Jordan White - Lyrics

Original song lyrics on this page: Crazy Girl, Quarter-Life Crisis, No Promises, Kingdom Falls, Where To Begin, Walking Clean, Maybe Amy, Bloodshot, Engine of the Ocean, Comin' Round Again, September, The Days I Didn't Speak, Heads Up, Baby's Breath

She was a beauty, batting eyelashes
Against blue iris eyes
She came up to me
Tapped me on the shoulder
And here comes our suprise

To her house her baby's crying "mommy"
From the other room
Better get out before I get swallowed
All too soon
Because..

Because you fell in love
With a crazy girl
There's no time for blame
Cause she's all in this world
Crazy girl and I'm playing your game
Crazy girl, I don't think
I can stay stane

When she's high she talks in circles
And tells me where she's been
My face stiff and unchanging
But weeping softly in the wind
Here all night in her bed
As if I have the choice
Oh boy, you know you don't have a choice
Oh you know
You don't have a choice
Because..

I used to have an open mind
A mind that was crystal clear
They say that "there's plenty more"
But right now none of them are here

Get up with it now crazy girl
Let's celebrate how you messed me up
Yeah you know you messed me up

Got myself a place and the first week
I crashed on a floor
Got myself a place and the first month
I thought there'd be a little more
And nobody stops when they drive by
Because they think they see a light
Though they know I'm wide awake
Cause its the middle of the night

At nineteen, threw stones at her screen
Waiting on a street that was certainly mine
At twenty-four, just knocked on her door
And I drove down this road one last time
We said to never call past ten
Cause the family was asleep
We would just meet in the road
Where the sidewalk met the street
And she said she swore she wouldn't waste my time
If I just let her get out off her pants
And she said she swore she wouldn't waste my time
If I just let her go but now I can't

Temperature falling did you hear mom put the house up for sale
Temperature falling did you hear that dad has cancelled his mail

Cause nobody told you just how long it would take
For you to grow young
And no one told you it's all the same
For just about everyone
A King alone in his castle
Say he just needs to go pray
A King alone in his castle
But the Queen packed up and moved away

So I backed up dad's Chevy
He said "son I'd change it all if you'd let me"
But you trespass from now on
If you set foot on this land
But I go back again and again
To look at the sky
And hold the sun in my hand

Do you have the strength to tear down something new
I've been shutting down all week
And I've been falling through
I'm watching the sun rise in New Jersey
Hear the water bruising up the shore
It couldn't rain another drop
But the sky is breaking for more

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So can you tell me where to begin
It's like I'm sinking like I'm caving in
So can you tell me where to begin
I was finished in your skin

I can see the skyline by the boardwalk
Something's calling me to something new
I guess I should go and that's why I'm here
To suffer distances
From you

The morning sun it dries up the ocean
It burns like the salt in the waves
The tourists are all stirring
They are counting their days

When I was clean and I felt free
It wasn't so long as we make it to be
And now I'm learning what to make
Of all my wreckage

Hangin' round the drug store
I am waiting on a line again and again
I am waiting on a line
But it never ends
And it wasn't always this way
But no part of me is etched in stone
But you can't help crashing
When you're coming down all alone

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You've gotta run and run
Until something burns out your sun
I've gotta stop the things we do
I gotta get myself to walk clean with or without
You've gotta run and run
Until something burns out your sun
I've gotta stop the things I do
Gotta get myself to walk clean
With or without you
With or without you

You were my best friend
But now I've gotta say goodbye
Cause my best friend
Wouldn't make me red in the eyes

And if I'm dirty I must apologize
If I've come alive
Cause this 5 o'clock shadow
Is coming way before 5
And it's right before my eyes
Right before my eyes

She said "you better stay off the rooftops if you,
If you've gotta hide from the sky"
She said "you better stay off the rooftops if you,
If you've gotta hide from the sky...."

Just a little from your T.V.

Listen to this little ditty

And maybe you'll see -
I'm only happy at the beach

When the skies are blue
When there's grey clouds

You may need you to pull me through

Pull me through -

We both smell the inside of brand new books

Cause we just don't care how stupid it looks -

And this could be a funny story how your path crossed mine

Like jumping in quarries with a no tresspassing sign

No one pays it no mind

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So maybe Amy,

You could pour me over your red wine

Your could call me up, anytime

There's people who'll light you on fire

Just to watch you burn

Ain't no rhyme or reason about it you just gotta

Turn and head back down

To the river you come from where there's water around

And you could meet me in a bar where nobody goes

Oh Amy, I don't really know
I just don't know

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So maybe, Amy,

You could pour me over your red wine

You could call me up, anytime

The sincerity of this feeling
Is the only reason I've found
To cut you from a crowd when I'm down kneeling
As the only diamond that shines in this town
You're the only one around

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So maybe, Amy

You could pour me over your red wine

You could call me up, anytime

Pour me

Poor me

Cause Amy

I've gone all of this time

Without somebody like you

But for sure did I ever miss the mark

Never again to be lead

Or play the fool

Amongst the dead

In the dark

Bloodshot (not yet available)

Wearing $200 jeans and I can't afford her gasoline
Maybe someone, somewhere can tell me what that means
Blood is boiling over again so I guess I'll never learn

If porcelain was your face then you were a child of the candle
Sleeping in a raincoat in the shed
To awake like fire from the coal and fog inside your head

And you wanted to sleep through morning
But the sun you love denies
And you want to be a child but your Father's ghost replies:

"It's coming up behind you child, to show you where you lost -
When your way of letting go was your last chance to hold on...."

Chorus:
You keep me running like the engine of the ocean
I'd trade all the salt for some emotion
You keep me running like the engine of the ocean
I'd trade all the salt for some emotion

Now you find me on a line of the water and the land
Where the ocean breaks into rocks
That only become the sand
A sky whispering down on the beach
But I forget that it's all out of reach now

(Chorus)

And you could have found me on a line of the water and the land
I'm just like the rocks that only break into sand
And you, oh you could find me now
Running, running down now

(Chorus)
You're just the engine of the ocean now
Engine of the ocean now....

I cannot decide how far to go and how far there is
'Cause no one knows, the distance
Sitting out here in the stale air
Watching time fall with the sky it's got me thinking
How I'm so far from you
And there's no way at getting back
I feel you -
The mystery and misery returns
Just like seeing you 'round this cold night burns

And I'm talking to myself
And answering my own questions that you'd know
I'm falling out of sync in light
Now you're gone and it's alright
I watch the sky fall into the summer night

Chorus:
But something
Speaks in my ear
It's whispering "you threw away a year"
Alone and in your room
Septembers coming soon

There was a time there was a great time
But I don't know where it goes -
I'd like to say but I
I just don't know -
Stale air I was breathing and oh yeah,
Slipping into you
Still I feel myself slipping into you

The wasted paragraphs
And all the words that you would say
Cause I am so far from you
A little farther everyday
But..

I cannot decide how far to go
And how far there is cause no one knows
Cannot decide how far to go
Or how far there is
Cause no one knows
No one knows

Another silent morning for another quiet day
Some nights I believe I've said years ago
All I'll ever need to say
And this heavy foot in exile is the time that tip toes away -

Always thought I'd have more words
More nouns more lies or more verbs to say

Chorus:
But today, no way
I swear I didn't say a word
And today, no way
I swear that I wasn't heard
But the days I didn't speak and the days I didn't eat
They were the days that turned into weeks

I was sitting out on a curb
People walking by feel me
So disturbed -
And no sound, as I stare at the ground
And it's only coming down and when it all goes down
You know just where I'll be found
No sound on the ground

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And all the silent times at the bars
I wish the smokey roof was open
So I could see some stars
Do you feel like a piece of paper in the wind?
Or do you sit still when you try to spin?
Cause they come at anytime....

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Oh these days turned into weeks
You could pull yourself out of your sweater
All the lightning like the fuse
If you only knew it's the lightning you use

Where's this color come from
Of that that has already been
A black eye that lasts forever
Bruises deeper than the skin
These moments so distilled
That are etched and sink like stones
Like particles of pain and pleasure
Troubled waters - no bridge to get you home

And there goes another day
Wasted and down
In these yesterdays I tread so lightly
In tomorrow I can drown
My body set on fire
Frozen in time unmasked
Let he who turns down his wine
Have the first stone to cast

Now I'm far from hopeless
Cause I watched the planes crash on down
Put a flag out on my doorstep
Before I saw them all over town
Here's a little tip of oblivion
Advice for you and your things lost
Believe in something bigger
Though it comes at quite a cost

Here's a heads up
For those like you and me
Who are staring at the sun
Until we can't see

So I never heard the truth
'Til I heard it in his song
And I never saw the buildings
'Til I saw that they were gone
And here's a heads up
For those who hang their heads low
Will you break yourself to pieces
Before you even know

Here's a heads up
For those like you and me
Who are staring at the sun
Until we can't see

A little match blown out and thrown away
Too young, too old, too sad to say
When a baby comes crawling around
Mother is sadder for the things she's put in the ground

So you try to walk with your head up high but at night you lie in bed and you cry
And your friends say it will get better
But they haven't been there
Or read your letter

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Cause you're a younger mother than you know you should have been
You've denied another and some say you sinned
You're a younger mother than you know you should be
You're calm as a river but still you blow by the sea

And my cousin cries cause a young baby dies
Blue eyes I find
But I can't lie
Cause it was just a year before
You decided you didn't want her anymore

And the things you took away
Now I'm saying what I said I'd never say
A baby's first breath
Won't be today