Kina Grannis Album

Your picture on the wall is moving by the wind
The fan is turned up high im frozen to the bone
And yet I lack the effort
and cannot stand to go and turn it off

Its nights like these i'm not distracted by the sounds
I sit for hours in a chair inside my head
Theres one more in the attic
and if I brought it down you think you'd like to join me tonight?

and so my dreams they fill me up
they bring me down and dry me up
when im with you though I've smiling eyes
I know I only have so long before the sun will rise

A quiet slumber creeps across me I am taken
I feel so unrehearsed i'm walking all alone
And when the light is fading
Im not surprised to see none other than your own

and so my dreams they fill me up
they bring me down and dry me up
when im with you though I've smiling eyes
I know I only have so long before the sun will rise

Ive been waiting for this parallel universe to traverse the distance from mind to matter
Let it be for real
Let me know my future
Let me be free
Let me be at ease
Please

Pretty please

and so my dreams they fill me up
they bring me down and dry me up
when im with you though I've smiling eyes
I know I only have so long before the sun will rise

I was down by the water
And I was so scared
So frightened by the crashing waves

And you were right there beside me
And you were so prepared, so unafraid
You we laughing in the rain

CHORUS:
Why can't we be each other's wings?
Carrying each other away from unfortunate things
We were there when it mattered
And that is all we need to carry us away
So why can't we fly?
Why can't we fly away from uncertainties?
Why can't we fly?
Why can't I?

You always knew what you needed
And I was so unsure
It shook the ground I walked upon
So understandingly, you stepped away
To give me a little time to look around, catch my breath
I don't want to walk alone
I want to walk together with you now

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Why can't I?
I've been roaming for so long
It's been a while since these clouds have been lifted
Why can't I leave it all behind?
Just rise above it all
And fly

I was down by the water
And I was so scared

Wish I couldn't come
Wish I would and then id crawl to the morning sun
Wish I'd never never come so far and than I stopped
If I could not and I fall down
Would I fall down
Would we fall down?

We liked to say
We would never come undone
Breathe it in breath out
can you breathe I know I can not now

Wish I hadn't spoke
Wish I did but I made sense or I did not fear
Wish we'd never never grown so close that we could fall
fallen apart, and if it was lost
Would I be lost
Would we be lost?

We liked to say
We would never come undone
Breathe it in breath out
can you breathe I know I can not now

Many nights I've spent replaying the day
Would you listen to what I have to tell you now you're gone
And I'm missing it

We liked to say
We would never come undone
Breathe it in breath out
can you breathe I know I can not now

Some days, I'm only moved by the wind
I look around, but nothing stirs me within
And I wonder, am I the only one to see
This quiet time as such a comfortable thing

Some days, I'm only fueled by my mistakes
I turn around and slyly try to hide my face
I feel as though
I have to think everything through
I don't know how I am to act or how to move

CHORUS:
When it's over, I feel as though it were a dream
And I wake up
Again, I'm new to everything

Some days, there's not a way to bring me down
I'm floating up in the clouds to get around
I think back to other times and wonder how
It was possible to not have felt as I do now

CHORUS

Every day's another way to feel
It's your own decision what is real
So try them out, all the different ways to play the game
And work it out, try not to want to be the same

CHORUS

Be it broken down or beaten up is what you'll have to offer
And not a moment short of time is like a medicine
They say it heals all wounds are deep and painful, I don't buy it
But I would sell it to you for a decent price

Never would I fall too short of expectations not expected
And never should you take to heart whatever I just said
A little birdie told me something
Really, birds don't talk, but his chirp was nice
I think I gathered what he meant

CHORUS:
What's said is not always what is meant
Breathing this fire, leaves me with no desire to be read

Reading books, I've found my eyes, they like to wander off the pages
To play with many things impertinent to my mind
Sometimes I like to sleep, it's cool, but it is overrated
I'd rather just be singing nonsense through the night

CHORUS

Eighteen years behind me, many more to come, I am excited
I hope I didn't jinx myself, please knock on wood for me
Or write a letter to a friend, tell them it's time to listen
To what I'm saying, but it's not said, don't let it get into your head

BRIDGE:
Just when you thought that you were sane
Like clever convicts, they came running, escaping from your brain
These words, they trickled out these fickle conversations so concerned
With rationale, I don't know how, but I think I am done for now

CHORUS

I always say these things, these theories
I sound so wise, but see, these eyes are crying
It doesn't take too much to make yourself sound rational
But there are things that simple words cannot control

Whenever I run, I'm bound up and shackled
By a sovereign mind
Whenever I'm lost, it's my own intention
And I'm left behind

When I was a child, my future was nothing
But a game I played
But that time is here and things aren't pretend now
But I'm learning how

'Cause I've seen it end
And I've seen a friend go by
No monsters were here, but I know real fear
And what it is to cry

Reach out for love
Reach out for love
Can't you see I can't sleep and I'm calling
For love?

I always say these things, these theories
I sound so wise, but see, these eyes are crying
It doesn't take too much to make yourself sound rational
But there are things that simple words cannot control

I have been wandering and wondering
Oh, and I could not remember a time when you sounded so sad, sad
And I can't become the one who'll make you happy again
I have been talking with people at night
At night, people have told me that you've been looking my way
Why can't I see through the dark aura you cast every time?

I wish for a time when my soul would not fall
I have been wandering, watching, and wondering
If you, you will be with me tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
I, why have I been out wandering through people?

Getting older, lying alone
You would think that I have been lonely
But you have no idea
You cling to me with my forgiving call and I wonder
Why I cannot venture to guess why I'm looking so down on myself
I have been wandering, wandering, and wondering

I hide my face I'm trying harder than you'd ever know and
I can't help whats wrong, you've found your light
And no I, I can't fall down
Wherever we were lost, you've returned from but I have not been found

And you're running away from what's here
But what you've found is not another place or year
And you're running away from what's real
Ignoring your past and what you feel

When darkness falls I feel we're led by separate powers and I know
You see much more than stars above
And yet your smile still fades
I noticed as you're trailing blindly behind an absent hand you made

And you're running away from what's here
But what you've found is not another place or year
And you're running away from what's real
Ignoring your past and what you feel

And not 10 minutes before crushing metal blinding lights
And fire he had raised his eyes to the icon on the dashboard and he said
"Is it enough for me to live in theory?" sipping down his sorrow he set the bottle down, having never thought this life was for himself

Cause he was running away from what's here
And what he found was not another place or year
He was running away from what we feel
Never giving himself the chance to live for real

Watch me fall, watch me fall down...
There's an aching in my skin
I wanna get out, wanna get out
Out of mind
Out of time
Into you

They say, "People grow, let it go
Time will heal your bleeding wounds"
But I don't think it's gonna work out that easy
I'll be missing you