Michael Shynes

When you put your hand in my jacket
I’m thinking so irrational
You flew me international now

We could spend hours reading the signals
But that’s so unoriginal
What if we took this back to my house

Under all these lights
I gotta take a minute take a minute take a minute to calm down
But I feel like

If I told you I was ready right this minute do you think that it would turn you on
If I told you I was ready right this minute would you just run off and tell someone

I don’t want to feel like we’re wasting time

Tell me should I go and call up a taxi
We can make out foreplay in the backseat
Please tell me now how that all sounds

You can sleep in while I make breakfast
Watch cartoons and talk about exes
And if you’re happy stick around

I just feel like this is worth the risk
I’ve never felt a fire like this

If I told you I was ready right this minute do you think that it would turn you on
If I told you I was ready right this minute would you just run off and tell someone

Right here right now
We’re running out of things to talk about
Right Here right now
I’m about to let the truth come out

If I told you I was ready right this minute do you think that it would turn you on
Can you tell me now
If I told you I was ready right this minute would you just run off and tell someone
Can’t keep my feet on the ground

Right here right now
I just wanna go and lay you down
It's clear somehow
that I don’t have a single doubt

If I told you I was ready right this minute do you think that it would turn you on

Too many days in the darkness
Without a glimpse of the light
Runnin' tired and broken and scared
But I swear I’ll never give up the fight
I see you broken and beaten
Hat pulled down over your eyes
Every part of you wants to surrender
But darlin' you were meant to survive

With every start, we are born again
Open your heart, spend less time in your head

Just like a seed in a garden, you will grow to be tall
Staring out over miles of land without ever wanting to build up walls
Lift me up in your branches, we can watch the sun rise
Just a couple of bruised up souls that believe that it was worth one more try

With every start, we are born again
Open your heart, spend less time in your head

On the street
I’m just smiling big at everybody
Two more blocks
And I’ll be at your door
Overcome brother
Nothing keeps me melancholy
Spread my wings
So damn ready to soar.

And there couldn’t be a better taste
After everything I’ve faced
Send a little luck my way
Send a little bright sun ray to hit my skin
A dream that I cannot erase
Keep it in a little case

Truth be told
Is I’ve never felt better
And if I’m honest with myself
I am so glad we’re together
Because this new state of mind
That I’ve struggled to find
Can now be shared with you because you showed me the light

In my head
Deep inside of my mind
I love you in a way that has been hard to define
Let's go out
Let's go dancing tonight
Adrenaline is pumping
Engines up for the flight

And there couldn’t be a better taste
After everything I’ve faced
Send a little luck my way
Send a little bright sun ray to hit my skin
A dream that I cannot erase
Keep it in a little case

Truth be told
Is I’ve never felt better
And if I’m honest with myself
I am so glad we’re together
Because this new state of mind
That I’ve struggled to find
Can now be shared with you because you showed me the light

Have you ever walked the high pass
Watched the northern lights flash
Took a photograph on a Paris street

Have you ever climbed a tall tree
Asked someone for mercy
Gave something away that wasn't free
I don't wanna get a vision of you stuck in my head
Because I know that you were meant to be wilder
Another night of television while you're lying in bed
Is slowly gonna be the death of you

Have you ever really lived
(You talk a big game but)
It's just a matter of time
Have you ever really lived
(We're all on the clock here)
Oooh, Oooh, Oooh
In the blink of an eye you're a goner
So for once in your life try the deeper water
Feel the pull of whatever is out there
And ask yourself this once
Have you ever really lived

Have you ever used your hands to
Build something from scratch that
Wasn't even for you (have you ever)
When you hear the waves are crashing
Over Nazare man
Don't you wanna see them

And I don't wanna get a vision of you stuck in my head
Because I know that you were meant to be wilder
Another night of television while you're stuck in your head
Is that really how it's gonna be

Have you ever really lived
(You talk a big game but)
It's just a matter of time
Have you ever really lived
(We're all on the clock here)
Oooh, Oooh, Oooh
In the blink of an eye you're a goner
So for once in your life try the deeper water
Feel the pull of whatever is out there
And ask yourself this once
Have you ever really lived

Just be honest now is this really how you wanna go out
And if you don't it ain't too late to turn it around

Have you ever really lived

I'm comatose in the hotel bathroom
Can’t lose the wolf on the night of a full moon
I left a card on the nightstand for you

Running late, I’m a ticking time bomb
Radio plays only static no songs
I turned right then it all went so wrong

Walking on fire in the waves of desire
But it's only giving me the blues
High on a wire with the eyes of the choir
Quite prepared to sing the darkest news

I made a mess that nobody needed
All my cash and my love depleted
I shouldn’t be here but my heart keeps beating

Still the earth keeps spinning on its axis
Keep waking up and I call it practice
Digging deep but I don't know where the truth is
Where do you hide it

Walking on fire in the waves of desire
But it's only giving me the blues
High on a wire with the eyes of the choir
Quite prepared to sing the darkest news

Place your bets on me
And I’ll keep you waiting

Walking on fire just a man on a wire
Who keeps searching for the greatest view
So turn up the heat I can still feel my feet
And I’m walking straight toward you
Straight toward you

Do you remember how we'd kiss in the kitchen
As the coffee pours
By the end my face was sore from your stubble
But I still wanted more
And all the miles that we spent in the air
Where we're going I don't care
I'm just so glad that you were there
That night in the restaurant

Because I got to say

So, I'm in love with you
What are we gonna do
So, I'm in love with you
What are we gonna do now

You make me feel loved and treasured
You are water in the desert
My fox, my missing puzzle piece
You make me loved, protected
Boy we could talk forever
On the couch sipping bourbon, please

And in the morning we will start up the French press
I'll be thinking to myself
How did I get so lucky
Your heart is sweet like honey

And in the evenings when we settle in bed
It's like you're in my head
How did I get so lucky
So I say it again
And again

So, I'm in love with you
What are we gonna do
So, I'm in love with you
What are we gonna do now

Make me feel loved and treasured
You are water in the desert
My fox, my missing puzzle piece
You make me loved, protected
Boy we could talk forever
On the couch sipping bourbon, please

Making out in the back of that Prius
No bison there to interrupt is
In your favorite spot behind my ear
Where nothing in the world can touch us
Sometimes you take my breath away
I hope I never forget to say

So, I'm in love with you
What are we gonna do
So, I'm in love with you
What are we gonna do now

Make me feel loved and treasured
You are water in the desert
My fox, my missing puzzle piece
You make me loved, protected
Boy we could talk forever
On the couch sipping bourbon, please

So, I'm in love with you
What are we gonna do
So, I'm in love with you
What are we gonna do now

Long nights get out of the city
Where the stars are shooting now
Lawn chairs and baskets full of sugar
No one hears us when we shout
Got a fire lit let’s smoke until we quit
Or ‘til your parents find us out
But even if they do we’ll sneak around
Breakneck speed and 1 2 3
So we can overcome the bloodhounds
Go double back through Misty’s garden
And I’ll meet you at the edge of town
Spending all this time with the sky, we learned that aliens exist
But no one will believe us, so we asked about the monoliths

I’m dancing in the silence
Hearing music all the time
Feeling so happy it upsets strangers
But I won’t apologize
It’s got a lot to do with you

I learned it from my mother
How to keep it undercover
Raising hell up in Hollywood
A young actress will teach you lots about a life that’s made of firewood
Shade trees or hidden beaches were the places I found true
I never wanted attention I just wanted you

I’m dancing in the silence
Hearing music all the time
Feeling so happy it upsets strangers
But I won’t apologize
It’s got a lot to do with you

You hear it in the places you know
But never on the radio

I’m dancing in the silence
Hearing music all the time
Feeling so happy it upsets strangers
But I won’t apologize
It’s got a lot to do with you

Let me welcome you to harvest
Would you mind if we got started
Cause I see you as a rolling field
Trapped inside a studio apartment

Let me hold onto you
Until you can see every play
And I will tell you something
That I figured out the hard way

Heaven knows I do find a piece of paradise
Hidden in the weeds when I
Am just me in real life
A love that no one can take away
Because it gets a little more true every day
When I, am just me in real life

When the cold gets in your jacket
And sometimes you just hear static
It doesn't mean you gotta change your waves
That's just life somedays

Don't go messing with your heart
Don't you go messing with your heart
That's the only thing that beats the same
And reminds you from where you came

Heaven knows I do find a piece of paradise
Hidden in the weeds when I
Am just me in real life
(Just me in real life)
A love that no one can take away
Because it gets a little more true every day
When I, am just me in real life
(Just me in real life)

Ooo, can you feel it feel it, feel it
Who are you deep down
(Ooo, can you feel it)
When you're not trying to be someone else
Who are you deep down
We are not trying to be somebody else
Cause it's me in real life

Heaven knows I do find a piece of paradise
Hidden in the weeds when I
Get to see you in real life
It's just you in real life

Heaven knows I do find a piece of paradise
Hidden in the weeds when I (it is paradise)
Am just me in real life (just me in real life)
(Just be you in real life)
A love that no one can take away
It gets a little more true every day (it's only getting more true)
When I, am just me in real life
(Just me in real life)

Heaven knows I do find a piece of paradise
Hidden in the weeds when I (who are you deep down)
Am just me in real life
(When you're not trying to be someone else)
A love that no one can take away
It gets a little more true every day
When I, am just me in real life
(Just me in real life)

Lately
It's like my body has gotten tired
I'm not inspired
The way I once was
When I was stronger
I'd always take the long way home

But I know
It won't get better
Simply pretending that it will
I got to fight it
And feel the sunshine
Reflecting off the window sill

Sparrows flying up and over both our halos
I think we'll take a drive along the back roads
And I'll hold you close
I think I finally understand
You're never too old to be young again

Maybe I will stop thinking
About all the reasons
Why I should give up
And maybe that will allow me
To work around me
And keep all of your love

The smell of the air
Can still take you back there
To when you didn't care

Sparrows flying up and over both our halos
I think we'll take a drive along the back roads
And I'll hold you close
I think I finally understand
You're never too old to be young again

Hey it's amazing, the subtle games that you are playing
And you don’t even know I exist, but you have got me on your hitlist
And you’re conspiring, girl you are sexual and violent
Now you got this on your conscience, because now I’m unresponsive

Boy call your mother, tell her you love her, this might be it for you

Run through the fire, I’d walk the wire, I would sell everything I own
I’d swim the ocean, dance with the devil, I’d sell my soul to take you home

We can’t feel the floor underneath our feet, five shots through my chest as you watch me bleed
Every kick drum hit is a symphony, every brush of your curves is the air I breathe

You speak I am listening, sweat rolls girl you’re glistening
Slo mo pull me into the light, the light
There are people watching us, wishing they were obvious
Instead of giving into the fright, the fright

Boy call your mother, tell her you love her, this might be it for you

Run through the fire, I’d walk the wire, I would sell everything I own
I’d swim the ocean, dance with the devil, I’d sell my soul to take you home

One heart to survive when one just breaks
One slow suicide while one just takes and takes
One choice for the good of you but not the one you make
But one worth dying for if you saw her shake

We can’t feel the floor underneath our feet, I am listening
We can’t feel the floor underneath our feet, you are glistening

We don't need a destination
Let's go where the river’s taking us
Over fields and through the country
Letting go of everything but us
Over the rainbow

If we hold tight
We can chase the Mississippi through the night
Hundreds of miles away
The water is warm
Let's dip our toes right in and be reborn
I don't why we'd wait

Grab sunglasses and the atlas
We can prove we're smarter than a phone
Let's go where there's no reception
See if we can make it on our own
Breathe deep in your chest

If we hold tight
We can chase the Mississippi through the night
Hundreds of miles away
The water is warm
Let's dip our toes right in and be reborn
I don't why we'd wait

The water's warm
Let's be reborn
The water’s warm
Let's be reborn

We don't need a destination
Let's go where the river's taking us
Over fields and through the country
Letting go of everything but us

If we hold tight
We can chase the Mississippi through the night
Hundreds of miles away
The water is warm
Let's dip our toes right in and be reborn
I don't why we'd wait

hold tight
We can chase the Mississippi through the night
Hundreds of miles away
The water is warm
Let's dip our toes right in and be reborn
I don't why we'd wait

We don't need a destination
Let's go where the river's taking us

Somewhere in my head I'm still a white knight
Flying across the plains into my last fight
Somewhere in my head I'm still a hero
Worked my way back up from pretty much nothing

This is not that game with the bowling pins
We used to just fight for our lives
And if you die young and are born again
Please tell someone why

Somewhere in my head I'm still a white knight
Flying across the plains into my last fight
Somewhere in my head I'm still a hero
Worked my way back up from pretty much nothing
There's not much time
But I've got time to see it
There's not much time
But I've got time

In a different place
Or a different time it might just all work out
With a different word
Or a different rhyme you might live at my house
Sing my final battle cry, because

Somewhere in my head I'm still a white knight
Flying across the plains into my last fight
Somewhere in my head I'm still a hero
Worked my way back up from pretty much nothing

There's not much time
But I've got time, to see it
There's not much time
But I've got time

You leave me notes before you leave
In lipstick on the bathroom mirror
The way you love could part the sea
I'm thankful that you want me dear

Do you think about how these paths all lead us to somewhere
Do you think about traveling and growing old
A couple of kids when I was holding your hair back
Now we got our own future our own stretch of road

The way you dress up on a warm night
Still gives me the shivers
I will confess you to the starlight
When we go down to the river

Making up takes little time
Because you laugh when you get mad
And when I wrap my arms around you
Suddenly we just forget

Do you think about where we'll live and kids in the front yard
Do you think about traveling and growing old
Put a couple of fences up so dogs don't escape when
Mailman delivers us a pot of gold

The way you dress up on a warm night
Still gives me the shivers
I will confess you to the starlight
When we go down to the river

I used to fear the vast and great unknown
But now I'll never face that world alone

You leave me notes before you leave
In lipstick on the bathroom mirror
The way you love is shaking me
I'm thankful that you want me here

The way you dress up on a warm night
Still gives me the shivers
I will confess you to the starlight
When we go down to the river
(Can we go, can we go now)

The way you dress up on a warm night
Still gives me the shivers
You still give me the shivers

You owe everyone a favor
Watch the population rise
And if you want them to like you more
It only costs you who you are

Keep away from the ground
Live in the clouds
To the ones who have doubts
Release the hounds

I've been thinking lately
Bout the writing on the wall
How I've died for your approval
Like this now for way too long

It's like a nightmare, doing what you want
Just like a nightmare

It's such a nightmare, trying to keep everyone happy
Just a nightmare

Keep away from the ground
Live in the clouds
To the ones who have doubts
Release the hounds

Have you ever felt this free
Like I am you and you are me

Its such a nightmare, trying to keep everyone happy
Just a nightmare

Keep away from the ground
Live in the clouds
To the ones who have doubts
Release the hounds

Its like a nightmare
Live in the clouds
Its like a nightmare
Release the hounds

I keep a contract in the back of the car
Just in case somebody really wants to make me a star
I get in contact with celebrities
Drop a demo with their manager that they’ll never see

I guess it's high time I accept the right time
Is never something that I will find
Or you’re just being too polite to
Tell me that this isn’t for me

Leave a message saying that you’re proud of me
When you always thought I was a nobody

I’m tying my shoelaces and I wanna see your faces singing One Before I Die
For that girl who turned me down wish that you could see me now singing One Before I Die

This is not where I thought I would be
Can’t even sell a hundred of my tickets for free
Just gotta hold on until something breaks
Keep on smiling at the rain and never make a mistake

It gets old
When no one gets the joke
That you already know
But you build that s*** up anyways

Leave a message saying that you’re proud of me
When you always thought I was a nobody

I’m tying my shoelaces and I wanna see your faces singing One Before I Die
For that girl who turned me down wish that you could see me now singing One Before I Die

There’s so many things that I have overcome
I wanna see my name in lights just once
Do you think that it's impossible
Because I don’t think that it ever was

I don’t cry when it rains no more
Or I get dirt on my shoes
I don’t mind climbing 8 more floors
Cause these stairs are all heading to you
I don’t wait for tomorrows sunshine
When I feel it today
And when it's cold in the dead of winter
Remember that snow melts away

One more cold drink
One more road
One more dance before the doors get closed
Please remember, enjoy the show
Let's get happy before we get old

We don’t need plans or a fancy agenda
Let's just see where it goes
We got no care for the way people stare
At the dust and the dirt on our clothes
Hey, my friend, we’ll never say remember when
If we keep on making memories where we stand

One more cold drink
One more road
One more dance before the doors get closed
Please remember, enjoy the show
Let's get happy before we get old

Go put on that old wedding dress now
Probably still fits like a glove
Tell the band to play one more slow song
Cause you still have all my love

One more cold drink
One more road
One more dance before the doors get closed
Please remember, enjoy the show
Let's get happy before we get old

One more cold drink
One more road
One more dance before the doors get closed
Please remember, enjoy the show
Let's get happy before we get old
Let's get happy before we get old

No more whiskey
I’ll have a Coke
Catching bass on an old fishing boat
One more story, from grandpa Joe
Let's, get happy before we get old

Sunlight in my cell
I wonder if the crew all made it out
Throw dust into the wind
If I survive I’ll probably try again

Sometimes all those eyes want you to give it up up up (Don’t keep me waiting)
Somedays every card you got is not enough

Through bars and past my sins
Magnolia bushes blowing in the wind
Holes busting through that door
My brother on a law man’s favorite horse
He said as long as your alive
Should we ride

Sometimes all those eyes want you to give it up up up (Don’t keep me waiting)
Somedays every card you got is not enough (Don’t keep me waiting)
How many deadeyes in a western town
How many bullets in the chamber now
Sometimes the world don’t know who they are waking up

OoO Don’t keep me waiting

Sometimes you leave a few too many traces on the trail
The cavalry comes calling and it's you or them I guess
You find out what you’re made of when you’re shooting in the dark
And everything you love is getting lost and torn apart

Sometimes all those eyes want you to give it up up up (Don’t keep me waiting)
Somedays every card you got is not enough (Don’t keep me waiting)
How many deadeyes in a western town
How many bullets in the chamber now
Sometimes the world don’t know who they are waking up

it's very nice to meet you
What is your name I’ve got to know
Your body’s overwhelming
it's like a Broadway show

Don’t be hasty pretty mama I can’t let you down
You got your bags packed, that’s when I gotta get you back

I guess it takes a while to trust me
You would know that better than the rest
But if you’re looking for some company
I can pass all of your tests

Don’t be hasty pretty mama I can’t let you down
You got your bags packed, that’s when I gotta win you back
Let’s go walking by the river where we both jumped in
We were in love then
I know that we can be again

Don’t you hurt me pretty mama
Knees are on the ground
You got your bags packed
I know that I can win you back

Don’t be hasty pretty mama I can’t let you down
You got your bags packed, that’s when I gotta win you back
Let’s go walking by the river where we both jumped in
We were in love then
I know that we can be again

I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I want to be home for the holidays
Because home is only home when I'm with you
When I'm with you
I'm coming home to you