Smoke Beats Water: Listen To New CD, Ryan Vaughn: Turn Me Over

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Listen To New CD, Ryan Vaughn: Turn Me Over

Published Thursday, February 10, 2005 by Expert Village | E-mail this post

Brick By Brick HiFi LoFi lyrics
Magic Mountain HiFi LoFi lyrics
Hey Hey HiFi LoFi lyrics
I've Got To Go HiFi LoFi lyrics
Underwater HiFi LoFi lyrics
Sweet Complication HiFi LoFi lyrics
Tell The Truth HiFi LoFi lyrics
Dislocate HiFi LoFi lyrics

Brick By Brick

when my eyes are out of focus
i like what i see
flesh and blood are hard to stomach
can you bring a wall down

brick by brick

black and white
she keeps talking like she does
sheets pulled tight
i dreamt i was wandering

i didn't travel very far
for a stained glass poem
and a shining star

Magic Mountain

i've no alibis
yes i've told some lies
but do my feet fit the shoe
cause i'd like to wear something new

take me up a mountain up so high

it's just the scenery that i've failed to notice
and the road signs i ignore
my heart won't skip a beat
but i can't keep it from giving in to this damn gravity

take me up a mountain up so high

i've seldom found a path that was kind
but there's always another road that winds
right through the trouble
that has made itself a home in your mind

Hey Hey

god i need some answers
cause i don't believe in luck
and i've been takin' orders
out the back of an 18-wheeler truck

i'm hoping for a reason
i don't want a place to hide
when all my thoughts come back to me
they echo of the other side

hey hey...

night train pushing through my mind
dirty stories that i've been told
haunting tales of a real life mess
and i'm only 223 years-old

scatter-brained, can i borrow a buck
can you help me out
cause i'm just plain stuck

give a little, take a little, make a little
make a little love last long
touch the other end of a trail-blaze baby
little more love won't do you harm

I've Got To Go

i've got to go, i've got to spend my time alone
and no one knows, just who i am all on my own

there's no way out
there's no sound when i shout
in these empty rooms

tongue in my cheek
there's no sound when i speak
and you make me laugh

tables and chairs, but there's nobody there
my music spills into your head
faces and spaces with harrowing eyes
and books that i've already read

Underwater

love revolution kicks out all your prop-up solutions
photograph session in the red-light kitchen
and you play me 'til i'm all strung out

death comes softly on the radio
and laughter is the sole conclusion

i can feel you in this pain
broken people on a screen

underwater movie screen
voluntary drowning dream
laughter is the sole conclusion
when pages are already filled

the sun stopped shining
the sun shone again
somehow it moves me
out the door, into the wind
which of these strangers
will make me love again

Sweet Complication

six years now
has it been that long
i've forgotten how
many memories

black lit moon
doesn't mean that the sun won't shine
but that's how it is
between you and me

a sweet complication is all that you are
it's all that you are

it's okay to cry
even if you don't remember why
come to think of it
you're the reason why
i can laugh out loud

one little stone
a weeping world wipes her eye
never knowing love was a dream
that could come to life

you could have dropped it anywhere
but you left it in my lap
that's how it is between you and me

Tell The Truth

she doesn't look that much like her momma
she don't have her daddy's eyes
she doesn't think she has much potential
that's alright it's just a lie

she's growing wings just like an angel
but you won't notice them when she passes by
all the boys are out to get her
she'll stay with the same man every night

someone should tell you the truth
someone should see inside of you

people don't pay her much attention
disbelief has swallowed all her pride
simple smiles are all she offers
all she wants is a simple life
she gave up crying just like piano
she keeps her blue notes bottled up inside

Dislocate

i can always smell the rain
even though there's sunshine
it can take a dirty rock
to make a diamond ring

i love to watch the snow flakes
if it ever starts to snow
they remind me of how much
there is to get to know

i'm trying hard
not to let my heart dislocate
it's all i can do
to keep my mind of this dull pain

god bless the poor and weak ones
with their dirty hands and feet
i believe the ones
god would really like to meet

keep the things that make you love more
get rid of all the rest
keep the things that you're for sure
will endure the fiery test

i'm trying hard not to let my heart dislocate

I Guess It's Goodbye

i won't forget where i've come from
or where i've been
some of my mistakes are still chasin' me
but don't let that bother you

i wish i could wash you
with each of the purest tears that i've cried
i wish one would fall on your skin

i'm working to hard to come up
with these things that i just don't feel
and there's too many miles
between the towns we're living in

what is it i want
something i need to say
i guess it's goodbye

of all the places i'd like to visit
wouldn't you think i would know myself
sad faces are made before their time
too many books put on the shelf
before you've even read one line

You Were Right

careful that the future
is not a prison for you now
sometimes the plans you make
will blind you,
'til you can't find your own way out

careful that the life you live
is not just a stepping stone
sometimes it's hard to read the wisdom
in another man's broken bones

maybe you were right
how will we survive

i know you miss the erie rhythm
of those steady broken lines
you miss the hum of spinning wheels
the road they leave behind

coughing up your money
is not a sign that you are sick
it's the hope stuck in your throat
that makes your broken heart
hard to fix