Carrie was a little girl
Growing up in a grown up world
Carrie noticed everything

From the dolls and ponies
To the romeo's and their money
Carrie wanted everything

Oh, how the days went by so slow
Oh, how the days went by
And the years went by

Now carrie is a little girl
All grown up in a grown up world
But nothing else has changed

Carrie found her romeo
With a silver spoon and a heart of gold
But man he was empty inbetween

Drunk enough to stumble
Sober enough to stand
Is the only way she let it ever
Come out from within
Spare no expense as she
Buys back her innocence
But no one here is selling

Carrie is a little girl
All alone in a lonely world
But no one here is crying

She could not help it, he was just there
After four cities in one year
She could not take another night
But she knows that did not make it right

Cover your eyes
Don't think about it
Turn out the light
And hide in the covers

And in the morning he was gone
She was grateful for this alone
Pulled the sheets off of the bed
But she'll never get him from her head

Cover your eyes
Don't think about it
Turn out the light
And hide in the covers

I don’t know what it is I’m doing
It’s my own life I’m trying to ruin
Late night laundromat, she’s lonely
She’s taken but she’s taken with me

Then she calls me on the phone
She says she wants me to come and save her
But when she’s done she leaves me cold

She’s been crying lately
She’s been sleeping all day
She’s just waiting for something to change
She’s just waiting for anything
For her life to begin again

She filled her eyes with her emotions
She filled my ears with her regrets
And when she had no more to say
She dropped the innocent display

Then she calls me on the phone
She says she wants me to come and save her again
But when she’s done she leaves me cold

She’s been crying lately
She’s been sleeping all day
She’s just waiting for something to change
She’s just waiting for anything
For her life to begin again

I missed the look of your face in the morning light
I hear your voice in the train going by at midnight
But the train keeps on running
And the morning keeps on coming
And I keep on wondering why i'm alone

The deed is done
The damage done
If I had a chance
Now it's gone

All I can speak is my mind
But it's not too clear
The truth, stranger than lies
Leads me somewhere

God it's so selfish
To want to change all the shit that you've done
To surrender your resolve
To a desperate imagination

The deed is done
The damage done
If I had control
Now it's gone

Maybe I'm just running away
From the laughing skeletons
That keep my pride at bay
Sometimes I don't listen
To a word I say
I don't know why you listen
To a word I say

You can't second guess a woman
She'll leave you behind
In the time it takes
To make up your mind

I miss when we struggled through each day
Us against the world, we worked hard and we played
It's all different now when we walk down the street
With nowhere to go and nothing new to see

Utopia turned out to be a babylon
And money ends up buying almost everything
You took all the friction, i gave us control
And so the challenge faded, everything got old

It's six'o'clock of another day
I drive to work in the right lane
Midnight morning will fade to grey
And i don't mind the traps along the way

Utopia turned out to be a babylon
And money ends up buying almost everything
You took all the friction, i gave us control
And so the challenge faded, everything got old
We dealt with all the problems, it left us with a hole
That filled up with ambition, passionless and cold

I was sitting around feeling down about the times
I could've changed my life and my ways
On the screen theres a man on a stage with a mike in his hand
He's got something to say
And his words slap me in my face
Clear my head and put me in my place

I've got to get up
I can't believe I'm on the floor again
Get up
I can't believe I've got to get you out of my head again

I was putting em down in a bar in this town
Where we met and she told me goodbye
And I can't get away from the memories we made
In the streets and the places we lied
But the long walk from 6th street to my house
Cleared my head and put that fire out

I've got to get up
I can't believe I'm on the floor again
Get up
I can't believe I've got to drink you out of my head again

my hands shake from the drunken sleep
my head spinning around the hotel room
last night was so far away from where we should be
should've seen it coming from miles away
an avalanche that starts with a drink

now she's gone
just like me
everything's gone
but the pain
and the dream

we don't even talk anymore
but in the room it gets free
the door slams
just the drink, the pain & you and me

why cant we cover our gaping wounds
we try to ignore them
then we pour on the alcohol

a slow dream
moving through water
she won't speak
might not be dreaming
for one week
she got away sober
ran from her city life

had to get away

for three years
her lover sank deeper
into whatever
she could get in her veins
until she
found in another
that life could be clearer
and still passionate

she had to get away

she came back
to say it was over
but fell in to one more night
to end it right
now the dogs howl a tribute
to another lost soul
gone by

they're taking her away

she started with a deep breath
but it didn't do the trick
so she dropped her hands
and went on down that hill

she never knew what she wanted
because she never needed
she never seized the day
from the melancholy breezes

grab the wheel
grab the wheel and turn around
don't give up
because you don't see a way out

she never knew she lost him
until he flew away
to a hotel room up in vegas
she got the bill he paid

and when he finally said the words out loud
the silence was unbearable
when she fell to the floor
he would not come to comfort her

and her dream was finally realized when
she lost the race
in all her childhood fantasies
the imposter took her place

he brought the news himself
i guess he was trying to help
and when she broke the furniture
all i could do was hold her

she started with a deep breath
but it didnt do the trick
so she dropped her head
she let go of the wheel

She waits underneath the porch light
She dont wanna go inside to the alcohol
She hopes what she sees i right
Cause what she feels inside could cloud her eyes

Now her face shows her hesitation
He sees the moment and he takes control of the situation

She wonders if she has a hand in fate
Cause what she's learned to hate has embraced her
She don't want to gamble with her life no more
She can't take the loss if she wakes up alone

Now her face shows her hesitation
He sees the moment and he takes control of the situation

She's waited forever to get it right
She can't wait forever for another night like tonight

Through a cracked window
That's dirty and yellow
He drives home alone
From the pawn shop

He checks the paper
For a job that's better
Than flipping burgers
For nothing an hour

He doesn't understand it, he is not the type
He's never been a victim, he's never missed a fight
This town is so different, no place for a musician anymore
Might as we pack up and go
No place to call home

He looks out his window
It's dirty and yellow
He sits home alone
And misses his guitar

He turns on the TV
And checks his numbers
Watches them smile
While he tears up the paper

He doesn't understand it, he is not the type
He's never been a victim, he's never missed a fight
This town is so different, no place for a musician anymore
Might as we pack up and go
No place to call home

There was just enough light in the room
To cast shadows on these things that keep me from home
She said just enough to let me know
She wasn't happy...but she hadn't let go

A thousand miles between our words
A thousand cold wires carry my love
The only thing we share tonight
Is the moonlight

You were all I wanted
You were all I wanted

The moon ain't so fuul that it can't take
Another bad decision i will make
A new distance separates
For it to cover

You were all I wanted
You were all I wanted
You were all I ever wanted
You were all I ever wanted

The sun was burning red today
It sets the mood for the city
The western window fills my eyes
I can see it through the clouds of smoke
In the sky

And we pass each other on the streets
Heads are buried in the concrete
Gonna find some way to burn this off tonight
And we all think it's such a shame
But we play that hand anyway
Tonight we celebrate what we've thrown away

The moon is like a bloodshot eye
Tired from burning through the night
With the neon signs
You drink until you blur the line
Between your life
And what you do to stay alive

And we see each other every day
But we ain't got a thing to say
Nothing's happened anyway
So we brag that we work so hard
Fighting in a losing war
Tonight we celebrate
How tired we are

I got your letter
Read every word
About all the places
Without me you were

You'll never be
Just words
You'll never be
Just words to me

I play the song that used to
Play by our bed
Hear every word
Every movement we made

You'll never be
Just a song
You'll never be
Just a song to me

The light across your face
Divides it night and day
The night eye open wide
In it blackness hides
The answer I must find
The question trades my pride
No man should have to ask
If his blood has passed

For one moment I fell into myself
For one moment I fell into...

The years went by so fast
The moments came and passed
I worked away so far
And drove home after dark
I didn't notice when
We drifted then
A child came one day
But we'd drifted away

For one moment I fell into myself
For one moment I fell into...

You show me this new side
That came from our lost time
The first to break the stare
Is the first to lose the fight
I know that I am wrong
But I know you're not right

For one moment I fell into myself
For one moment I fell into...
For one moment I fell into myself
For one moment I fell into...

Well I've got that feeling again
Staring at the ceiling again
Been up for days and I still can't close my eyes
Oh, and I know

Well I can't seem to get a break
Got my whole life in a suicide gamble
And all the happiness that money buys
Oh, and i know

Well I close my eyes and say
That I wish I had control
But the irony I know
That would leave me wanting more

Got voices in my head
No privacy in my own bed
No comfort from the women or the wine
Oh, and I know

On this runaway train life led by hunger
I hope I can plow through what I find

Raise up my hand and cast a shadow across my face
Watch as the sunlight flows through her summer dress
I watch her dance
Watch her sway her hips

And oh, she moves
And oh, she moves me

Shooting glances across the room that only we knew
It felt like no one's there except us two
And I know what to do
As I walk up to you

And oh, she moves
And oh, she moves me

She moves to me
She moves through me

It's raining outside, but we don't care
We lay in bed all day and listen from here
As I play with your hair
And whisper in your ear

And oh, she moves
And oh, she moves me

She moves to me
She moves through me


There is no time
There is no time
Better than today
There is no time
To say the way you feel


Last verse by Stephen Doster

Is it faith or desperation haunting me tonight?
Is it just the realization things will never be right?
I looked to you for consolation, I didn't mean to fight
What I got from you is silence and all your spite

I know that she won't come
Still I leave my door open
I know that I won't sleep
Still I lay here anyway and dream

When I held her hand afraid to let it go
When i tried to ignore her afraid to let it show
My throat stiffens now that I'm alone
I pushed her away I was too young to know

I know that she won't come
Still I leave my door open
I know that I won't sleep
Still I lay here anyway and dream

When she finally went away
It suddenly came:
The things i didn't need
All of me she didn't see
She didn't need me
to dry her tears
Just someone to pass the years
I'm no more lonely
without her here

So here's to being anywhere
We never finished, we never started
When all my friends ask where you are
I tell them you're anywhere

Never could stay in one place
For very long
we had no conversation
Just a page of romance trash
She flipped through me
Went straight to the last
By the time I found the letter
Laying there
it said you could be anywhere

So here's to being anywhere
We never finished, we never started
When all my friends ask where you are
I tell them you're anywhere

And when my friends ask where you are
they say their sorry
I tell them im not

You're shouting at the red lights thinking they'll change
You called in all your favors like they won't be repaid
You hate yourself but you don't know why
A year without song but the music every night

Is so loud
You send out the call
To hear it echo off the walls
Hear it so loud
It reminds you where you are
They always said you won't go far
Said it so loud
You scream and you shout but you cannot get it out

You're shouting to an empty room full of chairs
On a stage as empty as your affairs
It's one o'clock in the morning
Your head is swimming, your heart is pounding

Its so loud
You send out the call
To hear it echo off the walls
Hear it so loud
It reminds you where you are
They always said you won't go far
Said it so loud
You scream and you shout but you cannot get it out

You paid the ones you could
The other bridges burned
They're sweeping up the broken glass
Another page has turned
Walking in your house
The only sound you hearbr> Is the humming of the clock
Ringing in your ears

Its so loud
You send out the call
To hear it echo off the walls
Hear it so loud
It reminds you where you are
They always said you won't go far
Said it so loud
You scream and you shout but you cannot get it out

she threw his offer back in his face
with balls of spit and drunken rage
called him a loser
hopped in the car and said drive
i hit the gas
it was right out of a movie

and she went on in the car
in the pouring rain the way she always did
2 million years of evolution
and it still has to come to this

and i said what doesn't kill you will only
make you stronger
dont you ever change your ways
i like you just the way you are

the only time i ever saw her cry
she was talking about some other guy
and how she couldn't love me
cause all that'd happened in her life

now she's gone away
and i wonder how far
will she ever be the same
will she take it too hard

and i said what doesn't kill you will only
make you stronger
dont you listen to what they say
dont you take it to your heart

and i saidwhat doesn't kill you will only
make you stronger
dont you ever fade away
dont you fade

you're not like me
i have no refuge from reality
you're not like me
i couldn't do the things you do to me
i don't know why
you just let that second strike go by
the moment's gone
but the memory lingers on my mind

and you can't take that away from me
no you can't take it away
you can't take that away from me
no you can't take it away

so you run away
run away

under these blankets
we started a beauutiful thing
black coals are all they
left of our smothered flame
my hand finds your face
and then it pulls away
my fingers curl
around the words that i cannot say

I'm remembering my dreams
In red and blue and inbetween
I don't know if you're in them
Open my eyes and see you there

Just because we are here
Doesn't mean this is real
At all

All this debt is in my name
Wish I could start again
If it was just me I would go
But I can't leave these seeds we've sown
The car, the home, I just want them for my own
Just because we are here
Doesn't mean this is real
So I lied to get in
Does that mean we aren't here
At all

We reached for this too soon
To be ready for what we had to lose