Dashboard Confessional Album

The sky glows
I see it shining when my eyes close
I hear your warnings but we both know
I'm gonna look at it again

Don't wait, Don't wait
The road is now a sudden sea
And suddenly, you're deep enough
To lay your armor down
To lay your armor down
To lay your armor down

You get one look
I'll show you something that the knive took.
A bit to early for my own good
Now let's not speak of it again

Don't wait, Don't wait
The road is now a sudden sea
And suddenly, you're deep enough
To lay your armor down
To lay your armor down
To lay your armor down

Don't wait, Don't wait
The lights will flash and fade away
The days will pass you by
Don't wait
To lay your armor down [x5]

Oh, sweet lungs don't fail me now.
Your burning has turned into fear.
It drills me in my every step,
I'm moving quick but you're always on my heels.

Just one more breath, I beg you please.
Just one more step, my knees are weak.
My heart is sturdy but it needs you to survive.
My heart is sturdy but it needs you.

Breathe, don't you want to breathe?
I know that you are strong enough to handle what I need.
My capillaries scream there's nothing left to feed on.
My body needs a reason to cross that line.
Will you carry me there one more time?

Steady lungs, don't fail me now.
I feel you bursting but you won't let me die.
Fill me up with every step,
I'm feeling sick but I'm leaving it behind.

Just one more breath, I beg you please.
Just one more step, you are not weak.
My legs are sturdy but they need you to survive.
My heart is sturdy but I need you.

Breathe, don't you want to breathe?
I know that you are strong enough to handle what I need.
My capillaries scream there's nothing left to feed on.
My body needs a reason to cross that line.
Will you carry me there once more?
Once more.

I have reason to believe that I have victories to taste.
I can feel them on my teeth, upon my lips, and in my chest.
I can roll them on my tongue.
They are more subtle than defeat.
I feel the tension in my lungs,
And every move is fueled by my resolve to...

Breathe, don't you want to breathe?
I know that you are strong enough to handle what I need.
My capillaries scream there's nothing left to feed on.
My body needs a reason to cross that line.
Would you carry me there one more time?

The Signal, its subtle
We pass just close enough to touch
No Questions, no Answers
We Know by now to say enough
With only simple words
With only subtle terms
The Things we Feel alone from one another

There Is A Secret That We Keep
I Wont Sleep If You wont Sleep
Because Tonight Might be the last chance well be given
We are compelled to do
What we must do
We are compelled to do
What We have been forbidden
So i wont sleep if you wont sleep tonight

Our act of defiance, we keep this secret in our blood
No paper, Or Letters
We pass just close enough to touch
We love in secret names
We hide in our veins
The Things that keep us bound to one another

There is a secret that we keep
I wont sleep if you wont sleep
Because Tonight Might be the last chance well be given
We are compelled to do
What we must do
We are compelled to do
What We have been forbidden

Until The last resilient hope is frozen deep inside my bones
And this broken fate has cleaned me and my memories for its own
Your name is pounding through my veins, cant you hear how it is sung
And I can taste you in my mouth, while the words escape my lungs
And ill whisper only once

There is a secret that we keep
I wont sleep if you wont sleep
Because Tonight Might be the last chance well be given
We are compelled to do
What we must do
We are compelled to do
What We have been forbidden

Cause you will be somebody's girl
You will keep each other warm
But tonite, I am here in the cold

We watched the season pull up its own stage
And catch the last weekend of the last week.
Before the gold and the glamour have been replaced
Another sun-soaked season fades away.

You have stolen my heart.
You have stolen my heart.

Invitation, all in grand farewells, crushed the best one of the best ones.
Clear liquor and cloudy eye, too early to save the night.

You have stolen my heart.
You have stolen my heart.

And from the ballroom floor we are in celebration, one good stretch before our
hibernation.
Our dreams assured, and we all, we'll sleep well.

Sleep well, sleep well, sleep well, sleep well.

You have stolen my, you have stolen, you have stolen my heart.

Watch it spin around to the highest peels, you are the best one of the best
ones.
We all look like we feel.

You have stolen my, you have stolen my, you have stolen my heart.

The first time you looked at her curves
You were hooked
And the glances you took
Took hold of you and demanded that you stay.
And sunk in their teeth
Bit your heart and released.
Such a charge that you need
Another touch, another taste, another fix

She just might get you lost.
And she just might leave you torn.
But she just might save your soul
And she gets you when she
She gets you any closer.

She leads you up
Points out skylines and stars.
Steeple chases in bars and took your keys
And demanded that you stay
The city longs well for
Rooftops and invitations
All laced in secret places
She moves you to touch with her hands

And she just might get you lost.
And she just might leave you torn.
But she just might save your soul
And she gets you when she
She gets you any closer.

Can you believe your eyes

(featuring Adam Duritz of Counting Crows)

Hand out the window
Floatin' on air
Just a flip of the wrist
I'd be wavin' you goodbye

Drive past the lifeguard stand
Where I sit around waiting for you to remember
Well past the beach hotels
Where the girls are getting' bronzed on their monogrammed towels

I drive this ocean road
And I remember

How the girls could turn to ghosts before your eyes
And the very dreams that led to them are keeping them from dying
And how the grace with which she walked into your life
Will stay with you in your steps,
Paced with you a while
So long, so long [x2]

The speaker in this door is blown
So nothing sounds quite right
And I drive this ocean road
And remember
The small of your back
And the nape of your neck
And the soft way you'd hold me in the night

I remember

How the girls can turn to ghosts before your eyes
And the very dreams that led to them are keeping them from dying
And how the grace with which she walked into your life
Will stay with you in your steps,
Pace with you a while
So long, so long...

And I will leave under the cover
Of summer's kiss upon the sky
Like the storm face of your lover
Just before she says goodbye
I was thinking that the season could be held between my arms
But just as summer's hold is fleeting
I was here and now I'm gone
I'm gone...

The air is visible around you,
Rising up and off your lips in slow currents.
And I watch as your face is framed in it's slow currents.
Drifting curls, a trailing path,
A long drag becomes a tress of blue and ash.

If it is born in flames then we should let it burn.
Burn as brightly as we can.
And if it's going to end then let it end in flames.
Let it burn all the way down.

The air is visceral around us,
Turning in it's circle steps on slow currents.
And I watch as it pirouettes and spins in slow motion.
A long drag becomes a slow dance in a halo of ember.

If it is born in flames then we should let it burn.
Burn as brightly as we can.
And if it's going to end then let it end in flames.
Let it burn all the way down.
All the way down.

And if this is ever meant to end,
Then I hope it ends where it began.
So hot with love, we burned our hands.
If this ever meant to end,
Then I hope it ends where it began.
So hot with love, it burns our hands.

If it is born in flames then we should let it burn.
Burn as brightly as we can.
And if it's going to end then let it end in flames.
Let it burn.

Let it burn,
If it's going to end.
Let it burn,
If it's going to end.
Let it burn,
It ends where it began,
So hot with love, it burns our hands.

Stand down, son
Start resting easy
You've done your service
I am proud to have you home
And see you safe
It's so good
You look so strong
In that picture on the mantel
You sent your mom when you were gone
But you look scared now,
Hollow-eyed
When are you coming
When are you coming

Back where you belong
I swear that it's safe here
Theres nothing to fear at all
Come on back where you belong
The pressure releases
If you just put down your gun

Everything rests on you
You know that feeling well
The ball is falling
Falling
Falling
So far from a close call
Your injuries aren't mortal wounds
The only thing that's killing you
Is what you saw and what you couldn't stop
But you're not the one I blame
It wasn't your mistake
But you're safe now so come on

Back where you belong
I swear that it's safe here
Theres nothing to fear at all
Come on back where you belong
The pressure releases
If you just put down your gun

It's the simple things Dad,
I'm not hurt
I'm not dead
I just should be where my friends are lying
And I didn't hate those that I killed
But they're all dead now
And I'm here alive
With satellites
And Friday nights
And no one to judge me
For the things that I've done at all
So how can I live with that

Back where I belong

Take me back where I belong
You swear that it's safe here
There is nothing to fear at all
Take me back where I belong
The pressure releases
If I just put down my gun

She smiled in a big way, the way a girl like that smiles when the world is hers.
And she held your eyes out in the breeze way down by the shore in the lazy
summer.

And she pulled you in and she bit your lip
and she made you hers. She looked deep into you as you laid together, quiet in
the grasp of dusk and summer.

But you've already lost
But you've already lost
But you've already lost when you only have barely enough to hang on.

And she combed your hair and she kissed your teeth
And she made you better than you've been before.
And she told you bad things you wished you could change in the lazy summer.

And she told you laughing down to her core
So she would not cry as she lay in your lap
And she said, "Nobody here can live forever," quiet in the grasp of dusk and
summer.

But you've already lost, but you've already lost
But you've already lost when you only have barely enough to hang on.

And she said, "No one is alone the way you are alone."
And you held her looser than you would have if you ever could have known.
Some things tie a life together, you slendered threads and things to treasure.

Days like that should last and last and last.

But you've already lost, but you've already lost
But you've already lost when you only have barely enough of her to hang on.

Hang on. hang on. hang on.

We are the only ones who feel it
Tonight we drink
Tonight we dance
We are the last ones who can hear it
We're calling in whispers
We're tired of waiting
We'll take what we want
And we'll leave what we don't behind
We are still dreamers in our dead sleep
Naked and tangled
Twisted and loving tonight
We are the only ones who feel it
So let it last all night

Let the fire surround us
Let it all cave in
Let it all burn wild
We are leaving it all behind
We are leaving it all behind

Heaven is here
Heaven is here
Heaven is here

We are tangled and brave
We are naked and saved
And heavens not waiting
Its spilling its secrets
Its right here between us
And we've no other choice but believe
We've no other choice but believe
We've no other choice but believe
So let it last all night
So let it last all night
So let it last all night

Naked and
Tangled and
Twisted
And tonight we are the only ones who feel it

Heaven is here
Heaven is here

And tonight we are the only ones who feel it

[Note: This is the hidden track before "Don't Wait". It can be found by re-winding the first track on the cd.]

Yeah I try to write it out, not sure what I recall
I can’t tell if it’s memory or story telling now
It happened very quickly but it seemed to last for hours
And everything was crisp and clean till all came crashing down

So much fire and debris that I was nearly blind with panic,
and there was no one anywhere to turn to be saved
from the tyranny and cavalcade. And all use was lost.

And the more that I would struggle, the more that I became entwined
And the thickets & the thorns became my flesh and I was vine.
Creeping deep into the pavement, breaking ground as I grew fast
To the center of the city and up again where I did gasp
in the air or the breeze and I was still alive with a start

And there were people everywhere to behold and admire
And I longed to be one of them and though I was lost
I felt familiar with my surroundings, though they didn’t look quite right
Like someplace that I had been before, under cover of night.
And I found my way by light of day to the center of a crowd
and told them I was one of them and begged them for their help.
And with stones they took their aim, and I knew I would die at their hands
Where I was crowned a heretic to be loathed and set fire and laid upon a pyre of fire

And as I cast my eyes to the sky I felt your touch,
so gentle and so soothing that I knew I had been saved,
but my movements were so labored and my will had been betrayed
But my lips they were collop now and to them I am enslaved.
And the slightest indiscretions that I made were met with rage
And I burned to be free and then you rescued me
with your voice and beckoned me beside you and your touch was alive.
Sensational and vibrant and with care and your words

You say “A secret is a stealthy thing, you cannot know its plans.
You were only dreaming, dear, and now you’re here with me again.”
You ask if I’d account to you the spirit of my night
And you handed me this pad and this pen with which to write.
While it’s fresh in your mind.
Before it gets away
Before it gets away
Before it gets away
Before it gets away…

from Spider-Man 2 movie soundtrack

Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of it has caught my eye

And roped me in
So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing
I am captivated

{Chorus}
I am Vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
I swear I knew it all along

And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself

So clear
Like the diamond in your ring
Cut to mirror your intentions
Oversized and overwhelmed
The shine of which has caught my eye

And rendered me
So isolated, so motivated
I am certain now that

{Chorus}

So turn
Up the corners of your lips
Part them and feel my finger tips
Trace the moment, fall forever
Defense is paper thin
Just one touch and I'd be in
Too deep now to ever swim against the current
So let me slip away (3x)
So let me slip against the current
So let me slip away (4x)

{Chorus}

Slight hope
It dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption...