Matchbox Twenty - North Album Lyrics

When the slow parade went past
When it felt so good you knew it couldn't last
And all too soon the end was gonna come without a warning
And you'd have to just go home

And the way it all went by
When somebody said "come on its getting late"
And you thought the world might end if you just looked the other way
And now you wish that you had stayed

And there's so much more that you could see if you just stick around
And all the street light secrets whispering for you to come back out

Oh no
There's so much more that you need to work out
Oh no
You don't want that parade to leave you now

And the days are all the same
And the town so big and no one knows your name
And the people fade away
And all stars are just a flicker
And you're left there all alone

When there's so much more that you could see if you'd just stick around
And all the street light secrets whispering for you to come back out

Oh no
There's so much more that you need to work out
Oh no
You don't want that parade to leave you now

When the music's over
But the song stays in your head

Oh no
There's so much more that you need to work out
Oh no
You don't want that parade to leave you now

Yeah
There's so much more that you need to work out
Yeah
You don't want that parade to leave you now

I kn-kn-know a girl, she gets what she wants all the time
'Cause she's fine
But for an angel, she's a hot hot mess
Make you so blind
But you don't mind

'Cause she's an uptown, get-around, anything-goes girl, girl
She's a hardcore, candy-store, gimme-some-more girl, girl

She'll make you take her to the club, but then she leaves with her friends
She likes to stay late at the party, 'cause the fun never ends
And all her clothes are on the floor and all your records are scratched
She's like a one-way ticket 'cause you can't come back!

[Chorus:]
Saying yeah... you want her, but she's so mean
(You'll never let her go. Why don't you let her go?)
Yeah... you want her, but she's so mean
(You'll never let her go. Why don't you let her go?)

You kn-kn-know that if you don't shut your mouth, she'll freak out
You better get your shit together, 'cause she's bringing you down now
Yeah boy you better, you better
'Cause she's an uptown, get-around, anything-goes girl, girl
She's a hardcore, candy-store, gimme-some-more girl, girl

She's got her wicked sense of humor, can't believe what she says
She drinks Bacardi in the morning 'til it goes to her head
And all you want is just to hold her, but she don't go for that
She has a hard time coming when she can't hit back

[Chorus]

Every now and then, she makes you just a little bit crazy
She'll turn a knife into your back and then she's calling you baby, crazy

She'll make you take her to the club, but then she leaves with her friends
She likes to stay late at the party, 'cause the fun never ends
And all her clothes are on the floor and all your records are scratched
She's like a one-way ticket 'cause you can't come back!

[Chorus x2]

Feeling my hands start shaking
Hearing your voice I'm overjoyed
I'm sorry but I have no choice, you're only getting better
Maybe you have your reasons
Maybe you're scared, you're feeling down
Are you crying when there's no one around?

Oh then maybe, maybe if you hold me baby
Let me come over I would tell you secrets nobody knows
I can not overstate it, I will be overjoyed

That smile on your face like a summer
The way that your hand keeps touching mine
Let me be the one to make it right

And maybe, maybe let me hold you baby
Let me come over I would tell you secrets nobody knows
I can not overstate it, I will be overjoyed

And if you want, we'll share this life
Anytime you need a friend, I'm gonna be by your side
When nobody understands you, well I do

So maybe maybe, let me hold you baby
Let me come over I would tell you secrets God only knows
I can not over state it, I will be overjoyed
Baby let me come over I would tell you secrets nobody knows
I can not over state it, I will be overjoyed
Yeah I will be overjoyed,
Oh I will be overjoyed!

You're wide awake, your heart beats
Sister Mary in her burning dress with god at her feet
They take and take, but no more
'Cause now you're gonna show em what the night is really for
And leave your heart out on the dance floor

Put your hands up, it's all right
Saying "oh ho oh oh", until the sunrise
And if you can't sleep, do it all night
Saying "oh ho oh oh", and don't you ever fade away

Your life is full, of hard days
You try to hold it down but it's more than you can take
Those flashing lights, they shine down
It's hard as hell to try to keep your head in this town
So we're gonna burn the place down

Put your hands up, it's all right
Saying "oh ho oh oh", until the sunrise
And if you can't sleep, do it all night
Saying "oh ho oh oh", and don't you ever fade away
No don't you ever fade away, yeah
Until the sun rise
Saying "oh ho oh oh"
Saying "oh ho oh oh"

Put your hands up, it's all right
Saying "oh ho oh oh", until the sunrise
And if you can't sleep, do it all night
Saying "oh ho oh oh", and don't you ever fade away
No don't you ever fade away, yeah
And don't you ever fade away (better put your hands up)

I don't know why sometimes we seems so hard
Sewn together with a broken heart
I try to see you but it's getting dark

Words keep flowing out, I wonder what they mean
You're like a little piece of kerosene
But girl you've always been a friend to me

And I've been too proud sometimes
Chasin' fault lines

Oh no, I'm gonna be there always
After the pain has gone away
The feelings are so strong
This can be our song
This can be our song

Oh no, I'll never make you cry again
I'm gonna set things right again
And I won't let 'em go wrong
This can be our song
This can be our song

I don't know if someone else could handle me
I don't know what I'm suppose to be
You're the only one who really sees
You get me

I feel something growing deep inside of me
What I say and what I mean
Always seems to disagree
So help me through this hard time
Change these fault lines

Oh no, I'm gonna be there always
After the pain has gone away
The feelings are so strong
This can be our song
This can be our song

Oh no, I'll never make you cry again
I'm gonna set things right again
And I won't let 'em go wrong
This can be our song
This can be our song

Oh oh, whoa oh

Oh no, I'm gonna be there always
After the pain has gone away
The feelings are so strong
This can be our song
This can be our song

Oh no, I'll never make you cry again
I'm gonna set things right again
And I won't let 'em go wrong
This can be our song
This can be our song

(Oh oh) This can be our song
This can be our song

(Oh oh) This can be our song
This can be our song

Oh no, oh no
This can be our song
This can be our song

Tonight
Looking back on all this life
It's funny how the time goes by
And how, sometimes
It slides away

Time
Sliding through the dead of night
Shaking 'till you start to cry
Your eyes won't dry
Till light of day

And sleep away
Don't let it go
Don't it let fade
Your dreams may cave
And falling apart
It's the only way
We go so low
When you don't know
I will, I will

And if you go
Take a little piece of me
Hang it by the place you sleep
And dream of me
Don't leave

Just sleep away
Don't let it go
Don't let it fade
Your dreams may cave
And falling apart
It's the only way
We go so low
When you don't know
I will

We go so low
When you don't know
I will, I will

Tonight
Looking back on all this life
It's funny how the time goes by
And how, sometimes
It's slides away

Come inside, the air I breathe
While the band still plays
It's the end, of the coldest week
Come down into the sea

'Cause everybody wants to get away sometimes
And everybody needs mistakes

When the sun breaks over the edge
Of an English Town
It pulls me awake, from a bad dream
I don't know why
But I know I'm not, ever going back

In the dark, we can lose our sleep
We can both be kind
'Cause I don't need, the pulling apart of sheets
Just to know, who you are

But everybody wants to get away from something
Everybody lose their way

When the sun breaks over the edge
Of an English Town
It pulls me awake, from a bad dream
I don't know why
But I know I'm not, ever going back

It's a non stop voice
That can lead you out
But cannot, change it

When the sun breaks over the edge
Of an English Town

When the sun breaks over the edge
Of an English Town

When the sun breaks over the edge
Of an English Town

So many time with you and I
Thought it was right, but I was wrong
It's true
But I wouldn't feel the way I do
Without a sense of something real
For you

It's all about a good thing
So I don't mind holding on

But how long
Are you gonna make me wait
And how long
Are you gonna hesitate
'Cause l love the way we carry it on
But baby how long

You know the way they always say
Don't make it never, it's better late
Well that's true
But tell me why, my cautious angel
Must you put it in my face
Like you do

And it's all about a good thing
So I don't mind holding on

But how long
Are you gonna make me wait
And how long
Are you gonna hesitate
'Cause l love the way we carry it on

But baby I don't ever wanna make it feel too rushed
Make it feel like love wouldn't be enough
But that's just another don't mean much
Like a high school crush, make you wanna run
Can't you see the way I need you crazy
And I want you in my arms every night, of my life

So tell me how long
Are you gonna make me wait
And how long
Are you gonna hesitate
'Cause l love the way we carry it on
But baby how long
How long
How long

How long
How long
How long
Tell me how long

Outside America
Everybody's just waking up
Drinking coffee from a paper cup
To the sound of the radio

And there's a broke town girl
In the parking lot
Shaking off her dress with everything she's got
Last night she started dancing and she couldn't stop
Daylight came and it broke her heart

She's been up all night
Dream so big
In a town where dreams don't fit

Come on now people it's all we got
We feel it in our hearts for sure
Like a song that's been playing for all our lives
We know it's right, we heard it on the radio

Outside in America
There's a boy and there's a girl he loves
But he never really gave enough
So she couldn't take no more

She said she couldn't stay oh-oh
She had to walk away
'Cause she's never gonna get it
Never gonna get it
And she's never gonna live that way
He says "Oh my God, I feel like hell"

Come on now people it's all we got
We feel it in our hearts for sure
Like a song that's been playing for all our lives
We know it's right, we heard it on the radio

And its all these moments that
Start all the fires that
Make all these moments burn bright
So how can all this be right

Come on now people it's all we got
I feel it in my heart for sure
Like a song that's been playing for all our lives
We know it's right
We heard it on the radio

Oh-oh

We know it's right
'Cause we heard it on the radio
We know it's right
We heard it on the radio

All I see
Lying there in front of me
Maybe we were here before
I just didn't wanna believe

But in all that time we never talked
You wrote it down so I couldn't ignore it

This is the way you want it to be
This is the way you want it to be
Oh, this is the way you want it to be
Guess you don't want me

We had love
Always thought it would be enough
Oh, but then it goes away
But I don't really wanna give up

It feels like hell to let you walk
Bet it all down but I couldn't afford it

This is the way you want it to be
This is the way you want it to be
Oh, this is the way you want it to be
Guess you don't want me

And I never really said it before
But I really should have given you so much more

But this is the way you want it to be
This is the way you want it to be
Oh, this is the way you want it to be
Guess you don't want me
Guess you don't want me
No

Guess you don't want me
Yeah, you don't want
Guess you don't want
Me

I'm walking behind you
Calling the way you, give away all your secrets
You're taking the high road
Picking your battles, just like the day I found you

I just wanna make you go away
But you taste like sugar, yeah you taste like sugar
I just wanna make you go away
But you taste like sugar, yeah you taste like sugar

Whoa, oh oh oh, whoa whoa
Whoa, oh oh oh, whoa whoa

I'm starting to want you, more than I want to
This ain't my finest hour
There's something about you, that I could get into
Something that's deep inside you

I just wanna make you go away, yeah
But you taste like sugar, yeah you taste like sugar
I just wanna make you go away
But you taste like sugar, girl you taste like sugar

Whoa, oh oh oh, whoa whoa
Whoa, oh oh oh, whoa whoa

If, I, turn, away, away
I'll, come back, some day.
Oh

I just wanna make you go away
But you taste like sugar, yeah you taste like sugar
I just wanna make you go away
But you taste like sugar, girl you taste like sugar

Whoa, oh oh oh, whoa whoa
Whoa, oh oh oh, whoa whoa

I
I could be anything
But for the faults that I've acquired on my way
We
We were the end of it
But now we see the sun shining in our face
We see the sun shining in our face

So come on, come on we can be saved
The lives we live, the wars we wage
When everyone just tells us how to feel
We're sleeping at the wheel

And I
I would give anything
But for the grace of God I'm here and still aware
We know the end is overrated
We've become the walls we raise
We don't believe enough but we still cared
Standing on the edge without a prayer

So come on, come on it's all we got
Our hands are full, our lives are not
The loose affiliation with the real
We're sleeping at the wheel

All of the time we've lost
All of the love we gave
And now these hands are tied
I can't help thinking

That I was in a dazes I was losing my place
I was screaming out at everything
Waiting for the walls to come down
Before my moments starts to fade
But everything that's perfect falls away

So come on, come on we can be saved
The lives we live, the wars we wage
When everyone just tells us how to feel
We're sleeping at the wheel
We're sleeping at the wheel
Just sleeping at the wheel