Yellowcard - Lift A Sail Album Lyrics

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Convocation

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Transmission Home

I'm here reaching out again,
Lead into the wind on my knees
My fear is a memory
It's a reverie and I'm free

I wanna take this crown from my head,
I wanna build something with my hands

I will send a transmission home
To say that I've been out here too long alone
And I wanna come down now
I will send a transmission home
To say I should have called in so long ago
And I wanna come down

Life comes at the speed of light
But there's a place in time for me
When love runs into every day,
Over every place that I've been

I wanna wipe these stars from my eyes,
I wanna search and see what I find

I will send a transmission home
To say that I've been out here too long alone
And I wanna come down now
I will send a transmission home
To say I should have called in so long ago
And I wanna come down

I will send a transmission home
To say that I've been out here too long alone
And I wanna come down now
I will send a transmission home
To say I should have called in so long ago
And I wanna come down
Now

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Crash The Gates

Something here, it never looks right
We've been fighting on the front lines for so long
I go digging in the graveyard
To find the remnants of your heart but it's gone

And I won't wait for my revenge
I will seek to see the end
And I won't sing a battle cry
I will let the sleepless lie

Sing, "Oh oh oh oh, whoa oh oh"
Crash the gates, light a fire, and watch it burn
Sing, "Oh oh oh oh, whoa oh oh"
Storm the walls, light a fire, and watch it burn
Sing, "Oh oh oh"

Now it's crying all around us
Smoke rising from the ground up and I stare
You go digging in the graveyard
But the remnants of my heart are nowhere

And I won't crave to feel contempt
I will feed from these forget
And I won't claim a victory
I will revel silently

Sing, "Oh oh oh oh, whoa oh oh"
Crash the gates, light a fire, and watch it burn
Sing, "Oh oh oh oh, whoa oh oh"
Storm the walls, light a fire, and watch it burn

Sing, "Oh oh oh oh"

Sing, "Oh oh oh oh, whoa oh oh"
Crash the gates, light a fire, and watch it burn
Sing, "Oh oh oh oh, whoa oh oh"
Storm the walls, light a fire, and watch it burn

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Make Me So

Turn around before you go
The look in your eyes is letting me know
I hear you breathing out
My house of cards is coming down
I thought we were alive
Thought it was like when the planets align
You dreamt of some better place
Some better love with some better name

Why, why do you make me so?
Why, why do you let me go?

Close calls, hang by a thread
I never could forget what you said
Too late, don't wanna be saved
These are the choices that we've gotta make
Truth is the world's gonna spin
With or without you, again and again
If I ever escape, I'm gonna love and give it a name

Why, why do you make me so?
Why, why do you let me go?
Why do I lose my head? You make me so
Why do I lose myself? You let me go

You dreamt of some better place
Some better love, or some better name
If I ever escape, I'm gonna love and give it a name

Why, why do you make me so?
Why, why do you let me go?
Why do I lose my head? You make me so
Why do I lose myself? You let me go

Why do you make me so?
Why do you make me so?
Why do you let me go?
Why do you let me go?

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One Bedroom

Stay the night
Touch the sky with me
We can live like we have forever
Spend your days
Watch the waves with me
We can love like we are forever

You're the light from the Moon tonight
You're the one for the rest of time

What good could I do
In a life without you?
What more could I lose
Than what I found in you?
In you...
In you...

When you're gone
You belong with me
'cause you know that we are forever
Take your time
To realize, you'll see
We will always be here forever

You're the light from the Moon tonight
You're the history I will write
You're the last stop and I arrive
You're the one for the rest of time

What good could I do
In a life without you?
What more could I lose
Than what I found in you?
What words could I use
To tell all this to you?
What verse could I choose
To give myself to you?
To you...
To you...

I wanna love with you
And live
Yeah
Live like here forever
[3x]

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Fragile And Dear

We spent years on a tear to get away
You and I, we revived yesterdays
But, the movements in between our hearts' desires
Oh, they changed so suddenly and we expired

[Chorus:]
You can't know
The way it feels
To lose something so
Fragile and dear
To you
Hold you up against the light
Speak the truth and say goodbye to you
Goodbye to you

I'm trying so hard
To get free
But, you still
Come back and haunt me

And the movements that divide our hearts' desires
All the reasons that I knew we would expire

[Chorus x3]

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Illuminate

It's hard to think where we began
We were born and learned to stand
Recollections scattered out inside my head
We came across a broken road
With broken hearts that overflowed
Taking turns and never knowing where they lead

Do you picture me, what do you see?
Maybe a future full of unwritten things
We hope to write from what's been done
Look for a future no one else has sung

Records on, the speakers blown
Fill the air with what we know
Climb a ladder up and hang a hopeful sign
Never lonely, never lost
Never scared to jump across
Revolutions come and go but we survive

Do you picture me, what do you see?
Maybe a future full of unwritten things
We hope to write from what's been done
Look for a future no one else has sung

Our darkest days are done (illuminate)
Rise like a brighter sun (illuminate)
Our darkest days are done (illuminate)
Rise like a brighter sun(illuminate)

As we get warm, ice will get thin
We'll become ghosts, together again
As we ascend, air will get thin
We'll become ghosts, together again

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Madrid

Take me home
Take me home
I am lost in the world
All I know
All I know
Is that I miss you more

It was cold on the street
And my heart skipped a beat
When you said you'd be mine
Now I fear I might freeze
So, I'm asking you please
Would you let me inside

Oh, you never change
So, that's why I stay
Oh, I'll never go
So, you won't be alone

Which way now
Which way now
Is this road gonna end?
Tell me how
Tell me how
I am wandering again

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The Deepest Well

I see the barricades ahead
Roll my sleeves up, lift my head
I hear you well, what can't be done
You are many, I am one
And what becomes, it's hard to tell
Like looking down the deepest well
But I will take a torch with me
And light the way for you to see

[Pre-Chorus - Matty Mullins:]
Do you understand, what it's for?
This dirt is on my hands, blood on yours

[Chorus:]
I was crawling up the walls for so long
You were pulling me down, pulling me
I was trying not to fall for so long
Now I'm gonna get out, Gonna get out

Compliments like falling rocks
Are ticking bombs with faulty clocks
And I will not be fooled again
I took my means and found my end
Took all the days from then to now
The steps I climbed to show you how
Small the world would seem to be
When you forget what you believed

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus x2]

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Lift A Sail

If a cold wind starts to rise,
I am ready now, I am ready now
With the last sail lifted high,
I am ready now, I am ready now

All the wreckage I left behind,
I burned the earth beneath my weary-weakened feet.
Feel my heart stop and lift my eyes,
I can't choose when to love or who I am part of

If a cold wind starts to rise,
I am ready now, I am ready now
With the last sail lifted high,
I am ready now, I am ready now

I was so wrong and unaware,
I locked myself away, I thought that I'd be safe,
Then I realized I'd gone nowhere
Life is just too sweet to lie in this defeat

If a cold wind starts to rise,
I am ready now, I am ready now
With the last sail lifted high,
I am ready now, I am ready now

If a storm blows in on me,
I am ready now, I am ready now
When the waves come from underneath,
I am ready now, I am ready...

If a cold wind starts to rise,
I am ready now, I am ready now
With the last sail lifted high,
I am ready now, I am ready now

If a storm blows in on me,
I am ready now, I am ready now
When the waves come from underneath,
I am ready now, I am ready...

With the last sail lifted high,
I am ready now, I am ready now.

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MSK

Storybooks I thought
Were written for my heart
From my fingers fall
With you gone I break
Drifting off in space
Can you hear me call?
I need you, need you
I need you
I need you, need you
I need you

As all these mornings turn
Into brand new days
Everything still hurts
You're so far away
I would dig a hole
Through the earth and crawl
To get to you
To get to you
Wicked dreams they come
When I sleep alone
So I stay awake
Thinking oh oh oh
How I miss her so
How long must I wait?
I need you, need you
I need you
I need you, need you
I need you

As all these mornings turn
Into brand new days
Everything still hurts
You're so far away
I would dig a hole
Through the earth and crawl
To get to you
To get to you

As all these mornings turn
Into brand new days
Everything still hurts
You're so far away
I would dig a hole
Through the earth and crawl
To get to you
I need you, need you
I need you
I need you, need you
I need you

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My Mountain

I am on my mountain
I am there with her
I can see it all so clear
I am young again up here

I can't come back from where I've gone, but I'll be close
I left myself in every song and every note
And if you need me, I will never be too far
I'm always with you, like the child in your heart
Yeah!

I have found my mountain
I can be with her
When I finally came across, I recovered all I lost

I can't come back from where I've gone, but I'll be close
I left myself in every song and every note
And if you need me, I will never be too far
I'm always with you, like the child in your heart
Yeah!

I can't come back from where I've gone, but I'll be close
I left myself in every song and every note
And if you need me, I will never be too far
I'm always with you like the child in your heart

I am on my mountain
I am there with her
I have found my mountain
I can be with her
Be with her

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California

Tell me secrets, 'cause I know you're scared
And you dream of California, tonight
If you wait up, I could meet you there
And we could be in California tonight

When everything that I can see
Goes dark I feel you here with me
And I, I'm holding on to you
When shadows try to swallow me
You're the only light I'll ever need
And I, I'm holding on to you

Tell me all this was another life
And what it's like in California, tonight
Where the sun sets in a perfect sky
I wanna be in California tonight

When everything that I can see
Goes dark I feel you here with me
And I, I'm holding on to you
When shadows try to swallow me
You're the only light I'll ever need
And I, I'm holding on to you

Salt in the air, blood in my veins
No more black clouds, just colorful days
Salt in the air, blood in my veins
No more black clouds, just colorful days

When everything that I can see
Goes dark I feel you here with me
And I, I'm holding on to you
When shadows try to swallow me
You're the only light I'll ever need
And I, I'm holding on to you

Tell me secrets, 'cause I know you're scared
And you dream of California, tonight