Sleep

Tonight the kids will sleep better than I ever have
But darling, that's okay because you are my favorite reason to lose sleep
It's gotten to the point where I can't tell the difference between my dreams and reality
And I can't tell if the happy ending is in my dreams or in my reality
Oh, I hope it's the latter.

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Take the time to read in between the lines and you will find what's been in front of you the whole time.
It's been like a flashing light blinding your eyes.

However, take your time because I'm not going anywhere, I swear.
Take your time because I'll never be ready to leave you alone.

I'll dream my life away if that's what it takes to let you know.
I'll dream my life away if it means you'll be here in the morning.

Just give me a break, it gets exhausting waiting for you.
But I'm in this for the long haul and I'm in this because I know you'll be happy with me.

Two Types of People

When you are around me, it seems like I can't act like a person or act like an actor.
All I can do is stare while you talk on your phone all day long, all night long.

Your eyes, they still haunt me to this day, each and every day.

There are two types of people:
A. Ones like you who wait for me to come talk to you because you're just so pretty.
B. Ones like me who are too afraid to talk to you, guess why. Because you're just so pretty.

You Dance

It was your voice I heard in the middle of the night and it was the motion of your body that kept me awake.
How could I have let a moment as perfect as that pass me by? I think it's because of that moment that my eyes have been locked onto yours.

A Place To Stay

I know that you can feel it, too--the way everything gravitates toward you, like me, I just can't help but watch you walk right past me.
And every night, I can't help but think of how the hell you don't catch me staring straight at you.

I never tried to hide it.

Something deep inside my heart tells me that you are falling apart as well as I am, except you don't let our a tear.
Just let me know when you need someone, I'll be there in the blink of an eye, I swear to God.

I swear to God, I never tried to hide it--I made it plain as day.

I built a house along the shore; a house for you and me, a place to call your own, a place to your home, a place you'll always know, a place to be alone, what else could you ask for?

What Would've Happened?

In the end, it'll all be worth the pain you put me in
Until then, I'll stick to the guns I've stuck to for the past 3 years of my life.

Every day I ask God what would've happened if you stayed with me a little longer.

You've got me floating in my own shoes whenever I'm around you.
I think it's that way you move that makes my whole world seem so motionless.

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Sunsets don't mean a thing to me after knowing your hands are so close to mine.

I struggle knowing you're an arms length away from me,
And I struggle knowing it's ridiculous for you to lose sleep over me.

I've been lost in this daydream for a while.

Sometimes, I swear I know I should call it quits, but you're not something I want to give up on

Sandcastles of the West Coast

When you walk you drift along
When you speak you sing melodies
You deserve so much better than what you've got.
You deserve so much better than a boy like me.

In the times you weren't looking, in the spec of your eye,
You cracked a slight smile and I fell apart.

My tears dry on their own but leave stains you cannot see.
You deserve so much better than what you've got.
You deserve so much better than a boy like me.

In the times you weren't looking, in the spec of your eye,
You cracked a slight smile and I fell apart.

Your melody kept flowing in like the West coast current and I fell apart like a child's sandcastle.

We'll Always Have the Mountains

It's getting so damn hard to believe that the mountains I'm looking at aren't the same ones you are
Every cross you make, I'll be making with you
Every smile you fake, I'll be faking along, too

I believe that you'll do alright without me,
I believe that I won't do as greatly s you

It's getting so damn hard to believe that the moon I'm looking at is the same one you are

Every cross you make, I'll be making with you

Every smile you fake, I'll be faking along, too

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We'll run away from here because even though we have all the time in the world, we won't waste it here
We won't waste it in a place where you're not thought to be so breath-taking

Come and steal a sunset with me
We'll soar above the clouds and fly this crooked sky straight into the night

Leave behind your excess belongings, you won't need them where we're going
But even then, you'll be strolling along the coastline with another thought on your mind, a thought that will never be me

Just know I'll be thinking of you tonight.

Pretty Girls Aren't Meant To Cry (Every Time)

I can't seem to find the words to describe you and everything you are to me.

Although you don't know my name, the world still seems to slow down every time I see you
And although you barely notice me, my legs get weak with every thought of you

With each and every tear that rolls down your face, I realize that pretty girls aren't meant to cry.

My eyes can't stay closed for long and I can't seem to sleep at all because every time I close my eyes, I see you
Because you're my secret that will take me away from this balcony
Because you're my secret that no one needs to know of

We're Together, But Our Tongues Are Tied

It's a long drive home and the road's not getting any shorter.
With my head pressed up against the window, I can tell this silence is only getting quieter.
And we exchange glances at every stop sign, but we never see our eyes, even at the dead ends.

The fall leaves leave, just like you and me.
But the only difference is this time is that you don't look back,
The only difference is that neither will I.

We're stuck at the end of the road with no ride home.
My tongue is tied, and I don't know what to say to you.
Is your tongue tied, too? Because I'm lost for words.
If you walk away this time, I'll call it off.

Love Is Her Name

What did  you expect? I can't control myself, I swear
I swear, he looks at you like you're a piece of heaven
A piece of heaven when your eyes met
It could have meant nothing to you, it meant the world to him, it meant the world to me

I'm leaning over the edge, I'm falling for a person I barely met

If love left me, then she is love
She is love, even if she doesn't know it.

The moment my eyes met you felt like lifetimes
The moment my eyes met you, I set myself up to fall apart
And every morning the day breaks, so do I.
And the seems of my tailor made sleeves are tearing, and I'm running out of places to put my heart.


If love left me, then she is love
She is love, even if she doesn't know it.
(Love from a distance isn't even love at all)

I thought I had forever at my disposal, I thought I had forever to get her.

Even In My Dreams, You're At the End

Go tell the world of how I cried myself to sleep and continued to sob in my dreams
Because even in my dreams, you're still out of reach, like the child and the cookie jar
When I sleep alone, I think of how you're at the end of the universe to me

So sleep with me tonight...

Go tell the world of my greatest fear and how it's you, and how I can't even talk to you
Before I sleep, I think of how even in my dreams, you're out of reach
When I sleep alone, I think of how you're at the end of the universe to me

So sleep with me tonight because in my dreams I'm cold.

I'm shivering and you don't even know, you have no clue.

So sleep with me tonight because in my dreams I'm cold.
You fell in love, I fell in love, we fell in love, then I woke up.

My Worst Scene

Everything you thought of me was just make-believe, as fake as me in my worst scene

Truth be told, I'm a fabrication of your words, a series of phony men behind masks
Everything you thought of me was just make-believe, as fake as me in my worst scene

If you really knew me, you'd know I smile when I lie

I can do almost anything if you believe in me.
If you're by my side, I'll be just fine.

All I Know

The days go by quicker when I'm asleep
But there's a long way until we touch back home
Every night I dwell on the words you say
I dwell on the words you never said

All I know is here, all I know is you.

Lately, I've had nothing to be proud of, except for you

All I know is here, all I know is you.
(Let me fall apart all alone)

All I know is here, all I know is you,
Something tells me that I'll never get you.

It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn

In our life of self-intrigue, we lost ourselves in fantasy
And every hour that passed by, felt like an eternity
We had enough time to fill up the rest of our lives
Instead, we screamed at each other until we lost our voices once again...

In our life of self-intrigue, we lost ourselves in fantasy
And every hour that passed by, felt like an eternity
It's always darkest before the dawn, but what if dawn never comes?
Between you and me, this always ends up badly

To my darling drowning on the inside,
We just have to, isn't that enough to get to you?

We felt something right, something gold
We felt something in our bones

Once again, I've lost myself

Million Dollar Bet

There's nothing to worry about,
Sit in your room, take a breather while I work myself to the bone, raw and callous.
I'm not worth a dime, you're the million dollar question
If I take the time, do you think they'll notice?


Half of this, I said thousands of times
It's a reminder of what else I can't do
What is there left to prove?
You've taken every ounce of proof with you, leaving me with nothing left to do
Take the stage and show us all how it's done.


A fear so near, I know where this is heading
I'm not worth the dime, you're the million dollar answer
Even if I take the time, I doubt they'll notice a thing.

What is there left to prove?
You've taken every ounce of proof with you, leaving me with nothing left to do
Take the stage and show us all how it's done.


Look in that direction, it'll be your misconception
Think you know where to look?
That shows how much you know me.
And after all of this is gone,
I'll still tell you to flaunt your stuff,
Flaunt your stuff (Your superiority)
Flaunt your stuff (My inferiority)
Flaunt your stuff (It's harder than you think it is)
Flaunt your stuff (But I'll put 1 million dollars on the bet that you're aware of this)

Wear your wear proudly.

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I try to be the best I can even when I come up short sometimes
I try to be the best I am all the time

The intentions I live on are paved with gold that's as solid as your eye color
And I'm sorry that I disappointed you, I never meant to,
I never meant to betray your confidence, or tattle-tale like the child that slips away from us
Yeah, he departs once we all grow up,
Now we're all grown up and he's gone

Now look at me,
I'm finally taking responsibility for what I've done to ruin this
I'm abandoning this society of excuses that we're all taught to love
We learned to buy our vices, ignore advices, even throw away relationships like garbage
We learned to treat each with indignity and backhanded compliments