Live From Cambridgeport

So you probably have a point and I can't argue every side I'm just wondering why it's me in which you're choosing to confide Since that brick wall just behind you seems like it would do just fine And i'm sure it'd care much more than me Tell me whatcha wanna bet that if we brought this up to them They would either just ignore it, say you're right or take offense? Because as the one that listens to your made up arguments I think I'll begin to charge a fee When the waitress gets your order wrong at some odd restaurant Do you ask her to correct it and then go get what you want? Or is it more satisfactory for you to complain a lot? Well, not tipping her would help you save Is this really all an effort to create a little storm Something interesting to keep yourself from ever feeling bored? Cos the thing I just can't figure out is who all this is for I guess I can't stop you anyway

The good times and bad times They all run together And now it's just you in my mind The days pass, the years pass It's hard to remember The reason I left you behind It's been so long Since I've seen you around Did you stay, did you move outta town It's been so long Life is up, life is down, I wonder Are you missing me now I said Hey, are you missing me now The feelings, the heartache It all felt so real But what happened when time grabbed our hands We've grown up, got new clothes So, if wounds have healed Then just why still don't I understand It's been so long Since I've seen you around Did you stay, did you move outta town It's been so long Life is up, life is down, I wonder Are you missing me now I said Hey, are you missing me now I said Hey, are you missing me now

I just went to a crappy coffee house There were too many people talking and the music was too loud I went to a crappy coffee house I stood in line too long and waited on my coffee for an hour I went to a crappy coffee house today I just dined in the crappiest cafe Oh, it was awful and that's not something that I normally say I dined in the crappiest cafe today I just ate at the world's worst bakery Well you could call it that but both my ex and I would disagree I ate at the world's worst bakery We split a muffin and it still cost each of us three eighty-three I ate at the world's worst bakery today I just left my least favorite coffee bar And so did she so now I'm driving by myself inside my car I left my least favorite coffee bar Today was horrible and I would probably give it half a star I left my least favorite coffee bar today Today, today

Riding on a train and passing through the station Don't know my location or my destination I'm one of the few Got nothing to do Cos here I am, a-thinking again Windows fogging up, I'm sure outside it's freezing Here inside the train car, I don't feel the season Outside of the snow I wouldn't have known Cos here I am, a-thinking again We romanticize, idealize, and fantasize daily But I find we don't realize how romantic the mundane is Now I can't complain I still feel the same Cos here I am, a-thinking again People standing up, the platform soon approaches Now I question methods of my locomotion How far have I come? What should I have done? Well, here I am, a-thinking again

Tonight we'll speak again Our scripted monologues You'll tell me how you're proud of me And have been all along And though you hardly ask I guess I've been okay Your ordinary vagaries Give credence to my rage Every time you say my name I hear you The answers that you have You're grateful to have found But I wonder, would you've searched had I not been around? I know you better than you know yourself You wouldn't get heard by anybody else A little bit of you He lies inside of me But since the flowers bloomed last year He's all too hard to see Every time you say my name I hear you

I asked spring if she was ready for summer to arrive She folded her arms and closed her eyes I inquired how fun she thought summer was to be She said, I just hope she plays with me I asked summer how she felt about autumn She said, why would I even care if she comes? She doesn't understand how I think or who I am And I highly doubt she ever can Out goes the old, in comes the new Out goes the old, in comes the new I asked autumn how she felt about winter's approach She said, I do all I can, you know She drives me wild sometimes, but I love her, she's fine And I know it's hard to change her mind I asked winter how she felt about spring taking her place She slowly massaged her wrinkled face She told me there are days where you think it all has changed Then you realize it's always been that way Out goes the young, in comes the old Out goes the old, in comes the new

You know what's weird? That day to day Nothing really seems to change but Pretty soon everything's different You go about your life but one day You realize you're not the same Person you used to be then Time catches up with you And I'm trying my best to Everyone around me now is fleeting Everyone is finding what they're needing Everyone around me now is falling To the ground For no one that's falling is around So thank heaven for small favors I know I will sure need them later Time catches up with you And I wish that I could too Everyone around me now is fleeting Everyone is finding what they're needing Everyone around me now is falling To the ground For no one that's falling is around

So I've been spending a little too much Of my old man's money on gas and such Cos I think I've begun losing touch Where can I keep my toothbrush? Sometime before I could see my own face Although I can't say just when it was replaced With a different guy; he just wasn't the same Where should I put my suitcase Hey, I don't wanna go Hey, I don't wanna stay here alone Time isn't infinite, if it was I could live long enough to do all the drugs But anyway i wouldn't be one who does Where can I put my hairbrush? Can you recall such a time in the past Before the whole world started moving so fast? I guess I was foolish to think it would last So where should I place my backpack? Hey, I don't wanna go Hey, I don't wanna stay here alone I'm torn apart if I'm perfectly clear Because I don't want to come off insincere And I guess it's better I don't disappear So thank you for letting me stay here Thank you for letting me stay here

Misery is trying to control what we have Fooled ourselves into thinking we can So I'll make it up as I go along And I'll look back to the vacuum And thank my lucky stars I'm here Indifference negates the point of existence Curiosity's creativity is the skill of man So I'll make it up as I go along And I'll look towards it, the darkness And thank my lucky stars I'm here Happiness is taking credit for coincidences What we attribute to our mortal hand So I'll make it up as I go along And I'll begin to continue And thank my lucky stars I'm here

Spending my time with you is something I missed I insist we do this a little more We still do what we do, you're you, I am me, so I see You might be the girl next door Too close to perfect, the world's on your side I know that one day you'll fly So, what if I told you what's been on my mind But when it's time Reason would say to us that something is there But as I stare, I can barely agree Floating away, it was too good to be true, for I knew Me and you would never be You've got the fairness, the beauty, the pride Every virtue you'll find And I'd like to elaborate on what's in my mind But when it's time

Today I read an aquarium burnt down It's what they said, but I'm holding on some doubt Cos in my head, the water put it out But they wrote it, so it must be true And then today, on a normal traffic stop Instead of tazed, this kid was murdered by a cop Is that the way police are slowing people up? Cos they wrote it, but it can't be true Now a disease, I read, is coming to attack I don't believe some random guy just ate a bat, Or the Chinese took time to make it in a lab But they wrote it, so it must be true And then I saw some guy had walked into a school Within in the law, he bought a gun, but he was cruel As they were drawing he shot kids right off their stools, Well, they wrote it, but it can't be true

It wasn't much too long ago That I walked out and made a journey up the road It becomes a dream the longer it seems to go It seems the things that you desire They've had a bearing over what has conspired But if you told that to me, I'd've called you a liar So my dear, I would love for you to tell Everything in me you notice in yourself Would you've found it had I been somebody else? No, no I wonder all too often now If you're not searching, can you ever be found Do you see yourself or somebody else around So my dear, still the course is apt to change By those near to me and those I've lost in name Altered by a breath from years and miles away, oh yeah, oh yeah Will the people that surround me Ever wonder why they found me Oh my father, oh my mother Oh my sister, will they wonder