Lyrics | Fancy Gap

HOW TO DANCE

My dreams were always falling down

It was getting too loud

I was drowning it out

I always say that I’ll do it when

When I can in my life like I do in my head

And as I read every chapter

I don’t ever want it to end

All your old love letters

Know ‘em like the back of my hand

Held you too tight

Had the money in the bag

I could stand the separation

If I ever get you back

And when the world starts over

I just wanna be in the band

Thinking ’bout somewhere new

I’ve been kicking around all the dirt in this room

And when I say I’ll start over again

Better get in my line just as fast as you can

And I believe in the forces

I don’t even question the facts

Without a little time taken

Time is just an hourglass

Drove out to the desert, nearly had a heart attack

Well, it’s hard to find a lover when you don’t know how to ask

And if the doors ever open

I would even learn how to dance

LITTLE HEART RACER

I’m in the wellspring, waiting on some lightning

A faded picture, someone to trigger my six-string

If the money moves, we could create a new scene

Full of flowers and planters, none of them answers.

I could tell that you wanted me to leave

So I threw it in the blue Ford

Flying outta New York

Honey, leaving ain’t that bad

If it only makes you sad

I did a lot, but I can’t do anymore

I’m on a back road, down in Carroll County

Just lightening my load, and the summers are as slow as they should be

Out on the open road, just hitting the cool breeze

There’s a big moon shining, and I’m just writing

Down everything I never got in the city

Until I threw it in the blue Ford

Flying outta New York

Honey, leaving ain’t that bad

If it only makes you sad

I did a lot, but I can’t do anymore

Is your little heart racing, gone sunset chasing?

Something more, something more

I’m in the wellspring, waiting on some lightning

A faded picture of someone I might be missing

If the money moves, we could create a new scene

Full of flowers and planters, none of them answers

I could tell that’s how you wanted it to be

Until we threw it in the blue Ford

Flying outta New York

Honey, leaving ain’t that bad

If it only makes you sad

I did a lot, but I can’t do it anymore

And when you’re laid out on the runway

How you gonna hesitate?

With the money in your hand,

Now you understand

What it takes to make you want it anyway

Heartbreak, heartbreak

STRAWBERRY MOON

Riding home in the back of a car

I could see your eyes glowing in the dark

Took so long and it came too soon

We rise and fall like the Strawberry Moon

I miss the light in this town

I walk alone with your words in my chest

They braise and they bruise, but they don’t quite confess

Came back early in the late afternoon

Just to find the fire was burning blue

I miss the light

So tell me

How long will you wait

‘Til something real’s gonna come your way

How can every step just take you halfway

Forever?

And I don’t know the score

Somewhere between these distant shores

Maybe we just can’t afford how we live

Together

One out the window, one in your ear

And the one in your heart just disappears

I miss the light

So tell me

How long will you wait

‘Til something real’s gonna come your way

How can every step just take you halfway

Forever?

And I don’t know the score

Somewhere between these distant shores

Maybe we just can’t afford how we live

Together

WHISPERING WINDS

Misty morning sleepy skies

In a dream, I can’t unwind

And you’ll follow the sunrise

When I wake up I won’t mind

If you’re gone, you’re gone

Tied inside your winding vines

Dramamine and cherry wine

The sun rays fade to grey

nightshades

A dance floor for the wildfires

Just how long have you been lost

In the whispering winds?

Like a bird song now you’re

gone again

The sky’s electric

I’m getting restless

Lazy sun cuts through the haze

Now and then the air gives way

For morning light to make it right

But it won’t be ok

‘Til it’s time

Right on time

Take a load off your wild mind

Turn me on to

What you find

Openness or hopelessness

Are both ways to die if you try

Just how long have you been gone

In the whispering winds?

Like the bird song I heard you

singing

Just a whisper

You just missed her

MAGNOLIAS

“Silver Springs” the night that you died

Chasing whims, the time of your life

Ring the new year with wandering eyes, all the while,

More or less, reasons to leave you all behind

Couldn’t stop once you started

You were spilling everywhere

like magnolias in bloom

And I never meant it to harm ya, never knew that I could

Sunrise high, you draw the blinds

Turn me on when you’re telling those lies

Or anything that would have you believe

Your good deeds could save you

From what’s haunting me, it’s everything

Couldn’t stop once I started

You were spilling everywhere like magnolias in bloom

And I never meant it to harm ya, never thought that I would

Anytime I let my mind out wandering down to the river

When I’m there you’re in the air, everywhere and I swear that I kissed ya.

Take me dancing in the moonlight, I wanna feel light as a feather

Hold me down under the water, I wanna get closer than ever

Some might say same as before

Choose to lose or open the door

Good intentions, yet they all seem so vague, what a shame

You’ll be back when you know that you never went away

Couldn’t stop once I started

You were spilling everywhere like magnolias in bloom

And I never meant it to harm ya, never thought that I could

Felt a little wind on the collar yeah the air was changing

Just the same as me and you and I couldn’t beg you to borrow

Another moment to lose

40,000 Miles

Terror twilight, a fire beside the ocean

Watch the waves come crashin’ down

All in slow motion

And I could tell you, but you already know it’s true

Your heart is mine but every time I try to get to you I lose

I just get the blues

Lying on our backs, on the tracks

Watching the vultures fly above

Around in circles waiting for Something down here to die enough

I can see the ending

Now I’m beginning to wonder

If lightning can strike the same man twice

Then why is all I hear the thunder?

On down the line

About forty thousand miles

To the west

Could it change your mind?

Saw the sunset in your eyes

Before you left

And it won’t burn out

Won’t slow down until this hummingbird takes a rest

Hold your breath babe

Hold your fire for a day

I couldn’t say it now it’s playing on your radio waves

It’s hard to begin again

When all you wanna do is watch it spin

If lightning can strike the same place twice

Then why can’t I make you love me again

I tried

About forty thousand times

I’d guess

Did it change your mind?

Did the sun behind the hills

Do it best?

And it won’t burn out

Won’t slow down until this hummingbird takes a rest

FILTHY HABITS

Alice, how can I find the balance

When I just like filthy habits?

Surprise, I’m breaking my

Own heart all the time

So why can’t I break yours?

Sober but I’m overboard

Still looking for…

Heaven, filling up my lungs

I’ve been waiting all my life to run

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

We left home like sparks in the night

We’ll I’ll go wherever you drive

Portland again. Oregon or Maine?

They both get the rain and when it does it pours

The same as my heart does for yours

Still looking for…

Heaven, filling up my lungs

I’ve been waiting all my life to run

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

A drunken wish that came alive, I’ll see you on the other side

Heaven

Or just a setting sun?

I’ve been waiting all my life to burn

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Why can’t I break yours

When I just like filthy habits

Why can’t I break yours

When I just like filthy habits

Why can’t I break yours

I’m breaking my own heart all the time

A drunken wish that came alive, I’ll see you on the other side

old ways

I don’t think

That you’ve been dreaming

About me, babe

Heard your kitchen choir

Caught your hair on fire

Do you ever go to sleep?

Drying in the sun

Lines around your face

Now you’ve gone back

To your old ways

You could relapse

Or never refrain

Is it worth losing

Losing all the weight?

Hey hey

Where’d you go?

Chasing ghosts

Were they all a waste?

After this

The big black kiss

Of silent space awaits

Saw you in the hall

You never looked back

I was in blue

You were in black

Darlin’, I’m so

Glad that you asked

How does it feel

To never want that?

How does it feel

To want it so bad?

diamond cutter

Meet me in the fall

A new town unresolved

And made for us

Let the curtains fall

With or with no applause

And pack it up

Pack it all

Walk towards the water

Like sons and daughters

Now I’m taking the same breath again

I died a few times in your dreams

Bleeding from pricking a diamond cutter best friend

I never thought I’d let it cut so deep

Hold all your ballin’

There’s still someone calling you sweet

Take the weekend

Fall on a new friend

Who’ll never know

How I talked to you

And how you did too

When we were in-

Side the brightest flames

Blow ‘em back again

I’m tired of wrecking ships

Now I’m taking the same breath again

I died a few times in your dreams

Bleeding from pricking a diamond cutter best friend

I never thought I’d let it cut so deep

Speaking of blood between our heads and our heartbeats

Let’s find a new house on a new street

A tale or a tattle

This never-ending battle’s just as sweet

SWEET TIME

I love stormy weather, if it rained forever, I’d be fine

Hold your breath, deprave me, are you someone else’s baby?

Would they mind? Would they mind?

Your sweet…

Your sweet time caught me by surprise

And now you’re gone, baby, why?

Was I barely on your mind?

You got me searching, and I’m choking on the lines

But I won’t forget the nights when you were mine

You were mine

Last night was stolen, so take a drive and roll it

You’ll be fine

Now I can’t forget her, she wrote a letter to my mind

To my mind

Your sweet

Your sweet time caught me by surprise

And now you’re gone, baby, why?

Was I barely on your mind?

You got me searching, and I’m choking on the lines

But I won’t forget the nights when you were mine

We went wild

We never took the time

Looking forward

Look behind

We never took the time

Looking forward

Look behind

Your sweet time

STARLITE MOTEL

Well I’m writing you from a motel room
On the edge of out of state
These wood panel walls don’t confine me at all
When I’m floating up in outer space
Greet the rising sun, how the West was won
How it finally fades
But the lights are so bright in the valley that I
Just might move away

Oh I want it more than I ever did before
Hated predicting the ending, now I need it more and more
There comes a time in all of our lives
Where we wish we could go back again
Happens so fast, gone in a flash
We check out before we check-in
And I’ve heard the predictions, they’re all contradictions
Of just how this earth’s gonna quake
But I’d give my last dime just to buy some more time
So you and I could just waste it

Oh I love you more
Than I ever could before
Hated predicting the ending
Now I can’t take any more

We’ll I’ve always tried to find the other side
Of where all those love songs fell
Into my head, on the edge of a bed
Down at the Starlite Motel
Some were convictions
And others fiction
Some sat on the shelf
Under the gun or under the sun
And for this one, we both went through hell

Yes, I love you more than I ever could before
Hated predicting the ending, there’s always an encore
Waiting for you and I’m right off 52
Honey put on your raincoat
‘Cause it’s about to pour

GOLD COAST

Take, take me away
I was thinking about leaving here today
It’s not the same here without you
I hope these petty lines don’t compromise
Your eyes look best looking in mine

Called just to see
We had a good laugh
You got swept in the breeze
And you never came back
These trivial times,
They don’t matter if you
Can’t remember the reason why
You left all your love there the first time

Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me down
Don’t let me, let me, let me, let it out
What’s it gonna take to make it better?
Any way you want, I want it now
Glad we had a good time
No one’s laughing now

Say, way too soon
You’ve been stuck inside my head all afternoon
We’re both to blame, the same tune
Just let the curtains draw, with no applause
You can clap back if you’re amused

The same energy, it spans coast to coast
Now they understand why you had to go
And as I sit here, well, I think that I have
Finally ran out of words to sing
I’m so sick of ruining everything

Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me down
Don’t let me, let me, let me, let it out
What’s it gonna take to make it better?
Any way you want, I want it now
Glad we had a good time, no more
Glad we had a good time, no more
Glad we had a good time
No one’s laughing now

HOME AGAIN

Nine one nine, sweet Caroline
You’ve made this heart so blue
Used to keep these dreams on fire
With nothing more than pushing through

Rent went up, lights went cold
We got a whole lotta glitter and none of the gold

And I don’t know, but I’ve been told
You can’t go home again

Winds of change, they can’t be blamed
For the way things fell apart
’Cause if we could have had our way
We surely wouldn’t have done our part

What have you made when it’s all torn down?
When there’s no room left, you just wait around

I guess I’ll find some other town
You can’t go home again

Baby
Oh, this world’ll drive ya crazy
Oh, maybe
You’ll be the big one who’s gonna save me

Nine one nine, sweet Caroline
You broke this heart in two
Used to keep these dreams on fire
But now I’m finally over you

Home is where you dream
And yours has been lost on me

And I don’t know, but I can see
You can’t go home again
I’ve been told, and now I know
You can’t go home again