Lifehouse Album

Too many voices, It won't take long 
Which one's right, which one's wrong 
Yours is most likely to be misunderstood 
Screaming in tongues 
On the top of my lungs 
'Til i find you, 'Til you found me 
Somehow i always knew that you would 
And i am contemplating matters 
All this cling and clatter 
In my head, and what you said 
Is ringing, ringing faster 
And it's all good if you would 
Stop the world from making sense 
And if i could just realize 
It doesn't really matter 
It doesn't really matter 
It doesn't really matter 
If i could touch 
The sound of silence now 
You know i would if i knew how 
To make these intentions 
Come around 
I'm hearing without listening 
And believing every word 
You are not saying 
Speaking without a sound 
Trapped inside 
Of these four walls 
Walking brainless muppet dolls 
Mushroom face 
Beneath the tangles 
Bleeding silhouette inside 
Dancing like an angel would

This doubt is screaming in my face in this familiar place, 
Sheltered and concealed
And if this night won't let me rest 
Don't let me second guess what I know to be real 
Put away all I know for tonight 
And maybe I just might learn to let it go 
Take my security from me and maybe finally I won't have to know everything 
I am falling into grace to the unknown to where you are
And faith makes everybody scared it's the unknown, 
The don't-know that keeps me hanging on to you 
I got nothing left to defend 
I cannot pretend that everything makes sense 
But does it really matter now if I do not know how to figure this thing out 
I am against myself again trying to fit these pieces in walking on a cloud of dust to get to you

Seems my own arrogance has knocked me off my feet again
When you know I'm crawling to you as fast as I can
First teach me to walk
And then I'll learn to dance for you
Like an honest clumsy clown
Tripping along the way

Cause I am reaching for you
But my arms aren't long enough
And I am running to you
If I could go a little faster
And I am crying to you
But I can't hear my own voice
And I am waiting for you
And trying not to fall asleep now

(Chorus)
Cause I am clumsily dancing away this fear
I am stumbling closer to you and I am
Tumbling over my pride
I will be a fool for you

What are you thinking as you look down on me
Are you frustrated with my inconsistency
Or intrigued that I can find the will to get back up or
Maybe all of this is simply amusing

Cause I am reaching for you
But my arms aren't long enough
And I am running to you
If I could go a little faster
And I am crying to you
But I can't hear my own voice
And I am waiting for you
And trying not to fall asleep now

(Repeat chorus 3 times)

Forget about the fight to wear the crown of scars
Cause you've already won
Forget the pain and the tears behind you
Bury underneath your feet the remains
Of what's been left behind
Cause you have got a long, a long way to run

But now you dance the rest of the way
And you don't look back
Can you hear the angel singing
As you rise

Now you fly away
And you don't look down
And you laugh till you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground

Will you fall against the wall that you have built with your own hands
When you trip upon the thorns that you have tied your legs together with
When you walk upon thin ice that you know you should not be walking
Why do you wonder why that you fell through 

Now you fly away
And you don't look down
And you laugh till you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground 

I know you laugh
And show tears
Smile down at your fears
From where you are
From way up here
You know nothing's ever looked so good
Nothing ever looked so good 

But now you dance the rest of the way
You don't look back
Can you hear that angel singing
As you rise


Now you fly away
And you don't look down
And you laugh till you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground 

Now you fly away
And you don't look down
And you laugh till you can't laugh any longer
As you watch your chains fall to the ground

Nothing but a mudpie 
Wrapped up inside with a pretty bow 
Nothing but a castle built on top a swamp of quicksand
And inside these cardboard walls and saran wrapped windows
There's a rusty pot of fool's gold
That you got with your life

Are you tired...(?)of loyalties
How you taught yourself to walk like royalty
Until the day you became his praise
You tripped over your incumbent
You wash your hair in that luca oil
Then you wrap your head up with tin foil
And prance around in your bathrobe
Pretending your a king 

Just spinning home
Sinking faster now
well you can follow your rainbows
and I will follow the sun now 
wherever he goes
it's not to far to run
so I will follow the sun
follow the sun

Nothing but a calendar hanging on your wall
it's 23 years old
Nothing but a for sale sign 
on a house that's already sold
trying to chew through
that chocolate covered barbed wire
'cause there's a mountain
of beautiful filth
waiting on the other side

Just spinning home
sinking faster now
well you can follow your rainbows
and I will follow the sun now 
wherever he goes
it's not to far to run
so I will follow the sun
follow the sun

Clever lives end up rusty and forgotten
brilliant minds end up with false amours
what I thought was so deep ended up so hallow
and what I thought had meaning ended up so shallow
well you can follow your rainbows
and I will follow the sun now 
wherever he goes
it's not to far to run
so I will follow the sun
follow the sun

Could you let down your hair 
And be transparent for a while 
Just a little while 
See if your human after all 
Honesty is a hard attribute to find 
When we all want to seem like we've got it all figured out 
I may be the first to say that I don't have a clue 
I don't have all the answers 
And god I pretend like I do just 
Trying to find my way 
Trying to find my way the best that I know how 

Well I haven't memorized all the cute things to say 
But I'm working on it 
Maybe I'll master this art for today 
I'd I qoute all the line off the top of my head 
And you'd be 
I dont understand all of these things Ive read 
Im just trying to find my way 
Trying to find my way 
Trying to find my way the best that I know how 

Well I havent drawn it or figured out quite yet 
But even if it takes my whole life 
To get to where I need to be 
And if I should fall to the bottom of the end 
I'll be one step back to you 
I'm trying to find my way 
Trying to find my way 
Oh, I'm trying to find my way 
Trying to find my way

How long have I been in this storm?
So overwhelmed by the ocean's shapeless foam
Water's getting harder to tread
With these waves crashing over my head 

If I could just see you
Everything would be all right
If I could see you
This darkness would turn to light

And I will walk on water
And you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
And everything will be all right
And everything will be all right 

I know you didn't bring me out here to drown
So why am I ten feet under and upside down
Barely surviving has become my purpose
Because I'm so used to living underneath the surface 

And I will walk on water
And you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
And everything will be all right
And everything will be all right

I've found a long way back to sanity again
Though I don't really know what I'm gonna do
When I get there...
Take a breath and hold on tight
And spin around one more time
And gracefully fall back to the arms of grace

'Cause I'm hanging on every word you say
And even if you don't wanna speak tonight
That's alright, alright with me
'Cause I want nothing more
Than to sit outside Heaven's door
And listen to you breathing
It's where I wanna be, yeah
Where I wanna be...

I'm looking past the shadows in my mind
Into the truth and I'm
Trying to identify the voices in my head
God, I wish it were you
Let me feel one more time what it
Feels like to feel and
And break these callouses off of me one more time

'Cause I'm hanging on every word you say
And even if you don't wanna speak tonight
That's alright, alright with me
'Cause I want nothing more
Than to sit outside your door
And listen to you breathing
It's where I wanna be, yeah-ah...

I don't want a thing from you
I bet you're tired of me
Waiting for the scratch to fall off
Of your table to the ground...
'Cause I just wanna be here now...

'Cause I'm hanging on every word you say
And even if you don't wanna speak tonight
That's alright, alright with me
'Cause I want nothing more
Than to sit outside Heaven's door
And listen to you breathing
It's where I wanna be, yeah...

'Cause I'm hanging on every word you say
And even if you don't wanna speak tonight
That's alright, alright with me
'Cause I want nothing more
Than to sit outside Heaven's door
And listen to you breathing
It's where I wanna be, yeah
Where I wanna be...
Where I wanna be...

I can't be losing sleep over this, no I can't
And now I can not stop pacing
Give me a few hours, I'll have all this sorted out
If my mind would just stop racing

Cause I cannot stand still
I can't be this unsturdy
This cannot be happening

This is over my head but underneath my feet
Cuz by tomorrow morning I'll have this thing beat
And everything will be back to the way that it was
I wish that it was just that easy

Cuz I'm waiting for tonight
Then waiting for tomorrow
And I'm somewhere in between
What is real, and just a dream
What is real, and just a dream
What is real, and just a dream

Would you catch me if I fall out of what I fell in
Don't be surprised if I collapse down at your feet again
I don't want to run away from this
I know that I just don't need this

Cause I cannot stand still
I can't be this unsturdy
This cannot be happening

Cuz I'm waiting for tonight
Then waiting for tomorrow
And I'm somewhere in between
What is real, and just a dream
What is real, and just a dream
What is real, and just a dream

He says he looks in the mirror
And he can't tell anymore
Who he really is and who they believe him to be
And he says he walks a thin line
Between what is and what could be
And he's getting closer
To something he can understand

Cause there's a crack in his plastic crown
And his throne of ice is melting
He climbed his ladder
There was nothing there
And now it's a long way down
It's a long way down

(Chorus)
On and on and on he goes dancing on the grave
Of what he thought was still alive
On and on and on he goes
Dancing in mansions made of twigs
And castles made of sand

He says his head is filled with
Cartoons and fairy tails
And he's trapped inside a dungeon of dolls
With smiles on their faces
He's built a pretty cage
His shows on a beautiful stage
With candy coated prison bars
And chains that look like jewelry

Cause there's a crack in his plastic crown
And his throne of ice is melting
He climbed his ladder
There was nothing there
And now it's a long way down

(Repeat chorus)
On and on and on and on he goes on and on
On and on and on and on he goes on and on

Cause he lives inside
Of fairy tails and castles now
And there's room inside
For false expectations and illusions

Cause there's a crack in his plastic crown
And his throne of ice is melting
He climbed his ladder
There was nothing there
And now it's a long way down
It's a long way down

(Repeat chorus 2 times)
On and on and on and on he goes on and on
On and on and on and on he goes on and on
On and on and on and on he goes on and on

How did I end up here
Closer to nowhere
In the middle of nothing and I'm
One step back from where I was
Spinning in circles
Gets old after awhile

And you say if I fall I will
Fall straight into your arms
And should I trip over my feet
And if I start to slip I will
Slip right onto my knees
Into the center of your hands

(Chorus)
Cause maybe
Someday I could learn to trust you
And just stop thinking with my head
Cause maybe
Someday I could learn to let go
I lose control but tell me what is wrong with that

Why do I have to know everything
And why does everything always have to make sense
Why do I always have to have you figured out
Cause I just want to take your hand

And you say if I fall I will
Fall straight into your arms
Should I trip over my feet
And if I start to slip I will
Slip right onto my knees
Into the center of your hands

(Repeat chorus)
What's wrong with that
What's wrong with that
What's wrong with that
What's wrong with that
What's wrong with that
(Repeat chorus)
What's wrong with that (Repeat 5 times)

When passion takes on our purpose
When searching ones embrace the light
When skeptics find themselves down on their knees
You'll know it's here 

When you hear a sound as loud as thunder
And you hear a cry that shakes the ground beneath you
When you hear a shout that shatters the darkness
You'll know it's here 

When the lost find a name worth believing in
And the falling get back onto their feet
And the broken start to dream again
And the sound of fun fills these streets
You'll know it's here 

Revolution - can you feel it?
Revolution cry
Revolution - can you hear it?
Revolution cry
And I believe it, and I believe it 

How long do we have to wait?
And how long will we stay silent?
When will this weeping generation dance again?
Oh God when will the truth be sure? 

When the lost find a name worth believing in
And the falling get back onto their feet
And the broken start to dream again
And the sound of fun fills these streets
You'll know it's here 

Revolution - can you feel it?
Revolution cry
Revolution - can you hear it?
Revolution cry 

Revolution - can you feel it?
Revolution cry
Revolution - can you hear it?
Revolution cry 

You'll know it's here
Can you feel it?
Revolution - can you feel it?
Revolution cry
Revolution - can you hear it?
Revolution cry
And I believe it