The Fray: Lyrics

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All At Once | Cable Car | City Hall | Dead Wrong | Don't Get Me Wrong | Either Way | Faith in Her | Fall Away | Heaven Forbid | How to Save A Life | Hundred | It's For You | Little House | Look After You | Oceans Away | Over My Head | She Is | Some Trust | Surface | Trust Me | Together | Unsaid | Vienna | Wait For Me | Where You Want To | Without Reason

There are certain people you just keep coming back to
She is right in front of you
You begin to wonder could you find a better one
Compared to her now she’s in question

And all at once the crowd begins to sing
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same

Maybe you want her maybe you need her
Maybe you started to compare to someone not there

Looking for the right one you line up the world to find
Where no questions cross your mind
But she won’t keep on waiting for you without a doubt
Much longer for you to sort it out

And all at once the crowd begins to sing
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same

Maybe you want her maybe you need her
Maybe you started to compare to someone not there
Maybe you want it maybe you need it,
Maybe it’s all you’re running from,
Perfection will not come

And all at once the crowd begins to sing
Sometimes
We’d never know what’s wrong without the pain
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same

Maybe you want her maybe you need her
Maybe you’ve started to compare to someone not there
Maybe you want it maybe you need it
Maybe it’s all you’re running from
Perfection will not come

Maybe you want her maybe you need her
Maybe you had her maybe you lost her to another
To another

© 2005 Slade/King/Johnson

Over My Head (Cable Car)

I never knew
I never knew that everything was falling through
That everyone I knew was waiting on a cue
To turn and run when all I needed was the truth
But that’s how it’s got to be
It’s coming down to nothing more than apathy
I’d rather run the other way than stay and see
The smoke and who’s still standing when it clears, and

Everyone knows I’m in over my head
Over my head
There’s eight seconds left in overtime, she’s on your mind
She’s on your mind

Let’s rearrange
I wish you were a stranger
I could disengage
Just say that we agree and then never change
Soften a bit until we all just get along
But that’s disregard
You find another friend and you discard
As you lose the argument in a cable car
Hanging above as the canyon comes between, and

Everyone knows I’m in over my head
Over my head
There’s eight seconds left in overtime, she’s on your mind
She’s on your mind

Everyone knows I’m in over my head
Over my head
There’s eight seconds left in overtime, she’s on your mind
She’s on your

Suddenly I become a part of the past
I'm becoming the part that don’t last
I’m losing you and it’s effortless
Without a sound we lose sight of the ground in the throw around
never thought that you wanted to bring it down
I won’t let it go down ‘til we toss it ourselves

And everyone knows I’m in over my head
Over my head
There’s eight seconds left in overtime, she’s on your mind
She’s on your mind
Everyone knows
She’s on your mind
Everyone knows I’m in over my head I’m in over my head I’m over my
Everyone knows I’m in over my head, over my head
There’s eight seconds left in overtime, she’s on your mind
She’s on your mind

© 2004 Slade/King

Note: The 1^st Music Video for this song was filmed February 2005 by Waficke Films, in Denver, CO. This was a student film.
Note: The 2nd Music Video for this song was filmed July 2005. This is the 'Official' Music Video.
Note: May 2005-Cable Car was changed to Over My Head and was released as the first single of their debut album.
Caleb Slade's nickname is Cable Car.

The city hall in my mind, met last night
Rumors of reelection started to fly

It's my funeral today, my funeral today
I laid it down Underneath the sound

It's my principle concern, my principle concern is what you say
But I wanted it this way.
Cause I'm throwin down without a fight

You're more than welcome to look around
Consult your checklist go underground
I'll claim a stake here inside the frame
But I'm going under another way

I won't return after today
So I'm at liberty to say what's on my mind
And it some I like

You can't watch me, you can't make me like before
When I was yours when all I wanted was the door
So I'm throwin down without a fight

You're more than welcome to look around
Consult your checklist go underground
I'll claim a stake here inside the frame
But I'm going under another way

Decision on the dock head
Make up your mind and if you get consensus
Drop me a line

The city hall in my mind, got together last night
Rumors of reelection started to fly

© Slade/King

If only I knew what I know
I'd make it a point to say so
To everyone that got me here
And everyone that made it

Clear I was dead wrong all along
You said it for my sake
That I would not lose my way
When I was astray

I'm doing the best that I could
Trying my best to be understood
Maybe I'm changing slowly
I'd get out turn around if only I

Knew I was dead wrong all along
You said it for my sake
As if I would lose my way
When I was dead wrong all along

Mine is not a new story
But it is for me

So I was dead wrong all along
You said it for my sake
You thought I'd lose my way
When I was dead wrong all along
You said it for my sake
That I would not lose my way

Did I really lose my way
Or are you afraid

© 2004 Slade/King/Flynn

Note: The original lyrics have changed some parts only slightly (from 'they' to 'you') to whole verses. The third verse actually went like this "I did it as best as I could/ Minus the ones I knew would / Probably kill me slowly/ I am left with the words if only" In the 2nd to last verse "You thought I'd lose my way" replaces "That I would not lose my way" and The last verse wasn't in the original.

Don't Get Me Wrong

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You swear you recall nothing at all
That could make you come back down
You made up your mind to leave it all behind
Now you're forced to fight it out

You fall away from your past
But it's following you

You left something undone,
it's now your rerun
It's the one you can't erase
You should have made it right,
so you wouldn't have to fight
To put a smile back on your face

You fall away from your past
But it's following you
You fall away

Something I've done
that I can't outrun
Maybe you should wait
maybe you should run
But there's something you've
said that can't be undone

And you fall away from your past
But it's following you

You fall away

It's following you

© 2004 Slade/King/Battenhouse

20 years, its breaking you down, now that you understand
there's no one around.
take a breath, just take a seat. your falling apart and
tearing at the seems

Heaven forbid you end up alone and don’t know why
Hold on tight wait for tomorrow you’ll be all right

It’s on your face
Is it on your mind?
Would you care to build a house of your own?
How much longer? How long can you wait?
It’s like you wanted to go and give yourself away

Heaven forbid you end up alone and don’t know why
Hold on tight wait for tomorrow you’ll be all right
Heaven forbid you end up alone and don’t know why
Hold on tight wait for tomorrow you’ll be all right

It feels good (Is that reason enough for you)
It feels good (Is that reason enough for you)
It feels good (Is that reason enough for you)
It feels good

Heaven forbid you end up alone and don’t know why
Hold on tight wait for tomorrow you’ll be all right
Heaven forbid you end up alone and don’t know why
Hold on tight wait for tomorrow you’ll be all right

Oh, out of this one
I don’t know how to get you out of this one
Don’t know how to get you out of this one
Don’t know how to get you out of this one
Don’t know how to get you out of this one
Out of this one

© 2004 Slade/King

How to Save A Life

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it’s just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you’ve told him all along
And pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you’ve followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he’ll say he’s just not the same
And you’ll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

© 2004 Slade/King

Note: This song is about Isaac mentoring a crack addicted teen.

The how I can't recall
But I'm staring at what once was the wall
Separating east and west
Now they meet amidst the broad daylight

So this is where you are, and this is where I am
Somewhere between unsure and a hundred

It's hard I must confess
I'm banking on the rest to clear away
Cause we have spoken everything
Everything short of I love you

You right where you are, from right where I am
Somewhere between unsure and a hundred

And who's to say it's wrong
And who's to say that it's not right
Where we should be for now

So this is where you are, and this is where I am
So this is where you are, and this is where I've been
Somewhere between unsure and a hundred

© 2003 Slade/Conway

When the winds come and they blow
When the rains turn to sleet and snow
When the waters rage at the sea
Bitter cold but you warm me
Only you, only you

It’s for you I walk through a storm
It’s for you I lay me down
It’s for you I walk through a storm
It’s for you I lay me down

There is nothing that I wouldn’t do for you
When you call I’ll be right there
I’ll turn my world right around for you
Don’t you see, don’t you see I’m here
For you for you...

Only for you I walk through a storm
Only for you I lay me down
Only for you I walk through a storm
Only for you I lay me down

I lay...

Only For you....

Only for you I walk through a storm
Only for you I lay me down
Only for you I walk through a storm
Only for you I lay me down

© 2002 Slade/King

She doesn't look, she doesn't see
Opens up for nobody
Figures out, she figures out
Narrow line, she can't decide
Everything short of suicide
Never hurts, nearly works

Something is scratching its way out
Something you want to forget about

A part of you that'll never show
You're the only one that'll ever know
Take it back when it all began
Take your time, would you understand
What it's all about

Something is scratching its way out
Something you want to forget about
No one expects you to get up
All on your own with no one around

© 2004 Slade/King

If I don’t say this now I will surely break
As I’m leaving the one I want to take
Forgive the urgency but hurry up and wait
My heart has started to separate

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Be my baby
Oh, oh, oh
I’ll look after you

There now, steady love, so few come and don’t go
Will you won’t you, be the one I always know
When I’m losing my control, the city spins around
You’re the only one who knows, you slow it down

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Be my baby
Oh, oh, oh
I’ll look after you

If ever there was a doubt
My love she leans into me
This most assuredly counts
She says most assuredly

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Be my baby
I’ll look after you

It’s always have and never hold
You’ve begun to feel like home
What’s mine is yours to leave or take
What’s mine is yours to make your own

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Be my baby
Oh, oh, oh

© 2005 Slade/King

Note: This was Isaac's first love song.

Figure since I’m so far gone, oceans away,
I can lay my saber down today.
I miss the words I love...the words, you did not say.
I miss the kiss you never...never gave away.

There goes the sun, oceans away
And days die young when you’re gone and you’re gone
There goes the sun, oceans away
And leaves the day for someone else

Honestly I thought
That we could make it all the way,
Barefoot on beaches dancing against the gray.
But stone by stone the castle crumbled to the ground,
I stood and stared as you started to fall into the waves.

There goes the sun, oceans away
And days die young when you’re gone and you’re gone
There goes the sun, oceans away
And leaves the day for someone else

Here’s to the man of your dreams.

I take it all in a box and make my way down to the shore,
Throw it in and begin to leave it to the waves.
Leave it to the waves, leave it to the...
Leave it to the... leave it to the waves....

Ohh yeaah...ohh yeaah.

© 2002 Slade/King

Note: On the Reason EP the drums on this track are done by Zach Johnson.

Do not get me wrong I cannot wait for you to come home
For now you’re not here and I’m not there, it’s like we’re on our own
To figure it out, consider how to find a place to stand
Instead of walking away and instead of nowhere to land

This is going to break me clean in two
This is going to bring me close to you

She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted
She is everything I want that I never knew I needed

It’s all up in the air and we stand still to see what comes back down
I don’t know where it is, I don’t know when, but I want you around
When it falls into place with you and I, we go from if to when
Your side and mine are both behind it’s indication

This is going to bring me clarity
This’ll take the heart right out of me

She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted
She is everything I want that I never knew I needed

This is going to bring me to my knees
I just want to hold you close to me

She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted
She is everything I want that I never knew I needed

© 2004 Slade/King

So you fake you’re full and you feel tomorrow coming
And you gotta do what you can do to get
Away with everything you want and still get what you need.
Just slowing down cause you've done it before,
You look at the floor and you wonder when it’s gonna
Come on up over your head so you can get some rest.

Some trust in love and some trust in hatred
Some trust in fear and some in violence
Some trust in faith and some trust in fortune
Some trust God and some just get away.

Ohh....

Swear to God I’m going to get it right
Stay down tied until I get my fill.
Take it all but it’s falling through
Done it before so maybe a little bit
More will make it easier to get on through the door.

Some trust in pain and some trust in pleasure
Some trust in union, some in innocence
Some trust in fear and some trust in fortune
Some trust in everyone and some just get away.

Call it security, call it your purity
Call it the words we pray, call it the sins we say,
You never wanted it this way

Some trust in God and some trust in country
Some trust in love and some in violence
Some trust in diamonds, some trust in devils
Some trust fear and some just get away

Get away....get away...get awayyyyyyyy

© 2002 Slade/King

Note: The official lyrics for the 3rd verse are listed as "Call it the words we pray, Call it the sins we say, We never wanted this to be the one we miss. Call it security, Call it your purity, You never wanted this" but are not the order in which they are sung.
Note: On the Reason EP the drums on this track are done by Zach Johnson.

Note: No lyrics available at this time.

Looking for something I've never seen
Alone and I'm in between
The place that I'm from and the place that I'm in
A city I never been
I found a friend or should I say a foe
Said just a few things you should know
We don't want you to see we come and we go
Here today, gone tomorrow

We're only taking turns
Holding this world
It's how it's always been
When you're older you will understand

If I say who I know it just goes to show
You need me less than I need you
Take it from me we don't give sympathy
You can trust me trust nobody
But I said you and me we don't have honesty
The things we don't want to speak
I'll try to get out but I never will
Traffic is perfectly still

We're only taking turns
Holding this world
It's how it's always been
When you're older you will understand

And then again maybe you don't
And then again maybe you won't

When you're older you might understand
When you're older you might understand

© 2005 Slade/King

One...Two...Three

As the spring in its bloom, the summer stars and the moon,
Come and dance with me my love and we will be one.

We go together, (together)
I promise forever, (forever) everyday together, (together)
I live with you.
We go together, (together)
I promise forever, (forever) everyday together, (together)
I live with you.

As the leafs and the trees, the oceans celebrate you and me.
We will live to see many days, and we will dream, we’ll dream.

We go together, (together) I promise forever, (forever) everyday together, (together) I live with you
We go together, (together) I promise forever, (forever) everyday together, (together) I live with you

Yeeaaahhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhh ah

© 2002 Slade/King

Note: Ben didn't like the idea of having him say "One...Two...Three" at the beginning of the song but was outvoted by Joe & Isaac. (According to information posted on The Fray's first message board.)
Note: On the Reason EP the guitar on this track are done by Mike Ayars.

Not that you’re the one
Not to say I’m right
Not to say today
And not to say a thing tonight.

But suffice it to say,
We’re leaving things unsaid
We sing ourselves to sleep
Watching the day lie down instead

And we are leaving some things unsaid
And we are breathing deeper instead

We're both pretty sure
Neither one can tell
Things say difficult
What we got is........*

A hundred thousand words
Could not quite explain
So I walk you to your car
And we can talk it out in the rain

Ohhh....

And we are leaving some things unsaid
And we are breathing deeper instead
And we are leaving some things unsaid

I can sing myself (sing myself) to sleep (self)
no more (to sleep) no more (to sleep)

Not that you’re the one
Not to say I’m right
Not to say today
And not to say a thing tonight

© 2002 Slade/King

Note: Official lyrics list "I’d like to leave this town/ And I probably will I’d take the interstate/ But traffic is standing perfectly still." instead of the "We're both pretty sure" verse.

*This line is hard to hear. If you have the lyrics for this line please e-mail Lili.

The day’s last one-way ticket train pulls in
We smile for the casual closure capturing
There goes the downpour
Here goes my fare thee well

There’s really no way to reach me
‘Cause I’m already gone

Only so many words that we can say
Spoken upon long-distance melody
This is my hello
This is my goodness

There’s really no way to reach me
‘Cause I’m already gone

Maybe in five or ten yours and mine will meet again
Straighten this whole thing out
Maybe then honesty need not be feared as a friend or an enemy
This is the distance
And this is my game face

There’s really no way to reach me
‘Cause I’m already gone

So this is your maverick
This is Vienna

© 2002 Slade/King/Battenhouse

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Where You Want To

You move my mind to you my thoughts distracted by your face
You move my mind to you memories filled when I’m with you

There’s no need to wait, no need to wait
No need to wait, no need to wait
No need to wait, no need to wait
Go where you want to,

No need to wait, no need to wait
No need to wait, no need to wait
No need to wait, no need to wait
Go where you want to,

Go where you want to, where you want to
Go where you want to, take me there with you
Go where you want to, where you want to
Go where you want to, take me there with you

You walked right in my sight, that’s my invite to follow you
I’m dreaming of you, dreaming of you, dreaming of you today

There’s no need to wait, no need to wait
No need to wait, no need to wait
No need to wait, no need to wait
Go where you want to

No need to wait, no need to wait
No need to wait, no need to wait
No need to wait, no need to wait
Go where you want to

Go where you want to, where you want to
Go where you want to, take me there with you
Go where you want to, where you want to
Go where you want to, take me there with you

Come in close to me, come in close

Go where you want to, where you want to
Go where you want to, take me there with you
Go where you want to, where you want to
Go where you want to, take me there with you

© 2002 Slade/King

Woman in background: You have kids and you say 'okay Johnnie you know you are going to be in charge of loading the dishwasher Monday Wednesday Friday taking out the garbage Tuesday Thursday' but Johnnie does not do that [sigh] but you are doing him a disservice by allowing him to have to have his privileges...

I do it on a whim, its rhyme without reason
Whatever comes to mind I’ll pull it from thin air.
I’ve learned to improvise to fill my time
I don’t want to live this life,
No I don’t want to live this life without reason.

Never want to live without it,
Never want to live,
I don’t want to live without reason.
Never want to live without it,
Never want to live,
I don’t want to live without reason.

I do it on a whim, with no motivation
Following this line and I don’t know why,
But I’ve learned to capture time it’s my redirection
No I don’t want to live this life without reason

Never want to live without it,
Never want to live,
I don’t want to live without reason.
Never want to live without it,
Never want to live,
I don’t want to live without reason.

You want to work to spend to show.
You want to talk to smile to feel.
You want to run to thirst to drink.
You want to love to know it’s real.
Never want to live without, I never want to live,
I don’t want to live without reason
I don’t want to live without reason

© 2002 Slade/King

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