O.A.R. - The Rockville LP Album Lyrics

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Two Hands Up

Way back when we used to plan and pretend
That life we were living was a ten 'til then
We already had love, we already had faith
But it turns out we need a little bit of space

So between the two of us the world was divided
You went for schooling and I went for the highway
But silent nights and missing pieces
Weighed heavier than ever on my heart

I got my two hands up, I surrender
Come and lock me up here forever
Cause I need your love, just remember
You make me feel like I can surrender

Two hands up at your service
The beat of my heart is making me nervous
Give you all of my love now and forever
You make me feel like I can surrender

I got that white flag waving
Baby come save me
I'm ready for love in my heart

I mean I'm here for the taking
I won't be escaping
There's no need to sound the alarm

I got my two hands up, I surrender
Come and lock me up here forever
Cause I need your love, just remember
You make me feel like I can surrender

Two hands up at your service
The beat of my heart is making me nervous
Give you all of my love now and forever
You make me feel like I can surrender

I'm never gonna let you down
I'm always gonna stay around
You have my heart

I'm never gonna let you down
I'm always gonna stay around
You have my heart

I got my two hands up, I surrender
Come and lock me up here forever
Cause I need your love, just remember
You make me feel like I can surrender

Two hands up at your service
The beat of my heart is making me nervous
Give you all of my love now and forever
You make me feel like I can surrender

I got my two hands up
I got my two hands up
You make me feel like
You make me feel like
I can surrender

I'm pleading
I'm waiting
I'm leaving
Yeah, I surrender

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We'll Pick Up Where We Left Off

Somewhere in the party lies
We're hiding all our tears tonight
It's more than us just hanging out
We're making every second count

Nobody's good at letting go
And I don't mean to let it show
I was fine until I saw
Your suitcase by the door

Hey, don't say goodbye, just say goodnight
And we'll pick up where we left off
We'll say hello and welcome home
And we'll pick up where we left off

Light me up and fill my glass
Dancing while the cameras flash
Like tomorrow's just another day
And you never have to go away

In between those red balloons
Broken stars and yellow moon
Someone turned that music loud
Sing along and let it out

Hey, don't say goodbye, just say goodnight
And we'll pick up where we left off
We'll say hello and welcome home
And we'll pick up where we left off

Telling stories, making toasts
You know I'm gonna miss you most
Time will bring you back to me
Like we never skipped, skipped a beat

Singing, hey, don't say goodbye, just say goodnight
And we'll pick up where we left off
We'll say hello and welcome home
And we'll pick up where we left off

Hey, don't say goodbye, just say goodnight
And we'll pick up where we left off
We'll say hello and welcome home
And we'll pick up where we left off

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Peace

I don't wanna fight no more
Only wanna get to shore
Baby, don't slam the door tonight
We ran another off the tracks
That's time we can't get back
But, we can save tomorrow if we try

Oh, 'til we make this right
Oh, I won't say, "Good night."

I just wanna make you laugh
I just wanna see that smile
Babe, we're only here, oh, for a little while
I just wanna hold you till we fall asleep
I want love, I want us, I want you, I want me, I want peace

Everybody needs a place
Somewhere that's warm and safe
A shelter from this crazy world we're in,
But tonight I let the rain inside
And took away your place to hide
I'm sorry that I made you cry again

Oh, we can make this right,
Oh, kiss me good night

I just wanna make you laugh
I just wanna see that smile
Babe, we're only here, oh, for a little while
I just wanna hold you till we fall asleep
I want love, I want us, I want you, I want me, I want peace

Yeah, I want peace

Oh, we don't have to fight
Oh, just kiss me all night

'Cause I want peace, yeah

I just wanna make you laugh
I just wanna see that smile
Babe, we're only here, oh, for a little while
I just wanna hold you till we fall asleep
I want love, I want us, I want you, I want me, I want peace

I just wanna make you laugh
I just wanna see that smile
Babe, we're only here, oh, for a little while
I just wanna hold you till you fall asleep
I want love, I want us, I want you, I want me, I want peace,
I want love, I want us, I want you, I want me, I want peace

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The Element

Yeah, I'm in the element
Who's to say it'll get much better
Yeah, when you've got everything
Who's to say it'll last forever

I'm on the beach, sun in my hands
Rays on the waves dancings like diamonds
Looking for peace here in the sand
Sounds of the world suddenly silent

Streelights are on again
Don't think I wanna come back in
I need to stay right where I stand
And wait for the sky to bend

Yeah, I'm in the element
Who's to say it'll get much better
Yeah, when you've got everything
Who's to say it'll last forever

I need to live this
Not be a witness
Yeah, I'm in the element
Oh, I'm in the element

I'm on the sceene sailing away
Chasing the light on the horizon
I can't believe everyone stayed
Now I'm alone far from the island

This time I won't forget
Lighthouse can't call me in
I'd rather stay out on the waves
And wait for the swell to end

And it's in my hands again

Yeah, I'm in the element
Who's to say it'll get much better
Yeah, when you've got everything
Who's to say it'll last forever

I need to live this
Not be a witness
Yeah, I'm in the element
Oh, I'm in the element

I'm unaware, don't know when I'll be here again
I'm a wanderer, it's my only road
Won't go home 'til I own what I came here for
I came here for

Yeah, make me feel like my life ain't over
Yeah, make me feel like I'm getting closer

Yeah, I'm in the element
Who's to say it'll get much better
Yeah, When you've got everything
Who's to say it'll last forever

I need to live this
Not be a witness
Yeah, I'm in the element
Oh, I'm in the element

I need to live this
Not be a witness
Yeah, I'm in the element
Oh, I'm in the element

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Favorite Song

Here's my attempt to desribe
How you make me feel so alive
I'll break it down one time
So listen line by line

Listen line by line
Listen line by line

You're my Stairway to Heaven, you're Freddy Mercury
You've got a License to Ill, and girl it worked for me
You're Johnny Cash singing to a penitentiary
You're Graceland, The Band, and Petty falling free

You're Stir it Up, yeah you're Jamming, you're my Redemption Song
I'm Knocking on Heaven's Door and you're Forever Young
I'm just a kid in the stand waiting for the show
I clap my hands

Cause you're my favorite song
I just wanna sing along
And it goes like this

Well It's a Beautiful Day and we were Born to Run
I might have 99 Problems but you were never one
I'm hearing Yellow this Mellow Mood is all around
You're London Calling, The clash, and I Won't Back Down

I Imagine the Blackbird is flying high
So Let it Be, i can feel it coming In the Air Tonight
I'm just a kid with my headphones up to ten
Play it again

You're my favorite song
I just wanna sing along
You're my favorite song
I just wanna sing along
Yeah, it goes like this

You're my Fire and Rain, you're Rolling in the Deep
You're state of mind's in the city that really never sleeps
A bad mama, no drama, you're Mary J to me
You're my Mariah with notes higher than anything

But you were hear, the Tears in Heaven don't know why
I didn't come any sooner you're Wonderful Tonight
So I'll just stand 'til the band plays an encore
Give me some more

You're my favorite song
I just wanna sing along
You're my favorite song
I just wanna sing along
You're my favorite song
My favorite song
You're my favorite song

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So Good So Far

Wake up, dreaming
Crooked days left behind
These closed eyes

The places that we've been
Footsteps and handprints
The more we've yet to see the more I find

It's all we have
So good so far

It's not over 'til we're done
And we've only just begun
I'm in the middle of the longest fight
I've ever had in all my life
And it ain't over 'til we've won

Well I was thoughtless and careless
The day I lost my innocence
Chasing you into the sun

It's okay when I'm afraid
It's okay when I'm a fool
Who only plays the cards he's got

It's all we have
So good so far

It's not over 'til we're done
And we've only just begun
I'm in the middle of the longest fight
I've ever had in all my life
And it ain't over 'til we've won

So here's to tomorrow
The next one that follows
All and anything that comes

We'll let the summer kiss the day
Watch the rains come in
And wash away the crazy thing we've done

It's all we have
So good so far
All we have
So good so far

It's so good so far
I'm in the middle of the longest fight
I've ever had in all my life
And it ain't over 'til we've won

It's not over 'til we're done
And we've only just begun
I'm in the middle of the longest fight
I've ever had in all my life
And it ain't over 'til I've won

This ain't over 'til we're done
And we've only just begun
I'm in the middle of the longest fight
I've ever had in all my life
And it ain't over 'til we've won

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The Architect

Young man come to me
And asked me for a smoke
Straight off of Bourbon Street
Alley cat with a dirty coat

He said it's hard out here just being me
And the people ain't the way that I want them to be
When I get the chance to build this world I see
Make me believe, this life's for me, and I will be free

That night the architect can't sleep
He laying out his plan
For the building of a new foundation
Put together by a million hands

Beyond the wires just meant to fly
Getting out there beyond the fences, into the sky
You know I'll find a place for my design
A new space for me and my piece of mind, yeah

I'm gonna build a home by the ocean
Underneath the sky
Gonna leave the door wide open
So I can see everything

Gonna build a home by the ocean
Burried in the sand
Gonna leave the door wide open
So I can sing

I'm gonna build a home by the ocean
Underneath the sky
Gonna leave the door wide open
So I can see everything

Gonna build a home by the ocean
Burried in the sand
I'm gonna leave the door wide open
So I can sing

Woah Woah Woah

So I can see everything

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Place To Hide

I thought the rains would never come here
To our valley in the sun
Looking back on days of ease, oh, we would run
So young

And I didn't see this coming
'Til it was right around the bend again

You and me could just be crazy
Time ain't on our side and I need you badly
Of all the others, you had to have me
Now we're running for our lives and I need you badly

She don't like this feeling, it never let's her go
She wants to be summer, too cold under the snow
He's convinced there's no reason to making her sick
He says treat me like a devil, heal that little girl

Who treats me like angel fell upon the world
But she don't like the seasons, they out of her control
Oh no where can we go

You and me could just be crazy
Time ain't on our side and I need you badly
Of all the others, you had to have me
Now we're running for our lives and I need you badly

Yeah, I need you badly

To hell with tomorrow, it's out of my hands
I'll hold you up now when you too damn tired to stand
I don't wanna be like you, you don't wanna be like me
We just wanna run together through darkness we can breathe

You and me could just be crazy
Time ain't on our side and I need you badly
Of all the others, you had to have me
Now we're running for our lives, I need you she said

The rain is picking on me
The thing is, it always seemed to be
I went around the world but it's you I need
Now we're running for our lives and I need you badly

You and me could just be crazy
Time ain't on our side and I need you badly
Of all the others, you had to have me
Running for our lives, but I need you she said

The rain is picking on me
The thing is, it always seemed to be
I went around the world but it's you I need
One by one, yeah, this ain't over till we done

Well I got an angel on my shoulder
The devil made me colder
The iron made me bolder
And all I want is life now

All I felt was pain here
All I got is love now
All you need is me
And all I need is you

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Caroline The Wrecking Ball

There something about the way we fall apart
Like everything that matters, didn't matter from the start
Everyone around us played a part
Wrecking ball came crashing through the window
Structures that we carry in our heart

And all I ever asked of you
Is just to be the woman that you wanted to
It's all I ever asked

Just outside the city on a Sunday last July
The girl's name was Brandy but we called her Caroline
No one even knew her history
Said she came from somewhere in the southland
Feels like she was coming straight for me

I was playing nine ball with two guys I knew from work
This junkie local starts acting like a jerk
Saw him put his hand up Brandy's skirt
And I don't know what happened next
In retrospect I lost my head and think I went berserk

By the time they pulled me off him I was almost coming to
Bleeding at the knuckles, she says nice to meet you
And the cops will probably be here in a flash
We hailed a cab we both got in
And watched that taxi driver slam his foot down on the gas

Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
But I ain't nobody's fool

Next few months we spent a lot of time up in the room
Laughed a lot, drank a lot, yeah we tried to shoot the moon
And in the morning time she'd always disappear
I agreed, I'd never ask her questions
With the chance of an answer I don't wanna hear

One morning, she crying on the stoop outside my place
She tryin' to hide it, there's sadness on her face
Oh is there anything I can do?
She said perhaps if you would drop this package off
I would hate to inconvenience you

Well they say a suckers born, every sixty seconds time
I knew I shouldn't do it, but I put it from my mind
And, oh if you knew that gal of mine
You'd understand, I got no hand in making that decision
Reason got no rhyme

Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
But I ain't nobody's fool
Nobody's fool no more

I knocked at the address that she gave waited for a few
Looked inside the window and I saw a kid or two
Next thing I knew a burner in my face
There's just some shit you never can erase

Both my hands were shaking as the sun began to rise
I got back to my house, she was gone I'm not surprised
You can never ground a bird that needs to fly
Oh I got into that urge to move
Thanks to you, my wrecking ball Caroline

Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with you
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with you
But I ain't nobody's fool
Nobody's fool no more
No more

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I Will Find You

In the cut of the night
Driving heavy on River Road
Ain't looking to fight
I just wanna' move things along
I don't want anyone's life
Just getting to know my own
Drive, drive, drive

Oh, midnight came
You're at the window, I'm in a frame
And the truth is all that remains
I will find you
I will find you
I will find you
I will find you

Foot on the floor
Heading straight for the county line
The city is no good
In the shadow you leave behind
Mama said follow the stars
But I ran out of country road
Drive, drive, yeah, I drive

But the truth will split you in two
Got to find you
I will find you
I will find you
I will find you
I will find you
I will find you
I have got to
I will find you

Nothing will break us apart
Neither the miles or the scars
Oh I know
In my head
In my soul
There's only two
There's me and you
I will find you
I will find you
I've got to
I will find you

Often summer rains just can't wait to fall
From underneath a tired atmosphere
Me, I'm in a plane watching empty cars
Fall into the ocean, disappear
But I can't tell if this is real
Are those mountains made of steel
Am I on my way to everything that I want, or am I here
Inside the town where I was raised
We turned and walked away
Better to be lost than without you

We were all we're meant to be
Shoreline at our feet
Waiting on a wave to run into
And out beyond the reef
The current pulled us deep
But I fought for you

The sun that turned to night
You disappeared and I'm
Left waiting on a clue
The air I'm cutting through
I can find you
I will find you
I have got to
I will find you
Find you

I got this woman, yeah she needs me bad
But she don't know
I crossed the world but it crossed me back
On I roll to a time
Wondered like a fool
Then one night
I fell in love with you

I got this woman, yeah she's so damn bad
But she don't know
I'd do anything to get her back
On I roll to a time
Wondered like a fool
Then one night
The sounds you heard were true

Oh, they are true
I found you
I found you, you, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey, just keep believin'
Hey, just keep believin'
Hey, just keep believin'
I'll find you

Hey, just keep believin'
Hey, just keep believin'
Hey, just keep believin'
I'll find you

Hey, just keep believin'
Hey, just keep believin'
Hey, just keep believin'
I'll Find you

Hey, just keep believin'
Hey, just keep believin'
Hey, just keep believin'
I'll Find you

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Hey, Just keep believin'
Hey, Just keep believin'

Hey, Just keep believin'
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Hey, Just keep believin'

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