Around The Sun

Ready to go, honey, let’s begin
We’ll try to see by the light of the sun
And tell it like it is
Want to sing so deep and laugh so long
Even silence himself
Wants to sing and laugh along

Want to overcome pain without feeling pain
Yeah, I guess I want what I want
When I want it
Well, I want it both ways, oh

Move me around the sun
Move me, make me feel
Something I don’t

Don’t you want to stop
Taking personal offense?
And stop talk-talk-talking about love
In the future tense?
Like it’s something I’ll feel
In the perfect light
When everything, everything
Everywhere is just right

Well, I’ll be waiting a long time
I’ll be waiting a long, long time

Move me around the sun
Move me, make me feel
Something I won’t
On my own

‘Cause I’ve been waiting a long time
I’ve been waiting a long, long time
On my own

C. Hood/ R. Green/ O. Plant
©2008 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Owen Plant Music/ BMI

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Stopless

Ooh me, choose me
And don’t abuse me
For showing the hope in this moment
For showing the hope in this moment

I’m strong and I’m stopless
I’m weak and in love

Ooh me, choose me
And don’t abuse me
For showing the hope in this moment
For showing the hope in this moment
This moment, moment
Moment, moment

I’m strong and I’m stopless
I’m weak and in love

How pointless is my point of view
Until I reach the point of you?
How pointless is my point of view
Until I reach the point of you?

I’m crawling out of my skin
Falling in it again
I’m breaking, I’m taking
I’m leaving it in
Claiming the promise
I’m grinding the crush
Strong and I’m stopless
I’m weak and in love
And I’m living by will
Tapping the well
Claiming the miracle
Asking for help
Storming the kingdom
From down on my knees
Claiming the promise
You’re carrying me
Doing the math
Counting the cost
Working the sums
And coming up lost
Claiming the promise
I’m grinding the crush
Strong and I’m stopless
I’m weak and in love

How pointless is my point of view
Until I reach the point of you?
How pointless is my point of view
Until I reach the point of you?

Remember in Boston
When we were walking
Home in the rain?
We said that we figured
We’d always be singers
No matter the name

R. Green/ C. Hood
©2005 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI/

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Nothing But The Real Thing

One of these days
I’m gonna meet you in the middle
Gonna learn to give a little
Back to you my baby, hey
Well, we’re walking through our days
With a smile and a wave
While we’re lying to ourselves
And everybody else
About our health, our wealth
And many other ways
That we are all okay
While the sadness in the eyes
Of the people passing by
Betrays what they pay
For the best face money can buy

You deserve nothing but the real thing
You deserve something true

One of these days
I’m gonna meet you in the middle
Gonna learn to give a little back to you
Like the way you do for me
So I’ll try to be see-through
Let you see me through
The armor that I wear
And the way that I wear my hair
To what’s waiting underneath
Oh, it’s me on my knees
With my face to the floor
Learning what it means to be rich
When I feel poor

It’s hard to be
Everything that you want to be
And to try to do it honestly
But I know you
And nothing but the real thing will do
Hey, nothing but the real thing will do

One of these days
I’m gonna learn to come to terms
With the way that I’m made
And the man that I am built to be
And you will too my baby
For I do what I hate
And I hate what I do
I can will what is well
But I cannot follow through
If life’s like this for you, please
Give me nothing but the real thing

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2006 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/

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Helpless Hopeless

Today is a day for making vows
No more doubt
Even though I can’t see a way
I can’t see how
Still I will press forward like a warrior, yeah
But I need some help

I am helpless hopeless
Grab hold and never let go of me
I’m helpless hopeless
So glad to know you know me
‘Cause I need some help

Today is a day for letting go
Of promises I’ve broken
And words that I have spoken
When really I don’t know

I remember the time I almost died
I smoked myself up way too high
I wrapped myself around mama’s feet
My heart was beating, beating

I was helpless hopeless
Grab hold and never let go of me
I’m helpless hopeless
So glad to know you know me

I wondered could this be the end?
Is this where everything begins?
Should I let go of my mind
And leave this all behind?

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2004 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/

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Okay

I feel fine
I feel fine
Buy a new t-shirt, buy a new sweater
Take another drink but feel no better
Buy a new CD, buy a new pair of shoes
Eat more food
Well, I feel fine

I am okay
But I’m not great

So blame it on sister, blame it on God
Blame it on a TV that won’t turn off
You’re gonna blame it on this
Blame it on dad
But you still feel bad
Well, I feel fine

I hope that this will pass
I hope that this will go

Desperate man that I am
If you can’t help me no one can
I play like life is nice and fine
I play like life is all sunshine
I’ve got Godiva, Mercedes Benz
I’ve got fame and Benjamins
I’ve got the sex, I’ve got control
And a hole the size of you inside my soul

Yeah, I am okay
Oh, I’m fine
But not divine

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2009 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/

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Mature

Sometimes mature just means over my head
And I don’t really know what I’m saying
Aiming much higher than I understand
I make up all the chords that I’m playing

Sometimes the tour makes us argue instead of
Enjoying the friends that surround us
I wish we were home for a moment alone
With someone who would keep us accounted

I don’t want to turn me into
Something that I’m not
Keep me close in mind and body
You are all I’ve got

Whispering words
With my lips on the microphone
Nobody warned of the danger
Sometimes I lie a consecutive time
While I stare in the eyes of a stranger
Everything’s fine
Sometimes mature just means over my head
And I don’t really know what I’m saying
I’m in control
Aiming much higher than I understand
And it’s all just a game of persuading

I don’t understand this, I’m letting go
It slips out of hand, and it’s gone

I forget who I am
Would you lend me a hand?
I’m not myself

R. Green/ C. Hood
©2009 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI/

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Appy Jam

"So you wanna be my friend
so you wanna be my lover
With you I do confess
I can’t be one without the other
That was hard for me to say
I hope I said it right"
– Teitur

R. Green/ C. Hood
©2009 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI

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Alright

Me and Sergio can make a microphone
Out of anything
And this seems to me a metaphor for life
We just go driving around
With the windows down
Feeling alright

Me and Ryan G. can make the best of things
Almost anywhere
And this seems to me a metaphor for life
We go from town to town
And make the best of what’s around
And it’s alright

For we will all run out of bread
And we will all run out of sugar
And we will all run out of wine, that’s fine
‘Cause it’ll all come back in time
And it’ll all be alright, yeah

Well it’s a hundred and ten
But I’m with my friends
And we’re singing
It will be alright

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2008 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/

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Back Into Blue

Why would I go away
And leave you alone?
And leave my heart back at home
When I love you?
While I’m away
You can have the songs that I play
Listen to my voice as I sing
I love you

I’ll have you with me
And there won’t be anywhere
We have to be
You’ll be the ocean and I’ll be the moon
Wading out in your waters
I’m fading back into blue
Back into blue

And if again I must go
I want for you then to know
That it’s with you on my mind
I love you

I’ll have you with me
And there won’t be anywhere
We have to be
You are the world that I’m coming home to
And as I re-enter I’m burning

To get back to lying beside her at night
To get back to seeing her face in the light
To get back the way that it feels
When she brings me to life

You are the world that I’m coming home to
And as I re-enter I’m burning
To get back to you
Back into blue

R. Green/ C. Hood
©2009 El Principito Publishing/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI/

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The World Awaits

The day you’re born is the first day you cry
There’s no warm welcome for coming to life
Some get a silver spoon, some get a name
Some get hated on, thrown away
Some people criticize, say you’re too far
Too much of whatever you are

They’ll pick you apart
To show that they’re smart
But show that you’ve got what it takes

The world awaits you
The world awaits you

Some will sing of sunlit days
Some get so sad that they step in the way
Of a moving train
You think that you’re losing
You feel like you’re lost
But you’re finding purpose
In paths that you cross
What you were made for, no one can say
But you’re finding out everyday

It picks you apart
And it cuts to the heart
Until you know that you’ve got what it takes

The world awaits you
The world awaits you

Everyone falls, everyone breaks

You think that you’re fading
You feel like you’re gone
But the bones that you’ve broken
Are growing in stronger
It’s a difficult world with a beautiful way
Of turning your pain into strength

Go, the world awaits you
The world awaits you

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2009 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI

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Divides

This world divides us all between
Who we are and who we can be
We read the lines that make us feel fine
And close our eyes and draw the blinds
On the outside world

But we could be what we want to see
Be what we want to see

This world divides us all between
Our party lines and our beliefs
With that in mind let’s all agree
To be the change we want to see

Let’s be what we want to see
I propose we be what we want to see

I’m not first
I won’t be last to say these words
I know it’s just a simple verse
But sometimes it hurts

This world divides
But I believe we’ll be what we want to see
We have to be what we want to see
Yeah, we’ve got to be what we want to see

C. Arzate/ C. Hood/ R. Green
©2009 Amandroid/ BMI/
Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI

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Born to Run to You

His pretty girl in pigtails
And he in tennis shoes
In a field with the sun going down
Over a bible town, she in her bridal gown
Kisses her man on the mouth, says, I do

And says, I was born to run to you

But it took a lot to get there
She measured distance in days
While she wondered from miles away
Is there such a thing as a love meant to be?
And if so, is one meant for me?

‘Cause I’m lying awake
And I’m aching to be with you
Aching to sing to you soon

That I was born to run to you
And I was always born to run to you

Well, I dreamed that she’d come to me
Clothed in the sun
And she’d fall in my lap as a sign
So I made up my mind to believe
That the love that I needed
Would find me, and I found you
And you’re mine

Oh, I was born to run to you
I was born to be one with you
Put your hair in pigtails
I’ll wear my tennis shoes
And well, we will both go dancing
In your father’s mansion
We’ll laugh and be light
And I’ll run to you

C. Hood/ R. Green
©2005 Easycollective Music/ BMI/
El Principito Publishing/ BMI/

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