Common Sense Lyrics
Common Sense
They say that I say too many words. I don’t remember counting every single verb. I’m just trying to be honest, document my losses.
They say that I say too many words. I don’t remember counting every single verb. I’m just trying to be honest, document my losses.
It’s a battle trying to find someone worth finding the time for. Another reminder that you’re free to find her up until the phone rings; say goodbye to the girl. Now you’re singing the songs you hate halfway across the world.
I can barely pay my bill.
What happens if I get ill?
Pill after pill to sink the feeling.
I’m beginning to see why men and women have a hard time staying seated.
Travelled the world and I’m still broke. Did I do something wrong?
I met a man who gave me a home, all I had to offer in return was a song.
I fully understand I’ll probably join you when we spend intelligence like cash again.
You’ll always have a reason not to do it.
The truth is, I’m not sure where we lost our common sense.
Sitting on the other side of the tracks, looking at the wear in my shoes.
They say love is overrated, I turned and said well so the hell are you.
I took a chance, on my friends, but then again what could they do?
Nobody get’s it. They didn’t have a clue.
I can barely pay my bills.
What happens if I get ill?
Pill after pill to sink the feeling.
I’m beginning to see why men and women have a hard time staying seated.
Travelled the world and I’m still broke. Did I do something wrong?
I met a man who gave me a home, all I had to offer in return was a song.
I fully understand I’ll probably join you when we spend intelligence like cash again.
You’ll always have a reason not to do it.
The truth is, I’m not sure where we lost our common sense.
Just Another Line
Please let me be Frank, maybe tomorrow I'll be John or Tom or so on, God where did it all go wrong.
When did I start becoming a sociopath forgetting the rules and burning the maps.
I remember being strong what happened, I'd wake up every morning ready to tackle any challenge. Now I couldn't care less, can't even get dressed.
I'm obsessed with being lazy that's why my life is such a mess.
Smile and say goodbye, It's not worth the time. Life is kind of sad that way.
Say you're peace, but believe me you'll be forgotten about in days.
Every suitcase feels like rainfall; weighs me down to the ground 'til I don't wanna go outside at all.
Forgot who I was. They tell me I'm losing sight, every word is just another line.
Caused myself so much misery it seems that it railed me at the seems and broke my world.
Had to tell myself nothing could ever get to me. Not a job, not a death, not even a girl.
Easier to say than it is to do, like having the audacity to say you heard it.
We take, we move on, like elephants in a room where nobody has the balls to say a word.
Smile and say goodbye, It's not worth the fight. Life is kind of sad that way.
Say you're peace, but believe me you'll be forgotten about in days.
Every suitcase feels like rainfall; weighs me down to the ground 'til I don't wanna go outside at all.
Forgot who I was. They tell me I'm losing sight, every word is just another line.
Just another chance to fall apart.
Quit Lying I don't buy it anymore.
Forgot who I was. They tell me I'm losing sight. Every word is just another line.
Can't Sit Still.
I thought I'd change, thought I'd stay when the will ran out to face my path, take on that things will never be as planned.
Don't ever get to fall in love. Only ever get to break their hearts. Sure I miss parts of it, but you've gotta brush it off and move on.
Do I wanna be fifty thinking I should have lived a little more swiftly rather than pretending to the world that I was always busy.
Or is it fate, somehow I'm not built for one place, left to the day to day, constant change. Uncertain but hey.
Counting my steps.
Taking the blame.
Being told that I'm living it wrong because I won't stay.
Nobody guiding me.
How am I supposed to have a life outside the ballroom lights when I can't sit still?
How am I supposed to really fight for something I can't find if I can't sit still?
I get this itch in my leg and I just need to be gone.
No there's nothing wrong with you, no hate, I just crave something with a little less weight.
Does that weight always have to be carried?
Everyone I know is getting married.
I'm still in love with people that I've never met.
Torn between the road and home pretending like I don't want it all.
The method wasn't flawed, it was me. I fell in love with every woman that I saw.
Counting my steps.
Taking the blame.
Being told that I'm living it wrong because I won't stay.
Nobody guiding me day to day.
How am I supposed to have a life outside the ballroom lights when I can't sit still?
How am I supposed to really fight for something I can't find if I can't sit still?
Counting my steps, taking the blame.
Nobody guiding me day to day.
How am I supposed to have a life outside the ballroom lights when I can sit still?
How am I supposed to really fight for something I can't find if I can't sit still?
Loving The Enemy
I'm only 26 and I can still see through the bullshit.
You're about as transparent as you'll ever be.
If your instincts were half as good as your choices, you never would have met me.
We all fall victim to loving the enemy, an honest addiction to chemistry.
Not doing the right thing, but instead of spiraling we stay, until everyone around us starts to push away.
Not grounded, but what the hell is grounded anyway?
I know I acted like everything I said I hated.
I know I put you through more than I would ever have taken.
I guess I kinda did you a favor by leaving, just depends on how you see it.
I wasn't the person I said I was, because making you happy was so much simpler.
Isn't what we do, act selfishly and sugarcoat without looking at the bigger picture.
Lay it on me I can take it.
Just be honest try to face it.
The places you used to know are vacant without a second glance at the pavement.
Still chasing the dream, where you're running from everything, never get to your destination.
But now you're too far from the start to turn back, grazed by how much you hate your nation.
Defied logic when we made it a month. Stayed going through fights lies, bills, pride.
I'm pretty sure life, isn't meant to be so full of picking sides.
I know I acted like everything I said I hated.
I know I put you through more than I would ever have taken.
I guess I kinda did you a favor by leaving. Just depends on how you see it.
I know I acted like everything I said I hated.
I know I put you through more than I would ever have taken.
I guess I kinda did you a favor by leaving. Just depends on how you see it.
I know I acted like everything I said I hated.
Everything I said I hated.
It just depends on how you see it.
Everything I said I hated.
I'm Still Doing It
I smoked out my window every single day before I had to go.
I thought I outta quit, look ten years later I'm still doing it.
I'm drowning, but even the sound of saying that is killing the cloud of pain.
I'm reigning over advice I never took in the first place.
She went and burned the bed. They took of cropping this.
Affecting the frame, so I'd remain just out of focus.
Can we talk about the past, without pretending like we were happy.
If we were don't you think we'd be married?
Every other lie, in every different bed.
Hand me your advice, I am much obliged to consider it.
Every other lie, in every different bed.
Hand me your advice all you want but I'm still doing it.
A couple whiskeys in, living on the fence, starved for fitting in.
Amidst the pioneers I always felt like nothing, why did I come again?
Sleep turns into day. Day turns right back into never sleeping again.
I thought I wanted to be that man.
Coming about it the wrong way, taking every wrong turn until it's highway.
Then driving so far that nobody will ever find me.
I'm piecing together my life kind of slowly and that's alright.
I'm ok with it, can you just ignore me?
Every other lie, in every different bed.
Hand me your advice. I am much obliged to consider it.
Every other lie, in every different bed.
Hand me your advice all you want, but I'm still doing it.
Ok, 'cos you don't seem to grasp it, I'll put it in a letter and I'll lightly wrap it.
Dear whoever you are, I'm an avid proponent of laughter in the face of disaster.
Imagine it, 15 years old, you fall for love and swear you'll never do it again.
22, 23.. your life is slowly creeping up and then, you hit a quarter of a century.
You've barely made a dent, but you're falling for the same shit.
Isn't that what they call insanity.
Say you won't but you end up playing to the sophisticated sensibility that we may have actually meant something.
Everything Is Medicine
Half empty, but the glass is still there.
Plenty of things to bore me and I don't even care.
Thinking that our stories are different, we're not all just animals addicted to the instant.
Mistakes define us, success refines us, pretending like it matters who designed us.
Everything you eat speak breathe is your medicine, your opinion of me is irrelevant.
Everything is Medicine
Everything is Medicine
Got booze for days, a pill popped craze. Home life is uninspiring, addicted to the phase.
Living with no reason to get up and still I do, seeking truth, when the only piece of it I ever found was you.
Love. Religion. Drugs. Prescription. Marriage. Decision. Food. Inhibition
It's a misrepresented way to make you feel like you're not living in a prison.
Love. Religion. Drugs. Prescription. Marriage. Decision. Sex. Inhibition.
Everything you eat, sleep, breathe is your medicine. You're judgement of me is irrelevant.
Everything is Medicine.
Portrait of Life
A shy hello moved us from complete unknown, to clothes on the bedroom floor.
Simple and calm. I forgot long ago that this was even possible.
A portrait of life, clear as light. My eyes locked in on another person miles away.
You waited, I don't get it, months after the bus had pulled away.
Selfish in the way that I had dealt with this, but how was I supposed to act after you'd lost a baby.
Thinking went out the window just looking for a fight, so I can feel like I was right about something.
Passion faded, replaced with long nights.
Nothing's helping me to get back to where we were and I can't take it.
A portrait of life, clear as light. My eyes locked in on another person miles away.
You waited I don't get it, months after the bus had pulled away.
Selfish in the way that I have dealt with this but how was I supposed to act after you lost a baby.
Still learning, maybe this was meant to humble me. Or maybe I just deserved it.
Part of the Process
I'm not always the most courteous, earning every bit of bad karma.
Still drained, I maintain the drama.
Did i sign up for this. I was just trying to make you think a little bit.
The direction's up to you, if you come unglued maybe it'll do you some good
Trying to see the good in everything gets old.
Try a new approach change the things you know.
Pissin' people off is part of the process towards progress.
Regardless of where you sit, at least have the sense to question it.
We always opt for the positive, failing to cover our tracks.
Our bags packed
Ready to leave in fact before confronting what we already have.
Is it a battle?
Smart and stupid?
Those with values and those who just do it.
You've gotta love everyones enthusiasm about being right and just learn your way through it
Trying to see the good in everything gets old.
Try a new approach change the things you know.
Pissin' people off is part of the process towards progress.
Regardless of where you sit, at least have the sense to question it.
Speak Your Mind
I can't believe what I'm seeing, countless artists the same reason.
Pleasing somebody else without talking about what they truly believe in.
It's sheepish
Can't put a price on your ability to speak your mind.
I'll adopt a policy of honesty then you don't have to listen.
I'm starting to wonder how an artist can muster enough of a gut to not really care when they get thrown under the bus?
Not enough of a brain between them, keep singing for the same dumb reason.. please.
I know I said artist but I meant it liberally.
Speak your mind.
It might be the last time that you get to get it all out from inside your head.
Speak your mind.
When the politeness gets a little tired and a good fuck you could do so much better.
Here it goes, I'll lay my cards on the table, nothing but a veiled attempt
to be sincere when I don't really know anymore about it than anyone else here.
I've faked love. I've faked interest. I've been a prick, i've been a little to timid.
I can't imagine how we got so priveledged. I'm shocked that we're still here.
I don't do jesus but reason would lead me to believe it doesn't really matter what you believe in.
As long as you're not being a dick be proud without it really mattering what I think.
How is it, we still have rulers rather than leaders?
Pull your head from the sand, it's time to not accept that they can own your ass, with so much pride.
Let's not be dumb. Let's not be fat. Let's not be lazy bastards.
Let's not be the cause. A degenerate nation of pimps and slobs.
Let's not be what they wanted even when you're lauded it doesn't change.
I've just got a different vision for paradise in my veins.
Speak your mind.
It might be the last time that you get to get it all out from inside your head.
Speak your mind.
When the politeness gets a little tired and a good fuck you could do so much better.
Speak your mind.