It's likely they're, just jealous and jaded.

"Ultimately"

You know I'd kill for the chance to talk with you
that's kinda funny cause I think that I'd have first dibs by now
and you're out, sitting in the dark, holding his hand once again

You can tell me
nothing ever happened
I'll believe it
until I have a reason
but something is missing
and I'm not sure if it's with you
but I'm not sure if it's not you

So, give me a night
just me and my friends
lemme talk to the one I
always have confided in
maybe she'll give me the female view
maybe she'll tell me to leave you
maybe she'll tell me leaving's a mistake
but ultimately
the choice is mine to make

There's a funny feeling
been inside me for way too long
I try to tell you bout it
but you always say it's been too long
since we've, just fooled around
just messed around
and we end up in the backseat
and everytime I try to speak

you just press your lips right up against mine
whisper you'll love me till you die
and those are words I've believed and I'll continue to
but I don't think you understand
there's something more missing
and I can't find happiness with you
and maybe my best friend will
agree with me
or maybe he'll tell me that I'm
just bein a pussy
or maybe he'll say that he
doesn't have a clue
but ultimately
I decide what to do with you

Yeah just give me a night
just me and my friends
shouldn't be too hard
seeing how you're always with him
traveling away and far
and if I tried to talk to you
if I got a single word through
you'd break down and cry
and tell me
you'd never lie
but I don't think you're understanding
it's not the fact you're on dates with him
and I don't care if y'all keep texting
'cause ultimately
the choice is mine to make

I want what's yours and I want what's mine.

"Good Luck and Good Night"

I've got a knot in the back of my throat
in the front right pocket there is a note
the two are connected baby
the two are connected baby

I'd say it to your face if I
if I only could
but something is stopping me
something is preventing me and I've
been meaning to get this note to you for one month
but my arms never work quite right

Good luck, good luck, good luck and good
night, good night
that was your favorite movie and you took it as
your way of saying goodbye
well honey this time I think I
really deeply truly mean it
good luck and good night
this is a whole hearted goodbye

Where I went wrong before was I
stole one last good night kiss
if I hadn't done that then I'd be
living in bliss
I wouldn't trapped beneath your
stronghold
I wouldn't be suffocating
I wouldn't be fighting to let you go

I'm climbing up the tree
to take shelter with my best friend
I see you below throwing rocks and now
you're armed with a cannon
loose lips sink ships and you're
working on being an iceberg
spitting words and lies at me
I make it in the window with her
she helps me, slam it down
she helps me, slam the window down

Good luck, good luck, good luck
and good night, it's a good night
that was your favorite movie
and now I'm using it to say goodbye
it's the final sign off, it's the final sing along
so come on baby take your loose lips and
belt it out with me now

Good luck, good luck, good luck and good night
always a fan of George
and believe me he had it right
good luck, good luck, good luck and good night
I'm not throwing in the towel
because I've won this final fight

I think we've met before, and in that instant it started to pour.

"LED
or
"Glow Again"

That little LED still
glows so brightly
that note you wrote
still sits on my shelf
but it's faded by now

Remember when your smile
combined with mine
lit up a whole room
now we're lucky if we
even crack a small smirk

I don't know what happened
with our age came something
I guess we changed, faded, grew apart
had a difference in, matters of the heart
But I take comfort in flipping that switch
and seeing that little LED blink

Remember when I could turn you on
just as easily
and I'm not talking bout sexually
Remember when I misspoke a word
and you'd laugh at me
and now you're just plain mean

Funny how, we aren't as simple as we used to think we were
love won't conquer all
Friendships fade, but our love, oh heck no
maybe that's our downfall

Let's flip the switch
give it a rest
maybe we'll glow again
Let's flip the switch
give it a rest
maybe we'll glow again

like that little LED friend
maybe we'll glow again
like that little LED
maybe we'll glow again

These feelings won't go away; they keep knocking me sideways.

"Believe"
or
"Tonight"
or
"Actions"

Agreeing to disagree didn't
ever solve a thing
I'm counting down the days till you're
so absorbed that you don't
pay attention to me
So I'm standing next to you with a
megaphone and the other members of the mob
but you're not listening to us anymore

I believe in true love and friendships
and long summer nights
I believe in shooting stars and that
wherever you go, there you are
but I'm having a hard time believing
your actions tonight

Actions speak louder than words
that's not such a good thing
'cause you're practically screaming right now
any louder and I'll have to run out
don't you wish you could get out
and get away from yourself

Away from the young and dumb one you are
the egotistical one you're becoming
I'll give you a tip, that attitude's not working
unless you're trying to drive everyone away

I believe in true love and friendships
and that if you let it be, it'll be alright
I believe in heartaches and romances
I believe in conversations that last all night
I believe that it's always worth it to fight
and that you will eventually do fine
but I'm not so sure it's right
I'm having difficulty believing your actions tonight
I'm having difficulty believing your actions tonight

Breaking up, getting ready for the breakdown.

"Good Idea"

Divide up the record collection
if you let me keep the Seger, I'll give you the Peter Gabriel
of course Springsteen, I've got dibs
and you can have all the Aerosmith

Seemed like a good idea at the time
3 years later, it's a, waste of my life

Now you're starting in on, all my cd's
yeah I said all
you never bought a damn thing
no, I won't help you pack
I'm too busy singing

Songs, of hate
that I wrote about you
forget the binder of love songs
those are old and these are new

I got that couch
from my good ol' mom back home
but I guess you can have it
you'll need something to lay on your back on
No, no I don't think that was
underhanded
No, no I don't think you
didn't deserve it

Have fun, I'd like to see you try it
because I get to keep the
entertainment center
and everything that goes along with it
here, take your
filthy dvd's
I'll be fine, with the 4 copies I have
of my favorite film
no, I won't give you just one
it's my favorite film
and you're my favorite woman
HA JOKE!

It seemed like a good idea at the time
you and me liked each other
figured we'd move in together
it seemed like a good idea at the time
too bad, we never really thought things through
too bad, we never really thought things through

Keep it up homegirl, don't you quit.

"Welcome to the End"

It wasn't a question of ifbut a matter of whenyou're harboring the secretbut it's been released unknowinglyit was told to me
Normally I don't pay much attention to hearsaybut when everybody here says it, it's gotta be factI don't take much of what anybody else says seriouslybut when you give me reason to, then I start to believe
Welcome to the endwelcome to the fallout where beautiful losers winWelcome to the endwelcome to the fallout where beautiful losers win
Doesn't matter what youractions when around me areI've been looking at your actions from afarthe silence was deafeningthe silence spoke volumesthe silence had no time to be awkwardit was too busy telling the truth
Welcome to the endwelcome to the fallout where beautiful losers winWelcome to the endof us, and my new beginning, oh
I don't take much of what people say seriouslybut seriously, did you, did you think you could fool meI don't take much of what people say seriouslybut seriously, did you, did you think you could fool me

I just want someone to say to me, "I'll always be there when you wake."

I wrote this for you.

"Give and Take"

You stood on top of that mountain
and I stood down in the valley
I was shrouded in shadows
but you were up by the sunshine

And you rescued me
in the darkest heart of night
I'll never be able to repay you for that
but you say "that's okay"
I guess we've learned that our

friendship is a
give and take sort of thing
you're the best I could hope for
and I hope you feel the same
our friendship is a
give and take sort of thing
you give me advice and I
take it, or at least I'm supposed to

You're incapable of tears
you share
all of my fears
you're the only one who
really knows
keep your enemies close
but keep your best friend closer

A simple hello
in a class that I hate
completely opposite
but completely the same
you're a master of the paintbrush
and me of the pen
you're a etch-a-sketching fool
and me, I'm just a fool of a man

our friendship is a
give and take sort of thing
you're the best I could hope for
and I hope you feel the same
our friendship is a
give and take sort of thing
you give me advice and I
take it, or at least I'm supposed to

Do you like dreaming of things, so impossible?

"Island"

You're still in
formal education
and you're still
formerly mine
it's a fact I used to
regret making that choice
but now I rejoice
best choice I ever made

was to board that plane

Blue skies and long nights
and new romances
and best friends
inside jokes and songs I wrote
playing them for
my best friends
you've gotta love it
I can be an island when it comes to you
but that doesn't mean I'm alone

Running down the runway
trying to catch my plane, was that you
oh no, you never cared that much about me
see, all parts of you have slipped my memory

15 minutes late
but not punished yet
that's all you are to me
your 15 minutes are up and

Sunshine and
cold drinks and fast times
happiness is my only emotion
creating new memories
with my best friends
you've gotta love
when everyday's a weekend
I can be an island when it comes to you
but that doesn't mean I'm alone

"You'll regret this all!"
you yelled as I took off
"You're worth nothing!"
you yelled as I began to sing

A new song
of hope and dreams and
future memories

Said write a song for you
to get all my emotions out
but when push comes to shove
there's nothing for me to write about

Blue skies and long nights
and new romances
and best friends
inside jokes and songs I wrote
playing them for
my best friends
you've gotta love it
I can be an island when it comes to you
but that doesn't mean I'm alone

It's just like you, to say anything else.

"Riding Shotgun, Seriously"

or

"I Take Calling Shotgun Seriously"

Take it, take it, take it
seriously
take it, take it, take it
I take it he's better than me

Riding shotgun
with a shotgun
oh what fun
certain phrases can be

Words are getting stale
and trite and my lines work no more
let's take a shortcut
and enter through the backdoor

Riding shotgun
with a shotgun
in my lap, imagine that
armed with an arsenal of
wit and
what, what, it doesn't matter
you're not taking it seriously
what, what, it doesn't matter
you're not taking it seriously

I know we can't stay here forever, so I want to write my words on the face of today.

This is a little different than usual...it's a poem.


"You are the Same"

You're young, and you're looking up to all
by necessity, not by choice
it's not your fault you're small

You have your heroes.
your dad can never be beaten.
your mom, a force to be reckoned with.

Things just come.
there's no such thing as hate.
money. greed.

Fears?
oh, you have fears.
the dark, monsters, your best friend moving away.
Thank God you've grown out of those.
but you haven't.
they've just been renamed.

Now you're an adult.
or you think you are.
or they think you are.
Thoughts mean nothing,
and everything.

The dark is the unknown.
the future. your death. your failures.
with age comes knowledge.
knowledge that you can fail.
will fail.
knowledge that you don't want.

The monster is who you'll become.
you know it, because you see it.
those heroes, those forces, those unbeatable forces.
they can be beaten.
and they're just like you.

monsters.

Being alone is man's worst fear.
when you're alone, there is no one to face but yourself.
the monster in you.
everything you hate in other people, you possess as well.

You grow up.
you grow out of your fears.
or maybe just out of your clothes.
the fears are still there.
the monsters are still there.

it's inside of you, that fear.

You hate how now,
now that you're older,
you recognize the monsters.
You recognize the vulnerability.
you recognize the greed, power hungry
monsters that feed off fear.

And what scares you the most?

You are the same.

If I start a commotion, I run the risk of losing you, and that's worse.

"Too Late For Could'ves"

You could call me
on another day
when you weren't so busy
you could call me
on another phone
that was maybe working

You could, you could
but you won't
in a typical fashion
in a typical fashion

You could,
possibly try to listen
or you, you could
own up to your actions

But you won't
no you won't
God forbid you owned up to what you did
you won't
no you don't
God forbid you owned up to what you did

It's odd how
strangers and
acquaintances
flow better with
me
than we do lately

But the time
has come
and I'm taking up the blame
and I'm doing
something about it
maybe you should do the same

The time
has come
I'm claiming the end is upon us
you should accept this fact
as gospel 'cause

You could
do anything
to fix this up, to patch us up
but you won't
in a typical fashion
that I've grown accustomed to
coming from you

You could
you could
but you won't
God forbid
you could
you could
but you won't
God forbid

The dashboard melted but we've still got the radio.

""What You've Got Doesn't Matter"

You could down 2 liters of orange soda
in under 3 minutes
I know it's not a quality one normally looks for in a girl
but my gosh, it means everything right now

When what you've got is
just a dragging down thing
you'll do anything
you'll do everything
When what you've got is
nothing beneficial
you'll do whatever it takes
you'll do anything to make it
better

No good
can come from this
it doesn't matter who we play
on the radio
no good
can come from this
it doesn't matter who we play
on the radio

No good
can come from
you and me, fighting and making up
or, making out
it doesn't matter
the words are interchangeable
no good
can come from this
no good, no, no good

It's reality
harsher than you thought it
would be
back, 10 years ago
the real world was
a tv show

It's reality
harsher than you thought it
would be
and, it's a quality
that I don't normally look for

but

when what you've got
is dragging you down
being detrimental to your health
when what you've got
is dragging you down
you try to find the best way
out, out, out
of your situation
of your complications
out, out, out
manipulations
and
splitting up never felt this good
or this right
so i give you one more kiss good night
and then i look forward to...

a girl who
can finish a sentence
and still
make some sense
and who is
reliable
and who is
exceptionable
and who can
hold their
smoke and their
liquor
i know it doesn't make much sense to you now
but it will in the long run cause

what you've got is
dragging dragging, dragging you down
it doesn't matter who we hear
on the radio
when what you've got is
dragging dragging, dragging you down
it doesn't matter what we play
on the radio

I know everything's gonna be okay, if you just stay gone.

"Over"

I'm used to my hair
being a certain length
and I'm used to
seeing you everyday, hey

I'm used to putting up with all of your bullshit
and I've decided,
I've decided I'm through with it

I've gotten used to the idea
of you and I
always being there, for each other

I've gotten acclimated
to receiving accolades
I've gotten used to
listening to your complaints

We get stuck in so many ruts
it's, impossible to get out
but the real world
is coming in fast
and we gotta meet it

We get stuck
in the same old routine
trust me
I've been trying to find out
a way to avoid it
for 16 years now

She said, my songs don't make
any sense, well that's just because it's
kind of hard to relate when you've
spent your life inside of a safe place

Now let's about face
face the future
face the facts
let's face it.
let's face them.
let's face it.
it's over.