All Music and Lyrics by Joe Bresler (copyright 2009)

CALIFORNIA KING

California, for the first time in my life,
You feel cold, you make me wanna run away
I can't afford to, I gotta keep up with the times,
Put on a too-drunk smile, hell, I'll cry deep in my
grave

Hey, I take a look at the cracked year behind me, baby
The only response is to say

It never rains inside a bright depiction
When you've broken every promise that you sing
It never rains, so sell your fiction, make a fortune,
You're a California King

California, it ain't the first time in my life
I've been fooled, I ain't gonna cry on no charade,
But something more than pride seems sacrificed this
way
When you dose the fear, you clothe the pain,
Wait to watch your circus burst to flames

I take a look at the last year behind me, baby,
It seems a little too easy to say

It never rains inside a bright depiction
When you've broken every promise that you sing
It never rains, so sell your fiction, make a fortune,
You're a California King

How long, how far, how fortunate, we are (we hide the
rain)
How strong, how scarred, how innocent we were (we hide
the rain)

We make the beds we sleep in
We wake, our shadows deepen
We hide the rain, we hide the rain,

We make the heads we grieve in,
Create the lies believed in,

We hide the rain, we hide the rain…

I don't know where I'm going, I don't know now, baby
All I know is that I'm home….

It never rains inside a bright depiction
When you've broken every promise that you sing

It never rains, so sell you're fiction, make a
fortune,

You're a California King.


GHOSTS

Our laughter is full crazed, our embers burn in the
dark
I'm alive and awake
Backwards falling, our glances turn into sparks
I'm on fire, baby,

I'm a fool in love
I'm fool, uh-huh,

And good love is true enough
I'm a fool in love, eyes wide to closed,
I'm too tired to chase ghosts…

Ah, the chapters, I've ordered lazy, the answers,
They're not on a page…let's defy afraid
'cause after all the phases, what you capture
is only gonna change, so just smile and say

I'm a fool in love
I'm a fool, uh-huh,

And good love is true enough
I'm a fool in love, eyes wide to closed,
I'm too tired to chase ghosts…

REPEAT CHORUS

I'm a fool in love…..


MANN THEATRE STARS

She says "hello, I wonder who you are"
I say " I don't like to talk about it"
She says " I like your answer so far"

When she offers me her bottle,
I notice her ring,
She says "I talk a lot but I don't really mean some
things"

And some, they just hunger deep down
And they stumble on to this town

She was a last drink,
She went down like gasoline,
She was just asking for a start
She was a chance fling
She was just dancing
On the Mann Theatre Stars

But she shivers in the dark, she shivers in the dark…

She says "hello only goes so far"
I say " how do you even think about it"
She says " I like your question so far"

I say " you're asking me to borrow,
When I've got nothing left to bring"
She says "not so loud , I want to hear these walls
cave in"

And some, they're just drunk deep down
And they come all over this town,

She was a last drink,
She went down like gasoline,
She was just asking for a start
She was a chance fling
She was just dancing
On the Mann Theatre Stars

And it can't be so hard,
She says you can't beat the boulevard,

But the Mann Theatre Stars,
They get dimmer as we walk, as we shiver in the dark..

She says "I believe in everything"
And I believe that's true
She says " I wouldn't leave for anything"
I say " I would leave for you"…


GLIDE

I'm glad you made it to the show tonight
To slow dance beneath a starving moon
And all I want is just to hold you tight
And to let your body move…

It's getting harder just to feel alright
It seems the morning always comes too soon
All I want is just to see you smile
As you get your party groove

And yeah, it's time we're living for,
Time is always real,
It's the only thing that's sure,
We might die alone,

And time can be your road,
Time can be your cause,
Just let me be your gold

Time's steamrolling
Time moves faster when you run
But tonight, when I hold you, baby,
Time seems frozen, it seems frozen,
As you glide…

I guess I've got a little soul tonight,
You've got to take a chance or else you'll never move
The upbeat will keep your rhythm tight
And you'll never have to choose…

And I never will forget this night
The romance is in the way we do it, baby,
If it slows down I will be the light
That always shines on you

And, yeah, it's time we're living for,
Time is always real,
The only thing that's sure
Is that you won't spend your time alone,

And time can right your wrongs
Time reveals your chords
I will be your song…

Time's steamrolling
Time moves faster when you run
But tonight, when I hold you, baby,
Time seems frozen, it seems frozen,
As you glide…

I'm glad you made it to the show tonight
To slow dance beneath a starving moon,
And all I want is just to hold you tight
And to let your body move….


THE ONE THAT HAUNTS YOU

Sizing up the room as she walks in, she places her
hand on my arm and I'm still
She says " I don't care a thing about you now"
Go easy, just go easy
"I don't even ask when you're around"

and you don't have to stay
to feel your heart break
it happens all the same

Well I meant to
Go easy, just go easy
I meant to
Go easy, just go easy

I'm watching the room as the walls disappear and the
moonlight is bleeding through
It's clear how it's

Deeper now, my friend
I know we were so close
I'm weaker now…

Well I meant to
Go easy, just go easy
I meant to
Go easy, just go easy

So you don't have to stay
To feel your heart break
You feel it all the same

And you don't have to breathe
Hold it, it won't ache
Control it for my sake

Well I meant to
Go easy, just go easy
I meant to
Go easy, just go easy
And I'm the one they warned you about
I'm the one that hurt you
I'm the one you've worried about
I'm the one that haunts you
I'm the one that haunts you.


GREY SKY BLUE

Say let's be honest, but I know it'll cost us
I gaze at our picture in grey
I thought alternate worlds had no use for words,
They only need pictures to frame
But I'm staring at you now from the inside out, not
beneath you
I've figured this thing out, and there's no coming
down, I've got to reach you
I painted my grey sky blue
I painted my grey sky blue
For you…
And here we stay silent
So where in the hell are you?
You're in the corner I painted
I want you but I'm too scared to say it
I'm in a grey sky blue

I've seen all the others,, they alternate colors
'cause they're so afraid of the grey
and I've had other lovers, I've painted their colors,
but they have all faded away
I'm staring at you now from the inside out, this is
not beneath you,
I've figured this thing out, and there's no coming
down, I've got to reach you
I painted my grey sky blue
I painted my grey sky blue
For you
And still we stay silent
But if it's on me, then it's on you
I want you to feel it,
I want you to be the one that sustains it
I want you to know it's not enough to see it
I want you to know this will change things
From our grey sky

I painted my grey sky blue
I painted my grey sky blue
For you…
So let's finally change things
"I love you".


SILVER LINING

Black diamond in a steel cage
The silver lining in a suitcase
A quarter buy-in never seemed so strange before.

It's hard to cry because I'm wide awake
My head's spinning as the lines change
I think I'll buy another dime another day

We are hopelessly
Open..

'Cause we all want the same thing…

Peace everlasting, peace everlasting,

But peace can't outlast this fear…

We are hopelessly
Open

'Cause we all want the same thing…

Peace everlasting, peace everlasting,

But peace can't outlast this fear…

And that's how it feels,
To carry this on my mind
I carry this on my mind,
I carry this on my mind…..


FLIGHT

She left her curse in Boston, she tried 6th avenue
She said I only got more lost there, I'm coming home
to you
But she was too much, too fast, too fast to hold, too
cold to keep, too much
Bound too expire before her peak
And her thoughts go racing backwards when they're too
hard to speak
I said it's too bad your mind is made, 'cause I'm
undecided
It's too bad your heart can't break, 'cause mine's
still divided…
And I'm falling tonight, if I'm not flying
As I walk a tightrope down a telephone line
I walk all night, I walk all night

CHORUS

As I light one last smoke on a red-eye flight
We talk all night….


ONE DRINK

Are we such crooked things,
We know what's happening
But we're too powerless to show
Our path is curious
We win first, we lose last,
We start big, but end fast and short
And we wear our truth when we run

I quit smoking cigarettes
I'd been dry through September
I was ready for the fall
But you make simple things so serious
I put a whole into the wall

And we carry our proof when we run
We tear our roots up

I thought that you should know
I'm not the one that hurt you,
Lying on the floor
I thought that you should know
I'm not the one that burned you,
Not the one that left you, left you all alone

Those seeds were already sewn

It's never one thing, one thing at all
You've got to leave some things alone
It's never one thing, one thing at all

I had one drink, one drink, one drink, that's all...


SEVEN MILES

I'm not cold, I'm freezing, there are spiders eating
more than me,
My eyes are bulging, fighting, just to see the
driveway filling up again with rain
I'm 4 feet down

I've grown addicted to the sight in silence,
Wading on through the sidewalks empty, jeez
Of course we doubt the things we read between the
lines
I'm 4 feet down

So lay it all on me,
Lay it all on me,
It's 7 miles to the first green light,
It's 7 miles to the first green light,

So let's break the books, let's break the pictures,
break the records
Let's break every single thing that reminds me until
there's nothing left to face
I'm 4 feet down

And my god, it's been so hard, but my mistake was
trying to break off with every little thing that was
denied to me within these miles, within these lies…

So lay it all on me
Lay it all on me

It's 7 miles to the first green light
It's 7 miles to the first green light
It' seven miles to the first green…

So I've got some war clothes on,
But I've lost to myself
Still holding on to what's gone
On and on and on and on…

Within these miles I've seen the signs…

I see a sovereign that sleeps at the bottom
He embodies his death as he lives
So scared when the lights go of, turn them on, turn
them on

It forced me out
It forced me out

But I am these miles, I am these miles, I am these
miles, I am these miles
I am these miles, I am these miles, I am these miles,
I am these miles,
Always, always.


LAST CALL

The side pocket's gonna lead to nowhere
I gotta get a leeway,
I'd take the shot if it'll get me somewhere,
Forget the lead, I want a free game….

You play to stay close, everybody knows, everybody
knows
You're just gonna give it away, give it away,
Sometimes the pain shows, everybody bleeds, everybody
needs to,
You live with it or you give in today, you give in
today…

Last chance, last roll,
It's the last dance, baby,
It's last call for the real thing…

So if you've got something to say,
Say how you feel…

You lay up with them slack-jawed men, they never give
you a chance
You can't keep living this way, thing's gotta change
Sometimes the pace slows, everybody breathes,
everybody needs to
You can't save 'em up for another day…

Last chance, last roll,
It's the last dance baby,
It's last call for the real thing…

For the real thing…

You mince words, what you say, it sounds so safe, but
it looks tired on you

You mix words, and but you stay on attack, I cannot
revive you
In this world, there ain't no love you can lose, you
conspire to keep me from you,
It ain't working, baby

Last chance, last roll, it's the last dance, baby,
It's last call for the real thing…

You're the real thing, come on hear what your heart
says,
You're the real thing, so go on and get yourself a
good feeling….