Guster Album

Standing on a building
I’m a lightning rod
And all these clouds are so familiar
Descending from the mountain tops
The gods are threatening
That I will return an honest soldier

Standing on this high rise
Like every lighting rod
And all these clouds are boiling over
Swimming in adrenaline
The sky is caving in
But I will remain the honest soldier

Shining like a work of art
Hanging on a wall of stars
Are you what I think you are?

You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite

Elevator to the moon
Just a little favorite tune
Trying to get a closer view

You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite

Maybe you will always be
Just a little out of reach

You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite
You're my satellite

Bones are broken and the will is sunk
how did everything get so fucked up?
Do you want to change your mind?
You can always changer your mind

you and I could hit this scene
build a town and then secede
like an Adam and an Eve
Cause to the dreamers go the dreams
but the leaders have the lead
it's a frightening, frightening thing

Born to the land of opportunity
of manifest destiny
Do you want to change your mind?
You can always changer your mind

you and I could hit this scene
build a town and then secede
like an Adam and an Eve
Cause to the dreamers go the dreams
but the leaders have the lead
it's a frightening, frightening thing

the moon and the stars are ganging up on the sun
rebellion!

Everybody the sky is falling down
friends and lovers the world is coming down
down
down down

I built a time machine
I'm going to see the homecoming queen
Take her to the Christmas dance
Maybe now I'll get in her pants
Whatever

Back with my high school friends
Meeting where the train tracks end
Passing round a skinny joint
Rolling up to Lookout Point

I want to pull it apart and put it back together
I want to relive all my adolescent dreams
Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine

Back in my parents' house
Back to the shouting out loud
One day you'll be a man
One day you'll understand

I want to pull it apart and put it back together
I want to relive all my adolescent dreams
Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine

Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine

Here in the present tense
Nothing is making sense
Waiting for my moment to come
Everything has come undone

I tried to pull it apart and put it back together
No point in living in those adolescent dreams
Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine

Inspired by true events on movie screens
I am a one man wrecking machine

i've come down with something
i'm frozen tied up cast in lead
it's simple so says the captain
face forward, move slow, forge ahead

i'm earning a reputation
my conscience, mistrust and regret
courageous just like the captain
marching forward with no doubt in his head

onward! (x4)

Welcome you're under control
and buried like a mole
1000 feet below

waiting we're all that we've got
our reputation's shot
a 90 story fall

no one here can make a sound
we're all just ghosts in this town
we are standing in the trenches of the new underground

pipe down stay under control it's getting so absurd
soon everything will turn

it's our time to see the sun
there'll be a crack and our day will come
maybe then we'll be the ones
you never can be sure the shot heard round the world

no one here can make a sound
we're all just ghosts in this town
we are standing in the trenches of the new underground

no one here can make a sound
we're all just ghosts in this town
we are standing in the trenches of the new underground
and the walls are coming down
we're still hanging around
we are digging in the trenches of the new underground

Tonight
Where do we go from here?
The road through Ruby Falls has reached the end
And now we're digging in the sand
They're promising that help is on the way

Love, confession number one
Impossible and sorry
And judge, can you look the other way?
Some things are best unsaid

And now where can we go from here
When all the morning birds have gone away
Two wrongs won't navigate tonight
The afterlife is all in the end
The afterlife is ours in the end

Love, don't look me in the eye
Just wash it all down
And judge, can you let me run away
We're outta here, straight outta here

Somewhere down buried in the sand
Two birds give out a song
And all of Ruby Falls is singin' along

Sing along...

(...gone and turned away (?))
(...gonna make you pay (?))

I look out of my bedroom window pane
every day but the view just stays the same
I was young I would run straight from this place
come back home and then start it all again

I know just what I want I know just what I need
it's a big old house and it's coming back to haunt me
we'll be all right we'll be easy
don't look back don't look back just c'mon
c'mon c'mon

look around at the people in this place
I'm afraid that we'll end up the same way
so let's rise, dye or hair and change our names
make a wish and just blow it all away

I know just what I want I know just what I need
it's a big old house and it's coming back to haunt me
we'll be all right we'll be easy
don't look back don't look back just c'mon
c'mon c'mon

We'll be all right we'll be easy
don't look back don't look back just c'mon
c'mon c'mon
'cause you know what you want so c'mon
c'mon c'mon

Been the crawl of a mountain
Been a link in a chain
Been scolded for stealin'
Been told to behave

Been readin' the forecast
Somethin's coming this way
But it's takin' forever
I'm too tired to maintain that
I'm slow

Been a scratch on the surface
Been a clog in the drain
Been melodramatic
Been sleepin' for days

Been one in a million
Been a million to one
This is takin' forever
Always seems to return that
I'm slow

All hands up, salute the Empire State
Faith be true, you know the way
Ten feet tall in this: an empty space
Fallen walls all around
Destroyed again
Destroyed again

Been diggin' to China
Been a fish in the sea
Been talkin' to Jesus
But he's not talkin' to me

Been readin' the forecast
Something's coming this way
But it's taken forever
And I've already maintained that
I'm slow

All hands up, salute the Empire State
Faith is true, she knows the way
Ten miles tall in this: an empty space
Fallen walls all around
We'll build again
Rebuild again

Been the crawl of a mountain
Been a link in a chain
Been scolded for stealin'
Been carted away

As I fall asleep to black and white T.V.
Fly far way in recurring dream
each winter drains electricity
there are words to say there are songs to sing
but I can hardly speak at all

Home I'm on my way to a holiday in real time
float hold my own weight say we'll be ok
dear valentine

Now quietly peek across the street
perfectly kept perfectly neat
but it's not complete no not at all

Home I'm on my way to a holiday in real time
float hold my own weight say we'll be ok
dear valentine

We're not sentimental
We're just oil-filled machines
Trying not to say the things we mean
You gotta show us a little love

Our big brother tells us
That it's something in our genes
Pretty soon we'll all be coming clean
Gotta show us a little skin

I'm the judge and jury
I'm the lion and the lamb
This is the beginning of the end
It's breaking you down
We're breaking you down

We're unrecognizable
We're sunken submarines
Trying to escape before we're seen
You're gonna miss us when we're gone

I'm the judge and jury
I'm the lion and the lamb
This is the beginning of the end
We're breaking you down
We're breaking you down

Maybe someone's writing chapters for us while we sleep
from million miles away

stuck without a captain or a chart
no one seems to know just who to follow anymore

hang on hang on
there's a twilight a nighttime and a dawn
who knows how long
just hang on
hang on

If we fell inside a forest would it make a sound
it doesn't seem there's anyone around
days are so long we carry on but still don't understand
we're a million miles away

Stuck without a captain or a chart
no one seems to know just who to follow anymore

hang on hang on
there's a twilight a nighttime and a dawn
who knows how long
just hang on
hang on

Hang on Hang on
when all is shattered when all your hope is gone
who knows how long
just hang on
hang on

Hang on Hang on
when all is shattered when all your hope is gone
who knows how long
there's a twilight a nighttime and a dawn
we break we bend
with hand in hand
when hope is gone
just hang on
hang on