Taught To Look Away Matt Pond PA

No one knows why we were taught to look away There might be something wrong with me There's nothing that I can't believe Are you listening two thousand miles from here? Is the same sky just as clear?

Sunlight Matt Pond PA

Think I push too hard I think that's what you said So why would I want to stay Oh no, no, see all of my mistakes Watch the whole thing coming down But I could never wait To wake up to alarms Before it

Reading Matt Pond PA

about it In the places we could go I'd rather never see Never look and never know I'd rather never know Don't hold it up for me I've seen all I can see Refuse to read about it In a monthly magazine

Lily Two Matt Pond PA

Lily, you don't have to When you see the moon You trust it's light The crickets sing loud Lily, you can hear it In their voices How you've made them proud At the top of your voice There's no doing wrong

City Song Matt Pond PA

"Looking down on the smallest thing I squint so I can focus You hold your hands like they were broken See me look and say your joking No, I don't think I get it Would not show I don't know it No it's best

Closest (Look Out) Matt Pond PA

Look out, there is danger Even in the simple word, hello Hiding in the reeds, you would not believe Where darkness goes Discovery is the warmth of eyes That leaves us lying in defeat From the tallest trees

The Trees And The Wild Matt Pond PA

The future is belligerent tells me work and worry even without sense you stick to plans concepts are embarrassing when you let them drink they tell you what they think i'm not listening i look back to

Giving It All Away Matt Pond PA

Giving it all away tonight To the first girl who comes up and says you are alright We can watch the stars in the same way For one night and then I'll go away Because I don't wanna be tied too tight That's

Copper Mine Matt Pond PA

When it snows from above the towers Ground stays still can`t get away Clothe the roofs hour after hour With this ease ignore the obvious Heard the cold lost all its power If we go let`s go away If we go

If You Live Matt Pond PA

I fell running through the fields, and you fell with me Our arms and legs were crossed under the grass's green I don't want to get caught looking, but somehow I always do Your lower teeth stuck out the

Winterlong Matt Pond PA

I waited for you, Winterlong You seem to be where I belong It's all illusion anyway If things should ever turn out wrong And all the love we have is gone It won't be easy on that day Waiting to follow

City Plan Matt Pond PA

The burns of our beginnings are gone in lights like these Orange white they try to kill the night get turned on for the streets We could lay and give into them or pray for a small breeze The city plan

Silence Matt Pond PA

I turned out backwards You turn with me Inside a basement bedroom Descent is seldom clean We`ll climb into attics Look down on the streets We stayed up through the seasons Words cannot compete And our

People Have A Way Matt Pond PA

People have this way of knowing everything They take one short look and then move on If you ever wanted anything Then you have to disagree Make some time with the fire's coals Who really knows if it isn't

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Matt Pond PA

I'm so tired of working everyday Now the weekend's come I'm gonna throw my troubles away If you've got the cab fare mister you'll do alright I want to see the bright lights tonight Meet me at the station

Spring Provides Matt Pond PA

light You only see at night Stay on the edge of crowds They'll say their secrets loud The numb deceits We fled for idle streets Now second guess our sky Something is passing by I will not wait For anyone To

Locate The Pieces Matt Pond PA

every branch for the sake of the sun Later flashlights make spots in the dark and we chase them The green glow of lightning bugs in the night Start the sky bending sidelong, the hardest part is trying to

The Moviegoer Matt Pond PA

all these things within my pockets might belong to someone else or so it seems they're just like me they could be wrong i spent seven hours waiting for a bus that comes and goes if i don't wait then i

The Crush Matt Pond PA

Call off the crush, it started with my arm Across your chest it was enough There is so much that never goes away There is a crush from how our arms can weigh And deep beneath the sheets I see Another arm

Wild Girl Matt Pond PA

out okay The trail was washed up in the rain The cops cannot catch us now Hey, little wild girl By the ocean, dressed in white All that's left is your whole life All there is, the world is gonna give Look

Everything Until The East Coast Ends Matt Pond PA

When you have decided the question was too long to listen don't give up Keep it going You can be on my side you can have my side til morning we won't stop on and on and.. everything you want to be i can't

Until The East Coast Ends Matt Pond PA

When you have decided The question was too long to listen Don't give up Keep it going You could be on my side You can have my side till morning We won't stop On and on and Everything you want to be I can't

So Much Trouble Matt Pond PA

Did you go to montreal or hide behind the package store you're hanging out with your old friends with them they knew you'd see the end you're in so much trouble can't hide in your covers it's forgetting

Several Arrows Later Matt Pond PA

Orange streetlight picks up when the summer sun goes On tops of buildings red remains It's the differences in light that gets our minds, that gets our minds Give waking up for never fading And I walked up to

Devil In The Water Matt Pond PA

Tonight the sounds are from the ceiling they turned up to be a floor strained on muffled conversations the eyes hesitate for more laying low but not escaping find by contrast what is free hear reminders

Foreign Bedrooms Matt Pond PA

It's hard to breathe in foreign bedrooms When you can't find sleep You've lost your sleep It's coming clean You don't like dreaming The way your mind should go alone Deep in the night With the halos around

Brooklyn Stars Matt Pond PA

breath has changed I do not stop Turn all the locks Don't hold your breath you shouldn't wait The birds and cars Speak up when they reach morning I know some day The spring will return again I'm returning to

New Hampshire Matt Pond PA

I saw a modest dream The kind that can't speak up And lost before it's let out In the north we hold our tongues But down here I believe When you pull your hair back it's so easy to see This has not been

Grave's Disease Matt Pond PA

try The winter froze all of your things and you went inside It's not surprising No there's no surprise This cold here is one of the properties of the elements This cold here is one of those I wish not to

Claire Matt Pond PA

"Pray to the simple machines That do not rely on belief The softness of steam and of gears Their energy is surely pure The kindness of engines is not in you Claire you do it perfectly The water is all

Snow Day Matt Pond PA

will follow a set of deep tracks Other people all stay hidden As the cars rest under snow drifts so clearly the dark sky Appears framed by cables So clearly your breath's white As you struggle to

From Debris Matt Pond PA

"Your feet upon the snow dear I knew you could not believe it There was no time to put shoes on You were woken to alarms ring You barely left your blankets To see your neighbors house on fire They were

It Becomes Night Matt Pond PA

It becomes night Cut from the window pane over my bed Out to the winter trails And where they have led I`ve seen a few things going by And I still wonder why it becomes night Cut from the riverbank is

A Part Of The Woods Matt Pond PA

quite there And we`ve never done anything wrong I`ve betrayed the whole concept of ground Right there for standing Understand though I can`t see what`s sound Got branches waving Deep in the dark woods To

Basement Parties Matt Pond PA

get up, get out, lines are gone With the green you're leaving I don't mind silence I don't mind sitting I can be quiet I wish you could hear me Go back, you repeat Trace the veins that you don't want to

Close (KC Two) Matt Pond PA

darkness killed all doubt Not more than an hour And mostly simple words Straightened out the corners And for a short time filled the seams So no light could break in Without all the lows There's no way to

Magic Boyfriend Matt Pond PA

telling me last night You were laughing through your tears About the moon and the stars Nothing seemed that clear You need a magic boyfriend You want a magic boyfriend Someone who understands You tried to

Measure 3 Matt Pond PA

Will we both be happy to stand alone I can`t see forever where will I go I`ll stop thinking I will be ordinary Your laughter kills me You can`t hurt me that won`t matter at all So we`ve stayed together

Last Light Matt Pond PA

Night comes in and takes our light As we turn once again in the sun We don't have to drift out of sight But shadows will fall and run Yeah, they'll run, they will run, they will run As the day in

Bring On The Ending Matt Pond PA

cannot hear in case nobody called Follow the prim ones and sit on your hands Watch your step, don't hardly move, speak in hushed tones Till they bring on the ending, they bring on the ending As we file to

Last Song Matt Pond PA

Civilized All our lives Not a breath The grass unmoved To sleep inside the stillness Without blood Without air All the stares Averting eyes This was what's worse than dying My mind was set Just like the

Jefferson Matt Pond PA

From these lists I put the blame If everything from Jefferson Down to Arch Street remains Along the lines tonight`s the same I believe I`d use my feet What we know I go too far The border of the granite

Emblems Matt Pond PA

ages But the clock counts in hours Asleep we watch standing Let's give up on cowards Speaking in fables Burns out holes where we stand Doors lean towards leaving You know somebody's looking Two tend to

A New Part Of Town Matt Pond PA

The ghost of the ghost Barely exists But he knows what he knows And he wants to be sure That you see him He was alive When he slept with the snow Now we know that he lies `Cause he says he wasn`t cold

This Is Montreal Matt Pond PA

We stayed up on New Year`s We went for confusion The streets were all covered Water had frozen Slid on our stomachs Small fingers had broken And you want to be sure That you`ve slipped and you`re lying

KC Matt Pond PA

There's no way to the heart better than awkwardly In Canada on New Year's Eve, you said, you'd never seen Someone bleed like I bleed, perhaps I was on The shaking hands, the hands we'll shake There's nothing

The Butcher Matt Pond PA

out the lines in the paper Cut the split seconds The ones over filled When you thought you were caught with unknowable thrills Instead you get absence Soft haze in the face The lines in your head, have to

Honestly Matt Pond PA

believe Later on that night our faces filled with firelight Our eyes moved along with everything we said Stars were calling from their haze that follows summer rain Voices hoarse from everything we tried to

Crickets Matt Pond PA

In the darkness behind the greens and gold There`s always things you wish you hadn`t done There`s always things you wish you hadn`t done Winter again will help you breathe Comfort that comes with less to

It's Not So Bad At All Matt Pond PA

The whole of your decency under the snow When you land, when you land Know all there is to know Splinters trigger, pain inside your thumb Don't give way to it till the ax has swung You're carelessly catching