1) SECOND TIME AROUND Second time around things will be easier If I meant the words maybe I'd believe them But everybody feels the tide So when my heart starts to swell I will keep it to myself And sing it heartsick and waiting When time is only time Count the seconds out Plan the day around The secret that you found Second time around things will be easier If you heard the words they wouldn't mean anything So set fire to the record store in Annandale Where we first heard Static Prevails Set fire to the photobooth Where you first knew I wanted pictures of you So sing it heartsick and waiting When time is only time Count the seconds out Plan your day around The secret that you found 2) ST. MARY'S Go to shows down at St. Mary's Spend a dollar at the five'n'dime Spin your lipstick Make yourself pretty I don't love her, I don't even try All my big sky dreams Are lost in this small town And I would up and leave If I knew how I miss the bright lights of New York City I miss the sound of the sidewalk against my shoes There ain't no bright lights in the middle of Virginia And damn I hate these southern blues And all my big sky dreams Are lost in this small town I would up and leave If I knew how Oh, Virginia My reckless years have left me old Oh, Virginia My restless eyes have never closed Oh, Virginia Your rolling hills have been my home Out on the corner of Faith and Independance Lookin' for trouble or a free ride All my late nights keep turning into mornings But I never aged on a Sunday drive And all my big sky dreams Are lost on this small town But I would up and leave If I knew how Oh, Virginia My reckless years have left me old Oh, Virginia My restless eyes have never closed Oh, Virginia Your rolling hills have been my home Oh, Virginia My reckless years have left me old Oh, Virginia My restless eyes have never closed Mine are the sleepwalker's shoes Mine are the daydreamer's blues 3) BUTTERFLY Smoking cigarettes to feel Older than we are To feel the air we breathe We have waited Up to the overpass when your neighbors called the cops Trying to get back to that first night In your quiet laugh I knew that we were lost Just feel the silence sinking in Butterfly in the dead of night Right in front of you Spread my wings and I close my eyes I've been falling October thirty one And angel and a boy who prays to astronauts Stumble up a hill I went up a good son And came down a landslide She went up with lace wings And came down a butterfly . . in the dead of night Right in front of you Spread my wings and I close my eyes I've been falling 4) HOMECOMING QUEEN Borrowed a dress from Caroline She looked her best and I looked mine Fancy dinner at the corner store We ordered all we could afford Bittersweet homecoming queen A pickup truck, her dad, and me She got knocked up the year before So she don't dance alone anymore 'Cause in this stupid little town Word gets around Bittersweet homecoming queen Snuck out the back, held the door for me Up on the roof throwing rocks at cars At all the perfect people who never had it hard In this perfect little town Word gets around But I don't care 'cause she says that this is love Bittersweet homecoming queen Dreams of the boys in the magazines She's saving up, she's got a job One day I guess she'll just be gone And when she leaves this little town I'll still be around But I don't care 'cause she says that this is love And I need to be in love Borrowed a suit from Reverend White And at the church the guests arrived My eyes never left the door But I knew that she was gone for good 'Cause in this stupid little town Word got around That mine was an easy heart to break 5) ON ASH WEDNESDAY [respect to Mr. T.S. Eliot] 6) FIREFLY Wake up the world with your screaming Were you dreaming that you were a butterfly? With beautiful wings of fire Look out! The sky is falling 'Cause we've all been grasping at the stars Now they won't be so far Underneath the covers you've been Searching for your comfort in the dark We spent the day in the shade of the trees Nursing scraped up knees and picking at the scars We never got all the shards Out on the lake as the sun went under We watched with wonder as the trees collected stars Right in my back yard Underneath the covers with the Christmas lights of summer in a jar The night will last a little longer than it did The day before (One by one they're burning out) The cold will come a little sooner than it did The year before Awake in your room No sign of the moon So the stars on the ceiling Are all that's revealing the jar As all the lights go dark Underneath the covers holding Ashes of the summer in a jar Like wildfire consumes Like water fills a room January always comes Shall we burn out or go numb? The night will last a little longer than it did The day before (One by one they've all burnt out) The cold will come a little sooner than it did The year before Let's go down to the rocks on the beach Where the cars can't reach And smash open all the jars Let's give back all the stars 7) ANYWHERE The porch light's always on Just sits collecting moths They fly in circles Then in smaller circles Radio is always on Just plays the same old songs It feels like it's been Years since I sang along I walk these hallways Like I always have before But no more Do I lie awake and smile at night Happy just to be alive I woke up from that childish dream 'Cause everything was as it seemed The phonograph inside my head Just plays back all the words I've said When a broken record's all we get We haven't come full circle yet The sun blinks off and on And all the days grow long We talk in circles Ever smaller circles We're all just restless pawns Now that the kings have gone We dance in circles Never ending circles I walk these hallways Like I always have before But no more Do I lie awake and smile at night Happy just to be alive I woke up from that childish dream 'Cause everything was as it seemed The phonograph inside my head Just plays back all the words I've said When a broken record's all we get We haven't come full circle yet Everything in this place feels like it's always been Waiting for something that just isn't coming We fight with ourselves out of fear of the silence We fill up the emptiness growing inside us With headlines and video games, we sleep through the day And our lives are just wasting away And it's not that I'm scared to leave all this behind I've just nowhere to go So I never go anywhere 8) DARK STAR Tonight I feel like a dark star Burned out into dust and flames From your porch looks just the same We will never change She was born before the war In the '40s married young In the '50s had her sons I was born beneath her wings To summer evenings playing hearts And givin' names to all the stars We will never change Burst of flame, thin as dust The doctors said it was her heart Tonight I named another star We will never change I was born a dark star You were the one with the strong heart 9) DAYLIGHT FADES Daylight fades On all the wasted words That I won't say But I wish somehow you heard Across a wire It snowed again today And buried our old days In shades of gray On the bus to work, I taste a summer's day The boy on the corner Who sells me my paper Says "hey man, I think it's getting colder" And the girl behind the counter Who never wants my number Looks a little too much A little too much like you They say that the city never sleeps I guess that's why it's never really awake And I am tired The boy on the corner Who used to sell papers Asks me for my change And I know I'm getting older And the girl behind the counter Who never wants my number Looks a little too much Everybody looks like you Daylight fades On all the wasted words that I won't say But I wish somehow you heard Across a wire 10) NEVER AGAIN I believe in the price of a moment As the pavement begins to disappear I can bear the weight of atonement There are some things I just can't bear to hear I was blind or in love not to see it Needed this far too much for it to fail In between honest eyes grew a secret That was never more than thinly veiled Never again I'll be deceived Never again Will I believe Seventeen, all it took to define me Was a car and an endless Friday night Now I can't leave August behind me And it kills me that I just said goodbye Never again I'll be deceived Never again Will I believe Never again In anyone but me Never again I'm screaming out my last goodnight And drowning in the spinning of the tires The trees rise up on a sunset king And shed no tears as the angels start to sing And everything I've been will die As I drive on and leave you behind 11) IF THIS IS LOVE Under your arms You carry your wings Safe from harm Through a symphony of violence Gently disarm As you surface again Into my arms To the sound of violins Soft spoken words The quiver of your skin This fragile world Is the envy of the seraphim If this is love Then why do I feel like you're falling away from me? If it's not love Then why do I see you every time that I fall asleep? Doubt turns your head As you stumble away We're sorry again Guilt's the price we have to pay 12) ANYWHERE The porch light's always on Just sits collecting moths They fly in circles Then in smaller circles Radio is always on Just plays the same old songs It feels like it's been Years since I sang along I walk these hallways Like I always have before But no more Do I lie awake and smile at night Happy just to be alive I woke up from that childish dream 'Cause everything was as it seemed The phonograph inside my head Just plays back all the words I've said When a broken record's all we get We haven't come full circle yet The sun blinks off and on And all the days grow long We talk in circles Ever smaller circles We're all just restless pawns Now that the kings have gone We dance in circles Never ending circles I walk these hallways Like I always have before But no more Do I lie awake and smile at night Happy just to be alive I woke up from that childish dream 'Cause everything was as it seemed The phonograph inside my head Just plays back all the words I've said When a broken record's all we get We haven't come full circle yet Everything in this place feels like it's always been Waiting for something that just isn't coming We fight with ourselves out of fear of the silence We fill up the emptiness growing inside us With headlines and video games, we sleep through the day And our lives are just wasting away And it's not that I'm scared to leave all this behind I've just nowhere to go So I never go anywhere