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You couldn’t seem to meet my eyes
Just hid behind each hollow phrase
The distance woven in your words
Carried as if from far away
Whatever happened to ‘someday’?
I guess it never came
Whatever happened to ‘always’?
I always thought it meant something
The pale silence found us both
Trying not to be the first to speak
Your voice a punctuated breath
A wind outside stirring the leaves
Whatever happened to ‘someday’?
I guess it never came
Whatever happened to ‘always’?
I always thought it meant something
So just tell me
(This is my last request)
And be honest
(I’m just curious)
Were you always halfway planning your escape?
For my own part
(Each word that I said)
I thought I loved you
(At least I did my best)
I loved you…
Yeah, we all make mistakes
Whatever happened to ‘someday’?
I guess it never came
Whatever happened to ‘always’?
I always thought it meant something
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2. |
Playing For Sympathy
04:35
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Was it something I said?
Or something I didn't know how to say?
What exactly happened
To make the person you were into who you are today?
You've drawn these schematics and measured these lines
You've made sure all your actions are brilliantly justified
‘Cause you'd hate to think you're making a mistake
At least not right now, not until it's too late
And if I seem surprised…
Don't believe it
I've been practicing playing this part
For longer than you know
Rehearsing these lines
“Yeah I'll be okay”
“I'll be fine”
“Don't worry about me”
And all the while, breaking your heart
With my casual surrender
Did it catch you off guard
The grace with which I could acknowledge the end?
What did you expect?
To see my heart on my sleeve, begging you not to leave?
Well, I'm down on my knees
Not pleading but dying
But this is a side of me you'll never see
I'd rather die than admit this is killing me
And if I seem surprised…
Don't believe it
I've been practicing playing this part
For longer than you know
Rehearsing these lines
“Yeah I'll be okay”
“I'll be fine”
“Don't worry about me”
And all the while, breaking your heart
With my casual surrender
For you, no truce
No armistice will do
Tonight you play for keeps
I play for sympathy
And if I seem surprised…
Don't believe it
I've been practicing playing this part
For longer than you know
Rehearsing these lines
“Yeah I'll be okay”
“I'll be fine”
“Don't worry about me”
And all the while, breaking your heart
With my casual surrender
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3. |
Novocaine
04:37
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If it's not work then it's school, or something else in between
Whatever it takes just to keep me from thinking
And I haven't been sleeping, which is really a shame
‘Cause it seems as good a way as anything
To forget myself for once
To find escape, however brief
Some kind of makeshift novocaine
To dull these feelings I can't shake
So tonight, I drink to forget
I'll raise this glass to everything we never were
And if I can get just a single moment
Where I can think of you without my hands shaking
Then that would be enough for me
There've been a whole lot of words exchanged
Between you and I
And I can't help but wonder just how many were lies
And how many you meant when you opened your mouth
But now looking back they have filled you with doubt
All the same, they haunt my steps
Exhaled in every lonely breath
The promises you couldn't keep
Aren't all that's keeping you from me
So tonight, I drink to forget
I'll raise this glass to everything we never were
And if I can get just a single moment
Where I can think of you without my hands shaking
Then that would be enough for me
So tonight, I drink to forget
I'll raise this glass to everything we never were
And if I can get just a single moment
Where I can think of you without my hands shaking
Then that would be enough for me
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4. |
Amnesia
06:02
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I need to stop thinking
I'm starting to feel sick
And this happens to me altogether too often
This time... yeah, this time's no different
You always said I said sorry too much
(I really do)
But it had to be one of us
And it sure wasn't going to be you
Oh but you... you have no idea
How this feels, what this is like
And you make it look deceptively easy
This forgetting the past two years overnight
You were all that I wanted
(Please note the past tense)
Yes, it's true
But I'm so far past finished with this
And you claim to be done with it too
Still I keep remembering the things
I never thought that I would have to miss
The torch that I'm carrying is burning my fingertips
But I keep holding on just the same
Oh, but you... you have no idea
How this feels, what this is like
And you make it look deceptively easy
This forgetting the past two years overnight
If these words should ever reach your ears
They weren't meant to, but I don't take them back
Because I'm done... I'm done pretending
That you never made me angry
Trust me, you did
So this is the song I never wrote you
These are the words I never said
This is the one time I'm not sorry
For all those times you should have been
This is the song I never wrote you
These are the words I never said
This wasn’t the only indiscretion
But maybe it should have been
This is the end
(Of everything
Of you and me
Of all I am
Of me)
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5. |
Careful Sentences
03:53
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I saw you yesterday
For the first time since that night
I'd been looking for you
But trying not to look like I was
Our eyes met through an entryway
As the door was swinging shut
And mine might have played tricks on me
But I thought I glimpsed a sad smile
I was only ever honest
And lost you honestly
I wonder how exactly you'll remember me
In a moment you were there
And I held you in my arms
But only for a breath
Then we stepped back across
The barricade of space between
Who we were and who we are
We spoke in careful sentences
Built a verbal house of cards
And the way that we're standing
Makes it clear just where things stand
So I swallowed any words I might have said
And as you walked away
I watched your back retreating
And it seemed as if the lights
Along the hallway as you passed
Retreated one by one along with you
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6. |
Recede
05:13
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We can see everything from here
The world stretched out for miles
The city lights below us
Are stars fallen from the skies
We could stay up here forever
Far from fear and doubt and pain
We'll lose ourselves inside this daydream
We'll make our escape
So take my hand in yours
And never let me go
And if the sky should fall tonight
Would you promise to stay by my side?
I'll hold you close as the stars cave in
And make a wish as the last one dims
So let's drive until the sunrise
Paints the mountaintops with light
And the signs along the roadside
Are just cities' names and miles
Fall asleep against the window
And wake up in another town
Let's see how far we get
Before our time runs out
So take my hand in yours
And never let me go
And if the sky should fall tonight
Would you promise to stay by my side?
I'll hold you close as the stars cave in
And make a wish as the last one dims
And if the sky should fall tonight
Would you promise to stay by my side?
I'll hold you close as the stars cave in
And make a wish as the last one dims
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7. |
Endless, Towards Forever
05:55
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There are towns built in the shadow of the mountains
And mountains in the shadow of the sky
There’s a rainstorm reaching down from the horizon
Its fingers brush the windshield as we drive
The perfect rows of empty trees surround us
Stretching endless, towards forever on all sides
Their arms holding on tight against the winter
Like skeletons with silent, ancient eyes
And I think that if this drive
Lasted forever, I would not mind
To hold your hand, lean against the window
And let the world just pass us by
To finally start to believe we’ll be all right
There's a broken tree on the side of the highway
Like a dead man standing sadly by the road
There are coffee stains and words scrawled in the margins
And the corners of the map we brought from home
And I think that if this drive
Lasted forever, I would not mind
To hold your hand, lean against the window
And let the world just pass us by
To finally start to believe we’ll be all right
And I think that if this drive
Lasted forever, I would not mind
To hold your hand, lean against the window
And let the world just pass us by
To finally start to believe
That there is sunrise on the other side of night
That we are stronger than the things that try to break us
It’s just you and I, the world can stay outside
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This Glass Embrace Phoenix, Arizona
This Glass Embrace sings wordy indie-punk songs about the human condition.
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