Dawes Lyrics

Misadventures Of Doomscroller (2022)

Someone Else's Cafe / Doomscroller Tries To Relax lyrics - Dawes

You can poison opposition

Find out which war to declare

You can polish up the prisons

And send all your critics there

You seem willing and able

And used to getting your way

But you're still waiting tables

In someone else's cafe

You can call yourself a living god

If it rallies up the troops

Reinstate the firing squad

Lace up your combat boots

Your vitals are stable

In your stupid beret

But you're still waiting tables

In someone else's cafe

You can make 'em call you Beelzebub

You can make 'em call you chief (chief)

Make some face paint out of baby blood

Wear a necklace made of teeth

You could be living a fable

In your one man parade

But you're still waiting tables

In someone else's cafe

From the rock of the cradle

'Til we're dead in our graves

We're all waiting tables

In someone else's cafe

So let's enjoy each other's company

On the brink of our despair

Does someone have a song to sing

Or a joke that they could share?

Let's enjoy each other's company (let's enjoy each other's company)

On the brink of our despair (on the brink of our despair)

Does someone have a song to sing (does someone have a song to sing)

Or a joke that they could share? (or a joke that they could share?)

So let's enjoy each other's company

On the brink of our despair

Does someone have a song to sing

Or a joke that they could share?

Let's enjoy each other's company (let's enjoy each other's company)

On the brink of our despair (on the brink of our despair)

Does someone have a song to sing (does someone have a song to sing)

Or a joke that they could share? (or a joke that they could share?)

Comes In Waves lyrics - Dawes

A boy that grows up in a beach town

And never learns to surf

Sounds like the perfect distillation

Of my time spent here on Earth

But I have stared at the horizon

With both feet in the sand

The thing I love about the ocean

It comes in waves

Waves

I've been feeling like a light bulb

When the filament won't glow

Surrounded by a darkness

Cause the current's moving slow

Am I losing my intensity

Is that feeling here to stay

But that's the thing 'bout electricity

It comes in waves

Waves

I think I've found something in common

With nothingness and God

You stare at either in the face too long

They'll do each other's job

Sometimes those silences are holy

Sometimes I'm drifting into space

But if the spirit's moving through me

It comes in waves

I think their grip is getting looser

I think they're giving us a try

If you feel good about the future

Then baby so do I

Let's keep an eye on all our enemies

While we're popping the champagne

Cause that's the thing about a victory

It comes in waves (It comes in waves)

Everything Is Permanent lyrics - Dawes

A product of my time zone

Mixed CDs and dial tones

Where we would listen to the universe think

While our heroes from the wreckage

Deliver us their message

On the perks of knowing how to lip sync

I can see the last frontier

The sunshine on a perfect day

Everything is permanent now

The single that gets overplayed

Everything is permanent now

The bubbles in your third rosé

Everything is permanent now

The movements of the Milky Way

Everything is permanent now

A wilderness of gossip

Asking for deposits

Yet it leaves you with some type of withdrawal

Playing on our senses

With a thousand of its lenses

On everything you ate or just bought

The voices in the atmosphere

The home life of celebrities

Everything is permanent now

Subliminal obscenities

Everything is permanent now

The side effects of ecstasy

Everything is permanent now

All the people that we used to be

Everything is permanent now

These tangled creeping vines

Towards a life you left behind

And the people you'd forgotten you kissed

A wayward strand of anger

At some controversial stranger

Who swears the virus didn't exist

I don't know where we go from here

I don't know how I'm supposed to feel

The language of the hemispheres

The lonely server farms

The level of the rising sea

Everything is permanent now

The politics of Christmas trees

Everything is permanent now

The whole world within one screen

Everything is permanent now

I'm thinking we should all come clean

Everything is permanent now, now, now

Did you really need to cry or be seen crying?

Ghost In The Machine lyrics - Dawes

Standing right outside the Echo

When we were still just cutting teeth

Turning madness into waveforms

Searching chords for what's beneath

All these existential freshmen

Trying to keep our noses clean

Scared to show our faith in

The ghost in the machine

Standing right outside the Echo

When we were working for the door

Assuming all our dreams were brighter than

The bands we played before

But you could see it in their hunger

You could hear it in their screams

They too were just trying to make contact

With the ghost in the machine

Through the build-ups and the breakdowns

Through the boom and through the crash

Building stockpiles of excuses

On how to trade it in for cash

All the poisonous motel rooms

The lobby call at 6:15

One million miles upon a highway

For a ghost in the machine

All the doubts and hesitations

I built up in my early years

Are under reconsideration

Through the music of the spheres

Which I cannot deny any longer

When every night I reconvene

With these vibrations giving proof of

The ghost in the machine

Joke In There Somewhere lyrics - Dawes

Each morning my beloved

Asks me to open up my eyes

See what kind of attention I can pay

I see a corporate coffee house

Puttin' up their Christmas decorations

Commuter cars all waiting at a light

A line outside the Roxy

Full of hopeful conversation

Some local band is playing there tonight

A couple walks their dog discussing

What to eat for dinner

A runaway is being read his rights

A hotel hosts a conference called

"Investment For Beginners"

Some high school coach is breaking up a fight

But there's a joke in there somewhere

A joke in there somewhere

One that I am not prepared to make

This afternoon my doctor

Had me sit down in a chair

He asks me then to walk him through my day

I heard radios bring ball games

To an ancient glacial traffic

A starving dog was whimpering in pain

A soundcheck through the alley

That sounds like something close to magic

For a traveling dad that's bound to miss his plane

A boomer on a cell phone

Talking through party provisions

Beneath the giant bullseye neon sign

And I mention dixie cups and pizza crusts

And giant televisions

The allegory of the conga line

There's a joke in there somewhere

A joke in there somewhere

One that I just don't know how to tell

And now as the sun is setting

I meet my brother for a drink

And he asks if I've got something on my mind

So I tell him about this movie

And how I didn't get the ending

Why do they let the creature get away?

He reminds me that all it is

Is costumes and pretending

But there must be something else they're trying to say

About these buildings and the asphalt

In their natural habitations

The pigeons, cats and rats and parasites

This wild and dancing city

Conducting perfect orchestrations

The way a stranger wishes us goodnight

But he says, "every time we've sat here

Getting nervous for the future

We've ended up some version of ok

These songs that we are singing

Shouldn't give in to the rumors

They should give some kind of strength to meet the day"

But there's a joke in there somewhere

A joke in there somewhere

We just gotta find a way to laugh

Joke In There Somewhere (Outro) lyrics - Dawes

(Instrumental)

Sound That No One Made / Doomscroller Sunrise lyrics - Dawes

The morning fog descends upon the late night's cheapest thrills

The most committed socialites see the sunrise in the hills

Mistakes are slowly realized

Memories distilled

And the static starts to fade

From the laughter of a maniac

To a songbirds melody

From the howling of the sirens

To the swaying of the trees

It fuses all together

To find that perfect frequency

And then forever ricochets

Into a sound that no one made

I look up to see you slowing down while

Signaling a right

The older man behind us now

Is flashing you his brights

We both seem so distracted

By this growing appetite

To punish and persuade

The silent conversation gets directed toward the view

The cursive in the branches describes the avenue

The words like "I am sorry" and "I'm still in love with you"

Become a debt that won't get paid

Just another sound that no one made

I am rolling down the window to the city's radiation

The connected dream still dancing through the sky

I just need someone who will listen

Through this strange and dark existence

Or the consolation of knowing that you'll try

As we pull off of the freeway

A hospital appears

I see a man up in the window

On the back end of his years

And I imagine him there dying

With that ringing in his ears

That we all end up with someday

There's a code within the symptom

A morbid sort of sign

The ominous reminder of the body's slow decline

As constant as a heartbeat

But stronger over time

While the rest of us decays

Listening to a sound that no one made

Good Luck With Whatever (2020)

Still Feel Like A Kid lyrics - Dawes

I just asked my folks not to pay my rent

But I still feel like a kid

Finally learned what NASDAQ meant

But I still feel like a kid

My whole week's booked with dinner plans

But I still feel like a kid

I'm about to be a married man

But I still feel like a kid

Still feel like a kid

I can't stay up past midnight anymore

But I still feel like a kid

There's always part of me that's a little sore

But I still feel like a kid

I got dreams of coaching little league

But I still feel like a kid

And I bet the day that I turn eighty three

I will still feel like a kid

In fact, I spent my whole life battling

'Til I learned to let it go

That was back when I knew everything

Just a few short years ago

I love dancing through a grocery store

Makes me still feel like a kid

I go three times 'round revolving doors

Makes me still feel like a kid

I love the music from the ice cream man

Makes me still feel like a kid

I am a singer in a rock 'n' roll band

'Cause I still feel like a kid

Still feel like a kid

Good Luck With Whatever lyrics - Dawes

There's a man with a chainsaw

Standing out in my yard

He says he's just trimming trees

But he's clearly trying too hard

And a Chevy Suburban

With the government plates

And an idling engine

While I'm planning out my escape

Good luck with whatever

Whatever awaits

Whatever endeavors

I'm sure you'll do great

I'm cutting the tether

I'm clearing the air

Good luck with whatever

I really don't care

My crystal ball television

The sacred voice of the grid

Asking rhetorical questions

About where the bodies are hid

The guillotine in the camera

We all pretend to ignore

All of the souls it's collecting

And what the collector is using them for

Good luck with whatever

Whatever awaits

Whatever endeavors

I'm sure you'll do great

I'm cutting the tether

I'm clearing the air

Good luck with whatever

I really don't care

The silhouette of my neighbors

Staring deep in their phones

They said they'd be in Honduras

But there's clearly somebody home

And I'm still not learning my lesson

Despite having every excuse

How all of my biggest fears

Are the same ones that never come true

Good luck with whatever

Whatever awaits

Whatever endeavors

I'm sure you'll do great

I'm cutting the tether

I'm clearing the air

Good luck with whatever

I really don't care

Good luck with whatever

I really don't care

Good luck with whatever

I really don't care

Between The Zero And The One lyrics - Dawes

When they sat down at the Ouija board

He could feel her fingers move

Trying to find their future with her hands

Turning to the spirit world

Looking for some cosmic clue

In a language that they both might understand

But she wasn't looking for a remedy

She knew she'd break his heart

She just wanted to go quietly

Like it was written in the stars

But it all comes out eventually

No matter how hard you resist

That might be a harsh reality

But that's the only kind there is

It's not the whisper in your ear

It's not the banging of the drum

It's not the person that you were

It's not the person you become

It's not where you're headed to

And it's not where you're coming from

The only life you're gonna live

Is out between the zero and the one

Out between the zero and the one

When she shuffled all the tarot cards

He could see her stack the deck

But still turned up the Tower and the Moon

Which she then tried to disregard

And clutched the crystal 'round her neck

While they both felt a presence leave the room

And he finally saw the difference

Between her history and her past

How she's been looking for deliverance

From something she will never grasp

She even had the nerve to tell him

That she tried hard as she could

It's like she never even loved him

As much as the reasons why she should

It's not the whisper in your ear

It's not the banging of the drum

It's not the person that you were

It's not the person you become

It's not where you're headed to

And it's not where you're coming from

The only life you're gonna live

Is out between the zero and the one

Out between the zero and the one

So she can mistake these superstitions

For the excuses that she needs

To keep explaining her condition

To the few friends she can keep

But don't give them another thought

There's no need for us to dwell

They are fine and they are not

Just like everybody else

Yeah like everybody else

It's not the whisper in your ear

It's not the banging of the drum

It's not the person that you were

It's not the person you become

It's not where you're headed to

And it's not where you're coming from

The only life you're gonna live

Is out between the zero and the one

Out between the zero and the one

None Of My Business lyrics - Dawes

He grabbed me by the shirt while I was paying for my beer

And screamed "There you are, Balthazar! I knew I'd find you here!"

He hit me in the teeth and then he spit into my face

Took the keys to my Mercedes as he quickly left the place

Well, if I were in his shoes maybe I woulda done the same

But I don't know who he was and Balthazar is not my name

And it's really none of my business

It's really none of my business

I should be minding my own

And once the show was over I met a fan at my hotel

He asked if I've met Father John and if I knew him well

He said, "Is it true he doesn't eat but lives off staring at the sun

Or that he keeps a monkey for a pet and taught him how to tune his drums?

I also heard the only drugs he'll takes are what he'll synthesize himself

Sir, I wanna be a writer and I think that this'll help"

And I said it's really none of my business

It's really none of my business

I should be minding my own

It's really none of my business

I should be minding my own

And on the fateful day when I get buried in the ground

I bet that I could tell you which friends make it into town

They'll tell you all my dirty secrets and my brothers gonna sing

Just make sure my suit is pressed and that they let me keep my ring

I'm not getting into heaven and I don't believe in hell

I just wanna know my friends and family are remembering me well

But it won't be none of my business

It's really none of my business

I should be minding my own

It's really none of my business

I should be minding my own

St. Augustine At Night lyrics - Dawes

The cherry gum would cover up the cigarettes we smoked

The 7-Up would balance out the beer

Mom would make us dinner, and we'd all try not to choke

Dad was working later every year

We'd count the trucks on Highway 1 on their way to Jacksonville

Wonderin' where they headed on from there

My brothers and my sister all stood spiritually still

As if those roads became the answer to their prayers

But I didn't want it any other way

This town was the one thing that felt right

All these tourists could be kings during the day

But not in St. Augustine at night

I was working at the bait shack, supplying all the fishing tours

Pretty soon I was chartering a boat

My dad said I needed dumb luck and a secret stash of Coors

If I stood a chance at keeping things afloat

That's when my girlfriend told me, "There's a baby on the way

And I need to know you're gonna go to bat."

Well, I never put off 'til tomorrow the things I should've done today

No, I've always waited way longer than that

I have never had much say in how I felt

I've been guided by my barroom appetites

So if this world belongs to everybody else

Just leave me St. Augustine at night

The Lord must really love us common folk

'Cause he made so goddamn much

Now, if he'd just point the way to go

If he could just start speaking up

Our oldest brother left this world for leading one too many lives

I guess he settled for none at all

The rest of us just grew apart and blamed our husbands and our wives

When anyone was asked why they don't call

Life became a series of birthdays, cars, and pets

Just anything to look forward to

I don't talk about mistakes. I don't talk about regrets

At this point, I'm not sure what good it would do

And I'm not asking for anybody's help

As I gaze out where the stars dance with the lights

If I'm not sure how I feel about myself

I still got St. Augustine at night

Oh, I still got St. Augustine at night

Who Do You Think You're Talking To? lyrics - Dawes

Who, who do you think you're talkin' to?

Is it the man that was here before me?

The one that wrecked you hard and walked?

'Cause if it then I'll let you talk

It's clear, that's somethin' you're still workin' through

But who, who do you think you're talkin' to?

Where, where do you think you are right now?

Is there a reason you're still diggin' up the past?

Because you haven't touched your drink

And you haven't stopped to think

If that holds you back from anyone that cares for you

But who, who do you think you're talkin' to?

What do you want me to say to this?

Frankly I think we would be remiss

If we don't remind ourselves

To share the painful memories too

So baby tell me, who?

Do you need to be alone?

Can you find your own ride home?

And is that still the house that you can't bear to leave

Does his coat hang in the hall

Or his pictures on the wall

And is there one of us you're trying to deceive?

Oh, babe, the trains will all stop runnin' soon

And I don't know how long it's been since you walked away

And after all I said so far

The tender of this bar

Says, "The only people left here man are me and you

So buddy, who, who do you think you're talkin' to?"

What do you want me to say to this?

Frankly I think we would be remiss

If we don't remind ourselves

To share the painful memories too

So baby tell me, who?

Who do you think you're talkin' to?

Didn't Fix Me lyrics - Dawes

I went to see a healer

With that mic strapped to his face

Talked about which habits to surrender

And which habits to embrace

And for the next few days or so I was

Feeling pretty good

But it didn't fix me

I even started volunteering

With the local Sacred Heart

We feed the homeless on some weekends

We pick up trash in all the parks

And even though we're cleaning up

The whole damn neighborhood

It didn't fix me

It didn't fix me like I thought it would

I got that book you recommended

About the spy in East Berlin

I really like the way it ended

How he forgives his friend who turns him in

And I think I see what you were saying 'bout how

Technically it should, but

It didn't fix me

It didn't fix me like I thought it would

It didn't fix me

I finally got a nomination

For an award that I don't need

But I said that out of obligation

I really spent hours on my speech

I thanked my biggest inspirations

And the good folks back in Hollywood

But it didn't fix me

It didn't fix me like I thought it would

Didn't fix me

I finally found someone that loves me

And to her I will be true

She sees the ways in which I'm ugly

And loves me for those reasons too

And even though I'm feeling stronger than I

Ever thought I could

It still didn't fix me

It didn't fix me

It didn't fix me like I thought it would

Didn't fix me

Free As We Wanna Be lyrics - Dawes

If I cant see the ways they're selling to me

I might miss something that I need

If I don't look up from the mirror in my hands

I'm gonna miss what's on tv

We're as free

As we wanna be

We're as free

As we wanna be

There's proof that they've been following me

But I don't throw 'em off the scent

There's proof now that my life is not my own

Which I've done nothing to prevent

We're as free

As we wanna be

We're as free

As we wanna be

And when the dream becomes a nightmare

When the hardware meets the software

We'll see how ugly this can get

Cause if the basis of our grievance

Doesn't outweigh the convenience

Then they already won the bet

We're as free

As we wanna be

We're as free

As we wanna be

We're as free

As we wanna be

We're as free

As we wanna be

Me Especially lyrics - Dawes

As far as I could tell

I was the center of the universe

The favorite step-child of our Mother Earth

And every camera's dream

'Til something broke the spell

And the cold hard facts I was hiding from

Were at the mercy of the pendulum

And I was smashed to smithereens

Let's try and have some fun tonight

Let's act like we got nowhere else to be

Like we're just as young as we used to be

That goes for everyone but me especially

Documents and names

An eye twitch away from what they really mean

In the shadow world of the in-betweens

That's surrounds us on all sides

You can look the other way

In fact, that's all I did until recently

'Til the expiration of my amnesty

Left me nowhere else to hide

Let's try and have some fun tonight

Let's act it could always be this good

Like we're just as young as we used to be

That goes for everyone but me especially

A flat lining learning curve

On the last leg with low reserves

A desperado that lost his nerve

Trying now to serve

Teach me how to serve

'Cause we're not as young as we used to be

And it goes for everyone but me especially

Why am I still the youngest guy my age?

Why am I still reading the same page?

I know it's hard for everyone but me especially

And you especially

What It Takes lyrics - Lee Pardini & Dawes

If you look out at the skyline

From far enough away

The city's just a row of broken teeth

Its rumbling and it's growling

It festers and decays

But I still hear it calling out for me

I thought my debts were settled

That some rules had been enforced

As a bead of sweat starts rolling down my cheek

I was good at treating symptoms

But I never found the source

So these voices might not ever let me be

But I know I'm never gonna break

If I can find you at the end of every day

They'll say I don't have what it takes

I just won't let go of what it takes away

What it takes away

I coulda been a contender

But I burned a bit too bright

Until I couldn't take another swing

I kept up w the training

But I've given up the fight

And now I'm being forced back in the ring

I know I'm never gonna break

If I can find you at the end of every day

They'll say I don't have what it takes

I just won't let go of what it takes away

What it takes away

All My Failures lyrics - Dawes

Addressing a prayer

Into the air

And the shadows of satellites

So nobody heard

Love's not four words

In a world at the end of its night

Oh everyone that left me

They're so easy to forget

'Cause I haven't let my failures hit me yet

Your voice on the phone

The blood from the stone

And tears that I can't understand

As if I could heal

With guilt I don't feel

Or by silently giving my hand

Well I'm sure "I never loved you"

Can be too fierce and too correct

'Cause I haven't let my failures hit me yet

May my demon reveal himself tenderly

May he not leave me broken

May he leave my to be

So wherever I'm bound

My ear to the ground

And my thoughts on their way back to you

As eternity's slave

You can write that on my grave

When I've finished resisting its truth

And while I'm shaking hands with darkness

It's with the warm wind that I admit

That I haven't let my failures hit me yet

Don't Send Me Away (Remix) lyrics - Dawes

You can send me a letter if you'd rather not talk

Or to make sure I don't interrupt

It might help you let it go, it's hard for you, I know

To act like you're not giving up

You can send me your brother to buy me a drink

And explain the ways I let you down

The girl you were before, a heart that I've ignored

You can send him to turn things around

But don't send me away

This is where I'm supposed to be

Don't send me away

You don't know what you do to me

You can send me to church if you think that would help

Shape me into something that's true

I'll go there everyday, I'll bow my head and pray

To send me from life without you

But don't send me away

And break my poor heart in two

Don't send me away

'Cause I won't take losing you

People all want something they belong to

I've decided I belong to you, oh

Don't send me away

Oh, and break my poor heart in two

Don't send me away

'Cause I won't take losing you, no

Don't send me away

This is where I'm supposed to be

Don't send me away

You don't know what it do to me, oh no

Easy/Lucky/Free lyrics - Dawes

(originally by Bright Eyes)

Did it all get real, I guess it's real enough

They got refrigerators full of blood

Another century spent pointing guns

At anything that moves

Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot

My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts

I never really dreamed of heaven much

Until we put him in the ground

But it's all I'm doing now

Listening for patterns in the sound

Of an endless static sea

But once the satellite's deceased

It blows like garbage through the streets

Of the night sky to infinity

But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)

Don't you weep (don't you weep)

There is nothing as lucky

But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)

Don't you weep (don't you weep)

There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free

Don't be a criminal in this police state

You better shop and eat and procreate

You got vacation days then you might escape

To a condo on the coast

I set my watch to the atomic clock

I hear the crowd count down 'til the bomb gets dropped

I always figured that there'd be time enough

I never let it get me down

But I can't help it now

Looking for faces in the clouds

I got some friends I barely see

But we're all planning to meet

We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves

All together for eternity

But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)

Don't you weep (don't you weep)

There is nothing as lucky

But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)

Don't you weep (don't you weep)

There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free...

Fisherman's Blues lyrics - Dawes

(originally by The Waterboys)

I wish I was a fisherman

Tumbling on the seas

Far away from dry land

And it's bitter memories

Casting out my sweet line

With abandonment and love

No ceiling bearing down on me

'Cept the starry sky above

With light in my head

You in my arms

With light in my head

You in my arms

I wish I was the brakeman

On a hurtling fevered train

Crashing a-headlong into the heartland

Like a cannon in the rain

With the beating of the sleepers

And the burning of the coal

Counting the towns passing by

In a night that's full of soul

With light in my head

You in my arms

With light in my head

You in my arms

Well I know I will be loosened

From bonds that hold me fast

That the chains all around me

Will fall away at last

And on that fine and fateful day

I will take me in my hands

I will ride on the train

I will be the fisherman

With light in my head

You in my arms

With light in my head

You in my arms

With light in my head

You in my arms

With light in my head

You in my arms

With light in my head

You in my arms

I Love lyrics - Dawes

I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks

Slow movin' trains and rain

I love little country streams, sleep without dreams

Sunday school in May and hay

And I love you too

I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends

Birds of the world and squirrels

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups

Bourbon in a glass and grass

And I love you too

I love honest open smiles, kisses from a child

Tomatoes on the vine and onions

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try

Music when it's good and life

And I love you too

I Will Run lyrics - Dawes

I can listen to your plans

I can look you in the eye

If I don't always understand

I can promise you I'll try

The way you leave me here alone

And give a kiss before you go

I will beg and I will moan

But there is one thing you should know:

I will run

If you open up the door

If you let me go outside

I will run away

I can curl up at your feet

Let you hold me in your arms

I can protect you while you sleep

Keep you company in the car

Find that spot behind my ear

I will kick and I will dance

I will love you while I'm here

But if just given the chance

I will run

If you open up the door

If you let me go outside

I will run away

I will run

If you open up the door

If you let me go outside

I will run away

The Interest Of Time lyrics - Dawes

On the back end of a growth spurt

His red pants looked a little short

Telling me where and how his legs hurt

As we were walking out the door

I used to hate getting up early

Now I try not to make a fuss

My wife leaves for work at 7:30

And our kid never liked the bus

Keeping the sequence in line

Trying to gather my thoughts

In the interest of time

As if we know what it wants

I found the structure of an echo

Beneath the surface of a pool

All of the X's and all the zeros

The way a memory comes unspooled

Maybe time moves in more directions

In any moment of the day

All the contractions and extensions

In all the messes that we make

Keeping the sequence in line

Trying to gather my thoughts

In the interest of time

As if we know what it wants

He threw his backpack around his shoulders

Before he ran off to join his friends

He said "Love you Dad, see you later"

Walls lyrics - Dawes (feat. Mike Viola)

(originally by Tom Petty)

Some days are diamonds

Some days are rocks

Some doors are open

Some roads are blocked

Sundowns are golden

Then fade away

But if I never do nothing

I'll get you back some day

'Cause you got a heart so big

It could crush this town

And I can't hold out forever

Even walls fall down

All around your island

There's a barricade

That keeps out the danger

That holds in the pain

Sometimes you're happy

Sometimes you cry

Half of me is ocean

Half of me is sky

But you got a heart so big

It could crush this town

And I can't hold out forever

Even walls fall down

Some things are over

Some things go on

Part of me you carry

Part of me is gone

But you got a heart so big

It could crush this town

And I can't hold out forever

Even walls fall down

You got a heart so big

It could crush this town

And I can't hold out forever

Even walls fall down...

"Passwords" (2018)

Living In The Future lyrics - Dawes
Stay Down lyrics - Dawes
Crack The Case lyrics - Dawes
Feed The Fire lyrics - Dawes
My Greatest Invention lyrics - Dawes
Telescope lyrics - Dawes
I Can't Love lyrics - Dawes
Mistakes We Should Have Made lyrics - Dawes
Never Gonna Say Goodbye lyrics - Dawes
Time Flies Either Way lyrics - Dawes

Living In The Future lyrics - Dawes

I know all of my exits
I'm always planning my escape
It's the most aggressive symptom
Of this collective phantom pain
And the more that you ignore it
The more it makes you go insane
Just look around

It's the battle of the passwords
It's the trumpets on the hill
It's that constant paranoia
It's the final fire drill
And if you won't sing the anthem
They'll go find someone else who will
They're Cracking down

We're living in the future, so shine a little light
It may not make it any better, I'm just hopin' that it might
I'm not talkin' bout forever, how about just getting through the night
We're livin' in the future, so shine a little light

I'm always lookin' over shoulders
Not knowing what I'm looking for
Now that the feeling someone's watchin'
Isn't just a feeling anymore
Now that both sides of the aisle
Are this good at keepin' score
We've crossed a line

There's a madness to the method
There's a market for the fear
It's that dance out on the razor's edge
The wolf held by the ears
It's the man behind the curtain
It's the weight of awful tears
Since the dawn of time

We're living in the future, so shine a little light
It may not make it any better, I'm just hopin' that it might
I'm not talkin' bout forever, how about just getting through the night
We're livin' in the future, so shine a little light

We're living in the future, so shine a little light
It may not make it any better, I'm just hopin' that it might
I'm not talkin' bout forever, how about just getting through the night
We're livin' in the future, so shine a little light

Stay Down lyrics - Dawes

Micheladas in the afternoon
Lie on the couch in a rented room
Watchin' Jeopardy without the sound
It's easy to stay down

Quick mistakes and long goodbyes
Hold-over truths and necessary lies
I caught a train that was backwards-bound
It's easy to stay down

Stay down when your mind has been cleared
And your trail can't be found
Stay down with your eye to the sky
And your ear to the ground

Down by the pool with all my brand-new friends
Re-writin' letters that I never sent
Declinin' invitations into town
It's easy to stay down

Slowly admit that you have had your fun
The girl you loved and every word you sung
All the profane that you thought profound
It's time now to stay down

Stay down when the smoke is cleared
And you name can be found
Stay down with your head in the clouds
And your eyes to the ground

Feel the sting of the final blow
What could've been, you don't care or know
Don't try to go another round
Stay down

Feed The Fire lyrics - Dawes

I used to dream I was a poster in a bedroom
Or the pictures that get cut out of the fancy magazines
Some tortured genius went to leave the planet too soon
Livin' on champagne in the back of limousines

Tryin' to feed the fire without really knowin' why
Tryin' to feed the fire while hopin' that it dies

Tradin' where I'm at for some future destination
Workin' for attention I'll eventually resent
Tyrin' to ignore some of the darker implications
Of smilin' for the camera with my hands in wet cement

Tryin' to feed the fire without really knowin' why
Tryin' to feed the fire while hopin' that it dies
Tryin' to feed the fire without really knowin' why
Tryin' to feed the fire while hopin' that it dies

There's someone in my reflection that's been hauntin' me my whole life
There's a world outside my window I can barely even hear
And I wonder to myself as I am straightenin' my bowtie
How could I look so perfect on the screen and so awful in the mirror?

Tryin' to feed the fire without really knowin' why
Tryin' to feed the fire while hopin' that it dies
Tryin' to feed the fire without really knowin' why
Tryin' to feed the fire while hopin' that it dies
Hopin' that it dies
Hopin' that it dies
Hopin' that it dies

My Greatest Invention lyrics - Dawes

I wonder where you are right now
I guess I always do
People mention you all the time
Without me askin' them to
I take the dirt they give me
I put it in the books
I smear around the memories
Until I like how it looks
I get a taste for everything
Then I swallow your hook

You are the life of the party
Even when you didn't attend
How to get lost tellin' stories
But I'd always have to change out the end
I'd complete the collection
Of my favorite reflections
With an all-out rejection
Of our true imperfections
You are my greatest invention

It's gettin' harder keepin' order
My different versions of you
Which one's just an answer to a question?
Which one is actually true?
You can turn a second inside out
And end up with an eternity
But to polish up a diamond
You have to clear some debris
It doesn't work for everyone
But it works for me

You are the life of the party
Even when you didn't attend
How to get lost tellin' stories
But I'd always have to change out the end
I'd complete the collection
Of my favorite reflections
With an all-out rejection
Of our true imperfections
You are my greatest invention

You are the life of the party
Even when you didn't attend
How to get lost tellin' stories
But I'd always have to change out the end
I'd complete the collection
Of my favorite reflections
With an all-out rejection
Of our true imperfections
You are my greatest invention
You are my greatest invention
I wonder where you are right now
I guess I always do

Telescope lyrics - Dawes

He watched the bronco leave the driveway
The day after he turned ten
His dad said the band's booked up through Sunday
Ricky never saw him again
His mother made excuses
His brother got his wish
Ricky just stared at the posters in his bedroom
And started talking to his fish

And whenever he thought he could untie these knots
He didn't get too far

The stronger the telescope
The more stars there are

There were reports within the family
There were rumors at his school
Deadbeat got stuck in Calgary
Cleaning swimming pools
But Ricky had some questions
He couldn't get it through his head
How a father so drunk on his own destiny
Could end up like this instead

The boy could feel himself get older
With each shot in the dark

The stronger the telescope
The more stars there are
The stronger the telescope
The more stars there are

Now Ricky's in a trailer outside Albany
And he spends all his nights alone
With a penchant for conspiracy
And his take home methadone
But he hasn't been forgotten
His hometown speculates
If the world had just got to him too early
Or if it got to him too late

And the more they give each explanation
The more it comes apart

The stronger the telescope
The more stars there are
The stronger the telescope
The more stars there are
The more stars there are
The more stars there are
The more stars there are

I Can't Love lyrics - Dawes

Once we let the fire die a bit
I started findin' out who I was really dealin' with
Once we moved past the initial spark
I caught that first glimpse of the person that you really are

Can't love you any more
Can't love you any more

With your easy way of drawing out
The parts of me I don't know how to talk about
How the evening light on your sleepin' skin
Shows me this is all there is that's worth believin' in

I can't love you any more
I can't love you any more
I can't love you any more
Than I do right now

Once we stopped kickin' up the dust
We found out what it's like livin' with both of us

I can't love you any more
I can't love you any more
I can't love you any more
Than I do right now

Than I do right now
Than I do right now
Than I do right now
Than I do right now
Than I do right now
I can't love you any more
I can't love you any more
I can't love you any more
I can't love you any more

Mistakes We Should Have Made lyrics - Dawes

You look at me through your red glasses
While the yellow cab waits
We've been thinkin' 'bout our soulmates
Too long
Let's take it all off, everything off

Not everybody gets to feel this way
Not everybody gets stuck so bad
We've been talkin' 'bout who we had
Too much
Let's cut to the wrong, let's get it up

If we start right now, we could figure out
The mistakes we should have made
We could hypnotize our wand'rin' eyes
With the games we should have played
The mistakes we should have made

I wanna [?] the rubble
I want a future [?]
I wanna make sure all my aces
Get played
A firework's gotta' crack before it fades

One hour gettin' off the books
The one night that we could stand accused
One night that we have to lose
Control
Let's settle the bill, let's rock 'n' roll

If we start right now, we could figure out
The mistakes we should have made
We could hypnotize our wand'rin' eyes
With the games we should have played
The mistakes we should have made

All of this nonsense past tense living
All this [?] existence
All these night shift what if questions
These taboo rear view

If we start right now, we could figure out
The mistakes we should have made
We could hypnotize our wand'rin' eyes
With the games we should have played
The mistakes we should have made

Never Gonna Say Goodbye lyrics - Dawes

I never could admit when I was wrong, man
Even when I felt it in my bones
I always thought it meant I was a strong man
And I wondered why I was alone

That's when she stepped out of the ether
Right when I was ready for a dance
She said "I don't know what I am doing, either
But I know when to take a chance"

I never knew how to be scared
'Til I found something I knew I couldn't lose
And then a revelation trembled
From the tip of my own tongue

And like the last few boys at the Alamo
Like Cusack holding that stereo
Or what Juliet hears from Romeo
I'm never gonna say goodbye

There's not a way to someone's heart that she can't see
She lives and loves with everything she's got
My dark days showed me how to ask, "why me?"
She showed me how to ask, "why not?"

She keeps a hopeful eye upon the future
She finds a way to share that hope with me
And the few times that she's met some sort of failure
She wins a little back by laughing at defeat

I never knew what life could be
So it stands to reason why I can't go back
And now a revelation trembles
From the bottom of my heart

And like the stock exchange for the billionaires
Like the convert singing his morning prayers
Or the scientist to the polar bear
I'm never gonna say goodbye

Like those last few boys at the Alamo
Like Cusack holding that stereo
Or what Juliet hears from Romeo
I'm never gonna say
Don't make me say
I'm never gonna say goodbye

Time Flies Either Way lyrics - Dawes

Between the chemical trails in the morning
And the UFO's at night
The sky becomes a canvas
For my worst conspiracies
And through the storm clouds that were forming
More black and blue than white
I saw two shootin' stars as the getaway car
My life turned out to be

But my face is pressed against the window
While the traveled road lives up to its clichés
Desperately just tryin' to hold on to somethin'
'Cause I'm learning now that the time flies either way

I confuse a sense of purpose
With grabbin' the future by the throat
While the museum of my memories
Was just some blurry photographs
When I was younger I was serious
Now everything's a joke
But my friends detect a sadness
At the end of every laugh

Which has left me with a tricky sense of humor
I keep gettin' further led astray
Every punchline takes on another dimension
When you realize that the time flies either way

But at the height of this confusion
That's when your eyes met mine
I caught a small chance at salvation
Starin' right at me
I saw my boyhood reach conclusion
I saw a life spent at your side
I saw the permanent replacement
Of all the you's and I's to we

Findin' out that all my proudest moments
Will be spent tryin' to put a smile on your face
And I'm lettin' that fact answer all of my questions
'Cause I know now that the time flies either way
I know now that the time flies either way

"We're All Gonna Die" (2016)

One Of Us lyrics - Dawes

Your mother finally took all of her money
And put it where her mouth used to be
Turning anybody's ear
About her friends that disappeared
And how she's sailing further out to sea

Your father's spending all of his vacation
Learning foreign names for all his fears
And the spirits he's detected
About the data he's collected [?]
Turned out to be just ringing in his ears
You look like one of them
But you talk like one of us
Everything they're telling you is wrong
You look like one of them
But you talk like one of us
Babe I think you know where you belong

Your sister's always mortally offended
At the mispronunciation of her name
Telling all her newest clients
That the "w" is silent
Before she turns them back the way they came

Your brother sends me all his latest poems
About his secret dreams of learning how to dance
He knows these hands are not for you [?]
Asking when you're coming through
So he can tell his supervisor six months in advance

You look like one of them
But you talk like one of us
Everything they're telling you is wrong
You look like one of them
But you talk like one of us
Babe I think you know where you belong

Your old flame is still counting up his money
In a secret lair he built behind the shelf
When a chance at repetition
Leading out into temptation
I'm pretty sure he knows the way himself

You look like one of them
But you talk like one of us
Everything they're telling you is wrong
You look like one of them
But you talk like one of us
Babe I think you know where you belong

We're All Gonna Die lyrics - Dawes

Hey kid at the show tonight..
The face beyond the barricade
How ya dance and ya sing to every single line
Like it was you up on that stage

I mean to know your secret
I'm asking you for help
How do I fall in love with anything
Like you seem to do so well?
I gotta get back to when it came out
The way it was supposed to sound
Before money was ever changing hands
And my feet were on the ground

When I could feel the wind's direction
When I knew what songs to sing

And he said, "Try not to get upset
Let it all go by
Because how can it be that bad
If we're all gonna die?"

So I started to think about
That girl that disappeared
And if really was the road that pulled me away
Or if I'm still a victim of my fears

As she showed me, the machine ran
That our words protect us from
How she could keep me in the moment
How that's all there ever was

As she called, I asked to see her
Even if it's just a couple days
I could meet her out in Georgia
She could fly out to LA

And if the plane goes down on her way to me
I think I know how she would react

She'd smile and close her eyes..
Think about her life..
While some voice screaming in the back
"We're all gonna die."

So try not to get upset
Everything is fine
Hey, it's not that big a deal
We're all gonna die

Roll With The Punches lyrics - Dawes

The separation was symmetrical
They both retreated to their sides
Drawing lists of demands
And muddy lines in the sand
Trying out their separate lives

Most of the damage was collateral
But still inspired some debate
All the principles of why all the people we love
Are the same as we also can hate

You just roll with the punches
Until you can't feel a thing
You just roll with the punches
Aww yeah

The separation was logistical
Deciding what belongs to whom
How dying love manifests
In a rug or a chest
The decorations of a room

Every promise was negotiable
Most of all the ones they made alone
When she finally forgave
What he'll take to his grave
Learning not to pick up the phone

You just roll with the punches
Until you can't feel a thing
You just roll with the punches
Aww yeah

He starts existing as a miracle
A man of static right behind your eyes
That you filter everything through
Without knowing you do
A past and future synthesized

You just roll with the punches
Until you can't feel a thing
You just roll with the punches
Aww yeah

You just roll with the punches
Until you can't feel a thing
You just roll with the punches
Aww yeah

Picture Of A Man lyrics - Dawes

In the depths of dizziness
I picked a fight with myself like a real roughneck
Screaming, "You don't know who you're dealing with."
I threw a hell of a punch but I couldn't connect

At the edge of a silhouette
I caught a glimpse of a face I will never forget
Speaking future words of an idiot
I understood them at once but didn't know what I meant

Be still or break everything in half
Find free will in a drawing of a bath
Kill what you want or save everything you can
Be still. You're the picture of a man

Oh, man, can you picture it? Picture of a man
Oh, man, can you picture it?

In the heat of an argument
I got tricked into saying that I knew how I felt
As if you give something a value just by naming it
I'd be a hell of a vendor if I knew who I'd sell

And at the end of everything relevant
I slowly emptied my lungs and watched the light sunset
Burning everything natural and negative
I inhaled it all and didn't know where I went

Be still or break everything in half
Find free will in a drawing of a bath
Kill what you want, or save everything you can
Be still. You're the picture of a man
You're the picture of a man
You're the picture of a man

Oh, man, can you picture it? Picture of a man
Oh, man, can you picture it? Picture of a man

Less Than Five Miles Away lyrics - Dawes (feat. Blake Mills)

Between the cold drinks in the freezer
And the latest tabloid rags
A voice screams over the music
"Put the money in the bag!"

No one ever hears his reason
No one ever hears his name
This is all happening right now
Less than five miles away

A shifty fortune teller
Communion with the dead
Lying about the astral plane
So she can keep her children fed

Listening to a mother sick with cancer
Wondering what she's gonna say
This is all happening right now
Less than five miles away
This is all happening right now
Less than five miles away

There's a stranger in the bushes
Looking through the windows of a home
At a woman from the movies
That's been living there alone

She's home at 7 in the evening
He sees the code punched in the gate
This is all happening right now
Less than five miles away
This is all happening right now

And it all looks so pretty from a distance
How we're living out this story that we tell
Baby we were both designed out in the cosmos
As just a way of asking questions about itself

You know the great writer that left us
Well his house is still around
Like an old dead volcano
That sleeps over the town

They're gonna turn it into condos
They'll be done by New Year's Day
This is all happening right now
Less than five miles away
This is all happening right now

Roll Tide lyrics - Dawes

I'm sad about the messages you're sending
I'm sad about the shit we're doing wrong
I'm sad about the never-ending love we had
We keep pissing on the fire, but it keeps burning so strong
Can we both just say "I love you" and get it on?

Your boy from Birmingham seems nice enough to me
But unqualified for you, and your heavy vibes
He doesn't know the troubled story that he's written himself into
He doesn't know he's just a place for you to hide
You wanna tell him "Best of luck, man Roll Tide"

Roll Tide
It can't be easier to swim, when the water's high
Roll Tide
When what we want the most has us terrified
Roll Tide
If we don't want to let go, then we have to fight
Roll Tide
Roll Tide

I'm asking now for reconciliation
I'm asking now for what we have to say
I'm asking now for both of us to do a little changing
I wanna dance with you forever, in this one cabaret
If we just allow ourselves, it'll be okay

I close my eyes sometimes, now, when I'm driving
To feel the lack of distance between our sides
To see the orange and purple glow of our two flames
To take my weary self out for a ride
To tell myself, "Hang in, man Roll Tide"

Roll Tide
It can't be easier to swim, when the water's high
Roll Tide
When what we want the most has us terrified
Roll Tide
If we don't want to let go, we have to fight
And if we can't let go, then we have to try
Roll Tide
Roll Tide

When The Tequila Runs Out lyrics - Dawes

Everyone that greeted me, was moving slow and drinking fast
I was lost inside a painting on a wall
A pretty baby with a cigarette, was looking for a place to ash
Stumbling toward the voices down the hall

They had thriller on the stereo, not the album, just the song
For two dancers all in white, that no one really knew
There were a lot of leather jackets, there was a haircut reading palms
There was a line outside the bathroom that didn't really move

When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be feeling no pain

Some girls forgot their bathing suits but felt like jumping in the pool
Right after making sure the underwater lights were on
I was staring at a silhouette, I was blushing like a fool
Letting everyone pretend they hadn't planned it all along

Then our host bust out of his bedroom, with his glasses slightly bent
He gets up on the diving board to tell us how he feels
“Ladies and gentlemen we've begun the initial descent,
And now it's time to pull up on the wheel”

When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be feeling no pain

On the floor of the living room, I saw my past life passed out
Laying next to her handsome new flame
I didn't recognize his face too much 'cept for the grimace on his mouth
He looked a lot like me, he seemed to be in pain

I didn't hear the picture window break, I didn't see the rising sun
But I could feel the morning breeze
Then I heard her tired voice speak up and say “I think this party's done”
She asked if I could drive her home, and then she added please (Please)

When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be drinking champagne
When the tequila runs out, we'll be feeling no pain

For No Good Reason lyrics - Dawes

A little girl sinks down in the deep end
and looks up towards the sky,
and through a little blue world of legs
and her feet that look like their in flight
in a slow motion dance while the water expands
the Sun's refracted light
she just has to pretend she can hear the music

When she starts crying in her goggles
the scene becomes unclear
but she keeps peering into this underworld
through the filter of her tears
which let her keep hold of the moment
as if it was a souvenir
she just has to pretend she knows how to use it

Or maybe it's the cold hard truth that makes her cry
Maybe it's her ancient past life memories come
Maybe it's a chemical that got into her eye
Or maybe it's for no good reason at all
Maybe it's for no good reason at all

His wife asked "How were things at work today?"
as Bill walked through the door
and put his coat on the chair and his keys on the table
and his eyes down on the floor,
and he tightened his jaws and he thought of the cause
and effects weren't clear anymore,
figuring out how to say what's wrong

He said "I know that I'll be leaving you,
that's all I really know,
but I wish I could tell what exactly compels
me to turn my steps and go,
because there's so much love that you've given me,
and so much love that I owe,
it's with myself that I can't seem to get along"

Or maybe he just felt the hungry hand of fate
Maybe he won't rest until he's seen it fall
Maybe it's that mood that he's in just for the day
Or maybe it's for no good reason at all
Maybe it's for no good reason at all

An actor was found dead today in his Culver city home,
and with no evidence of foul play it seemed he'd acted on his own,
the position of his body looked like he was reaching for the phone,
makes you wonder who he was gonna call

Maybe all his demons were settling their debts
Or maybe all the pressure finally drove him to the wall
Maybe there were secrets that he needed to protect
Or maybe it's for no good reason at all
Maybe it's for no good reason,
no good reason, no good reason at all

Quitter lyrics - Dawes

Quit talking to God if your prayers don't get answered
Or if you don't exactly notice when they do
Quit taking the jobs that rob you of your powers
So you can buy more shit you don't have time to use
Quit hanging around in this air conditioned town
Where your life is lived up hunched over your phone
You're gonna have to quit everything, until you find one thing you won't

Quit living in the past if all you end up doing
Is practicing apologies you won't make
Quit filling up your glass if it's mixing and churning
With the feelings you are trying to escape
Quit committing these sins and absolving them again
As if it matters when you do or when you don't
You're gonna have to quit everything, until you find one thing you won't

Quit turning to words and putting pen on paper
If it feels like you're just putting black on white
Quit telling these girls their ideas about forever
When you only plan to know them for a night
Quit wasting my time because pretty soon you'll find
It's the only thing of value that we own
You're gonna have to quit everything, until you find one thing you won't

Quit trying to act like the world breaks into facts
When life itself is swimming through your bones
You're gonna have to quit everything, until you find one thing you won't
You're gonna have to quit everything, until you find one thing you won't

As If By Design lyrics - Dawes

The stars were just the holes punched in a shoebox
That gives the creature all the air he needs to breathe
As if every constellation was just a form of innovation
From a captor too enormous to conceive

The moon beamed like a coach from junior high school
When players hacked their way through each opposing team
And the brighter it was shining, felt like the wider he was smiling
On a season that he loved too much to leave

When you stare off in the night sometimes you see a little too much
Sometimes there's a world behind the mirror, sometimes a razor and a toothbrush
When in those fleeting moments when the stars all seem aligned
It all runs together, as if by design

The boat out in the middle of the ocean
Is like the butterfly just breathing on the sea
Giving all of its attention to this new and strange reflection
Not recognize that's what it used to be

When you stare off in the night sometimes you see a little too much
Sometimes there's a world behind the mirror, sometimes a razor and a toothbrush
When in those fleeting moments when the stars all seem aligned
It all runs together, as if by design

Every day getting a little
More aquainted with the riddles
Until I'm looking for them everywhere I go

When you stare off in the night sometimes you see a little too much
Sometimes there's a world behind the mirror, sometimes a razor and a toothbrush
When in those fleeting moments when the stars all seem aligned
It all runs together, as if by design
As if by design
As if by design

"All Your Favorite Bands" (2015)

Things Happen lyrics - Dawes

I could go on talking or I could stop
Wring out each memory til' I get every drop
Sift through the details of the others involved
The true crime would be thinking it's just one persons fault

Like an honest signature on a fake ID
Like the guilty conscience with the innocent plea
You can just ignore it, put it out of mind
But ain't it funny how the past won't ever let something lie

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through
Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to
I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do

In a different time, on a different floor
I might mourn the loss of who I'm not anymore
So I'm driving up to Oakland for a good look back
And a few revisions to my plan of attack

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through
Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to
I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do

I think I'll see Lily, see where she stands
I can't help how I feel, I don't think anyone can
Sometimes we're lovers, sometimes we're friends
Behold the magnetism between two dead ends

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through
Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to
I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do

Lets' make a list of all the things the world has put you through (we can qualify the spirit guides we listen to)
Lets raise a glass to all the people your not speaking to (or why are moms compelled to bronze your baby shoes)
I don't know what else that you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do
That's all they ever do
That's all they ever do
That's all they ever do

Somewhere Along The Way lyrics - Dawes

She went from table manners to tunnel vision to premature farewells
With a restlessness reserved for those who believe in themselves
She thought the world was hers so she made sure it bent beneath her will
She was as new and as ancient as the solar paneled hills

She was certain she could take this town by storm
The wonder of sound and light seeking a form

But somewhere along the way
The dots didn’t all connect
The promise became regrets
Somewhere along the way
The dream and the circumstance
Continue their tortured dance
Somewhere along the way

She was my lullaby personified, my vision in the mist
But her contacts were all promoters and a westside therapist
The 5ams, the worried friends, the parting of her lips
But I needed to witness someone wrestle with what it means to just exist

How her only plan in life was getting lost
How she took me to the edge and made me watch

But somewhere along the way
The running just lost it’s fun
It happens to everyone
Somewhere along the way
Her trail became too obscure
But that was her signature

She would talk about letting go - I guess I didn’t understand
Giving over to the currents that were there since time began
And on a long drive from El Paso to the Pacific Ocean cliffs

I finally felt connected to the continental drift
But somewhere along the way
I started to smile again
I don’t remember when
Somewhere along the way
Things will turn out just fine
I know it’s true this time

Don't Send Me Away lyrics - Dawes

You can send me a message if you don’t want to talk
And make sure I don’t interrupt
It might help you let it go
It’s hard for you, I know
To act like you’re not giving up

But don’t send me away
There’s nowhere else I’m going to
Don’t send me away
I know that’s what you want to do
Don’t send me away
Don’t send me away
Don’t send me away

You can send me a picture of the room you’re in
With your evening downtown view
The way the city spreads
When you’re laying in your bed
You can send it so I know what I can stand to lose

But don’t send me away
This is where I’m supposed to be
Don’t send me away
You don’t know what you do to me
Don’t send me away
Don’t send me away
Don’t send me away

I’m getting on the freeway
Your jacket’s in my car
Your ash is in my ashtray
And I’m there with you wherever you are

Don’t send me away
There’s nowhere else I’m going to
Don’t send me away
I know that’s what you want to do
Don’t send me away
Don’t send me away
Don’t send me away

All Your Favorite Bands lyrics - Dawes

Late night drives and hot french fries and friends around the country
From Charlottesville to good old Santa Fe
When I think of you, you still got on that hat that says let's party
I hope that thing is never thrown away

I hope that life without a chaperone is what you thought it'd be
I hope your brother's El Camino runs forever
I hope the world sees the same person that you've always been to me
And may all your favorite bands stay together

Now I'm just waking up and I'm not thinking clearly so don't quote me
With one eye open I'm writing you this song
Ain't it funny how some people pop into your head so easily
I haven't seen you in there for so long

I hope that life without a chaperone is what you thought it'd be
I hope your brother's El Camino runs forever
I hope the world sees the same person that you always were to me
And may all your favorite bands stay together
[x2]

I Can't Think About It Now lyrics - Dawes

If you’re just asking for a reason
Reasons are everywhere you look
The only difference between them
Are which you gave and which you took

Every smile with some dark anticipation
And dreams of back before it settled in their brows
I don’t remember when you first began to notice
But I can’t think about it now
I can’t think about it now

The latest singer’s latest single’s got me listening
For the pact between the writer and the star
This is how mythology is written
This is where the lawless jungles are

She’s just a singer living mostly after midnight
Pumping blood and money back into a town
And it all eventually betrays her
But I can’t think about it now
I can’t think about it now

So I guess it makes me wonder what I’m chasing
Like a dancer when she’s breaking in her shoes
Like sending men up to the moon just for the landing
Displaying power we don’t know how else to use

Sometimes it’s more than I can handle
Sometimes it’s all the joy I’ve found
And it’ll all end up on one side or the other
But I can’t think about it now

The decades that are hidden in the sidewalks
The narrative that naturally occurs
The everlasting wisdom of a sports bar
The poison that’s mistaken for a cure

All these backward glances putting me in danger
Of forgetting how to turn myself around
It’s just that time just keeps on slipping through my fingers
But I can’t think about it now
I can’t think about it now
I can’t think about it now

I can’t think about it now

To Be Completely Honest lyrics - Dawes

To be completely honest
The picture isn’t clear to me yet
You insisted that you owed explanations
While I was patiently enjoying the debt

And when I think about it
I’m not even sure if I mind
You were the fading signal that would slip through the static
For a station that I never could find

So you don’t need to say a word right now
All your reasons would just flicker in the darkness
Maybe that’s why nobody knows how
To be completely honest

To be completely honest
It feels like you’re still in the room
From the bracelets that you left on the nightstand
To the crows in the yard each afternoon

And I just can’t get off it
I haven’t been sleeping at all
Some questions weave themselves into the fabric
And some are what compel me to call

But then I never know where I should start
And a record of the symptoms is all I have accomplished
I never really thought it’d be so hard
To be completely honest

To be completely honest
I think I know how it ends
The universe continues expanding
While we discuss particulars of just being friends

And maybe that makes everything okay
Remembering the defect at the heart of every promise
Well maybe that’s the only way

To be completely honest

Waiting For Your Call lyrics - Dawes

When your restlessness has lost it’s way
And you’re finished with your need to stray
It’s not even something I am proud to say
I’ll be waiting for your call

When you reach the other side of this life you live
And you ask yourself what good you did
When you wanna know just how much I can forgive
I’ll be waiting for your call

When the charms and riches do not seem to last
When your lover asked for proof is not up to the task
I’m surprised you think you even need to ask
I’ll be waiting for your call

I’ll be here as I’ve always been
For you to think of on your way
The same way stepping into the evening
Is the time to praise the day

May I never give in and accept the fact
If I can’t feel your presence let me feel the lack
‘Cause even if you never will be coming back
I’ll be waiting for your call
Even if you never will be coming back
I’ll be waiting for your call

Right On Time lyrics - Dawes

Ohh ohh ohhh
Ohh ohh ohhh
Ohh ohh ohhh

If these walls could talk
I'd defer to the furniture
The piano, the table, the bed that we both sleep in
These constant, silent messengers

'Cause there's a story that's recorded in each fingerprint
That these disregarded artifacts collect
And if we boil down these documented memories
I have a feeling you should know what to expect

You were right on time
And out of nowhere
Right on time

Ohh ohh ohhh
And if they don't talk
I'll investigate a formula
Figures, equations, the details of our union
The edges of the nebula

At the end of such a long and worthy sacrifice
All that's left is to submit my full report
I'll have turned all of my hunches into certainties
And I will confirm what I already knew before

That you were right on time
And out of nowhere
Right on time

Ohh ohh ohhh

And as I stumble through the streets back from the alleyways
And everyone can see I'm bleeding through my shirt
And after describing all the shooter's details carefully,
And I start to realize just how badly I've been hurt

You were right on time
And out of nowhere
You were right on time

Right on time
And out of nowhere
Right on time

Now That It's Too Late, Maria lyrics - Dawes

The flicker of the candle looks like a one way conversation
Reacting to something nobody else could see
While I sit at the table and relive the whole situation
Until the valet who wants to go home comes in and gives me my keys
And tonight every single star is shining
The power lines all sizzle and buzz
And now that it’s too late, Maria
I see it all for what it was

There’s nothing sadder than a streetlight shining on a stretch of empty sidewalk
Or maybe the fog that I’ve been living in has lifted for the first time in weeks
Every day’s been a step forward perfecting the art of the small talk
So I never have to say something I might really mean
But I remember all those final words that you told me
How I was too green to be blue
But now that it’s too late, Maria
I can see how that was true

Now when I am in your city I come across the company you’ve been keeping
They all hit it off so well with some infamous ghost of my past
It’s so hard to imagine what you could have possibly told them
Some wonder how I’m doing but most don’t even ask
But now every single door stands open
I even signed some autographs
And now that it’s too late, Maria
We can both look back and laugh

There’s always more to say but I’m just skipping to the ending
When you move back to Texas and I meet a girl who wants to change her name
When we both start to forget the problems that were never worth having
And everybody goes on living watching nothing really change
There will always be a part of you that’s with me
And you sure as hell had better feel the same
And now that it’s too late, Maria

There is no one here to blame

"Stories Don't End" (2013)

Just Beneath The Surface lyrics - Dawes

Have you ever thought your little girl glamour shots
And the events of that whole day spent at the mall
Is maybe a part of you you didn't know you were clinging to?
As if that's where the secret had taken its hold most of all
Like a feather that finds its invisible path as its fall

Just beneath the surface there's another one of me
At the root of all my trouble, in the twitch before I speak
With thoughts and revelations even I could not accept
So just beneath the surface is where he will stay kept

When you talk about me, do you stick to the memories?
Or was I just another victim of the case?
The one that went cold on you the way it was meant to do
For any detective that hasn't accepted his place
And still wanders a city in hopes of it showing its face

Just beneath the surface there's another one of me
At the root of all my trouble, in the twitch before I speak
With thoughts and revelations even I could not accept
So just beneath the surface is where he will stay kept

Between the thoughtless words and the wordless thoughts
Between my plotless fears and my fearless plots
Between the parts of me I keep from you and the things that I'm just not
The center keeps on drifting
The music never stops

Just beneath the surface there's another one of me
At the root of all my trouble, in the twitch before I speak
With thoughts and revelations even I could not accept
Just beneath the surface is where he will stay kept

From A Window Seat lyrics - Dawes

I'm buckle in my seat belt, plug my headset in a chair
And to the music, I watch flight attendants move
They are pointing out the exits, but it looks more like a prayer
Or an ancient dance their bloodline reaches through

These planes are built for sifting through the warriors from the men
I've got time to sit and watch them for a while
You can see everywhere they're going, everywhere they've been
And how they look out at the clouds each time they smile

And I think, maybe he's in town for someone's birthday
Maybe he makes trouble everywhere
But as much he resists the conversation between the rivers and the freeways
He knows it's always there

As the northwest passage sits somewhere below me as I sleep
I dream of captains and explorers eating boots
When I ask if I can join them and they offer one to me
I wake up as my home comes into view

So I reach out down for my notebook to see what impressions could be spun
But it's just buildings and a million swimming pools
So I leaf back through the pages to see where I am from
Or for some crumbling map of what it's leading to

And I find that the hero in this song that I am writing
Doesn't know he's just an image of myself
But as much he resists the conversation between the rivers and the freeways
He's somehow always asking them for help

I want to make out all the signs I've been ignoring
How the trees reach for the sky or in the length of someone's hair
'Cause when you don't know where you are going
Any road will take you there

So maybe I'm in town for someone's birthday
Maybe I make trouble everywhere
But as much I resist the conversation between the rivers and the freeways
I know it's always there

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