STEP IN, STAND CLEAR LYRICS
City lights
We were shouting the signs of ten thousand miles we passed in our dream
We were holding the rest close to our vest we were the sea
Implacable time, your wandering eye was finding our gaze
Downtown on the grass the future had passed and we were the rain
Desperate for the sight of that city at night with no one around,
We climbed up on the roof to make believe youth and become a sound
So Let the city lights down. Shut off the murderous covenant sound
Carry the message that everyone's blessed with someone to tell
Down from the Rooftops and up from the alley ways under the silent sky
From one to another the first sound of summer a city's dream of the night
So Let the city lights down. Shut off the murderous covenant sound
Carry the message that everyone's blessed with someone to tell
These old sidewalks have heard all of our words re-written as verse
They sang the poem we had made with our desperate days the first in the world
We were walking at last a snow-covered path through mountains of glass
Guided along by the sidewalks' song to a home we just learned to miss.
We were passing the signs, walked ten thousand miles out of our dream.
We were holding the rest close to our vest. We were the sea.
So Let the city lights down. Shut off the murderous covenant sound.
Carry the message that everyone's blessed with someone to tell.
Down from the Rooftops and up from the alley ways nder the silent sky
From one to another the first sound of summer A city's dream of the night
Embattled and Battered From Battles that mattered
When we were too young to know we were too young
Here we have come again downtown together and
Lights out, we'll find out if we look like us again
So Let the city lights down. Shut off the murderous covenant sound.
Carry the message that everyone's blessed with someone to tell.
So Let the city lights down. Shut off the murderous covenant sound.
Carry the message that everyone's blessed with someone to tell.
So Let the city lights down. Shut off the murderous covenant sound.
Carry the message that everyone's blessed with someone to tell.
So Let the city lights down. Shut off the murderous covenant sound.
Carry the message that everyone's blessed with someone to tell.
SUMMERTIME
When we were young just walking through the tall grass
hiding wet eyes from the sun
You stirred up a hornet's nest you grabbed me by my wrist
and let them sting us for fun.
Just terrified terrified
Walking hand in hand down the alley divide
It was summertime we were waiting for our lives to come along our way
It was our all time best day to sing and we whispered anyway
Sitting on the wall behind the music hall
telling all the same stories our brothers told
We could fantasize and catastrophize
Fall in love with everyone and tell the best damn lies.
Terrified terrified
walking hand in hand down the alley divide
It was summertime
we were waiting for our lives
to come along our way
It was our all time best day to sing
but we whispered anyway
It was summertime
we were waiting for our lives
to come along our way
It was our all time best day to sing
but we whispered anyway
And we whispered anyway
Kellen street
Every little reverie is now
These streets sing a song of ourselves in American sounds
And all this time I've been hard to find
Something my father's hands couldn't hide
All these phantom effigies gather round
Memories of seasons that i've spent in lonelier towns
When all them kids on kellen street knew my name
They're callin again.
They're calling me down
Lost on a side street and found
All the lights were stuck at go
Finding out is finding gold
So let it all out, let them all know
that we're all coming down
Cause Kellen's gone quiet but our hearts are just getting loud
We used to dream useless vanities youth is proud
Time spent timeless life in the likeness of sound
Bleeding repeating it calls me out
Breathing life back in a lifeless town
Now the angels that didn't know our names
Know that heaven just won't, won't be the same
They're calling me down
Lost on a side street and found
All the lights were stuck at go
Finding out is finding gold
So let it all out, let them all know
that we're all coming down
Cause Kellen's gone quiet but our hearts are just getting loud
Lost on a side street and found
All the lights were stuck at go
Finding out is finding gold
So let it all out, let them all know
that we're all coming down
Cause Kellen's gone quiet but our hearts are just getting loud
Kate
Hey Rose slow down, I know you won't.
The space between us on the water seems just out of reach.
Hey Rose why can't t you turn around why can't you turn around and face me.
Just a moment my friend well just a moment again
Light of lovers riding home lives of lies feel light as stone
Oh where have been my friend. Oh where have you been.
I've been looking round the ends of ends and
for seven long summers I've been coming back here to where it ends so
where have you been?
HEROES AND LANDSLIDES
Hold tight
Hold strong
you're not stuck here anymore
And in this dark dark night
don't hide your face from the light
Keep it on, Keep it on,Keep it on
Brother just hang on
When you wake up in your sleep
Does she walk on her two feet
Place your head upon her knees
you know you're not so far from home.
So hang on, hang on, Brother Hang On
hang on, hang on, Brother Hang On
your heroes have not gone
the road you walk the sun you breathe you'll carry on
And your fathers hands have paved the way for you
Be on your way to find the love in truth
Wait to Carry on
Wait to Carry on
Wait to Carry on
Wait and Carry on