FAILURE

I hate the way I stand somehow I used to be taller

And if there was a bright side now it feels so much duller 

I used to think my world was big but it's gotten so much smaller

Sitting at the wheel but I can't set it in motion 

Think I took a wrong turn I feel sick at that notion

If worry were the rain then I would drown in an open ocean

I don't wanna

Feel

Feel like this

Please don't make it 

Real

I can't miss (oh)

And nothing broke me like a smile from a stranger

Can't shake the feeling that they know I'm a failure

I used to have a plan but that was just a delusion

Burying my head cos I can't find a solution

And they can see me shine 

But it's only an illusion

I don't wanna

Feel

Feel like this

Please don't make it 

Real

I can't miss (oh)

And nothing broke me like a smile from a stranger

Can't shake the feeling that they know I'm a failure

Ooh 

I'm on a knife edge of it all (everyone's proud of you back home)

Everyone's proud but do they know? 

I don't wanna 

Feel

Feel like this

Please don't make it

Real 

I can't miss

I don't wanna 

Feel 

Feel like this

Please don't make it 

Real

I can't miss (oh oh)

And nothing broke me like a smile from a stranger

Can't shake the feeling that they know I'm a failure

And nothing broke me like a smile from a stranger

Can't shake the feeling that they know I'm a failure

 

• • •

 

THIS WAS NEVER LOVE

That was the table we sat when I poured my heart out to you

That was the seat you said nothing the way that you always do 

Cracks turned to shards

Rubble to dust

Til there was nothing left to glue

And it was sad

Sad how you left

Me with the hardest part to do

This was never love

This was never love

Mmm

I feel full colour and all that you do is in monochrome

Blind to my shame and the pressure the first time we were alone

You're made of wood

But I can be fire

I can be ice and glass and stone 

You buried your head

Cos you were a coward

Left me to face it on my own

This was never love

This was never love

I kept all my heart

It still broke apart

Broke apart

Stare through the window at ghosts of us there in our faded hue

There was a time in my life when I thought that I hated you

But wounds turn to scars

Faded old marks

Marks that you barely feel no more

And looking back

It's hard to tell

What all my tears were wasted for

Sitting at home

Dusk at the beach

Cos you know she would hurt the worst

And I got your note

And I left it unread

Cos now at last I put me first

This was never love

This was never love

I kept all my heart

It still broke apart

Oh yeah

This was never love

This was never love

I kept all my heart

It still broke apart

Broke apart

 

• • •

 

A MIND MADE OF SKY (THIS TOO SHALL PASS)

You’re lost again

Don’t recognise this place but you know it

It’s back again

Crept in and you barely even noticed

But this too shall pass

This too, this too shall pass

Emotions are the weather on a mind made of sky 

Maybe you can’t see it but there’s blue still behind 

And sometimes there are storms so big

They swallowed all of your light

It’s alright

They don’t last

This too shall pass

This too, this too shall pass

This place called home

Still there but they boarded up the windows

Stands all alone

There’s ghosts still littering this place though

This too shall pass

This too, this too shall pass

Emotions are the weather on a mind made of sky 

Maybe you can’t see it but there’s blue still behind 

And sometimes there are storms so big

They swallowed all of your light

It’s alright

They don’t last

This too shall pass

This too, this too shall pass

Oh

This too, this too shall pass

All we need is time

Time will make it better 

All we need is time

Shelter from the weather

All we need is time

Oh time will make it better 

All we need is time

Gonna shelter from the weather

Emotions are the weather on a mind made of sky 

Maybe you can’t see it but there’s blue still behind 

The shadow of a storm so big

It swallowed all of your light

It’s alright

It don’t last

This too shall pass

This too this too shall pass

Oh

This too, this too shall pass

 

• • •

 

I’LL SEE YOU

These are the days that were made for rumination 

Of bad ideas and the need for validation 

They say don’t look back 

You’re not going that way

But I look anyway 

And I see you

Down the line

Hundred-miles-a-minute kinda girl of mine 

I feel you

All the time 

Scenes that I have lived through playing on my mind

Did you ever see such a sad and lonely scene

As two loose ends hanging caught in the could have been 

I won’t turn my back 

Upon the ghosts of yesterday 

They made me this way (two three!)

And I see you

Down the line

Hundred-miles-a-minute kinda girl of mine 

I feel you

All the time 

Scenes that I have lived through playing on my mind

And left you

Feeling bad

Nothing really anyone can do about that 

Just know it

Turned out fine 

Everybody fears being left behind 

Make peace with your shadow, shadow

I know, I know

Forgiveness, so hard though, I know

I know, I know

Bitter pill to swallow, I know

I know, I know 

But holding on

It won’t serve anyone 

Won’t serve anyone 

And I see you

Down the line

Hundred-miles-a-minute kinda girl of mine 

I feel you

All the time 

Scenes that I have lived through and I left behind

And I see you

Down the line

Hundred-miles-a-minute kinda girl of mine (girl of mine)

I feel you

All the time (all the time)

Scenes that I have lived through playing on my mind

And left you (left you)

Feeling bad

Nothing really anyone can do about that 

Just know it

Turned out fine 

Everybody fears being left 

behind 

 

• • •

 

ROSE TINTED

(Rose)

Thought I was onto something 

Turned out that it was nothing 

Lord I'm so tired of talking while my life keeps slipping away 

I play it by the letter

Thought I could've done things better but the 

Future scares me to death and it's closer every day 

I don't know, I don't know

I don't know where the hell the time goes 

And how do you know, how do you know

How to let go

I've taken my time but now I see

A change in the light marked a change in me 

And the black in my soul left me jaded 

I used to see red and now it's faded 

The grudges I hold stick close to me

Being my best bad company

I was so mad when I was in it

Now it's all rose colour tinted (rose)

Rose

Tinted

Rose

Tinted 

Rose

Rose 

Head strong foot to the metal 

Strange how the dust had settled cos I 

Thought I was something special but you learn some every day

I don't know, I don't know

I don't know where we'll be tomorrow 

And how do you know, how do you know

How to let go (should I let go)

I've taken my time but now I see

A change in the light marked a change in me 

The black in my soul left me jaded 

I used to see red and now it's faded 

The grudges I hold stick close to me

Being my best bad company

I was so mad when I was in it

Now it's all rose colour tinted (rose)

Rose

Tinted

Rose

Tinted 

Rose

Rose 

Hating on you such a waste of my time

Stepping on my

Peace of mind 

And I still feel you in the passenger side

The window seat

By my bedside

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

How do you know

How do you know

How do you know

I've taken my time but now I see

A change in the light marked a change in me 

How the black in my soul left me jaded 

I used to see red and now it's faded 

The grudges I hold stick close to me

Being my best bad company

I was so mad when I was in it

Now it's all rose colour tinted (rose)

Rose

Tinted

Rose

Tinted 

Rose

Rose 

 

• • •

 

SKIN AND BONE

Well maybe it's the changing in the weather

Or I look I found there in your jaded eyes

Another season gone to dust forever

A new day come to find us where our bodies lie

Skin and bone

Heart and lung

I couldn't see it when I was young

Now I talk about it in every song

And as another year falls like leaves to the ground

I'm in awe how through the darkness you can stay so fair and mild

Don't you think that this silence is an awful sound

My roots here weak like the fingers of a child

Skin and bone

Heart and lung

I couldn't see it when I was young

Now I talk about it in every song

I'm stood right where I'm meant to be

It's clarity

I'm stood right where I'm meant to be

It's clarity oh

She said I

Have no fear

How that was a bad idea oh

But all my love

How you got no idea

You've got no idea

How my life hurries by like a storm burst river

I'm a leaf in the flow

I can't deliver one grain of security

How the pain of that's killing me

Skin and bone

Heart and lung

I couldn't see it when I was young

I'm stood right where I'm meant to be

It's clarity

I'm stood right where I'm meant to be

I couldn't see it when I was young

I was young

I couldn't see it when I was young

I couldn't see it

I couldn't see it when I was young

Now I talk about it in every song