by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

Call off the crush, it started with my arm Across your chest it was enough There is so much that never goes away There is a crush from how our arms can weigh And deep beneath the sheets I see Another

by Matt Pond PA on album The State of Gold

[Verse 1] Everyone was saved, everyone survived for just one hour The vernal royalty of the blue sky filled our bones and nothing mattered Because I’ve tried read your mind and I’ve tried to fo

by Matt Pond PA on album The Dark Leaves

Maybe live for the dark leaves Shake the floor, the seeds come spinning down All night, let's go all night Through your hair giving me those green eyes Life kills me, oh, life kills me Finally we've

by Matt Pond PA feat. Laura Stevenson on album The Ballad of Laura and Mike (feat. Laura Stevenson)

Would you promise to try not to die? That's the only fear of mine There could be more but I want people to hear you Singing bout the stains in the fire I'm good at worrying When you're gone out west

by Matt Pond PA on album The Glow

The glow from kitchen windows, on a heavy winter's night, little sister won't stop sliding in her socks And brother lost his job, but he somehow got a life, he laughs so loud, it scares the spoiled c

by Matt Pond PA on album The State of Gold, Pt. 2

my face my mastake higher and higher no more bullets can kill us anymore we csn grow as fast as our mind can the more our mind pits it we can do anything

by Matt Pond PA on album The State of Gold

[Verse 1] They keep on moving the starting line In the windshield light where we searched ourselves The chest pocket, the best way to go Outside Chicago where we stuck to the streets I was seco

by Matt Pond PA on album The State of Gold

[Verse 1] I might have a drink to be myself I hope nobody notices tonight what it takes to be real To truly keep this lamppost standing [Chorus] There’s more than one way to live There’s m

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

I got lost in a part of the woods Far from another Cut the line between light and the good Out of color When we breathe We can see the stare Seems you're not quite there And we've never done anything

by matt pond PA on album Miscellaneous

Half of all our lives are spent Encouraged by embarrassment We hold our heads and stay asleep And cannot hear in case nobody called Follow the prim ones and sit on your hands Watch your step, don't h

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

Hay from the barn filled our mouths up with dust Fanning the air, though we wouldn't have touched I'm burned in all of six different ways All for the fire and what they might say Now I'm filling in t

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

All these things within my pockets Might belong to someone else Or so it seems, they're just like me They could be wrong I spent seven hours waiting For a bus that comes and goes If I don't wait, the

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

When you have decided The question was too long to listen Don't give up Keep it going You could be on my side You can have my side till morning We won't stop On and on and Everything you want to be

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

Open up till midnight The butcher waits for someone's desperation That goes beyond control Speaking is an invitation Under fluorescent lights You can't wash out his desire Where bodies are indecent A

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

The future is belligerent Tells me work and worry Even without sense You stick to plans Concepts are embarrassing When you let them drink They tell you what they think I'm not listening I look back

by matt pond PA on album Miscellaneous

If you wake up to the prize Of yourself and all your eyes Then nothing will be just like this And nothing is about your will The names are sitting on the phone Inside where words are left behind It's

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

The orange of the fire, the catch of the barbed wire Running through the woods can cost Across your chest your breath you've lost We got here by back roads, the turns, the breaks, the hills that roll

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

Tonight the sounds are from the ceiling They turned up to be a floor Strained on muffled conversations The eyes hesitate for more Laying low but not escaping Find by contrast what is free Hear remind

by matt pond PA on album Miscellaneous

We broke the windows so we could see everything Beyond the pines and passes we'll see what we mean The party left me, I was getting in the way They had to leave me but the landmarks aren't that bad Y

by Matt Pond PA on album Miscellaneous

Erasers impress me everyday They have a way of forgetting easily Morning when your better half Has gone out back and you can't hide what you see Hide the hollows from me, the hollows Hide the hollows