The New Amsterdams Album

These are models of my own design
Two circles never meeting
One in 92 and 95
And it's all been up to me

May not listen to my own advice
It can be so overwhelming
There are strains on every double life
But you won't hear me complain

Yes it's true
You knew
You believed it
You should just turn
And walk away

Took a compliment and photograph
Committed it to memory
Model of how not to act
At least not imitate

Wouldn't it have been ideal
If it all fell down from heaven
How am I supposed to feel
When I know what you did wrong

Yes it's true
You knew
You believed it
You should just turn
And walk away

Yes it's true
You knew
I was leaving
We're under the same sky line today

All that i have is finally over
Good knocking again
I've given the chance, do it all over
To lose her again
Sleep tight, never you mind
Lonely hearts breaking tonight
Never i dared had i, been close to sober
Is out of my head
Back of my mind if i only had shown her
Shed be mine again
Sleep tight, never you mind
Lonely hearts are breaking tonight

Sober you up
The odds in your favor
But I wouldn't wager anything
The clouds in your ears
Hold off your bets now
It's al going too well

Something has got to give
I wouldn't wait for it
Baby I'll bet it's over due
You're lucky to be alive
So I wouldn't count
On anything

Proceed with caution
From here on in
Proceed with caution
From here on in

Sober you up
The odds in your favor
I wouldn't wager anything
Clouds in your ears
Hold off your bets now
It's all going too well

Something has got to give
I wouldn't wait for it
Baby you'll bet it's over due
Lucky to be alive
And I wouldn't count
On anything

Proceed with caution
From here on in
Proceed with caution
From here on in
Proceed with caution
From here on in
Proceed with caution
From here on in
Here on in
Here on in

hold back my lip
watch my step
spinnin world hurts me
facin backwards might cause you to slip
so slow down
watch your step
take a little trip down
who knows where you'll land
your broken hands scratch my back
mend me now
my chance to move on
who's to know
the outer side, the outside
my glimpse, a glimpse
gather my sense
sit and back and mend myself
take a walk outside
too bored to sleep
sit back and mend myself
take a walk outside
too bored to sleep
not enough time to get anything halfway done
not enough time to get anything halfway done

wait up for me
you're where i want to be
stop long enough to say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
it's all said and done
keeps me at ease
sings us both to sleep
we don't have to say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
all said and done
goodbye

She says
Idaho
Is calling you home

Old friends and lovers
Returning the blows
Cry me a river
Miss understood
(If you're misunderstood)
For all ever after
Knew that you would
(How I knew that you would)

I didn't turn on
You turned away
No one is listening
Anyway

She says
Idaho
Is calling you home

Old Friends and Lovers
Returning the blows
Cry me a river
For misunderstood
(If you're misunderstood)
For all ever after
Knew that you would
(How I knew that you would)

I didn't turn on
You turned away
No one is listening
Anyway

Time is the best thing for giving in
No one is listening
Time is the best thing for giving in
No one is listening
Time is the best thing for giving in
No one

She says
Idaho
Is calling you home

Get over some how
my drama queen
old wounds and rebounds
old ha.......
I got the time
you've got the notion
new faces repeat
my drama queen

Don't expect so much at all
If the test does beckon me
If I should fail if I should fall
I will lose no stability

No not at all
Cause it's the best just not to try

Get away got no family but this
And this little piece of heaven
I am not about to risk

What if I fall?
What if I never make it home?
Home

That's a fear
That I can't bring myself to face

So let it go
Don't bring it up
Put more value on
What you want to give up

What if I fall?
Nothing could make me change my mind
My travel scar
And they break more broken hearts

When I was younger
I'd have run away
My dependence made me stay
Now I'm tired and afraid

And the world at large a frightening place
That's a fear I can't bring myself to face

Baby, I see you've made yourself all sick again
didn't I do a good job of pretend?
Baby, you're saying that the victim doesn't want it to end
Good. I get to dress up and play the assassin again
it's my favorite
it's got personality
I should have seen this shit coming down the hall
every night I spent in that bed with you facing the wall
if I could have only once heard you scream
to feel you were alive
instead of watching you abandoning yourself

Baby, you can open your eyes now
and please allow me to present you with a clue
if I inflict the pain
then baby only I can comfort you, yeah

Out of the night we come
and into the night we go
if it starts to hurt you
then you have to say so

you can run from the sorrow
and all that you lose is the chance to make peace with the path that you choose
little apple, i'm sure, is as small as you think
bitter reminder the drown is in the drink
i admit i regret that i'm needing you
i'm depressed, you're the mess, that i looked up to
i retract every word that i say
i swear, i'll never treat others
i sweat, i'll never treat others that way
maybe this isn't anything like it should be
you'd be humble and famous, it falls perfectly
i have made some decisions, choices you make
then i see, to my error, i've made a mistake
i admit, i regret, that i'm needing you
i'm depressed, you're the mess that i looked up to
i retract every word that i say
i swear i never treat others
i swear, i never treat others
i swear i will never treat others
don't open your mouth
don't worry about it
if i was in your place i'd never allow it
i admit, i regret, i'm needing you
i'm depressed, you're the mess that i looked up to
i retract every word that i say
i swear i never treat others
i swear, i never treat others that way.

walk away today, i must leave you behind
like we've waltzed around the words so many times
we remind in time that the motions will repeat
but the distance doesn't finalize defeat
so it goes
there's a weight that never seems to let it go
and i'm passing through the atmosphere like smoke
on the way today
free from town to town
every anticdote i lift gets written down
every letter ever sent her does remind
that our memories are always on my mind
so it stays
wait for the world to stop and i won't run away (x3)
at least not today

Cough

I know
Ah shit

I know
I'm not supposed to be
It isn't different
You're unimpressed
By industry
You just stopped listening

Whoa

Give it all away
Any god-damned day
You're all I want
If I have to choose
I'm choosing you
I'm choosing you