[Verse 1] if you want to get up, well it's a long long road gravity's a trickster tryin to enlist your bones but now you got a reason to be low and when you get to the bottom where do you go [Chorus] forget about the dust under your feet, you're journey-bound keep your head in the clouds, and baby don't look down and when you're feelin sad and the tear tides rise fly up and let the teardrops fall, baby, dry your eyes [Verse 2] if you're lookin to get out, there's no easy way gravity's a pain but you have to fight to break away but now you stopped believing that you can stand up, crack down, take your life in your hands [Repeat Chorus]

For all the chilin’ with no hundred doller billas From LA, cairo, to manila This ones for you and all the homies who can feel us Who ready to kick it Cuz I’m ready to spit it Can I kick it (yes you can) Can I kick it (yes you can) Man, Can I kick it (yes you can) Well I’m gone (go on then) If you want to kick it for a minute then settle down and listen Don’t give a hoot about your boots and what will glisten Given an instance to chat about things we’re missing Do you list materials or life lessons ‘cause for one thing I am stressing the importance of notions ‘sides what you’re rockin and who is dressin in the latest ‘cause what makes us are not the clothes we wear but the words we share, do you even dare to strip yourself bare of the mainstream and try trading superficiality for reality that seems ever fading now I’m hating all the ladies I am meeting ‘cuz it seems they’re seeking a g thing studded with three things money, diamonds, and bling like in the songs that we sing but if you understand what shines brightest isn’t on a ring then how bout you come and kick and we make us two a thing so this one time this girl came up to me and was like, “eh….i really dig your style and all….and me and my friends were just wondering…. You know…..well…..” [Chorus] yeah I double down on the underground if pop and radio are the air that we breath then I’d rather drown I go around town telling all these punks to grab the mic tight ‘cause it’s time to get down You ain’t even rapping you just spitting shit Trying to an instant hit like it’s some intrinsic gift Boy you missing it And now you risking it Instead of breaking molds you tripping just to try and fit in it And I swear that if you touch my tunes when I’m jamming to the roots I will give your ass the boot to the boons or a room Filled with a loop of rapping goons To melt your brain to goo by next day’s noon I swear if life were a zoo You’re too consumed With your nose to the map trying to stay on the main path But you zoom past all the views of life’s true beauty to each his own, but this life ain’t no fucking movie with each breath I let go this flow planting these thoughts oh how they grow and under its shade I will wait for your approach, so if you ready for more let me know [Chorus]

I met a man one night I liked the way he touched my shoulder he called and it seemed so right but he was asleep when i came over i only go for the gold so I say no I'm waiting for something better. Waiting for something better. I'm waiting for something better. Waiting for something better. I met a man one night I liked the way that he seemed older He called me little Mike but he had a wife and hadn’t told her though it was fun I gotta run I'm waiting for something better. Waiting for something better. I'm waiting for something better. Waiting for something better. Something new. Someone new. I'm waiting for something better. Waiting for something better. I'm waiting for something better. Waiting for something better. I met a man tonight I liked the way he looked me over

Harry looks in the mirror Asking what he should see Just another pretender Only aching to be Stepping out to the night sky With the keys in his hand Tracing stars on his windshield Turning hopes into plans Cause though its dark, he sees the light A road beyond suburban life He’s not the one to say goodbye But he’s breaking out of paradise Ellie never forgot how Harry left her alone Looking out her window To the wide open road But she’ll never regret how With the keys in her hand She headed west to the heartlands Finally dreaming again Cause though its dark, she sees the light A road beyond suburban (blight) life She never got to say goodbye But she’s breaking out of paradise Their restless hearts on overdrive For all they’ve lost and left behind And they don’t know what they will find But that’s the magic of our lives All our lives

Stop this roller coaster I'm just trying to get down I'm sick of getting thrown around 100 feet above the ground And then I see you there by the exit with a smile I didn't know that it would hurt I mean it's only been a little while I guess I didn't know How much I'd miss you We went to see the sharks Kissing in the dark when no one looked We laid in bed for hours Touching tenderly until we shook We made a couple drinks and drank them when the actors spoke Chinese We said we'd try to keep the tears inside our eyes until you leave I guess I didn't know How good real love is Stop this roller coaster Stop this roller coaster Stop this roller coaster Stop this roller coaster

Let me take you downtown to somewhere else (x4) Water pressure's building but each little drop echos alone Breathing every breath through the blinking lights on your phone Finding something new in every single fucking word that we say Swimming in the seconds cuz the smaller things they give you away Let me take you downtown to somewhere else (x4) Itching in my shoulder blades, feeling every step on the floor Watching you watching me watching us wanting more Teeth on lips and flashing lids, little beads of sweat in your hair Little smiles and little chances, glances to the world over there Let me take you downtown to somewhere else (x4)

Time keeps slip, slip, slipping away And I get lost in the sweet sensations Of my heart left out in the rain As I read from the morning paper And my friends are all on their way But I’m fine with a life like this one And it’s all just one big parade To find all the good, good things Night after night, when sleep is my friend I’m taken away to dream to see the fall, and I’m I’m slipping away I’ve got no reason to stay here when my My mind’s on display Along with the rest of the world And I’m so tired of feeling at home here I’m so tired of feeling myself I’m so tired of being at home here I’m so tired of coming back down Day after day, I’ve found my trap door I’m taken away, when me and myself and my friends yeah, we all feel okay Chorus

In the garden of the graveyard I meet your ghost with dutiful ease But lately in the discard Your cemetery smile fades and sets me free It was eighteen hundred ten and two The year that I was torn from you With tearful eyes you told your prize My dear you’ll see me soon Yes my husband I adore Has gone and left Time keeps slip, slip, slipping away And I get lost in the sweet sensations Of my heart left out in the rain As I read from the morning paper And my friends are all on their way But I’m fine with a life like this one And it’s all just one big parade To find all the good, good things Night after night, when sleep is my friend I’m taken away to dream to see the fall, and I’m I’m slipping away I’ve got no reason to stay here when my My mind’s on display Along with the rest of the world And I’m so tired of feeling at home here I’m so tired of feeling myself I’m so tired of being at home here I’m so tired of coming back down Day after day, I’ve found my trap door I’m taken away, when me and myself and my friends yeah, we all feel okay Chorus me for the war The ladies cried as they said goodbye But I saw something more Gone are the days of hopeless forever When nothing but I do’s kept us together Bring me a ship and ring the bells I’ll clean out the closets of all of my dresses But I’ll be damned if I’ll clean up your messes Anchors away, thank the war of 1812 I cannot say my hopes were high That you would make it out alive With my shoulders bare I said my prayers That the Good Lord would let you survive But alas, He must’ve seen my lie For Virginia’s ranks said you had died With a pious affect I paid my respects With my lover at my side They tell me I’m a rotten soul And I’ve dug myself a sinful hole But I’ve never been a fan of slavery And I don’t see a lot of sin in being free They tell me I’m a rotten soul And I’ve dug myself a sinful hole But I’ve never been a fan of slavery And I don’t see a lot of sin leaving the hell that I’m in and being free

Excuse me for being brutally and completely honest. If I share my opinion on this, Would you still listen the way that you do? Because the atmosphere in here is static. And I must admit I’ve had it, Shying away from the One Thing that’s true. This is a life or death situation. Don’t want you to leave here thinking that it’s something less. This is a life or death situation. So listen closely to me, ‘cause this is no secret. Let me tell you a story about your life: Every thing is going wrong, though it seems like it’s going right. And I know it’s hard to believe, We’ve both been blind. So let me say this once, Before we’re out of time. Don’t want to give you the wrong idea, So pray that you will see a A better side of me that you never new. ‘Cause I know I’m blessed with where I am In the past, now I understand that none of this ever would have gotten to you. But it’s a life or death situation. Thank God we can restart, with a life that’s not our own. I’m calling out in raw desperation. ‘Cause if I dare keep quiet, you might never know so… Let me tell you a story about your life: Every thing is going wrong, though it seems like it’s going right. And I know it’s hard to believe, We’ve both been blind. So let me say this once, Before we’re out of time. Out of time, Out of time We might just be out of time. What if time is running out And this could save your Out of time, Out of time We might just be out of time. What if time is running out And this could save your… Let me tell you a story about your life: Every thing is going wrong, though it seems like it’s going right. And I know it’s hard to believe, We’ve both been blind. So let me say this once, Before we’re out of time. Out of time, Out of time We might just be out of time. What if time is running out And all we have is now? Out of time, Out of time We might just be out of time. What if time is running out And this could save your life?

It's hurting to sleep alone in this bed She's packed up for a hotel instead It's draining to lose her, so quiet without her The papers are signed in ballpoint ink And you say that I should go get a drink At some bar in Midtown where she won't be around But I've checked out, I'm so far gone I shake my head and you twist my arm And I say no, you say I must I don't know who to trust So give me a reason for me to go My best friend, what are you doing to me? My best man, how could you do this to me? To drag me, to this place, so I can find a new face I know that there's pretty women in here They’re waiting for me to buy them a beer And beg for replacement love When that love is not a love I'm thinking of But I've checked out, I'm so far gone I shake my head and you twist my arm And I say no, you say I must I don't know who to trust So give me a reason for me to go Has it occurred to you That I need more time to feel renewed Has it occurred to you That maybe I’d like to be left alone in this life And I've checked out, I'm so far gone I shake my head and you twist my arm And I say no, you say I must I don't know who to trust now So give me a reason for me to go