Lyrics
Lyrics for songs from The Star Ledger are available online. Choose a song from the list below:
01. All Fear Disappears
02. Kissed Awake
03. Underwear
04. This City is a Catalyst
05. The Lightning Song
06. The Most Earth Shattered in a Single Day
07. If You Didn’t Love Me
08. The Last Break Up Song I Write
09. What’s Your Comfort?
10. Counterfeit
11. You Become So Bright
Everyday
An hour before sunrise
My dream slips from view
Only to find you by my side
And once again
Your skin is just like water
So hot against my legs
Why does it make me shiver?
You kiss across
My face until
You reach my ear
And you whisper
“Nothing can,
Nothing can replace this,
Nothing can come
Anywhere even close to this”
And, oh, how it is practical
That magical things happen
Let’s consume each other right now
So that before the day begins
All Fear Disappears
How you ride the line
Between laughter and tears
Can’t wait to see which way you will break
Or if it will ever become clear
The clouds across the sun
Make us seem to float
Spinning the windows round and round
The room is a kaleidoscope
You’re pretty like smoke
You’re pretty like paper
My sleepy-eyed savior
There is nothing I want more
Than to lie here and gaze into those eyes
That I kissed awake
I can feel my blood
Coursing through your veins
It makes it’s way to your heart
Where it will remain
Now your eyes are wide and wild
Like a child beckoning
To some secret World
That we kissed awake
The movement you create
Will feed the melodies I make
And we will shake off these shells
We will make them quake
And reveal this world
That we kissed awake
The two of us are quite a pair
Lost in each other’s underwear
Dead to the world
Creaking the floorboards
I can’t stop looking at your mouth
It’s mine and so are the words that come out
They’re all for me
And they’re so goddamn pretty
I can’t help it if I make you smile
It’s just so easy baby
I’m not even trying
I can’t help it if I make you cry
Cause what was empty is now
So full inside
It’s not your fault your an only child
But you know there’s tricks inside your eyes
What am I to do?
Bury myself right into you
Tackling each other in the grass
Pushing your dress up over you ass
You’re always looking around
Trying real hard not to make a sound
I can’t help it if I make you smile
It’s just so easy baby
I’m not even trying
I can’t help it if I make you cry
Cause what was empty is now
So full inside
This city is a catalyst
If you can get past the furrowed brows
I see you all making lists in your head
But never writing anything down
I’m sounding more like my father
Why can’t you get something done?
Why do you stand there with your nose in the air
And a stare that’s like a shotgun.
Go get yourself elected
Destroy a nuclear bomb
Go design the fashion of the century
Make a beat that could reach Taiwan
But don’t tell me about depression
Look in these eyes and you’ll know
It takes a strong soul
To pull you out of your own head
And find some room to grow
This City is a Catalyst
Can’t you see?
Can’t you see?
My confidence is layered with cowardice
My skin is a thin pane of glass
That’s chilled by the elements
And soon will turn to dust
These pithy arguments will not rest
Anymore than a soldier in his grave
Of the side that lost
Though God was on his side
For love and evermore
To even the score
I hope I’m killed by lightning
By a great flash of light from the sky
That could not connect with
The ground in anyway but through me
I fight with belief
Like you fight with sleep
Gotta search for it
Wait for it
Pray that it will come
To pray for a prayer
A prayer that’ll never comes
I hope I’m killed by lighting
By a great flash of light from the sky
That could not connect with
The ground in anyway but through me
The Most Earth Shattered in a Single Day
It gets so heavy
How everything comes down at once
Now your cheeks are shining in the daylight
C’mere I’ll hide them for you
The warmth coming through
The lids of my eyes
Is blinding what I was gonna say
To try to get your mind away
Off the thought that wins the prize
For the most earth shattered in a single day
I’d hold you closer if it would make you stay
I’d hold you closer if it would make the pain go a way
When you kissed me goodbye
I could feel the coolness of the surface of your skin
And the warmth from underneath
When you turned and walked away
I could feel the heaviness growing in your heart
And the vibrations from your feet
Yeah, your steps were that heavy
As you walked down the street
Far away from me
I’d hold you closer if it would make you stay
I’d hold you closer if it would make the pain go away
If I could lift the buildings one by one
If I could alter the prospective of the sun
Then I think you would clearly see
That there is you and me
And that all we need is
Just your breath inside my lungs
And my touch burned in your side
Like a stain you cannot hide
This is all that really matters
Cause our love is something
You simply cannot shatter
I’d hold you closer if it would make you stay
I’d hold you closer if it would make the pain go away
This frustration has whittled its way
To the middle of my head
And there soaked with thought
Expands till it bursts at the seams
Leaking its being all over me
Streaking moisture down my face
For you to erase with your palm
And calm the pain that remains there
Lodged in my brain
Cause you see through all of this
Cause you listen to the wind
And hidden within your touch
Is the strength to keep me from caving in
I get so overwhelmed sometimes
It feels like all I am making is a finger-painting
With far too many colors
That all blend together
Whether I like it or not
And I cannot stop smearing it further
Till I end up tossing it down on the ground like
The brown piece of shit that it is
But you see through all of this
Cause you listen to the wind
And hidden within your touch
Is the strength to keep me from caving in
If you didn’t love me, how could I love myself?
The Last Break Up Song I Write
There’s an eclipse out tonight
For once something’s aligned
After all this time I
Find it strange you still remain
Around the groundwork of my instincts
The dog-ears of my mind
When I think of how
Hard I tried
When I think of how
Hard I tried...
This is the last breakup song I write
It’s the knife that cuts you all
From my life
Now I’ve got to remedy
How you made my insecurities
Into tendencies and
Shut the door on you tight
When I think of how
Hard I tried
When I think of how
Hard I tried
And you’d look into my eyes
And you’d ask me why I look so tired
I wish I’d never know the violence of you
When silence was a quality quite beyond you
But it’s no one’s fault at all
It’s all the same
We make each other insane
But for my own peace of mind I’ve come to find
That you’re all the same girl now
You’re all the same girl now
Cause it’s so easy to sing about pain
Its so beautiful to take your name in vain
It’s so powerful to complain
How I’d slit my wrists, drop out of school
Move across the country to get away from you
But,
It’s all over
It’s all through
And I’ll never again
Have to think of you
Or think of how hard I tried
Cause you’ll never again look into my eyes
Cause there’s someone here who doesn’t
Need my to cry
For her to know I love her inside
This is the last break up song I write.
I was standing in a crowded room
If only to feel alone
But I could actually feel you
One second too soon
It’s true, it’s true that I can feel you
Through my skin
Through the air
Through the silence that hangs there
Through the night
The blue, blue night
There’s something in you I admire
You’ve nothing left to aspire
You’re a tower of confidence in this
World of shadows
There’s a peace deep inside your eyes
That cannot see
All I see
I’m thirsty for the filter
That makes everything seem
Within your reach
What’s your comfort?
What’s your comfort?
What gets you through the day?
I’ve often wondered if when I
Take the time
To fantasize
Can you tell a certain shift
Somewhere inside you?
Can you hear my thoughts?
Read my mind?
Know all the secrets that I
Spell out for you?
For you to find?
For you to find?
What’s your comfort?
What’s your comfort?
What gets you through the day?
My heart’s not soft
Just because it melts
Why am I the only one
Who has to live with himself?
What’s your comfort?
What’s your comfort?
What gets you through the day?
Well its pitch
Black and I’m on my own
I’m kicking up dirt
I’m tripping on the cobblestones
My shoulders are twitching
And my teeth are clenched
The air is scary music
I’m swerving and my fists are gonna push
Through my pockets right into the earth.
Everything feels so real
I can’t believe my eyes
I can’t even tell
It’s myself I’ve compromised
Does it make sense
That I would create a place
Where there’s no mistakes,
Only excuses and blurred lines
That make me feel Counterfeit?
Counterfeit
Counterfeit
Counterfeit
There’s a knot of regret
That’s haunting me inside
That cannot be justified
Cause I know I’ll do this again
Do this again
Do this again
I can’t escape this place where
Every night is counterfeit
Counterfeit
Counterfeit
Counterfeit
Why do I do this to myself?
I’m gonna rest my weary head now
And close my ready eyes
And fight through all the shit that lies inside
And find an image of you
And focus in on tight
Till you become so bright
That light turns into dark
And my whole self turns into sleep
And I dream of only you
As if it were that easy
To turn off my mind
Would be like stamping cigarettes on my arm
Without being burned
I’ve learned to let it take me
As it often takes you
Hoping that things will run their course
Somehow
Well, if forcing things had ever worked
I would surely know by now
Suppose you’ve never seen the sunrise
You’ve never seen the sea
You’ve never woken up right here
Holding on to me
What if I’ve never seen your face?
I’ve never seen a thing
I never knew the simple joy
Making you smile could bring
I’ve dreamt of this
I’ve dreamt of nothingness
A picture of white
A field of emptiness
I’m moving far away from being surprised all the time
Now I can feel wisdom taking shape
If i try
It helps being continually awake
Nothing gets past my eyes
Suppose you’ve never seen the sunrise
You’ve never seen the sea
You’ve never woken up right here
Holding on to me
What if I’ve never seen your face?
I’ve never seen a thing
I never knew the simple joy
Making you smile could bring
I’ve dreamt of this
I’ve dreamt of nothingness
A picture of white
A field of emptiness
