Mat Kearney - Ships In The Night Lyrics

Mat Kearney - Ships In The Night Lyrics

Like ships in the night
You keep passing me by
Just wasting time
Trying to prove who’s right
And if it all goes crashing into the sea
Its just you and me
Trying to find the light

Like ships in the night letting cannonballs fly
Say what you mean and it turns to a fight
[…] from my mouth to turn south
You’re down the driveway
I’m on the couch
Chasing your dreams since the violent […] fifth grade
Trying to believe in your silent own way
Cause we’ll be okay, I’m not going away
Watch […] down the drain
Your pops stayed the same and your moms moved away
How many of our parents make it anyway
We’re just fumbling through the gray
Trying to find a heart that’s not walking away

Turn the lights down low
Walk these halls alone
We can feel so far
From so close

Like ships in the night
You keep passing me by
Just wasting time
Trying to prove who’s right
And if it all goes crashing into the sea
Its just you and me
Trying to find the light
Like ships in the night
Your passing me by
Your passing me by
Like ships in the night

I’m at the airport waitin’ on the second plane
At the back […]
And I was late heading to a red carpet
They wont know my name
Riding in silence
All that we wanna say
Bout to board when you call on the phone
You say I’m sorry I’ll be waitin’ at home
Feels like we’re burning this out on our own
Trying to find our way down a road we don’t know

Turn the lights down low
Walk these halls alone
We can feel so far
From so close

Like ships in the night
You keep passing me by
Just wasting time
Trying to prove who’s right
And if it all goes crashing into the sea
Its just you and me
Trying to find the light
Like ships in the night
Your passing me by
Your passing me by
Like ships in the night

I’m gonna find my way
Back to your side [X2]

Like ships in the night
You keep passing me by
Just wasting time
Trying to prove who’s right
And if it all goes crashing into the sea
Its just you and me
Trying to find the light
Like ships in the night
Your passing me by
Your passing me by
Like ships in the night

Mat Kearney - Rochester Lyrics

Mat Kearney - Rochester Lyrics

I was born in Rochester to a book-making man
Had a fake cigar shop with the games on in the back
See them coming and going letting it ride on thorough breads
The police chief and Tom Hall wondering what was the spread
I carried rich mans bags through brier trying to chase down a little white ball
Learned that any soft place wasn’t good for me at all
Daddy’d come home fired up looking for some sort of release
He’d beat the hell of Timmy and Timmy’d beat the hell out of me
I would hop the fence out to those government fields
Run till there was nothing left to feel
Lying there, watching, just disappear
Knowing one day I’m gonna fly on out of here
The same police chief came knocking my first freshman day
Put my daddy in handcuffs and his picture on the front page
Took every one of his suits and all my dignity

I’d walk the halls of Irondequoit looking for any punk to set me free
Got that call to Vietnam, just like everyone else I knew
So scared of the hand grenades, threw them farther than any other troop
Came home like an iron fist, and Timmy tried to take my keys
Ripped open his from pocket, that was the last time he touched me
Moved to an island out west and up to Breckenridge
Met a mermaid on a glass boat, and she promised me some kids
Bought a house in Oregon where you could touch both of the walls
Had a son named Benjamin, and I was so scared of it all
Well, Benjamin walked in the front room where I was cutting up my hash
Looked into his deep blue eyes wondering why I’d been so mad
Flushed a quarter pound down the drain, praying for the mercy to confess
Trying to rip the boy from Rochester right out of my chest
We’re gonna walk right out into those heavenly fields
Run like there was no more time to steal
My three boys and the grace of god revealed
Knowing one day you’re gonna take me out of here
Knowing one day you’re gonna take me out of here

Mat Kearney - Young Dumb And In Love Lyrics

Mat Kearney - Young Dumb And In Love Lyrics

Well it was me and Burkam running circles round the joint
Trying to jump on the circus trying to get across our point
Yeah, we were young and dumb and looking for a fight
Burning both ends of the candle at both ends of the night
She was walking gracefully like she stepped out of a cocoon
Down through Manhattan Boulevard and First Avenue
With her black frame glasses and her Daisy perfume
I said, “Have we met before?” She said, “No, it’s only noon.”
Uh oh… to be young and dumb and in love
To be young and dumb and in love
Baby, you got me ten feet off the ground
I’m talking too much, and you don’t make a sound
The prettiest face and those rock-a-bye baby browns
All I’ve waited for’s come true
To be young and dumb and in love
With you, you, you, you
Well, we sat in the park grass so scared of the past
Tolling round like blankets, oh, this won’t last
Dancing to five spot records with smoke in the air
You could smell it the morning, you could smell it in her hair
Found myself on my knees a little more each night
Is this what I’ve waited for for all of my life
Put your hand with a feather tattoo on your wrist
On this skinny little white boys fat hustling hips
Uh oh to be young and dumb and in love

To be young and dumb and love
Baby, you got me ten feet off the ground
I’m talking too much and you don’t make a sound
The prettiest face and those rock-a-bye baby browns
All I’ve waited for’s come true
To be young and dumb and in love
With you, you, you, you
She’s not like any other girl
She’s got me crying first, dying first, waiting for the repo man
Well, under the weeping willows and a sea firing flies
With your gypsy necklace and my big brown bow tie
You kissed my lips like I was catching a flight
I said if I’m honest I fell for you that first night
If I’m honest I fell for you that first night
That first night, oh, oh, oh
To be young and dumb and in love
To be young and dumb and in love
To be young and dumb and in love
To be young and dumb and in love
With you, you, you

Mat Kearney - Down Lyrics

Mat Kearney - Down Lyrics

It took his breath away holding the bank page
He got the letter they’re gonna take their house away
I’m bout to have a daughter he yells it in the air
Feeling the weight of a world that just don’t care
He lit a cigarette felt in on his lip
Driving home on a long road with regret
He pulls the window down shouts it out loud
Pushing the pedal and praying lord help us now
He’s looking for a reason watching the sun coming down
Can you hear when we call
There where we fall
Standing our backs against the wall
Top of our lungs hallelujah
Where pain and love bleed into one
Baby when all you see is darkness
We all need forgiveness
Coming round now

It was Monday night under the street lights
She’s turning seventeen in seven nights
Out on the fairgrounds walking in monotone
She kicks a bottle as empty as her soul
On the road alone in a house that’s half home
They give her pills just to kill when she feels alone
She’s looking for a reason watching the sun coming down
Take these broken streets
Take these broken dreams
Hold my hand like we we’re walking free
Tell me it will change I see it in your face
The hope the fear the love the faith
I’m working late again slaving to make the rent
I’m slanging coffee with dreams heavy as cement
They’re coming one by one the face of falling love
I write a song with a prayer as I slide the cup
Can you hear when we call
There where we fall
Standing our backs against the wall
Top of our lungs hallelujah
Where pain and love bleed into one
Baby when all you see is darkness
Coming down now
We all need forgiveness
Can you hear when we call
There were we fall
Standing our backs against the wall
At the Top of our lungs how far we’ve come
Were pain and love bleed into one
All that we need its so bitter sweet
The pain that opens our eyes to see
Baby when all you see is darkness
Coming down now
We all need forgiveness
Coming round now

Mat Kearney - Chasing The Light Lyrics

Mat Kearney - Chasing The Light Lyrics

Every bridge that keeps on burning
Every leaf that you keep on turning
Every road that you find uncertain
Pray for you now
Baby that you’ll figure it out
As you keep
Chasing the light
Remember back when you slept on my floor
Blow up mattress down by the door
10 pounds heavier from wasted time
We didn’t know we were way out of line
From the moment that you
popped out on the scene
Hard to know what you got or you’re meant to be
Everything that you know goes flying
From Jonny O’s coach to a gypsy bus island
Holding hands with people in life
Till they walk away saying no good byes
And you keep saying that you’re running down a dream
But you don’t know where it leads
As you keep chasing the light
Every bridge that keep on burning
Every leaf that you keep on turning
Every road that you find uncertain

Pray for you now
Baby that you’ll figure it out
Every hope and dream that’s dying
Every time that i see you crying
Every step that you keep on climbing
Pray for you now
Baby that you figure it out
As you keep
Chasing the light
Got the call that you sent out yesterday
40 lines and a fallout holiday
On my knees with the weight that was mine
Think about you when I’m driving at night
Familiar sounds and it takes me right back there
Bridge street and the beat in the summer air
Was it easier to watch you feet
And never deal with the hell that a young boy sees
Where liquor runs thicker than blood
On your own when push comes to shove
Before we had these mouths to feed
With innocent dreams… while you keep
Chasing the light
Every bridge that keep on burning
Every leaf that you keep on turning
Every road that you find uncertain
Pray for you now
Baby that you’ll figure it out
Every hope and dream that’s dying
Every time that I see you crying
Every step that you keep on climbing
Pray for you now
Baby that you figure it out
As you keep
Chasing the light
Remember hearing Dylan’s first songs first
Remember writing down a train wreck verse
We were running down Franklin High School lights
Burning alive in a Chevrolet night
Remember driving out to Salton Sea
Dreaming bout all we thought we’d be
One way tickets into southern lights
Slammed the door and said goodbye, goodbye

Mat Kearney - Count On Me Lyrics

Mat Kearney - Count On Me Lyrics

One day to get it all right
Too wrong and not enough right
Three words we said in the night
Before we held the fire
High five me brother it’s amazing
Her six shooter came out blazing
Seven up and coke on the pavement
Ate my heart out daily baby
Hey I love you, hey I need you, hey I want you, do you want me too?
You can count on me, when you can not see
Let me spell it
out plain and simple now
When your numbers called backs against the wall
Pick you up when you call be there when you fall

Singing a b c
You can count on me
123
You can count on me
Amen we made it this far
B boys in VW cars
See me
seeing into my heart
Delighted through the dark
Emails and coffee in the evening
Effort ya brother you’ll believe it
Gee I don’t know your secret
H. I. love you singing
You can count on me, when you can not see
Let me spell it out plain and simple now
When your numbers called backs against the wall
Pick you up when you call be there when you fall
Singing a b c
You can count on me
123
You can count on me
Add it up add it up now darling
Come running, running when you’re calling

Mat Kearney - Sooner Or Later Lyrics

Mat Kearney - Sooner Or Later Lyrics

We’re all standing with our backs against the wall
Sooner or later
Waiting on a phone that never calls, at all
Heartbreak comes, rollin’ in like a storm
Sooner or later
Trying to swim but you’re sinking like a stone, alone
And I can feel fire in the night waiting here
Baby it’s like we’re walking on a wire through the fear
Take my hand, we’ll get there

Sooner or later, I swear we’re gonna make it, we’re gonna make it,
Sooner or later, I swear we’re gonna make it, we’re gonna make it
Milk and honey ’til we get our fill
I’ll keep chasing it, I always will
Sooner or later, I swear
We’ll make it there
Sooner than later
We’re all waiting on a dream that’s hard to own, sooner or later
Trying to feel the high without the low, you know
You can feel fire in the night lying here
Baby it’s like we’re walking on a
wire through the fear
Take my hand, we’ll get there
The fear inside, the hills we’ve climbed
The tears this side of
heaven, all these dreams inside of me
I swear we’re gonna get there

Mat Kearney - Learning To Love Again Lyrics

Mat Kearney - Learning To Love Again Lyrics

Your poker face ain’t fooling nobody, nobody here
We’ve all felt the flame and shed those same tears
Driving home to a one man hell, still counting years, still counting years
Hey brother we’re all learning to love again
‘Cause that was the real you running through the fields of gold wide open
Standing in places no picture contains
That was the real you, windows down, we could smell the mint fields crying
Sing with the radio to song we can’t name
That was the real
you saying, “Maybe I’m not too young to be a cowboy.”
Hey brother, we’re all learning to love again
Hey brother, we’re all learning to love again
Making up your bed that day on a foreign floor between foreign walls
Thinking ’bout the words you’d say to a phone that never calls
Feel the weight of your father’s ring and all those dreams, and all those dreams
Hey brother, we’re all learning to love again

‘Cause that was the real you running through the fields of gold wide open
Standing in places no picture contains
That was the real you, windows down, we could smell the mint fields crying
Sing with the radio to song we can’t name
That was the real you saying, “Maybe I’m not to young too be a cowboy.”
Hey brother, we’re all learning to love again
Hey brother, we’re all learning to love again
I know you like I know my reflection
Walking on the water ‘cross an ocean of desire
Everyone I know is looking for protection
Trying to pull your hometown ‘cross a telephone wire
‘Cause that was the real you standing there in the shape of your body
Fear don’ know no love when we’re all the same
That was the real you looking back across the water
Tears falling like rain, drops rippling against the shame
That was the real you singing hallelujah, looking down a barrel
Hey brother, we’re all learning to love again
Hey brother, we’re all learning to love again