Sixth Man of the Year (Wallflower)

The instant becomes a minute
Then, a minute turns to two
I am standing in the corner
Never knowing what to do
Frozen by the fear
Of endless peril been defined
Hidden in the shadows and I'm running out of time

Why am I running in a thunderstorm
Trying to outrun the rain
Because no matter when it gets me
It always ends the same?
Takes too much to get too little
So, it's time to end the game

Quitely I'm waiting
Keenly waiting for the sign
Ready for the moment
The last chance to make you mine
I'm tired of the panic
The manic, frenzy in my mind
I'm scared of indecision
And it's only half past nine

Don't want to call you baby
Don't want to call you hun
Don't want to call you pet names
To let you know that you're the one

Why am I running in a thunderstorm
Trying to outrun the rain
Because no matter when it gets me
It always ends the same?
Takes too much to get too little
So, it's time to end the game

Power of Dreams

Do you believe in the power of dreams
The power of seeing's limited by extremes
Hope in your heart is where it all starts
But the power of dreams is much more than it seems

Otis' soul had dreams to remember
Johnny plays prayers toward a deeper agenda
Starting now I can see the best part of me
Your blue eyes won't hurt me, won't tell me lies

I'm looking towards tomorrow because I'm satisfied today
And I don't have anywhere to go
I'm not bound to this earth
New light begins a new birth
Towards the light who will save me from I haven't found

Do you believe in the power of dreams
Too high or too low, there are no extremes
Hope in your heart is where it all starts
But the power of dreams is much more than it seems

It's simple, but it's true
I think I always knew
That believing dreams are possible
Makes the world come to view

My Every Wish and More

True love is a myth we tell who we're with
To make sure that they'll be ours forever
I know there's too much
When I cannot feel your touch
And the fear of eternity is within me

She's a trusting soul
I take her honesty as shelter
Believing in her words
Is easier than searching within myself
There's a warm place where we can be together
Do I lead her down the aisle
Where I know I'll break her heart?

Some days I'll pray
Some days I'll wish I can fly away
But you let me daydream
'Cause you know I won't go far
You're all that I can dream for
You're my every wish and more

You can call it self-defense
Or define it how you want to
Pretend you didn't see this coming
Or is that just all want I want?
You're a dream girl,
When all I need are problems...
Why must you be my savior,
When who needs saving is yourself?

God, I think this is why we don't get wishes...
Or our every dream made true...
Because we don't truly know what's within our heart
We let our brains relay the message
How we read those dots and symbols
Determines our true fate
I'm done playing detective...
I have too little time to wait

Jennifer, it's all I ask
For you to let me now unmask
And show you all my deepest fears
I've kept within me for all these years
I'm finally ready to disclose
All the questions that are posed
When I'm the one who tries to sleep
Within the ocean, cold and deep

I'm sorry I haven't been the one
For you to turn to
For you to share
But that doesn't mean that I didn't care

What matters now is that I'm ready
My shaken hands are now rock steady
Despite my fears, despite the tears
You're all that I dream for
You're my every wish and more

Next Train to Tokyo...

I guess I’m confused with where we’ve been
…and where we’re going…
I look at you with wonder in the silence of the moment
…we share together…
What began in darkness becomes apparent in the light
…the little sounds of summer make each question seem just right…

Sittin’ on the corner, strumming the air…
Living life ain’t easy when you have a cross to bear
It’s hard to leave things be, when you’re wound up like a top
As my mind gets racing, it’s hard to tell it when to stop
It’s hard to get excited when I wear my heart out on my sleeve
Grab the next train to Tokyo, make a new life on the scene

Sleepwalker… in the middle of the night
Trying to find the riddles, to make the answers less amiss
Take my stride upright through the hallway
…all my awakened apprehension displaced…
Life’s so easy when you’re sleeping…
…there’s not a moment you can miss...

K.I.S.S.

I’m waiting on a resolution
…I’ll be here when it comes
Not sure how it evolves
…unsure of where I belong
Lone stranger clinging to the wall
Holding tight to avoid the inevitable fall

Take a chance and make it work
…you’ll find the answers when you never look
It’s hard to see the answer
…when my eyes are closed
I’ll trust you to lead me
…I won’t be lost this time…
…I’ll try…

Can you believe…
…the lies you’ve been spewing...
…when your hands are crossed?

I know I’m afraid
But I cannot be waiting forever…
…when forever doesn’t end…

Standing by the bus stop
Waiting for the next chance…
…Destination: No Where…
I know that I’m waiting, but I can’t wait long this time…
I’ll try

Is this what you'd thought it'd be?

Surrounded by the deafening echoes of silence
I wonder where the path began, and ends
It's too soon to realize the trail of my errors
Not too late to make a world worth living

Tracing the clouds in the sky
Passing by in a pink sea of crayons
Haven't heard the rumble of oak tag for years
Awakens the lost soul of who I was

Is this what you'd thought it'd be?
Are you where you think you belong?
Do you have faith in what you believe in...
...Or do you live in fear of what you don't?

I sail the ocean powder blue,
I sing in every art house...
I write each day before I sleep,
I love each love I'm in love with

I smile when I see the sun
When I wake to rub yesterday out of my eyes
Each day a chance to see the world
Through a view no one else can master

Is this what you'd thought it'd be?
Are you where you think you belong?
Do you have faith in what you believe in...
...Or do you live in fear of what you don't?

For everything in the world today,
I'm happiest when I have the least to say
Washed in a sea of eternity
...cleansed myself from all my uncertainty...
...to trust the man I can truly be

I have faith in the man in the mirror...
...and trust fate to come through and deliver

Fleeting

Listen to me watch your heart beat in the mirror…
I wish I could see you with my own eyes
But I share the view with the masses

These moments…
…though they’re fleeting…
…they are the ones that are worth keeping…
Sometimes I wish I had the courage to say to you, “You’re perfect”
…your simple grace comes from the shy smile on your face…

It’s funny how the things you don’t show
…are the things everyone else is dying to know…
Seeing your eyes through someone else’s guise…
…I’ll know then, for sure, where my true love lies

I love to hear you at my jokes
Your laugh stays with me ‘til I sleep
You’re the one I can envision curled next to me
As we stride together and make history

I sit here writing, dreaming of “What if?”

Pining over another chance soon fading away
…wishing my heart will never lead me astray

Unused Feelings

Floating above the spring's gentle breeze
I imagine the little things I've been lead to believe
How confessing true love must be thought of, not once, but again
"You can't tell her the truth, she'd be scared off by ten!"

My heart dreams of Utopia,
Where there isn't a rule
Professing your soul will never leave you a fool

So, I sit there beside her
...in the background, a choir...
I tell her my feelings
...that we are one, not two, beings...

And I gave her my all,
My every list fiber totally spent...

When my stomach stars falling...
...an endless decent...
Past the the blues of euphoria,
To the greys of suburbia...

I never had to take her to the depths of heaven
To avoid all the simple things that were destined to happen
If I tell her the truth, lay my heart on the table...
...the balls in her court to be a curse or an angel

...And You're the Only One For Me

I see the smile that you’re hiding
The one you don’t want me to see
You don’t want to show me that I’m winning
’Cause you don’t want to set me free

Baby, I’m not going no where
You’re the sugar in my tea
The text that saves me from my daymares
You’re the only one for me

I see the in blue that's in your eyes
Making up the clearest western skies
The way your palm lays on your chin
Oh, I don’t know where to begin

Angel, wherever I look
My love can fill a whole book
You’re too good to be true
There’s no end of my love for you

Honey, tell me when you see me
What do you dream for me to be?
Do you see a summer romance
...or two souls facing in the distance?

’Cause, Baby, I’m going no where
You’re the sugar in my tea
The text that saves me from my daymares
You’re the only one for me

...and you’re the only one for me

Dead Momentum

Embracing the impact
I don’t feel the fall
When I travel at full speed
Into an emotionless wall

I’m hanging on its surface
Trying to get you to know
No matter how I try to get through to you
I’m still on my side after all

Listen, I’m not sure what you’re asking of me
Or what you want me to say
I don’t want to fight you over semantics
Or for not doing things your way

My eyes well up in moments
...in which the feelings are not my own
Torn at every angle
My only thought is home

I’m banging on its surface
Trying to get you to know
No matter how I try to get through to you
I’m still on my side after all

Somber from your pessimisticide
And not sure how else I could have tried
How can I use your power
...to save the silent masses from your wrath?
I’m straying from the map I’ve drawn
...and fear for those who envy you
...the apprenti lost in your path

Losses in Love

There's an answer here
I could never understand what makes...
...you so afraid to face the world
But when I see your smile creeping on
It makes the pill easier to take

Most times when I wish I could...
...ask you a question
I'm afraid of what you might say
I'm shy, I'll try, and cry to you past midnight
And beg you not to stay...

You can't fit all of the problems you've been hiding
In the storage space I call my own
I'm here to listen to all the secrets you've been keeping
But my hearts running out of time

There's more than one way to...
...fix the pieces of the puzzle
To see the picture that is being formed
I'm out of practice trying to find you in the distance
I love you, but you're on your own

Lost in love
You're in my rear view mirror
A sight further than you may appear
I'll grow beyond the pieces of my teenage years
...Losses in love

Why Me?

Lindsay, you prayed
You were gonna change this time
But you're getting way behind
Are you gonna change this time?
Be yourself and try…
…this time

Argumentative in the mirror
Doing my best not to see her
Long, and leave your cherub 'cause I miss her
Fine my peace beneath the river

Do you see why I want to be with you?
Avoiding all the boys who are in my crew…
…the hardcore wrecking crew…
There is a million things I want to do with you…

Lindsay, you prayed
You were gonna change this time
But you're getting way behind
Are you gonna change this time?
Be yourself and try…
…this time

Sometimes you seem so overwhelmed…
…by the life you lead…
Scared and sleepless from the things you need
Honey, what do you think this means?
…Lindsay

Lindsay…
Lindsay…
…Lindsay