Bleachers - Strange Desire Album Lyrics

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Wild Heart

They closed the parkway late last night
And as I sat with the echoes of lies that I told
I felt young never change my crooked heart
So put your shotgun back in the glove
I'm only waiting another year for the dream far away
To come home to be brave

Well everything has changed
and now it's only you that matters
I will find anyway to your wild heart

They boarded up the windows and the doors to my house
No one will ever read the letters of the lies that I told
From the years I was changed my crooked hearts
Why did they have to go and do us like that
Why did they have to go and run from a dream far away
We'll be there was that grave?

To think everything must die for anyone to matter
Got to find anyway to your wild heart
I will find anyway to your wild heart

I will find anyway
Now everything has changed and I can't tell what matters
I will find anyway to your wild heart

Your wild heart [x8]

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Rollercoaster

It was summer when I saw your face
but like a teenage runaway
Oh god I never thought we'd take it that far
some killer queen you are

Now I'm running and I can't stop anywhere I go
I think about it everyday and night I can't let go
Man, I'm never the same
We were shot gun lovers I was shot gun running away

So come a little closer
There was something I could tell ya
You were such a rollercoaster
And a killer queen you are

Rollercoaster, I don't say no
Rollercoaster, When you don't say no
And it's such a rollercoaster
Some killer queen you are

We took the bones out from the road
Those endless nights that we traveled we stole
You let your clothes fall to the floor
And lit a fire while I waited for more

Now I'm running and I won't stop I don't wanna go
I think about it everyday and night I can't let go
And hey, I'm never the same
It's a hundred miles an hour on a dirt road running away

So come a little closer
There was something I could tell ya
You were such a rollercoaster
And a killer queen you are

Rollercoaster, I don't say no
Rollercoaster, When you don't say no
And it's such a rollercoaster
Some killer claimed it all

Come a little closer
I'm sure, come a little closer

Why don't you come a little closer
There was something I could tell ya
You were such a rollercoaster
Some killer queen you are

Rollercoaster, I don't say no
Rollercoaster, When you don't say no
And it's such a rollercoaster
Some killer queen you are

Rollercoaster, I don't say no
Rollercoaster, When you don't say no
And it's such a rollercoaster
Some killer queen you are

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Shadow

Some girls
Some girls they really just wanna hurt you
And there's some boys
Some boys that laugh when they break your heart
But how love dies is a place that I'm not going
And we could try, cause

[Chorus:]
If you're feeling small
I'll love your shadow
And if you're feeling small
I'll love your shadow

There are those girls
Those girls that are waiting by the phone on the weekend
Oh yeah, like those boys, those boys that are home with the broken hearts
But the heart wants fear
So we're looking for a villain
I'll be there

[Chorus]

And I know that they have hurt you
And I know the love you gave feels cheap and used
And I know it's getting harder
And I know the lights have all gone dark on you
Still I will love your shadow
When the love you gave feels cheap and used
Yes I will love your shadow
When the lights have all gone dark on you

How love dies is a place that I'm not going
And we could try...

[Chorus]

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I Wanna Get Better

Hey I hear the voice
Of the preacher from the back room
Calling my name and
I follow just to find you

I trace the faith
To a broken down television
And put on the weather

And I've trained myself
To give up on the past
Cause I froze in time
Between hearses and caskets

Lost control when I
Panicked at the acid test
I wanna get better

While my friends were getting high
And chasing girls down parkway lines
I was losing my mind

Because the love
The love, the love
The love, the love
The love, that I gave
Wasted on a nice face

In a blaze of fear
I put a helmet on a helmet
Counting seconds through a night
And got carried away

So now I'm standing on the overpass
Screaming at the cars, hey
I wanna get better

I didn't know I was lonely
Til I saw your face
I wanna get better
Better, better, better
I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken
Til I wanted to change
I wanna get better
Better, better, better
I wanna get better

I go up to my room
And there's girls on the ceiling
Cut out their pictures
And I chase that feeling
Of an eighteen year old
Who didn't know
What loss was
Now I'm a stranger

And I miss the days
Of a life still permanent
Mourn the years
Before I got carried away

So now I'm staring at the interstate
Screaming at myself, hey
I wanna get better

I didn't know I was lonely
Til I saw your face
I wanna get better
Better, better, better
I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken
Til I wanted to change
I wanna get better
Better, better, better
I wanna get better

Cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi
I'm screaming from my bedroom window
Even if it's gonna kill me

Woke up this morning
Early before my family
From this dream
Where she was trying to show me

How a life
Can move from the darkness
She said to get better

So I put a bullet
Where I should have put a helmet
And I crash my car
Cause I wanna get carried away

That's why I'm standing on the overpass
Screaming at myself, hey
I wanna get better

I didn't know I was lonely
Til I saw your face
I wanna get better
Better, better, better
I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken
Til I wanted to change
I wanna get better
Better, better, better
I wanna get better

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Wake Me

Right from the start I knew
You'd set a fire in me
And I'd rather be sad with you
Than anywhere away from you

And hey
I can't believe I captured your heart
Oh whoa oh
I can't believe I captured your heart

Stake my life on it
If somebody's gonna quit
Then I'd rather be sad with you
Than with any other girls but you

And hey
I can't believe I captured your heart
Oh whoa oh
I can't believe I captured your heart

If you're lonely lonely lonely wake me
I can't believe I captured your heart

Right from the start I knew
You'd set a fire in me
And I'd rather be sad with you
Than anywhere away from you

And hey
I can't believe I captured your heart
Oh whoa oh
I can't believe I captured your heart

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Reckless Love

I could use a bad disguise
to guard me on the darkest nights
I keep finding my way to the harshest words
I got a strange, strange vision of a reckless love

Whoa, standing in world of my own
they call it reckless love, whoa, whoa

So give me a chance to remember
what I've given up to defend ya
I would burn my dreams away
just to stand in the thankless shadows
of your reckless love

Whoa, standing in a world of my own
they call it reckless love, whoa, whoa

Get out, stand back
if you don't let go, you're gonna break me, and you
get out, stand back
if you don't let go, you're gonna break me, and you
get out, stand back,
if you don't let go, you're gonna break me, and you
get out, stand back
if you don't let go, you're gonna break me

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

So give me a chance to remember
what I've given up to defend ya
that I burned my dreams away
to stand in the broken shadows
of your reckless love
your thankless love
your restless love
a thankless love
your reckless love's a thankless love

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Take Me Away

I'll let you take it, I'll let you take it, I'll let you
I know you're sorry
I'll let you take it, I'll let you take it, I'll let you
I'll let you take it
(Now you're hungry and you want to take me away, take me away)
I know you're, I, I know you're sorry
(You pushed me farther than I've been)
(Falling for me, me)

I know you're sorry, I know you're sorry, I know you're sorry
I know you're sorry, I know you're sorry, I know you're sorry

I've broke my silence in an angry yell,
(I know you, you)
Someone who'll take you long way home
And now you're hungry and you want to
Take me away, take me away
I know you're sorry
I felt like a fool,
I understand that you're
I'll be in the shadows above
That you had ever seen me coming

I know you're sorry, I know you're sorry, I know you're sorry
I know you're sorry, I know you're sorry, I know you're sorry

I'll be in the shadows above
(I, I I know you're sorry)
Better off before you, alone
I'm waiting to find out
Love will wake us, love won't break us
Love will take you
And if I can find, find a way out of myself again

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Like A River Runs

I woke up thinking you were still here
My hands shaking with regret
I've held this dream for such a long long time
And I wanna get up
To the rhythm of a wild, to the rhythm of a wild heart
That beats, that beats like a rolling drum

I saw you standing on the corner
I saw you standing on your own
And I get the feeling that it's, it's all a dream
And I wanna get up
To the rhythm of a wild, to the rhythm of a wild heart
That beats, that beats like a drum

When I fall asleep I can see your face
What I lost in you I will not replace
And I could run away, I could let them down
But I will remember your light

Your light it follows me in darkness
I'm trying hard but I can't win
And I've played the victim for a long long time
And I wanna grow up
From the rhythm a young, from the rhythm of a younger heart
It leads just like a river runs

That night I sent over the parkway
The summer's gone and I'm alone
And I get the feeling that you're somewhere close
And I wanna get up
To the rhythm of your wild, to the rhythm of your wild heart
It beats, been beating since you've gone

When I fall asleep I can see your face
What I lost in you I will not replace
And I could run away, I could let them down
But I will remember

When I fall asleep I can see your face
What I lost in you I will not replace
And I could run away, I could let them down
And I know you're gone but still I will remember your light

I will remember [x4]

And if you see me in the darkness
I hope you know I'm not alone
I carry you with every breath I take
I won't let up, I won't let up
Until the wind is gone

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You're Still A Mystery

Thought I wanted to forget my past
Tried to leave the pieces of a broken man
What it cost I ain't ever getting back
So I'm breaking the lines 'cause I wanna remember

Man I was feeling like I never was young
Followed a dream and a strange desire
You picked me up in the dead of the night
And gave me a chance to move on inside of your mystery

Maybe I don't need to understand
Why your love is such mystery [x2]

Want to give you something better than I've been
I wanna write your name up on my wall
Wake you up in the dead of the night
Breaking the lines just trying to get better

Man I was feeling like I never was young
No nothing simple 'bout the simple days I mourn
If what I lost ain't ever coming back
Then I can find a way to move inside of your mystery

Maybe I don't need to understand
Why your love is such mystery [x2]

No god holding on tightly
Your love holy inside me [x4]

Someday I'm gonna make this right
Someday when the lights are low
Someday I'm gonna get on my knees
Someday baby I'm gonna beg you [x2]

Maybe I don't need to understand
Why your love is such a mystery [x2]

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I'm Ready to Move On / Wild Heart Reprise


Snow is falling all the time
Snow is smiling all the time
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to move on
(from your reckless love)

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Who I Want You to Love

Tired of chasing my dreams
They're always twisting
I always scream
To follow down the strangest roads
In back seats indoors

I will love what you want me to love
I will bleed when you want me to bleed
But I don't want to know too much of anything
Because it all hurts me

Come on, don't push me down that road

I'm always twisting, always sold
To follow, all made up how you'd like
I'm back seats, indoors