Playlist Dawes

dawes - all my failures

Addressing a prayer into the air
And the shadows of lights
So nobody heard love's not for words
In a world at the end of it's night

For everyone that left me
They're so easy to forget
'Cause I haven't let my failures hit me yet.

Your voice on the phone
The blood from the stone
And tears that I can't understand
As if I could heal the guilt I don't feel
Or by silently giving my hand

Well, I'm sure I'd never loved you
It'd be too fierce and too correct
'Cause I haven't let my failures hit me yet

May my demon reveal itself tenderly
May he not leave me broken
May he leave me to be

So wherever I'm bound
My ear to the ground and my thoughts on their way back to you
As eternity's slave, you could write that on my grave
When I'm finished resisting it's true

While I'm shaking hands with darkness
It's with the warm wind that I admit
That I haven't let my failures hit me yet

dawes - bedside manner

Some time as a much older man
I will sit down and put on this song.
It just might make me cry,
Or at the very least a tear in my eye.

I can't take all these years of my life
To be widdle down into a thought
That only appears to the year
I made memories perfectly clear.

Mama, mama
Mama, mama.

I just want to be making my mind,
Keep from changing my mind not to change.
Cause I'm greedy as the sea,
And that's how it always will be.
I'll be somebody now, and I'll be somebody then,
And I'll be all of you all in between.
And then I'll be ready to leave
When the whole world is taken with me.

Mama, mama
Mama, mama.

Mama, mama
Mama, mama.

Cause there're so many days in a year.
And there's so many years in my head.
So I think about when I'll be dead,
And how those very last moments get spent.
And if I think about you is that something you think you'd accept?

Some time as a much older man
I will sit down and put on this song.
It just might make me cry,
Or at the very least a tear in my eye.

dawes - coming back to a man

You still wear your hair to your shoulder
You still look like a friday night
You're still caught somewhere between the plans and the dreams
So that neither end up turning out right

And i myself look a few moments older
When i learned that love is not as simple as i thought
It starts to feel more real and the wounds all start to heal
Whether i want them to or not

So tell me why you think i should forgive what you did
And ill tell you if i understand
Cause you broke the quick-giving heart of a kid
But youre now coming back to a man

It means a lot that you came here to speak to me
And i will listen in ways i never did before
I'll hear the pause between each word and when your presentations heard
Then i'll need to show you to the door

Cause some people were just meant to be a memory.
To be called upon to remind us how we've changed
The way the scattered ever-busy bright lights of a city
Might look off to a distant mountain range

And the guy you know is someone i work hard at keeping hid
And he is very good at sticking to the plan
Cause you broke the quick-giving heart of a kid
But youre now coming back to a man

I might think of you more often then i'm willing to admit
But i cant show every card i'm holding in my hand
Cause you broke the quick-giving heart of a kid
But youre now coming back to a man

dawes - fire away

This oneâ??s going out to you
As the taxi pulls away
A song to keep you company for the ride

There's something wrong with a goodbye
In the middle of the day
So pretend I am still sitting at your side

And if you want to talk about all the differences
Between the shackle and the man
Or if youâ??ve got reasons no one ever let you say

Then fire away
Fire away

This ones going out to you
On the day they let you out
For the thousand ways they ask if you're okay

Because whatever answer that you give
Itâ??s only gonna play into their doubts
And be just half of whatâ??s behind each word you say

So if you finally roped that heartbreak song
That the experts never could
Or if you just wanted someone to listen to you play

Then fire away
Fire away
Fire away

This ones going out to you
If you ever start to slip
And you learn to read between these lines you've Drawn

When what is wrong and what is right
Seem more like just the ocean and the ship
And the straight line that you've followed here is gone

And if that same old fox comes and sweeps you up
Each time you spread your wings
I could at least love you through each stumble, shift and sway

So fire away
Fire away
Fire away

When you need someone to walk away from
When you need someone to let you in
(Through each stumble, shift and sway)

dawes - give me time

Here we go...

Give me time....
Give me time....
If there's one thing you could give,
To help me show you all that's mine,
Give me time.

Show me love....
Show me love....
If there's one thing that you know,
That I've not had any of,
Show me love.

Help me see....
Help me see....
If you know what it would take
And find the patience that you need,
Help me see.

Give me time....
Give me time....
If there's one thing you could give,
To help me show you all that's mine,
Give me time.

dawes - god rest my soul

Take your last look around
Take the fall that is due.
And take your time,
and I'll take mine.
It's the last thing that's left for us to do

You have tried to define romance,
And all the things that it is not
Your time became some old man's cane
While he dances to a song that he forgot.

Oh, you can't throw something out there without watching it fall.
Only thing that's scarier than dying is not dying at all.
So when I have lost all my control
God will rest my soul.

I guess your mind can leave your heart.
I guess that's what you're doing now.
But it doesn't make no (???)
Or better men
It is not something that love would allow.

Oh you can't throw something out there without watching it fall,
Only thing that's scarier than dying is not dying at all.
So when I have lost all my control
God will rest my soul.

And just like how I'll drink myself through my seventh relapse,
Like a captain of his sinking ship clutches to his maps.
What the figure on the cross thinks with his one final gasp-
This too shall pass.

Oh you can't throw something out there without watching it fall,
Only thing that's scarier than dying is not dying at all.
So when I have lost all my control
God will rest my soul.

dawes - how far we ve come

Stars please shine the way for me
Show the one that I have followed
To see how far Iâ??ve come

Sun that slowly sets on me
Be the same to rise tomorrow
To see how far Iâ??ve come

These are the days we swore upon
So barman keep the TV on
To see how far weâ??ve come

Peak to peak and shore to shore
This is all love was ever for
Is to see how far weâ??ve come

Californiaâ??s greenest parts
I reach out for my brother
To see how far heâ??s come

For the girl that came to break my heart
I call on her new lover
To see how far sheâ??s come

Why your mother keeps a record of her childâ??s height
Why we all are here tonight
Is to see how far weâ??ve come

The only point of clocks and maps
The only point of looking back
Is to see how far weâ??ve come

Ooh Ooh Oh Oh Ohâ?¦Ooh Ooh Oohâ?¦Ooh Ooh Ooh Oh Ohhh
Ooh Ooh Oh Oh Ohâ?¦Ooh Ooh Oohâ?¦Ooh Ooh Ooh Oh Ohhh

Stars please shine the way for me
Show the one that I have followed
To see how far Iâ??ve come

And sun that slowly sets on me
Be the same to rise tomorrow
To see how far Iâ??ve come

dawes - if i wanted someone

Like the memory from your motherâ??s house from Before you got too old
Like the feeling from a photograph before itâ??s meanings all got told
The words I say can be silver, but whatâ??s left unsaid can be gold
So get to know me once I go away

Maybe â??cause I come from such an empty-hearted town
Or maybe â??cause some love of mine had really let me down
But the only time I am lonely is when others are around
I just never end up knowing what to say

If I wanted someone to clean me up, Iâ??d find myself a maid
If I wanted someone to spend my money, I wouldnâ??t need to get paid
If I wanted someone to understand me, Iâ??d have so much more to say
I want you to make the days move easy

I took everything I thought from what it means to be a man
We need words to be put to what we do not understand
While you lean into the echoes and you do not raise a hand
Oh woman, help me see it like it is

If I wanted someone to clean me up, Iâ??d find myself a maid
If I wanted someone to spend my money, I wouldnâ??t need to get paid
If I wanted someone to understand me, Iâ??d have so much more to say
I want you to make the days move easy

If I wanted someone to clean me up, Iâ??d find myself a maid
If I wanted someone to spend my money, I wouldnâ??t need to get paid
If I wanted someone to cut me down, Iâ??d have handed you the blade
I want you to make the days move easy
I just want you to make the days move easy

dawes - if you let me be your anchor

1, 2, 3

I want love to stretch it's fingers wide
And touch on all our wandering parts.
Come sit by my Californian side
With your Carolina heart.

If you let me be your anchor
I will hold you down.
If you let me be your anchor
I will hold you down.

If I see the thin trace of his hands
Let the winter pay all my dues
Let me forgive every single man
That before me came to you.

If you let me be your anchor
I will hold you down.
If you let me be your anchor
I will hold you down.

So find me when you welcome back your roots
And I will be where all of your ends meet.
I want the feeling waking next to you
I want to find my children at your feet.

If you let me be your anchor
I will hold you down.
If you let me be your anchor
I will hold you down.

oooohhhhhh
oooh oh oh oh oh oh
oooohhhhhh

dawes - it s a little bit of everything

With his back against the San Francisco traffic,
On the bridges side that faces towards the jail,
Setting out to join a demographic,
He hoists his first leg up over the rail.
And a phone call is made,
Police cars show up quickly.
The sergeant slams his passenger door.
He says, â??Hey son why donâ??t you talk through this with me,
Just tell me what youâ??re doing it for.â?

â??Oh, itâ??s a little bit of everything,
Itâ??s the mountains,
Itâ??s the fog,
Itâ??s the news at six oâ??clock,
Itâ??s the death of my first dog,
Itâ??s the angels up above me,
Itâ??s the song that they donâ??t sing,
Itâ??s a little bit of everything.â?

An older man stands in a buffet line,
He is smiling and holding out his plate,
And the further he looks back into his timeline,
That hard road always had led him to today,
And making up for when his bright future had left him,
Making up for the fact that his only son is gone,
And letting everything out once, His server asks him,
Have you figured out yet, what it is you want?

I want a little bit of everything,
The biscuits and the beans,
Whatever helps me to forget about
The things that brought me to my knees,
So pile on those mashed potatoes,
And an extra chicken wing,
Iâ??m having a little bit of everything.

Somewhere a pretty girl is writing invitations,
To a wedding she has scheduled for the fall,
Her man says, â??Baby, can I make an observation?
You donâ??t seem to be having any fun at all.â?
She said, â??You just worry about your groomsmen and your shirt-size,
And rest assured that this is making me feel good,
I think that love is so much easier than you realize,
If you can give yourself to someone,
Then you should.

Cause itâ??s a little bit of everything,
The way you choke, the way you ache,
It is waking up before you,
So I can watch you as you wake.
So in the day in late September,
Itâ??s not some stupid little ring,
Iâ??m giving a little bit of everything.

Oh, itâ??s a little bit of everything,
Itâ??s the matador and the bull,
Itâ??s the suggested daily dosage,
It is the red moon when itâ??s full.
All these psychics and these doctors,
Theyâ??re all right and theyâ??re all wrong,
Itâ??s like trying to make out every word,
When they should simply hum along,
Itâ??s not some message written in the dark,
Or some truth that no oneâ??s seen,
Itâ??s a little bit of everything.

dawes - love is all i am

2, 3, 4...

I need a silent true-way to admire.
Like you as a sunset, and I as a wildfire.
And I can let the day go...

I've locked up these words, in fear that I'd say them wrong.
Is it love as a mountain, or love as a simple song?
And the moment that the two meet
has now laid itself at your feet.

And love is not convenient; it does not cease at your command.
You might take and leave it, but love is all I am.
Love is all I am.

I need a boundless, soft way to commend
Like you as a temper, and I as it's tender end.
And however long your fits last
I will live within your shadow cast.

And love is still your stranger; it does not respect how much you'll stand
You might be love's reminder, but love is all I am.
Love is all am.

I need a graceful, proud way to let go
To smile and accept the things that you don't know
The losses and the gains blurred
The weight of these as last words

And love is not excitement; it's not kissing, or holding hands
I'm not some assignment; no, love is all I am
Love is all I am.
Love is all I am.

dawes - million dollar bill

When it hits me what she's gone
I think I'll run for president
Get my face put on the million dollar bill

So when these rich men that she wants
Show her ways they can take care of her
I'll have found a way to be there with her still

When it hits me that she's gone
I think I'll be an astronaut
Make the moon my home and leave the earth behind

So when eh steps out into the night
She'll be facing me every time she shines

When it hits me that she's left me alone
When I finally move on with my life
Her goodbye written into stone
And her shadow grown into a night
When it hits me that she's gone
I think I'll be a movie star
Play the finest men the world has ever seen

So when these lovers that she's found
Show her ways they learned to talk to her
Behind each perfect word there'll be a little bit of me

dawes - moon in the water

When the wind is with me
But somehow out of sight
Not knowing where it comes from
Or where it goes

That's the way your memory
Shapes the middle of my night
Since the last time I saw you
And the words you chose
When I said, "This must be what love is
like I saw it in a dream"
You looked into my eyes and said, "You
don't know what you mean
Cause love is for the fisherman who cast
his nets too far upstream
Fishing for the moon in the water

So I act now as if I've forgot
My efforts all in vain
I spent some time with a new girl
Who made the simple world seem fine

But like a rose placed in a flower pot
A true nature contained
Not knowing what she asks for
Or what she'll find

When she says, "If I've had love in my
life then surely this is it"
I said, "Anyone who talks like that doesn't
understand one bit
That love is for the fighter born to lose
but never quit
Swinging for the moon in the water"

So I left her with her dreams where I
thought that she belonged
Not with my secrets, which she heard but never knew
I hoped my loneliness found peace
I hoped my number had been drawn
When all I wanted from her was to
remind me of you

So I stay out in the streets
Hoping to find you anywhere
Now that I understand
The woman you need to be

I can feel you in the heat
I can taste you in the air
And I can't help but find your face in
everything I see

And once I can admit you're gone I'll
place it on a star
And wait for the day I'm what you need
and then reach out for heart
Cause even if love is more my mistress
than my lovers ever are
You'll always be the moon in the water

dawes - my girl to me

Go ahead and let your hands stay entwined,
I swear I could not possibly mind.
And when she lets down her guard,
Don't kiss her too hard.
She's sure to repay in kind.

Don't let your courtesy last too long,
My love blooms when I know it's gone.
So if I'm in the room,
It should be fair to assume:
You can both act how you want.

And I won't cross the line you drew
Cause I'm not here to compete
Oh and I don't know what she tells you,
But she's still my girl to me.

She's good with quick goodbyes
And whenever she rolls her eyes
That's her admission of guilt
On the temper she built,
And for me that's her most familiar side.

I'm always watching my bridges burn,
But if she didn't leave then she can't return.
And I don't know you too well,
But it's not too hard to tell
I miss her but I'm not concerned.

And I'm glad to see that someone stayed
I don't want to see her grieve
But it doesn't matter what you say,
She is still my girl to me.

Oh that's the way my sister might give a kiss
Oh, how I feel so passively missed.
And she says in your ear, as if I wasn't here
(???) don't know who he is

Oh, call me names if it comforts you
There are worst things I could be
But it doesn't matter if it isn't true-
She is still my girl to me

dawes - my way back home

A ballerina in Phoenix
The pines up north
The sunrise from a highway
That was not there before

If I can place it all together
Make out the nature of the call
I start to feel the love and the silence
That was always at the root of it all

And in my constant quest for truth
I am condemned to facts alone
And though my dreams all lead me nowhere
I wonâ??t forget my way back home

From the corner of a coffee shop
Or from the center of a stage
From the words used in a love note
Or from an empty page

While I struggle with these beauties
And my renditions end up dry
Iâ??m like a bird that crashes into the window
That was drawn to the reflection of the sky

And the more I try to speak
The more I lose that earthly tone
And before heaven proves me hopeless
I wonâ??t forget my way back home

Ooh Oooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh.....

I admit that these answers that I seek
Are all to questions Iâ??ve never known
But I pray to keep on looking for as long as I can roam
And when the world finally fulfills me
I will not forget my way back home