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Here's the explicit lyrics warning:
WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS
Do not read if you are under age, under something, under someone or easily offended.

But It Is

as i work i await the phone call
or the ring of the door because
even in my concentration you are near
in thoughts i can't avoid
i feel like a glass so full it would spill
with a touch of your hand
but brimming still you can't help but reach out
and suddenly i'm scared
and i don't want to call it love but it is

wait will we ever know
wait will we ever feel
wait will we ever be
and i'm scared to call it love but it is

but that's not enough to stop me
i don't want to live in fear
so i'll be with you now
and i don't want to call it love but it is

as i sleep you accidentally come to mind
where i can't run away
even in sleep you are too near
in dreams i can't avoid
and i don't want to call it love but it is

Love In The Night

i hate that i can't walk alone at night
and i hate that i have to lock the door
i hate that women cannot feel safe
i hate the predators
i hate the fear
but i will not let you control me 
and i will not accept this violation
and i will not sit idly by

so fuck you who make women feel afraid
disappear with your anger and violence
take your fucking stupid excuses with you
and be gone
out of life
and i will love to walk at night time
and i will leave my window open
and i will love the night again

so i'll walk with my hand clasped to your hand
we walk side by side looking both ways
we walk feeling safe with each other
we walk boldly
and we will love to walk and night time
and we will leave our windows open 
and we will love
and we will love
and we will love the night

Survive

tears come before sleep and i'm waiting for you
i drift into myself familiar now i come home
i will survive somehow without you

darkness falls with sparks and i can no longer see
you gave me life mother 
and now you take it back from me
i will survive somehow without you

it feels like mother all i've ever been is gone with you
you fade into my dreams
only images remind me of
i will survive somehow without you

i cannot think that day will come
no more sweet embrace
i'll remember always
i will survive somehow without you

Longing (Eyes Wide Open)

miss myself sometimes
i miss the girl i used to be
i miss knowing where i'll be tomorrow
i miss the smile that was real
but i know she's out there somewhere waiting
i know i'll find her as long as i
keep my eyes wide open

i miss my reflection when it rains
i miss my feet when i don't own them
i miss feeling safe all alone
i miss the laugh that was real
but i know she's out there somewhere waiting
i know i'll find her as long as i
keep my eyes wide open

i miss believing i knew
i miss wishing for simplicity
i miss the girl i see in pictures
i miss the smile that was real
but i know she's out there somewhere waiting
i know i'll find her as long as i
keep my eyes wide open

Not This Time

you say i love you you're my girl
and i say it doesn't really matter now 
you won't take a step
you say i hate something about everything
and i say i love the world
i say it didn't have to be this way
not this time not this time

you say i didn't want to do this to you not you
and i say don't act like you didn't 
have a choice in the matter
and you say god have i lost my best friend
and i say never but you've lost this hand
i say it didn't have to be this way
not this time not this time

Sleep To Hide

keep still now please don't move 
i want memories of only this moment 
before buts before rationale 
because that only counts when in control
and this beauty that i perceive 
may be swayed by what's forbidden
and sleep to hide cause waking is torture 
as you've made it you thrive a bit

like structures i see you 
in your own design but do you see
trulywhat do you see 
when you bother to look
and this beauty that i perceive 
may be swayed by what's forbidden
and sleep to hide cause waking is torture 
as you've made it you thrive a bit

so feel but don't act
we all live our lives half way more than half the time
but what's it worth then
exactly what we give it
and this beauty that i perceive 
may be swayed by what's forbidden
and sleep to hide cause waking is torture 
as you've made it you thrive a bit

Easier

hunched over i feel the strain 
my thoughts have put on me once more
cursed again in realization
i wonder sometimes would it be easier 
to never have let you hear me near me

as i am pulled apart i scream for you

to hear me as you walk into the house of her
as my hands hold my head the weight increases
and it never ceases to amaze me how you 
show me know me
i wonder sometimes would it be easier 
to never have let you hear me near me

as i sleep tonight to your voice

maybe i'll dream of you 
and your eyes as they see through me
and i wonder sometimes 
would it be you who breaks me
takes me

hunched over i feel the strain
my thoughts have put on me once more

Scarlet

i am scarlet
i am holy
i am everything i want to be
i am here and now
i am gone for good 
i hold out take in and let go as i please
i am the focus i am the envy
i am the spilling life and laughter and pain
i am all that is a woman yeah
and woman is all i am

i am subtle
i am softly
i am tucked away hiding from danger
i am tough and sweet
i am on and off
i'll stand up face up and sing out as long as i can
i am the crazy i am the serious
i am so many things that i don't even know yet
i am all that is a woman yeah
and woman is all i am

Fall Out

where is all this pent up coming from
you say i was right really it's not about that
and resentment reaps my energy
i want to use it for love
i have no more control
and i like it a little
i

your indifference is mirrored in mine
but the lurking is more prominent or am i dreaming
the worlds run together so 
so do i
and you say i'm not ready 
really you're too anxious
you
there's too much to discern or is my mind telling me so
i still have hope i still have love i still have peace 
i still have i still am me

i watch you falling i feel you falling
i focus to see you
the patience is as trying as the tension
knowing your visage i'd see long before my eyes knew
eyes
there's too much to discern or is my mind telling me so
i still have hope i still have love i still have peace 
i still have i still am me

so i see so i know
you fall out you cave
you when i knew all along
i knew but how could i not
even attempted would be frivolous
and we long and we and
let go
fall out with me

Catalyst

driving across town on second street 
being a catalyst for love and i feel so incomplete i 
do it for everyone else but not for myself i 
don't know how to i guess don't 
think i deserve it i guess you 
shouldn't leave your door unlocked that way you shouldn't charm them that way

although you didn't mean to

i worship the earth beneath me because i 
don't know what else to worship 
but all that's not really true and i 
also worship the sun & the moon & the stars i 
love their peace and i love the way they gleam you
shouldn't leave your door unlocked that way you shouldn't charm them that way

i sometimes look into your eyes 
because there's so much to see and i 
try to swallow it whole 
but instead it swallows me and i 
wish you could see your beauty 
but instead you see mine you see mine

on second street i can go east oh i 
love your laugh and i love your spunk baby and i 
dig your smiling eyes
when you cry

driving across town on second street 
being a catalyst for love and i
i'm a catalyst i guess
i'm a catalyst i guess

Tell Me

you ever have one of those days when everything 
goes the opposite of how you expect it to go 
the danger lies in the expecting and i'm not 
foolish enough to think i don't have a choice
i'm not foolish enough to believe things just
happen to me in some arbitrary fashion
but sometimes even though i know i need
tell me i have the right to fuck up
tell me it just seems i'm alone
tell me i'll be alright
tell me i'll find peace

in my life the lessons are what 
i choose to learn i could
turn away from the horrors of the world 
but what good would i be then 
i see with my heart but i've so much to see hear and feel
and i don't know what to do i'm sorry i
don't know what to do and i'm not
foolish enough to think it'll go away if we 
ignore it enough
but somewhere somehow i need some sign of peace
tell me the world's not so fucked up
and tell me the fighting will stop
tell me we'll be alright
tell me there is peace somewhere

maybe i'm begging for a false hope 
from someone anyone listening?
i know i'm not the only voice the only one
scared for myself scared for the world we share
so tell me where did it all come from
give me evidence and
where will it all go
and there's a voice i hear 
whispering to be heard beneath my cries
tell me the fate of the world because it's being made
tell me because i don't know 
even though i'm supposed to and
tell me it's up to you now
tell me we'll find peace

Somewhere In My Mind

somewhere in my mind i see my feet dancing
my hands move quickly and i am free
somewhere in my mind i feel i feel without indifference
i feel emotion no intellectualism
the dreams and realities that i spin through
it all runs together
and i run to catch up i scream for ears
unheeded i go back to my mind

somewhere in my mind love is returned 
i don't fight alone
and somwhere in my mind 
i don't need words i don't need faces i don't need proof
the dreams and realities that i spin through
it all runs together
and i run to catch up i scream for ears
unheeded i go back to my mind

somewhere in my mind is silence purity
somewhere i am peace
somewhere in my mind i see my feet dancing
my hands move quickly and i am free

Maybe

why haven't you walked away
you're not ready for me 
you're not ready for me
you're not ready for me
maybe i don't want to wait for your heart to heal
or maybe i'm scared i'd have to heal my own

why haven't i walked away
i'm not ready for this
i'm not ready for this
i'm not ready for this
maybe i'm can't imagine having your heart
or maybe i can't imagine having my own

why are you still here
wanting me 
and insulting me 
and staring at me
maybe i don't want to wait for your heart to heal
or maybe i'm scared i'd have to heal my own

why am i still here
challenging you
and holding you
and singing for you
maybe i think you want me here
or maybe i want to be here

Boxcar

boxcar dreaming of a place i once knew
ain't going to let myself think
time's run out
for the passion it lies
in delirious minds and i wouldn't have it another way
invaded by my own imagination
betrayed by thoughts of twisted situations
what to do no one to blame
will you start having faith in who you are

we run away from time anything
thinking we'll be fast enough 
for clasped together we find ourselves 
and i'm losing control
invaded by my own imagination
betrayed by thoughts of twisted situations
what to do no one to blame
will you start having faith in who you are

boxcar dreaming to return to unknown
floating memories too powerful
for i had no idea we'd be free
we'd be lost in time
invaded by my own imagination
betrayed by thoughts of twisted situations
what to do no one to blame
will you start having faith in who you are
and we stop dead in our time 
and we stop dead in our time