"Together" Lyrics 

Atlas                                                         

If I wasn’t so selfish I’d let you go  

Forget your name delete you from my phone  

I’d walk away and never look back  

God damn it I’ve never been good at that  

I white wash every memory  

Like the time you brought home that Christmas tree 

Still find the needles underneath the rug 

They never tell you sometime it's good to give up  

Chorus  

But it ain’t sad  

It's just a timeline  

You get a map in the atlas of my mind 

And I’ll I neeeeed  

Might be me  

V2.  

If I wasn’t so needy I’d just go home  

Put a record on and learn to be alone  

And I’d take care of my best lost self  

That sees what’s wrong with everyone else 

I lie awake and remember the language swarm  

That we spoke to each other  

In the torrents of an ice storm  

Chorus.  

V3.  

Give me friends and a buttered heart 

Give me calloused hands from working in the yard 

Give me all the fear I feel when I stare into space 

Give me the courage to finally stay in one place.  

 

Anywhere you want 

Wish I had something to give you  

But everything I own is a trick  

I’m still waiting here to tell you this  

But I think it might be a mistake  

Walk me out to the alley 2 feet of wind and cold  

Never wanted to be so far away from you  

Every step like a broken bone  

What I say here in the dark 

It’s been living in the mountains and caves  

of my heart  

I’m a dry stave  

Waiting to warm the fire of your hearth 

Chorus

Take me anywhere  

Take me anywhere  

You want.  

V2.  

In the patient part of my breathing  

I am all out of breath  

There’s a story you used to read me  

Where we’d forget about death  

Pick me up off the sidewalk  

Carry me into the car 

It’s everything you could imagine  

It's a free and wild new start 

Chorus. 

Music break   

V3.  

Lists are all about living 

I’m buried up to my neck  

I’m still head first here  

With all this fear  

Hoping you would come back 

 

Brave

How do daredevils get in fast cars  

Jump off tall buildings  

Waiting for there bones to shatter 

To get a cigarette break  

Putting something out of its misery  

Like it was nothing  

That's the kind of courage I can’t even fake  

Chorus: 

Could you be yourself  

Do you need my help  

It’s not too late  

To be brave  

Could you be yourself  

Do you need my help  

It’s not too late  

To beeeee brave  

V2.  

I can’t understand  

Why every crazy plan 

Every crazy plan  

Comes my way  

Here in the spring  

you don’t mean a thing  

Mean a thing you say  

Chorus 

Bridge:  

I can’t define  

Why I cry  

When I see the ocean  

Hit the shoreline  

I get the fuel  

To keep moving  

Keep mooooving  

 

Together  

People still listen to the Indian Ocean  

Even though your just at home  

Waiting by the phone  

For a call from New York  

I didn’t realize it would last this long  

Didn’t take my time  

And every day just moved along  

And I called you when I should have just left you alone 

Chorus 

All I could say is missing someone aint easy  

When a whole world cracks you apart 

I could die to get back to you  

I never tried at anything so hard  

V2.  

There’s still alarms for the morning  

there’s still count downs at the launch site 

There’s still a bomb inside and outside  

They still think there’s a passage of time  

And it's strange that all this currency  

was never as current as we thought  

Maybe it was just an accident  

Or an illusion or a loss  

Chorus.  

Bridge 

After all this time  

You were never gone  

I came back one day  

And you were on the drums 

Together we can make it through  

Whatever comes  

Chorus.  

 

On and On  

I don’t want anyone to know me  

I don’t want anyone to care  

I want to forget where I’m going 

I’m feeling for the feeling   

Of coming home and finding you are there 

Parking in the backyard by the old barn  

Waiting for my brother in the dark  

The blue screen lighthouse bedroom window   

Your life just a monument  

And I wish I could have said to you 

What I can say in a song  

Pre-Chorus  

Covered in bees  

Wind dirt prairie 

We can feel free  

Under the dark sea  

And its 1 & 2, 3  

Then I turn green  

Forget and love  

Forgive and be 

Locked now   

We hear hear  

We find 

We find  

If you don’t dream 

There’s no seed   

Chorus  

On and on we go  

On and on we go  

On and on we go  

V2.  

I don’t want anyone to know me  

I don’t want anyone to care  

But sometimes I forget where I’m going 

I’m feeling for the feeling   

Of coming home and finding you are there 

Still waiting out there in the back  

Staring at the time and a map 

Wondering where we’d go if we can  

Wasting time working in boxes  

Working... for a ghost of a man   

 

Quicksand  

To my very best lost friend  

I still love you when I can  

Still crawl out of bed at 3am  

when you’re locked up  

I still hold you in my heart  

With a false hope and fresh start  

That could surrender this waging war inside you 

It was always a false spring  

I believe the wind fell on these trees  

That the summer wasn’t real  

but we were meant to meet 

In that ghost June. 

Chorus 

And if you ain’t comin’  

Your leaving  

And if you ain’t high then you’re dreamin,  

Don’t worry bout these sins tonight  

They could happen for a reason  

Maybe they happen for a reason  

V2.  

To my very best lost friend  

I’m sorry for what I did  

I left you in the dust for a while  

And I still thought to call sometimes  

But it seemed a little trying  

Seemed like every smile be lying  

When I kept saying you’d be fine  

You’d be fine  

Chorus 

Bridge  

Just hold me back  

I can try and save it  

I pull and I pull  

But I can never pull you out of this quicksand x2  

 

Christmas Everytime  

Everywhere you turn  

There’s some sort of trap  

One false step  

You fall down the hatch  

When I met you  

I was learning to laugh 

I was trying to decide if I ever go back  

Pre Chorus  

It's Christmas every time  

You come in  

Its secrets in the long lines of your eyes 

Chorus 

Our love doesn't know the way  

Our love doesn’t know the time 

It's been years of writing  

And hours of driving  

But our love’s not easy to define  

V2.  

I wish I could point a finger  

I wish I knew who’s fault it was  

That everything I do’s in service to you 

It's a long way and hard for the blood  

Pre Chorus  

Chorus 

Bridge  

Sing me songs of our hard time 

Of every bump in the road  

It's been a long heavy load  

Trying to make any kind of home  

 

No Doubt  

Should’ve went to see her  

Even thought I wouldn’t sleep  

Should've left that night for the coffin  

There’s no stars under 6 feet  

Should have taken every moment  

said there was to say  

Chorus  

Should have played played played  

Tll my hands when numb  

Till the people walked out  

Till there was no doubt  

This is where I should have been  

V2.  

Shouldn’t have left that party  

Even though it was getting late  

Should have drank some extra coffee  

And had tired eyes for the day  

Should have taken every moment  

rang it out like a rag  

Chorus 

Should have sang sang sang  

Till my voice gave in  

Till the people walked out  

Till there was no doubt  

This is where I should have been 

Bridge  

There’s a way the light hits the Fall front range  

Racing against the snow  

In mountains of blue whales 

And I call you in the morning from the star side motel  

Try to tell you you should be here  

But I could never say things well. 

Chorus  

 

End of Days  

Tell me about your plans  

For the end of days  

I’ll pencil you in  

I’ll meet you halfway  

I hear that there’ll be fireworks  

And a big parade  

They’ll be kids down the block  

Selling lemonade  

And I’ll meet you down there  

And we’ll drive around  

Past every old spot  

Where they kicked us out  

And I’ll take a deep breath  

And say all there was to say 

As we roll past the factory  

And down by the lake  

(musical break)  

Tell me bout your plans  

For the end of days  

I’m here by the phone  

ready for anything  

And your muffler cries  

As you roll down the hill  

Ain’t it nice to know  

There’s one thing less to fix  

And I’ll meet you outside  

With a pack of cigarettes  

A bottle of something nice that  

I’ve been savin’ 

 

And it doesn’t really matter  

If we’re smiling or not 

When we finally meet God 

And when I finally meet God 

And recap this planet  

I’ll be sure to mention  

You made it so I could stand it  

 

Tell me bout your plans for the end of days  

I’m here by the phone ready for anything.