Leaning through windows, stories high
I get to take in the damage, looking down
As they clean up the mess
We pull pinions, placing bets
Cold cash or coke, we can only guess

And they say
Be careful, be gentle to yourself
'Cause no one else will

Talk over coffee
We hear the sound from outside
We stop for a moment
And gradually resume our stride
And I notice we didn't even look this time
Which action's worse, I can't decide

CHORUS

And it's a point of pride
How numb we can be to survive
And there's a game we play
With eachother these days
To see who can care the least
And I, for one, need some relief

CHORUS [2x]

I am the son of a soap opera town
Mayberry rebel, a middle class clown
You were the backflip, doe eyed
Tree climbing angel from heaven who finally came down

I never thought that I could be
Getting my grey hair with you beside me
And it's something I'm blind to
But you still see

But it couldn't be better, I know
And it shouldn't be easier
I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall

I wanna be the toy in your cereal box
I wanna be Carter at your peace talks
I wanna get almost too familliar
But still notice the way that you walk

And if you said you were going away
I would run on the tarmac
And I would lay down in front of the plane
Just to get you to stay

CHORUS

I've got everything I've ever wanted here
Everything and damn this constant fear
I'm sure I'm gonna lose it all
Just waiting for the other boot fo fall

And if you thought I could be replaced
I wouldn't just stop with an ear
I would cut off my whole fucking face
Just to make my point clear

CHORUS

The other boot to fall
Waiting for the other boot to fall

I'm fairly aware we talk too much
It's so easy for me to get out of touch
Someone needs my part in the show
You'd be much better served if you let me go

There's something that you want me to be
It's impossible, can't you see?
For the sake of us all
Just forget about me

We have reached the decline of the subject's art
So you won't be surprised when I miss my mark
Like a slow-mo airplane crash
You see what's coming next
But you can't turn back

CHORUS [2x]

There's a scared look in your eye
But I warned you now, didn't I?
There's a big sign in front of the cage
So if you been bit, it's yourself you should blame

CHORUS [for the sake of the world]

So, for the sake of us all
I've gotta leave

Feeling far from home
Feeling far from anything I know
____________________
Feel less, ____ by me
Running so slow
This is why this is tied around me

Be still, be quiet
Don't break this spell

Something we both know
But we never like to mention
When a part of me goes
Now I'm chasing that connection
The further I go
The harder to get back again

Be still, be quiet
Don't break this spell

And I will take my time
And I will take my time
I've made up my mind

Feeling far from home
Feeling far from anything I know
_____________________
All I thought I left behind me
Won't leave me alone
And it feels so strong inside me

Be still, be quiet
Don't break this spell

CHORUS

And I felt like I could lie there all my life

Gabriel, listen
I'm in need of a friend
Gabriel, would you listen

Faith alone is a prison
But I can't sleep with the fallen
Gabriel, would you listen

If you are here, then let me see
I need you now, please don't leave me
Gabriel, wouldn't listen

You will speak for the father
But who will speak for the others
The widow, son and the mother

And I'm so far now from Heaven
But I've a question to send him
Gabriel, won't you listen

The church is fallen
The priests are hardened
If there are your workers
Then is all this love, this Earth, this good forsaken? [2x]

Gabriel, listen
I'm in need of a friend
Gabriel, would you listen

Faith alone is a prison
So I am one of the fallen
Gabriel, wouldn't listen [2x]

Don't do me no favors
Try not to wake the neighborhood
There's a joy in never having learned
Joy in never having ______________

Somewhere out there
You will run straight down the middle
I've no place left
When you pull hard to the center

Tell me all your secrets
A spotlight on your weakness
With friends like me, who needs to go outside?
Just stay in wishin' you would die

CHORUS

With a lone, cold, black tenor
Shameless rider
Your rookie fumble, seinor driver

Is this what you wanted?
Lost and quite forgotten

CHORUS

Somewhere out there [4x]

I've done it again
Made spectacular claims
And I lied in the name of a good love
I think I recall
Someone brought me here
But the memory's not clear
Just what it was
A good love
A good love

You define yourself by your company
By the promises you make
And the ones that you keep

Sleep the sleep of the blessed
Dream the dreams of the whole
Forget when you wake
How far you've fallen down below

You can blow me a kiss
If you think it brings luck
It's the faith that makes it work
So what the fuck, why not?

CHORUS

Down from a good love
You had a good good love

Slow and so much time
How could I have been so blind
We have all our lives and oh
Hard to believe I faltered so
Longing to be older

We need so much more
And I can't hold you back now at all
I can't give you all you need
You know as well as I
But still you see
It's all that I must _____
Longing to be older
To be older

Slow and so much time
How could I know __________
We have all our lives and oh
Hard to believe the lengths that I will go
Longing to be older
And all that I must undergo
To be older

There comes a time in life
To pull on your coat and go outside
To taste the vinegar of life, bitter life
Taste a second time, and it's a sweet surprise
Sweet surprise

It's not that hard to figure it out
When there's no question, there's no doubt
Burned in efigy, senseless time
Dispute the miracle, but the water still was wine
And that's my crime

There is a face in the stone
We let it out to find its form
To shape the testament of will, strongest will
Pride, humility a bitter pill
Bitter pill

Sweet surrender, oh my Lord
I never thought I'd see
It's not surprising, still I find
I'm shaking, crying
But I'm laughing, softly

There comes a time
To pull on your coat and go outside

This is an old Toad song. Toad and Glen have been playing it live forever. Glen has said There Comes a Time will be recorded for the album he's doing with Nickel Creek.

"This is a song that came out of reading The Tao of Pooh. I get my Eastern philosophy the way most Westerners do, which is third- or fourth-hand. The Tao of Pooh is a great way to gather third-hand Eastern philosophy.

"In any event, there's a description of a painting called The Vinegar Taster. Buddha and Lao-Tzu and Confucius are all sitting around with ladles and a big vat of vinegar. Buddha and Confucius are both going 'ick', and Lao-Tzu is smiling, because life is sweet. And the other two just don't know it yet. " -Glen

He is a lot like me
Didn't know it
He is a lot like everyone he meets
Says he has dreams
And I was laughing at him
Promised no more lies
I crossed my fingers that time

Wrapped in water
Someone holding me
Wrapped in water
Someone holding me

And I am a lot like him
And I know it
I am a lot like everyone I hate
I don't have dreams
They take too much of my time
I promised no more lies
And crossed my fingers that time

CHORUS