Jack Johnson - Meet the Moonlight Album Lyrics

But why is it so hard to find an open mind?
I'm finding it so hard to keep an open mind
But open up the windows, there's a storm inside
Let the wind blow in, the rain wash away
The shiny little things trying to find their way into my

Some nights I can fall for hope, but some I can't sleep
And sometimes I can forget that it's falling to pieces

Why we find it so easy to believe
In everything we're sold, but we're never going to see
When everything around us is begging just to be
Loved a little more, we can pray to anything
You want, you need
Anything you want

An open mind stuck between hope and doubt
Don't try to make sense of it, it don't work out
Sharpen all our senses 'til we can't see the light
Jury-rig ambitions 'til they come back at nighttime
Knocking, let me in, let me go

Why we find it so easy to believe
In everything we're sold, but we're never going to see
When everything around us is begging just to be
Loved a little more, we can pray to anything
We want, we need
Anything we want

Even when it's too much
Even when it's too much
Even when it's too much
Even when it's too much

Oh, this station is breaking my heart and my hard head
Wanted you to change, but I changed my mind instead
I wanted proof, you wanted something you could hold onto
But in the end, we mistook all the dissonance as the truth

Well, some will sleep in the back seat, some will look on down the road
Some are listening to 3 AM radio, screaming about

Broken hearts and white noise, busted souls, bloody noses
Get back up and stand in line, you owe it to the system
You trust sometimes, you walk away, you rebel and then you miss 'em
But you'll come home, you always do, it only hurts if you're paying attention

We heard it once, and maybe twice, under someone's breath as they walked by
But you don't buy that big old bag of lies, you've been adding up negative signs
"It's fine, it's fine", you've been saying for miles and miles
You've been raising all hell in such a laid-back style

I'll get you home, I always do, I'll hold my breath if I have to
Windows down, it's dark out there, watch the wind blowing through your hair
Sleep now, dream now, anything you need now
A little more time and then the day begins to break again

Some will sleep in the back seat, some will look on down the road
Some are listening to 3 AM radio, singing about

Wrong turns and could-have-beens, and everybody else's sins
And this one goes out to the one I love, just let me fall again
And again and again, and where do I begin?
Is there anybody out there even listening?

Yeah, calm down
I'm right here with you, let's calm down
And when this world it won't calm down
Come over here and let's calm down

Sirens sing from far away
Charm the wind and wonder why you've
Been so lost, been so long
Been too many things gone wrong and
How low until the bottom?
Echo, echo, echo, echo, then you let go
How low? Nobody knows
But who can you trust if you just can't

Calm down
I'm right here with you, just calm down
And when this world it won't calm down
Come over here and let's calm down

Define the words, but words will change
Gone tomorrow, here today
No lost time if there's no time
Only echo's to remind us

How low? (How low? Just been so so) These washed out roads
Echo, echo, echo, echo, then you let go (where these tired feet fall)
How low? (How low? People come and go) nobody knows (nobody knows)
Who can you trust if you just can't (won't you come to me and)

Calm me down
I'm right here with you, let's calm down
And when this world it won't calm down
Come over here and let's calm down
We got to, got to calm down

Ooh
And then I might calm down
Ooh, ooh
And then I might calm down

How can you be so certain that you're the one flirting with fire?
If each choir needs preaching and everyone's reaching
Into their pockets to see what they got
If not a lot has changed but if everything's changing
Blame to see you sin but no one sees face-to-face, or eye-to-eye
This is not how it has to end

Who wants to be one step ahead?
First to the punchline
Just one step ahead
First to the punchline

When it feels like it's all closing in (mmm)
All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead (mmm)
Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh
'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we say
So never mind all the noise going through your head

How can I be so certain that my first impressions are mine?
If each morning I wake up with circles around me that say
"I got mine, I give in, I give up, it's too much"
"Come on, let's give 'em hell", "No, "Why not love?" you say
"Be too hard and that's not enough in this house of cards"

Who wants to be one step ahead?
First to the punchline
Just one step ahead
First to the punchline

When it feels like it's all closing in (mmm)
All the lines we won't cross, we'll bend instead (mmm)
Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh
'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we say
And every line we cross, we say the same things that we say
Every time we try, we play the same old games, it's all been said
Now, never mind all the noise going through your head

Well, you can meet the moonlight
Any night you really wanna
It's waiting in your own backyard
You can make the flame
Meet the kindling, make the fire
Don't let anybody say it's too hard

It's funny how blind dreams can be
It seems like they look off too far
But it's good to be right here
It's good not to miss too many chances to follow love

You can meet the moonlight
Any night you really wanna
It's waiting in your own backyard
You can make the flame
Meet the kindling, make the fire
Well, don't let anybody say it's too hard

It's funny how blind all these dreams can be
It seems like they look off too far
And it's good to be right here
It's good not to miss too many chances to follow love

Come on, wake up
How late were you up?
Late enough to see the sun
I know that we're turnin'
But it feels like it's risin'
It doesn't really matter which one
To know that I feel things
Or feel like I know things
Or sing like no tomorrow comes
But it comes like a thief in the night
Look for what's left in the light
If you steal it, you're gonna have to deal
With the light when it's gone

Don't look now, but somehow we got shook up
Good luck, baby, we're only animals in love

With all that's around us
And all that's within us
All the numbers add up to one
But I can't find the one thing
Even though the one thing
Is choppin' down the tree that I'm on
I think I need reflection
I think I'm gettin' colder
I don't want to think anymore
But it comes again no matter if I sing or think about it
In the end, it begins again
All the way down

Well, don't look now, but somehow we got shook up
Good luck, baby, we're only animals in love
Don't look now, but somehow we got shook up
Good luck, baby, we're only animals in love
In love

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh

Selfies in the shore break
Fake news with your cornflakes
Pick a number, take what you want
I want somethin' out of nothin'
I find it in the nowhere
I just want to narrow it down
I know that I feel things
I feel like I know things
But I feel like I can't find the one
But who can find the real thing
If every time the real thing
Is runnin' away, sayin' "Hey, now
We got your God"

Don't look now, but somehow we got shook up
Good luck, baby, we're only animals in love
Don't look now, but somehow we got shook up
And good luck, baby, we're only animals in love
In love

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

I want my mind back
This is a costume party
Everyone pointed their fingers
Everyone laughed already
But I still got the mask on
And all the makeup runs down your face
And you still got those shoes on
Burning circles all around the room
You don't know me, I don't know you
You don't know me, I don't know you

Oh my, my, my, my, my, my
Next time around I'll find my way and then my place
My footing on this climb
Oh my, my, my, my, my, my
Next time around I'll find my keys and then I'll be
On my way, I'll be just fine

I want my mind back
Sellers remorse already
It's such a fine line
Between the end and the beginning is long gone
Sending home letters hoping
To be back real soon
Wishing that you were here with me
Or maybe I was there with you, whatever

Oh my, my, my, my, my, my
Next time around I'll find my way and then my place
My footing on this climb
Oh my, my, my, my, my, my
Next time around I'll find my keys and then I'll be
On my way, I'll be just fine

I took it off, I hold it in my hand, why do I not let go?
And I keep one foot in the circle, damned if I do, damned if I don't
Oh no

Ooh

Where did my head go?
I know nothing about it
I speak no evil
Only whisper and shout it
But I doubt you hear me
You don't know me, I don't know you
You don't know me, I don't know you
You don't know me, I don't know you

Is there really someone out there cooking all of this up, he needs it hot
He's not trying to find me in a microscope
But I'm not trying to cope with the idea
He says, "Nope", when his friends ask him
If he thinks I'm really looking up from way down here

Is there really someone down there trying to hold on to a world?
He'll never see me writing notes, or knocking planets over with my pen
In this moment I stay still, I feel I should try to disturb nothing

But I tend to digress from time to time

Back here in the headlights
I compare and I contrast
It's fair to say sometimes I make things last longer than they want to last
Fall when I was younger
Or next spring when I'll be singing songs about now
Wondering just how I got from there to here
Or the other way around
Am I just a proper noun?

I tend to digress from time to time
Yeah, I tend to digress from time to time
Is it time to start over again?
Oh time, is it time to start over again?

But I want meaning I want reason
It's not enough to have a pleasing morning
Listening to birds sing songs about getting their money's worth
Or the earth beneath the cement
Beneath the chair I'm sitting in
Under the roof over my head
Under a sky that's turning red
Under the stars, begin to shine
As I become unstuck in time
Waking up in strange places
Chasing good conversations with my friends
Where'd my mind go? With my friends
What do I know?
I tend to digress from time to time

Well, the anchor has been tested
I guess we'll stay put for awhile
I put the fire where it wanted
Watched the water become dry
Once more, I was lost in thoughts that were not mine
When I looked up, they were lost upon the tide

And now I'm just an island in these systems of silence
And as I drift around, I'm still bound to find the frowns
On the faces of my friends
Until the metronome ends

These windblown eyes
Finding it hard to see
There's no straight lines
Out on this open sea
No way back home
Only places to be
It's a wondrous world
But it's got the best of me
Got the best of
Ooh, ooh
Got the best of
Ooh, ooh

As if it was a given, I let the rhythm ease my mind
I pulled the cold out of the dark and I poured the darkness on the light
But I wanted more
Don't we all dissolve into the night
Only to wake up
In the morning untied?

And all the blessed pieces
Well, they have been dust now for some time
And the rest, it carries on
All imperfect and just fine
Another season gone
Do I belong to them, or they to me?
Do the reflections
Belong to the stars or to the sea?
How do I let go
Of yesterday and yet to be?

These windblown eyes
Find it so hard to see
There's no straight lines
Out on this open sea
No way back home
Only places to be
It's a wondrous world
But it's got the best of me
Got the best of
Ooh, ooh
It's got the best of
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

Well, the anchor has been lifted
I won't be back here for a while
I put his ashes where he wanted
And I kept some by my side

Is it any wonder?
Or can I believe in
Another morning
That I can't keep
I sing all alone now
The birds are still sleeping
A passing storm off in the distance
Looks so peaceful

Morning comes and goes
I can't hold on to now
It's so hard to let go
Maybe I don't know how
My shadow gets so long
And I get lost somehow
If you can hear me now

And is it any wonder?
And is it really so hard to believe
That the light might come and go
And the love might never leave
One by one now
I hear the birds waking
Another morning song that I can't take with me

Morning comes and goes
I can't hold on to now
It's so hard to let go
Baby, I don't know how
My shadow gets so long
And I get lost somehow
It's so hard to let go
If you can hear me now

Shadows come and go
We can't hold on to now
It's so hard to let go
Baby, I don't know how
Light will come and go
We get so lost somehow
You can always come back home
If you can hear me now