Collective Soul Lyrics

Now's The Time lyrics - Collective Soul

Wake up talking in my sleep

The Virgin Mary comforts me

A new storm settles in

So I pray for her in my defense

Oceans giving up their shores

While we're prepping for the third World War

A line is drawn in the sand

The words I don't understand

Now's the time for pushing

Now's the time to shove

Now's the time to change that (yeah)

Now's the time, now's the time for love

We live in good company

Dreaming up our next disease

Everybody draws their sword

In the name of their own sweet Lord

Now's the time for pushing (no)

Now's the time to shove (no)

Now's the time to change that (yeah)

Now's the time, now's the time for love

Now's the time for pushing (no)

Now's the time to shove (no)

Now's the time to change that (yeah)

Now's the time, now's the time

Now's the time for pushing (no)

Now's the time to shove (no)

Now's the time to fuck that (yeah)

Now's the time, now's the time for love

Now's the time for love

Now's the time

Over Me lyrics - Collective Soul

Sister says she's feeling sick

Gather up a crucifix

Something's going on

Daddy says he's feeling great

Watch the local news at eight

Something's going wrong

Something's going on

So, who's over me?

Yeah, who's over me?

Woman says she feels divine

Living off the pills and wine

Some things last too long

Something's going on

So, who's over me?

Yeah, who's over me?

Who's over me?

Yeah, who's over me?

Crushed lyrics - Collective Soul

Hey, little girl, what ya living with?

The 90's rocked but they've come and went

You got some heart but you need more soul

Yeah, dig down deep till you find that gold

The whole world is your pain

Who's to b-b-b-b-blame?

Another lover you drained

You're c-c-crushed once again

Hey, little girl, what ya speaking of?

Life is hard, yeah life is tough

What's this attitude?

Back it up slow till you catch that groove

The whole world is your pain

Who's to b-b-b-b-blame?

Another lover you drained

You're c-c-crushed once again

There's something in your eyes

There's something with your lies

There's something in your eyes

There's something with your lies!

The whole world is your pain

Who's to b-b-b-b-blame?

Another lover you drained

You're c-c-crushed once again

The whole world is your pain

Do you blame cocaine?

Another lover you drained

You're c-c-crushed once again

Yeah

Right As Rain lyrics - Collective Soul

Got a cross I do bear

It's a Jesus piece I wear

But I don't

No, I don't know if it makes me whole

Got success in my veins

And a lover knows my name

But I don't

No, I don't know if it makes me whole

No, I don't

No, I don't know if it makes me whole

All my days

Move crazed like a runaway train

Still I pray

That tomorrow

Will be right as rain

Got some faith, I concede

Just a curse of memories

But I don't

No, I don't know if it makes me whole

No, I don't

No, I don't know if it makes me whole

All my days

Move crazed like a runaway train

Still I pray

That tomorrow

Will be right as rain

I can see past lovers through the tears

I can feel the memories from all the years

All my days

Move crazed like a runaway train

Still I pray

That tomorrow

Will be right as rain

Right as rain

Them Blues lyrics - Collective Soul

Girlfriend's been trippin', I heard her say

She changes hair colors just to match the day

What in the world, what in the world

What in the world's going on in your world

Run away, play a tune

Dance it off baby like you used to do

Drive away, find a view

Shake it off baby it's just...

Them blues

Girlfriend's been seein' some therapist

It really hasn't made any difference

What in the world, what in the world

What in the world's going on in your world

Run away, play a tune

Dance it off baby like you used to do

Drive away, find a view

Shake it off baby it's just...

Them blues

Run away, play a tune

Dance it off baby like you used to do

Drive away, find a view

Shake it off baby it's just them blues

Run away, play a tune

Dance it off baby like you used to do

Drive away, find a view

Shake it off baby it's just...

Them blues

Good Place To Start lyrics - Collective Soul

There's a guy with a gun

He swears he's the chosen one

I think his pride is swollen with inflammation

We got weed we can't smoke

But the prescriptions are afloat

My temple can't take all this information

So, let's get hi-high, hi-high

Let's love where we've been

And love where we are

Yeah, that's a good place to start

A good place to start

There's tourists in flocks

I think we killed lady luck

Or at least that's what they say

There's moments I'm involved

And there's moments I can't solve

But I take all these moments day by day

So, let's get hi-high, hi-high

Let's love where we've been

And love where we are

Yeah, that's a good place to start

A good place to start

Whose rules are we breaking down?

Who rules the world now, now?

Let's get hi-high, hi-high

Let's love where we've been

And love where we are

That's a good place to start

A good place

Let's get hi-high, hi-high

Let's love who we've been

And love who we are

Yeah, that's a good place to start

A good place to start

That's a good place to start

Yeah, a good place to start

That's a good place to start

Observation Of Thoughts lyrics - Collective Soul

God damn this moment, God damn what lies ahead

I'm just a sinner reaching for his savior's hand

I feel like a useless joke in some comedy

I feel like a promise broken for eternity

So, lay it on down

Lay it on down

Lay it all on me

Yeah, lay it on down

Lay it on down

Lay it on a man in need

God damn this moment, God damn what's yet to be

I'm just a question whose answers always seem to bleed

I feel like a soldier waiting for the bullet's burn

I feel like a wise man who knows he wasn't blessed to learn

So, lay it on down

Lay it on down

Lay it all on me

Yeah, lay it on down

Lay it on down

Lay it on a man in need

Lay it on down

On down

On a man in need

Lay it on down

On down

On a man in need

Lay it on down

Lay it all on me

Lay it on down

Lay it all on me

Oh, lay it down

Down on me

Oh, lay it down

Down on me

God damn this moment, God damn what tomorrow brings

Changed lyrics - Collective Soul

You told me time and time

With pride, I just ignored

I was precious in the flesh

Still bitter through the core

As this night breathes slow

And the Earth makes no sound

There's comfort in this moment

Of the man I am now

When the morning breaks

I'll be holding you, girl

'Cause I'm a man that changed

When the morning breaks

I'll be loving you, girl

'Cause I'm a man that changed

All the complications

That were mine and mine alone

You were patient in the seasons

Of which I learned to grow

I'm giving my confession

As this day closes down

There's reason for my comfort

It's the man you made me now

When the morning breaks

I'll be holding you, girl

'Cause I'm a man that changed

When the morning breaks

I'll be loving you, girl

'Cause I'm a man that changed

Winter's turning into spring

Blooming hope for me to sing of love

Summer burns while fall conceives

Leaving me with words to sing of love

When the morning breaks

I'll be holding you, girl

'Cause I'm a man that changed

When the morning breaks

I'll be holding you, girl

'Cause I'm a man that changed

When the morning breaks

I'll be loving you, girl

'Cause I'm a man that changed

Big Sky lyrics - Collective Soul

Conversation brings us

Life's peculiar ways

No warning signs ahead

Our breaths are breathing slower

Some hearts misunderstood

So much is left to be said

Big sky, one day we'll see and know we're not alone

Big sky, one day we'll feel and know it's all our home

The pouring of affection

The gardening of love

How could one want to stray?

All properties we covet

Give guarantees of what

They just get in the way

Big sky, one day we'll see and know we're not alone

Big sky, one day we'll feel and know it's all our home

See space

See space moving out

See space

Space is moving now

Big sky, one day we'll see and know we're not alone

Big sky, one day we'll feel and know it's all our home

Big sky, one day we'll see and know we're not alone

Big sky, one day we'll feel and know it all, come home

Porch Swing lyrics - Collective Soul

Everybody swears, they care, they share

Opinions I don't wanna hear

Everybody lies then tries to hide

Underneath their social fears

I am made of simple thread, a common man

Wanting peace for one and all

I am just a comedy in life's symphony

Listening for some resolve

So, I won't mind, mind when you're gone

No, I won't mind, mind when you're gone

I'll just be here on my porch swing

Rocking all day long

Everybody's bruised from news that use

Words to further their own cause

Everybody needs to bleed to see

We're all humans after all

I am made of simple thread, a common man

Wanting peace for one and all

I am just a comedy in life's symphony

Listening for some resolve

So, I won't mind, mind when you're gone

No, I won't mind, mind when you're gone

I'll just be here on my porch swing

Rocking all day long

Let the summer breeze

Cool our needs, right or wrong

Let tomorrow bring

Love to move us on

'Til then, I'll be here on my porch swing

Rocking all day long

I'll just be here on my porch swing

'Til I write the next song

Rocking on my porch swing

All night long

Rocking on my porch swing

All night long

Rocking on my porch swing

All night long

Burn lyrics - Collective Soul

Not busy

Got time

Got compliments with every line

Got more

Got less

I've got the real thing pain can't protect

So don't talk the talk when you don't believe

Don't give me oil, I need gasoline

Baby, wanna burn with me?

Don't cry a tear when you cop a plea

Don't talk of life's little miseries

Baby, just burn

Got silence

Got noise

Got resolution in my voice

Got heart

Got gold

Got the combination to my soul

So don't talk the talk when you don't believe

Don't give me oil, I need gasoline

Baby, wanna burn with me?

Don't cry a tear when you cop a plea

Don't talk of life's little miseries

Baby, just burn

So don't talk the talk when you don't believe

Don't give me oil, I need gasoline

Baby, wanna burn with me?

Don't cry a tear when you cop a plea

Don't talk of life's little miseries

Baby, just burn with me

Don't talk the shit when you don't believe

Don't give me oil, I need gasoline

Baby, wanna burn with me?

Don't cry a tear when you cop a plea

Don't talk of life's little miseries

Baby, just burn!

Energy lyrics - Collective Soul

Mother and child

I'm such a man for a short while

And promises be

The world just spins faster than me

(Come on, come on, come on)

And all of your friends, I hear are whispering

I think you left me for the government

And all of your friends, I hope are listening

I wish you'd stop wasting all my energy

In beauty or beast

(Beauty or beast)

Who's my character to be

I'm now covering

(I'm now covering)

All the makeup that makes me

(Come on, come on, come on)

And all of your friends are now whispering

I think you left me for the government

And all of your friends, I hope are listening

I wish you'd stop sucking all my energy

And all of your friends are still whispering

I think you left me for the government

And all of your friends, I hope are listening

I wish you'd stop wasting all my energy

You got it, you got it

Come on

And all of your friends are now whispering

I think you left me for the government

And all of your friends, I hope are listening

I wish you'd stop sucking all my energy

And all of your friends are still whispering

I think you left me for the government

And all of your friends, I hope are listening

I wish you'd stop wasting all my energy

(Energy, energy, energy, energy, oh)

I wish you'd stop wasting all my energy

(Energy, energy, energy, energy, oh)

I wish you'd stop wasting all my energy

Next Homecoming lyrics - Collective Soul

I leave the cage wide open

I give no words of caution dear

So when you're done revolving

I only ask your presence here

In the morning when I slow

And the sun soon explodes

I need the world to be controlled

And in the evening when I leave

I need a reason to believe

In the next homecoming, yeah

I cleared the road wide open

So put your hand on the wheel and steer

Don't drain this conversation

To only fill it back with tears

In the morning when I slow

And the sun soon explodes

I need the world to be controlled

And in the evening when I leave

I need a reason to believe

In the next homecoming, yeah

In the morning when I slow

And the sun soon explodes

I need the world to be controlled

And in the evening when I leave

I need a reason to believe

In the next homecoming, yeah

Homecoming

Now You've Got Me Drinkin' lyrics - Collective Soul

Now you've got me drinkin'

Don't let me drink alone

Now my heart is achin'

Don't let it turn to stone

Now my world is changing

And I don't know where to go

Now you've got me drinkin'

Don't let me drink alone

Well I've got a photograph

Of how life used to be

So sit right here now girl,

And have a shot of sympathy

Now you've got me drinkin'

Don't let me drink alone

Now my heart is achin'

Don't let it turn to stone

Now my world is changing

And I don't know where to go

Now you've got me drinkin'

Don't let me drink alone

I've got a photograph

Of how life used to be

So sit right here now girl,

And have a shot of sympathy

Now you've got me drinkin'

Don't let me drink alone

Now my heart is achin'

Don't let it turn to stone

Now my world is changing

And I don't know where to go

Now you've got me drinkin'

Don't let me drink alone

Now you've got me drinkin'

Don't let me drink alone

Youth lyrics - Collective Soul

And you said we would be golden when we grow old

And you said we'd never be broken when we grow old

But if a river can dry to dust

I guess the angels we learn to trust can fly away

Like a mountain can lose its peak

I now know a heart can change its needs quietly

And you said we'd never be parted when we grow old

And you said I'll see you in heaven when we grow old

But if a river can dry to dust

I guess the angels we learn to trust can fly away

Like a mountain can lose its peak

I now know a heart can change its needs quietly

And so goodbye, come tomorrow; goodbye, come tomorrow

Goodbye, goodbye

Yeah, goodbye, come tomorrow; goodbye, come tomorrow

Goodbye goodbye

And you said we would be golden when we grow old

"See What You Started By Continuing" (2015)

I'm touching high and convictions strong
You've got that [?] side shade groove like a bomb and disarm [?]
Yeah my piston's high, and your engine roars
It's a tight turn baby that can't be ignored

Got to go, Got to go where this song leads
Got to go, Got to go where this high leads

How am I gonna leave you in a moment like this?
How am I gonna leave you when I want you like this?
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?

Those crazy words mixed with truth and lies
You're a camouflage trouble right before my eyes
I see angels in blue, you see devils inside
It's a new world order like a service denied [?]

Got to go, Got to go where this song leads
Got to go, Got to go where this high leads

How am I gonna leave you in a moment like this?
Ooh ooh oh ooh, Ooh ooh oh ooh
How am I gonna leave you when I want you like this?
Ooh ooh oh ooh, Ooh ooh oh ooh
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?

It's hard to settle in when your moving round, boy
Your world lifts you up, they bring you down (Down)
Down (Down)
Down

Got to go, Got to go where this song leads
Got to go, Got to go where this high leads

How am I gonna leave you in a moment like this?
Ooh ooh oh ooh, Ooh ooh oh ooh
How am I gonna leave you when I want you like this?
Ooh ooh oh ooh, Ooh ooh oh ooh
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?
Ooh ooh oh ooh, Ooh ooh oh ooh
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?
How am I gonna leave you when I love you like this?

Hurricane lyrics - Collective Soul

Hurricane's in town
She left for a day than she turned around
Said she couldn't leave
Until the storm she brewed had covered me

[Chorus:]
Yea this day she feels alive
When her head and heart collide
It's just the way that she survives
And nothing's quite the same
Yea she's living for the change
One and only hurricane

Hurricane's so sweet
She offers up a truce underneath the sheets
She changed course again
Shelter from the Lord and future sins

[Chorus]

I'm not helpless cuz she's so selfish
Yea I'm just trying to figure what to do
She keeps running while the world is stopping
Yea there's no telling what she'll crash into
I won't panic cuz she's so manic
Yea I'm just hoping she'll find some truth
Yea, I hope she finds some truth
God I hope I find it too

[Chorus x2]

Exposed lyrics - Collective Soul

You say you want some comedy
Well I'm not laughing no more
You say you need a remedy
I'm not your corner drug store

[Chorus:]
You took all of my money
You took all of my clothes
You took a little of everything
But it's you who's now exposed

You say you want some sympathy
Well I'm not drinking no more
You say you need some company
Ain't that what cables made for

[Chorus]

You say you need someone to talk to
You got some things to share
I think you need to find someone
Someone who really... cares

[Chorus x2]

Confession lyrics - Collective Soul

I'm not a man that floats around
See I'm a man that knows what he's found
Oh no

[Chorus:]
It's you
I want a lover like you
Under covers with you
Stoned or sober
Yea I want a lover
Only want a lover like you

I'm not a man that sneaks through the night
See I'm a man that knows what he likes
Oh no

[Chorus x2]

Won't bring me down
You won't bring me down, girl
Now I won't bring you down
I won't bring you down
I only want a lover
I only want a lover
Only want a lover like you

[Chorus x2]

AYTA lyrics - Collective Soul

Promises, where they gonna lead me to?
I still have wishes, that haven't come true
Well I toss, and I turn and what? This life that can give
Yeah I toss, and I turn and how? This life I should live

Are you the answer, to all I need?
Are you the answer, the answer for me?

Patience, it's leaving my side
I'm gonna circle back to see what I can find
Let the sky rain down on me, all I should know
Let the sky rain down on me, wisdom to grow

Are you the answer, to all I need?
Are you the answer, the answer for me?

I've no memory of this life you see
I'm a new born of your company
I'm just finding out, I'm just questioning
Are you the answer?
Are you the answer for me?

(Are you the answer?)
(Are you the answer?)

Are you the answer, to all I need?
Are you the answer, the answer for me?
Are you the answer?
Are you the answer?
Are you the answer?
The answer for me?

Contagious lyrics - Collective Soul

Together here we stand
Covered in our rust
It’s just a life of pretend
And that’s the source of us

Oh girl here we are now
Oh girl In between the days
Oh girl here we go now
Oh girl running through the haze

[Chorus:]
It’s been days since you’ve seen light
It’s been years since it felt right
I'm contagious news
And the words that you do shout
And the pride that you spill out
You’re contagious too

Together here we stand
Turning into dust
Nothing to forgive
And no one here to trust

Oh girl here we are now
Oh girl In between the days
Oh girl here we go now
Oh girl running through the haze

[Chorus]

[Chorus x2]

Life lyrics - Collective Soul

Stop with all your pleasantries
I’m riding through what here has occurred
No time left to wait and see
My next breath has never been assured

[Chorus:]
You can’t stop me now
You won’t stop me now
Who could stop me now
It’s all inside
And well defined
As life

Pride leads the course of you
Meant to strike our souls inner core
Locked out once again to prove
That I’ve been through this shit times before

[Chorus]

[Chorus x2]

Am I Getting Through lyrics - Collective Soul

My heart does stop
Where my soul begins
I’m not looking to start
I only want it to end

So call in your troops
Call the Calvary
Call whoever you like
But baby don’t call me

[Chorus:]
Well tomorrow shall be better
Or at least that’s the word you choose
But I’ve come to my own conclusion
Am I getting through to you

Lies so sure [?]
With your cross hard facts [?]
You got a reason for this
I got a reason for that

[Chorus]

All you’ve shown
Is carved in stone
The change is good you know

My heart does stop
Where my soul begins
I’m not looking to start
I only want it to end

[Chorus]

Memoirs Of 2005 lyrics - Collective Soul

Why can’t I have you
Are you too far away
Is it the distance I keep
Or the words I don’t say

All these days I’ve run like a devil gone wild
Only to end helpless like a newborn child

[Chorus:]
Why can’t I have you tonight
Why can’t I have you tonight
Why can’t I have you?

Why can’t I have you
Now the day has drawn
Is it the love you require
Or the love I have shown

All these nights I'm freed beneath the light of the moon
Just to be held hostage with the thoughts of you

[Chorus]

I talk aloud in this empty room
I’m lost but found when it comes to you

[Chorus]

Why can’t I have you?

Why can’t I have you?

Tradition lyrics - Collective Soul

Its so subtle you into this
It always come back in time
That's when tradition starts
With gleam in our eye
So from where we are now
To where we want to begin
Lets gather up that innocence
and start it again

Lets go down to the river
Lets go back to the sea
Lets go swim in the ocean
Just you and me

All these causes we possess
And emotions we owe
Its just a constant reminder
Of each other we chose
So when we following out
A subject to learn
That's when tradition starts
And love returns

Lets go down to the river
Lets go back to the sea
Lets go swim in the ocean
Just you and me

When conversation fails
And we left it all alone
Lets prefer back to basics
That was there all along
Whether Sunday morning dries
Or late night hangs
Its always always always you and me babe

Lets go down to the river
Lets go back to the sea
Lets go swim in the ocean
Just you and me

Lets go down to the river
Lets go back to the sea
Lets go swim in the ocean
Just you and me

Lets go back [x3]
Just you and me
Lets go back [x2]
Just you and me

Without Me lyrics - Collective Soul

Love won’t let you down
Love won’t lift you up
Love won’t do a thing
Without me

Love won’t be defined
Love won’t realize
Love won’t do a thing
Without me

Love won’t take you in
Love won’t let you out
Love won’t do a thing
Without me

Love won’t be concealed
Love won’t be revealed
Love won’t do a thing
Without me

Ooooh oooooh oooooh alright
Won’t do a thing without me
Love love
Won’t do a thing without me
Said love won't love won’t
Love won’t do a thing without me
Love won’t love won’t
Love won’t do a thing without me
Love won’t love won’t
Love won’t do a thing without me

"Collective Soul (Rabbit)" (2009)

Welcome All Again lyrics - Collective Soul

Welcome all, welcome all
Welcome all my friends
Welcome all, welcome all
Welcome all again

Welcome all, welcome all
Welcome all my friends
Welcome all, welcome all
Welcome all again

Welcome all again
Welcome all again
Welcome all again
Welcome all again

Waking the day, all seems in order
Sweet wine to taste, the world's now starting
Yeah, yeah, I've got the mountain foreground
Yeah, yeah, I've got the river deep down

Woo, hoo, hoo, welcome all my friends
Woo, hoo, hoo, welcome all again

Night time in bloom, it's not so frightening
Swim with the moon, that's how we like it
Yeah, yeah, we've got the singer singing
Yeah, yeah, we've got the drinker drinking

Woo, hoo, hoo, welcome all my friends
Woo, hoo, hoo, welcome all again
Woo, hoo, hoo, welcome all my friends

Welcome all my friends
Woo, hoo, hoo, welcome all again
Woo, hoo, hoo, welcome all my friends
Woo, hoo, hoo, welcome all again

Fuzzy lyrics - Collective Soul

Good morning, sunshine bring on your pain
Oh, sweet Jesus, I swear I'll
I'll never taste it again
Not tonight, not tonight

Oh no, okay, so let's go
I can live my life in slow mo
I think I was your boyfriend once though
But I was fuzzy then, yeah, fuzzy, oh

Twinkling starlight, yeah, it's time to write
Why here? It's now or never
'Cause it's my time to shine
Not tonight, not tonight

Oh no, okay, so let's go
I won't live this life in slow mo
I think I was your girlfriend once though
But I was fuzzy then

Oh no, oh no, okay, so let's go
We can live our lives in slow mo
I think I was your boyfriend twice though
But I was fuzzy then

I can't shake it, I just can't shake it
I can't shake it, I just can't shake it tonight
No, not tonight

I won't shake it, I just can't shake it
I won't shake it, I just can't shake it tonight
No, not tonight, yeah

Not tonight, not tonight

Oh no, okay so let's go
I won't live this life in slow mo
I think I was your girlfriend twice though
But I was fuzzy then

Oh no, oh no, okay, so let's go
We won't this life in slow mo
You know we're all just pissed here, though
Yeah, we're all fuzzy again

Yeah, we're all fuzzy again, fuzzy again
Fuzzy my friend, fuzzy my friends
Yeah

Dig lyrics - Collective Soul

Where we've been? Where do we go?
We had no answers to these questions, you know
Where do we stand? When do we fall
We've no direction or conviction at all

Now the more we want to blame
Leaves us more to fix
So hey, hey baby, do we dig on that?
Or hey, hey baby, do we dig on this?

Who do we call? When do we scream?
We're all contagious by these breaths that we breathe
Where do we steal? When do we pay?
The winds of truth, they ain't blowing our way, yeah

Now the more we want to change
Leaves us more to miss
So hey, hey baby, do we dig on that?
Or hey, hey baby, do we dig on this?

And the more we want to blame
Leaves us more to fix
So hey, hey baby, do we dig on that?
Or hey, hey baby, do we dig on this?

We say we're up then we say we're down
We say we're up then we say we're down
We say we're up then we say we're down
We say we're up then we say we're down

We say we're up then we say we're down
We say we're up then we say we're down

Now the more we want to change
Leaves us more to miss
So hey, hey baby, do we dig on that?
Or hey, hey baby, do we dig on this?

And the more we want to blame
Leaves us more to fix
So hey, hey baby, do we dig on that?
Or hey, hey baby, do we dig on this?

You lyrics - Collective Soul

Time, I always need more time
To figure what I've lost, to learn what I should find
Soon, I'm always hoping soon
I'll figure what to add, I'll learn what to remove

New sunrise, new sunsets
New stories I haven't lived through yet

With you, it's always been you
There's never been good days
There's never been bad days without you

Choose, I'm always made to choose
I'll figure what to share, I'll learn from what I've used

New sunrise, new sunsets
New promises I haven't made quite yet

To you, it's always been you
There's never been good days
There's never been bad days without you

Yeah, there's never been a day without you
Yeah, there's never been a day
There's never been a night without you

You, it's always been you
There's never been good days
There's never been bad days without you

It's always been you
There's never those good days
There's never those bad days without you

My Days lyrics - Collective Soul

Got your sticks, got your stones
Got your ways, your means, your wants
Your needs, yeah, you is all you know

Who can learn what's wrong?
Who can learn what's right by your ways?
See, I can say I've loved
I can say I've tried in my days

Got your wish, got your dreams
Got your thoughts, your cause
Beware because nothing's as it seems

Who can learn what's wrong?
Who can learn what's right by your ways?
See, I can say I've loved
I can say I've tried in my days

Who can learn what's wrong?
Who can learn what's right by your ways?
See, I can say I've loved
I can say I've tried in my days

Try some conversation
Grab new information
Change is an indication
You can grow, you will grow

Who can learn what's wrong?
Who can learn what's right by your ways?
See, I can say I've loved
Yeah, I can say I've tried in my days

Who can learn what's wrong?
Who can learn what's right by your ways?
See, I can say I've loved
I can say I've tried, tried in my days

Yeah, have you learned? Yeah, have you learned?
Yeah, have you learned by your ways?
See, I have learned, yeah, I have learned
Yeah, I have learned in my days

Understanding lyrics - Collective Soul

With better competition
Got a savior, says he's gonna save who
Come together people
Tell me what new habit can we choose?

We're thinking and we're trying
Yeah, we're truthful then we're lying, I'm sure you know
We're quiet then we're loud
Yeah, we're hopeful then we doubt, I'm sure it shows

Do we get a second chance to these answers that we lack?
Or are we guided by the hope of some brilliant flash?
Tell me, tell me how long will this sobriety last?

Who's understanding? Yeah, understanding
To the ways, the means of our own self
We got the sex, the dreams with nothing else

Who's understanding? Yeah, understanding
To the right, the wrong of our own self
We got the look, the pose with nothing else

Dancing to the rhythm
From the knowledge of a hard drive spin
Looking for the formula
That always will save us in the end

We're creeping and we're crawling
Yeah, we're pushing, then we're stalling, have you felt?
We're open, then we're closing
Yeah, we're hiding, then we're showing, can you tell?

Do we get a second chance to these answers that we lack?
Or are we guided by the hope of some brilliant flash?
Tell me, tell me how long will this sobriety last?

Who's understanding? Yeah, understanding
To the ways the means of our own self
We got the sex, the dreams with nothing else

Who's understanding? Yeah, understanding
To the right, the wrong of our own self
We got the look, the pose with nothing else

Do we understand?
Do we understand all the words we've said?

Staring Down lyrics - Collective Soul

Loosened from my pride
Oh, that monster, he kept me so tight
I threw my aces down
Just to face the here and the now

So here I go again, I want to please
Yeah, here I go again, sweet I sleep
Sweeter I dream

I've been looking, I've been staring down
I've been searching, I've been staring down
And your love is what I found

As cautious as a thief
Oh, but restless with all of my needs
Now I stand before all I want
And all that I adore

So here I go again, I need to please
Yeah, here I go again, sweet you sleep
Sweeter I dream

I've been looking, I've been staring down
I've been searching, I've been staring down
And your love is what I

Long days, long nights
Just blinded by what was already in sight
Now I've found, I've found my way home
Yeah, I found my way home

I've been looking, I've been staring down
I've been searching, I've been staring down

I've been looking, I've been staring down
I've been searching, I've been staring down
And your love is what I found

She Does lyrics - Collective Soul

Every single word, every single sign
Every single moment captures her
Her motions well defined, her motions well defined
Yeah, she's well defined

Who could light the sky
With no sun, no moon, no stars above?
Who could give me cause
To speak, to wish or believe in love?
I'll tell you, my baby, she does

Way beyond my heart, way beyond the mind
Way beyond the measures one could ask for
For her love tonight and for her love tonight
For her love tonight

Who could light the sky
With no sun, no moon, no stars above?
Who could give me cause
To speak, to wish or believe in love?

Who could light the sky
With no sun, no moon, no stars above?
Who could give me cause
To speak, to wish or believe in love?
I'll tell you, my baby, she does

She does it for the fun, yeah, she does it purposely
She does it for the one, yeah, she does it just for me
Yeah, she does, hey, hey

Who could light the sky
With no sun, no moon, no stars above?
Who could give me cause
To speak, to wish or believe in love?

Who could light the sky
With no sun, no moon, no stars above?
Who could give me cause
To speak, to wish or believe in love?
I'll tell you, my baby, she does

Yeah, yeah, my baby, she does
Yeah, yeah, my baby, she does
Yeah, yeah, my baby, she does

Lighten Up lyrics - Collective Soul

Oh, you think it but you can't believe
So you say it's like that
Yeah, you see it but you can't be seen
Now is it like that?

So, hey, hey, hey, yeah, where you coming from?
Hey, hey, hey, we are all an equal some
Hey, hey, hey, you got the attitude
That everything's important 'cause the news is always new to you

You're not underground
You're just silly now
Oh, my foolish pup lighten up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lighten up

Hey, you want it but you can't receive
So you say it's like that
Hey, you know it but you can't agree
Now is it like that?

So, hey, hey, hey, yeah, where you coming from?
Hey, hey, hey, we are all an equal some
Hey, hey, hey, you got the attitude
That everything's important 'cause the news is always new to you

You're not underground
You're just silly now
Oh, my foolish pup lighten up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lighten up

You're not underground
You're just silly now
Oh, my foolish pup lighten up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lighten up

Be careful with the tongue
Then softer with the words you choose
Take your time, take your time
Take your time to find your own groove

Hey, hey, when information comes around
Hey, hey, well, let a message be found
Hey, hey, has your conviction sold out?
Hey, hey, has your conviction sold out?

You're not underground
You're just silly now
Oh, my foolish pup lighten up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lighten up

You're not underground
You're just silly now
Oh, my foolish pup lighten up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lighten up

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lighten up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lighten up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lighten up

Love lyrics - Collective Soul

Marching through the corridor
Through faces I don't know
Got sunshine on the inside
But nowhere to glow

And counting down the hours
Pretending that it's time
Searching for the patience
A treasure I can't find

Days try to convince
Faith can cure all loneliness
Wishes wish for more
Wishes that could lead me towards

Love, love is where I now lie
Yeah, love is looking into your eyes

Looking out my window
Soaring through the blue
Something's always nothing
'Til I'm touching you

Nights are always spent
Hiding in life's compliments
And thoughts just thinking more
Thoughts on how I'm yearning for

Love, love is where I now lie
Yeah, love is looking into your eyes

Love, love is where I now lie
Yeah, love is looking into your eyes
Love, love is where I now lie
Yeah, love is looking into your eyes

I've got to get back, I've got to get back
I've got to, got to get back home
I've got to get back, I've got to get back
I've got to, got to get back home

Hymn For My Father lyrics - Collective Soul

I will follow, I will follow
Till the stars fall down, till the sun burns out
I will follow, I will follow
Till Gabriel's horn does sound

I will follow, I will follow
Through the path You chose with the words You spoke
I will follow, I will follow
By the love You always showed

I won't cry out 'cause love has lifted me
I won't cry out 'cause now I will receive
Everything that You've given me
All things to me

I will follow, I will follow
For in You I do believe

I will follow, I will follow
Through the path You chose with the words You spoke
I will follow, I will follow
By the love, the love You showed

Heart To Heart lyrics - Collective Soul

1/2 step down
(1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4)

We'll talk about the sky and how it shines
We'll talk about the seas and the Ocean's tide
We'll talk about pain we all receive
We'll talk about hope and how you'll believe, you'll learn to believe...

[Chorus:]
Ohh Ohh, here I go
Ohh Ohh, this is all I know
Ohh Ohh, it's time to start
Ohh Ohh, a heart to heart

We'll talk about sights you will see
We'll talk about songs you'll learn to sing
We'll talk about Mom, we'll talk about me
We'll talk about love and what it means, cause love's all you'll need...

[Chorus]

And I'm only hear to teach
Yeah I'm only hear to learn
Cause sooner than you'll think
Boy it'll be your turn
So no excuses, no complaints, no restrictions, no restraints for...

You [4x] [Chorus]

[Chorus 2x]

Heart to heart [4x]

"Afterwords" (2007)

New Vibration lyrics - Collective Soul

I've got the sun and its seasons
Giving days only wanting to please
But I hear rhyme with
no reason
Spilling words that mean nothing to me

I'm not wanting more
Promises and
beliefs
I'm just waiting for
Someone to hear this heartbeat

I've got a soul and devotion

Giving love and a valentine
But I see life in its motion
Grinding out on every subject it
finds

[chorus]

I'm not running
I'm not chasing
I'm just looking for that old sensation

I'm not cooling
I'm not craving
I'm just living for some new vibrations

[chorus]

I'm not running
I'm not chasing
I'm just looking for that old sensation
I'm not coolilng

I'm not craving
I'm just living for some new vibrations

What I Can Give You lyrics - Collective Soul

Imagine again
I lean a little closer just to breathe you in
Words are in bloom
They wake me with their meaning and their
Thoughts of you

I can't give you
Treasures that only men have made
But what I can give you
No one can ever take away

Twisting the day
I always lose myself so I can find your way
Promises be
They whisper all the yearning
That I swear you'll need

[chorus]

I've got a long way
a long way to come down

[chorus]

Never Here Alone lyrics - Collective Soul

Had a thought but it hurt
So I let it go
I let it go
See I don't need these verses

Laying down their blues on me today

I'm never here alone
I thought I heard some angel say

You'll never be alone
I know I heard my father sing
I'm never here alone
I'm never here alone

Have a scar, yeah a scar
So I let it show
I let it show show
See I don't need tomorrow
Fearing from the pain of yesterday

[chorus]

I'm starting back where love begins

Gonna get me those blue skies
Those blue skies again

[chorus]

Bearing Witness lyrics - Collective Soul

Another day newspapers say
Life what'd you do to me
I'm always here, you're always there

Hope that's my company

Yeah stars have only so many wishes though
They can't tell what we already know
See I'm just gathering all my eyes can see through
I'm bearing witness to you

I'm bearing witness to you

Familiar words the evening stirs
Life what'd you say to me

I'm promised here, you're precious there
Love you're my destiny

[chorus]

Somedays I surrender
Somedays I resolve
But everyday I'd conquer
With your love
With you love

[chorus]

All That I Know lyrics - Collective Soul

In these lazy days
I barely see myself through
I lay here comfortable
My thoughts wrapped around you
I've got a lot on my mind
It's always you every time

You're all that I know
When the sun goes down
You're all that I know
When the sun comes
Rising like the devil in me
And when tomorrow wakes
It's sure to show
You're all that I know

These quiet nights
They nurture me to a bore
The only strength I find
Is when I'm wanting you more
I've had a lot on my mind
It still was you every time

[chorus]

Good Morning After All lyrics - Collective Soul

Yeah you give up some days
When the tears they must flow
But God is always your strength

The only strength that you know
Now everything starts to fall in place

As you wake just to crawl
Still you say good morning after all
Yeah you stand just to fall
Still you say good morning after all

Yeah you questioned this life
Sure you wondered about love
But you swear there's always hope
Always hope from above
Now everything starts to fall into place

[chorus]

It's just another breath
It's just another breath you say
It's just another step
It's just another step today

[chorus]

Hollywood lyrics - Collective Soul

Summer it never leaves your face
You've got the sunshine
Bright-eyed California
Cotton candy taste

Yeah Hollywood
You know I love you more
Than one man should
Yeah Hollywood

Kiss me kiss me good

Oh pretty stars
They love to sparkle for you
You've got that hip lock
Lay it back
Animated groove attitude

[chorus]

Persuasion Of You lyrics - Collective Soul

I've got a memory of nothing new
I've only memorized all thoughts of you
I'm pushing all tomorrows
Gotta go, gotta go, gotta get you back
I'm pushing all thoughts forward

'Cause you are the one day
That tells me that someday
I'll get whay you choose
You are the one thing
That gives me that something
Persuasion of you

I feel you resonate, I swear I do

You got my earth vibrating no matter
Where I'm running to
I'm pushing all tomorrows
Gotta go, gotta go 'til I get you back
I'm pushing all thoughts forward

[chorus]

Don't hold back
Hold back my world
Don't hold back
Hold back now girl

[chorus]

Georgia Girl lyrics - Collective Soul

She moved south as a child
She moved it from the Jersey Shore
Said she remembers the ocean

But she don't recall much more
She lived a contagious youth
Still she swears she has no past
She said she don't take love
'Cause that high it never lasts

Welcome to her world

Welcome to the world
Of my Georgia Girl

She offers up fellowship
To those that come from broken homes
Yeah she laughs in the crowds
While her heart is all alone

[chorus]

She moved south as a child

Adored lyrics - Collective Soul

I can say this life is
Much better today
Everything turns right if
Wrong gets in the way

Yeah I've got the feeling
It's something I find hard to explain
See I wasn't looking

But girl I'm glad I fell in your way

Then she says oh boy, oh boy
Count your lucky stars

Count what you've been wishing for
Oh boy, oh boy
Count the life you lead
Count how you are now adored

I can say the sun
Burns much brighter today
I can see my path though

Clouds darken my way
Yeah I've got this feeling
It's something I find hard to explain
See I wasn't looking
But girl I'm glad I fell in your way

[chorus]

She said she was tired of

Watching me just wilt and bleed
She said I'm like Jesus
I save those who do believe
Do you, do you believe?

[chorus]

"Youth" (2004)

Better Now lyrics - Collective Soul

Oh I'm newly calibrated
All shiny and clean
I'm your recent adaptation
Time to redefine me

Let the word out I've got to get out
Oh I'm feeling better now
Break the news out I've got to get out
Oh I'm feeling better now

Oh I'm happy as Christmas
All wrapped to be seen
I'm your recent acquisition
Time to celebrate me

Let the word out I've got to get out
Oh I'm feeling better now
Break the news out I've got to get out
Oh I'm feeling better now

The world's done shaking
The world's done shaking
The world's done shaking me down

The world's done shaking
The world's done shaking
The world's done shaking me down

There's A Way lyrics - Collective Soul

There's a way to carry on
To push me out then place me back where I belong
There's a way to make anew
To resurrect the wishes that I wish for you

I'm going on and on
I'm going' for the norm

There's a way
To say what you say
There's a way
To say what you say

There's a way to recognize
All the pride that wraps around for my disguise
There's a way to talk me through
To open the silence that belongs to you

I'm diggin' on and on
I'm diggin for the norm

There's a way
To say what you say
There's a way
To say what you say

Find some words that you can steal or borrow
Don't give it away
Save 'em up cause there's always tomorrow

Home lyrics - Collective Soul

Poetry of politics and lost entities
Government is loneliness on this we agree
High are the angels and low I decree
Love only burns when fueled by belief

Home, welcome home
Take a little walk, take a little walk right through our
Home, this is home
Take a little walk, take a little walk right through our... home

Climb up the mountains then slide to the seas
Beauty adores us on this we agree
God is a witness and God is a tease
Pick up your faith, yeah, everybody come with me

How Do You Love? lyrics - Collective Soul

There once was love thrown into your room
But you never knew
A calendar of days just for you
But you never knew, never knew no
And the truth that you'll find will always be
The truth you hide

So how do you love, how do you love
When your angels can't sing, and your world is still
Lacking of me

There once were eyes that only saw you
But you never knew
A portrait of a flower in full bloom
But you never knew, never knew no
And the words that you fear will always be
The words you hear

This space where you've been living
Has gifts you've never given
That's the face you always show
Ask me for words of wisdom
Tell me of your condition
I don't know, I don't
I don't know

And the truth that you'll find will always be
The truth you hide

Him lyrics - Collective Soul

Well I took a little ride through the pouring rain
To think about the casualties of your exchange
Cause what you said ain't what you do
You know you live by the words you choose

Was it him, was it me
Were his lies easier than my truth to believe

Well I took a little walk through the driving rain
To catch my breath from your self-inflicted change
Cause what you said ain't what you do
I feel this storm will soon blanket you

And the rain comes just like a bed of nails
And the rain comes just like summer in hell

Feels Like (It Feels All Right) lyrics - Collective Soul

Feels like a new regime
All hail to the soul machine
Feels like what I taste
Always better than yesterday

Feels like sweet sixteen
All sugar and nicotine
It feels like ready go
I'm full throttle while the fluids flow

I said it feels like it feels like feels alright
Yeah and it feels like it feels like feels alright

Feels like a Sunday dress
I'm stained with sin but always blessed
It feels like the great escape
I love you baby but life can't wait

Feels like what I like

Perfect To Stay lyrics - Collective Soul

She said good day boy, are you ready to shake
I said I love noise and this life that it makes

See I have a line though it's subject to change
I once had a thought but then I gave it away
Yeah sooner or later I'll be perfect to stay

She said good night boy, are you feeling alone
I said I love time but never ever this long

Like the sun surely loves it's newborn days yeah
Like all oceans love their waves I'm perfect to stay

Counting The Days lyrics - Collective Soul

Hey baby are you listening
I've batten all the hatches down
I've taken all of your prescriptions but no remedy I've found

[Chorus:]
Counting the Days (yeah)
Until some freedom can scream my name
Counting the Days (yeah)
Until the gods break these chains.

hey baby are you watching
I'm saddling for your side show
I never want to become precious
This life is so touch and go

[Chorus]

[Bridge:]
Dig it, get it, dig it what your looking for?
Dig it, get it, dig it what your searching for?
Dig it, get it, dig it yeah, dig
Yeah, dig

[Chorus]

Under Heaven's Skies lyrics - Collective Soul

Whenever I taste honey from your lips
It's a moment of purpose only you can give
Whatever I hear, whatever I may see
Whatever my cause, dear, I know you'll believe

Cause you're beautiful my love when I close my eyes
yeah you're beautiful my love under heaven's skies

If ever you think careless is the night
I'll comfort you with silence 'til the morning light
Wherever you turn, wherever you may roam
Whatever you conquer, I'll always be your home

Cause you're beautiful my love, when I close my eyes
yeah you're beautiful my love, under heaven's skies

Yeah you fly me through your skies of harmony,
And you lay me down with words of honesty
Yeah you're beautiful, you're beautiful here with me.

Yeah you're beautiful my love, when I close my eyes
yeah you're beautiful my love, under heaven's skies

Yeah you're beautiful my love
Yeah you're beautiful my love
Yeah you're beautiful my love

Yeah you're beautiful my love
Yeah you're beautiful my love
Yeah you're beautiful my love

Yeah you're beautiful my love
Yeah you're beautiful my love
Yeah you're beautiful my love

Yeah you're beautiful my love
Yeah you're beautiful my love
Under heaven’s skies

General Attitude lyrics - Collective Soul

Time, you've had more than your share of mine
I'm a criminal with no crime
Sing like a bird that is now released
Like an angel with clip-on wings

Yeah nothing that's etched in stone
See I'm already who's already gone

Love's a joke, love's a tease
Love's a cause I do believe but
Let it run now, let it run out to me

Low I can live in a sinking hole
Cause I'm as high as the grass will grow
Gone like a stage with its curtain drawn
Like the loss as of Babylon

Yeah I can mumble and talk again
But I'm a promise that's never been

Love's a thrill yeah, love's a scene
Love's a reason I believe but
Let it run now, let it run out to me

Yeah I'm coming round, this world loves me now
Feel the rhythm of changes laying down

Satellite lyrics - Collective Soul

Soon a man will kneel to pray
Soon the light will burn our shade
And with the sweet the bitter fades
So my heart and take your place

Cause I will be your force
And I will be your right
And I will watch over you like a satellite

Soon reason will have rhyme
Soon wisdom will imply
And with courage doubt subsides
So take my heart and take my pride

And I will be your side
And I will be your might
And I will watch over you like a satellite

River will flow from scenes unknown
I'll guide you through by the love I'll show
And the stars will wish upon the night
That they could have a guiding satellite

"Blender" (2000)

Skin lyrics - Collective Soul

I'm starting to feel loopy
Your dizziness consumes me

Jesus don't speak English
But I do think I understand
The rhyme and the reason
Of a goody good gentleman
If I were one I swear
I'd still be tasting your skin

The sky tonight is gracious
To rain on me your sweetness

I scream an explanation
Your world is so contagious

Vent lyrics - Collective Soul

Shut your mouth
My mother said
Don't saddle me
With selfishness

Do you feel your tongue quivering
It's moments like these I revel in

Your conversation never sticks
'Cause no truth in you exists
Yeah you bite before you lick
I love ya 'cause you're such a prick

One more time
Don't fashion me
With stylish word
Of ramblings

Do you feel my pulse lingering
It's moments like these I revel in

Why Pt. 2 lyrics - Collective Soul

In the air I'm tasting your perfection
Forgive me dear for my misdirection
As I crawl beneath this torture you adore
I fall face to face with my scars you've ignored

So tell me why it don't feel the same
Tell me why I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave, you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why it don't feel the same

All my props I swear they were in order
Even with the warnings of your thunder
Now I pause to let my silence scream tonight
Awhile you roam like a serpent satellite

10 Years Later lyrics - Collective Soul

Lack of knowledge has a source (oh boy)
Still my thoughts must run their course (oh yeah)
And they do

Does my memory comfort you
While your eyes see me through
Well it's 10 years later and still I haven't a clue
Oh I'm crying

Caution breathes a lonely breath (oh boy)
Love withstands but time must rest (oh yeah)
And it does

Does my memory comfort you
Your eyes see me through
Well it's 10 years later and still I haven't a clue
Oh it's 10 years later

Boast lyrics - Collective Soul

Yeah you want to
'Cause you say so
'Cause you need to
Yeah you need to need to
I don't want to
I don't have to
But you've got to
Yeah you got to got to

Could you stay in line
Do you follow what I say
Can you read my mind
Then off where you lay

Feel the water rise
Can you swim now on your own
Do you act surprised
When you hear lies you have told

Oh now
Now you're motoring
Oh now
Now you're fluttering
Oh now now

Turn Around lyrics - Collective Soul

There floats our conversation
Like clouds in our minds
We leave an open invitation
To this world we've denied

If I turn around
Would that be my fault
If I turn around
Would that be my loss

Feel the raindrops of impression
Stinging from above
What the price of this confusion
We have yet to speak of

Out of sight beyond confusion
Still I'm here defining my own truth
Paranoia by conclusion
What's the point if I am still missing you

You Speak My Language lyrics - Collective Soul

All around the world
Everywhere I go
No one understands me
No one knows
What I'm trying to say

No one understands me
They look at me when I talk to them
And they scratch their heads
They go what's he trying to say

But you, you speak my language
Yeah you, you speak my language

All around the world
Everywhere I go
No one understands me
No one knows
What I'm trying to say

Even in my hometown
My friends make me write it down
They look at me when I talk to them
And they shrug their shoulders
They say what's he talking about

Perfect Day lyrics - Collective Soul

There she stumbles
Falling to her knees
I think she tripped on reality

I have witnessed
Tragic comedies
That's the world in which she leads

Well I would walk a million miles
To give her all that she needs
But she would walk a million more
To do what she believes

She'll have a perfect day

Troubles blooming
Innocence now fades
But still she's dry through
All the rain

There's no purpose
She has yet to crave
She's like the big dog on parade

Well I would walk a million miles
To give her all that she needs
She would walk a million more
To do well as she pleased

She had a perfect day

I can't figure this one out
I've no words here to explain
She'll just sugar kiss me off
She'll just have another perfect day

After All lyrics - Collective Soul

We steal to lose every colour
From the sky
Then crawl as a child
While the shadows burn our eyes

We know there's no longer shine
On this burned out rainbow

Lately it seems we've been chasing
What times resolved
Maybe something means nothing here
After all

Whispers are now screams
This conclusion never ends
My pride with your kiss
Even angels can't defend

We know we're running head on
Into our confusion

Still we hide safe behind these crumbled walls
Cause we know there's nothing here after all

Over Tokyo lyrics - Collective Soul

Got a photograph of a smile
Taken way back when we could smile
Now this plane will take me
Where I don't know
Maybe Tokyo

'Cause there's no memories over Tokyo
And there's no hurting over Tokyo

Got a photograph of some tears
Taken presently with more tears
Now I'll search for happiness
Where should I go
Maybe Tokyo

Attention will this pain go away
My condition oh it's just not the same

Happiness lyrics - Collective Soul

Congratulations, oh baby I'm back again
I'm loaded down with my god and my medicine

I know wisdom is change
So why can't you function that way

Here I am flaunting my self control
'Cause happiness is more than a kiss you know

I'm activating all your promises once again
And pushing forth dear with the rage of my reverence

We could close our eyes
And recklessly run on through
Any space and time
That we choose

"Dosage" (1999)

Tremble For My Beloved lyrics - Collective Soul

The Hour has Begun
Your eyes have now opened

To a world where madness craves
To A World Where Hope's enslaved
Oh I'll tremble for my love always

Your windows opened wide
Your innocence takes flight

To a world where madness craves
To A World Where Hope's enslaved
Oh I'll tremble for my love always

Heavy lyrics - Collective Soul

Complicate this world you wrapped for me
I'm acquainted with your suffering

And all your weight
It falls on me
It brings me down
And all your weight
It falls on me
It falls on me

Hold me up to all whom you've deceived
Promises you break you still believe

No More, No Less lyrics - Collective Soul

Here I lie motionless
Catch me if you can
My properties of no defense
So, strike at your command

But, don't bring me down
All right
Don't bring me down
Cause there's purpose
For this night

Save me come tomorrow
Lead me to my urgency
See I'm no more no less
Of an angel
Than you'd have me be
So let's shake it like this

Steady here I cast my lines
Only to expose
A weaker sense and
No constraint
Now my true self shows

But, don't bring me down
All right
Don't bring me down
Cause there's promise
In the night

Needs lyrics - Collective Soul

All around me I see what weakness has made
Too much tomorrow I think I'll take all today
Am I a poison, Am I a thorn in the side
Am I a picture, perfect subject tonight

I don't need nobody
I don't need the weight of words to find a way
To crash on through
I don't need nobody
I just need to learn the depth
Or doubt of faith to fall into

Here I slumber to awaken my daze
I find convenience in this savior I save
Am I a prison, Am I a source of dire news
Am I a picture perfect reason for you

I don't need nobody
I don't need the weight of words to find a way
To crash on through
I don't need nobody
I just need to learn the depth or doubt
Of faith to fall into

In this time of substitute
It's my needs I've answered to (All the while)
And the hope that I invest
Still turns to signals of distress (All the while)

I don't need nobody
I don't need the weight of words to find a way
To crash on through
I don't need nobody
I just need to learn the depth or doubt
Of faith to fall into

You're all I need
When the water runs deep
You're all I need
Now I cry my soul to sleep
You're all I need [4x]

Slow lyrics - Collective Soul

Morning like this
Make me feel like I never could float
Glimpses of peace
Portray all that you never could show

I'm not weakened by the fears
That you have applied
See I'm now learning in these walls
That you have supplied
Slow
Slow down boy
Slow down to control
Slow, slow

Clothed in new costumes
That weather your newfound storms
Staring through reason
Content with your newfound decor

I passed the darkened vaults of
Late doorways as if I were a king
Like this I chain a whisper to my faults

Dandy Life lyrics - Collective Soul

Took a walk to a caution scene
Guess I crossed the line somehow
And if I lost some of your hope
I'm sorry for the folly was all mine
And I don't ever really understand
All the things we say
But I try to anyway anyhow
For what's in a day of a dandy life
For what's in a day of this dandy life
Everything, Everything, Everything

Hangin' on every word
My social butterfly
Everyone wants to be loved
Loved in their own way

I can say I spent the night
On the telephone inside
When you said that every single
One of us can find a happy face
So why don't you go try
Try anyway
And I suppose I was born yesterday
'Cause I never thought of things
Quite in that way at all and in that way
For what's in a day of a dandy life
For what's in a day of this dandy life
Everything, Everything, Everything

Run lyrics - Collective Song

Are these times contagious
I've never been this bored before
Is this the prize I've waited for
Now as the hours passing
There's nothing left here to insure
I long to find a messenger

Have I got a long way to run [x2]
Yeah, I run

Is there a cure among us
From this processed sanity
I weaken with each voice that sings
Now in this world of purchase
I'm going to buy back memories
To awaken some old qualities

Have I got a long way to run [x2]
Yeah, I run [x2]
Have I got a long way [x2]
Have I got a long way to run [x2]
Yeah, I run [x4]
[background:]
Have I got a long way to run [x4]

Generate lyrics - Collective Soul

Hey you give me no choice
I entertain by the silence
That you created by noise

Hey I'm flirting inside
I need the floor opened up
For the scream I'd now love to shout

I can't convey
I can't relate to the thoughts you now
Generate
I can't contain
I can't explain all the words you now
Generate

Hey I swallowed your pride
To gather up confrontation
That you have so long denied

Compliment lyrics - Collective Soul

Now I've taken the side
Of a beautiful calm
Can you see this disguise
Fading to a resolve

And there it goes my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more than
The world out there

Hesitation compounds
I've nothing left to sustain
My worries here have allowed
A momentary refrain

And there it goes my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more
Than the world out there

Not The One lyrics - Collective Soul

I waltzed around you
Seven times
Only to become
A melody you never sang
I'm not the one
Oh I'm not the one

Clouds of thought you
Filter through
Never to reason
While patiently your world
Still bleeds
Who shall be the one?
Oh I'm not the one

Crown lyrics - Collective Soul

Who's gonna be my savior
now that I've learned to believe
Who's gonna be the answer
To all of my questioning
Well I hope I'm not lost
But I think that hope is now distracting
And the words that secure a thought
Are now faint whisperings

Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know I just might alone
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know I've just got to go my way

Who's gonna be my partner
Now that I stand here alone
Who's gonna be the shepherd
To lead this poor boy back home
Well I hope I'm not lost
But I think that hope is now distracting
And the words that secure a thought
Are now faint whisperings

She Said lyrics - Collective Soul

She said that time is unfair
To a woman her age
Now that wisdom has come
Everything else fades
She said she realizes
She's seen her better days
She said she can't look back
To her days of youth
What she thought were lies
She later found was truth
She said her daddy had dreams
But he drank them away
And her mother's to blame
For the way she is today

Life's river shall rise
She Said
And only the strong shall survive
She Said
But I'm feeling quite weak
She Said
Will you comfort and forgive me
She Said

She said she's still searching
For salvation's light
She said she wishes all day
And she prays all night
She said she won't speak of love
Because love she's never known
She said it's moments like these
She hates to be alone

Forgive me
She Said
Forgive me
She Said

"Disciplined Breakdown" (1997)

Precious Declaration lyrics - Collective Soul

Hitched a ride to the peaceful side of town
Then proceeded where thieves were no longer found
Can't crash now I've been waiting for this
Won't crash now I found some encouragement
Precious declaration reads
Yours is yours and mine you leave alone now
Precious declaration says
I believe all hope is dead no longer

New meanings to the words I feed upon
Wake within my veins elements of freedom
Can't break now I've been living for this
Won't break now I'm cleansed with hopefulness
Precious declaration says
Yours is yours and mine you leave alone now
Precious declaration says
I believe all hope is dead no longer

Once I jumped thru hoops of fire
High and far as you required
I was blind but now I see
Salvation has discovered me

Listen lyrics - Collective Soul

Hey you're now thirsty
Walking in the desert all alone
Hey you're now searching
Lost in isolation from your soul
The bullets you bite
From the pain you request
You're finding harder to digest
And the answers you seek
Are the ones you destroy
Your anger's well deployed

Hey why can't you listen
Hey why can't you hear
Hey why can't you listen
As love screams everywhere

Hey you now hunger
Feeding your mind with selfishness
Hey you now wander
Aimlessly around your consciousness
Your prophecies fail
And your thoughts become weak
Silence creates necessity
You're clothing yourself
In the shields of despair
Your courage now impaired

You crucify all honesty
No signs you see do you believe
And all your words just twist and turn
Reviving just to crash and burn
You're fighting till the bitter end
If only your heart could open up
And listen

Maybe lyrics - Collective Soul

The sky now divides
To bring you back into the fold
Welcome home
Still my need to recognize
Any comfort you may show
Only grows
Guess I'll learn to accommodate
While my heart just sits and waits
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now

Where am I to take refuge
When the storms of pain release
Shelter me
This blessedness of life
Sometimes brings me to my knees
I call on thee
I have not the words to write
A Farewell to you tonight
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now

I know hearts are weeping
While your voice is now singing
On high, angel on high

[In memory of Kib Browning]

Full Circle lyrics - Collective Soul

Drowning to discover
I'd swim but then why bother
Wrestled with decisions
And fools with their opinions
One fine morning I'll awake
To sleep some more
To define my premonitions
Last judgement and conditions
I'd have to dig in my emotions
Then relinquish my devotion
One fine morning I'll awake
Then hope to learn
One fine morning I'll awake
To love's return

Round and Round and Round
I believe love goes Round and Round
Round and Round and Round
I believe love comes Round and Round

Singing the rendition
Of hope in my condition
Caught up in defending
That truth is never ending
One fine morning I'll awake
Then reaffirm
One fine morning I'll awake
To love's return

Blame lyrics - Collective Soul

You pushed me down
For all the world to see
I guess that's your price
For my loyalty
So while you're tasting sin
And swallowing pain
Don't look at me
To take your blame

When you're willing to render
To the guilt you concede
When truth is your reason
Then lay that blame on me
When you unveil a conscience
And with peace you agree
When love is your constant
Then lay that blame on me

You lay me out
In hopes that I'd wilt away
But strength rained down
And love provided shade
So while the pageant of lies
Still glow from your tongue
Don't blame me for
Your Kingdom Come

Question your answers
Truth has no anger
Gather up your words
Redemption now offered

Disciplined Breakdown lyrics - Collective Soul

I never ever can remember
All the things that go bump in the night
Quietness uncovers
Betrayal now hovers
And my comfort levels not quite right
I'd love to stay and evaluate
But my torture can't wait
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown

I never ever can decipher
Who listens to the words I say
While I sense I'm searching
I never know who's lurking
To scare my sacred thoughts away
I'd love to hang and chat a while
But my mind's become vile
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown

I never ever can contribute
To finding all the faults that sustain
Never mind the answers
To who spreads the cancer
When the questioning of why remains
I'd love to sit and rationalize
But my tongue's become dry
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown

Breakdown Reality
Breakdown my ability to get it back
Breakdown honestly
Breakdown now deliver me
From all this madness and all this agony

Forgiveness lyrics - Collective Soul

In my silence I would love to forget
But restitution hasn't come quite yet
And with one accord I keep pushing forth
I stretch my heart to heal some more

It used to be all I'd want to learn
Was wisdom trust and truth
But now all I really want to learn
Is forgiveness for you

As my seasons change I've now grown to know
When one's heart creates, one's soul doesn't owe
So I wash away stains of yesterday
Then tempt my heart with love's display

Giving lyrics - Collective Soul

Giving me cause so I may yearn
Giving me words so I may learn
I want more I want more
Giving me thoughts that I may keep
Giving me dreams so I may sleep
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more

Giving me calm to fall into
Giving me hope to guide me thru
I want more I want more
Giving me light to see thru tears
Giving me strength to crush my fears
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more

I won't break you down
I won't bring you down anymore

Giving me choice so I may seek
Giving me faith so I'll believe
I want more I want more
Giving me breath of your mercy
Giving yourself to comfort me
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more

In Between lyrics - Collec

In between us
Good and evil wait
To lie beside us
In our bed we make

In between us
Caution never heeds
We prey on weakness
Then beg for sympathy

In between words
Silence parades so confusion is heard
Our voices afraid
To speak up and reassure
So in between words we remain
In between

In between us
Hope we've yet to see
We long for healings
But the scars never leave

Silence fills the void
Of love and hate
An effective tool
When used to separate
Now separate

Crowded Head lyrics - Collective Soul

All the words that I want to hear
Are distorted by your weaknesses and fear
And your lies that I push away
I might accept them on your good self pity day
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

And the peace that I really need
You substitute it for your policy of greed
Still your pride always suffocates
Any truth that your heart might want to make
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

With all your static
I can't distinguish between what's being said
I have no room for this
You see I'm living with a crowded head

And the path that I needed shown
You left me stranded in the darkness all alone
All the promises you fed to me
I'm now choking from their taste of cruelty
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

Everything lyrics - Collective Soul

With the faces I now wear
It's only proof my thoughts
Have become impaired
And the courage I shall build
Stands at distance still

Everything is physical
Everything takes precedence
Everything's admissible
Everything is evident

And this comfort I've designed
Will only stay intact until
The truth I find
As some answers fly around
No cure have I found

Guide me, save me, teach me
I need to learn from this
Hold me, soothe me my Love

The reflection I now see
Is always trying to blind
And discourage me
But my patience shall prevail
And myself as well

Everything is comfortable
Everything's a brighter shade
Everything is suitable
Everything is KOOL-AID

"Collective Soul" (1995)

Simple lyrics - Collective Soul

Tangle up your twisted tongue. It's simple.
Mesmerize your everyday. It's simple.
Hey hey can't you see?
Love is all that you should need.
Can't you see?

Ease your troubled mind.
Let love seek & let love find. It's simple.
Ease your weary soul.
Let love lead & let love flow. It's simple.

Pry into combative times. It's simple.
Forfeit all lush concerns. It's simple.
Hey hey don't you care?
Love is all that you should share.
Don't you care?

Cleansing out your tarnished heart.
It's simple.
Learning from each other can be simple.
Hey hey don't we know?
Love is all that we should show.
Don't we know?

Untitled lyrics - Collective Soul

Who have I left to please?
Take what you've yet to seize.
No more questioning
'Cause love is what love should be.
Unveil to me all that you want me to do.
But why should I stop bearing allegiance to you?
See, I don't believe in
The sorcerers or the preachers.
I just believe in you.
And I don't believe in
the scholars or the wise men.
I just believe in you.

What have I left to prove?
I speak all the words you choose.
Confine me in walls of truth
'Cause love does what love should do.
No more sentence.
All of my pain has been freed.
Why should this end when your
mercy's all I need?
See, I don't believe in
The sorcerers or the preachers.
I just believe in you.
And I don't believe in
The scholars or the wise men.
I just believe in you.

The World I Know lyrics - Collective Soul

Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on.
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in New York City
And I don't know why.

Are we listening?
Hymns of offering.
Have we eyes to see?
Love is gathering.
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one.

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down.
'Cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.

Smashing Young Man lyrics - Collective Soul

Beggar's description
Of what I've been missing
Exploit your position
Don't think I didn't listen
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little better now

Success is so tragic
Pain is your gadget
Your tongue's just lashing
Just bitching by habit
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little purer now
Hey I hope you're feeling
Securer now

Help me I plea
I don't understand
Your ways and means
You smashing young man
Help me to see
The good you have planned
You're wearing thin
You smashing young man

You preach synthetic-like
Peace is an oversight
It's nothing to ignite
Your self-lit spotlight
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little special now
Hey I want to tell you
I think you're special now

I don't recall asking for guidance
I don't recall wanting to
I don't recall bowing before you
But I'm so impressed
With the kindness in your attitude

December lyrics - Collective Soul

Why drink the water
from my hand?
Contagious as you think I am
Just tilt my sun towards
your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.

Don't scream about
Don't think aloud
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out
Don't worry about
Don't speak of doubt
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out

Why follow me to higher ground?
Lost as you swear I am.
Don't throw away your basic needs,
Ambiance and vanity.

December promise you gave unto me
December whispers of treachery
December clouds are now covering me
December songs no longer I sing

Where The River Flows lyrics - Collective Soul

Give me a moment
Got to get this weight up off my chest
Don't feed me sorrow
Pain is a poison I digest

Find yourself another soul to hold
You think, you thought, I know
Off upon my journey I must go
To where the river flows

I'll give you answers
To the questions you have yet to ask
Silence is beauty
Words they only complicate the task

Make no more wishes
All of my patience has been spent
Gods of the season
Lead me to my next incident

Gel lyrics - Collective Soul

Color me any color.
Speak to me in tongues and share.
Tell me how you'd love to hate me.
Tell me how you'd love to care.
Well I just want to shake us up.

Let's mingle
And make it well.
Come together now.
Yeah let's gel.

Clothe me in any fashion.
Glitter to so mundane.
Tell me how you'd love to change me.
Tell me I can stay the same.
I just want to shake us up.

Let's mingle
And make it well.
Come together now.
Yeah let's gel.
Well let's bungle
And live to tell
How we came together.
Yeah how we gelled.

She Gathers Rain lyrics - Collective Soul

Today she dresses
For the change she's facing now
And the storm that's raging
A safe haven she has found
She doesn't care
What the prophets say anymore
For the love she had
She has no more
So she gathers rain
She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain
She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make
her whole again

Her imagination
Has started stretching wide
And her new conviction
No longer will she hide
She's not branded
When prophets speak words of fire
The same love she gives
She requires
So she gathers rain
She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain
She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make
her whole again

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