Nothing is Sound - Switchfoot lyrics
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1. Lonely Nation
She turns like the ocean
She tells no emotion
She's been gunning down the fight
She's just reminiscing
Blood, sweat and one thing's missing
She's been breaking up inside, inside
Singing without tongues, screaming without lungs
I want more than my lonely nation
I want more than my lonely nation
Desperate we are young. Separate we are one
I want more than my desperation
I want more than my lonely nation
We are the target market
We set the corporate target
We are slaves of what we want
We're just numd and amused and
We're just used to bad news and
We are slaves of what we want
Singing without tongues, screaming without lungs
I want more than my lonely nation
I want more than my lonely nation
Desperate we are young. Separate we are one
I want more than my desperation
I want more than my lonely nation
Lonely
Lonely
Don't leave me hollow. I'm tired
Don't leave me hollow
I'm tired of feeling low, of feeling hollow
2. Stars
Maybe I've been the problem
Maybe I'm the one to blame
But even when I turn it off and blame myself
The outcome feels the same
I've been thinking maybe I've been partly cloudy
Maybe I'm the chance of rain
And maybe I'm overcast
And maybe all my luck's washed down the drain
I've been thinking about everyone,
Everyone, you look so lonely
But when I look at the stars
When I look at the stars
When I look at the stars,
I see someone else
When I look at the stars
The stars,
I feel like myself
Stars looking at a planet
Watching entropy and pain
And maybe to start to wonder
How the chaos in our lives could pass as sane
I've been thinking about the meaning of resistance
Of a hope beyond my own
And suddenly the infinite and penitent
Begin to look like home
I've been thinking about everyone
Everyone, you look so empty
But when I look at the stars
When I look at the stars
When I look at the stars,
I see someone else
When I look at the stars
The stars,
I feel like myself.
Yeah!
The stars
Stars
Everyone, Everyone feels so lonely
Everyone, yeah everyone feels so empty
When I look at the stars
When I look at the stars
When I look at the stars,
I feel like myself
When I look at the stars
The stars,
I see someone
3. Happy Is A Yuppie Word
Everyone dies
Everyone loves a fight
Nothing is sound
Nothing is right side right
Evening comes when the sun goes down in red
Nothing is cool
When will all the fighting end
When will all the fighting end
Happy is a yuppie word
Nothing in the world could fail me now
It's empty as an argument
I'm running down a life that won't cash out
Cash out
Everything fails
Everything runs it's course
A time and a place
For all of this love and war
Everyone buys
Everyone's got a price
And nothing is new
When will all us failures rise
When will all us failures rise rise
Happy is a yuppie word
Nothing in the world could fail me now
It's empty as an argument
I'm running down a life that won't cash out
Cash out
Happy is a yuppie word
Blessed is the man who's lost it all
Happy is a yuppie word, word
Looking for an orphanage
I'm looking for a bridge I can't burn down
I don't believe the emptiness
I'm looking for the kingdom coming down
Everything is meaningless
I want more than simple cash can buy
Happy is a yuppie word
Happy is a yuppie word
happy is a yuppie word
Happy is a yuppie word
Nothing is sound
Happy is a yuppie word
Nothing in the world could fail me now
Happy is a yuppie word word
So come down, yeah
So come down, yeah
4. Shadow Proves The Sunshine
Sunshine won't you be my mother
Sunshine come and help me sing
My heart is darker than these oceans
My heart is frozen underneath
We are crooked souls tryin to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine
Two scared little runaways
Hold fast till the break of daylight
When the shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine
Oh, Lord why did you forsake me
Oh, Lord don't be far away, away
Storm clouds gathering beside me
Please Lord don't look the other way
I'm a crooked soul tryin to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain well
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine
Two scared little runaways
Hold fast to the brink of daylight where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine
Yeah shine on me
Yeah shine on me
Yeah shine on me
Shine on me
Crooked souls tryin to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine
If you're scared don't run away
Hold fast to the break of daylight now
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine
Yeah shine on me
Yeah shine on me
Yeah shine on me
Shine on me
Let my shadows prove the sunshine
5. Easier Then Love
Sex is currency
She sells cars, she sells magazines
Addictive, bittersweet, clap your hands
With the hopeless nicotines
Everyone's a lost romantic
Since our love became a kissing show
Everyone's a Cassanova
Come and pass me the mistletoe
Everyone's been scared to death of dying here alone
She is easier than love
Is easier than life
It's easier to fake and smile and bribe
It's easier to leave
It's to easier to lie
It's harder to face ourselves at night
Feeling alone
What have we done
What is the monster we've become
Where is my soul
Sex is industry
The CEO of corporate policy
Skin deep ministry, Suburban youth,
Hail your so called liberty
Every advertising antic
Our banner waves with a neon glow
War and love become pedantic
We wage love with a mistletoe
Everyone's been scared to death of dying here alone
She is easier than love
Easier than life
Easier to fake a smile and bribe
It's easier to leave
It's easier to lie
It's harder to face ourselves at night
Feeling alone
What have we done
What is the monster we've become
Where is my soul
It's easier than love
It's easier than love
It's easier than love
It's easier than love
She's easier than love
Everyone's been scared to death of
Everyone's been scared to death of
Everyone's been scared to death of dying here alone
Alone
Where is my soul
Where is my soul
6. The Blues
Is this the new year or just another night
Is this the new fear or just another fright
Is this the new tear or just another desperation
Is this the finger or just another fist
Is this the kingdom or just a hit and miss
I miss direction, most in all this desperation
Is this what they call freedom
Is this what you call pain
Is this what they call discontented fame
It'll be a day like this one when the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
I'm singing this one like a broken piece of glass
Broken hearts and broken noses in the back
Is this the new year
Or just another desperation
You push until you're shoving
You bend until you break
'Til you stand on the broken fields where your fathers lay
It'll be a day like this one when the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
Is nothing here worth saving? Is there no one here at all?
Is there any net left that could break our fall?
It'll be a day like this one when the sky falls down
And the hungry and poor and deserted are found
Are you discontented? Have you been pushing hard?
Have you been throwing down this broken house of cards?
It'll be a day like this one when the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
Is there nothing left now, nothing left to sing
Are there any left who haven't kissed the enemy
Is this the new year or just another desperation
Does justice ever find you? Do the wicked never loose?
Is there any honest song to sing besides these blues?
And nothing is okay until the world caves in
Until the world caves in
'Til the world caves in
7. The Setting Sun
I've got a wound that doesn't heal
Burning out again
Burning out again
I'm not sure which of me is real
I'm alone again
Burning out again
My hope runs underneath it all
The day that I'll be home
It won't be long
I belong
Somewhere past this setting sun
Finally free
Finally strong
Somewhere back where I belong
They're selling shares of me again
I'm not buying it
I'm not buying it
My wound goes deeper then the skin
There's no hiding it
So I'm not trying it
My hope runs underneath it all
The day that I'll be home
It won't be long
I belong
Somewhere past this setting sun
Finally free
Finally strong
Somewhere back where I belong
Let the weak say I am strong
And it won't be long
Let the right say I was wrong
And it won't be long
Let us find where we belong
Beyond this setting sun
Beyond this setting sun
It won't be long
I belong
Somewhere past this setting sun
Finally free
Finally strong
Somewhere back where I belong
8. Politicians
Everything is broken
Everything is broken
Everything is breaking down
Breaking down
Everything is bleeding
Everything is bleeding
Everything is breaking down
Breaking down
I pledge allegiance to a country
Without borders without politicians
Watching for our sky to get torn apart
We are broken
We are bitter
We're the problem
We're the politicians
Watching for our sky to get torn apart
Come on and break me
Entropy and aching
Where have we been aiming
Everything is fading out
Fading out
We are the faded
Splintered and sedated
Everything is fading out
Fading out
I pledge allegiance to a country
With out borders without politicians
Watching for my sky to get torn apart
We are broken
We are bitter
We're the problem
We're the politicians
Watching for our sky to get torn apart
Come on and break me
Come on and break me
I pledge allegiance to a country
Without borders without politicians
Politicians
Politicians
Broken and abused
I'm the problem
I'm the politician
Watching for my sky to get torn apart
Come on and break me
Come on and break me
9. Golden
She's alone tonight
With a bitter cup and
She's undone tonight
She's all used up
She's been staring down the demons
Who've been screaming
She's just another so and so
Another so and so
You are golden
You are golden child
You are golden
Don't let go
Don't let go tonight
There's a fear that burns
Like trash inside
And your shame the curse
That burns your eyes
You've been hiding in the bedroom
Hoping this isn't how the story has to go
It's not the way it goes
It's your book now
You are golden
You are golden child
You are golden
Don't let go
Don't let go tonight
You're a lonely soul
In a land of broken hearts
Your far from home
Is the perfect place to start
So this final verse
Is a contradiction
And the more we learn
The less we know
We've been talking about a feeling
We both know inside
But couldn't find the words
I couldn't write this verse
I've seldom been so sure
About anything before
You are golden
You are golden child
You are golden
Don't let go
Don't let go tonight
This world is a dead man down
Every breath is a fading crown we wear
Like some debilitated king
Don't let go tonight
The earth spins and the moon goes round
The green comes from the frozen ground
And everything will be made new again
Like freedom and spring
Like freedom and spring
Like freedom and spring
10. The Fatal Wound
I am the crisis
I am the bitter end
I'm gonna gun this down
I am divided
I am the razor edge
There is no easy now
Son of sorrow
Staring down forever
With an aching view
Disenchanted
Let's go down together
With the fatal wound
This is the real thing
No rubber bullets now
This is the final bow
My breath avoids me
My chest is in my head
My stomach's upside down
Down
Son of sorrow
Staring down forever
With an aching view
Disenchanted
Let's go down together
With the fatal wound
With the fatal wound
With the fatal wound
11. We Are One Tonight
All rise, all fall
I'll fail, You all
We built these cities
To stand so tall
We've lost
Our walls
I don't want to lose you coming down
With the whole world upside down
I don't have a soul to trust in now
With the whole world upside down
We are one tonight
And we're singing it out
We are one tonight
And we're dreaming out loud
Though the world is flawed
These scars will heal
We are one tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Two eyes, One tongue
I've come, Undone
I'm no victim
I've paid these dues
I came
To lose
I don't want to fight it about it now
With the whole world upside down
I don't have a soul to trust in now
With the whole world upside down
We are one tonight
And we're singing it out
We are one tonight
And we're dreaming out loud
Though the world is flawed
These scars will heal
We are one tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
I don't want to lose the common ground
With the whole world upside down
I don't want to fight about it now
In a world that's burning out
Let's slow the evening down
Slow it down
Slow down
Please slow down, down, down
The stars are coming out
We are one
We are one
We are one
We are one tonight
We are one tonight
And we're singing it out
We are one tonight
And we're dreaming out loud
Though the world is flawed
These scars will heal
We are one tonight
12. Daisy
Daisy
Give yourself away
Look up at the rain
The beautiful display
Of power and surrender
Giving us today
When she gives herself away
Rain
Another rainy day
Comes up from the ocean
To give herself away
She comes down easy
On rich and debt the same
When she gives herself away
Let it go
Daisy let it go
Open up your fist
This fallen world
Doesn't hold your interest
It doesn't hold your soul
Daisy let it go
Pain
Give yourself a name
Call yourself contrition
Avarice or shame
Giving isn't easy
Neither is the rain
And she gives herself away
Daisy
Why another day?
Why another sunrise?
Who will take the blame?
For all redemptive motion
And every rainy day
He gives himself away
Let it go
Daisy let it go
Open up your fist
This fallen world
Doesn't hold your interest
It doesn't hold your soul
Daisy let it go
Let it go
All words written by Jonathan Foreman except "Lonely Nation", "Easier Than Love", and "We Are One Tonight" written by Jonathan Foreman and Tim Foreman
All songs Copyright 2005 Meadowgreen Music Company and Sugar Pete Songs
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