LYRICS
MENTAL VACATION
I'm stuck inside my head again
Waiting here to leave
Try to pack my bags
But I don't know what I need
You say, take all the time I have to
I've hardly time to breathe
I'll try to steer my mind away
Just stay, waiting for me
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When I check in for mental vacation
I'll get better it's a brain reaction
I can’t bear the thought of all your expectations
Pack my bags
Pack my bags
For mental vacation
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The problem seems so obvious
To everyone but me
I want the full experience
Both the comedy and tragedy
You say the people make the place
I guess we'll wait and see
I don’t mind if it ain’t pretty
Just gotta be kind to me
When I check in for mental vacation
I'll get better it's a brain reaction
But I can’t breathe if I can't meet your expectations
Call the cab
Call the cab
For mental vacation
Just to know that I could hide if I have to
Just to know that I could stop if I want to
But I'll be glad if you're still here when I get back
When I return from mental vacation
I hope that I’ll think better, it's a brain reaction
I can’t read your thoughts, you keep your expectations
'til I get back
Yeah I'll be back from
Mental vacation
SPINNING WHEELS
This jesters caught in a mess
Gotta hole in my bucket
Hopes draining out
The last glass of water
Through your first monstera
But if I call you up, to drown it out
You seem to handle it better
My costumes soaked in rain
Some build shelters
I prefer a get away
Spinning wheels
Spinning wheels
Lost my traction
Stuck on repeat
Standing still
Spinning wheels
What must I give to keep the juggernauts out
My only answer my self doubt
I sit beside myself
All that's between us
Digs us deeper down
Spinning wheels
Spinning wheels
Lost my traction
Stuck on repeat
Standing still
Spinning wheels
When I'm feeling worthless
My life is a circus
It goes 'round and 'round and 'round
The voice in my brain
I relive this day after day
Sinking away
Spinning wheels
Spinning wheels
Lost my traction
Stuck on repeat
Standing still
Spinning wheels
Spinning wheels
Lost my traction
Stuck on repeat
Standing still
Spinning wheels
TIE IT ONTO ME
Watching your cold tea
As I sink into my coffee
Your sadness my stone
I'm wanting to write more than this emoticon
But what if I say something wrong
Pebble in my sneaker through whiskey mud
What we collect
And protect
Weighs on us
What shall we do?
Tie it on
Tie it on
Tie it onto me
Tie it on
Tie it on
Tie it onto me
Tie it onto me
Your chosen company
1500 hundred hours you trained to learn to fly
Then gave it up to drive
All the compliments you forgot or rejected
The words I should have said you just let them slide
All the long nights
And wronged rights
Lost on you
What will you do?
Tie it on
Tie it on
Tie it onto me
Tie it on
Tie it on
Tie it onto me
Tie it onto me
Your only company
I'm weighed down and waiting
I'm wasting away
I'm heavier than ever
But still I drift day to day
Black mountain standing
I'm a muel for your anything
Ohh----
Tie it on
Tie it on
Tie it onto me
Tie it on
Tie it on
Tie it onto me
Tie it on
Tie it on
Tie it onto me
Tie it on me
Your only company
THE BEAUTY OF THE BACKROADS
He was born with a silver suit and a life jacket in his hand
Legend said that he landed on his feet but I never saw him need to stand
It seemed so simple
It was already planned
He took a job on the fifteenth floor and I took a job as a delivery man
I spent years with my head out the window watching the way of the land
I felt every pothole shake me and wake me – a kind of clue
To admire the view
And It's kept me alive
But it was only one bump to many and one day my engine died
Some people leave their memories behind them
There’s people that never let go
Some people live their life like a highway
They never see the beauty of the backroads
I went to the bank for a loan on a truck that could handle my winding roads
The man at the desk seemed so familiar – that silver style
That I'd seen before
But I couldn't say where
Then it all came back to that fifteenth floor and I figured I'd get my fare
He said there ain't much luck for loan all I heard was sha na na na na
I told him I'd show him the back roads and then I'd leave him be to decide
There were tears in his eyes
As I wound down the windows
He quit his job on the fifteenth floor and we got two trucks fit for the backroads
Some people leave their memories behind them
There’s people that never let go
Some people live their life like a highway
They never see the beauty of the backroads
There ain't much to see on these concrete runways that only speed back and forth
You could almost believe that the world is so simple - think your wise
Having driven both sides
But everybody's engine dies
You know, there's a whole world full of wonder
That can only be seen from the backroads
Some people leave their memories behind them
There's others that never let go
Some people live their life like a highway
They never see the beauty of the backroads
WIDE WORDS
Help, I'm sinking deep
Beyond the light of stars
I can't see no remedy
For the anchor of my past
I need your wise words
Wise words
Comfort me
I can't even listen
For the rumble of the streets
But I'll drown in all the sense you make
Deep into my sleep
I'll need your wise words
Wise words
Comfort me
All my life
On the whole
I could just slow down
And if my mind continues on without me
Into all the possibilities or doubts
I'm afraid that I'm bound to tumble
While I hear you out
I'll let your wise words
Wise words
Comfort me
When I don't take no chances
I can't make no ground
When the wild world I wander
Treats me like the clown
I need your wise words
Wise words
Comfort me
All my life - on the whole
I could just slow down
But if my mind continues on without me
Into all the possibilities or doubts
I'm afraid that I'm bound to tumble
While I hear you out
I'll let your wise words
Wise words
Comfort me
I'll let your wise words
Wise words
Comfort me
MILLION FACES
At first there's the moments
Then there's in-between
Sometimes I'm wishing I wasn't seen
What reflects in teardrops
I forget in a smile
Let's not regret how hard we tried
I’ve felt left out and lost
And more on my own
But I’m never alone
A million faces
Staring back at me
I wonder what all of them mean
Millions of faces, what must you think
A million faces
And you show them all to me
I’m high on the tight rope
Over the canyon
Trying to keep my eyes open
I’ve felt weaker and scared
Just felt like stopping
But everyone’s watching
A million faces
Staring back at me
I wonder what all of them mean
Millions of faces, what must you think
A million faces
You show them all to me
Sometimes your eyes light up
Shining like summer lagoons
They'll be my memories
They'll be my memories of you
At first you were screaming
Then you went quiet
I've seen you change in the blink of an eye
A million faces
Staring back at me
I wonder what all of them mean
Millions of faces, what must you think
A million faces
And you show them all to me
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
There's no hum drum these days
Among the beauty and chaos of waves
It’s clear, we’re, never to be the same
When clockwork fades
Bid farewell to foul weather
Keeping the wind in your sails
No matter how many star filled skies
are cloaked by the clouds that bring darkness to day
Or how many sailors hands
are torn by the ropes tied to keep you from drifting away
I’ll be your lighthouse keeper
Watching your ship sailing in through the fog
You’ll be my railway sleeper
Holding me steady all through the flood
You don't have to feel brave
The darkness of storms I'll never measure
When it’s clear steer your way to the shore
What's worth its weight?
The anchors that we were once tethered
Regardless of darkness the light finds it's way
No matter how many star filled skies are cloaked by the clouds that bring darkness to day
Or how many sailors hands were torn by the ropes tied to keep you from drifting away
I’ll be your lighthouse keeper
Watching your ship sail it’s way through the fog
You’ll be my railway sleeper
Holding me steady all through the flood
No matter how many fears you find – building like waves
Most of the things we fear – never happen anyway
I’ll be your lighthouse keeper
Watching your ship sailing in through the fog
You’ll be my railway sleeper
Holding me steady all through the flood
Look for your lighthouse keeper
Guiding your way
Look for your lighthouse keeper
Guiding your way
Look for your lighthouse keeper
Guiding your way
I WAS ONCE THE WIND
I wasn’t born in the windy city
But I grew up by the coast
Where children skate on verges
And befriend forgotten ghosts
I sailed into the sunset
As romantic as it seems
I knew I was headed for darkness
Is that just the pessimistic poet in me?
I was once the wind
Blowin’ soft or wild but free
I was once the wind
Flying here or there as I please
I was once the wind
Now the winds got a hold on me
I’ve never bet on horses
But I've used their shoes for luck
I've spent more on all the things
That I've ever lost
Rode into the sunset
As romantic as that seems
I knew I was headed for darkness
That's just the price of wanting what I couldn't see
I was once the wind
Blowin’ soft or wild but free
I was once the wind
Flying here or there as I please
I was once the wind
Now the winds got a hold on me
I thought I'd never get tied down
Always wanted to be flying around
We don't always have control it seems
We don't always know what it is we want to be
I don't lean on the breeze no more
I don't blame nobody
I knew I was headed for darkness
I was once the wind
Blowin’ soft or wild but free
I was once the wind
Flying here or there as I please
I was once the wind
Now the winds got a hold on me
IN OUR BLOOD
When I went to visit Grandpa
I could never stay the night
Playing pool through the afternoon
I always wondered why
Mum and Dad clung to the stained table
While sis swung the cradle
How was I to find what was hiding in their voices
I was only five
Every year comes the test
To politely sit through Christmas
All knowing what he'd done, as bells rung
We sat though the silent night
In our blood
In our blood
We are one
In our minds
In ours minds
We come undone
Many years before
On a black and white floor
Dressing dolls grandma gave her
Suppressing how they raised her
Mums don't forget like kids
Now the past trickles out like
Dirty drips through a worn out seal on a drain pipe
That she had buried in a ditch on the side of a road
With a note saying
‘One day you can know' that
In our blood
In our blood
We are one
In our minds
In ours minds
We come undone
Today the devil was buried like the pipes
That drank what she once had to hide
She could barely say her last goodbye
The coffin heavy in my hand
So now when Christmas comes around
Beneath an annual cloud
We are standing taller shooting pool
Still it don't remove the stains
For both big and small
In our blood
In our blood
We are one
In our minds
In ours minds
We come undone
In our blood
In our blood
We are one
In our minds
In ours minds
We come undone
In our blood
In our blood
In our blood
THE COLOUR OF LOVE
When the moving truck screeched to a halt
It was nobodies fault
But I took two months today
To pack you all away
All on which you left your mark
All that's left me in the dark
All this time sat memories still
Watching me from my window sill
Time so slowly seems to accelerate
It watches me take my things to the road
Fading now through my window
It's how I know when to pick the time
Pick the fight or let it slide
It's how I know when to turn left or either side
It's the colour of love
The colour of love
It's how I know if love is blind
When to trust the whites in your eyes
It's how I know when to stay or to say, maybe in another life
It's the colour of love
It's the colour of love in your eyes
When you ain't feeling stuck and the squeezing ends
Friends of friends say move on
Mementos I kept
Hide in a box in the shed
Now I've had to leave my mark
Now I only sleep in the dark
How I've been making memories still
I wouldn't say it's fully healed
Some perfumes and suburbs too, they remind me of you
In the long afternoons I'll sing to the road
As vanishing shadows, they prune the roses
It's how I know when to pick the time
Pick the fight or let it slide
It's how I know when to turn left, or either side
It's the colour of love
The colour of love
It's how I know if love is blind
When to trust the whites in your eyes
It's how I know when to stay or to say, maybe in another life
It's the colour of love
It's the colour of love in your eyes
It's the colour of love
It's the colour of love
It's the colour of love in your eyes
WHEN THE TIME TURNS RIGHT
I wish I wouldn't forget
I wish I wouldn't forgive so easy
Staring down at the bleeding hands of my watch
Never was I ever good at leaving
Maybe farewells a better word
I wish I could trust my instincts
Whether it’s for better or for worse
When do I know
When to let you go
We can dance in circles
And smile through the rain
An echo of a bad day
That ain’t no way to live a life
How do I know when to let you go
When the time turns right
When the time turns right
Every hour upon hour
Well I never learn easy
I sow a seed between the lightning strikes
Knowing we'll never have the chance to sit beneath it
Maybe farewells a better word
I wish I could trust my instincts
Whether it’s for better or worse
When do I know
When to let go
We can dance in circles
And smile at the rain
'til the clock strikes again
That ain’t no way to live a life
How do I know when to let you go
When the time turns right
When the time turns
Every once in a while
I receive a wake up call
But it never feels the right time
'I believe' there will be a right time
Lately farewells a better word
Maybe I should trust my instincts
Whether it’s for better or for worse
When do I know
When to let go
We can dance in circles
And smile at the rain
Lying to ourselves again
That ain’t no way to live a life
How do I know when to let you go
When the time turns right
When the time turns right