Alex the Great

I’m only looking for some sun to come
I’m only looking for someone to swim for
Holding hands with a baseball glove
Is not the kind of game that I’m looking for
I’m only looking for someone kiss
I’m only looking for someone I’ll know I’ll see waving back from the back of a train
A sweet that’s a craving
Not a tummy ache

I’m only looking for someone
I’m only looking for someone
I’m only looking for someone
Someone to love

I’m only looking for something to strum
I’m only looking for someone to play for
Holding hands with a loaded gun
Is not the kind of rush that I’m looking for
I’m only looking for some words to keep
I’m only looking for someone I’ll know I’ll catch naming clouds from a back of a plane
A sweet that’s a brain freeze
Not a headache

I’m only looking for someone
Someone like me

and wait before you say
that nothing really goes your way
even Alex the great
had days when he forgot his name
no need to thirst where it runs
you’ll find your love where you’ll love
where you’ll love

you’re only looking for someone

I’m only looking for someone
I’m only looking for someone
I’m only looking for someone
Someone to love

You’re only striking up matches
Waiting for something to happen
Keep looking up
The colors will come

Someone to love

 

Alone

I used to be afraid of being alone
but now my shoes they are my home
my heels are the wheels that take me
where I want to go
I used to be afraid of being alone
Now there’s a castle I have grown
the guards they won’t let in the things you doubt no more

I used to be afraid of being alone

I used to be afraid of being alone
Out of your shadow into my own
& the sun tastes so sweet on my tongue
more than you’d like to know

I used to be afraid of being alone
Now I dance on the mess that you left on the floor
I’m sorry to say the ties that we made don’t suit me anymore

I used to be afraid of being alone

I used to be afraid of being alone
but the heart that I owe is the heart that I own
Your words were once the world to me
Now just researched obscenities

I used to be afraid of being alone

 

Bruise Rescue

Love me until I bruise
Learn me like I’m brand new

& why do we care
& why do we care
because we can’t care for ourselves

I need a love that will rescue me from myself

I need a love that will help keep time for me
A metronome, no one else home
Who has to know when I don’t sleep
I don’t sleep, no

I need a love
because

I’ve been on the other side
It’s honestly not green enough
Out of every turn I made
It all comes down to one

It all comes down
walls come down

I need a love that will rescue me from myself

& why is it there
& why aren’t you here
if not for this then what else

I need a love that will rescue me from myself

from myself

Love me until I bruise
Lift me in the white like angels do

 

Distance

Said we’re still cinematic
I can’t hide my smile from the phone
You tell me we’re you’re headed
And I’ll take a train to your door

I wanna see you
When I can’t see you at all

Distance don’t dictate us
Map lines draw me to one
Distance don’t dictate, it don’t dictate, it don’t dictate us
At all

She gave me winter boots that always seemed to trip me the most
You joked the knots were bows that never were called pretty before
Juxtaposition the snow

Distance don’t dictate us
Map lines draw me to one
Distance don’t dictate, it don’t dictate, it don’t dictate us

Distance don’t dictate us
My heart was made to love
Distance, distance, distance

 

Heartly

Did you ever think of falling in love with me
I heartly know you
Did you ever think of saying you think of me
I heartly want to

Hearts, we’re just scars
The passenger seat of our worn down cars
And hearts they’re just ours, they’re just ours

Do you ever think of lovely catastrophes
I heartly think so
Do you ever think of lying in bed with me
I heartly uh, no

Hearts, we’re just scars,
The passenger seat of our worn down cars
And hearts they’re just ours, they’re just our

Do you ever get so sad when you fall asleep alone
Do you ever miss the green in the garden you’ve outgrown

Hearts, we’re just scars
The passenger seat of our worn down cars
Hearts they’re just ours, they’re just ours
Hearts, they’re just ceiling stars
I let your name glow above in the dark
And heartaches,
are just our aches
are just our aches
are just our aches
and heartaches are just are aches
are just our story to be told

Did you ever think of falling in love with me

I heartly know you

Stories to be told

 

Messages

And you never check my messages, messages
And you never call back
And you run through the lite that read you should have noticed
When you say that you lost track

And all this hope makes me wonder why the waiting room is dark

Messages, messages

And you never let me bite my tongue, bite my tongue
But you never bite back
Now I’m scratching walls, in the corner, in your sweater
Hiding notes in your mattress

If I was ink what would you think
What would you try to draw

Your camera turned the lites down.

Now you never check my messages, messages
And you never call back
Can we act out the scene of the lovers outside linens to at least say we tried it

And all this paper makes me want to cry
Oh dear my ideas were better on the inside

Messages, messages

 

Peanut Butter Jam

Well I like peanut butter peanut butter and jelly
And you like peanut butter peanut butter and jam
And I like to go dancing when the dance moves are funny
And you like peanut butter peanut butter and jam

I want a man who has got lots of muscles
And you want a girl who’s gonna laugh all the time
So I went to the gym to try to see if I’d find one
And you went to see a comedy opening nite

Well I like peanut butter peanut butter and jelly
And you like peanut butter peanut and jam
And when I’m hurt I cry, but all you do is get hungry
And make some peanut butter peanut butter and jam

Why so sad

I’d like someone who can take care of problems
And you like the ones who are trouble from the start
If one and one is two is true than we could get together
& be like the McDouls who take walks in the park

You know who I am

I’m messy & I’m nervous
& I know that you will notice
when I forget to brush my teeth or put on deodorant
you’re loyal like the lion that I drew in the third grade
your corolla smells of crayolas what do you think that means

anyways,

Well, I like peanut butter peanut butter and jelly
And you like peanut butter peanut butter and jam
& if we kissed each other do you think it’d be funny
if I tasted just like jelly & you tasted like jam

You know who I am

 

Toledo Song

We’re a city, alive with questions and dreams
And I know Toledo isn’t as far as it seems
And I want to tell you how much it means that this means that much to me
To me

So,
come on
So,
come in
and
break
my
heart

I could be so bad for you

We’re a phone call, dialing up notions and schemes
And wherever we go you look sharper than teeth
And I want to ask you what does this mean
When I’m tired but we don’t sleep, no

So,
come on
………..
So, come on
So,
come in
and
break
my
heart
Again and again and again

So play me a song with the lights turned off and I will follow you wherever you go
You can say what you can’t take but till you take it you just don’t know, no
You gave me a song with the sound turned off and it never left my car radio
I can’t say what I don’t taste is something I don’t sense as my own

We’re a city of love.

If you want.

 

Valentine

I cut into the shape and I colored in the lines
I thought I’d have a valentine
I x’ed out his name
Oh, did it get to you on time
I thought I’d have a Valentine

I thought I’d have a Valentine

And love is only like on a good day
On the best terms
On a late nite’s sleep
And love is only like on the weekends
Tell them your secrets and watch them try to keep them

I moved into the mailbox just to see if you’d stop by
I thought I’d have a valentine
You tell me to be mindful
But it’s you that’s on my mind
I thought I’d have you valentine

I thought I’d have a valentine

And love is only like on a sundae
Stoned in sugar
It goes down easy
And love is only like on a Christmas
Tell them your wish list
And watch them try to keep you

And friends are the new lovers
But they’re not tonite
No, they’re not tonite
No, they’re not tonie

So give me back the feeling
It was always mine
And I just wanted to have a valentine

I thought I’d have a valentine