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