PAPER FLOWER

Lyrics

1. WE GOTTA KNOW
We gotta know where we’re going
Or else we could lose our way
If we find trouble
We’ll have ourselves to blame

We gotta know what we’re doing
It’s easy to make mistakes
When no one’s looking
That’s when the world can change

We gotta know what we got
Cause if we lose we lose a lot
We gotta know when to stop
Searching for what we got

We gotta know what we’re thinking
It’s easy to think too much
And keep on pushing
Until we’re out of touch

We gotta know what we got
Cause if we lose we lose a lot
We gotta know when to stop
Searching for what we got

2. HOPING TOMORROW
This room is so dark
Half the lights here are dead
With views of a wall
From the sky turning red

The bell of the church has to chime
So you never lose track of time
Hoping tomorrow
Is not like today
Leaving behind yesterday

You wanted to be here
You made up your mind
Forgot all the people
That you left behind

The wind has to change when it blows
So you never know where to go
Hoping tomorrow
Is not like today
Leaving behind yesterday

Hoping tomorrow
Is not like today
Leaving behind yesterday

You wandered the city
That you found in your dreams
Got lost turning corners
Flew high without wings

The song of the birds is the same
So you give it somebody’s name
Hoping tomorrow
Is not like today
Leaving behind yesterday

Hoping tomorrow
Is not like today
Leaving behind yesterday

3. PAPER FLOWER
If you give a paper flower
Better say it’s from the heart
Flowers all fall apart
And rot over time

I would take a paper flower
If you tell me that it’s real
All I need is to feel
A push from behind

It’s funny how illusion
Soon becomes the truth
You can’t deny the fact in spite of this old confusion

I don’t want a paper flower
Touch it to a match it burns
When will I ever learn
How to read the signs?

It’s funny how illusion
Soon becomes the truth
You can’t deny the fact in spite of this old confusion

I don’t want a paper flower
Touch it to a match it burns
When will I ever learn
How to read the signs?
This paper flower’s mine

4. WHY WOULD I LIE?

Why would I lie?
Look in my eyes
Do you see what I see?
Did you try?

Why should I care?
If no one is there
There’s a hole in the place
That we shared

And no it’s not me
Who needs to be free

How will I know
When it’s time to go?
Will the wind carry me
Where it blows?

And no it’s not you
Who knows what to do

But no it’s not me
Who needs to be free

Why would I lie?
Look in my eyes
Do you see what I see?
Did you try?
Do you see what I see?
Did you try?
Do you see what I see?
Did you try?
Do you see what I see?
Did you try?
Did you?

5. SLIP OF THE TONGUE
A slip of the tongue
And everything changed
The silent walls talked and
The talking bird sang
A slip of the tongue
Like a boat on a reef
Broke open and spilled
Everything underneath

Don’t tell anyone
You don’t tell anyone
Then a slip of the tongue
Is over and done
A slip of the tongue
Is over and done

If to yourself
You can’t be true
How can you expect
Somebody else to?
A slip of the tongue
Opened the way
To debts in your heart that you never paid

Don’t tell anyone
You don’t tell anyone
Then a slip of the tongue
Is over and done
A slip of the tongue
Is over and done

Don’t tell anyone
You don’t tell anyone
Then a slip of the tongue
Is over and done
A slip of the tongue
Is over and done
A slip of the tongue
Is over and done

6. I CAN FEEL IT
I can feel it
I can see it
Coming down the line
This time there’s nothing to be done

If I show you that I know you
Would it change your plan?
If you can, before we lose the sun

I knew there’d come a day
When you’d go your way
And I would fall behind

I try to be strong
But my strength is gone
I only wish that I could find it

Every ending is a beginning
But nothing ever ends
The river bends and flows into the sun
The river bends and flows into the sun

7. IT’S OKAY
It wasn’t fate, you had a choice
Even if you heard my voice
There was really nothing I could do

I thought that I could change for us
I thought that time would wait for us
We used up what we had and then some too

It’s okay
It’s for the best
It’s okay
So I tell myself
Forget the rest

I walk along the riverside
A floating swan moves at my side
Staring from the corner of its eye

In my mind you wait for me
On a rock down by the sea
Staring at a cloud up in the sky

It’s okay
It’s for the best
It’s okay
So I tell myself
Forget the rest

8. I WAS LOOKING FOR A STREET
I was out looking for a street
That I couldn’t find
Wandered on thinking I would see it
As it’s in my mind

Where did it go?
Where did it go?

I was out looking for a block
In my memory burned
I was out looking for the place
Where the road returned

Where did it go?
Where did it go?

Everything seems unreal
I don’t know how to feel

I was out looking for a street
That crossed into the past
I was lost looking for the way
But I moved too fast

Where did I go?
Where did I go?

Everything seems untrue
I don’t know what to do

I was out looking for a street
Had to be somewhere
I was lost following my feet
Take my anywhere

Where did it go?
Where did it go?

9. ALL NIGHT LONG
With your reds and greens
And your winter scene
A glass of snow
Is glittering

On a Christmas Eve
Do you still believe
That what you give
You will receive?

All night long
All night long
All night long
All night

Then you sleep so well
In an old hotel
Full of empty rooms
And a broken bell

All night long
All night long
All night long
All night

All night long
All night long
All night long
All night

You lie and dream
And you barely breath
In another world
So close to me

All night long
All night long
All night long
All night

10. FOR WASTING TIME
Please don’t wait
For wasting time
Who can say what I might find
Every day and every night
I think ahead, I fall behind

Only you
Know what I mean
Made more sense in my dream
Every excuse is just a lie
I tell myself as the days go by

Look around
No one’s listening
You can tell me anything
Don’t be ashamed and don’t be shy
Between us there’s nothing to hide

11. IF YOU GET A BROKEN HEART
If you get a broken heart
Lose your way or fall apart
There’s no one that’s going to help you
Get back on your feet again

When you’re hurting deep inside
You do your best to try to hide it
But it’s useless to disguise it
They all see beneath your skin

There’s no need to let them know
And it’s better if they go

You can plant a seed tomorrow
Watch the flowers as they grow

So if you get a broken heart
Lose your way and fall apart
Ask nobody else to help you
Get back on your feet again