Dreams

I saw you in my dreams again last night
I'm hoping everything turned out all right
And since I'm not with you
I wonder what you do
And if you miss me too--
I saw you in my dreams again last night.

I saw you on the street again today
I guess it wasn't you--you turned away
But that's all right with me
'Cause no one else could be
All you meant to me--
Thought I saw you on the street today.

Though I know life's moved on as it should
I can't help missing what was good
It doesn't help that you're everywhere I go
Although it isn't you, I know

I saw you in my dreams again tonight
And since I cannot sleep, I've got to write
I'm wide awake at two
And thinking about you
'Cause there's nothing I can do--
Awake, so you can't haunt my dreams tonight

*Revised mid-March 2011*

Weekends

Monday morning's here again
Just another day I have to spend
Away from you
Stuff I have to do today
Is loudly calling me away
Nothing else to do

I just try to count the days
As they slowly pass and fade

(And I) Live for the weekend
Jump off the deep end
Running off of little to no sleep
Spend all of my time
Living by your side
It beats the rest of the week
I could live with a week of weekends

Friday evening's here again
And I'm meeting you at ten
My heart begins to race
Watching minutes slowly fade
Knowing I'll see you today
Yeah, I'll see your face

You'll be walking through that door
And I'll remember just once more

(Why I) Live for the weekend
Jump off the deep end
Running off of little to no sleep
Spend all of my time
Living by your side
Yeah it beats the rest of the week
I could live with a week of weekends

The week's too long
(Weekend's not long enough)
Living like this
Has been pretty rough
But I know why I

Live for the weekends
Jump off the deep end
Running off of little to no sleep
Spend all of my time
Living by your side
It beats the rest of the week
I could live with a week of weekends
I could live with a week of weekends
I could live with a year of weekends.

One of Those Days

This is one of those days
When all I can say is
"Thank God it'll be over soon."
Each day is a gift
But this one missed
Being one I can actually use.
It's been like getting
Worn-out socks,
A bike with no chain,
The hands off a clock.
And you gotta wonder,
"What was the purpose of this one anyway?"

It's just one of those days,
Yeah, one of those days.

I fall into bed
Covers over my head
Cocooned in fitful dreams.
I'm chasing a zombie,
Fighting a Nazi,
Nothing is what it seems.
I wake up exhausted,
Feel like I lost it,
As tired as before I slept.
I roll out of bed,
Put glue on my bread,
Headed out to start another day.

It's just one of those days,
Yeah, one of those days.

Meaningless

Pallid faces on the train
Look like they stepped out of their caskets
Focused on some bottom line
In the economy section.
Ears deaf to the melody
Played by guitarists in the station.
Eyes blinded to the white clouds
Painting the cerulean horizon.
Crawling through the metal canyons,
Towers shutting out the light of day--
Few have kept their souls intact
But it's hardly worth it anyway.

What have we got to live for?
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
What have we got to gain?
When the world puts emphasis on
What's impossible to obtain?
We're killing ourselves trying and we'll never attain
What we seek--
Oh, what have we got to live for?

Speechless

I'm usually eloquent,
I know the words to say.
Though they sometimes come out wrong,
I know them anyway.
But when I try to tell you
How you've been on my mind,
My vocabulary fails me
Each and every time.

Somehow you leave me speechless.
Somehow you take the words away.
Everything I'd want to say would come out as a cliche,
So I wait in total silence, 'cause I'm speechless.

And now you know I can't tell you
Everything I'd like to say.
But then again, should I have to try?
Sometimes words get in the way.
Someday I'll make the effort
To let my thoughts be free.
For now, though, I'll just hold my tongue--
I'm not like this normally.

Switch

Don't comprehend, don't understand
Anything goes, it's not part of a plan
The way that it was is not the way it is
My mind's gotta get a grip on this

Switch
I need to see your side
Switch
I need a little time
Out of this place
Need my own space
Switch

And, yeah, this world's a messed-up place
Everyone moves at a frantic pace
Unsettled, now, as I watch the world turn
At this rate, we'll likely crash and burn