Lyrics to "The Long Fall Back to Earth" by Jars of Clay

The new album is released on April 21 (just before my birthday, how convenient!), but you can hear many of the songs on their MySpace site. They post two new songs each week and take the down the previous two. Since "Two Hands" has been released as a single you can find its lyrics someplaces on the net, but for the others I have grabbed copies of the first four MySpace streamed songs to try to figure out the lyrics. I am sure there are errors, but such is life on the Internet. You can also purchase a special limited edition of the album (CD, DVD, vinyl LP, special autographed booklet and EP) from their site at www.jarsofclay.com for $75 (only 500 available). I wonder how many of those packages they have sold!
Track Listing:

02. Weapons

Hallelujah we can finally hear
It's a miracle we feel anything at all
Things we planted on the worst days of the year
Grow to fingers that rip at the joys and sets our backs against the wall

Lay your weapons down
Lay your weapons down
There are no enemies in front of you

Hallelujah we can finally see
How the bitterness was bruising all our skin
And we didn't notice that grace had run so thin
Til we're falling apart and the cracks in our hearts let the truth sink in

Lay your weapons down
Lay your weapons down
There are no enemies in front of you

Lay your weapons down
Lay your weapons down
There are no enemies in front of you

Ahhhhhh....
Ahhhhhh....
Ahhhhhh....
Ahhhhhh....

Hallelujah we can finally hear
It's a miracle we feel anything at all

So lay your weapons down
There are no enemies in front of you
There are no enemies in front of you

Ahhhhhh....
Lay your weapons down
Lay your weapons down
Lay your weapons
There are no enemies in front of you

Lay your weapons down
Lay your weapons down
Lay your weapons
There are no enemies in front of you

03. Two Hands

I've been living out of sanity
I've been splitting hairs and blurring lines
I am a house that is divided
In my heart and in my mind

I use one hand to pull you closer
The other to push you away
If I had two hands doing the same thing
Lifted high, lifted high

I have a broken disposition
I'm a liar who thirsts for the truth
And while I ache for faith to hold me
I need to feel the scars and see the proof

I use one hand to pull you closer
The other to push you away
If I had two hands doing the same thing
Lifted high, lifted high
If I had two hands doing the same thing
Lifted high, lifted high

And if we just keep digging we can reach the foundation
Of our souls
And if we just keep cutting all the chains from our hearts
We'll lose control

And it feels like giving in
It feels like starting over
It feels like waking up, and you know it's coming
It feels like a brand new day
Open your eyes

If I had two hands doing the same thing
Lifted high, lifted high
If I had two hands doing the same thing
Lifted high, lifted high
Lifted high
Lifted high

04. Heaven

Go under cover, we jump from the screen
We're hunters and lions, we are submarines
Under the surface, slip through the wire
Decipher the code words, disable the liar

If I'm blowing on the inside
What's growing on the inside
Heaven is not that far
Glowing on the inside
Showing on the inside
It's growing where we are

We shatter devices, enter the stage
We start masquerading, we rattle the cage
We'll face every search light in places we hide
And dress up for Eden, the gates open wide

And you find blowing on the inside
Growing on the inside
Heaven is not that far
Glowing on the inside
Showing on the inside
We are, we are, we are

We're hunters and lions
We go under cover (we are, we are, we are)
Yeah

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Heaven is not that far

It's blowing on the inside
Showing on the inside
Growing where we are
Blowing on the inside
Growing on the inside
We are, we are, we are

We go undercover
We are submarines (we are, we are, we are)
We're hunters and lions

05. Closer

Yeah, oohhhh
Well you thought you let go, but you're still hanging on
Mother earth's slowing down, she's still spinning around
And we, are gettin dizzy

I'll drop out of the race for more personal space
Cause the rockets we're in, get's so cold and I miss your skin
That's just how I'm feelin

If you need more love, well you've got to get close to me
If you want my love, well you've got to get closer to me

No unreachable itch, if you hemorrhage I'll stitch
You are tears, I'm a cheek, I'm a pail on your boat with slow leaks
Out to sea for weeks

But If you want my love, well, you've got to get close to me
If you need my love, well you've got to get closer to me
Oh, if you want my love

I don't understand why we can't get close enough
I want your kite strings tangled in my trees all wrapped up
I don't understand why we can't get close enough
I'll be the comets that are fallin from the sky you light up
Light up

You're my shirt, I'm an arm
I'm the tick, you're the bomb
You're the L and the V, I'm the O and the E, and we
Am I speaking clearly?

If you want my love, well you've got to get close to me
Ooh, if you want my love

I don't understand why we can't get close enough
I want your kite strings tangled in my trees all wrapped up
I don't understand why we can't get close enough
I'll be the comets that are fallin from the sky you light up

Because I don't understand why we can't get close enough
I'll miss the shivers in my spine every time that we touch

06. Safe to Land

Getting tired from all this circling
Not much grace left on a broken wing
I feel the wind trying to push me down
It happens every time I get to town

I search for shelter near the mines we swept
I guess forgiveness hasn't happened yet
There are no words that I can say to you
That turn this careless sky from black to blue
So I'm asking you

Is it safe? Is it safe to land?
Cause I'm not going far on an empty heart
Is it safe? Is it safe to land?
Cause the long fall back to earth is the hardest part

I'm in no weather for apologies
I need your runway lights to burn for me
And if you say that I can come around
I'll love you right, yeah
I won't let you down, I won't let you down

Cause I'm coming home, if these wheels touch down
I'm coming home I'm waking you up
In the middle of the night I'm not giving up
I'm gonna stay til we make it work
We're not going down even if it gets worse
We'll work it out
Yeah, we'll work it out
I need your light
Guide me in
Oh
Yeah, is it safe?

07. Headphones

I don't have to hear it, if I don't want to
I can drown this out, pull the curtains down on you
It's a heavy world, it's too much for me to care
If I close my eyes, it's not there

With my headphones on, with my headphones on
With my headphones on, with my headphones on

We watch television, but the sound is something else
Just a song played against the drama, so the hurt is never felt
I take in the war-fires, and I'm chilled by the current events
It's so hopeless, but there’s a pop song in my

Headphones on, in my headphones on
With my headphones on, with my headphones on
With my headphones on, with my headphones on
With my headphones on, with my headphones on

At the Tube Stop, you sit down across from me (I can see you looking back at me)
I think I know you
By the sad eyes that I see
I want to tell you (It’s a heavy world)
Everything will be okay
You wouldn't hear it (I don't want to have to hear it)
So we go our separate ways

With our headphones on
With our headphones on
I don't wanna be the one who tries to figure it out
I don't need another reason I should care about you
You don't want to know my story
You don't want to own my pain
Living in a heavy, heavy world
And there’s a pop song in my head

I don’t want to have to hear it
And there’s a pop song in my head

I don’t want to have to hear it

08. Don't Stop

You told them that I hung the moon
It was a lonely sliver hanging from the sky
I said I put it there for you
I didn’t think that it would make you cry

Don't stop, don't stop for me now
Don't stop, don't stop for me now

My recurring dream of you
Starlight in your eyes and music everywhere
I am dancing close to you
There are no days or nights we’ve left behind

Don't stop, don't stop for me now
Don't stop, don't stop for me now
When you're running, you're running far away
And you don’t know what to do with all my love
Don't stop for me now

Why is it so hard to say that you need me
The way that I need you

There are no days, there are no nights, we've left them all behind
And you can run so far that I won’t reach
There are no places I won’t find you, yeah

Don't stop, don't stop for me now
Don't stop, don't stop for me now

You keep running, yeah, you're running far away
When all I want to do is be with you my love
You can run so far, run so far, my love
By the light of the moon I will get to you somehow
So don't stop for me now

09. Boys (Lesson One)

Lesson one - do not hide
Lesson two - there are right ways to fight
And if you have questions
We can talk through the night

So you know who you are
And you know what you want
I've been where you're going
And it's not that far
It's too far to walk
But you don't have to run
You'll get there in time

Lesson three - you're not alone
Not since I saw you start breathing on your own
You can leave, you can run, this will still be your home

So you know who you are
And you know what you want
I've been where you’re going
And it's not that far
It's too far to walk
But you don’t have to run
You'll get there in time
Get there in time

In time, to wonder where the days have gone
In time, to be old enough to wish that you were young
When good things are unraveling, bad things come undone
You weather love and lose your innocence

There will be liars and thieves who take from you
Not to undermine the consequence
But you are not what you do
And when you need it most
I have a hundred reasons why I love you

So you know who you are
And you know what you want
I've been where you’re going
And it's not that far
It's too far to walk
But you don’t have to run
You'll get there in time

So you know who you are
And you know what you want
I've been where you’re going
And it's not that far
It's too far to walk
But you don’t have to run
You'll get there in time
Get there in time

If you weather love and lose your innocence
Just remember - lesson one

10. Hero

One spot on an empty canvas
One chair in an empty room
No place for a revolution
No hope if the signs are true

We stand at the edge of something
Will we ever know what it is
Hold on 'cause the wind is rising
And we can't get away from it

We’re in shock from the failed emotion
No cause in a shadow land
We sing while the city's burning
No room, no escape, no plan
We all never thought it would end this way

And we need a hero
To save us from ourselves
We need a hero
To save us from ourselves

Save us from ourselves
Save us from our fear
When the sirens wail, we need a hero here

We hide on our knees in silence
Maybe God doesn't hear at all
And the wait overtakes the violence
And we watch as the giants fall
We're not gonna let it end this way

We need a hero
To save us from ourselves
We need a hero
To save us from ourselves

Save us from ourselves
Save us from our fear
When the sirens wail, we need a hero here

Save us from ourselves
Save us from our fear
When the sirens wail, we need a hero here

Save us from ourselves
Save us from our fear
When the sirens wail, we need a hero here

Save us from ourselves
Save us from our fear
When the sirens wail, we need a hero here

11. Scenic Route

Don't turn your back on me
Or read in between my words
I'm trying to drag this out
Taking the scenic route

I know we could get there much faster if we wanted to
But that isn't what you and I came here to do

No nails to untie the knots
No veins left to take the shots
No touch to end a fight
Or letting who's wrong be right

We're just sitting like novels we've picked up but never read through
You think you know my ending, I think I know yours, too
You see, nowhere in these old conversations is there anything new

Even though we know the sun will rise, yeah
Every ray of light still takes us by, by surprise

Baby, leave it all behind
Baby, leave it all behind
Missed a road sign
I don't want to get home soon
Drive the car all the way around the moon
Baby, we could get lost
We have another state to cross
We could find each other out
Tell our secrets on the scenic route

I don't want to get home soon
Drive the car around the moon
I don't want to crush you or rush you
I'm not going faster if you want to and if you want to
I don’t want to rush you or crush you
But I won’t go faster if you want to
It's not what we came here to do

I just want to drive
I just want to drive

12. There Might Be A Light

I wait outside your house
And sing below your window
And I look for the light to show, I know
I know that it will come on, come on, come on
Come on soon

There might be a light
Somewhere in your mind
When you think of you and I
I wait for it to shine
I know it will come on, come on, come on
Come on soon
It will come on, come on soon

And it's just the way things go
When you love someone and they don't know
Sparks and hearts, they have to glow
They just glow, they just glow
You know they just come on, come on, come on, come on
They just come on, come on, come on

There is no delusion, to you I don't exist
I am only a shadow
Only a ghost can wait as long as I have for this
And I, I can't wait much longer

'Cause there might be a light
Somewhere in your mind
When you think of you and I
I know there will be a light
It might not burn very strong
But I know it's coming on
It will come on, come on, come on
Yeah, come on, come on, come on
But I know it's coming on
Yeah, come on, come on, come on
It will come on, come on, come on soon

13. Forgive Me

Well, I tried to figure out all the mysteries of love
I made confessions under pure duress
I thought that everything was meaningless

As far as the eye could see
As deep as the heart could be
Such an impossibility that you would forgive me
Forgive me

I wasted another year, waiting for the words
For things to be more clear
And now I’m so afraid, if I find the words to say
Have I lost you anyway?

For every town there is a crier
Like a thief in every choir
And when I think of the mistakes I’ve made
All my transgressions on a big parade

As far as the eye can see
As deep as the heart can be
Such an impossibility that you would forgive me
Forgive me

I wasted another year, waiting for the words
For something to be more clear
And now I’m so afraid, if I find the words to say
Have I lost you anyway?

As far as the eye can see
As deep as the heart can be
Such an impossibility that you would forgive me

As far as the eye can see
As deep as the heart can be
Such an impossibility that you would forgive me

I wasted another year, waiting for the words
For something to be more clear
But now I am afraid, if I find the words to say
Have I lost you anyway?

'Cause I've found the words to say
I’ve been thinking them for days
And now I'm begging you to stay

14. Heart

I let it get dark, so you'll see the stars
They'll say we're in love, we probably are
No mountains to climb, papers to sign
Offer your heart, I've given you mine

One flag left to burn, one country to fall
One soul to pour out, one love to catch all
No walls to defend, wars to align
Give me your heart, you already have mine
No mountains to climb, papers to sign
Offer your heart, I've given you mine

No mountains to climb, papers to sign
Offer your heart, I've given you mine
No walls to defend, wars to align
Give me your heart, you already have mine
Give me your heart, you already have mine
Offer your heart, I've given you mine

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