'68 LYRICS

1. Track 1 R

Take your heart into the next room.
Make a scene but make sure they ain't there for you.
You collected their hearts, you collected it all and
Now you know that it will never be enough.
You've got to run.

Disappointed in the places that you'll never (even) go.
Cut quick but make sure it bleeds out slow.
You've created this world to give your heart a beat.
You've got nothing to prove but you're going to prove it anyway.

My hands are almost clean.
I've told you everything.
My closet's got nothing but that does not mean the dead can't be seen.
It means I've written it down.
My guts are on the floor and I have shoved it though the wires...
I've written it all before.
Pieces of you and pieces of me can come together.
Beautiful.
Let us talk.

Settle down, we're gonna die, it's alright.

2. Track 2 E

It doesn't matter what you say,
They could always disappear.
They'll fall asleep and never wake.
No one would hesitate.
Recollection, fact or fiction.
Revolution?
Churches collapsing.
Falling around me.
Revolutionless?

It doesn't matter if you respect or believe
Because she could eat you like a full-grown disease.
I don't know if I have room to speak but
You're a six foot man in the middle of a grave.

I'm not scared, I'm just bored.
I don't know if I can help anymore and that's what terrifies all of me.
Resurrect yourself.
Never underestimate the power of change.

3. Track 3 G

Hey kid, don't listen to them.
We got a long, long way to go.
And yes Death speaks the truth but
It's imagination that she lacks.

May your response be riddled with truth.
May your responses be nothing but trust.

If trust would be my lover, I'd take her anywhere I go.
We'd mark the wolves of the cities,
One by one,
Until our hands showed their bones and
For once Love would be immortal.

And the rivers want to speak and
The deserts sing as well.
I "want" too.
I want a war.
Maybe it is the end for us but
I can't stand still.
Make every silence worth it.

4. Track 4 R

Stained glass.
I wish that I could say that it won't last.
Idle hands.
The devils cup.
I would lie but you won't believe.
Nostalgia will not kill the best of me.
I'm thinking out loud again, shame on me.
Let's keep it cool.
Let's not complicate it.
I never really lost my innocence but
She quickly got rid of me.

My answer is still, "no."
Would you give it up,
Would you let it go?
All the places that I can hide
Are growing smaller every time.

Your sad songs understand all my words are gone.
They put my hands to the plow and we move along.
Silence is a native word
Balanced upon my tongue where life and death occur.
Silence will keep your feet planted upon the ground.
Simply complicated.

5. Track 5 E

I've been taken to the edge of it all.
I've been on the other side.
I have seen the cost.
Maybe I got lost.
I've been taken to the edge of the free.
I looked across it all to see what you could see,
But that ain't me.

I've been lost, I've been found
And I've been blind again.
I got so close to the sun I could shake her hand,
But that ain't me.
I now know what it is to be free,
Light it all on fire and then you'll see...
You and me

Don't take me away.

6. Track 6 T

Over thought.
Undersold.
I have sung every song I know.
If you knew what it means to me
That you came along and didn't disagree.
I don't know when I am going to die but
I have done it once and I know that in this life,
Keep your eyes in the clouds,
Keep your feed on the ground and
Dance to the drums of your own song.
Take what you can from this life but
Then make it all count.
Celebrate it.

Sing a song of sixpence.
Don't flatter yourself,
Don't make it rich.
Over thought.
Over grown.
Over heart.
Undersold.
What does all of it mean?
Sell a lot of life and some soliloquies?
My heart, must stand.
Pardon me while I move along.
Riches unseen.

Proper compromise and worship.

7. Track 7 N

The future has seen better days.
Always, closed doors.
Open old sores.
Makeshift Holy Ghost,
But I need more.

It's fair enough to say that I am never walking back.
Never going out.
Never shaking hands with lifelessness.
But I walk alone with you by my side.
You've given me a thousand tries.

Headlines.
Half truths.
Half life and it's half used.
Golden hearts,
Silver tongues,
Slant rhymes and I might be the only one left.
I found you in the fire but you claimed that it kept you warm.
My whole though process is nothing more than what I say.
I never understand the synchronization of a water down revolution.
The death of a son.
The death of a salesmen, the anointed one.
So what is there left to say?
Everyone's given up but
I was born on a different day and
I drink from a different cup.

8. Track 8 O

Hey, I still got a lot to say.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm right.
Maybe I can't give up the fight until I am gone.
My bags are packed and I'm leaving a stranger.
Unlike this moment, I will be okay.
Maybe I'm to blame, but
I fear I might be singing alone...
But clouds without rain,
I will never be.

9. Track 9 T

I can understand your hesitation but
You can't understand mine.
I'm hoping you hear me because I know you are blind.
I want to leave hear tomorrow but I really should leave today.
I can take you so far but you take my hand away.
Maybe, I should know my part again.
If they take your crown away,
Is that really all that makes you king?
I am the brightest of black and white.

10. Track 10 .

Barricade all of your fears and we'll speak to you the truth.
If you can't teach me to fly,
By God teach me to sing.
Heaven sent, as I watch the clouds swallow me whole.
The honky tonks have saved my heart,
They saved my soul.

Sail on...though she knows not of your face.
The sea is a raging mistress and
Fear is her maiden name.

Hesitation.
Figure it out.
Step up to the fields of the distractions.
Brace yourself, for I am the overgrown.
We've got nowhere to go but we are all dressed up.
40 days alive.
We watched it all rise.
My thoughts,
My heart,
My fear,
My treasure,
My life,
My path,
My get-to-the-point-don't-make-me-wait,
Shake it up,
I'm restless,
Less dancing.

I am the troubled waters, make no mistake.

Here I am, all the stars are aligned.
Though I found you in a fortress,
The stars are aligned.
Here I am.







'68 LYRICS