Bullet (2004)




















Trainwreck lyrics - Mat Kearney

I'm past the point of returning
For you I'm ruined and broken
There is no way of me turning
You've got my heart in the open

I see it shrink in the distance
In the glow of your glory
And I never will miss this
Bottom line of the story

I see the ocean come crashing
Under lavender skies
I see clouds come flashing
Now tell me, who am I?

Your're the air that I'm breathing
While I'm lying there sleeping
You're the cool of the evening
Now you got me believing,
Singing...

[CHORUS:]
Trainwreck, I'm a trainwreck for
Trainwreck, I'm a trainwreck
Trainwreck. I'm a trainwreck for
You (Oh lord. yes I am) [x2]

I'll kiss it all with a farewell
Goodbye, how you doing
And let it echo in stairwells
All these songs of my ruin

Now watch me climb my own cross
Without a loss for these words
As I motion a moment's silence
Let it fly with the birds

All else I got without you
Is mucha ado about nothing
I'd rather stand by you gone
Than on the throne of another

You had me all from the start
I count it lost every part
I'll sing it out in the dark
You've got a grip on my heart

[CHORUS X4]

Where could I turn from you
The darkest nights, you know you'd find a way
What else have I to do
What words are there left to say
You are the air that I breathe in
Here is my heart I give
You are all of my reason
You are my reason to live

Undeniable lyrics - Mat Kearney

[Chorus:]
It's undeniable how brilliant you are
In an unreliable world you shine like a star
It's unforgettable now that we've come this far
It's unmistakable that you're undeniable

February 5th, Friday morning, purple dawn
Broke a yawn, as I stepped through the fog, like I stepped to a song
A moment like a poem, you wish you could hold it
I shut my eyes like it's frozen, it's gone when I open
It slipped past the clouds right there where it lingered
Like your band and a girl could slip through your fingers
My feet hit the ground like a beat for the lonely
ON a path beaten down by the crowds in the morning
If only I could touch past the phony
If only they were there now to hold me
As the questions keep droning

You're the only one who stuck it out last night
The only other one who caught the other line
You're the only one when this world collides
The one that I can't deny

[Chorus]

It's my last year here
My first class moved to portable 'a'
Under construction since summer
And it's cold today
I can see my breath, and what's left of the west parking lot
And all the spaces that we fought
And it all seems forgotten, left in the bottom
In past piles of rubble, in puddles of rain water
That hurt last night when I left like that
When I won't come back
Speaking my peace to the past
I can't help but wonder, who is this wind at my back
A whisper to walk on, come on from all that

[Chorus]

How am I gonna take it away in this winter wind
You found me on a summer breeze
How am I gonna run away when the autumn breaks
Now that you found me in the spring
Come on and sing it out

Bullet lyrics - Mat Kearney

Yesterday I was sitting recalling reminiscing
Trying to remember whenever there was nobody listening
Before the hugging and the kissing, the booing and the hissing
All I had was just a vision, all I had was my ambition
Your love without condition kept me swinging when I'm missing
My eyes upton the prize kept me striving for the mission
When I was down for the count, falling out of the commission
I can hear your voice now screaming out, 'son, listen'
Get on up, don't give up, though you struck opposition
Time to buck all that stuff, find out what's your condition
Like a pull in my soul, like keys in my ignition
Call you all my commission, my love and my vision and

[bridge]
It doesn't matter if they call me wrong
Doesn't matter if they steal my song
Doesn't matter if we're all alone
It doesn't matter at all

[chorus]
'Cause I would take a bullet for you
I would take a bullet for you
I would cross any line, I'd swim across the sea
I would take a bullet for you
I would take a bullet for you
I would lost it all, take my fall
To show you it's for real

Remember when we used to flow together back in the park
You would slang guitar licks under stars in the dark
You'd say let's grow together as this world falls aprat
I was holding on to hope but hardly holding a spark
All the rhymes that I wrote you'd call dope for the start
I'd be like a pure note, like a quote on the mark
You'ld go to every show and promote from the start
From the beginning we've been building much more than this art
Remember bearing scars in your car to impart your heart
You cared enough to call my bluff through the junk from the start
That's why you're holding onto half of my heart
You've been there through the times, through the nights that were dark and

[bridge]

[chorus]

Girl America lyrics - Mat Kearney

My girl America is just a youth in this world
Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls
And though her age reads she's just a young girl
The age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled
Through the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept
The weight that she felt last night when she slept
And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past
Seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class
Though they're right there with her, her brothers and her sisters
A natural born leader even when her peers dis her
My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her
Some are preying on her magazine ads, sex, drama
Smoking marijuana, longer for a father to call her, 'daughter'
She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation
And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting
My girl, I know this love you're chasing

[chorus]
My girl America's crying when she's lying on her bed at night
I can see that she's screaming when she's dreaming for her freedom
My girl America's dying while she's trying just to stop this fight
Don't stop believing, my girl America

Boys with hungry eyes have been beating her door
Telling her that's what she's for, trying to rob at her core
Then leave calling her a whore, but still she knows there's more
I know she knows there's more because there is a voice she can't ignore
'Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation
In God we trust engraved on the treasures of her nation
And the void that the boys can't fill
With the tipping of the bottle or the popping of the pill
But still most of her friends don't care as they glare
Ready to drown down the funnel as they frown down the tunnel
They stumble and they tumble breaking down into rubble
My girl America, stop can't you see
It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be
But how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way
It's for you that I pray with hope for a brighter day
And so I say, your deliverance is coming

[chorus]

Faith like a child from your first birth
You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt
And I see each tear and every scar
The hands that have held you where you are
And I can see we've strayed so far
A king born under that morning star
As a crown of thorns was placed to earase
Each tear that's touched your face
And his palms and sides were pierced with spears
He hung in love just to draw you near
My girl, out of this whole world
Can't you see this is where we started?

[chorus]

In The Middle lyrics - Mat Kearney

I meant it all and every part
And every word right from the start
I'll never let this love fall in the middle
'Cause you know you broke the hardest part
You know you broke the hardest heart
I'll never let this love fall in the middle
Through it all

Fifteen years old in a sea of blank faces
Swimming bold against a stream that's mocking as it races
In these halls, mountain high under a tangerine sky
Crack a smile just to hide the race that's inside
Eighteen years old bags packed and a pass for the rail
One last look at the past as it drowns in the hail
One in a million, still I keep feeling you keep me from a fall
A world to lose coming back with you tall
Through it all

[chorus]
No parachutes or safety nets here
One foot in the water to face these fears
Coming out strong like I can't be wrong
I said eh, I won't fall in the middle

Twenty five here I am with freshman LPs
One life to write one, two years to repeat
Behind a curtain, uncertain if an encore's in store
Tuck my shoulder like a soldier to knock down the door
Thirty something here I am running with kisses for one girl
These scars upon my sleeve still casting out my pearls
Throw each stone microphone like it's my last turn
With a kiss to the abyss and watch the ripples return
Through it all

[chorus]

And I'm gonna be alright, I'm gonna be alright
With you by my side
And I said I'm gonna be alright, I'm gonna be alright
With you through this fight
Through it all

[chorus]

I meant it all and every part
And every word right from the start
I'll never let this love fall in the middle
Through it all

Renaissance lyrics - Mat Kearney

This is my renaissance
This is my one response
This is the way I say I love you
This is my second chance
This is my one romance
This is the cutting line
On which I stand to show you

It happened fast in a flash just this evening
I hit the gas, horn blast, brakes screaming
Car crash, broken glass, broke my dreaming
I hit the dash so fast my ears are ringing
My sister's on the right side just slightly leaning
I grabbed her hand hard until she started breathing
My brothers in the back jaw cracked from the beating
The breath in my chest has slipped and I'm sinking
Blinking through diamond spider webs of cracked glass
I'm trying to remember all the words you said in the past
Through the ash, siren screams and red beams
I hear you sing softly to me

[chorus]
I can be the wall when you fall down
Find me on the rocks when you break down
I heard it in the song when you call out
But I got to say now it's got to change

This is my broken heart
This is my bleeding start
This is the way I've come to know you
This is my winding road
This is my way back home
This is the narrow door you know that I will walk through

I got a letter today of why she went away
She said 'it's better this way, you knew I never could stay'
Half empty closets and frames, all that's left to my name
As she left in the rain and left my heart on a chain
Three years I've built this two face tower for hours on a lease
You gave me one yellow flower that said rest in peace
IN pieces I've broken open to think too much or just enough
Alone to trust midst the rubble and the dust
Humbled, it took this much to break down and understand
Spent half my life on castles made of sand
Tossed in the breakers in the palm of your hand
Now I can finally stand

[chorus]

This is my renaissance
This is my one response
This is the way I say I love you

Call Me lyrics - Mat Kearney

Call me anything but lonely
Through a stone disown me
Let'em know I'll never, ever be the same

'Cause they all head on home in the morning
Get on gone when it's storming
Let'em know I'll never kiss it all away

When the morning sun comes
You'll know I didn't run
'Cause when the rain came
It still never changed
Through the laughter and the tears
The pain and my fears
I'll stay, I'll wait right here

[REPEAT ALL]

These scars upon my sleeve
Won't get the best of me
You've had yours and I've had my own defeats
This heart upon your sleeve
I'll tread gently
I won't rush in and run away on a breeze

When the morning sun comes
You'll know I didn't run
'Cause when the rain came
It still never changed
Through the laughter and the tears
The pain and my fears
I'll stay, I'll wait right here

Poor Boy lyrics - Mat Kearney

Like a breath of fresh air and the wind at my back
Toe to heel with strong strides taking miles off the map
In this journey called life where I've walked so far
Under the heat of your sun and the shine of your stars
Step by step I've crept, I've crawled, and I've run
Felt the palm of your hand and the barrel of death's gun
I ran for my life stood strong through strife
From a miscarried life to waiting for my wife like
I heard it sung a thousand strong all night long
Heard heaven's bell going something long, it's like
I've been there in total despair
Now I've tasted and I've touched
A breath of fresh air

'Cause I do live and I hope and pray
For something better and brighter today
For something there for something there

[CHORUS:]
'Cause I was just a poor boy living in a poor world
But you gave me more love that set me free
'Cause I was just a poor boy living in a poor world
But you have gave me more love that set me free

Like road trips on open roads
Windows down sun setting and fresh new clothes
Shoes off so you can stop reflect on all these paths unfolding
With these staffs that are pulling in this world so controlling
It's not always best to take the interstate
Sometimes the most is on the windy coast way
'Cause wide is the path pulling astray
Narrow is the truth in these days
But all the while I hear a still small voice say
You climbed the cliffs rocked the desert on your very own
Swam the seas, sang the songs with the sweetest tones
The beaches you've combed, moons you've roamed the love you've shown
But all the while a voice calls you home

'Cause I do live and I hope and pray
For something better and brighter today
For something there for something there

[CHORUS]

Walking Away lyrics - Mat Kearney

Can this hip hop kid
Make something priceless...timeless
Or will it all last a month

Can this guitar song
Make it worth it when you heard it
Or is it all just a front

Nineteen years on the road about to go under
Felt the breeze of the trees, the roar of your thunder
Been a long road wandering for cover
Now my cover's blown, I'll find my way back home

[CHORUS:]
I'm walking away, I hear you call my name
I'm walking away (walking away), away from yesterday
I'm walking away (walking away), I cannot stay another day
Walking away from yesterday

[REPEAT ALL]

Nineteen years on the road about to go under
Felt the breeze of the trees, the roar of your thunder
Been a long road wandering for cover
Now my cover's blown, I'll find my way back home

[CHORUS x2]

Tomorrow lyrics - Mat Kearney

[Chorus:]
I hear a voice crying out from the bellies of their mommas
Hold on for today don't worry about tomorrow
Though the rains of today seem to fall with sorrow
Let me be and we'll see this life for tomorrow

I hear a cry going out in the middle of the night
Under the scatter of the stars from a voice cracked with fright
And as the tears stripe cheeks from pain running south
The taste of salt hits the corner of her mouth
Resting on tied toungues with no breath left to speak
Sick of throwing up with no bread left to eat
Tired and confused from disillusionment
Sunny days turn to grey and away he went
Ripping the hooks out your heart from the promises at dark
The words found their mark as the sheets came apart

Every spoken word broken
As he flipped you a token
Kiss on the cheek as his feet found the open door
What's in store for you he didn't question
Shook his burden to the floor to leave you guessing
About the future and what it will unfold
But you're still standing there rockin' it so bold like

[CHORUS x2]

Holding on these songs of hope
I cannot sing them without you
Holding on, holding on

You can't just point a finger and say it's alright
Make a trip downtown and put it out of sight
Because two came together so strong one night
And two wrongs don't make one right
Giving a voice to the voiceless saying it's choiceless
'Cause they're priceless my princess

I feel the kicks and the churns give me a turn
And a shot at this world to fight the fight
To beat my plight and let my light shine
In this dark time with all its ways of wearing crime
And let this world drown in these ultrasounds
Hearing this heart beats speak sweet so profound
From beat down to higher ground
Where hope abounds with love that astounds
Les Miserables this ain't no miserable daughter
Calling you Cossette 'cause God will be your father

[CHORUS x2]

Holding on these songs of hope
I cannot sing them without you
Holding on, holding on

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Better Than I Used To Be (Acoustic) lyrics - Mat Kearney

We used to be kids in the backseat wastin' time
Talkin' bout' high hopes and day dreams
Never thought love never thought life
Could take us far beyond what we believed
As long as I got your love next to me

Better than I used to be

Mmm

I been chasin' this dream
I'm so glad you understand
Climbing up a mountain, would it leave you hardly standing
Things don't go just the way you planned it
But I never thought we'd have, so much to take for granted
You never know what you got till it's gone
Guess I never know cause I know you're my only one

We used to be kids in the backseat wastin' time
Talkin' bout' high hopes and day dreams
Never thought love never thought life
Could take us far beyond what we believed
As long as I got your love next to me

Better than I used to be
Better than I used to be

It's been a long day alone
And I can hardly stand it
My plane leaves tomorrow
But my heart has already landed
Things didn't go, just the way I planned it
But I never thought we'd have, so much to take for granted

You never know what you got till it's gone
Guess I never know cause I know you're my only one
You're only one

We used to be kids in the backseat wastin' time
Talkin' bout' high hopes and day dreams
Never thought love never thought life
Could take us far beyond what we believed
As long as I got your love next to me

Better than I used to be, mmm
Better than I used to be

We used to be kids in the backseat wastin' time
Talkin' bout' high hopes and day dreams
Never thought love never thought life
Could take us far beyond what we believed
As long as I got your love next to me

Better than I used to be
Better than I used to be, oh
Better than I used to be
Better than I used to be

Christmas Miracle lyrics - Christmas Miracle

December nights
Used to never quite burn so bright
Like the orange in your eyes
In the yuletide firelight

And the singing out on the streets
Kids are waiting on the snow
How they feel I finally know

It's a Christmas miracle
That you gave to me
Wasn't hanging in a stocking babe
Or waiting under the tree

I used to not understand
What all the fuss this time of year was for
You're taking my cold cold heart
And making it warm

It's a Christmas miracle

Some people might say
I was a Grinch in my old ways
Til you came my way
With the hope of the holidays

And the singing out on the streets
Kids are waiting on the snow
How they feel I finally know

It's a Christmas miracle
That you gave to me
Wasn't hanging in a stocking babe
Or waiting under the tree

I used to not understand
What all the fuss this time of year was for
You're taking my cold cold heart
And making it warm

It's a Christmas miracle

It's the best time of year
Riding on a one horse open sleigh
With a dear
Now I understand

It's a Christmas miracle
That you gave to me
Wasn't hanging in a stocking babe
Or waiting under the tree

I used to not understand
What all the fuss this time of year was for
You're taking my cold cold heart
And making it warm, warm, warm

I used to not understand
What all the fuss for mistletoe was for
Come a little closer babe
And give me some more
Christmas miracle

Dancing In The Dark lyrics - Mat Kearney

Get up in the evening,and I ain't got nothing to say
I come home in the morning,I go to bed feeling the same way
I ain't nothing but tired, Man I'm just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby I could use just a little help

You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire without a spark
This guns for hire even if we're dancing in the dark

Message keeps getting clearer, radio's on and I'm moving round the place
I check myself out in the mirror, I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man I ain't going nowhere, I'm just sitting in a dump like this
There's something happening somewhere, baby I just know that there is

You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire without a spark
This guns for hire even if we're dancing in the dark

you sit around getting older, there's a joke here somewhere and it's on me
I'll shake this world off my shoulders, come baby this laughs on me
Stay on the streets of this town, they'll be carving you up alright
They say you got to stay hungry, hey baby I'm just about starving tonight
I'm dying for some action, I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction, come on now baby give me just one look

You can't start a fire, sitting around crying over broken hearts
This guns for hire even if we're dancing in the dark

You can't start a fire, worrying about your little world falling apart
This guns for hire even if we're dancing in the dark

Edge Of The World lyrics - Mat Kearney

C'mon get your hand in mine
Gonna see all we can find
The rainbows grow and the wild wind blows
Gonna leave all the rest behind

Cause I might have found
The edge of the world
Heaven rises inside your voice

Do you see what I can see
Singing ba pa da ba ba ba
Dream a little dream with me
Singing la la la la la la
Painting outside the lines
Maybe we can find the edge of the world
Maybe we can find the edge of the world

Jumping into the deep
Of all that we want to be
See the colors in my head
The purple and the red
Feel it falling down so free

Cause I might have found
The end of time
Oceans falling to your eyes

[Chorus]

Kings & Queens (Acoustic) lyrics - Mat Kearney & Jillian Jacqueline

I don't need much with you my love
'Cause the champagne drains and the airplane fame turns into rust
I don't need much with you my love
'Cause the Hollywood Hills won't ever make me feel as good as us
You got me singin'

We don't need no bankroll make us feel alive
We don't need no Benzo, to feel like we can ride
Richer than Solomon with you by my side
We'll be Kings and Queens in our own mind
We don't need no jet plane feel like we can fly
We don't need no gold chain just to watch it shine
24 karat lives we don't got the time
We'll be Kings and Queens in our own mind

I got everything I'll ever need
You can cash every check try to buy a respect that's incomplete
I got everything I'll ever need
Don't gotta make it to the top yeah to know what I got
With you and me
You got me singin'

We don't need no bankroll make us feel alive
We don't need no Benzo, to feel like we can ride
Richer than Solomon with you by my side
We'll be Kings and Queens in our own mind
We don't need no jet plane feel like we can fly
We don't need no gold chain just to watch it shine
24 karat lives we don't got the time
We'll be Kings and Queens in our own mind

All the feels tonight are real
All that's real you can't buy or steal
All the feels tonight are real
All that's real you can't buy or steal

We don't need no bankroll make us feel alive
We don't need no Benzo, to feel like we can ride
Richer than Solomon with you by my side
We'll be Kings and Queens in our own mind
We don't need no jet plane feel like we can fly
We don't need no gold chain just to watch it shine
24 karat lives we don't got the time
We'll be Kings and Queens in our own mind
We'll be Kings and Queens in our own mind

Times Like This lyrics - Mat Kearney (feat. Devon Gilfillian)

Everybody's tryna say
Say what's on their mind
But somebody's gotta stay
Stay and see the other side
Baby, we ain't tryna run
We were never gonna hide
If the levee's gonna break
Then let the river rise

'Cause we got love for times like this
Times where nothing else makes sense
No, I don't know what comes next
But we got love for times like this

Everybody feels afraid
Afraid of what they find
When the mountain in the way
Feels too hard to climb
Well, the tide is gonna turn
And the sky ain't gonna fall
No, I don't care what you heard
We gonna make it through it all

'Cause we got love for times like this
Times where nothing else makes sense
No, I don't know what comes next
But we got love for times like this, yeah

Times like this
Times like this, like this
Times like this, like this, like this, yeah

Everybody's tryna say
Say what's on their mind
But somebody's gotta stay
Stay and see the other side

'Cause we got love for times like this
Times where nothing else makes sense
No, I don't know what comes next
But we got love for times like this

We got love for times like this
Times where nothing else makes sense
No, I don't know what comes next
We got love for times like this

Times like this
Times like this, like this, like this
Times like this
Times like this, like this, like this

Walking Over The Water lyrics - Mat Kearney

I raised my glass toward heaven
On that night that she was born
Praised your name and gave you thanks
And I bought the house a round
She came like a thief of glory
Stole my pain and gave me life
These tears I thought were long, long gone
Fell like rivers from my eyes
Was that you walking over the water
When the sunlight that came pouring through the cracks
Was that you shining in the face my a daughter
Never thought you’d come again to take me back
Raised my eyes toward heaven
She was floatin’ down our stairs
Backpack and a bright red skirt
And a river of long black hair
He came like a thief of glory
And he stole her heart that day
Ever since she started crawlin’
I always knew she’d sail away
Was that you walking over the water
Well, I watched my baby slippin’ through the cracks
Walked the isle and gave away my daughter
Never thought there’d come a day she would look back
Raised my fist toward heaven
From that dark forsaken road
Blue lights flashed on broken glass
The siren left me cold
He came like a thief of glory
And he left a finger prints
Should I thank you, should I blame you
In a storm that won’t relent
Was that you walking over the water
While the ocean came pouring through the cracks
Was that you calling out Adam’s daughter
I never thought you’d come again to take her back
You always said you’d come again to take us back
Ooooo Ooooo
Ooooo Ooooo

Walls lyrics - ROZES & Mat Kearney

I've been tryna find your heart
But you keep burnin' all the bridges to where you are
I've been lookin' for a spark
But you just disappear and leave me here in the dark

Will it really make a difference
If nobody's gonna listen?
How could you be close to me physically
But feel so distant?
Feels like you drew a long line
And now I'm on the wrong side
And if we don't believe the same, dream the same
You'd leave me on the outside

Behind your walls
You build them up so tall
You don't even hear me calling
Brick by brick I try to tear them down
But you just stand your ground
You don't even hear the sound of
All my canons raging

Behind your walls
Walls
Walls
Behind your walls

I try to find the words
No matter what I say I swear they go unheard
And they scatter like the leaves
I can tell by the look in your eyes
Though that you don't wanna see

Behind your walls
You build them up so tall
You don't even hear me calling
Brick by brick I try to tear them down
But you just stand your ground
You don't even hear the sound of
All my canons raging

Behind your walls
Walls
Walls
Behind your walls

If I could change what made you this way
I'd buy up that house of blame
And burn it down in our name
But you just stay

Behind your walls
Walls
Walls
Behind your walls

Behind your walls
Walls
Walls
Behind your walls

I've been tryna find your heart
But you keep burnin' all the bridges to where you are

White Christmas lyrics - White Christmas

(originally by Bing Crosby)

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

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