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Second City
When the city burned down
We rallied all around
The water tower
And what was left of downtown
You and I climbed
With the lake behind
Through the smoke we saw
Where our city died
We saw burned out bridges, burned out parks
Burned out kitchens, burned out hearts
We watched the flames take city hall
And we watched the brand new hotel fall
So wrong, so young
So good and full of promise
So long, so long
To everything we’ve lost
And though downtown has fallen
Down on the ground now
And all your hope has blown
As ashes around now
Brick by brick, beat by beat
Your heart will survive
Until the second city lights
Begin to rise
Today we climbed
Back way up high
Where the city holds up
The west half of the sky
Looking out
It left no doubt
Everything that burns
Turns back around
So wrong, so young
So good and full of promise
So long, so long
To everything we’ve lost
And though downtown has fallen
Down on the ground now
And all your hope has blown
As ashes around now
Brick by brick, beat by beat
Your heart will survive
Until the second city lights
Well, I have known you, baby
I have seen that you are strong
You will burst out of the blues
You will burst into a song
We’ll say, so long
And though downtown has fallen
Down on the ground now
And all your hope has blown
As ashes around now
Brick by brick, beat by beat
Your heart will survive
Until the second city lights
Begin to rise
Arise, arise
Begin to rise, arise
Come on, arise
Arise
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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I Didn’t Put Anything Into Your Place
My heart is a house
You’re the brick that is missing
And this is my fault
I knocked a hole in the wall
Now it’s December
There’s wind on my face
But I didn’t put anything into your place
I didn’t put anything into your place
My heart is a house
You’re the room that is empty
And this is on me
I put you out on the street
By Valentine’s Day
I was a miserable case
But I didn’t put anything into your place
I didn’t put anything into your place
I don’t know why I always try
To fill these holes that fill my life
But I’m waiting
I hope someday they’ll go away
These memories take time to fade
But they’re fading
I am waiting
I am waiting
I am waiting
Some drinking coffee
And some think of shopping
Some get new lovers
And some get new drugs
I wrote you to say
That it must have been grace
I didn’t put anything into your place
Didn’t put anything into your place
Didn’t put anything into your place
Didn’t put anything into your place
Didn’t put anything into your
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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Stay (You Know That I Would)
I’ve been thinking for way too long
About how many times
I’ve thought through all this before
Been pacing circles on the floor
Inside of a suitcase, eating on a map
Oh, I wake up I don’t know where I am
And I need to touch
But I can’t promise you that much
‘Cause what once was hot, by two gets colder
And three, I’m looking over my shoulder
Wondering, what will I miss
If I commit to this, and choose to stay?
Oh, you know that I would
You know that I would
If I could stay
Oh, you know that I would
You know that I would
I’ve been thinking that it can’t be wrong
Just to see where it leads, it might even be fun
But hey, what happens when I’m gone?
So then again, I think
I should forget the whole thing
‘Cause waiting on a letter
Or the phone to ring
Just slowly breaks you
As you wait for words
You think will make you stay
Oh, you know that I would
You know that I would
If I could stay
Oh, you know that I would
You know that I would
So it seems I can do nothing for you baby
Like this I can do nothing for you baby
Oh, I know that I should hold on tight
And not let that girl out of my sight
If it’s worth the wait
If it’s not too late
Then it’s not okay
To let her get away
Ah, but you know that I would
You know that I would
If I could stay
Oh, you know that I would
You know that I would
Oh, I know that I should hold on tight
And not let that girl out of my sight
But I just keep playing the same old tapes
If I knew the way to change
You know that I would
C. Hood/ R. Green/ O. Plant
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/ Owen Plant Music/ BMI
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Golden I
We all make promises we cannot keep
In the name of love and consolation
We make all these pretty little fabrications
And I vow, that I will never let you down
I vow, but I don’t know how
So give me love, give it true
Give me love like you would want me
To give it to you, to you?
Would you give me love
Like you would want me
To give it to you, to you?
Would you give me love
Like you would want me
To give it to you?
To give it to you
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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Something More
Some people say that I was born a man
No time to play while I was making plans
I never learned to dirty up my hands
‘Cause even when I step outside
I hold it in and my kite won’t fly
I’m tangled up in a fear of highs
Please come before me
Make me into something more
I feel the need to love
But I haven’t got enough
I want to swim in the sea at night
Unafraid of the deep inside
Learn to love in the full moonlight
I’m trying to find what I’m made for
So you can get your money’s worth
That you paid for
‘Cause I got nothing left
That I need to save for
I’m ready, I’m ready
To spend myself
Please come before me
Make me into something more
I feel the need to love
But I haven’t got enough
Please come before me
Make me into something more
I feel the need to love
But I haven’t got enough
I’ve waited for myself
But nothing’s coming
There must be something else
That keeps me running
Please come before me
Make me into something more
I feel the need to love
But I haven’t got enough
Please come before me
Make me into something more
I feel the need to love
But I haven’t got enough
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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Whenever I Hold Onto You
It’s never really quiet
It’s never really quiet anymore
We never talk about it
But we hurt for
The way we were before
Now I don’t know how to do this
I don’t know how to hope
I know I made a vow
But don’t know how to love a ghost
Whenever I hold onto you
There’s something that I can’t get through
Where you are
Get to where you are
All the years were made of hours
Days were made of nights
I lied awake beside you
Waiting for the light
I told you, I told you
I told you by now
I held to the hope
You would come back around
Whenever I hold onto you
There’s something that I can’t get through
Where you are
Get to where you are
I try to move around you
Like I can cool you down
But I’ve been fooling me
You want to lose yourself
Well, go ahead and lose yourself
And everybody
And everybody
Whenever I hold on
Whenever I hold on
Whenever I hold onto you
There’s something that I can’t get through
Where you are
Get to where you are
Whenever I hold onto you
There’s something that I can’t get through
I’m looking to you looking through you
Can’t be found
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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Golden II
Well, I have messed up bad
I’ve spun out of control
I have pressed my life into a hole
the size of my cell phone
And my paycheck
And girls I can see
On the internet
In wifi, hi-def
Pay for, go get
Everything that I think I need
So why does everything
Still leave me incomplete?
Would you give me love, give it true
Give me love like you would want me
To give it to you, to you?
Would you give me love
Like you would want me
To give it to you, to you?
Would you give me love
Like you would want me
To give it to you?
To give it to you
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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The Meaning In Me
I feel like I’m too young to
Have problems like they all do
Is life supposed to be easy?
I wonder if they’ll notice
If I refuse to show them
This broken heart
This broken heart
Well, I’m falling apart
Oh, pretend that I’m okay
But I feel so far away
I’ve lost the meaning in me
Oh, when heaven’s all around
And there’s angels on the ground
But we’ve got to be broken to see
I saw a friend that I know
But only know a little
She asked if I was happy
I didn’t know the answer
Or even what to tell her
Or what to tell my heart
What to tell my heart
Well, I’m falling apart
Oh, pretend that I’m okay
But I feel so far away
I’ve lost the meaning in me
Oh, when heaven’s all around
And there’s angels on the ground
But we’ve got to be broken to see
I know you never see me
I’m always keeping busy
I do what I’m supposed to
And life is just a walk-through
For this broken heart
For this broken heart
Well, I’m falling apart
Oh, pretend that I’m okay
But I feel so far away
I’ve lost the meaning in me
Oh, when heaven’s all around
And there’s angels on the ground
But we’ve got to be broken to see
Oh, pretend that I’m okay
But I feel so far away
I’ve lost the meaning in me
Oh, when heaven’s all around
And there’s angels on the ground
But we’ve got to be broken to see
R. Green/ C. Hood
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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After Night Came Sun
I was under the ground
I was making sound
But no one could hear me sing
So I ran so far
That my feet and my heart
Were all so badly broken in
And I ran into the ocean
Into the ocean
Ran into the ocean
Stepped to the sea
Ran into the ocean
Into the ocean
Stepped to the eastern sea
And it’s a sight for seeing now
And it’s a song for singing loud
Sing, for your light has come
After night came sun
After night came sun
I was covered and hiding
And trying to find
A light to guide my feet
And I was blind, I was crying
And falling behind
But the waiting was training
My eyes how to see
And it’s a sight for seeing now
And it’s a song for singing loud
And it’s the hurt that’s healing
It’s the feel I’m feeling
It’s a sight for seeing now
Sing, for your light has come
After night came sun
For your light has come
After night came sun
For your light has come
After night came sun
After night came sun
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
Remy, the way you see is beautiful
Remy, the way you see is beautiful
I dream that me and you
Will go up on the roof
In the evening
To get a better view
We watch the sunset in the yard while
We’re counting all the cars
Driving left and right
Making wrong turns at the light
And as stars climb
The lattice of the sky
We know that it’s our wide world
That’s turning
We think of how our little lives
Measure up to time
And think of a world that’s been for ages
And for ages will be
Remy, the way you see is beautiful
Remy, the way you see is beautiful
Overwhelmed I am
Sitting on my sleeping bag
But in the quiet you look at me and say
You were born to be here
To say what no one else will say
You will long to see clear
But it’s far too big a plan
To know today
Remy, the way you see is beautiful
Remy, the way you see is beautiful
Remy, the way you see is beautiful
Remy, the way you see is beautiful
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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Always Love You
No need to be so concerned with
Who’s best or who’s holiest
All of your pride is about to leave your side
And you will turn your back on me tonight
And you’ll cry
But I will always love you
Even when you feel you walk alone
When you walk away from my love for you
I will walk along with you unknown
‘Til you come home
No need to be so consumed with
All the ways you try to save your life
‘Cause you are gonna be
Sifted like the wheat
And no wheat’s gonna grow unless it dies
But what I want to say to you now
What I want to say to you now, is
I will always love you
Even when you feel you walk alone
When you walk away from my love for you
I will walk along with you unknown
‘Til you come home
No need to be so confused by
All the fires you have to walk through
‘Cause they’re breaking you
And making you
And building you to be
Soft enough to love the least of these
And even me
And I will always love you
Even when you feel you walk alone
When you walk away from my love for you
I will walk along with you unknown
And I always love you
Even when you feel you walk alone
When you walk away from my love for you
I will walk along with you unknown
Oh, I will walk along with you unknown
‘Til you come home
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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Golden III
Oh, please forgive me
Oh, please forgive me
And you say
It ain’t easy living
It ain’t easy to do
So it’s easy forgiving you
I’ll give you love, give it true
Give you love like you would want me
To give it to you, to you
I’ll give you love
Like you would want me
To give it to you, to you
I’ll give you love
Like you would want me
To give it to you
To give it to you
C. Hood/ R. Green
©2011 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI
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