1. MAYDAY

Setting sail, I'm homeward bound
Full of metaphors and rhymes
Thought I'd find some refuge on your shores
Didn't think that you would mind
You treat me like I'm a patient
Leave me to my own demise
Cast me out into an eastern wind
Throw me to the raging tides

I've crashed and burned, I guess I'll have to swim
(No signal on the radio)
I bail it out, but water's pouring in
(And I'm yelling in the microphone)

Mayday, mayday... this ship is gonna sink
Baby, baby... now, why you gotta be
So crazy, crazy... won't someone answer me?
Mayday, mayday, baby
Mayday, mayday

Adrift alone on wayward seas
Try to follow in your wake
I know I should get back on course
But it's too dark to navigate
I never saw it coming
Oh, I didn't read the signs
You're a cut and run, I'm on my own
No, you'll never toe the line

No land in sight; won't help me if I swim
(An SOS I'm going down)
No way to fight against these wicked winds
(Still I'm screaming in the microphone)

Mayday, mayday... this ship is gonna sink
Baby, baby... now, why you gotta be
So crazy, crazy... won't someone answer me?
Mayday, mayday, baby
Mayday, mayday

I raise my hands to part the sea
But not even Moses could save me
As I capsize you stand by
And salute me in my futile fight

Here comes a tidal wave to drown me in my sin
(No signal on the radio)
I'm overboard, my future's looking grim
And I'm yelling in the microphone

Mayday, mayday... this ship is gonna sink
Baby, baby... now, why you gotta be
So crazy, crazy... won't someone answer me?
Mayday, mayday, baby
Mayday, mayday
Mayday, mayday, baby
Mayday, mayday
Mayday, mayday


2. POINT OF SAFE RETURN

You look at me with all the regret in the world
Swimming in your eyes
I gulp it down
But, you know, it all comes back with stinging sourness
Did you believe me when I said that I didn't mean
To raise your hopes and then disappear
Or did you just smile because you believe
You're past the point of safe return, anyway

[Chorus:]
I never meant to make you sorry for loving me
I never meant to make you sorry

You hardly pretend to notice I'm even there
And I don't know if that's really right
You push it aside
But, you know, it only appears to go in deeper
And is it true you believe what I said wasn't real
That it was only a silly game
That just seems easier to believe
When you're past the point of safe return, anyway

[Chorus]
I'm so sorry you were hurt
And I guess I can't say enough
It's no fun when you feel burned
But I guess it was hard for me to believe
You should have tried harder to make me see
Ah, hell, it got so hard for us to see
Past the point of safe return, anyway

[Chorus]
You could have had it how you wanted
But instead it tumbled down
Could have made us into something
But instead I made you sorry
Could have let me hear it someday
In the time that I was around
But you wanted me to pretend
Then I didn't want it anymore, anyway


3. MOTH

I blame it all on you for feeling this way
You and your wily ways
'Cause I don't stand to gain a thing
I give you all the room you need
I fill in the gaps between your lines
But there's nothing there to read

And I can't stop now
I can't give in
Did you take all that you wanted?
Go round and round
The ice is thin
Have you no mercy?

[Chorus]
It's getting awfully hot in here
I race for an escape
You're radiating all I fear
I know I'll burn if I get too near
But I can't pull away, though I've nothing to gain
I'm a moth to your flame

I know you've had your suspicions
Because I've given you reason to doubt
That my words are without meaning
I'd break you out of your cell
I would slip you the key under watchful eyes
But you pretend not to see

And I see you smile
I feel you stare
The mercury keeps rising
You start this fire
Send up your flares
Then leave me hanging

[Chorus]
Grant me some relief, be it only one kiss
Stave off my yearning with the grace of your lips
Give me some reprieve, let it be my demise
Have I misread all of your seemingly tell-tale signs
And your promising rhymes?

[Chorus]
You burn my wings and...

I blame it all on you for feeling this way
You and your wily ways
'Cause I'm just a moth to your flame


4. MY SONG FOR YOU

I think back
My mind drifts back on you
I have a smile and I have a tear in my eye
But mostly - oh, you know -
My heart falls to you on the less happy, lower-end side

I think back
My mind drifts back on you
I must have loved you, even on the back line
For why else would the thought of you haunt me
To such a wickedly sharp-edged degree
and it's slicing me up and it's spitting me out...

[Chorus:]
I sing my song for you
I sing out loud for you
I sing my song for you
My only relief from you

I think back
My mind drifts back on you
I'm a helpless child still frozen in your light
I look away to protect myself
Because I feel that you would burn me like the sun

[Chorus]
I sing my song for you
you take the breathing...
I sing out loud for you
and I am sinking...
I sing my song for you
you leave me on the low...
My only relief from you

You never should have happened
So goes my song for you
I think back...
So goes my song for you

I think back
My mind drifts back on you
I dream the same dream of you like an automatic dial
And I cannot afford to spend this time on you
So I ask you to please leave my mind
because you never belonged in there, did you

[Chorus]
I sing my song for you
you take the breathing from me
I sing out loud for you
and I am drifting slowly
I sing my song for you
you leave me on the low side
My only relief from you

So goes my song for you
That you never should have happened
No, you never should've happened
So goes my song for you
You never should have happened
And I sing out loud for you


5. GET ME

I'd been told
Your love is like liquid gold
And I've been sold
And it's all right
What you showed to me

It's all good...

You're a storm
And don't forget I was warned
Lightning's formed
And no regrets
Skies are torn for me

[Chorus]
I'll tell them it's real
I'll tell them I'm healed
I'll tell them you won't forget me
I'll tell them they're wrong
Then tell them I'm gone
And hope that you don't forget
To get me

They all said
She's only good in your bed
But in my head
I knew you would
Live instead for me

[Chorus]
So, tell them it's real
Then tell them I'm healed
And tell them you won't forget me
Then tell them they're wrong
Then tell them you're gone
I hope that you don't forget
To get me

Tip the scale
I'd hammer you like a nail
What a tale
The pain from you
Is like a rail through me

[Chorus]
I got you believing I won't run away
I knew you would get me another way
You thought I was leaving some other day
So, you didn't get me, I'd say

Got to be love
Got to be the one
Never met someone who was taking me down

Got to let it out
Got to be strong
Making you hot is really taking me along

Really been fun
Really been around
Should've maybe listened to the stories going 'round

Really a shame
Really uncool
Never saw it coming you a-winding up a fool


6. INNER WHORE

Let it out...
Let me be your...
No, no, no, I don't want this
Come, play me a song
Take me away, take me along
I feel so lost
Tempted to run, driven astray
Never to return again

With eyes just like the night, pierce me with your darkness
You drive out all the light with your subtle darkness

[Chorus]
You make me feel the need
To let out my inner whore
You make me feel the greed
The fire I can't ignore

I try all that I can
All that I want
To get you to come to me and say
"To hell with it all."
You'd throw it away and never look back again
You close around me tight; let me feel your darkness
I won't put up a fight, we can be the darkness

[Chorus]
The break...
It isn't mine to take?
But is it worth the break?

With eyes just like the night, pierce me with your darkness
You drive out all the light with your subtle darknes
I need...

[chorus]
You make me want to bleed
To swim to the other shore
You make me feel the heat
You keep me wanting more

I need to let out my inner...
So let me be your...


7. OUT

Receive me
Unleash me

I crave the morning
Quickly, come
I get down on my knees and pray
And hope the dawning pulls me right out of my dream

You walk right by my window
Every day I can feel you so near
When will you come to get me out of my fear?

Would you unwind me
If you'd finally find me

[Chorus]
I am tied to the ground
Ready to be unbound
Would you break me out and would you help me
To get out
Get out
Pull me out

Each day a new tomorrow
And I long for the same old aim
I'm bound in bitter sorrow
I know I want out, but I can't

Would you unleash me
If you'd perceive me?

[Chorus]
Get me out, please hear my prayer
(Do you think it'll go that way?)
I get down on my knees and pray
(Do you think it'll run that way?)
I get down on my knees and pray

Get me out just to dry my tears
Yes, I pray
Would you help me to get out?
Get out
Pull me out


8. CARNIVAL

I've got it bad
What do I do with this ache that I have?
Just let it be...
Or should I use all the tricks up my sleeve?

This ain't a game
This ain't a game I want to play
All the pieces are frayed
And there are rules
Oh, these are rules I can't obey

It seems so unfair
They bite and they scratch when they're not even there
The giddyup days
Go down with the sun as the calliope plays

So take a spin
Come take a spin and start the show
Climb the ropes and let go
You're worried now
Don't worry now, no one'll know

[Chorus]
Would you think very badly of me
If I took the first route that's easy?
Would you help me to free
All the baggage you see
Could you conquer this carnival?

It's started to sting
All of these words that I feel when I sing
Take it away
I can't bear to see how you suffer this way

So many things
Too many things you can't deny
Such good reasons to try
I want to hear
I need to hear you say the lines

[Chorus]
Would you battle the Pisces in me?
This ain't a game
This ain't a game I want to play
All the moves have been feigned
And there are rules
Too many rules no one obeys

Would you think very badly of me
-Don't think badly of me-
If I took the first route that's easy
-I'll find a way out-
Would you help me to free
All the baggage you see
Could you conquer this carnival
-Could you conquer me-
Would you battle the Pisces...


9. CLEAN

Finish me
Push me off the ledge
So hard to read
So hard to make a call on what you do or say
It's not my place to do so, anyway

A magnet pulls
It singes the air
I'm torn in two
I'm watching your fingers painting shadows with the beat
Longing for your hands to reach out for me
And don't you know
I need to come clean

[Chorus]
Indiscreet
I've got something to say
Giving away my dirty deed
Is it indiscreet
I've got nothing to lose
To tell you you're the liquid of my dreams
I need to come clean
Taunting me
I'd say you were there
We're stumbling
We're walking a tightrope made of high voltage wire
We're melting as we tend to our fires

You're whispering
I don't want to hear
You're mumbling
You see how I fight to claw my way further down
The need to bury my secret is strong
And yet I know
I need to come clean

[Chorus]
Heaven help me
Will I ever be clean of this
Mortally afflicted
Heaven help...
But leave a light on so you can watch me sin

[Chorus]
Glistening
We dance in the rain
So easy now
So hard to pull the brake once you're on the ride
You'll get to know me from the inside
I need to come clean


10. SOMETIMES

Sometimes I wonder if it's true
What they say of me and you
'Course I know that you love me
And it's good as it can be
But is anything really perfect
I guess we'll see

Sometimes I wonder
Can it be that this is it
You are for me
'Cause I know that I love you
Nights are lonesome without you
But could anything be forever
I guess we'll see

Walking along, one thing in mind
You and me together
The sound of you whispering falls on my ears
And all my doubt soon disappears

Sometimes I wonder... will it stay
'Cause I'd be crushed if you went away
But could anything be that tragic
I guess we'll see

Of course, I know that you love me
And it's good as it can be
But could anything be forever
Could anything be that perfect
Could anything be that tragic
I guess we'll see...


11. ALL THAT I AM

Dancing with you may not be like Hollywood
But Hollywood never loved like this
And I know you think sometimes that I talk too much
But in the end you say "Ah, it's all right"

Wherever we go
You know you're my home
Besides I want to know
How you'll look when you're old
And you're not just a ring on my finger

You gave me the sun
Made me believe
Made life a song
And I give you my hand
Give you my word
And all that I am
All that I am

When I think back, what a crazy past has led us here
And I'm so glad you're here
And sometimes things were so hard I thought I'd break
But here we are
We've come so far

Everybody knows

You're the one I chose
I love you so
Every day how this grows
And you're not just the ring on my finger

You gave me the sun
Made me believe
Made life a song
And I give you my hand
Give you my word
And all that I am
All that I am

You're so much more than just the ring that's on my finger

You gave me the sun
Made me believe
Made life a song
And I give you my hand
Give you my word
And all that I am
All that I am


12. WINDOWS

So many windows
I'm standing naked there inside
All eyes can see me
And there's no way to pull the blinds
I can't deny what I've confessed
I cannot run from how I feel
So be the shelter in my strife
Come remind me I'm alive

You stop the bleeding
And kiss away the tears that fall
Light up the shadows
And help me climb over my walls
And I'm not sure how much you know
How much your light has helped me grow
And you're the only one

Turn off the light
Bring on the night
I need to be unseen
I can't escape the wind biting its way in
Through all of my windows

It's never easy
I know, with all that I demand
It's not a given
All the burden you withstand
But I'm so grateful that you do
And maybe this is overdue
I know it's true, my Love

Turn off the light
Bring on the night
I need to be unseen
I can't escape the wind biting its way in
Through all of my windows again

Don't trust your eyes
Don't read my plight
Don't ask me what it means
My blessing and my bane
It calls me out by name
Carving out new windows

So many windows
They leave me naked here inside
All eyes can see me
Through my windows