The Promise

If you need a friend,
don't look to a stranger,
You know in the end,
I'll always be there.

And when you're in doubt,
and when you're in danger,
Take a look all around,
and I'll be there.

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
But if you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you I will.

When your day is through,
and so is your temper,
You know what to do,
I'm gonna always be there.

Sometimes if I shout,
it's not what's intended.
These words just come out,
with no gripe to bear.

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
But if you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you...

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
And if I had to walk the world, that make you fall for me,
I promise you, I promise you I will.

~ Anberlin

Audrey, Start the Revolution

Maybe tonight we'll get back together
sound the alarms and break all the levers
These streets are ours, our anthem rings
You'd know the truth if these walls could sing

Amateur youth sling down those signs
Gather the masses, friends of mine
I've got your back if you've got my hand
This isn't over it just began

[Chorus x2:]
If this isn't love (This isn't love)
this is the closest I've ever been
Do you think we have a chance tonight?
as streetlights sing on Audrey's song

Remind your parents we're tomorrow
Lead with morals and we'll follow
When they wake up they'll see
that youth fades and glory days deceive

What are you waiting for? let's move on this
time is of essence, like your kiss
So say you're in with cards down
and guns drawn, this is it

[Chorus x2:]
If this isn't love (This isn't love)
this is the closest I've ever been
Do you think we have a chance tonight
as streetlights sing on Audrey's song

But now it stops at this
We could take it all if only we would risk
You can be what you can conceive
Red letters kill your disbelief

We all make mistakes sometimes
We all fail but we stand tonight
Look past, learn, and move on
We're all here, you're not the only one

[Chorus x4:]
If this isn't love (This isn't love)
this is the closest I've ever been
Do you think we have a chance tonight?
as streetlights sing on Audrey's song.

~ Anberlin

Runaways

Come closer now
I know your desire is to be desired
Steal a kiss yet and call us friends
Distance is the thief in which you conspire

Turn and time and time will tell
Time will tell or tear us apart
You're miles and miles and miles away
Silence reveals where we really are

You only stand to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
You only stand to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
Runaway, runaway girl

It's clearer now
You're nowhere into giving
Giving into, giving into me
It's your fault
You're like a rare disease
I know you're in love
With love I believe

Turn and time and time will tell
Time will tell or tear us apart
You're miles and miles and miles away
Silence reveals where we really are

You only stand to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
You only stand to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
Runaway, runaway girl

Do you expect me to wait here?
(All alone in my thoughts and fears)
My whole life could flash before your eyes
(Hope one day that you realize)
This isn't the way it's supposed to be
(This is your life girl, now without me)
May regrets for us well up inside
(As feelings for you are buried alive)
Buried alive

You only stand to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
You only stand to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
Runaway, runaway girl

I only stand to break your heart
You can tell it by the way I walk away,
Runaway girl
I only stand to break your heart
You can tell it by the way I run away,
Runaway girl

~Anberlin

The Unwinding Cable Car

Emotive unstable
You're like an unwinding cable car
Listening for voices, but it's
The choices that make us who we are

Go your own way, even seasons have changed
Just burn those new leaves over
So self-absorbed, you'll seem to ignore
The prayers that have already gone above

This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms...)
Don't drop your arms, I've got your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in

Lalalala la la la...la lala la
Lalalala la la la...la lala la

Backing away from the problem of pain
You never had a home
You've been misguided
You're hiding in shadows for so very long

Don't you believe that you've been deceived
That you're no better than
The hair in your eyes will never disguise
What you're really thinkin' of

This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms...)
Don't drop your arms, I've got your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in

This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms, I've got your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in

You're so brilliant
Don't soon forget
You're so brilliant
Grace marked your heart (Heart...)

You're so brilliant
Don't soon forget (Ah-ah-ah...)
You're so brilliant
Grace marked your heart

You're so brilliant
(This is the correlation between)
Don't soon forget
(Salvation and love, don't drop your arms!)

You're so brilliant
(I've got your heart! With quiet)
Grace marked your heart
(Words, I'll lead you in and out of the dark!)

Lalalala la la la...la lala la (Don't drop your arms...)
Lalalala la la la...la lala la

(Lalalala la la la...la lala la)
This is the correlation
Of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms

(Lalalala la la la...la lala la)
Don't drop your arms
I've got your heart
With quiet words, I'll lead you in

~Anberlin

Reclusion

There's someone inside me that softly kills everyone around
They don't know they're dead to me cause intent never makes a sound
All along they found I strangled lovers who've learned from slower hands
With these eleven minutes I could teach you what I am

You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide
You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide

There's an art in seclusion. Production in depression
if a stranger turns up missing, this song is my confession
Tell the tales of the trail of dead, lovers learn from slower hands
Losing self in myself, inner demons make demands

You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide
You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide

You're suffocating me, so very hard to breathe
My mask is growing heavy but I've forgotten who's beneath

You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide
You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide

~Anberlin

Stationary Stationery

Do they not have pen or paper where you are?
Because I haven't heard from you in ages
I re live each memory from time to time
Read notes exchanged
With all those scented pages
It's coming back, it's all coming back to me now

Tell me everything turned out alright
Because I'm where we said
that we'd meet tonight
Does he treat you like you want?
Does he ask to take your hand?
Does he believe in dreams we talked about?
When with no music we danced

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you sang that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you to somehow

Dance by yourself and think of me when you do
I'm not sure you understand
what this means to me, what you do to me
But I'm willing to prove
that you're the one
I regret to slip away
Now I know it was only you
that I've been searching for
Been missing all this time

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you sang that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you to somehow

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you sang that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you to somehow

Let the past be past
Let's start today
Letters won't do
I need to see your face
Tell me where to meet
And I'll tell you why we should be

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you sang that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you to somehow

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you sang that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you to somehow

~Anberlin

Dismantle. Repair

One last glance from a taxi cab
Images scar my mind
For weeks've felt like years
Since your full attention was all mine
The night was young and so were we
Talked about life, God, death, and your family
Didn't want any promises,
Just my undivided honesty, and you said

Oh oh (oh), things are gonna change now for the better
Oh oh (oh), things are gonna change, oh, they're gonna change

I am the patron saint of lost causes
A fraction of who I once believed (change)
Only a matter of time
Opinions I would try and rewrite
If life had background music playing your song
I've got to be honest, I tried to escape you
But the orchestra plays on, and they sang

Oh oh (oh), things are gonna change now for the better
Oh oh (oh), things are gonna change

Hands, like secrets, are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives, your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair!)
You dismantle me
You dismantle me

Give me time to prove
Prove I want the rest of yours (prelude)
Call this a prelude to a lifetime of you
It's not that I hang on every word
I hang myself on what you repeat
It's not that I keep hanging on
I'm never letting go!

Hands, like secrets, are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives, your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair!)
You dismantle me
You dismantle me

Save me from myself
Save me from myself
Help me save me from myself
Save me from myself

Oh oh (oh), things are gonna change now for the better
Oh oh (oh), things are gonna change

Hands, like secrets, are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives, your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair!)
You dismantle me
You dismantle me

~Anberlin

Time and Confusion

Woah oh, yeah-ah
Woah oh, yeah-ah
Woah oh

Live for today
We'll dream tomorrow
We've got big plans in sight
We'll take this city and by nightfall...
The bright lights are calling

Everything is going our way
Everything is just as we've planned
This is our future (from what we've heard)
And I've still got your hand

And it feels like we could last forever
And I'm not doing this alone

When memories fade
We've got each other
When time and confusion collide
Singin' I hold it all when I hold you
When friends walk other ways
We've got each other
I hold it all when I hold
I hold it all when I hold you

Woah oh, yeah-ah
Woah oh, yeah-ah
Woah oh

We fell on hard times
This isn't the ideal
We're miles from home
Doing the best that we can (best that we can)

I won't do this without you
I won't do this without you
So take heart...
'Cause you know that you have mine

And it feels like we could last forever
And I'm not doing to do this alone

When memories fade
We've got each other
When time and confusion collide
Singin' I hold it all when I hold you
When friends walk other ways
We've got each other
I hold it all when I hold
I hold it all when I hold you

Its not about the money we make
Its about the passions that we ache for
What makes your heart beat faster
Tell me now what does your body long after

I don't care now where we live
It's not where, or what, or who we were with
I just need you in my life
So promise me again

When memories fade
We've got each other
When time and confusion collide
Singin' I hold it all when I hold you
When friends walk other ways
We've got each other
I hold it all when I hold
I hold it all when I hold you

Woah oh, yeah-ah
Woah oh, yeah-ah
Woah oh

~ Anberlin

A Day Late

So let me get this straight
You say now you loved me all along
What made you hesitate
To tell me with words what you really feel?
I can see it in your eyes
You mean all of what you say
I remember so along ago, see I felt that same way
Now we both have separate lives and lovers (and lovers)
Insignificantly enough
We both have significant others

Only time will tell
Time will turn and tell

We are who we were when
Could have been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who, we are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could have been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who, we are who we were when

But thoughts they change
And times they rearrange
I don't know who you are anymore
Loves come and go and this I know
I'm not who you recall anymore
And I must confess
You're so much more than I remember
Can't help but entertain the thoughts
Thoughts of us together


We are who we were when
Could have been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who, we are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could have been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who, we are who we were when

So let me get this straight
All these years
And you were no where to be found
And now you want me for your own
But you're a day late
And my love, she's still renowned

We are who we were when
Could have been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who, we are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could have been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who, we are who we were when

We are who we were when
Could have been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who, we are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could have been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who, we are who we were when

~ Anberlin