RUNAWAY
Music: d leonhardt
Lyrics: b harmon

Calm down and talk to me and I'll try and understand
I'm a weak man but I won't let go of your hand

You gotta runaway (I know)
You gotta be yourself (that is not all)
You gotta find out (way too soon)
You gotta cry alone (sometimes)
Hey yeah

What you gonna do?
Who you gonna be?
Where you gonna go so you can breathe?
What about the life that's been given to you?
Gonna spread it all around like some kind of fool?

You gotta runaway (I know)
You gotta be yourself (that is not all)
You gotta find out (way too soon)
You gotta cry alone (sometimes)

Let's ditch this haunted house and catch a bus downtown
Let's try and stay awake and see what the sun brings 'round

You gotta runaway (I know)
You gotta be yourself (that is not all)
You gotta find out (way too soon)
You gotta cry alone (sometimes)
Hey yeah



IT’S A MIRACLE
Music: d leonhardt
Lyrics: b harmon

Every now and then, I start to drift away
And see this scared kid stumbling along
Without a friend on a railroad track
Buckling under memories on his back
And suddenly I'm crashing through
Like a spent dream finding its way back too

It’s a miracle, but we understand
The way the sun falls down and bounces back
It’s a miracle, but we understand
The way the sun falls down and bounces back

A change of weather comes, leaves a chill behind
It's a hard, hard freeze working itself out
Riding earthquakes on this iceberg
It’s hard to believe there is anything left
Of this house, in this town
It seems a few things just never fall down

It’s a miracle, but we understand
The way the sun falls down and bounces back
It’s a miracle, but we understand
The way the sun falls down and bounces back

Imagining. . .imagine
Imagining. . .imagine

I started to explain it’s not the same somehow
But the words just seemed to misbehave
Dancing melodies of sorrow's broken moods
Took away my voice and washed my face

It’s a miracle, but we understand
The way the sun falls down and bounces right back
It’s a miracle, but we understand
The way the sun falls down and bounces back
It’s a miracle. . .



CUT IT LOOSE
Music: m harmon
Lyrics: b harmon

Last night you broke
It took me by surprise
Not so much by your words
As that look in your eyes
A little truth, a little lie,
A slamming heart and door
Who can stay on top of promises
When you’re busy keeping score

We don't know how to fall
(Weariness is what it takes to cut it loose)
Time moves slow
(I'll keep falling till I break)

I drove down where the city lights
Catch most the streets on fire
I was looking for the queens and fools
That everyone admires
I've heard they're pretty good
At melting down hearts made out of lead
Yeah but I didn't think the time was right
To shake hands with the dead

We don't know how to fall
(Weariness is what it takes to cut it loose)
Yeah, time moves slow
I’ll keep falling ‘till I break

I didn't mean to take away
The hunger in your eyes
I'm catching up on wasted years
And I apologize
For all the hopelessness and fantasy
That settled in my bones
You would think that after all these years
These ghosts would leave us alone

We don't know how to fall
(Weariness is what it takes to cut it loose)
Time moves slow
(I'll keep falling ‘till I break)
We don’t know, we don’t know



CAN'T SATISFY
Music: d leonhardt
Lyrics: b harmon

I’ve been dreaming about you
And when I'm with you
We're flying, dancing
We built this house in threatening weather
Should've known better
But we were flying, dancing

Can't satisfy (I can fly above reality)
This arguing inside of me
Why can't I get along with what I see?

Footsteps behind us
Try to find us
When we're flying, dancing
Whispered memories in the stillness make it
Easy to forget
We should be flying, dancing

Can't satisfy (I can fly above reality)
This arguing inside of me
Why can't I get along with what I see?

Chasing straw men
Is such a waste when
We should be flying, dancing

Can't satisfy (I can fly above reality)
This arguing inside of me
Why can't I get along with what I see?
Can't satisfy (I can fly above reality, so)
This arguing inside of me
Why can't I get along with what I see?
Get along with what I see
Can’t satisfy, can’t satisfy, can’t satisfy (I can fly)



OLD NEWS
Music: m harmon
Lyrics: b harmon

Unspoken words are ghosts in my heart
Some birds never sing their song
How long has it been?
How long has it been?

But this is old news ain't it baby
(I sometimes wonder what you’re thinking about me)
A little something that we never got right
(Is it worth the price you paid?)

Bound for glory on a train from hell
Jumped the track, didn't land too well
How long has it been?

But this is old news ain't it baby
(I sometimes wonder what you’re thinking about me)
A little something that we never got right
(Is it worth the price you paid?)

Under the sun everyday is the same
Under the sun sometimes it rains
How long has it been?

But this is old news ain't it baby
(I sometimes wonder what you're thinking about me)
A little something that we never get right
(Is it worth the price you paid?)
But when the demons die
(Tell me are you tired oh darling?)
Oh darling, we will bathe in light
(Tell me are you tired?)



AGGRAVATION
Music: m harmon
Lyrics: b harmon

Can we be
Just a little bit closer
You and me, just a little bit

I don't want to waste time complaining
I am just a student of this aggravation

When you leave
I grow old waiting for you
Heroes flee, waiting for you

I don't want to waste time complaining
Or drift into a cloud of exaggeration
Ah. . .

When I'm squeezed
Strung out on anger and pride
On my knees is where I will hide

I don't want to seem too ungrateful
Heaven knows. . .
After all, after all



SAVING FADED DREAMS
Music: d leonhardt
Lyrics: b harmon

I rarely say, what I want to say
Words escape, do their damage and float away
Little rocket ships with laser beams
Saving these fading dreams

Even if I could speak a thousand tongues
I doubt that I would understand a single one
Look to the left, to the right, I can't find an honest man tonight
Could be the company I keep
Saving these fading dreams, oh yeah

Five, six, buckle my lips
Seven, eight, shut the gate,
What's it open for, what is it open for
Saving these dreams

I’m going to find me a surgeon with a knife
Steady hands and the sympathy of ice
Who will put me to sleep, cut deeper than deep
And throw the devil in my mouth away
Saving these fading dreams

He never runs; he never falls
He never looks back at all
Saving these fading. . .

I rarely say, what I want to say
Words escape, do their damage and float away
Like little rocket ships with laser beams
Saving these fading dreams



THE REASON WHY
Music: d leonhardt
Lyrics: b harmon

I don't know why you had to tell me now
You could've picked a better time or place
The sun is beating down, the earth is screaming back
Our lives are turning, turning
Heaven is silent but the grave is listening
And we are fallen, fallen

I know the reason why and you know the reason why
That won't make it all right.
I know the reason why and you know the reason why
That won't make it all right.

I thought they did away with absolutes
I thought we wouldn't have hell to pay
Too numb to cry, too tired to sleep, and too mean to pray
Too lost to care, too scared to die, and too late to say. . .

I know the reason why and you know the reason why
That won't make it all right.
I know the reason why and you know the reason why
That won't make it all right.



INNOCENT
Music: m harmon
Lyrics: b harmon

Desperation cannot hide
Innocent, innocent, innocent
No such thing as a road he hasn’t tried
Innocent, innocent, innocent

Damnation comes too easy in a world such as his
No heavenly goats or burning bushes, no judas kiss

A hard, hard mind, a tender heart,
Innocent, innocent, innocent
She was too late; the devil had him from the start
Innocent, innocent, innocent

Take it apart or put it together
It’s hard to comprehend
The depth of despair, the truest love that
Danced together in the heart of this man

A throne for his heart, a basket for his head
Innocent, innocent, innocent
Impossible in life, made possible by death
Innocent, innocent, innocent

Damnation comes too easy in a world such as his
No heavenly goats or burning bushes, no Judas kiss



EVERYTHING’S TURNED BLUE
Music: m harmon
Lyrics: b harmon

“Hang on, we're going to find the answer.
I made a friend tonight.
Turn loose of all these shadows,
My hand's no foreign land”. . .
She talked, she danced,
She wrapped my soul up tight
I don't think I want to know what I have done

One tree weeping like an altar
Dead center in the garden
All alone

"I know what you're thinking", she said
"Your thoughts are a thousand watts.
How long are you going to let it
control every episode?"
"If you think I'm going to watch you sink-
well, have you won the lotto?
Baby I would hate to see
you living on your own"

One tree weeping like an altar
Dead center in the garden
All alone
Thinking only of you
Now everything's turned blue
Everything's turned blue



FIND A REASON
Music: b harmon
Lyrics: b harmon

Cold wedding band wrapped around your neck
You're turning blue and she's a nervous wreck
Such a happy home
Flesh and blood turned to silhouette

Find a reason to hang on
Find a reason, it’s alright that its all wrong

You give, you take, that's all
One flesh, two hearts, a stonewall
Which one hurts you the most
Or can you feel at all?

Find a reason to hang on
Find a reason, it’s alright that it’s all wrong
Find a reason to hang on
Find a reason, it’s alright

Sometimes the headlines
Don't get the story right
You can't trust how you feel
In the middle of the night

Find a reason to hang on
Find a reason to hang on
Find a reason to hang on
Find a reason its alright, yeah its alright



I DON'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE
music: m harmon
lyrics: b harmon

Underneath the flattening gaze of moonlight
She's lighting up and blowing smoke
To the edge of dawn
Her memories are soaked in the happiness of a prison break
That somehow she managed years ago

I don't live there anymore
But I try to stay in touch

Big coal train hauled away the mountains
And she caught sight of another world,
Where she could go.
It made her hard, it made her mad, it made her run away
From all the sadness that she had come to know

I don't live there anymore
(She brought me with her, before I knew her)
I try to stay in touch
I don't live there anymore
(She brought me with her, before I knew her)
I try to stay in touch

Her gardens cannot grow the bitter seeds
The cynics sow and she still dances out in the rain
That streams from the eyes of God who
Always takes the longer view,
Who sometimes blinks but never looks away

I don't live there anymore
(She brought me with her, before I knew her)
I try to stay in touch
I don't live there anymore
(She brought me with her, before I knew her)
I try to stay in touch
Stay in touch. . .



AMPUTATE
music: b harmon
lyrics: b harmon

I crawled up on the table
I’d been putting it off for years
I’ve got a heart problem
Makes me act kind of weird
But I have to admit
I was somewhat surprised
When the nurse grabbed my hand
And looked me straight in the eyes,
“Sir, you’re going to feel just great
Once they amputate”

When the surgery was over
I went on back home
The kids tied me to the bed
And turned the TV on
Their ropes were not cruel
Or meant to deny
They just kept me from floating
Away in the night
You lose a whole lot of weight
Once they amputate

Now that my heart is gone
I’m a harmless man
Once I used to cry a lot
Now I can’t
Once I had questions
Now there’s no doubts
Once I was hungry
Now I do without
There’s not a lot to love or hate
Once they amputate

The wounds healed kind of slow
I was laid up for a while
Friends stopped coming around
Just couldn’t reconcile
The man they had known
With the one I’d become
Two steps from the grave
Three to the gun
The future evaporates
Once they amputate