Well, it’s a New Year, with it comes more than new fears.
Met a young man who was in tears,
he asked me, “What induces us to stay here?”
I said, “I don’t know much and I’m not lying,
but I think you just have to keep on trying.”

And I know I am naive, but if anything
That’s what’s going to save me
That’s what’s going to save me

Took a stroll around the neighborhood,
where the trees are swaying.
People passed in cars with their windows down,
with a pop song playing.
A man walked by, walking back and forth the street,
with a drunken smile to go along
He stopped to look at me and said,
“Child, don’t fear doing things wrong.”

Yet I am still afraid, but if anything
That’s what’s going to save me
That’s what’s going to save me

Now I have a lot to learn and I’m starting tonight,
got to stop looking at things like they’re black and they’re white.
Got to write more songs, love a little more, treat my friends better.
Got to stop worrying about everything to the letter.
And sometimes when it’s too hard to get on,
it just might be you that I’ll call upon.

But I find it hard to believe,
but if anything that’s what’s going to save me
That’s what’s going to save me

Tell me, tell me
Oh, what’s going to save me?

Skies are crying, I am watching
Catching teardrops in my hands
Only silence, as its ending, like we never had a chance.
Do you have to make me feel like there’s nothing left of me?

Chorus:
You can take everything i have
You can break everything i am
Like I’m made of glass
Like I’m made of paper
And go on and try to tear me down
But i will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper.

As the smoke clears
I awaken and untangle you from me
Would it make you feel better to watch me while i bleed
All my windows still are broken but i’m standing on my feet.

Chorus

Go run run run, I’m gonna stay right here
Watch you disappear, yeah
Go run run run, yeah, it’s a long way down
But I’m closer to the clouds up here

Chorus

Like a skyscraper x 3

What’s the one thing that has
More speed
More strength
And goes deeper than us
A nuclear submarine

Just push right back

A nuclear submarine

Just push right back [x2]

Come and join the party [x2]

A nuclear submarine

Come and join the party [x4]

What’s the one thing that has
More speed
More strength
And goes deeper than us
A nuclear submarine

Just push right back

A nuclear submarine

Just push right back

Come and join the party [x2]

A nuclear submarine

Come and join the party [x2]

A time to love, a time to fly
And beat the darkness into light
We’ll write our names across the town
Up is up and so is down

Forgive your lovers, but don’t forget their names
And let their spirit remain
Stay gold (gold)
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow
Gold
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow
GOld
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow

This … just won’t go
Come let the …
…

Forgive your lovers, but don’t forget their names
And let their spirit remain
Stay gold (gold)
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow
Gold
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow
GOld
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow

How fast the darkness, we disappear into the light
Follow the dark …
In the end will be a better …
And now I know I will not be saved
Unless I follow
And now I know I will not be saved
Unless I follow

Stay gold (gold)
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow
Gold
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow
GOld
Shut the lights, for the rest to follow

If you leave I will follow

Stay gold (gold)
Stay gold (gold)

Met this girl last night,
She’s a real life dancer
The kind that will change your life
She just walked up and sat down,
Took a brand new tiara and lining it on the ground

She said,
Are you healthy?
Do my pheromones make you happy?
How do you tell a child that there’s no God up in the sky,
And it’s all a lie,
So twisted and bruised
How do you tell a son that his daddy left his mum when she fell in love with a girl like you?

Ohhh
A girl like Sappho
A girl like you

Ohhh
A girl like Sappho
A girl like you

Took a ride in her car,
She had back seat speakers
She took me to her favourite bar.
She kicked off her heels again,
Took a swing at the lampshade
And softly whispered in my ear,

Are you healthy?
Do my pheromones make you happy?
How do you tell a child that there’s no God up in the sky,
And it’s all a lie,
So twisted and bruised
How do you tell a son that his daddy left his mum when she fell in love with a girl like you?

Ohhh
A girl like Sappho
A girl like you

Ohhh
A girl like Sappho
A girl like you

Are you healthy?
Do my pheromones make you happy?
How do you tell a child that there’s no God up in the sky,
And it’s all a lie,
So twisted and bruised
How do you tell a son that his daddy left his mum when she fell in love with a girl like you?

Ohhh
A girl like Sappho
A girl like you

Ohhh
A girl like Sappho
A girl like you

Sew the seeds
Sew the seeds to life
By packing up
To make it right
And all i need
All i need to know
Are you too proud
To let it go?

Remember me
Well honestly
I don’t remember
Who you are

So it seems
And so
It seems tonight
You’ve got
That wild look
In your eye
What do you need
What do you
Need to prove?
The woman
That you turn into

Remember me
Well honestly
I don’t remember
Who you are
The memory
Has never been
The best
You want
A second chance

You stand around
Your haunted home
Those demons
Won’t leave you alone
Don’t forget me
When you grow old

Remember me
Well honestly
I don’t remember
Who you are

Remember me
Well honestly
I don’t remember
Who you are
The memory
Has never been
The best
You want
A second chance

You stand around
Your haunted home
Those demons
Won’t leave you alone
Don’t forget me
When you grow old

Rememember
Remember

It’s amazing how much time love saves you at first
When you rediscover your reason to work
And your aimless dreaming has found a target
And normalize and greed all function return
Came home early, quarter to two
I don’t need more wine, I’m coming for you

We carry pictures in our pretend wallet
Of ourselves and heavily edited seventies
With better handwriting and longer days at the park
And dinners with no drama the professor and Mary Anne
Came home early, a quarter to two
I don’t need more wine, I’m coming for you

When I was young, I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up
Now I’ve grown up, I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of
When I was young, I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up
Now I’ve grown up, I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of
What was that world I was dreaming of
What was that world I was dreaming of
Late summer return, airless apartment I lean out the window
Deals on irregular shirts, save right to light as last year, more so
When I was young, I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up
Now I’ve grown up, I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of
What was that world I was dreaming of
What was that world I was dreaming of.

[Nada Surf - When I Was Young Lyrics] Thanks to user Jonathan Diener for the contribution

Slim lined sheik faced
Angel of the light
Riding like a cowboy
In the graveyard of the night
New York Witch
In the dungeon of the day
I’m trying to write my novel
But all you do is play

Baby Boomerang, Baby Boomerang
Well, you never spite a person
But you always bang the whole gang
Oh yeah…

Mince pie dog-eye
Eagle on the wind
I’m searching through this garbage
Just looking for a friend
Your uncle with an alligator
Chained to his leg
Dangles you your freedom
Then he offers you his bed

It seems to me to dream
Is something too wild
In Max’s Kansas City
You’re belladonna child
Riding on the highways
On the gateways to the south
You’re talking with your boots
And you’re walking with your mouth

Baby Boomerang, Baby Boomerang
Well, you never spite a person
But you always bang the whole gang

The crimson tide is flowing through your fingers as you sleep
The promise of a clean regime are promises we keep.
Do you like it rough I ask and are you on to task?
The calicoes of Pettibon where cultures come to clash

[Chorus:]
Several of my best friends wear, the colours of the crown
And Mary wants to fill it up, and Sherry wants to tear it all back down, girl
The saviour of your light
The monarchy of roses
The monarchy of roses tonight

The clothes between my former queen, her legendary stare
The holy tears that I am in, the lovely cross to bear

[Chorus:]
Several of my best friends know, the secrets of this town
And Mary wants to raise it up, and Sherry wants to spit it all around, girl
The sailors of the night
The monarchy of roses
The monarchy of roses tonight

[Chorus:]
Several of my best friends wear, the colours of the crown
And Mary wants to fill it up, and Sherry wants to tear it all back down, girl
The saviour of your light
The monarchy of roses
The monarchy of roses

Hey yeah
We all want the rose you know
I said
Hey yeah
Show us love before you go
Say I will, and then I say I want to
The story knows that I will never haunt you

Hey yeah
We all want the rose you know
I said
Hey yeah
Show us love before you go
Say I will, and then I say I want to
The story knows that I will always haunt you
Hey

Wait for it, watch as it the world is created
These… an endless … deep
..are like …
Wait for it, I’m growing strong…
…school glue

Wait for it watch me pick up

And move away
… forget the days
Sell everything, I can’t be replaced
When you’re replaced, I’m also replaced
Ditch all the rest, tell you’re erased
…school glue