The Lyrics

In a beat up car she headed west for California Running from and running to... everything A brand new start but what she didn't know is that everywhere you always start with you

And the angels in LA all have dirty wings on the hungry streets down Melrose and with every step and every heartbeat you're feeling further and further from home

Voices from home A voice from home Wherever you go I will be close I will be there for you on the radio, on the radio So you won't feel alone

Making her way turning tricks by night, and sleeping all day In a Vampire haze And her family cried loudly "Oh, where has our daughter gone?" But they only watched her fade

and the Devil's whispering in your ear You belong here, you belong here Like a Siren calling your heart's ship in to a deep blue, amphetamine end

And I know I closed my heart to you Just when you (desperately) needed a friend From the eye of the storm now I scream to you Over your hurricane winds

A voice from home Voices from home Wherever you go I will be close I will be there for you on the radio On the radio so you won't feel alone

And the Sun comes out and somehow you've made it I can't believe you're still alive Then the hope ran out, so you faked it I know it makes you smile you've earned your life you've earned those pirate eyes you've earned your life Take it for a ride

Voices from home A voice from home Wherever you go I will be close I will be there for you on the radio On the radio a song that you know And I know that I closed my eyes to you And I know I did you wrong And If I could do it all differently I would, but instead I'm sending this song "A voice from home"

Can we break the silence that’s growing between us Or is it much too late? I thought I saw a glimmer in your eyes of the girl I knew And the secrets she thought she kept hidden from view

That only I have seen That only I have known Movie backdrop scenes projecting in my skull Things that only we’d remember That only we could know Or maybe you’d thought I’d never noticed how softly you’d walk Across the room when I was sleeping

Actors making exits were like continents drifting apart And there’s no time for chasing shadows in the dark Did I lose you in the spotlight Did I lose you in the sheets Did I hurt you without knowing with my clumsy feet

Places only I have seen That only I have known Movie backdrop scenes projecting in my skull Things that only we’d remember That only we could know Or maybe you’d thought I’d never noticed how softly you’d walk Across the room when I was sleeping

Diving down and finding doors inside Somewhere in this velvet heart of mine Secrets lie blinding eyes (ever dividing) Even a single word (I can see the distance closing) Maybe you thought

Hooray a day to waste It’s been such a long time Since I've had a single moment to breathe Since I've had a moment to see Just how beautiful she is Floating lighter than air She looks at me and says

“Sing me a song that feels like winter Sing me a song that sounds like raindrops falling on the windowpane and say that you’ll stay Won’t you stay? Stay with me forever in our grey holiday”

Hooray we’re free at last Like it’s summer vacation And I really don’t mind if the sun isn't shining We can just stay inside

“Sing me a song that feels like winter Sing me a song that sounds like raindrops falling on the windowpane and say that you’ll stay won’t you stay? Stay with me forever in our grey holiday”

I’d build you a tower I’d build you a monument A second of your time Turns into a lifetime spent When the Titanic of my heart smashes Into your ice-grey eyes I’m drowning in your North Sea, and I don’t mind I’m diving down to heat I’m diving down to see I know there’s something warm below the freezing You know that I believe I’m building you a monument Against my better judgment Better then to die, than be too afraid to try

You left me a message telling me all’s not lost A test of devotion, an ocean I still have to cross And as I climb up from my deepest depths to reach your heights, I wonder will I find A frozen satellite? I’m rising up at speed I’m rocketing to see I know there’s something burning inside your freezing on up towards the light of your ice-grey eyes

You know that I believe I’m building you a monument Against my better judgment What will I find in your ice-grey eyes?

I walk out of the shadow and into the light

I've seen all that I can handle I’ve heard all that I can believe When the souls of the soldier's march over me the light that was recedes

Hide on my angels and wait for dawn’s returning When all is dark around you Your hearts are embers burning

On my greatest day Your dark cloud on my horizon All my colors turn to grey and suddenly I’m crying

You've got a way of making me feel down You've got a way of putting me in the ground You've got a way even when I want you You've got a way of making me feel down, down, down

I’m never good enough I’m never what you wanted You said you had it rough when you were younger But baby so did everyone

You've got a way of making me feel down You've got a way of putting me in the ground You've got a way even when I want you You've got a way of making me feel down, down, down

What’cha you gonna do What’cha gonna say when it over And you’re got know one left to talk to What’cha gonna do, what’cha gonna say when there’s no one left to play your game What’cha you gonna say what’cha you gonna do When all of it comes down on you

You've got a way of making me feel down You've got a way of putting me in the ground You've got a way even when I want you You've got a way of making me feel down, down, down

There were warnings on the rise of the storm about to blow Follow everywhere in time Follow everywhere I go

And I had to let you go

Over hills and under water From sea to shining sea There were dreams left long forgotten And I had to set them free in me

And I had to let you go

Believe me now and listen Hear the love in every word I say It’s easier to die than to leave tonight this way But you’d only be my sacrifice I’d only be your cause of pain But to know that you’re not mine Feels so strange

And I had to let you go

An hour beside her makes all the difference here The echoes of her laughter could chase away the fears That I might not know which way to go That I might not know the right words to say To make it through today

Oh, but here in your room I feel so bulletproof And lying in your arms Could chase away the darkness that’s been Filling up my heart Like don’t know where to start Oh, in your room I feel so bulletproof

Am I a hero or a zero I’m tearing myself apart On sorrow, tomorrow seems impossibly far away But I can hear you now You’re talking in your sleep You’re all I need You’re someone to believe in

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Can it be that this endless night is almost over now If I blink, if I start thinking will it all come crashing down Crashing down

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You left here after midnight After we had our big fight Heard the taxi in the driveway But I never thought you’d leave forever

I keep hoping that you’ll be home by Christmas Or maybe it’ll be another year before you miss us One day I’m sure you’ll come over the horizon With stories on your lips and pictures I your eyes

Got a package full of Easter From somewhere in Peru No address for the sender, but I knew it came from you Got a postcard on my birthday You kept talking about the moon Got a letter from California Said you send another when you could

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Got a voicemail from Australia Said you’d found a home at last And you had a lover waiting So you had to make it fast You said it’s springtime where I am I know it’s Autumn where you are We’re just the same but different And we can only be who we are

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It’s a radiant summer sunset On an explosion-red afternoon I sit above the city on a hill on watch the sky I can see so clearly Clouds stretching out for miles and miles I can hear your heartbeat Even here at the edge of the world I’ll send you a postcard from the edge of the world

Silver towers shine like modern day cathedrals Glowing bright with power and electronic flowers I can hear them calling out Talking without listening at all Radio static questions Asked without attempt to understand Running without thinking Ambition without reason Trying their best to capture dreams With suicide machines I watch it all from the edge of the world I’ll send you a postcard from the edge of the world

It’s a tickertape parade For the awful mess that daddy made And there’s no room left to hide Or sweep it under the rug

I’ll send you a postcard from the edge of the world

It’s 5 O’clock Sunday Guess I’ll go my own way now That you say it’s over A shot out of nowhere The sound of your voice the smell of your hair Just memories to me now

When walls come crashing And lightning smashes through your heart It’s just a day of your life Trying to forget her only makes you remember One distant day of your life

So many changes making us strangers Passing in the night the last one to notice the violence in your silence I should’ve known you by now

When walls come crashing and lightning smashes through your heart It’s just a day of your life Trying to forget her only makes you remember One distant day of your life

Maybe I fall up Maybe I walk sideways Maybe I've had enough of living in a maze Maybe I’m not so hard Maybe I just want to be very, very soft with you Maybe I’m not so dark Maybe you see right through me

And I breathe in and I’m rolling thunder And I breathe in and you run for cover And I float around the world and I’ll do it all over again

Maybe I’m caught in your slipstream Of broken hearts and battered machines Maybe I’m in between Pistons of steel pushed to extremes Maybe I shot too high Maybe I just wanted too very much from you Maybe I just started to rise Maybe I’m not quite through yet

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Pills and alcohol Carpet on the wall creeping closer Using thought control You mind-erased me

And everything I know go flying out the window Still thoughts of you Grab me by the throat Until I can’t go on

Watching the meteors come flying over At double the speed of sound All of the reasons for the distance between us They don’t matter now

I live by remote control Never leave the sofa on the radio Every song that plays Brings me back to you

And everything we knew flashes by in an instant Still I saw right through but just for a moment

Watching the meteors come flying over at double the speed of sound All of the reasons for the distance between us They don’t matter now