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I drew a heart on your name on your back seat windowpane
You might not see it for weeks unless we finally get some rain
I try not to think of you but I'm afraid that it's not possible
You you're all the air I breathe, you all the light I see
California Winter
Close my eyes and all I picture
How you came in warm and went out with a shiver
California Winter
Midnight stars like heaven's glitter
Everything I am you make me reconsider
Palm trees and power lines, shadows in the fuchsia sky
I know your soul enough to find you in the afterlife
Take from me what you will because everything I have is yours
All of the air I breathe, all of the light I see
California Winter
Close my eyes and all I picture
How you came in warm and went out with a shiver
California Winter
Midnight stars like heaven's glitter
Everything I am you make me reconsider
I drew a heart on your name on your back seat windowpane
You might not see it for weeks unless we finally get some rain
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If I cry out the color from my eyes
Would it help me see this once in black and white?
For a moment I could let down my defenses
But the journey through your shades of grey are endless
No resolution, yeah, but I still try
Cause my love for you runs deeper than my pride
If I beg for your forgiveness would you listen?
Am I praying to a God or a magician?
Whoah
Show me the meaning of life - should the sky fall just before I get it right
I've searched the city for human nature
But all I found were a million strangers singing
'Whoah, show me the meaning! Show me the meaning of this life!'
I give up my pretensions; accepted my truth
I took a journey back to find it in my youth
If the words I'm meant to live by have no author
Then my blood should not run thinner than my water
Whoah
Show me the meaning of life - should the sky fall just before I get it right
I've searched the city for human nature
But all I found were a million strangers singing
'Whoah, show me the meaning!'
I'll never get where I'm going if I'm too afraid of knowing
I'll never get where I'm going if I'm too afraid of knowing
Whoah
Show me the meaning of life - should the sky fall just before I get it right
I've searched the city for human nature
But all I found were a million strangers
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I used to be the one that you always ran too
No one could hold you down the way that you knew I would
Now you lay with me pretending that you're even near me
I choose my words with caution cause I know that you don't hear me
I should've known when I saw the signs, but I only looked away
Maybe I held on a little too tight, maybe I held on a little too tight
I don't know who you run to but I won't get in your way
Somehow I guess I loved you too much too soon, too little too late
Don't twist the knife so slowly, just make it painless
Don't talk like you don't know me and don't act like you're so shameless
Enjoy it while it lasts cause when you least expect it
This might all come back around just to haunt you if you let it
I should've known when I saw the signs, but I only looked away
Maybe I held on a little too tight, maybe I held on a little too tight
I don't know who you run to but I won't get in your way
Somehow I guess I loved you too much too soon, too little too late
It's all too little, too little too late
I don't know who you run to but I won't get in your way
Somehow I guess I loved you too much too soon, too little too late
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I drove by place that we used to call home
And my heart skipped a beat turning onto the road
I thought about knocking but who would open the door?
Did they find that broken promise that we carved in the floor?
I've seen some of your pictures, seems like you're doing fine
I'm keeping my distance but I'm frozen in time
So let go of me, let go of me, you're not mine but I'm still yours
Let go of me, you're controlling me, I can't go on like this no more
Yeah I sound so lame but you've got me chained and I refuse to let you know
I just wish you'd let go
Yeah I'd call but I'm scared that you'll pick up the phone
And I'm trying my hardest to leave you alone
I thought about texting - would you leave it on read?
I don't want to annoy you, I'll say nothing instead
I feel like your puppet, you're pulling my strings
I just want to ask you for one final thing
So let go of me, let go of me, you're not mine but I'm still yours
Let go of me, you're controlling me, I can't go on like this no more
Yeah I sound so lame but you've got me chained and I refuse to let you know
I just wish you'd let go
Let go
'Cause I don't want to be the one to let go first
Don't want to be the one, don't want to be the one
Don't want to be the one to let go first, no
Don't make me do it
So let go of me, let go of me, you're not mine but I'm still yours
Let go of me, you're controlling me, I can't go on like this no more
Yeah I sound so lame but you've got me chained and I refuse to let you know
I just wish you'd let go
Let go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
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Hand on the bible
I swear this is true
I’m your disciple
What you command I will do
Just don’t ask me to leave now
We can still make this work
I’m down on my knees now
Your heart is my church
Your love is holier
Holier than thou
Your love is holier
Holier than thou
Whenever I stumble
In all of my mistakes
For you I am humble
I bow in your grace
I’m hardly an angel
But you give me wings
Without you I’m lost, so just name your cost
I’ll die on your cross
Cause your love is holier
Holier than thou
Your love is holier
Holier than thou
Down on my knees I will stay
Unto your heart I will pray
Cause your love is holier
Holier than thou
Your love is holier
Holier than thou
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And even though the moment passed me by
I still can't turn away
'Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose
Tossed along the way
And letters that you never meant to send
Get lost or thrown away (no, no)
And now we're grown-up orphans
That never knew their names
We don't belong to no one
That's a shame
You could hide beside me
Maybe for a while
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell 'em your name
I won't tell 'em your name
Scars are souvenirs you never lose
The past is never far
Did you lose yourself somewhere out there?
Did you get to be a star?
And don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are?
You grew up way too fast
And now there's nothing to believe
And reruns all become our history
A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell 'em your name
Oh, no, I won't tell 'em your name
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FiXT invites you to join The Bad Dreamers’ David Schuler as the artist performs unplugged versions of five powerful tracks. “California Winter,” “The Meaning of Life,” “Who You Run To”, "Let Go Of Me", and "Holier Than Thou" take on new life in these intimate piano renditions, guided by Schuler’s heartfelt vocal performances. Unplugged From Home is available now on all platforms from independent multi-genre label FiXT.
released January 19, 2022
Written, Produced and Mixed by David Schuler
Published by 1mpression Music
"Name"
Written by John Rzeznik
Published by EMI Virgin Music Inc