After the Fact EP
Unreleased
- Come to Leave to Come Back
- Dream Away
- Midnight Oil
- Kuhio
- Planned Attacks
- Spaces and Places
- Three Quarters
After the Fact EP
TRUTH TO OURSELVES
I was trying to see
what was inside of me
'cause I wanna be sure
but I don't know if I
could tell you now
just what we all think
and we will shatter your plans
and wet your face with
tears of pain
with a strange future
in front of us
so...I...will...
fill in the space
and I will take your place
and we will never forget
the things we all did
and we all wait in pain
for our square to return
and we'll be the same
shape we were
but it will never be
a square with three sides
we cannot go back
we will stay right here
because it's time to
let go of what's inside
and become who we are
and I will, I will
I think of how it stopped
was by my hand
and I guess now that's okay
okay...okay
SEATTLE'S STATE
please sing me
one of those songs
to stop my brain
from thinking about
all the problems that come and go
that car, that fight
both will be fixed
I saw
my family
their lives seem
much harder than mine
oh how I hate Seattle's state
bringing depression with the rain
and I wish I could bring them here
to stay
in the sun
that I hate
not for me but for them
my cousin got drunk
no I mean sick
young stupidity
I watched him put his dinner on to the floor
and I felt sick and everyone felt sick
sometimes I just sing
to leave the problems for a while
but I can't help them the way I wish I could
so there they'll stay away from us
I think they should move here
not for me
but for them
FORGETTING THE MISTAKES
I swear
that I'll never swear again
and I'll promise you this
that I'll never forget
but I think we should
keep moving
and I think it's for the best
but we'll never know for sure
your eyes
burned my lungs black
and I wanted to stop
but I somehow forgot
but maybe someday
I'll remember
and it'll never be too late
and someday I'll
I'll know
that it was all a mistake
but maybe it was right
so I'm sorry to say that I quit today
and I talked with her
and she seems to know just what I mean
and I make her laugh
and I don't know yet if I'm wrong
MIDDLE OF THE SEA
soon I'll be gone
it will be a test
not for just the ones we love
but for the feelings shared
and I'm so scared
and I wish that this could be done
and I wish we were millionares
and I wish to stay here
and I wish I was already gone
and I will come back
since this is good
it's ruined by the space
between us all
I would stay forever
I wanna go tomorrow
and I see everything's good
and I see everything's bad too
and I see things change
and I see good for us all
and I can't explain
what I have inside
but it wants to come out
I feel it move inside myself
but not here, not now
Unreleased
COME TO LEAVE TO COME BACK
so you're swinging down low
and you can't ever feel
the way she wants you to feel
and you always try
and you can't seem to find
what you have inside
and now
you watch her leave
with a smile on her face
that spells out disgrace
and that tear in your eye
burns like the fire
that you feel inside
and that you have to hide
today
she's come to stay
but you can't get her to stay
far enough away
for you to find that flame
and build it up
inside of your head
no it's in your heart
with the blink of an eye
she has started to cry
and once again she's out
the door
and she screams you won't see me
no more
and that's what you want
so you laugh and you cry
and throw lamps through
the room
and you remember the days
that you've tried to forget
and you lay on the couch
as she walks through the door
DREAM AWAY
sleep now
my long nights are gone
every
problem that is solved brings on a new one
i'm tired
of trying to please everyone, it's hard
it's hard
to change the way you feel
i'll just go with it.
now
that you're here again
i think i've lost
something
that holds eternity
for everyone tries to say
that theirs is the only way
and it throws me off
of the cliff i've balanced on
for so long
now i'll find out
what i need to find out
and i know that lies are everywhere
and we'll always stay
KUHIO
you said I was like what you thought
I said I don't know
you said i'm like a ribbon
blowing away
I said I don't know
but now i'm blowing through
those hills that we would stay on
I really don't like how that sounds
or how it feels, how it breathes on
me, I don't know
you said you'd cry for hours
I said that I know
you said you wouldn't move on
I said that I know
today it's all been fixed
I really like it now
we are good, I feel good
it's just like we thought
it would feel inside my head
but logic and faith don't seem to go
hand in hand
sometimes I compared too long
even though I see you across the hall
I still wonder
MIDNIGHT OIL
where are the moon and stars tonight
hidden behind the blankets of smog
that we've helped to create
everything we touch turns from gold to coal
all in pursuit of a happiness that may not be
when you introduce the human factor
everything becomes corrupted
it will be corrupted
it will be corrupted
it is corrupted
PLANNED ATTACKS
it's morning now I hear your voice
i jump up expecting to see you
standing there but you're not
this is only the beginning
but sort of close to the end
so much time to waste but not enough
so two guys come up one doesn't talk
the other one, he's all right
i don't know them I can't talk
but for all I know they could go to
that gay bar and plan attacks on us
so I try to sleep on my back
and this time away should be good
i called your house but knew you wouldn't be home
i feel this way that I'd wait to feel
it's took along time but I know I can
talk to you now
Without any problem, which means it needs no solution
still those guys worry me
SPACES AND PLACES
I still can't believe it happened this way
your head hung low I watched you slip away
I turned around I couldn't stay
you watched me leave.
it's been two years I'm feeling better now
we'll always remember
everyone deals with the same thing
we all just move on.
after the crying is done
we knew we should move on
there's no one here that's unique
somebody acts just like me.
across the globe I know
there's someone sitting there
writing the same type of song
with the same fears that I feel inside myself
this cycle returns right back to me.
and maybe we've passed by
on the street
and maybe his girl looks
just like mine
and maybe we can't see each other clearly
THREE QUARTERS
this city is not or me to be, it kills
I'm trying to sleep but it's no use
at night they're out, and it's the worst thing
I've seen the devils choose who to take
I look at the stars but they're all gone
but these clouds roll through the sky
it's liek the smoke going off my breath
but it doesn't bring disease to me
now this morning I saved you
in my sleep
it was good for me but I can't leave yet
so I close my eyes and I rest my head
my arms asleep and I can't feel a thing
and there was this show that I watched last night by myself
but I was thinking of holding your hand in mine
your head on my shoulder
it rests for a while
I get taken away in my mind
to another state being where I want to be
with you standing beside me and I watch
your feet and your legs follow mine and I can't believe
wha I have found to keep
please follow me
and yes I'll follow you too
sometimes I'm afraid to touch you
cause I don't want to disrupt a thing
I say it's been a long time
I say I want so much longer
and the movies tell us what to think
and the world tells us what to do
now I don't need you to approve me
and I don't need a song this long
but I've got it
and I can't wait to walk away
from everything on the right
and I know that it's me she has to keep
and I know I can bring into focus my blue eyes on
her now and forever.