Just Being Honest
V1
Do I need to sleep you off?
Like a shot of bronze
Am I living in a dream
That I'll soon regret?
Do you whistle while we work?
While we break our backs
When you made us in your eyes
Did you drain your heart?
PRE
Open the door for me and mine
Open the door for me and mine
Seems like you're gone
Say that I'm wrong
HOOK
I’m just being honest
V2
My son's living as a ghost
My soul, face defeat
My friends say I'm going mad
My Lord takes a seat
TAG
Just be honest with me now
Bumped My Head
V1
I forgot how to talk to you
I got a word yet my lips don’t move
I know we spoke just the other night
Your new look doesn't fit your vibe
We used to have good times didn’t we
We used to have good times didn’t we
HOOK
I musta gone and bumped my head
Cause I don't know you anymore
forgot what you said
Or if you spoke at all
oh I know I should know your face
But all trace of you has been erased
I musta bumped my head
V2
When I talk does it move the world?
Can I make you do things you won't?
Does your molecular structure change?
Will you listen if I say your name?
Once upon a time, very dearest friend of mine
Once upon a time, very dearest friend of mine
Sit Beside Me
V1
Believe me when I say
Things are going wrong
The weather's always rain
I hate my favorite songs
I forget to drink
I don't have time to eat
Should I see a shrink
Or should you come see me
HOOK
Come sit beside me
Sit beside me
V2
In a crowded room
I'm never more alone
In a busy life
All I want is home
Love can be defined
By a simple thing
Just pull up a chair
And don't say a thing
BR
I got a seat if you want it
Cause all I need is to be wanted
No I don't ask to be applauded
Just every now and then thought of
V3
That old memory
is a killer yet
We do not refrain
to fill her up
I remember when
everything was fine
I remember when
You were by my side
Fight Fair
V1
I heard you had a baby
Life won't let him be a man
Why don't people understand?
Isn't it confusing
That making new life is a chance
Birth is a lottery
CH
Life don't fight fair
When you're down for the count
It punches you out
Life don't fight fair
When one person thrives
Another survives
Life don't fight fair
V2
Words are what we live on
But now that fate is stealing yours
You can't catch a single breath
Pretty soon you'll realize
As life becomes more beautiful
The uglier it gets
TAG
Life don't fight fair
So I won't fight fair
Upside Down
V1
When he was a child
He couldn't wear
His hat to church
All the girls would dress
With checklists and
Approving dads
He took it all in
He didn't know why
Kids don't think solo
They think in packs
Now he wears his hat
And he don't believe
God wants to brawl
CH
His whole world is flipping over
Flipping, flipping till he's seasick
And he's so sick of being upside down
Yeah he's flipping upside down
V2
When the apple climbed
Back up the tree
And hung itself
That is when my world
Began to tip
Began to flip
All I was sure of
Fell to the ceiling
All I grew up on
Left with a bluster
But one thing remained:
The story will begin again
CH2
My whole world is flipping over
Flipping, flipping till I'm seasick
And I'm so sick of being upside down
Yeah I'm flipping upside down
Rewind
V1
Can there be peace on earth for just a minute?
Can I just get a breath so I can finish?
Every time I sit down I get up again
Every time I laugh I feel a cry coming
Can we please hit the pause for just a second?
HOOK
Oh can we please rewind?
V2
Do you remember when we loved the summer?
Do you remember sounds of autumn singing?
But we have been dropping like the flies we are
Yes we have been falling like the men we are
Do you recall we used to know a thing or two?
No Man's Land
V1
I like living on the fence
It's much prettier up here
From this view you can see
All the grass is the same
Try to knock me over, you're coming out a loser
I like living on the fence
It's much prettier up here
PRE
Lost
I'm home
HOOK
I am in no man's land
I am in no man's land
I am nowhere and everywhere at the same time
I am in no man's land
V2
Cause the world is a black and white
Mess of a thing
I'm okay with the grey
I'm okay in between
God has got a palette
Why would we not have one too?
I'm okay with the grey
That's where color survives
Probably Wrong
V1
He's getting dressed in his Sunday best
But he don't see it's a lie
He buttons up and tells himself
The truth is in his eyes
Says he's gospel for the lost but he lost himself instead
He's getting dressed in his Sunday face
But he ain't no Jesus Christ
HOOK
He might be right
But he's probably wrong
V2
She holds a Bible in her right
And a hammer in her left
She can easily justify
The fort that she erects
Anyone can enter in but only if they’re in the club
She holds the Bible in her heart
But her heart's running out of room
HOOK
She might be right
But she's probably wrong
V3
I hold myself up to the clouds
And I think they measure up
My opinions matter more than listening in love
The good Lord gave me a pair of ears
But I use one at a time
I hold myself up to the clouds and think I measure up
HOOK
I might be right
But I’m probably wrong
Abracadabra
Our Father who art in heaven
Honor be to thy name
My kingdom come, my will be done
My world needs a little help
Give us today the things we need
And maybe a little more
Forgive their sins, and fix our lives
And don't let our neighbors hurt us
In Jesus' name, abracadabra
Grenzbegrifflich
V1
We sat eye-to-eye talking
Then you posed me a big thought
“Why’d this happen to me, man?”
Teardrops rolling down, weary
I said “Man that is a question
With another Question there
People label it ‘random’
When they cannot explain it
PRE
‘Why’ might be the wrong question
Let's ask ‘what now?’
HOOK
You don't have to know
You don't have to know why
You don't have to go
Very far to find what you are looking for
Don't lose yourself
As you look for answers, friend
You don't have to know
You don't have to know why
V2
So here is what I believe in:
Questions help you in seeing
If that's true, then you know what
We can have 20/20 doubt
Do you wanna know the answers?
Or can you be okay left out?
Where's the heart of Existence?
I know where: grenzbegrifflich
The Hour God Lost Belief
V1
Some call me a doubter, some call me a saint
Put my finger through the hands to praise the name
I get such a bad wrap, like a middle child
My name became an insult, disciple turned defiled
When I watched my whole world scream in agony
faith was redefined as lost religion freed
but let me tell you something, don't paint me a foe
Jesus was the biggest doubter ever known
HOOK
And the truest faith to me
Is in the hour God lost belief
Now I am caught right here
Caught right in the middle
Right in the middle of thieves
Now I am caught right here
Caught right in the middle
Save me, Uncertainty
V2
Everyone believes they're right, including me
Everybody's Savior is tame and loves their creed
But maybe no one knows the Holy Question Mark
Maybe no one knows we've all just got it wrong
Unease
V1
If you can hear my voice
Then you know life don't give
Don't give me any choice
Don't give me guarantees
But without guarantees
I start to not want a thing
That's when I get it all
The Divine thrown right in
Sorry if that sounds vague
Or maybe it's heresy
But I have no other way
To make sense of what I see
All that I hope and pray
With my uncertainty
Is that you'll remember us
That you'll remember me
PRE
Am I empty, eager for a drink?
Or am I drunk on a god?
HOOK
Take me with all my wondering
Take me at my unease
Take me even though I don’t take you some days
Take me at my unease
V2
Yes I believe in God
And in the afterlife
But only on Sunday morning
Or when I'm feeling good
What I am trying to say
Is I choose to look for Life
In the right now today
With my agnostic mind
PRE 2
I know that's a lot of doubt
Somebody please help me out
HOOK 2
Take me with all my wondering
Take me at my unease
Take me even though I don’t take you some days
Can we pretend that you love me
Can we pretend that you care
Cause I want someone who’s alive out there for sure
Take me at my unease
Inside My World
PART ONE
Wake up on Sunday morn
Quick comb through my hair
Preacher says listen up
But I just sit and stare
I don't know what I think
Don't know what I believe
God changes costumes
Each day of the week
Questions have existence
Cause all we got are clues
I'm right here right now, tell me - is that proof?
PART TWO
I do not know it all
As you can probably tell
Heaven ain't no cartoon
But I'm not so sure ‘bout hell
One thing I can't get past
Is why I'm still alive
What keeps my heart on beat
Who gives that beat a drive
Maybe when the lightning
Cracks across the sky
Someone's trying to break into my small world
Someone's trying to love up inside my world