Evans and Keane

The Next Best Thing

You come to me in pieces
Broken right down to the bottom of your soul
You needed someone you could fall into
You found me standing right beside you

I knew the shattered look in your eyes
It was just like mine every time you said goodbye
To me your best friend, cherished and adored
As you put your arm around the girl your heart lives for

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And I was always so in love with you
Waiting in the wings for you
To figure out you needed me too
When deep inside I probably knew
For you I was only the next best thing
For a broken heart

Every time you walked away
You missed how much I needed you to stay
There were thousands of reasons caught in my throat
That found no voice, my voice just broke

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A Perfect Place of Beauty

I want to see
Paradise waiting for me
Earth to sky
Everything in between
The old tales
Of loved ones and laughing angels
Heaven smiles
There's a loving fate for sweetness

Here cities weep
Glass melts beneath the cold
Ice people
Dance in their street light lives
Greeen to go
To roam the closed roads
Free to be
Living in a concrete dream

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Then it all falls down
You're the one I run to
To let sleep the fear I see
In a perfect place of beauty
And then it all falls down again
And I return to wonder
How you keep the fear I see
And give a perfect place of beauty back to me

I fly over
Industrial skylines
From glass to green
Watching my dream world smile
I believe
I'll begin it all again
New skies
New wings for dreams to fly

Winds fail
I fall to ashes below
City embalming
Ice claws take hold
I run
Carry the sky inside
I'm too small
Ever to heal it all

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Tyranny of Maybe

Standing
In the wake of waiting
Not knowing if we're coming going
Waiting for the word unspoken
Goodbyes
Aren't the same as freedom
Memories can be a prison
Greater than the tyranny of maybe

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Maybe we'll try
Maybe we'll see
That love's a sacred seed
Maybe we'll give
Maybe we'll take
Maybe that's a gift and not a mistake
Maybe the letting go that we need
Is letting go of the
Tyranny of Maybe

Missing
What you can't remember
You wrestle with your ghosts so slowly
The distance that they cover's growing
Pointless
Are the angry words
We're yelling into absent eyes
Blinded by the tyranny of maybe

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Maybe we'll fly
Maybe we'll fall
Maybe this is just where we belong
Maybe we'll listen
Maybe we'll speak
Maybe we'll find what we seek
Maybe this is love
Maybe this is lust
Maybe it's unusual to trust
Maybe the love we need
Is just beyond this
Tyranny of Maybe

April's Morning

April looks down on the sleepy bright morning
With the wisdom that comes as a watcher of mornings
Pale hollow light's just beginning to rise
Begging to cast away remnants of night

April looks down from the window she treasures
Bending to take in the break of the day
City's a mirror of clear starry skies
She reflects on the world as it lay

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April's morning
The world is born again
April's dawning
Bearing her Winter's goodbye

Below her are lovers with limbs still entangled
Making laughter and love and life
The floor is still littered with bottles and poetry
Remains of the rituals carried through time

April she looks down and searches for answers
Patiently waiting for love to arrive
All that she finds is the time that is passing
Evening is calling and won't be denied

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Change:
April stands witness to all life can hold
Long nights of waiting begin to let go
With the burden of choosing a lover or watching
him walk away
Is born in the breath of the mornings

100 Roads

I've made some changes
Rewritten pages of my own
I've made some choices
Listened to a voice that is my own

I've walked some lonely roads now
I've learned a thing or two about goodbye
I've looked for you in every face that I could find
Trying to forget that I left you behind

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If you knew me now
You'd see that I have found
We choose what we will do with memories
And we do what we must do to set some free
There's a hundred different ways to be alone
If you choose them
A hundred different roads to bring you home

I could say I'm sorry
For what I didn't know back then
Betrayal is a bitter sore
My regret'll never mend

I wonder if for you I ever meant
Enough to find forgiveness in the end
Or did you carry me as just another memory
That kept you from the joy your life should be

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An Hour

Rain is falling gently
On the shoulders of September
Walking through the city
With the buildings soaring round me
Faces that I pass
Are filled with nothing I can fathom
We walk these dampened streets
We seek together

Wind is blowing softly
Bringing whispers of the Winter
Numbers on the tower
Show the passing of the hour
Café on the corner speaks of coffee
And reflection
Shelter from the minutes and the weather

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Many of us miss the little gift that is within us
Strength to take a minute from the busy ways that
shape us
Portrait of our choosing somewhere in the
time we're losing
The minutes turn to years in a flicker of forgetting

I share a cup of coffee
With "The Story of an Hour"
Chopin weaves a tale
Of loss of freedom and it's meaning
Reminded once again
I am grateful to be walking
Through the city with my freedoms and my angels

Upon the street a sturdy weed
Pushed its way up through the pavement
Little gift of beauty
From the fist of gray beneath it
It found a strength to make it's way
A testament to what it takes
To seize the day amid the rain
The time and strangers

The Delicate Thread

The delicate thread
Tangled web we weave
Upon this life we lead
In the fabric of humanity

Tendrils twine
Twisting with the tides of time
Whispers shifting changing
Loving lovers intertwined

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It's a delicate thread we balance this life upon
It's a delicate thread that holds our life and
Holds that shadow beneath us
How easily it breaks, like a word or a promise made
Like a heart that's tied
To another delicate thread

Fragile hands
Angel hairs upon his head
Fingers twisting absently
Amid the play of light

Weaving history
In the mystery of every day
Lived among the changes
Flowing as we're aging

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Change:
My eyes are holding to him
Folding him in my mind
Listening for sounds of breaking
Breaking down, but not apart
Keeping to this love we're making
Of yarns and threads and pieces of life

On the Edge of Amazing

You have waited
You have wandered
You have watched as many lives left like the tides
You have loved
You've been forsaken
You've been crushed beneath too many long goodbyes

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Now you're standing
On the edge of amazing
Better days now lie beyond the grasp of yesterdays
With a word, a truth, a trust, a lover
Is just waiting just beyond this edge
You've lingered on too long

You've been lost
Been misled
You've been weary on the road you never chose
You've been hurt
You've been burdened
You've only ever lost what you've not known

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You've been lonely
You've been yearning
You've been loved maybe more then you can see
You've been deserving
You've been worthy
You've been given much too little for your worth

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Out:
You've been loved maybe more than you could see
I know cause you've been loved by me

A Heart to Call Your Home

I want these words to carry
All the joy you bring to me
That's asking much to much of those
So easily set free
So I ask you to believe me
And let time let me show
With me you have a heart to call a home

Your smile sets my soul to flight
Your tears my heart to glass
Your voice follows where I am
Whatever distance time demands
And I pray you'll never leave me
And I pray you'll want to know
With me you have a heart to call a home

Change:
I want to be the soil where your memories can grow
I want to bring you colors that the eyes of love can know
I want to give you all the miles you need to keep you free
And keep a spacious heart to love the man you need to be

You walk beside me in my dreams
Even when you are alone
With me you have a heart to call your home

So I ask you to believe me
And let time let me show
With me you have a heart to call your home

If I Give to You

If I give to you my little boy
With love for laughter
Balls and toys
Keep him safe from harm and teach
Him love for life he greatly needs

Is he worth as much to you as pride
Worth as much as paper signed
Worth as much as history
Or bedtime stories read by me

See him like his father does
The greatest gift because he was
In our care till he became
The man who carries on our name

Chorus:
If paper and pens were the tools of war
What if words were the only bullets that would soar
What if these were the armaments believed to be
Enough to win your days and needs
Then you'd only need my baby's mind
Not the body that he'll leave behind

If I give to you my little girl
With cut-off jeans and messy curls
That's the little girl I see
When I see the woman next to me

Dress her up
In greens and grays
To fade among your rules and ways
Fade into the others who
Were swaddled once by mothers too

Look at her and try to find
Some value in her heart and mind
See her as her father does
Bearer of his greatest love.

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Together We Love

Endless blue in an endless sky
Fades to evening as colors fly
Together we watch, together we smile
Together we love for a million miles
Everything changes in every life
Rearranged in a whim or strife
But home is a wisdom, home is a faith
Home is belief in the love we make

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What do you see when you look upon the waters
What do you hear in the songs that make you smile
What do you think about when memories make you
wonder
What is the world to you
And what would I see through you
Love that becomes me when you look in me?

Language is shallow for what lies so deep
Trying to tackle the meaning they keep
But words are an essence, words are a veil
Words are the fragments of lover's tales
Listen to the meaning that I try to say
Cherish the magic where meaning lay
Cause' silence is fragile, silence is heart
Silence I hear when I'm in your arms

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Endless blue in an endless sky
Fades to evening as colors fly
Together we watch, together we smile
Together we love for a million miles