Playlist Jon Mclaughlin

jon mclaughlin - perfect

I used to stare up into the sky,
and fill the space around with my whys
but now I've got it all figured out,
and I'm embarrassed that it took me till now,

The simple answers in her replies
Unlock the universe with her eyes,
She rips apart my world with her moves,
oh while stealing all the light in the room

(chorus)
And I found someone to walk me through this life
The brightest sun has opened up my eyes
Tonight I need exactly who she is
We're going to be perfect

She can teach a melody to the birds,
and problem solving without a word
She can tell the richest man how to need,
Oh right after telling him about me

(Chorus)

And I found someone to walk me through this life
the brightest sun has opened up my eyes
Tonight I need exactly who she is
We're going to be perfect

(Bridge)
and in my life,
if I can have one thing I don't deserve
then I have never wanted anybody else but you

She can do no wrong in my mind,
so I take a seat while she takes her time,
'cause I am here forever I say,
so lock me up and throw the keys away

(Chorus)
'cause I found someone to walk me through this life
the brightest sun has opened up my eyes
tonight I need exactly who she is
we're going to be perfect
perfect

jon mclaughlin - a little too hard

Everyone's coming over tonight
I swept the floor and bought some ice
And i'm picking out something to wear
As i try to guess the way she'll do her hair

I'm blowing up they're showing up fast
I realize i wore this shirt last time i saw you
Man life moves...

A little too hard and a little too fast
We keep talking 'bout good ol' days
Like they're gonna come back
Yeah it's nice to see you again
Why do the summers have to end?

Let the reminiscing begin
Pull out old pictures, man what where we thinking?
Like my bleached hair with that old shirt
We look so stupid, well, except for her
And even though everything has changed
Time is only half to blame
And tonight it's true
Man, life moves

jon mclaughlin - a song you might hear at a wedding

Forever, All, and Always
Words I've used before
On all the wrong faces.

But I'm going to use
The rest of my life,
Proving to you
Those words were lies.

And of the million things
A heart can hold
And of all the things
I've come to know,
I Love.

I need Love
I can see I'll be alright
With you now by my side.

But if tomorrow you're gone
And I still go on
I promise to
Spend the rest of me on you.

People say we are where we belong.
We hold each other's hands
As if we're holding on.

And to me a little of your you
Is like
A little bit of sun
That makes the moon.

And if the "If's" we plan around become "When's."
If our center aisle narrows and bends
our Love.

I need love.
I can see that I'll be alright
With you now
By my side.

And if tomorrow you're gone,
And I still go on
I promise to
Spend the rest of me
On you.

And
If there ever was a shred of doubt
This hopelessly romantic now
And
I hope that time can slow us down
And minutes pass like hours now
And all the clocks counting down
To Love.

I need Love.
I can see that I'll be alright
With you now by my side.

And if tomorrow you're gone
And I still go on
I'll promise to
Spend the rest of me on you

jon mclaughlin - i ll follow you

People tell me there will come a time
When your heart and mine will grow cold
No more staring at the evening sky
Low replaces high when you're old

As long as you're around i'll follow you
You won't ever be alone
As long as you're around i'll follow you
I will be wherever you go

They say the future is our enemy
Time eventually will set the sun
But i believe in you and you believe in me
How can we ever go wrong?

As long as you're around i'll follow you
You won't ever be alone
As long as you're around i'll follow you
I will be wherever you go

So be patient baby
Hold me close
I hope you understand
You're a beautiful woman
And i'm just a man

So in the hours of the darkest kind
When it's hard to find who we are
One can stare into the other's eyes
Be each other's light in the dark

As long as you're around i'll follow you
You won't ever be alone
As long as you're around i'll follow you
I will be wherever you go

jon mclaughlin - you are what i m here for

We've been down this road once before
Guessing what's behind every door
I know it doesn't make much sense
But i can't change the way it is
Mirrors on the walls all agree
I'm looking at myself and I can't see
Any reason why you should stay here
You're so good it's out of place

Baby, there's so much that I don't know it's crazy
Everything I started with is fading
So I will lock my eyes to yours
Cause you are what I'm here for

Talking to myself once again
There are days when I won't let you in
Buying time I keep you in suspense
I realize it makes no sense

Baby, there's so much that I don't know it's crazy
Everything I started with is fading
So I will lock my eyes to yours
..you are what I'm here for

Shout out, the future's so unsure
When you're the only one I'm living for
Dark clouds, the rain can only pour
When you're the only one I'm living for

Baby, there's so much that I don't know it's crazy
Everything I started with is fading
Fading into space and stars
This is who we are now
Lately you're the one who's doing all the saving
I'm looking 'round it's only complicating
So I will lock my eyes to yours
Cause you are what I'm here for

jon mclaughlin - another layer

I heard it on the radio
Let it be so I let go
To see if it...
Made a difference
I try to walk a different pace
Show the world the other face
I hide away
Because today...
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
I am not the same
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
If I change

Nothing's ever what it seems
You think you've got it figured out
Then find yourself another layer

And life can bring you to your knees
I'll lift you till you're fine
Do you wanna live in now or later

The label we refuse to find
Is wasted on the color blind
It fades away
Lost in the gray
And Oh!
And I so sit alone
Pretending that there's no one home
Behind the door
What are we hiding for?
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
We are all the same
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

If we...
If we change

Oh!

Nothing's ever what it seems
You think you've got it figured out
Then find yourself another layer

And life can bring you to your knees
I'll lift you till you're fine
Do you wanna live in now or later

We may not get a second chance
It's not all out of my hands
Now is not gonna catch me by...

Nothing's ever what it seems
You think you've got it figured out
Then find yourself another layer

And life can bring you to your knees
I'll lift you till you're fine
Do you wanna live in now or later

Nothing's ever what it seems
You think you've got it figured out
Then find yourself another layer

And life can bring you to
Bring you to your knees
I'll lift you till you're fine
Do you wanna live in now or later

jon mclaughlin - so close

You're in my arms
And all the world is calm
The music playing on for only two
So close together
And when I'm with you
So close to feeling alive

A life goes by
Romantic dreams will stop
So I bid mine goodbye and never knew
So close was waiting, waiting here with you
And now forever I know
All that I wanted to hold you
So close

So close to reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
Now you're beside me and look how far we?ve come
So far we are so close

How could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?
We're so close
To reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
Let's go on dreaming for we know we are
So close
So close
And still so far

jon mclaughlin - beautiful disaster

She loves her momma's lemonade
Hates the sounds that goodbyes make
She prays one day she'll find someone to need her
She swears there's no difference between the lies and compliments
It's all the same if everybody leaves her

And every magazine says her she's not good enough
The pictures that she sees makes her cry

She would change everything, everything, just ask her
Caught in the in between of beautiful disaster
She just needs someone to take her home

She's giving boys what they want
Trying to act so nonchalant
Afraid to see that she's lost her direction
She never stays the same for long
Assuming that she'll get it wrong
Perfect only in her imperfection

She is not a drama queen
She doesn't wanna feel this way
Only 17 and tired, yeah

She would change everything for happy ever after
Caught in the in between of beautiful disaster
She just needs someone to take her home

She's just the way she is
But no one's told her that's okay

She would change everything, everything, just ask her
Caught in the in between of beautiful disaster

She would change everything for happy ever after
Caught in the in between of beautiful disaster
She just needs someone to take her home
She just needs someone to take her home

jon mclaughlin - beating my heart

There are times every now and then
I forget why I'm breathing out
And why I'm breathing in
And I get so sick with the little things
I can't relax when it's happening
To know what it means
It means

And then I open my eyes
And I know you're beating my heart, beating my heart
Look at the sky
I know you're beating my heart, beating my heart
I go extra miles to show
That you are the one thing that I've got
Look at the sky
I know you're beating my heart, beating my heart

There's a sun coming over the horizon
I wanna know where it's coming from
But doesn't everyone
It's like who am I and why am I here

This whole world will take me down
Without you standing by my side
My side
You're holding onto me
You're making everything inside
Come alive

jon mclaughlin - love

The heart of a wife
but she won't unlock it
all dressed in white
and face in the blankets

The nights with the boys
the razor in pockets
the drives to work that don't ever drive by

It's a four letter word
and who'd ever thought that
a four letter word
would be so hard to spell out
and our hearts skippin' beats
on edges of seats
we'll take time when it's up
but give up when it's down

Freakin' out about love
'bout love
about love
'bout love, no
not love
but love
about love
'bout love, no

We're too cool for apologies
and we wouldn't have fell
our emotional policies
and lookin' glass selves
its a realization that we all need to find
its all in our heads when we're changing our minds

About love
love
about love
'bout love
cuz its not love
love
about love
'bout love, no

Or if we're not gunna mind
what's locked in our chest
than I'll spend all my time dodging yours I guess
cuz life's lost anatomy is a hole in my heart
a five cent society post part

And at the blink of an eye
we'll get the courts involved
and if you don't like her eyes you just get 'em annulled
cuz the justice of the piece
losing its power
honeymoon sweets to hotels by the hour

We take time when its up
but give up when its down

And its not love
love
not love
its not love
not love
love
not love
not love
no no
not love, oh
love
love
not love
cuz its not love
love
not love
its not love, no
its not love
love
its not love
not love, no
its not love
love
not love
not love

jon mclaughlin - summer is over

Autumn never seemed this cold before
Here i am sleeping on the floor
We changed just like the leaves
Outside my house
And my phone lay silent by the couch

I remember june
Back when i met you
And your eyes were green
And we were, too

But summer is over
We were tangled in the morning sun
Felt you getting colder
And we knew that we would come undone
It's back to my town, back to your life
Gray skies are blowing a kiss goodbye to the lovers
Summer is over

I can still see your silhouette
In the white hot sand
Still feel my ring on your hand
The clock was always ticking down
Behind that glass
Singing "love, be good while you last"

But we both knew
What we were getting into
The things we said
Sounded true

But summer is over
We were tangled in the morning sun
Felt you getting colder
And we knew that we would come undone
It's back to my town, back to your life
Gray skies are blowing a kiss goodbye to the lovers
Summer is over

The distant innocence
We are leaving far behind
Your last words will be burning in my mind
In the winter time

But summer is over
We were tangled in the morning sun
Felt you getting colder
And we knew that we would come undone
It's back to my town, back to your life
Gray skies are blowing a kiss goodbye to the lovers
Summer is over

jon mclaughlin - human

Can you tell me how we got in this situation
I can't seem to get you off my mind
All these ups and downs
They trip up our good intentions
Nobody said this was easy, right?

After all, we're only human
Always fighting what we're feeling
Hurting, instead of healing
After all, we're only human
Is there any other reason why we
Stay instead of leaving, after all?

Can we get back to the point of this conversation
When we saw things through each other's eyes
'Cause now all I see is ruin and devastation
Well, it's someplace we can hide inside

After all, we're only human
Always fighting what we're feeling
Hurting, instead of healing
After all, we're only human
Is there any other reason why we
Stay instead of leaving, after all?

I'm smart enough to know that life goes by
And it leaves a trail of broken bones behind
If you feel I'm letting go, just give me time
I'll come running to your side

Can you tell me how we got in this situation
I can't seem to get you off my mind

'Cause after all, we're only human
Always fighting what we're feeling
Hurting, instead of healing
After all, we're only human
Is there any other reason why we
Stay instead of leaving?

After all, we're only human
Always fighting what we're feeling
Hurting, instead of healing
After all, we're only human
Is there any other reason why we
Stay instead of leaving, after all?

Any other reason
Stay instead of leaving
After all?

jon mclaughlin - oh jesus

Oh, Jesus
Can You hear me now?
Oh, Jesus
I'm just wondering how I'm doing
Am I proving worth
All the time You've spent
Oh, Jesus

I know You're there
Oh, Jesus
Have You decided where I'm going?
You know I was hoping
To be with You in the end

Oh, come what may
Through the black and blue
I will thank God for You
Jesus

I was so confused
Oh, Jesus
Have You seen the news
Tell me please
Help me see the way it all really works
Oh, Jesus

We yell so loud
Oh, Jesus
And Your name rolls out our mouths like fools
Tell me do we help or do we hurt?

And oh, come what may
Through the black and blue
I will thank God for You
Jesus

Have Your scars healed
Oh, Jesus
Can You still feel that cross
And friends You lost
And do You ever want to take it back?

Oh, Jesus
Yeah I know
Jesus
That I owe You so much more
Than I can give
What this life I live
You can have

And oh, come what may
Through the black and blue
I will thank God for You

Cause I am
Because of Jesus

jon mclaughlin - anthem for american teenagers

The Pieces that are showing lead to the unknowing
Pieces of our lives taking up our time
Was it alwasy how it is? Did history insist that everything we'd need
Would be everything we see?

(Chorus)
You'll never lose.
before we go we all should know that
you'll never lose, never lose.
Before we gowe all should know that

Carousel's around me and no one here has found me
I don't think you saw the parts that only are
I'm leaning on my intincts guide me to the meaning
Everything you said filling up my head
You'll never lose, never lose, never lose
Before we go we all should know that

When memories only hurt you
and they're taking over
Let me on the inside I'll be a shoulder
memories only hurt you they're taking over
let me inside I'll be a shoulder
Now It's like I've alwasy saw it
Let me on the insdie I'll be a shoulder
memories only hurt you they're taking over
Let me on the inside I'll be a shoulder
Memories only hurt you they're taking over

(Chorus)
You'll never lose, never lose
Before we go we all should know that
You'll never lose, never lose
Before we go we all should know that
Before we go we all should know that

jon mclaughlin - for you from me

Unexpected
Understatement of the year
That's for sure
Who'd of thought that
I'd be standing at your door

It's just the way you say my name that throws me
All the windows of my past are closing
And everything that you see

Is for you from me
I'd give it away so easily
Never stopped to look at what's behind
For you from me
Everything we want will be
Holdin' us together tonight
Tonight

Unexpected
I'm not used to chasin' dreams
And catchin' them
All of a sudden
I'm a winner in the end

I'm used to every door I open closing
Always makin' sure I'm not supposing
I can't believe how real they get

Is for you from me
I'd give it away so easily
Never stopped to look at what's behind
For you from me
Everything we want will be
Holdin' us together tonight
Tonight

We will never fall
We'll defy the laws of this love
Rulers of our own
That's the way I feel
Stupid but for real
All I am is...

Is for you from me
I'd give it away so easily
Never stopped to look at what's behind
For you from me
Everything we want will be
Holdin' us together tonight
Tonight

jon mclaughlin