LYRICS - IMPOSSIBLE WEIGHT


 

1. SHATTERING THE HOURGLASS

Shattering the hourglass
try to make a moment last 
do I have to be strong enough?  

Walk into another world
where everything will unfurl 
do I have to be strong enough
to know what to do
I don’t know what to do

I can see you miles away
glowing like a gamma ray
and you slipped through my fingertips 
did I make the most of it?

Set me free
I can’t set me free

Shattering the hourglass
try to make a moment last 
all the lives that I tried to live 
did I make the most of it?

Lying there wide awake 
feelings that I couldn’t shake
Do I have to be strong enough? 

Set me free 
I can’t set me free
Set me free 
I can’t  set me free
Set me free 
I can set me free

You don’t have to be strong enough! 

 

2. LIGHTS OUT 

Lights out but my heart is still glowing
for once I recognize the pain in us 
I swore I wouldn’t look the other way
I hear the sound
I hear that voice ringing in my ear
I’ve got nothin’ to fear

Lights out 
I could hardly be awoken 
dead weight and I’ve got nowhere left to run
high hopes I will shatter to pieces until 
I hear the sound, I hear my voice saying

I’ll wait for you to carry me in the night
I’ll wait for you to carry me
I can’t see it any other way 
I can’t see it any other way 

I can’t see it any other way 
I can’t see it any other way
I can’t see it any other way
I can’t see it any other way
I can’t see it any other way
I can feel me heart is gonna change 

I wait for you to care 
I’ll wait for you to care 
I’ll wait for you to carry me 
I’ll wait for you to care
Lights out but my heart’s still glowing

 
 

3. WISHING

Not one to admit it
first one to deceive 
my recollections are a one way street
slide into the morning
right out of your sleeve 
my eyes are closed but I don’t get no relief

Wishing I was somebody else 
try to take the wheel and turn it around
wishing I was somebody else 
because you’re driving me into the ground

I’ve tasted your anger
It’s heat on my skin
I’ve brushed it off but don’t know where to begin
always pretending the seasons will change
they come and go and I bear the weight 

Wishing I was somebody else 
try to take the wheel and turn it around
wishing I was somebody else 
because you’re driving me into the ground
yeah you’re driving me into the ground

Sometimes I feel it 
my heart is bleeding out 
sometimes I get so untied
sometimes I feel it
my heart is bleeding out

Wishing I was somebody else 
try to take the wheel and turn it around
wishing I was somebody else 
try to take the wheel and turn it around
wishing I was somebody else 
because you’re driving me into the ground
yeah you’re driving me into the ground
yeah you’re driving me into the ground

 

4. IMPOSSIBLE WEIGHT 

This is what it feels like
walking in a straight line
stray talk clicking in my ear
this is what it feels like 
cliff dive broken mind
wondering how I got here

A million times tongue tied
spit it out 
never mind
I think I’m addicted to the fear 
stutter in my heart 
from the hurry up
stop dragging my heels around
dragging my heels around

But that was then and this is now
I tried so hard not to let you all down
It’s an impossible weight 
so I’ll just let you down now

Steady as the wheel turns 
on my way it’s ok
picking up the pieces 
put ‘em down 
stutter in my heart
from the hurry up 
stop dragging my heels around
dragging my heels around
dragging my heels around

But that was then and this is now
I tried so hard not to let you all down
But that was then and this is now
I tried so hard not to let you all down
It’s an impossible weight 
So I’ll just let you down now

It’s an impossible weight 
It’s an impossible weight 

 
 

5. SWITCHBLADE

She was on the way to her apartment
walking on the switchblade
both of us headed in the same direction
I could hear what she was saying 
why do I get so down? 
oh I get so down

Her father was a man of a thousand excuses
never tried to make it right
she learned not to flinch
even with all those bruises 
hoping things would change in time

I know you get so down
(It’s harder than you think)
Oh I get so down
(It’s hard to receive) 
I know you get so down
(It’s harder than you think)
I can’t pretend to know which way you should go

Now you walk alone to a broken melody
and I don’t want to fix you
I just want you to be free
but all you love is locked in a dream
and now you’re ready to give up this time

I know you get so down
(It’s harder than you think)
Oh I get so down
(It’s hard to receive) 
Oh you get so down
(It’s harder than you think)
I can’t pretend to know which way you should go

I know you get so down
(It’s harder than you think)
Oh you get so down
(It’s hard to receive) 
I know you get so down

You were on the way to your apartment
walking with a switchblade 
both of us looking for some kind of direction
I could hear you when you said
I know you get so down 

 

6. HURRICANE

There’s a hurricane without a name
lingering in your bones
I watch it devastate
rearrange
all that you know

There’s a solitude 
that comes with you
buries me under the wake 
I watch it devastate 
take away
all that we know

And I wanna know what I’ve lost 
Because it feels just like a bad dream
I’ve never felt so alone 
We keep searching for love 
in the places we don’t want to go 

There’s a hurricane without a name 
echoing in my soul
I watch it overwhelm
cut you down
right to the bone

There’s a solitude 
that follows you
buries me under the weight 
why can’t we walk away? 
It’s all that we know

And I wanna know what I’ve lost 
Because it feels just like a bad dream
I’ve never felt so alone 
We keep searching for love 
In the places we don’t want to go

 
 

7. EYES ARE RED (DON’T BE AFRAID) 

Into your arms
Into your soul
where do I turn
where do I go
everything hurts right now 

Into your arms 
Into your soul
where do we go from here
so nothing can hurt us now
at all 

Don’t be afraid 
Don’t be ashamed

Look at my eyes turning red
burn this down together 
I’m on fire
look at my eyes turning red 
burn this down together 
I’m on fire
Look at my eyes 

Who would’ve known
who would’ve thought 
we’d have to scream into the dark
I want you to listen up 
right now 

Into your arms 
Into the pain
pulling the tracks 
from under the train
and nothing can stop us now
at all 

Don’t be afraid 
Don’t be ashamed

Look at my eyes turning red
Burn this down together 
I’m on fire
Look at my eyes turning red 
Burn this down together 
I’m on fire

Don’t be afraid
and I won’t be ashamed
To look at my eyes 

 

8. PEOPLE COME, PEOPLE GO 

People come and people go
drift into the shadows 
by now I’ve got to know
you’re slipping away 

All of me wants something more
what it is I’m not so sure
everyday these things I know
get carried away

Right where you are 
right where you are 
Is right where you belong 

People come and people go
generation I don’t know
everything falls apart
and that’s ok 

While it keeps me moving on 
I never know if I’m wrong 
everyday these things we hold
get carried away 

Right where you are 
right where you are
Is right where you belong 

 
 

9. LIGHTNING BOLTS 

Lightning bolts 
they struck us both 
In the middle of the day
for a second I was totally blind
I laughed the pain away

Caught up in a vision
we were both giving up
I could not believe it 
thought it was another dream
but now I see 

Never want to be alone again
never want to be alone 
never want to be alone again 
our hearts ignite when they beat together 
when they beat beat beat together 

Taken aback by a photograph
you took so long ago
we were just kids 
to afraid to admit 
we had no place to go

Caught up in a vision
we had both given up 
I could not believe it 
thought it was another dream

Never want to be alone again
never want to be alone 
never want to be alone again 
our hearts ignite when they beat together
Never want to be alone again
never want to be alone 
never want to be alone again 
our hearts ignite when they beat together 
when they beat beat beat together

 

10. RUN AWAY WITH ME 

You tried to climb another mountain
But you fell all the way to the ground
ice caps and jagged rocks
like a serpent 
staring you down

Tell me I’m wrong 
but you can’t be anybody else 
your hands are trembling
but don’t kid don’t kid
don’t kid yourself

run away 
run away 
run away with me 
run away 

There are men without any aim
shooting apples off of our heads
when our bodies are full of holes
they’ll split whatever’s left 

I might be wrong
but at least its what I’ve come to expect
my hands are trembling 
but I won’t kid won’t kid 
Won’t kid myself 

Run away 
run away 
run away with me 
run away
run away 
run away with me
run away 

You gotta climb
gotta climb
gotta climb 
that mountain in your mind
we’re gonna climb
gonna climb 
gonna climb
gonna climb
the mountain in your mind