late
For me to fly
Maybe you underestimated me
And now it's time
Cause I am tired of this fire
And I don't need your reasons why

No more choking on regrets to keep you satisfied
I am coming up for air out of this heavy night
Oh, the scenery is different when you're not so small
I think I can take this fall
I am not so hollow
I have nothing left to borrow

Chorus

Light up the sky for me, oh I've been down too long
And when you turn your eyes to see me, I'll be gone

Chorus

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Kris Misevski, Pat Buzzard, Dak Goodman, and Jeremy
Martin

City lights shine down upon the place that I call home
Surrounded by a million but I feel like I'm alone
And I might be a nobody to you
But if I'm playing, would you listen?
If you would get to know me
Maybe you would love me
I'm so ordinary

Dragging ‘round an old guitar that I can't even play
I fade into your background like a piece of yesterday
I might be a nobody to you
But somewhere they're gonna listen

If you would get to know me
Maybe you would love me
I'm so ordinary
And if you would let me know you
Maybe I would show you
Wouldn't we be something?

Sad the way we always seem to pass by one another
Hiding, so afraid of the things we might discover
Caught up in a moment that only you can live in
You never know who's giving the air that you might breathe in

Chorus

City lights shine down upon the place that I call home
Surrounded by a million but I feel like I'm alone
And I might be a nobody to you
But somewhere, they're gonna listen

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Kris Misevski, Pat Buzzard, Dak Goodman, and Jeremy
Martin

I hope you don't mind me saying
I think you're so lovely
I hope you don't mind me staying
Cause I might never leave
We could rewind to nothing
And start at the beginning
Don't forget to breathe

Chorus:
Baby, I don't have much
But I've got more than enough to keep you
Isn't it nice to touch
Something solid you can cling to?
Baby, I promise you this
You don't know just what you're missing
I've got everything you're wanting
Maybe we could sleep on it tonight.

I didn't mean to alarm you
Subtlety's my weakness
Give me a minute to charm you
And you'll know what I mean
Maybe I didn't mention
You won't regret my attention
I've got tricks you've never seen

Chorus

Bridge:
Now that it's all out on the table,
Come and get it
You better love me while you're able

Chorus x2

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Pat Buzzard, Dak Goodman, Jeremy Martin, Joe Cochran,
Mike Unger

This is when the ink stops flowing
This is when my head starts going
This is when I just can't get it out
This is when the hits keep comin'
Just when I think I'm on to something
This is when the bottom bottoms out

I promise good enough for you
Then I never keep it
I pace the floor at night when all the pretty world is sleeping
And all the world is sleeping

When the lights go down and the girls are screaming,
Don't Stop Now.
Then I catch my breath and my heart is beating and all I'm thinking is
Don't Stop Now.

This is when my hands are shaking
This is when the rules are breaking
This is when the music plays too loud
This is when it's now or never
When it goes from bad to better,
This is when it all makes sense somehow

I promise good enough for you
And pray that I can keep it
And all the world is watching
While I'm open-mouthed and dreaming

I promise good enough for you
And find that I can keep it
And all the world is right with me
And all we are is breathing

When the lights go down and the girls are screaming,
Don't Stop Now.
Then I catch my breath and my heart is beating and all I'm thinking is
Don't Stop Now.

This is when the ink starts flowing
This is where my heart is going
This is when my hands belong to You.

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Kris Misevski, Pat Buzzard, Dak Goodman, and Jeremy
Martin

Little Miss Mary Sunshine had a bad day
She says it's overrated, living this way
She took her hair down, left her sweater on the floor
She's not a nice girl anymore

She says I won't apologize
Stand up girls, and dry your eyes
And I'll see you on the other side of good

Where we sing

She paints her fingernails in black, she's on the run
On the wrong side of the tracks where life is fun
Points a finger, but there's nobody to blame
All the people in her memory look the same

Chorus

Everybody's favorite girl
Doesn't fake it anymore
I'm okay with who I am today
Everybody's gotta change
I'm just doing what I can
Could you love me anyway?

Chorus

Little Miss Mary Sunshine had a bad day
She says it's overrated, living this way

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson, Pat Buzzard, & Joe Cochran

Words fall out of my mouth
And I can't seem to trace what I'm saying
Everybody wants your time
I'm just dreaming out loud,
I can't have you for mine and I know it
I just wanna watch you shine.

Tripping up on my tongue,
It's all over my face and I'm racing
Gotta get away from you
Burning all the way home,
Try to put it to bed but it chases
Every little thing I do

When the light falls on your face,
Don't let it change you
When the stars get in your eyes,
Don't let them blind you.

You're beautiful
Just the way you are
And I love it all
Every line, and every scar
And I wish that I could make you see
This is where you ought to be,
Come down to me.

Spell it out in a song,
Bet you never catch on to my weakness
I'm singing every word for you.
Here I'm thinking I'm sly
Then you're catching my eye, and just maybe
You're thinking what I'm thinking too

When you see it on my face,
Don't let it shake you
I know better than to try and
Take you with me.

Lyrics & Music by Marti Dodson

We were 17 and on our own
When we hit the gas for the great unknown
I was named for a boy, she was named for the fall
And nothing much else really mattered at all

I knew what happened on her kitchen floor
And she knew what it meant when I wrote on the door
Secrets spilled into that dark
And everyone was a piece of my heart

It's a lullaby
It's a beautiful life
And it sings me to sleep most every night
So I hold it close
And I hide it away
That's how I keep it from going astray
Love doesn't need a rhyme or a reason to be
This is the story of Autumn and me.

We grew up fast in a few short years
And we littered the path with the tracks of our tears
But we carved our names in the proverbial wall
And nothing much else really matters at all

We earned every line in our 25 years
We cried over boys and we laughed over beers
I wouldn't trade the girl for a song
She lets me know right where I belong

Rooftop dancing in the summer heat
New car crash on a one way street
Strangers moving up to the fourth floor
Strange, now nobody knows me more

It's a lullaby
It's a beautiful life
And it sings me to sleep most every night
So I hold it close
And I hide it away
That's how I keep it from going astray
Love doesn't need a rhyme or a reason to be
This is the story of Autumn and me.

Lyrics by Marti Dodson
Music by Marti Dodson and Pat Buzzard

My hair's a wreck
Mascara runs
My feet get dirty and my skin burns in the sun
My lips, they bleed
But I still sing my songs
Takes me a minute to admit it when I'm wrong

Pretty is as pretty does, but pretty's not my thing...

This is what you get
This is who I am
Take me now or leave me
Any way you can
Sometimes I trip and fall
But I know where I stand
If you're thinking about changing my direction,
Why mess with imperfection?

My back is weak
But my will is true
Got good intentions but I never follow through
And I say too much
Don't know when to leave
In case you're looking, that's my heart there on my sleeve

Ego trips and stupid slipups, I'm a mess but...

Chorus

Scratched and bruised, a little used, but baby I work fine
You might call me damaged goods, but I'm one of a kind

My hair's a wreck
No, I'm not perfect but I'm not the only one...