Breaking My Own Heart

For now the clouds have run away
The cars, they shine, but they don’t stay that way
I’m coming clean about things I’ve done and things I’ve been
That one mistake at seventeen

Thought I’d be all grown up by now
Satisfied and figured out
Well I got someone to love me
So I wouldn’t have to do that myself
He must be tired as hell

‘Cause I’ve been breaking my own heart
I thought you needed someone else to tear it apart, but no
I’ve been breaking my own heart
And I don’t know how to stop
‘Cause I don’t know where to start

Everybody wants to win
Wish I could bend the rules and let me in
What I wouldn’t give to catch myself a break now and then
But then again

I’ve been breaking my own heart
I thought you needed someone else to tear it apart, but no
I’ve been breaking my own heart
And I don’t know how to stop
But I think it’s time to start

I Love You Still

You’re my raincoat
You’re my boots
You’re the water that reaches my roots
You’re my fortune
You’re my art
You’re my caper, my getaway car

Oh, I love you still
Still, what is love
But all the stars wishing upon us

You’re my weather
You’re my vein
You’re my downfall, my handshake cocaine
You’re my winter
You’re my June
You’re the shoulder that cries when I do

Oh, I love you still
Still, what is love
But all the stars wishing upon us

You can’t be everything
Somewhere I know these things
But I can’t see that now
For your love clouds my view

Lewis & Clark

I find my sense of direction
When I look in your eyes
The needle of your compass heart
Is true and magnetized

And love is a big blank map
With a point where we start
Charting the unknown
Like Lewis and Clark

Love’s a mystery
Strange territory
We search for a trail across
To what we’ve gained from what we’ve lost

Love’s a vast, vast land
A continental divide
Tales of gold and a deep blue ocean
Waiting on the other side
For you and I

I’d give up everything I’ve known
To walk this world with you
And if tonight was all we had
Then I know just what we’d do

Turn that lamp down low
And find ourselves in the dark
Charting the unknown
Like Lewis and Clark

And love is a big blank map
With a point where we start
And we don’t know where we’ll land
Still every day we embark
Charting the unknown
Like Lewis and Clark

Rosemarie

No one seems to notice Rosemarie
While I picture her in a limousine
Waving from the front car of a big parade
Confetti, balloons and lemonade

My heart beats like a marching band
Every time she takes my hand

And hey, all the suits and poets, what do they know
Every day they walk past her apartment in Soho
Me, I’d rather stop and say hello

And it’s the bridge that takes me to Manhattan
And it’s her key that lets me in
It’s not an easy door to open
But it’s always worth it in the end

No one seems to notice Rosemarie
While I picture her in a magazine
Smiling on the cover like a movie star
Pink champagne and caviar

The subway sounds like a symphony
Every time she’s next to me

Cannonball

Once I was a cannonball
I fell so hard for you
Once you were a battlefield
I thought I could break through
This time I'm going to

Once I was a distant ship
Just floating on the sea
Once you were a lighthouse
With your arms wrapped around me
This time it’s you who needs rescuing

Now we are two old oak trees
So tall, and wise and green
But I'll always be a cannonball
Falling endlessly

Writing in Pen

Life was always in pencil
It was easy to change
The words or the plans
That I put on the page

Nothing was permanent
It was all just sketches back then
But she’s got me writing in pen

I had pieces of paper
I had notes in the margins
But I never saw a future
In the stories I’d started
Now my heart is definite from beginning to end
‘Cause she’s got me writing in pen

‘Cause there are things that I don’t want erased
‘Cause nothing else will do
There are things that I’m sure of
The sun, the stars and the moon
And my heart spinning in orbit
When she walks in the room

Love to Fall In Love

It wasn’t her spark
Or the way she fed your hangover heart
That saved you then gave you away

It wasn’t her mind
Or the secrets she told you she wants you to find
That kept you then swept you away

It wasn’t her at all
Or the writing on the wall
You just love to fall in love
You just love to fall in love
You just love to fall
You love to hear her knock at your door
But do you love her or do you love to fall in love

It wasn’t her face
Or the way she spoke in all uppercase
That impaired you, couldn’t tear you away

It wasn’t her at all
Or the writing on the wall
You just love to fall in love
You just love to fall in love
You just love to fall
You love to hear her knock at your door
But do you love her or do you love to fall

You say you hate to be alone
Protecting your broken heart
Well maybe you’re accident-prone
Or maybe it just fell apart
From overuse
Here’s the good news
It won’t stay broken for long
Another will come along
And she’ll be everything you ever dreamed of

Dance With Me

Dance with me
Come and sweep me off my feet
You know I feel this way
Every time that our eyes meet
Don’t wait and stay a stranger
What’s life without a little danger
Oh darling won’t you please
Dance with me

Take a chance with me
Gamble on romance with me
If they’d always played it safe
Where would legendary lovers be
Alone on starlit nights
No arms to hold them tight
Oh darling won’t you please
Dance with me

Love can be like a rose
A few thorns as it grows
But divine when it blooms
Petals of sweet perfume

Oh dance with me
Like tonight was meant to be
Written in the stars you’d see
If you’d only dance with me

Smoke & Mirrors

Throughout the history of love
There are unsolved mysteries of love
Like where does it come from
And where does it go
'Cause now you see it
And now you don't

Like that trick where they saw somebody in half
Or perform levitation with no strings attached
It's easy to doubt, or become suspicious
To look for the flaws, to call it fictitious

But if love is just smoke and mirrors
Or a trick that takes two volunteers
Then love is still a magic act, my dear

You could read every book they ever wrote
Say 'abracadabra' and 'hocus pocus'
But what power do we have
Who knows the ways of the heart
You can't make it feel something
Can't stop it from breaking apart

You can call it a miracle
You can call it a curse
For some it gets better
For some it only gets worse

But if love is just smoke and mirrors
Or a trick that takes two volunteers
Then love is still a magic act, my dear

If I Couldn’t Have You

Tell me where would the stars go
If no one turned them on
And how would the tides flow
If the moon had gone

And what would I do if I couldn’t have you

Tell me when would the night end
If the sun never came
And what would you recommend
To a candle with no flame

And what would I do if I couldn’t have you

Fly Away

We jet 'cross town
To dinner with everyone
A chance to laugh, it's been so long

You and I
Driving in the red twilight
Just as the sun says goodnight

We talk about the friends we've made
The birds that left, and the ones that stayed
And all these feathered days
That sing and laugh and cry
And fly away

We roll the windows down
To feel the air and hear the sound
As our wings leave the ground