The Afters Album

Don't try to lose us
'Cause it's right where you'll find us
Don't try to bruise us
'Cause it's right where you'll bleed
Don't call me a stranger
We're your brothers and sisters
Try and refuse us when it's just what you need

Here tomorrow gone today
We're a part of the secret parade
Here tomorrow gone today
We're a part of the secret parade

It's not the end, but it feels like it is
I'm waking up like I'm back from the dead
I'm stepping out, and I feel so free
But as long as I'm moving it's all right

I feel alive, and it hurts for a change
No looking back
It's hard to believe that I was cool
With the days that I wasted
Complacent and tasteless and bored
But that was yesterday...

We're never going back to OK (OK)
We're never going back to easy
We're never going back to the way it was
We're never going back to OK

This discontent, like a slap in the face
I'm mediocre, I've had enough of this place
This party's over, and I'm moving away
from the things of your Beverly Hills
That was yesterday...

We're never going back to OK (OK)
We're never going back to easy
We're never going back to the way it was
We're never going back to OK

It's like I've never lived
Before my life with you
So much was missing here
I never even knew

I still picture
The place we were
When I fell into
Your world

My heart is in you
Where you go you carry me
I bleed if you bleed
Your heart beats inside of me
Your keeping me alive

I don't know why I feel this way
But something's right
You're like the ?????

No more lonely
And no more n??
No more secrets
to hide

My heart is in you
Where you go you carry me
I bleed if you bleed
Your heart beats inside of me
Your keeping me alive

I'll hold you near
Together we'll never die

Your love is keeping me alive (Your love is keeping me alive)
Your love is keeping me alive (Your love is keeping me alive)

My heart is in you
Where you go you carry me
I bleed if you bleed
Your heart beats inside of me
Your keeping me alive

Your keeping me alive

Time after time
I'm reminded that I fall apart
when I run away from you
even when every mistake
leaves me broken and bruised
I can hold onto you

tonight tonight
we're gonna put it all
put it all behind
tonight tonight
we're gonna make it all
make it alright
we'll be who we wanna be
tonight, tonight

why do I feel like a space
that just waits to be filled
looking for something new
when ours is a love
that is already perfect and I
I know I belong to you

tonight tonight
we're gonna put it all
put it all behind
tonight tonight
we're gonna make it all
make it alright
we'll be who we want to be
tonight

when tomorrow comes we're gonna feel alive
somehow forget about the tears we've cried
there's so much more we have to gain
than we could ever lose

CHORUS

Look outside, it's already light, and the stars
Ran away with the night
Things were said, words that we'll try to forget
It's so hard to admit

I know we made mistakes
I see through all the tears
And that's what got us here

If love is an ocean wide
We'll swim in the tears we cried
They'll see us through to the other side
We're gonna make it
When love is a raging sea
You can hold on to me
We'll find a way tonight
Love is an ocean wide

I'll stay right here
It's where I'll always belong
Inside with your arms
Days like this I wish the sun wouldn't set
I don't want to forget

What made us feel this way?
You see through all my fears
And that's what got us here

If love is an ocean wide
We'll swim in the tears we cried
They'll see us through to the other side
We're gonna make it
When love is a raging sea
You can hold on to me
We'll find a way tonight
Love is an ocean wide

I saw you once,it was enough
you asked me what i wanted,
I want you,but i replied
"I'll have some fries"
some mesmorize,my heart
was on the driven through,

I saw your name and not ashamed
I searched some 500 miles to find
any clue that starts with you,ive
fallen in love, 'cause youve got me
and ive got time.

The second time you were so nice
I loved the way you told me to enjoy my day,
but i know what you meant to say instead was really that you wanted us to run away,
I said lets go ill pack my clothes,just promise me youll
wear the purple dress you have.
You look so cute when your confused,
you backed away and asked me how
i knew about that.

I saw you're picture of myspace,maybe someday we can turn in into ourspace
baby i dont care how long it takes ill
save a space on my top 8 for you

I know youre scared,i know our love is crazy,you make me crazy,for you
woohooo,
woohooo
(repeat chorus 2 times)
I saw you're picture of myspace,maybe someday we can turn in into ourspace
baby i dont care how long it takes ill
save a space on my top 8 for you

woohooo,
woohooo,
wooohoo,
woohoo.

Now is the time we have
Take it, never give it back
Say what you mean to say
This could be your only chance

Everybody's watching out
For someone who can show them how
To be what they wanna be and
Stand never backing down

Here we are
Here we are

We are the sound
We are the siren
We're all around
And we won't stop singing it out

Shout it out
Like you believe it
We'll break it down
When we all start singing it out
Shout it out now

Silence is an enemy
That keeps us from the things we need
It ages but it never grows
So quiet that it starts to bleed

Let's shake it off and let it go
Forgetting what we think we know
We'll make it all a memory
We're taking back control

It was raining on the sun
The ground beneath my feet was crumbling
Day and Night had come undone
It was the season of my wandering

Somehow Somewhere
You found me there
It was the moment that it all became clear

I was on the edge
Of a distant world
A shattered life
With no where left to turn
Till I saw you there
And everything I thought had gone to waste
Was falling into place

It's finally quiet in my head
As I lay the pieces at your feet
It's finally starting to make sense
I guess I found the missing part of me

Oceans that I almost drowned in
I had to lose it all
Just so I could find out you were there to break my fall

Slow down
This is such a blur
Tell me what’s the hurry now
Have we been running round in circles
Missing all that we could be
You say it’s not too late

We are words
On pages that we’ve left unturned
An ending no ones ever heard
We are a story slowly unfolding Beautiful words

I could walk across the ocean
With you walking next to me
And you could melt away this winter Now we’re starting over
We will see its not too late

We are words
On pages that we’ve left unturned
An ending no ones ever heard
We are a story slowly unfolding Beautiful words

That last when everything else has passed
Even when all the stars are gone
I know every single beautiful word that we were will live on

I know its not too late
We are words
On pages that we’ve left unturned
An ending no ones ever heard
We are a story slowly unfolding Beautiful words

We are a story slowly unfolding

I came into this world to find a reason to live
I came with nothing to give
Nothing I could offer, nothing I could ever do
Before you set the stars up in the sky
You came and took me aside
You told me I was part of the plan
You told me I was yours

Will you tell me what this life is all about
Will you show me how to make my time here count
Will lead the way on, to the other side
Because I want to feel alive

If I could only see right to the end
I'd know just where to begin
I could put together all the little pieces
You carry the world, You hold it in your hands
It's all a part of your plan
Show me how to live, won't you help me find my way to you

Will you tell me what this life is all about
Will you show me how to make my time here count
Will lead the way on, to the other side
Because I want to feel alive

There's a place for us
The perfect place for us

I'm watching the green give into gold
As summer becomes October's cold
Gravity begs
For one final kiss
She drops it to him, as she gives in

Traces of light, linger around
As laces of white fall to the ground
The softest of sounds for the heaviest things
And the pain that it brings

As she falls I try to catch her
For one last touch of warmth from summer
As one thing leaves to become another again
I remember when

Don't remember the day, she's started to fade
The ground felt a chill as she gave it away
A whisper - a sigh, for the time that she passed
But this winter won't last

As she falls I try to catch her
For one last touch of warmth from summer
As one thing leaves to become another again
I remember when
Oh to be with summer again

The days were warm and we wore them like skin
Now I feel the effects of October again

As she falls I try to catch her
For one last touch of warmth from summer
As one thing leaves to become another again
I remember when
Oh to be with summer again
I'm watching the green give into gold
As summer becomes October's cold

Wake up and smile
Put on a tie
Walk to the car
And wave goodbye
Radio on
You're singing along
It's all gonna chance but how could you know

You're one moment away
One chance left to take
And you're gone
Are they gonna remember you for running away
Or saving the day from the darkness
And letting your love shine through
What will you do
You're one moment away

Eyes are on you
The pressure is on
Where will you stand when the lines have been drawn
The clocks have all stopped, the story's been told
This is your life, so how will it show

No you can't pretend that forever
Will never come knocking at your door

Run through the flames
Never look back
What did you think that you came here for