You were my best friend but I was never yours / Sharing a kitchen and dirty tiled floors / I would've listened if you had told me how / Not to annoy you between then and now / It was my birthday and you came / By yours I couldn't say the same / Would've been easier to ignore / If I hadn't been let in before / Once upon a time I felt wanted / Back before you knew what you'd started / Took the card from my hand / And you steamed off the stamp /Till I doubted that you'd ever write it / I feel uninvited / I feel uninvited / Drinking your coffee, do you still take it black / Thinking about me, would you take it all back / If we could have the days we spent / Looking up how to pay the rent / Selling our homemade scarves online / Whose patterns would you choose over mine / Once upon a time I felt wanted / Back before you knew what you'd started / Took the card from my hand / And you steamed off the stamp / Till I doubted that you'd ever write it / I feel uninvited / I feel uninvited / I feel uninvited / I feel uninvited / And I know people leave home, people move on / It doesn't mean bad things about us / But I've heard you're keeping in touch / And it hurts so much / Being the only one that you grew out of / Once upon a time I felt wanted / Back before you knew what you'd started / Took the card from my hand / And you steamed off the stamp / Till I doubted that you'd ever write it / I feel uninvited/ Once upon a time I felt wanted (I feel uninvited) / Back before you knew what you'd started (people leave home) / Took the card from my hand / And you steamed off the stamp (people move on) / Till I doubted that you'd ever write it / I feel uninvited / I feel uninvited / I feel uninvited / I feel uninvited
I bury all my anger / But it echoes in the ground / It echoes in the ground / I plead in a foreign language / But you recognize the sound / You recognize the sound / Is justice just too timid / It goes rigid like it’s bound / Or it’s nowhere to be found / This waking dream is vivid / I wish they’d blur it out / I wish they’d blur it out / Like faces on rollercoasters / Like slogans on rain-soaked posters / Like lovers without their glasses / Tears on their lashes / We wander through the farmland / Seek static in the maze / We’re out of it for days / Sink slow into the quicksand / We’re holding at our lips / And smile between the sips / But when we fog the windows / Old battle lines appear / The plans we drew so clear / The fire that cast the shadows / Sends smoke into our eyes / Demanding that we rise / Like faces on rollercoasters / Like slogans on rain soaked posters / Defying the laws that told us / The sky couldn’t hold us / Making space for the star-crossed / On the couch where the coats get tossed / Under cardboard and pizza sauce / Love gets lost / Clear the counters, a fresh start / Fold the boxes around your heart / Then see their name on the chore chart / And fall apart / Like faces on rollercoasters / Like slogans on rain soaked posters / Watch and you’ll see them shaking / And know that you’re waking
A guest in the forest / Migrating south / A high flier hoping / To make it out / The year’s growing older / With the alder tree / But I’ll still be the elder / When she catches me / All that I know / Was whispered in groves / Far from my home / A long time ago / I’m listening close / All night and all day / If I knew more / I’d show her the way / But all I can give is / A good resting place / All I can give is / A good resting place / Left home with a purpose / A chest full of pride / And never imagined / That she’d have to hide / Went looking for answers / So deep in the mist / Lost sight of a compass / That might not exist / Cause all that I know / Was whispered in groves / Far from my home / A long time ago / I’m listening close / From far out of range / Since we were young / So much has changed / So all I can give is / A good resting place / All I can give is / A good resting place / I breathe in the burning / I hold what I can / I offer a branch / Or an arm or a hand / Whatever will reach her / I’m trying to grow / She can’t hear the voices / From roots down below / All that I know / Was whispered in groves / Far from my home / A long time ago / I’m listening close / So scared I’m too late / Till I feel her touch down / Testing her weight / All I can give is / A good resting place / All I can give is / A good resting place / All I can give is / A good resting place / All I can give is / A good resting place
Lover don't hold back / Read me the roast / I know it's been rocky / Since we left the coast / My dishes have piled up / While dinners have burned but / Remember last April / When tables were turned / In this round robin / Round / Robin round / When you missed him so much / You just stayed in bed / I lay by your side / And made sure you stayed fed / And when you had work / I would stand on the rug / Coaxing you upright / My arms wide to hug you back round / Robin round / Robin round / Brought you round / Robin round / Robin round / It's so hard to know / When the spark has gone out / In this world that turns quickly / From flooding to drought / But I've got your back / Not because you've got mine / But because you deserve love / No matter when yours comes around / Robin round / Robin round / Comes around / Robin round / Robin round / Comes around / Robin round / Robin round / Comes around / Robin round / Robin round / Comes around / Robin round / Robin round / Comes around / Robin round / Robin round / Comes around / Robin round / Robin round / Comes around / Robin round
What do you think we would’ve learned about / If your mom hadn’t talked you out / Of thinking it meant something when you gave me gum / After sleeping on my shoulder in the auditorium / And yeah, I know I didn’t like kissing Marylou / But maybe cause she never really wanted to / I wasn’t the girl she needed me to be / I mean I wasn’t her dad, it had nothing to do with me / Could I have skipped all the bad boy gloom / If I’d just leaned in that night in your room? / Our foreheads touching but I had to go / Jessie was waiting in her sister’s car below / I guess we’ll never know / I guess we’ll never know / I guess we’ll never know
I call her, she answers, the rest comes easily / There's no one else who makes me feel quite the same / I call her, cause it's Sunday, and I've waited all week / To hear her smile shine through the vowels of my name / And I know that I will never call her mine / I'm not lying when I say that that's just fine / Is it strange to love her and want nothing more / Only dreamed about her two times / Or maybe three or four / I scroll through the pictures from back when we first met / Yellow balloons are frozen feet from the ground / She's dancing in denim and I don't know it yet / But she's the reason he keeps coming around / So I know that I will never call her mine / I'm not lying when I say that that's just fine / Cause she trusts me, I don't need anything more / Only dreamed about her two times / Or maybe three or four / Maybe three or four / Oh, won't get the chance to choose her / Oh, at least I'll never lose her / Oh, we'll stay just like before / I'll call her up on Sunday / Just like every other Sunday / Nothing more / Nothing more / Cause I know that I will never call her mine / I'm not lying when I say that that's just fine / Is it strange to love her and want nothing more / Only dreamed about her two times
Wrapped my arms around a pillow / As I shivered on the couch / Wishing I knew more of courage / And the landscape of your mouth / And my head was right by your head / Lying in the letter L / We were staring at the ceiling / If you knew I couldn't tell / You had offered me this moment / Sharing seven cans of beer / But my heart was beating so loud / Neither one of us could hear / And my head was right by your head / Lying in the letter L / We were staring at the ceiling / If you knew I couldn't tell / Lying in the letter L / Lying in the letter L / Lying in the letter L
I didn't know how much I needed to leave till I was driving away / The screen door slammed behind me like a trap / With half of Pennsylvania past, I finally found what I was trying to say / "It's time to put myself back on the map" / My favorite navigators told me it might take a while / They put me back together mile by mile / I still love you but it's not enough to make me stay / Give me red horizons wide I'll watch you fade to gray / You led me down so many roads, the nights were warm, the river would buzz / I wouldn't trade the sights we've seen for gold / But somewhere in the summer I was losing track of who I was / I had to leave before the trail got cold / We sat inside your car as I was waiting for the bus / Talking about anything but us / I still love you but it's not enough to make me stay / Give me red horizons wide I'll watch you fade to gray / The future is a painting and it's hanging crooked over my bed / There's still a lot I've got to straighten out / I've never liked admitting when I've found myself in over my head / But that's what growing up is all about / It's following a feeling, and falling into kneeling / And waiting for the healing / I still love you but it's not enough to make me stay / Give me red horizons wide I'll watch you fade to gray / Cause I still love you but it's not gonna make me stay / Give me red horizons wide I'll watch you fade to gray / Oo / Oo / Oo / Oo