Switchfoot "Oh! Gravity" Lyrics
Released the day after Christmas 2006, here is Switchfoot's latest album!
1. Oh! Gravity
There's a fracture in a corner bar
In the back seat of a parked car
By the liquor store where the streetlights
Keep you company till the next night
In the same town there's the same scar
In the same glow of the liquor store
By the freeway where the headlights
Keep you company till the next night
Oh, gravity, why can't we
Seem to keep it together
Sons of my enemies
Why can't we seem to keep it together
In the back room of the Pentagon
There's a thin man with a line drawn
With a red jaw and the red bite
Watch the headline on the next night
Oh, gravity, why can't we
Seem to keep it together
Sons of my enemies
Why can't we seem to keep it together
Why this tragedy, why can't we
Seem to keep it together
Oh, gravity, why can't we
Seem to pull it together now
In the fallout, the fallout
We found out the hype won't get you through
Connected, connected
Amended, the hype won't get you through
Oh, gravity, why can't we
Seem to keep it together
Oh, gravity, why can't we
Seem to pull it together
Why this tragedy, why can't we
Seem to keep it together
Oh, gravity, why can't we
Seem to pull it together now
La la la la la la...
Let's pull it together
2. American Dream
The ambition for excess wrecks us
When top of the mind becomes the bottom line
When success is equated with excess
If you're time ain't be nothing for money
I start to feel really bad for you honey
Maybe honey put you're money where your mouth's been running
If you're time ain't be nothing but money
I want out of this machine
It doesn't feel like freedom
This ain't my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
When success is equated with excess
When we're fighting for the beamer, the lexus
As the heart and soul breathing the company goals
Where success is equated with excess
I want out of this machine
It doesn't feel like freedom
This ain't my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
Cause baby's always talkin 'bout a ring
And talk has always been the cheapest thing
Is it true would you do what I want you to
If I show up with the right amount of bling?
Like a puppet on a monetary string
Maybe we've been caught singing
Red, white, blue, and green
But that ain't my America,
That ain't my American dream
This ain't my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
3. Dirty Second Hands
Please don't be so naive
You know you're not fooling anyone!
You're not as tough as you think
The dirty second hands, the dirty second hands.
Can't get nothing for free
It becomes so predictable
You start fighting to breathe
The dirty second hands, the dirty second hands.
Here's the face of everything that breaks you down
But now you face the face of everything that breaks you down
With an army of "me", we invent our own enemies.
It's man versus machine and the dirty second hands,
the dirty second hands
In the land of the free
And the home of the remedy,
The old clock is a thief with dirty second hands,
With dirty second hands.
Here's the face of everything that breaks you down
Now you face the face of everything that breaks you down
Are you really as tough as you think?
You blink and you're over the brink,
you bleed but the blood runs pink with dirty second hands,
dirty second hands.
You're not quite as tough as you thought.
You bought the American rot
The very scene that you thought you'd
Shot with dirty second hands, dirty second hands.
You might be right.
The fight might be right inside you
The blind leading the light to you so not
Leaving you blind you with dirty second hands.
Here's the face of everything that breaks you down
(you, blind you with dirty second hands)
But now you face the face of everything that breaks you down
(you, blind you with dirty second hands)!
You're the face, the face of everything that breaks you down...
4. Awakening
Face down with the LA curbside ending
In ones and zeros.
Downtown was the perfect place to hide.
The first star that I saw last night was a headlight
of a man-made sky, but
Man-made never made our dreams collide.
Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain,
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and pain,
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition, you've been caught talking in your sleep
About a dream, We're awakening
Last week saw me living for nothing but deadlines,
With my dead beat sky but, this town doesn't look the same tonight
These dreams started singing to me out of nowhere
And in all my life I don't know if I've ever felt so alive, alive
Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain,
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and pain,
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition, you've been caught talking in your sleep
About a dream, We're awakening
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to know that my heart's still beating,
It's beating, I'm bleeding.
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to live like I know what I'm leaving
I want to know that my heart's still beating,
It's beating, I'm bleeding
Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain,
We're awakening
Here we are now with the desperate youth and pain,
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition, you've been caught talking in your sleep
About a dream, We're awakening
5. Circles
Another day
Another sunrise
Another factory call
Another night
Another sunset
Another freefall
In my life
In my own purpose
Within the weakness
Within the weakness
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
Another day
Another lifetime
Another engine stalls
Another line
Another freeway
Another freefall
In my life
In my own purpose
Within the weakness
Within the weakness
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
In circles, in circles
I've lost all that I wanted to leave
I've lost all that I wanted to be
Don't that there's nothing this true
Don't believe in this modern machine
The modern machine
Circles
Spinning, Spinning
In circles, in circles
Spinning out in circles
In circles, in circles
In circles, in circles
6. Amateur Lovers
Everyone I know
Needs love like drugs
Like a common cold
We could never shrug
My baby and me
We're missing the same stuff
We've all got a disease
Deficiency of love
Every day we still try
Every night we still cry
Driving home on the 805
We don't know what we're doing
We do it again
We're just amateur lovers
With amateur friends
I can tell you what you're thinking now
Before you think that you can settle down
We don't know what we're doing
Let's do it again
You tried to play it down
But it never stuck
I tried to build this town
I'm getting no such luck
When nobody's around
I keep my eyes on the clock
There ain't a cure I've found
In all my times around this block
Everyday we still try
Every night we still cry
Driving home on the 405
We don't know what we're doing
We do it again
We're just amateur lovers
With amateur friends
I can tell you what you're thinking now
Before you think that you can settle down
We don't know what we're doing
Let's do it again
We don't know what we're doing
Let's do it again
We're just amateur lovers
With amateur friends
I can tell you what you're thinking now
Before you think that you can settle down
Our lovin' isn't gonna burn us out
We don't know what we're doing
Let's do it again
Professional
7. Faust, Midas and Myself
This one's about a dream
I had last night
How an old man tracked me home
And stepped inside
Put his foot inside the door
And gave a crooked smile
Something in his eyes
Something in his laugh
Something in his voice
That made my skin crawl off
Said I've seen you here before
I know your name
How you could have your pick
Of pretty things
You could have it all
Everything at once
Everything you've seen
Everything you'll need
Everything you've ever had in fantasies
You have one life
You have one life
One life left to lead
You have one life
You have one life
One life left to lead
I woke up from my dream
As a golden man
The Girl I've never seen
With Golden skin
I jump up to my feet
She asked me what was wrong
I began to scream
I don't think this is me
Is this just a dream?
Or really happening, happening
You have one life
You have one life
One life left to lead
You have one life
You have one life
One life left to lead
What direction
What direction
I'm spinning up
I'm spinning up
This is my personal disaffection
What direction
What Direction
What Direction now
I looked outside the glass
At golden shores
Golden ships and masts
With golden cords
As my reflection passed
I hated what I saw
The Golden eyes were dead
A thought passed through my head
A heart that is made of gold can't really beat at all
I wanted to wake up again
I wanted to wake up again
Without a touch of gold
Without a touch of gold
What direction
What direction
What direction
What direction
Life begins at the intersection
What direction
What direction
What direction
What direction now
I woke up as before
But the gold was gone
My wife was at the door
With a night robe on
My heart beat once or twice
And life flooded my veins
Everything had changed
My lungs had found their voice
And what was once routine
Was now the perfect joy
You have one life
You have one life
One life left to lead
You have one life
You have one life
One life left to lead
8. Head Over Heals (In This Life)
Head over here and take me
Head over heels and aching
When I told you I was yours,
I was yours
In this life you're the one place I call home
In this life you're the feeling I belong
In this life you're the flower and the thorn
You're everything that's fair in love and war
I'm coming down like a gun shot
In all these battles that I've fought
You're the mark I'm aiming for
I was yours
In this life you're the one place I call home
In this life you're the feeling I belong
In this life you're the flower and the thorn
You're everything that's fair in love and war
Head over heels
Head over heels
In this life I'm stubborn to the core
In this life I've been burning after more
We both know what these open arms are for
You're everything that's fair
In this life you're my only one
In this life you're my only one
In this life you're my only one
In this life you're my only one
In this life you're the one place I call home
In this life you're the feeling I belong
In this life you're the flower and the thorn
You're everything that's fair in love and war
9. Yesterdays
The flowers cut and brought inside
Black cars in a single line
Your family in suits and ties
And you're free
The ache I feel inside
Is where the life has left your eyes
I'm alone for our last goodbye
But you're free
I remember you like yesterday
Yesterday
I still can't believe you're gone
Oh I remember you like yesterday
Yesterday
And until I'm with you, I carry on
Adrift on your ocean floor
I feel weightless numb and sore
A part of you and me is torn
You're free
I woke from a dream last night
I dreamt that you were by my side
Reminding me I still had life
In me
I remember you like yesterday
Yesterday
I still can't believe you're gone
Oh I remember you like yesterday
Yesterday
And until I'm with you, I carry on
I'll carry on, I'll carry on
Every lament is a love song
Yesterday, yesterday
I still can't believe you're gone
Every lament is a love song
Yesterday, yesterday
So long my friend, so long
10. Burn Out Bright
Does it have to start with a broken heart
Broken dreams and bleeding parts
We were young and hope was clear
Young ambition disappears
I swore it would never come to this
The average, the obvious
I'm still discontented down here
I'm so discontented
If we only got one try
If we've only got one life
If time was never on our side
Before I die I want to burn out bright
So a spark ignites
In time and space
To make it through this human race
You fight and crawl your way back home
But you're running the wrong way
The future is a question mark
With kerosene electric sparks
There's still fire in you yet
Yeah there's still fire in you
If we only got one try
If we've only got one life
If time was never on our side
Before I die I want to burn out bright
I can't clean up the mess I've made
I can't clean up the mess I've made
Can't sleep in the bed I've made
Can't sleep in the bed I've made
If we only got one try
If we've only got one life
If time was never on our side
Before I die I want to burn out bright
11. 4:12
You've been having trouble staying asleep
You been waking up at 4:12
You roll the voices over in your head
Then you try to put them neatly on the shelf
You watch the sun rise
Saw the darkness had no choice before the dawn
With your own eyes
And then you broke out laughing from a yawn
I'm so sorry I've been so down
I started doubting things could ever turn around
And I began to believe that all we are is material
It's nonsensical
So you walk outside and everything's new
You're looking at the world with new eyes
As if you'd never seen the sky before this blue
As if you've never seen the sky in your whole life
And then the phone rings
As it turns out you are already late
And now you're wondering
Is peace just a temporary state
Waiting tables and parking cars
You've been selling cell phones at the shopping mall
And you began to believe that all you are is material
It's nonsensical
I'm so sorry I've been so down
I started doubting things could ever turn around
But I still can't believe that all we are
And that all of our dreams are nothing more than material
Souls aren't built of stone
Sticks and bones
Souls aren't built of stone
Souls aren't built of stone, sticks and bones
12. Let Your Love Be Strong
In this world of news, I've found nothing new
I've found nothing pure
Maybe I'm just idealistic to assume that truth
Could be fact and form
That love could be a verb
Maybe I'm just a little misinformed
As the dead moon rises, and the freeways sigh
Let the trains watch over the tides and the mist
Spinning circles in our sky's tonight
Let the trucks roll in from Los Angeles
Maybe our stars are unanimously tired
Let your love be strong, and I don't care what goes down
Let your love be strong enough to weather through the thunder cloud
Fury and thunder clap like stealing the fire from your eyes
All of my world hanging on your love
Let the wars begin, let my strength wear thin
Let my fingers crack, let my world fall apart
Train the monkeys on my back to fight
Let it start tonight
When my world explodes, when my stars touch the ground
Falling down like broken satellites
Let your love be strong, and I don't care what goes down
Let your love be strong enough to weather through the thunder cloud
Fury and thunder clap like stealing the fire from your skies
All that I am hanging on
All of my world resting on your love
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