Mat Kearney - Just Kids Album Lyrics

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Heartbreak Dreamer

La la ...

I was turning nineteen, on a cold December night
Burning like kerosene for nearly half of my life
And I barely had the GPA to make it out of Eugene
You can blame it on me with a ADHD while I'm falling asleep during the Sat's
And as I pack my bags and headed to a foreign land
One way ticket on a one way plane
Laying my head down alone each night
The same devil's calling and that same old fight
'Cause this one's for middle surfs living in the middle love
Where they coming from and a halfway rush of blood
This ones for those first prayers to heaven on a road that seems never ending

For all the heartbreak dreamers waiting for the light
Looking for just one reason to get through the night
Every long lost believer caught in the fight
All the heartbreak dreamers gonna be alright
Everybody sing

La la...

And I was turning twenty five in a city that don't sleep
Was feeling only half alive to the dreams that I keep
And I kept on waiting only she's waiting for me
You burning down lane on a quarter tank of pain with soles off your feet
And you've been waiting and praying for the right one to come
Watch the rising and the falling of another setting sun
Nobody seems quite good enough for you except the wrong one she keep running back to
So this one's for Mike still waiting for his wife
This one's for grandma losing the love of her life
This ones for those first prayers to heaven on a road that seems never ending

For all the heartbreak dreamers waiting for the light
Looking for just one reason to get through the night
Every long lost believer caught in the fight
All the heartbreak dreamers gonna be alright
Everybody sing

La la...

And this one right here ah.. this is for the fat girls
This one is a... is for the little brothers
This is for the schoolyard wimps, for the childhood bullies who tormented them
To the former prom queen and to the milk-crate ball players
For the nighttime cereal eaters and for the retired elderly walmart store front door greeters
Shake the dust
This is for the benches and the people sitting upon
For the bus drivers driving a million broken hymns
To the men who have to hold down three jobs simply to hold up their children
For the nighttime schoolers and for the midnight bike riders trying to fly
Shake the dust
This is for the two-year-olds who cannot be understood because they speak half English and half God
Shake the dust
For the boys with the beautiful beautiful sisters
Shake the dust
For the girls with those brothers who are going crazy
Those gym class wallflowers and the twelve-year-olds afraid of taking public showers
For the kid who is always late to class and forgets the combination to his lockers
And the girl who loved somebody else
Shake the dust
This is for the hard men who want love but know that it won't come
For the one's amendments who not stand up for
For the ones who are forgotten
For the ones who are told to speak only when you are spoken to
And then they are never spoken to speak (La la...)
Every time you stand so you do not forget yourself
Do not let one moment go by that doesn't remind you that your heart beats hundred thousand times a day
And that they have gallons of blood making every one is an Oceans

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Moving On

We were young, we were brave
With our eyes wide shut in the choices we made
Well you lit the match and I got caught with the flames
And your voice still rings out through my mind
And the thorn still twist down in my side
All the promises that we left for dead in the night (wooo wooo)
Because I'm moving on, letting go, forget the past
And giving up the ghost
All we are is fading stars, life's too short to stay where we are.

Forgiving then live and move on tell me that's gonna make me stronger, forgiving then
live and move on (woooo)
Forgiving then live and move on tell me that's gonna make me stronger, forgiving then live and move on (woooo)

Maybe I'm broken, maybe its the fate
Maybe it's the moment you said I had changed
Where did thirteen years go like I didn't know you at all (wooo wooo)
Because I'm moving on, letting go, forget the past
And giving up the ghost
All we are is fading stars, life's too short to stay where we are.

Forgiving then live and move on tell me that's gonna make me stronger, forgiving then live and move on (woooo)
Forgiving then live and move on tell me that's gonna make me stronger, forgiving then live and move on (woooo)

I heard you were back with regrets and you meant it
I had a real surprise, your text never sent it
Bridges were burning and accusation
Funny how time is the great revelation (woooo)
Moving on, letting go, forget the past and giving up the ghost
All we are is fading stars, life's too short to stay where we are.

Forgiving now live and move on tell me that's gonna make me stronger, forgiving then
live and move on (woooo) [x5]

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Just Kids

'Cause it was Bell Biv DeVoe, playing on my radio
And I had Wu-Tang Clan living in my stereo
Mama said we're 6th generation Oregonians
I was rocking in Jordans with reflector tongues
Two kids with wet cement living down in their souls
They say what gets caught when you're young stays there when you're old
So misunderstood they say you're up to no good
And now we're trying our best to start it over again

If I'd had met you at the playground
Before a hand could tear your world down
Before I slammed down the door and
You said I'm just like my old man
Before I put you in those boxes
And we learned how to disagree
And how your family is a rocket
That blows up in infidelity

For crying out loud I wanna know
How the waves keep on crashing down the doors
Feel the weight of the world and they keep on bringing more
If it's just you and me on the floor
Go grab your coat and I'll drive us home
Like we were just kids
Just, j-j-just kids
J-j-just kids, just, just kids
Like we were just kids
Just kids, j-j-just kids
J-j-just kids, j-j-just kids

Bob Marley was painted on my high-school walls
But I just disappeared into the darkroom hall
Never thought I'd ever make it quite this far
Teacher put up my photographs, say "son you'll be a star"
It was smoking mirrors, running down through my veins
I kept on running downtown, running from God's grace
Every morning I'd climb back through, those window panes
And try my best to ride it out over instrumental tapes

If I'd had met you at the playground
Before a hand could tear your world down
Before I slammed down the door and
You said I'm just like my old man
Before I put you in those boxes
And we learned how to disagree
And how your family is a rocket
That blows up in infidelity

For crying out loud I wanna know
How the waves keep on crashing down the doors
Feel the weight of the world and they keep on bringing more
If it's just you and me on the floor
Go back and come in, I'll drive us home
Like we were just kids
Just, j-j-just kids
J-j-just kids, just, just kids
Like we were just kids
Just kids, j-j-just kids
J-j-just kids, j-j-just kids

I can feel it in the way we try
I can feel it in the way we fight
We're standing side by side
Like we were just kids
[x4]

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Heartbeat

Nashville is burning tonight
You turn me right round, baby like a forty-five
I'm feeling every song that this town could write
Oh the fire in my head
And the drummer in my chest
Just take one look in my eyes and they will confess
That you got me feeling so high
And you are the rhythm of my life
My life

I feel your heart beat, beat, beat
Beating right next to me
The heat, heat, heat
Got me feeling like I believe
All the things, baby, that we could be
I feel your heart beat, beat, beat
Beating right next to me
Beating right next to me
Beating right next to me

I feel your heart beat
I feel your heart beat
I feel your heart beat
Your heart beat, your heart beat

Ain't bringing you no games
Ain't leaning on no cliche
If you sharing my bed, then babe
You share my name
'Cause you got me feeling so high
Oh baby, you are the rhythm of my life
My life

I feel your heart beat, beat, beat
Beating right next to me
The heat, heat, heat
Got me feeling like I believe
All the things, baby, that we could be
I feel your heart beat, beat, beat
Beating right next to me
Beating right next to me
Beating right next to me

I feel your heart beat
I feel your heart beat
I feel your heart beat
Your heart beat, your heart beat

I feel your heart beat, beat, beat
Beating right next to me
The heat, heat, heat
Got me feeling like I believe
All the things, baby, that we could be
I feel your heart beat, beat, beat
Beating right next to me
I feel your heart beat
I feel your heart beat
I feel your heart beat
Your heart beat, your heart beat

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Billion

When you stopped me in my tracks
The very first time
Had me going
The very first night
Waved goodbye, your keys locked inside
I knew you were the only one
With your crazy voicemail seen your spotted toes
Way funnier than anyone knows
With your daddy's eyes and your grandma's gun
You're the only one
That little crook in your teeth and your 5 inch feet
When you tie your hair up in the bun
Whatever the weather, we'll stick together forever
'Cause you're the only one

Seven billion in the world baby
I only wanna be with you
I don't want another girl baby
I only wanna be with you
Waiting for you all my life
I can't wait another night
Seven billion in the world
And you're the only I want, it's true
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I only wanna be with
Only wanna be with
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
Only wanna be with you

You put too much salt on everything you eat
Wake up freezing 'cause I stole the sheets
And you talk to the wall, pop your gum in your sleep
You're the only one
And you worry about your dad on his motorbike
The way your voice cracks when you wanna fight
And you never wanna sleep so I talk all night
To the only one
Turn up the lights and hold me tonight
We don't need the sun
Whatever the weather, we'll stick together forever
'Cause you're the only one

Seven billion in the world baby
I only wanna be with you
I don't want another girl baby
I only wanna be with you
Waiting for you all my life
I can't wait another night
Seven billion in the world
And you're the only I want, it's true
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I only wanna be with
Only wanna be with
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
Only wanna be with you

You're the only one for me
You're the only one I need
Searched the whole world for a while
Looking for your pretty eyes

Seven billion in the world baby
I only wanna be with you
I don't want another girl baby
I only wanna be with you

Seven billion in the world baby
I only wanna be with you
I don't want another girl baby
I only wanna be with you
Waiting for you all my life
I can't wait another night
Seven billion in the world
And you're the only I want, it's true
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
I only wanna be with
Only wanna be with
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
Only wanna be with you

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One Black Sheep

I was born a love child of the '70s
Touched down at Sacred Heart
Three boys in a treehouse family
Saw the lights from the reservoir
Mamma told me angels are watching us
In a green Volkswagen van
In the cities of hippies and angels
Just singing along to a Amy Grant

There was money in my pocket
Shoes on my feet
But I always felt like the one black sheep
There was food on the table
A place to sleep
But there's no rest for the one black sheep
Singing
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Won't somebody tell me
What's wrong with me?
Singing
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Won't somebody tell me
What's wrong with me?

Packed up in Eugene, Oregon
Amtrak wearin' soccer cleats
Headed south to California
Conference player of the week
But at night I dreamed of Graceland
Stealing my friend Kyle's guitar
On the racquetball courts playing
Songs for homeless broken hearts

There was money in my pocket
Shoes on my feet
But I always felt like the one black sheep
Got a good education
On Hobart Street
But there's no books on the one black sheep
Singing
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Won't somebody tell me
What's wrong with me?
Singing
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Won't somebody tell me
What's wrong with me?

Two dropouts headed eastbound
Chevy truck with no A/C
Star light, Fort Kearney Campground
Said why not Tennessee?
Got fire in my bones, boy
Got words to say
Lord knows I'm not home
But I'm on my way with

Money in my pocket
Shoes on my feet
But I still feel like the one black sheep
Got these 3 guitar chords
And the road under my feet
But there's no place for the one black sheep
Singing
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Won't somebody tell me
What's wrong with me?
Singing
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Ooh ooh ooh, ay
Won't somebody tell me
What's wrong with me?

'Cause there's no rest for the one black sheep

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Let It Rain

For every time the tears are fallin' down your face
For every night you heard those three words start to change
When you're just close enough to know how far you're away
Let it rain

When the heart you've known feels like an empty home
And your frozen hands just don't feel like your own
When your love is caving and you don't have the strength to roll back the stone

There's a time meant for war
There's a time meant to pray
There's a time there's a time there's a time there's a time
When all you can say is
Let it rain
Let it rain
Just because it's pouring down doesn't mean we're gonna drown
There's a time there's a time there's a time there's a time
When all you can say is
Let it rain

They say it's easier to just give up
Like the promises we made weren't strong enough
Can we turn down the road no one else seems to go with a pioneer love

There's a time to kick down the door
There's a time to run away
There's a time there's a time there's a time there's a time
When all you can say is
Let it rain
Let it rain
Just because it's pouring down doesn't mean we're gonna drown
There's a time there's a time there's a time there's a time
When all you can say is
Let it rain

'Cause you and I can never hide just running with the wind
We were born to be alive like we're never giving in
Yeah we got open eyes and another night to give it all away
Every time every time every time every time there's nothing to say

Let it rain
Let it rain
Just because it's pouring down doesn't mean we're gonna drown
There's a time there's a time there's a time there's a time
When all you can say is
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain

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Ghost

You took the best of me (best of me)
And I'll never know
I'm left with the rest of me (rest of me)
& I can't let go

I'm waiting for a train that's not coming
It's like a waterfall in my head

Oh won't you tell me why
I keep waiting up at night,
Leaving on the lights
Like you never said goodbye?
I hear you at the door,
Footsteps on the floor,
But you're here no more.
What hurts the most
Is sleeping with your ghost (oh)
Sleeping with your ghost (oh)

I still feel you holding me (holding me)
all the world is gone
I still hear you calling me (calling me)
but I don't belong
how do you take the knife from your heart
when every beat still hurts the same

Oh won't you tell me why
I keep waiting up at night,
Leaving on the lights
Like you never said goodbye?
I hear you at the door,
Footsteps on the floor,
But you're here no more.
What hurts the most
Is sleeping with your ghost (oh)
Sleeping with your ghost (oh)

When we had a baby girl I was scared to death
And the doctor said "Doll, get ready to push,"
Drove home like we stole the sun.
Those kind of memories don't fade, don't run,
They're stuck to the back of my mind,
I hear you blowing in the trees at night,
I'm still sleeping on my own side.
Yeah, they said you'd never be prepared for the worst ones,
you took your bow, they dropped the curtains,
there's no encore, just me on the floor,
Waiting here for more.

Oh won't you tell me why
I keep waiting up at night,
Leaving on the lights
Like you never said goodbye?
I hear you at the door,
Footsteps on the floor,
But you're here no more.
What hurts the most
Is sleeping with your ghost (oh)
Sleeping with your ghost (oh)

Sleeping with your ghost [x4]

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Los Angeles

Well, I pulled outta Nashville
With the sun on my windshield
Black 4Runner in the summer like a big deal
Apron at Starbucks
What you gonna miss, B
Nah, I smiled out, over the Mississippi
Got a friend out west
With a little studio time
Futon in the valley
And the dream gone wild
Ralph's turkey in the pouch
And Ramen in the cup
Check the funds in the account
When the pennies add up

Well, this fire in my chest weighs more like gold
I'm try my best, Lord to let it unfold
For all on the quest
Let the story be told
Right from the soul

Los Angeles
Hit me at the heart of this
Driving the 101
My dream down to the bone
Your smile, your kiss
Every little part I miss
Baby, I'm trying to find a place where we belong

I got a buddy name Shawn
And a minivan too
CDs at our feet
How to tour no clue
Thousand cap room
And only eight people came
And five on the guest list were under my name
But I slayed every one from the bottom of my heart
Maybe there'll be sixteen here next time we start
So move with the wind
Fifty dollars in my pocket
Wait for the sun
That silver-lining rocket
Two traveling souls
Living on the road
To wayward kids livin' how they don't know
So we put it with the wind
We let it all unfold
Straight from the soul

Los Angeles
Hit me at the heart of this
Driving the 101
My dream down to the bone
Your smile, your kiss
Every little part I miss
Baby, I'm trying to find a place where we belong

I got a lone baby darling and the world's on fire
Twenty K to make a record, now we're walking on a wire
Every favor that I got, I'm cashing in to use
Judson, JoJo, Sy, Lindsey, Robert;
Thank You
So, Bullet was made
And I'm scared out my brain
And the song's getting played
And everythin' starts to change
People showing up singing along to what I say
And It feels like we might just be on our way
I think that's Letterman; he just said my name
Check the crowd at the House of Blues,
like they're cardboard fakes
Everyone's livin out loud
And down their mistakes
And these schizophrenicc records that I love to make

Los Angeles
Hit me at the heart of this
Driving the 101
My dream down to the bone
Your smile, your kiss
Every little part I miss
Baby, I'm trying to find a place where we belong

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Miss You

You'll never be ready even when you know it's going to come
All of the memories beat in my chest like a drum
Feels like the last day oh of the rest of my life
All that I want to say I never could quite say goodbye
And I got one call coming in the evening
I could hear the short breath that you're breathing
Said darling it's the way we fall, it's the way we fall
Close my eyes and put it in the picture
Carve your name in my heart like a scripture
Said darling it's the way we fall, the way we fall again

Every time I break these chains
Every time I feel this pain
Nothing really ever changed
I'm gonna miss you
Even if I'm in the dark
Even if we're worlds apart
I can feel your beating heart
I'm gonna miss you

Tonight I'm driving riding out alone into the night
Your somewhere flying riding up high in the clouds
You were the reason the first note I could ever sing
And I still believe in everything we dreamed that it could be
And I saw headlights shining in the window
Looking down at a phone that never will call
Darling it's the way we fall, it's the way the way we fall
Last night I dreamed you were waiting
On a corner in the coat that you gave me
Said darling we were born alive, and we'll be born again

Every time I break these chains
Every time I feel this pain
Nothing really ever changed
I'm gonna miss you
Even if I'm in the dark
Even if we're worlds apart
I can feel your beating heart
I'm gonna miss you

(I'm gonna miss you)

Every time I break these chains
Every time I feel this pain
Nothing really ever changed
I'm gonna miss you
Even if I'm in the dark
Even if we're worlds apart
I can feel your beating heart
I'm gonna miss you

Even if we're worlds apart
I'm gonna miss you
I can feel your beating heart
I'm gonna miss you

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The Conversation

[Him:]
You've been running with the ghost again
Singing "It's all gonna fall like we're living a lie."

[Her:]
You've been tearing up these walls again
Ain't no place left here
For a girl to hide

[Him:]
You know I tell you just like it is
Gonna walk that far in the scars of another guy

[Her:]
And I'm not gonna give up all of this
Ain't no room left here for me to fly

[Together:]
And if our love is a hurricane
Broken phones and broken doors
Baby you know I can stand the rain
Let it lift us off the floor

[Him:]
You use your words just like a criminal
Kinda like a bullet from a gun

[Her:]
Well that shadow found me years ago
I've been bought
I've been shot with a lawless love

[Together:]
If our love is a hurricane
Broken phones and broken doors
Baby you know I can stand the rain
Let it lift us off the floor

Build it up
Tear it down
Let it fall right to the ground
All the words
That we could bleed
Let it fly
Just you and me

Wasted pride
It comes in like the rolling tide
We don't have to give up this fight
But it's too late to give up tonight

If our love is a hurricane
Broken phones and broken doors
Baby you know I can stand the rain
Let it lift us off the floor

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One Heart

She said I don't know if I've ever really
Have ever really trusted anybody
And ain't nobody ever really know me except the ghosts that come each night to haunt me
When there's so much that I still can't remember
So many memories I can't surrender
The kind of cold that comes under your sweater cuts to the bone like you're alone forever

Like a stolen car tonight
On a road with a broken lines
Running all the changing lights
To hide what's fallen from your eyes

There's got to be more than just this flesh and bone
Tell me on more than just the scars I've known
It's all that we've loved is all we've ever owned
We're more than one, more than one heart beating alone

More than one heart beating alone

Last night I felt like I was going crazy I kept on hearing all those words replaying
Sometimes it feels like nothing is ever changing
Stuck like Groundhog Day in the wars were waging
And when it hurts so bad that she wanted to die
Maybe we crash into each other to feel alive
When the ones you love are the ones that always say goodbye
The things you hate you do for no good reason why

Like a stolen car tonight
On a road with a broken lines
Running all the changing lights
To hide what's fallen from your eyes

There's got to be more than just this flesh and bone
Tell me on more than just the scars I've known
It's all that we've loved is all we've ever owned
We're more than one, more than one heart beating alone

More than one heart beating alone

More than one heart beating alone

Give me one reason one to believe and
Tell me there's something left to believe in
To the rhythm of the heart, to the rhythm of one heart
And I'm still chasing cracks in the pavement
Looking for the ghosts that left me waiting
To the rhythm of one heart, the rhythm of one heart beating alone

More than one heart beating alone

More than one heart beating alone

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Shasta

Hometown remind me
Where I come from
Before the days of the hit and run
Running from the blue blights
Jumping trains in midnight
Never more alone or more alive
Hat tricks in the stadium
Baby look how far we've come
Casualties are littered all the way

Cause we got miles left to go
To a place that I don't know
They told me the ground was gold but I can't see it
One last time through the woods
In my old neighborhood
It tastes so bittersweet I can't believe it

Hands in the cement
Stickers on the ceiling
Falling asleep to the werewolves
Pop the clutch on the v-dub
Throwing pebbles at your window
As we roll away in the pouring rain
Call at you all the tower lights
Singing out in the holy night
Lord tell me you're not done with me

Cause we got miles left to go
To a place that I don't know
They told me the ground was gold but I can't see it
One last time through the woods
In my old neighborhood
It tastes so bittersweet I can't believe it

Innocence yeah die slowly
We're all falling, in the glory
Innocence yeah die slowly
We're all falling down

Hometown remind me
Where I come from
Before the days of the hit and run
The moss and the pine trees
I can taste the caffeine
How the fiery blaze when you look at me