Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands Album Lyrics

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Things Happen

I could go on talking or I could stop
Wring out each memory til' I get every drop
Sift through the details of the others involved
The true crime would be thinking it's just one persons fault

Like an honest signature on a fake ID
Like the guilty conscience with the innocent plea
You can just ignore it, put it out of mind
But ain't it funny how the past won't ever let something lie

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through
Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to
I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do

In a different time, on a different floor
I might morn the lose of who I'm not anymore
So I'm driving up to Oakland for a good look back
And a few revisions to my plan of attack

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through
Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to
I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do

I think I'll see Lily, see where she stands
I can't help how I feel, I don't think anyone can
Sometimes we're lovers, sometimes we're friends
Behold the magnetism between two dead ends

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through
Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to
I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do

Lets' make a list of all the things the world has put you through (we can qualify the spirit guides we listen to)
Lets raise a glass to all the people your not speaking to (or why are moms compelled to bronze your baby shoes)
I don't know what else that you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do
That's all they ever do
That's all they ever do
That's all they ever do

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Somewhere Along The Way

She went from table manners to tunnel vision to premature farewells
With a restlessness reserved for those who believe in themselves
She thought the world was hers so she made sure it bent beneath her will
She was as new and as ancient as the solar paneled hills

She was certain she could take this town by storm
The wonder of sound and light seeking a form

But somewhere along the way
The dots didn't all connect
The promise became regrets
Somewhere along the way
The dream and the circumstance
Continue their tortured dance
Somewhere along the way

She was my lullaby personified, my vision in the mist
But her contacts were all promoters and a westside therapist
The 5ams, the worried friends, the parting of her lips
But I needed to witness someone wrestle with what it means to just exist

How her only plan in life was getting lost
How she took me to the edge and made me watch

But somewhere along the way
The running just lost it's fun
It happens to everyone
Somewhere along the way
Her trail became too obscure
But that was her signature

She would talk about letting go - I guess I didn't understand
Giving over to the currents that were there since time began
And on a long drive from El Paso to the Pacific Ocean cliffs

I finally felt connected to the continental drift
But somewhere along the way
I started to smile again
I don't remember when
Somewhere along the way
Things will turn out just fine
I know it's true this time

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Don't Send Me Away

You can send me a message if you don't want to talk
And make sure I don't interrupt
It might help you let it go
It's hard for you, I know
To act like you're not giving up

But don't send me away
There's nowhere else I'm going to
Don't send me away
I know that's what you want to do
Don't send me away
Don't send me away
Don't send me away

You can send me a picture of the room you're in
With your evening downtown view
The way the city spreads
When you're laying in your bed
You can send it so I know what I can stand to lose

But don't send me away
This is where I'm supposed to be
Don't send me away
You don't know what you do to me
Don't send me away
Don't send me away
Don't send me away

I'm getting on the freeway
Your jacket's in my car
Your ash is in my ashtray
And I'm there with you wherever you are

Don't send me away
There's nowhere else I'm going to
Don't send me away
I know that's what you want to do
Don't send me away
Don't send me away
Don't send me away

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All Your Favorite Bands

Late night drives and hot french fries and friends around the country
From Charlottesville to good old Santa Fe
When I think of you, you still got on that hat that says let's party
I hope that thing is never thrown away

I hope that life without a chaperone is what you thought it'd be
I hope your brother's El Camino runs forever
I hope the world sees the same person that you've always been to me
And may all your favorite bands stay together

Now I'm just waking up and I'm not thinking clearly so don't quote me
Of what I hope when I'm writing you this song
Ain't it funny how some people pop into your head so easily
I haven't seen you in there for so long

I hope that life without a chaperone is what you thought it'd be
I hope your brother's El Camino runs forever
I hope the world sees the same person that you always were to me
And may all your favorite bands stay together
[x2]

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I Can't Think About It Now

If you're just asking for a reason
Reasons are everywhere you look
The only difference between them
Are which you gave and which you took

Every smile with some dark anticipation
And dreams of back before it settled in their brows
I don't remember when you first began to notice
But I can't think about it now
I can't think about it now

The latest singer's latest single's got me listening
For the pact between the writer and the star
This is how mythology is written
This is where the lawless jungles are

She's just a singer living mostly after midnight
Pumping blood and money back into a town
And it all eventually betrays her
But I can't think about it now
I can't think about it now

So I guess it makes me wonder what I'm chasing
Like a dancer when she's breaking in her shoes
Like sending men up to the moon just for the landing
Displaying power we don't know how else to use

Sometimes it's more than I can handle
Sometimes it's all the joy I've found
And it'll all end up on one side or the other
But I can't think about it now

The decades that are hidden in the sidewalks
The narrative that naturally occurs
The everlasting wisdom of a sports bar
The poison that's mistaken for a cure

All these backward glances putting me in danger
Of forgetting how to turn myself around
It's just that time just keeps on slipping through my fingers
But I can't think about it now
I can't think about it now
I can't think about it now

I can't think about it now

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To Be Completely Honest

To be completely honest
The picture isn't clear to me yet
You insisted that you owed explanations
While I was patiently enjoying the debt

And when I think about it
I'm not even sure if I mind
You were the fading signal that would slip through the static
For a station that I never could find

So you don't need to say a word right now
All your reasons would just flicker in the darkness
Maybe that's why nobody knows how
To be completely honest

To be completely honest
It feels like you're still in the room
From the bracelets that you left on the nightstand
To the crows in the yard each afternoon

And I just can't get off it
I haven't been sleeping at all
Some questions weave themselves into the fabric
And some are what compel me to call

But then I never know where I should start
And a record of the symptoms is all I have accomplished
I never really thought it'd be so hard
To be completely honest

To be completely honest
I think I know how it ends
The universe continues expanding
While we discuss particulars of just being friends

And maybe that makes everything okay
Remembering the defect at the heart of every promise
Well maybe that's the only way

To be completely honest

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Waiting For Your Call

When your restlessness has lost it's way
And you're finished with your need to stray
It's not even something I am proud to say
I'll be waiting for your call

When you reach the other side of this life you live
And you ask yourself what good you did
When you wanna know just how much I can forgive
I'll be waiting for your call

When the charms and riches do not seem to last
When your lover asked for proof is not up to the task
I'm surprised you think you even need to ask
I'll be waiting for your call

I'll be here as I've always been
For you to think of on your way
The same way stepping into the evening
Is the time to praise the day

May I never give in and accept the fact
If I can't feel your presence let me feel the lack
'Cause even if you never will be coming back
I'll be waiting for your call
Even if you never will be coming back
I'll be waiting for your call

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Right On Time

Ohh ohh ohhh
Ohh ohh ohhh
Ohh ohh ohhh

If these walls could talk
I'd defer to the furniture
The piano, the table, the bed that we both sleep in
These constant, silent messengers

'Cause there's a story that's recorded in each fingerprint
That these disregarded artifacts collect
And if we boil down these documented memories
I have a feeling you should know what to expect

You were right on time
And out of nowhere
Right on time

Ohh ohh ohhh
And if they don't talk
I'll investigate a formula
Figures, equations, the details of our union
The edges of the nebula

At the end of such a long and worthy sacrifice
All that's left is to submit my full report
I'll have turned all of my hunches into certainties
And I will confirm what I already knew before

That you were right on time
And out of nowhere
Right on time

Ohh ohh ohhh

And as I stumble through the streets back from the alleyways
And everyone can see I'm bleeding through my shirt
And after describing all the shooter's details carefully,
And I start to realize just how badly I've been hurt

You were right on time
And out of nowhere
You were right on time

Right on time
And out of nowhere
Right on time

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Now That It's Too Late, Maria

The flicker of the candle looks like a one way conversation
Reacting to something nobody else could see
While I sit at the table and relive the whole situation
Until the valet who wants to go home comes in and gives me my keys
And tonight every single star is shining
The power lines all sizzle and buzz
And now that it's too late, Maria
I see it all for what it was

There's nothing sadder than a streetlight shining on a stretch of empty sidewalk
Or maybe the fog that I've been living in has lifted for the first time in weeks
Every day's been a step forward perfecting the art of the small talk
So I never have to say something I might really mean
But I remember all those final words that you told me
How I was too green to be blue
But now that it's too late, Maria
I can see how that was true

Now when I am in your city I come across the company you've been keeping
They all hit it off so well with some infamous ghost of my past
It's so hard to imagine what you could have possibly told them
Some wonder how I'm doing but most don't even ask
But now every single door stands open
I even signed some autographs
And now that it's too late, Maria
We can both look back and laugh

There's always more to say but I'm just skipping to the ending
When you move back to Texas and I meet a girl who wants to change her name
When we both start to forget the problems that were never worth having
And everybody goes on living watching nothing really change
There will always be a part of you that's with me
And you sure as hell had better feel the same
And now that it's too late, Maria

There is no one here to blame