JON FOREMAN LYRICS
EP: "The Wonderlands: Darkness" (2015)
Come Home
The burning inside
Starts to let go
Turns into smoke
Nobody shows it
The spark in your eye
Carries the hope
That died long ago
Everyone knows it
The hope that you have
The dream that we were
Home feels so far away
You were made for more than just pain
Looking for reasons to try
A reason to live or to die
Won’t you come home
Back to where your heart is
This is the meaning of life
You were born for the dance not the fight
Won’t you come home
Back to where your heart is
Won’t you come home
Won’t you come home
There once was a girl
Who’s now just a ghost
Who’s now just a ghost
Everyone knows it
You’ve seen it before
We watched you explode
The highs and the lows
But nobody shows it
And nothing hurts worse
Than hope thats deferred
So don’t let this slip away
I see you shining under the shame
Looking for reasons to try
A reason to live or to die
Won’t you come home
Back to where you started
This is the meaning of life
You were born for the dance not the fight
Won’t you come home
Back to where your started
Fading away
Fading away
Fading away
Looking for reasons to try
A reason to live or to die
Won’t you come home
Back to where your heart is
This is the meaning of life
You were born for the dance not the fight
Won’t you come home
Back to where your heart is
Won’t you come home
Won’t you come home
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Beautiful, Pt. II
Oh oh oh...
She's looking in the mirror
She's brushing on her bravest eyes
Makeup makes her feel like she's less vulnerable
She painted even clearer
Cover up the ache inside
Cover up the pain she could never control
The illusion is finest trick
It's to convince her that he don't exist
And then nobody cares for her when
she's a girl who's scared
she's alone in the world
she don't fit
You look like a funeral
But I see right through
You're so beautiful
You're just used to being used
Stuck in a crucible
of consume and consume
You're so beautiful
You're so beautiful
She's looking for the window
She's looking for her mama's eyes
Looking for the face that she's never known
She's looking like a widow
Ever since the demons try
Even since the demon died in your bones
Under the veil that she wears
She's still feeling lonely and scared
She's still feeling every bed to be left on her own
In a city with nobody there
You're trying to look like a funeral
But I see right through
You're so beautiful
You're just used to being used
You're stuck in a crucible
Of consume and consume
You're so beautiful
You're so beautiful
Ahhhh
(So beautiful)
Ahhhh
(So beautiful)
Ahhhh
(So beautiful)
You look like a funeral
But I see right through
You're so beautiful
You're so beautiful
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You Alone
My soul
Sing the one you know
Sing like a soldier
Whose hopes are running low
I fold
I'm giving up the ghost
I surrender any illusion of any semblance of control
You alone
You alone
You alone
Can heal my soul
It feels like you're running but
you're not getting nowhere
We need your fire, get so cold
It feels you're fading out
Into the jaded crowd
Look to the One who calls you home
You alone
You alone
You alone
Can heal my soul
It feels like you're running but
You're not getting nowhere
We need your fire, get so cold
It feels like you're fading out
Into the jaded crowd
Look to the One who calls you home
You alone
You alone
You alone
Can heal my soul
Come heal my soul
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She Said
Looking for reasons
To believe instead of doubt
A way in instead of out
There’s got to be a reason
Looking for answers
For the hatred and pain
When they both start to feel the same
There’s got to be a reason
Only one breath at a time, she says
All my tears are falling on the floor, she says
I’ve never felt it rain like this before, she says
I’ll sing these black eyed blues into the storm instead
I’ll be waiting for the new eyes to arrive
One breath at a time
One breath at a time
Kings and queens and little dreams
Are stuck inside these nightmares sometimes, sometimes
And a fairytale, she claims, seems so far away from where she was tonight
Sometimes
I hear her talking to herself in bed
All my tears are falling on the floor, she says
I’ve never felt it rain like this before, she says
I’ll sing these black eyed blues into the storm instead
I’ll be waiting for the new eyes to arrive
One breath at a time
Oh, one breath at a time
Oh, one breath at a time
Oh, one breath at a time
Oh, and I’m holding on to you
And I won’t let go
You’re the only thing that’s true
And I won’t let go
You’re the only thing that’s true
In this whole world of black eyed blues
And disillusioned points of view
When the pain feels like a knife, she says
I’m not letting go tonight, she says
Oh, she says
Oh, she says
I’ll be waiting for the new eyes to arrive, she says
She says
Oh, she says
Oh, she says
Oh, she says
I’ll be waiting for the new eyes to arrive
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Larger Than Life
I hear you on the phone line
Your voice sounds like a dead eye
Your words sound like the end times
This time sounds like you mean it
You say just gonna get by
Get through, get mine, and get high
You say you're just gonna survive
But you know it's just a lie
Do you feel the weight again?
Are you feeling like you're caving in?
You're larger than life, my friend.
You're bigger than what you've been
Are you running away again?
Are you feeling blown by the wind?
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
Please don't pretend to apologize
Please don't pretend to be tongue-tied
Please stop, please stop your white lies
We both know neither of us need 'em
Rise up, rise like the blue skies
Rise up, lift up your blue eyes
Rise up, rise like the sunrise
We all wanna see you shine
Do you feel the weight again?
Are you feeling like you're caving in?
You're larger than life, my friend.
You're bigger than what you've been
Are you running away again?
Are you feeling blown by the wind?
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
Ooh ooh ooh
Do you feel the weight again?
Are you feeling like you're caving in?
You're larger than life, my friend.
You're bigger than what you've been
Are you running away again?
Are you feeling blown by the wind?
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
You're larger than life
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June & Johnny
Coming down the highway like a fright
Laughing three o’clock at night
With the desert stars above
Singing June and Johnny's songs
You felt pretty, I felt strong
And no one called our bluff
And love was a simple song
And I'll hold you all my life
Like a memory at the back of my mind
Summers come and go so fast
Close your eyes the moment's past
And another year is gone
We built our castles in the sand
The higher tide had other plans
But I'm still holding on
And love was a fragile song
And I'll hold you all my life
Like a memory at the back of my mind
Darling nothing stays the same
We were born without a name
And that’s the way we'll die
But even when the memories fade
What we have is still ingrained
It's written down inside
And love was our timeless song
And I'll hold you all my life
Like a child asking why
And I'll hold you all my life
Like a memory at the back of my mind
Just a memory at the back of my mind
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Inner Peace
Inner peace is hard to find
Peace of heart and peace of mind
Feels like I'm running all the time
Like I'm at war inside
I've been fighting all my life
How can we be ourselves
If we don't know who we are
I can't blame myself on anyone else's time
I can't blame myself on anyone else's time
There's gotta be a reason for the pain
There's gotta be a reason why it rains when I'm alone
There's gotta be a reason why I'm longing for a justice
I ain't ever seen
A water that could make us clean, yeah
How can we be ourselves
If we don't know who we are
I can't blame myself on anyone else's time
I can't blame myself on anyone else's time
I can't blame myself on anyone else's time
The window of my soul is so unclean
Shattered by the vices and the violence that I've seen
Purity of heart is to will one thing
But I've got a lot on my mind
Yeah maybe I'm a mess inside
How can we be ourselves
If we don't know who we are
I'm looking for the one that made me
That made me
That made me
I'm looking for the One
That made me
That made me
