Rachael Yamagata Album

If the elephants have past lives yet all destined to always remember
It's no wonder how they scream
Like you and I they must have some temper

And I am dreaming of them on the planes
Dirtying up their beds
Watching for some sign of rain to cool their hot heads

And how dare that you send me that card when I am doing all that I can do
You are forcing me to remember when all I want is to just forget you

If the tiger shall protect her young then tell me how did you slip by
All my instincts have failed me for once
I must have somehow slept the whole night

And I am dreaming of them with their kill
Tearing it all apart
Blood dripping from their lips and teeth sinking into heart

And how dare that you say you'll call
When you know I need some peace of mind
If you have to take sides with the animals
Won't you do it with one who is kind

And if the hawks in the trees need the dead
If you're living you don't stand a chance
For a time though you share the same bed
There are only two ends to this dance

You can flee with your wounds just in time or lie there as he feeds
Watching yourself ripped to shreds and laughing as you bleed

So for those of you falling in love keep it kind
Keep it good
Keep it right
Throw yourself in the midst of danger but keep one eye open at night

Oh why don't you call when you say you will my dear?
Is it because I don't belong to you
Anymore

And why don't you come when you say you will my dear?
Do you really think it will work out wrong?

Oh and you've been lost and I've been saved
Is that what comes from giving away?
Maybe in time you will come back along to greet me

What if I leave...

Why don't you call?
Don't you miss me at all?
Left a long long time ago to where the weather was better for his kind

Why won't you play?
You've gone and lost your face
I may be a fool all along but I never understood these rules

Oh and every street calls your name
A whispering ghost of neighborhood flame
Maybe in time you will wake up to find you're free

What if I leave...

So I grow up longing for another
With the windy city left behind to my lover
Will you ever know the way I cry?
You were gone that day so you may have missed
my goodbye

Oh and sometimes in my dreams I hear you say,
"If you really care you won't go away"

What if I leave...

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Oh Lover, hold on
'til i come back again
for these arms are growin' tired,
and my tales are wearing thin

If you're patient I will surprise
When you wake up I'll have come

All the anger will settle down
and we'll go do all the things we should have done

Yes I remember what we said
as we lay down to bed
I'll be here if you will only come back home

Oh lover, i'm lost
because the road I've chosen beckons me away

Oh lover, don't you roam
now I'm fighting words I never thought I'd say

But I remember what we said
as we lay down to bed
I'll forgive you oh
if you just come back home

Mmmm..

Oh lover, I'm old
You'll be out there and be thinking just of me

And I will find you down the road
and will return back home to where we're meant to be

Cause I remember what we said
as we lay down to bed
we'll be back soon as we make history

I really thought I was okay.
I really thought I was just fine,
But when I woke this time,
There was nothing to take me back to sleep,
To take you off my mind
This time.

I keep saying over and over and over and over again
Let it rain, let it rain.
Over and over and over and over again,
Let it rain, let it rain.

I need to hide within a storm
So have the lightning come,
And bring the winds that scream
And spill the fog all over town

And hold me in your stand still ground.
And I will sink down, and you'll be washed away.
You'll be washed away.

Over and over and over and over again,
Let it rain, let it rain.
Over and over and over and over again,
Let it rain, let it rain.

I really thought I was okay.
I really thought I was just fine.
But when I woke up this time,
There was nothing to take you off my mind.

over and over and over and over again
Let it rain, let it rain.
Over and over and over and over again,
Let it rain, let it rain.

I need to hide within a storm
So have the lightning come,
And bring the winds that scream,
Spill the fog all over town.

And break down my door
And strip away the trees,
And raise the rivers high.
Just help me drown
And hold me in your stand-still ground.

And I will sink down, and you'll be washed away.
You'll be washed away.

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The last time I laid my eyes upon you
You were blowing kisses
I was waiting in the car

Something had died, yet
Everything around kept turning
Don’t even know where you are

Somewhere along the line we lost our horizon
I’ve been looking 'round, up and down
To no avail

Someday I hope to find the horizon
I’ve been all around the world
And nothing is clear

The last time I held you
It was head to heart
The curtain was drawn
I left you sleeping so sound

If I had known forever
After we would stay apart
I would have whispered
All the things I can’t tell you now

Somewhere along the line we lost our horizon
I’ve been looking ‘round, up and down
To no avail, no avail

Someday I hope I can find the horizon
I’ve been all around the world

I don’t believe in you
Like I so wanted to
I hope you’re asking the heavens above
To forgive all the damage you’ve done

And if I did teach you anything at all
I hope that you learned how to love
But I doubt if I'll ever talk to you, I don’t know

Somewhere along the line we lost our horizon,
I’ve been looking ‘round, up and down
To no avail, no avail

Someday I hope we can find the horizon
I’ve been all around the world
And nothing is clear, no
No, no, no

Nothing is clear to me now, at all
Nothing is clear, oh, nothing is clear
Nothing is clear to me now, at all

Nothing is clear, nothing is clear
Nothing is clear to me, nothing is clear
Nothing is clear, nothing is clear
Nothing is clear.

If I could have one wish,
If I could have some say,
I'd keep you far from harm.
I'd roll back both my sleeves,
Dig under your skin,
And fix your shattered bones.

Hold on, this may hurt you
When I tell you of the truth:
We don't get two lives to live.
It's true, the only fault I found in you
Is not being free to take what I would give.

If I could bend your pain
Into something good,
Make you a prouder man.
If I could rough you up
And save you with good luck
I'd show you hope again.

Hold on, we're not meant to suffer so very long
Even love that's gone has never been the same
Hang tight, the only fault you have tonight
Sitting down so cold 'til I break in.

Oh, sad young man, I think I need you
For reasons I don't know.
I pledge myself to winter season
So it's perfectly on course,
But in the end it has to snow.

If I can make you stay
Convince you you'd be lost
if we were torn apart,
If it remained unclear
Between the two of us
Which one would be the one
To break the other's heart.

Hold on, this will floor me.
Differently than any drug that's washed me into sleep.
It's true, the only fault I'll take from you
Is how to run from what you wish to keep.

Do you want to be my sidedish friend
'Cause I'll miss you if you go for good
Yeah
We can stay together 'til the very end of time

If it's understood that I don't want you hanging out with me
But I want you when I call
And we can stay together separately and we won't be lonely at all

Oh boy
Oh boy
I got to think about that
Oh boy

And do you want to be the one on hold
'Cause you know I'll always come right back
Yeah
We can find a quiet place for both of us to go

If you always know that I don't want you hanging out with me
But I want you when I call
And we can stay together separately and we won't be lonely at all

Oh boy
Oh boy
I got to think about that 'cause every time
(Every time)
I think I'm all right I think I'll win you over I hear you say
(Hear you say)

That I don't want you hanging out with me but I want you when I call
And we can stay together separately and we won't be lonely at all
I don't want to get too close to you
And I don't want you close to me

There's a back door waiting just for you if this isn't what you need
There’s a back door waiting just for you if this isn't what you need

I think he's in a jealous rage
She's probably not the easiest one to live with either
There's nothing worse than bitterness
just splashed across the page
I don't think that either one of them are fit to be alive
Oh, She'd just shut up and do what she does best
Show a little bit of skin
But keep it all when she's undressed
And doesn't she know that she is doing it all wrong
You can't tell a joke, yeah
While I'm listening to your song

All of this talking and all of this chatter
Is making me sick
even though they say it doesn't matter
Let's put them in a room
Or maybe they should stay apart
Or maybe words are meant a mile
Yeah, let's f**k with their hearts

There's no reason to change
So lets watch everybody bleed
Cause everybody loves an accident
And everybody loves what they read

I think he's gonna be a big star
A voice of social change to rearrange the worlds perspective
But there's nothing better than watching him go down
He could pick up a habit or get in trouble
That might be affective

Oh, If he'd just shut off his conscience for one day
And take a cue from all of us
And give us a song we can really play
Doesn't he know he's going down
And going down fast
If he keeps on being difficult
He'll always come in last

All of this talking and all of this chatter
Is making me sick
even though they say it doesn't matter
Lets take away the stars
Give while enough a add-on
He's calling for backup
But, I'm strong enough to take that phone

There's reason to change
So lets go all have a beer
Cause everybody loves an accident
And everybody loves what they hear

Two sides working together
And working against one another
Two bad souls are destroyed
It's the nature of business
You know how this part is

Oh look, they're losing all of their trust
Oh look, they're trying to bite the helping hand that feeds them
We put clothes on their backs
And they try to take the money up front
Now they don't like what we're saying
So lets up and leave them

We would have done what they are doing anyway
So this shit about taking in the souls
And lifes lasting misery
We're gonna take them down
And do it on the front page
Watch those little crooks come crawling back on bended knee

All of this talking and all of this chatter
Is making me sick
even though they say it doesn't matter
I'm becoming a bore
Now I am wasting ashore
Now I'm still broken
But the subjects been spoken

There's no reason to change
But it sure is fun to advertise a fight
We're feeding off each other once again
But now neither one of us will give an inch until I break

I hope
I hope
I really hope
I hope
I hope
I hope
I hope

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