The Lonely Life lyrics - City and Colour

What if I did not love you?
Where would that leave me
Would I wander through the avenues
Under a pall of misery

Would I be face down in the gutter
With cheap whiskey on my breath
The lonely life of a writer
Whose words could not pay his debts

Singin' please don't, please don't pass me by
I am alive, oh can't you see?
That I've been blinded completely
Please don't, please don't pass me by
I am alive, oh can't you see?
That I am pleading for your mercy

What if we became strangers?
Would you notice my face in a crowd?
And you could you hear the sorrow in my voice?
Helplessly crying your name out loud

Would I be searching for a savior?
Burned and burning with regret
The lonely life of a writer
Only if one last desperate request

Singin' please don't, please don't pass me by
I am alive, oh can't you see?
That I've been blinded completely
Please don't, please don't pass me by
I am alive, oh can't you see?
That I am pleading for your mercy

I've been on the lam
Being hunted, somethin' fierce
They say time and tide, it waits for no man
But I was just hopin'
These storm filled skies would clear

Please don't, please don't pass me by
Please don't, please don't pass me by
Please don't, please don't pass me by
I am alive, oh can't you see?
That I am pleading for your mercy

Paradise lyrics - City and Colour

I’m looking for a way out
For a place that no one knows
Please take me away now
Somewhere it don’t feel so cold

Troubles on my mind
Troubles on my mind
For the rest of the days I’ve cried
For the rest of the days I’ve cried

I’m searching for a paradise
That I just can’t seem to find
I’m searching for a paradise
For the time of my life

I’m searching for a paradise
That I just can’t seem to find
I’m searching for a paradise
Gonna go where the spirit guides

All alone

My silhouette is fading
Past the point of safe return
Now my body’s aching
As both ends of the candle burn

My heart is beating slow
My heart is beating slow
It’s worn me to the bone
It’s worn me to the bone

I’m searching for a paradise
That I just can’t seem to find
I’m searching for a paradise
For the time of my life

I’m searching for a paradise
That I just can’t seem to find
I’m searching for a paradise
Gonna go where the spirit guides

All alone
All alone
All alone
All alone

I’m searching for a paradise
That I just can’t seem to find
I’m searching for a paradise
For the time of my life

Commentators lyrics - City and Colour

I don’t wanna be revolutionary
No, I'm just looking for the sweetest melody
If I overstayed my welcome
I would take my things and leave
‘Cause I’m not trying to be revolutionary

What gave you the impression
That your opinion means anything to anyone?
What gave you the right
To bear arms against me… against us?

You’re nothing but a bunch of amateur commentators
Who live your lives hiding behind a wall of insecurities

I don’t wanna be revolutionary
No, I'm just looking for the sweetest melody
If I overstayed my welcome
I would take my things and leave
‘Cause I’m not trying to be revolutionary

Imagine it’s already broken
As you hold it in your hand
Think of all the work you’re doing
As work that you can only understand

Suppose it’s already faded
As it drapes across your back
Believing all you have is wonderful
Instead of everything that you lack

[2x]
I don’t wanna be revolutionary
No, I'm just looking for the sweetest melody
If I overstayed my welcome
I would take my things and leave
‘Cause I’m not trying to be revolutionary

Thirst lyrics - City and Colour

When I think of
Fates worse than death
All I can think of
Is something you said
You said we were golden
Bright like the sun
And now I am stranded
Knowing I'm not the one

An ocean of anger
Flowing through me
Blood-stained and broken
From what I failed to see
And just like a snake charmer
You led me astray
Living in distress
Hoping help was on the way

In the midst of a storm searching for shelter
I came upon one single feather
A half-hearted wish for something better
Gracefully cursed
I thirst

Attached to the soil
I'm dyed in the wool
There's iron in my blood
Yet so vulnerable
But after I'm gone
Once I finally leave
You will be left alone
To the wolves and the thieves.

In the midst of a storm searching for shelter
I came upon one single feather
A half-hearted wish for something better
Gracefully cursed
I thirst

Gracefully cursed
I thirst

Gracefully cursed
I thirst

I thirst

Two Coins lyrics - City and Colour

Northwest is where I'm heading,
Underneath the golden sky
I'm searching for a wisdom
That every man seeks to find
I've got wicked thoughts a brewin'
Many even deeds I've done
I'm looking for a reason
For a reason not to run

[Chorus 2x]
I've always been dark
With light somewhere in the distance

I've got no destination
No place to call my own
I'll explore the constellations
'Til I find the course I mean to hold
But come fever or come famine
Come the biting winter cold
Just put two coins upon my eyelids
So I can pay the boatman's toll

[Chorus 2x]
I've always been dark
With light somewhere in the distance

[Bridge]
I've been so unforgiving
Stranded in old traditions

[Chorus 2x]
I've always been dark
With light somewhere in the distance

Take Care lyrics - City and Colour

Take better care
Of yourself, my friend
For, you never know
When it will all
Come to an end

Cause only time will tell
When death shall ring his bell
So take better care
Of yourself, my friend

Cause you are a single grain
A mere molecule
Mistaken for a king
You're only a simple fool

I will provide you
With a reason to believe
I will not desert you
In your time of need

And so sudden the winds change
And so sudden you lose your faith
I will provide you
With a reason to believe

Cause you are a single grain
A mere molecule
Mistaken for a king
You're only a simple fool

So take, better care
Of yourself, my friend
Take better care
Of yourself, my friend

Ladies And Gentlemen lyrics - City and Colour

It's the poison running
Through your blood
It's the broken levee
That brought the flood
It's the loaded barrel of a gun

There is darkness roaming
Through everything
Evil urges awakening
But, the bitter souls
Who will never rest
Good luck,
Ladies and Gentlemen

It's all the days when
You're lacking love
And you hear the cry from
The morning dove
Then you feel the breath
Leave your lungs

There is darkness roaming
Through everything
Evil urges awakening
The bitter souls
Who will never rest
Good luck,
Ladies and Gentlemen

The Golden State lyrics - City and Colour

Why's everyone still singing about California?
Haven't we heard enough about the Golden State?
I guess if you like sandy beaches and blue ocean water
There's something about it, to which I cannot relate
I need to see the leaves change and the snowflakes falling
I need to hear the colder wind whistling through the winter pines

Why's everyone still singing about California?
Haven't we heard enough about the Golden State?
People still follow their dreams to sweet California
And from time to time I'll pass on by, but I will never stay

Sure there are beautiful people, in the city of lost angels
They're living like they're kings and queens, from some royal age
But fortune and fame won't save you, when California
Is wiped out by the ring of fire or a great earthquake

Why's everyone still singing about California?
Haven't we heard enough about the Golden State?
People still follow their dreams to sweet California
And from time to time I'll pass on by, but I will never stay
No, I will never stay

Never stay
Never stay

Death's Song lyrics - City and Colour

What becomes of me
When you stop listening?
Do I disappear into the silence?
Or return from the void with brand new life?

Will I find a resting place?
Somewhere to wash my hands and face
Gathering the harvest for all I need
Collapsing into this place of ease

I’m singing my death song
Singing my death song
Singing my death song
This is my death song

Singing my death song
Singing my death song
Singing my death song
Singing my death song

Singing my death song
Singing my death song
Singing my death song
This is my death song

The Way It Used To Be lyrics - City and Colour

This is the story of a man
Who took for granted everything he had
And how he let it all just slip away
Never to return again

Now twenty years have come and gone
And still he wonders what he did so wrong
And how that he can win back her heart
And finally step outside of the dark

He buys fresh roses everyday
Her favourite flower so she used to say
And now the memories all that he has left
And I'm afraid he'll drink himself to death

This is the story of a man
Who took for granted everything he had
And how he let it all just slip away
Never to return again

It's clear she's moved on long ago
But he still clings on to a distant hope
That she'll come back and make a happy home
For now it's him and the bottle all alone

Sometimes you'll see him in the yard
A wounded man with a desperate heart
He keeps the hedges trimmed nice and neat
To keep them the way that they used to be

This is the story of a man
Who took for granted everything he had
And how he let it all just slip away
Never to return again

A single dress hangs on it's own
The scent of perfume all he has to hold
A wasted life waiting on a dream
Hoping for things the way they used to be

This is the story of a man (this is the story of a man)
Who took for granted everything he had (everything he had)
And how he let it all just slip away (he let it slip away)
Never to return again (to return again)

"Little Hell" (2011)

We Found Each Other In The Dark lyrics - City and Colour

I heard the church bells from afar,
But we found each other in the dark.
And when the smoke does finally pass
We will rise above all the ash.

Cause we're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
At last.

So bright, the flames burned in our hearts,
That we found each other in the dark.
Like beasts out in the wilderness
We are fighting to survive and convalesce.

But we're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live
Like the rest.

Through the black starless water,
And the cold lonely air.
On the rock restless seas,
The vessel in deep disrepair.
And I swore they started singing,
But then oh, rejoice!
I can still hear your voice.

Then I heard the church bells from afar
But we found each other in the dark

Natural Disaster lyrics - City and Colour

Can you imagine all the homes abandoned and all alone?
With no one left to care for their wilting bones
The paint is peeling off the walls
The corners are filled up with dust
Cigarette smoke hangs in the air
And the grass ain't growin' like it did long ago

Whether a natural disaster ripped it from its foundation
Or an economic tragedy tore apart its family
They're all empty

The pipes have long since seized
The windows are all boarded up
There's no electricity flowing through these lifeless veins
Cracks are running down the walls
Where picture frames used to hang
A hint of heartbreak still lingers in the air
And weeds have choked the breath out of it long ago

Whether a natural disaster ripped it from its foundation
Or and economic tragedy tore apart it's family
They're all empty
They're all empty

The Grand Optimist lyrics - City and Colour

I fear I'm dying from complications, complications due to things that I've left undone
That all my debts will be left unpaid, feel like a cripple without a cane
I'm like a jack of all trades who's a master of none

Then there's my father he's always looking on the bright side
Saying things like “Son, life just ain't that hard”
He is the grand optimist, I am the world's poor pessimist
You give him burdensome times and he will escape unscarred

I guess I take after my mother, I guess I take after my mother

But I used to be quite resilient, gain no strength from counting the beads on a rosary
And now the wound has begun to turn, another lesson that has gone unlearned
But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy

I guess I take after my mother, I guess I take after my mother
I guess I take after my mother, I guess I take after my mother

Little Hell lyrics - City and Colour

What if I can't be all that you need me to be
We've got a good thing going, we have some promises to keep
But my addiction it can be such a detriment
Please believe in this my dear, I am more than penitent

What if everything's just the way that it will be
Could it be that I am meant to cause you all this grief
My war ships are lying off the coast of your delicate heart
And my aim is steady and true as it's been right from the start

There's a degree of difficulty in dealing with me
From my haunted past comes a daunting task of living through memories
If we could just hang a mirror on the bedroom wall, stare into the past and forget it all

So when we leave it'll be a quick midnight escape
We'll disconnect ourselves from all of yesterday
I'll dig for water and fashion our very own wishing well
Then we'll throw our coins down hoping to rid us of this little hell

There's a degree of difficulty in dealing with me
From my haunted past comes a daunting task of living through memories.
If we could just hang a mirror on the bedroom wall, stare into the past and forget it all

Will we get out of this little hell
Will we get out of this little hell
Will we get out of this little hell
Will we get out of this little hell